67 examples of time-honoured in sentences

Remember that the ancient and time-honoured pastimes of the Kentucky mountains have come into vogue in the West.

Michael Angelo has a place among the highest with Homer and Titian, with Virgil and Petrarch, with Raphael and Paul; nor do I imagine that any alteration for the better would be effected by substituting for these time-honoured names Homêros and Tiziano, Vergilius and Petrarca, Raffaello and Paulus.

Indeed it is an old and time-honoured trick of the fox.

But before we separated for the night the clergyman had a time-honoured little ritual of his own to go through that no one had the heart to deny him.

monstrous and splendid flower springing from the humus of our time-honoured instincts!...

" In Captain DESMOND COKE'S extravaganza a group of philanthropists adopt the time-honoured procedure of ROBIN HOOD and his Greenwood Company, robbing Dives on system to pay Lazarus.

I wonder in this age of revolution, which has dethroned so many monarchs and upset so many time-honoured systems of Government and broken so many chains, that Queen Fashion is left unmolested on her throne, ruling the civilized world with her rod of iron, and binding us hand and foot in her fetters.

But if we therefore conclude that he is a stationmaster, we fall into the time-honoured fallacy of the undistributed middle termthe fallacy that haunts all brilliant guessers, including the detective, not only of romance, but too often also of real life.

In England his "come uppance" would have commenced at an early age and in the time-honoured place thereunto provided.

The governor and the members of the upper house of the legislature were appointed by the lord proprietary, but the lower house of the legislature was elected, here as elsewhere, by the people; and in accordance with time-honoured English custom all taxation must originate in the lower house, which represented the people.

The garden, the stables, the farm-yard, the old gates, the time-honoured hues of everything,all is so different from the new facing and new painting which prevails throughout the North, that you feel you are among other elements; and if you go inside the house, the thoughts also turn homeward irresistibly as the eye wanders from object to object.

It's a time-honoured custom, isn't it, Mr. Fielding?

I have spelt the name Sansovino, when applied to Jacopo Tatti, in accordance with time-honoured usage.

What I have advanced in the foregoing paragraphs is not meant for a polemic against the time-honoured division of Italian painters into local schools, but for a justification of my own proposed method of treatment.

They deal with familiar and time-honoured Christian motives reverently; but they use them at the same time for the exhibition of pure human beauty.

Of late years many of the Fust Famblies of San Juan have migrated northward to the teeming negro districts of Harlem, but enough of the old stock remains to lend the settlement its time-honoured touch of gloom.

How well remembered are the copses on the hills, and the steeples, those time-honoured landmarks to wandering riders!

Quarter sessions and assizes come only at long intervals, are held only in particular time-honoured places, and take cognisance only of very serious offences which happily are not numerous.

They are removing all "the time-honoured figures" of the cathedral, and painting its massive supporters in the style of a ball-room.

Nor, as I conceive, is there any irreverence in supposing that a time-honoured intelligible symbol should be chosen to embody and formalize a creed.

The exhibition is a droll one; but it always gives me a painful feeling: I do not like to see the effigy of a time-honoured sage abased.

If there is one lesson in these days more than another which familiarity with the fountains of Western literature constantly forces upon the mind, it is that our age is turning its back on time-honoured creeds and dogmas.

And the homely dialect does undoubtedly naturalize the characters of his eclogues, and disguise the time-honoured platitudes that they repeat from their learned predecessors.

The fact that religiously he adhered to the time-honoured evangelical tenets helped much in the war which the new science was forced to wage with the odium theologicum.

He would admit certain exceptions to the law of truth; he would give the less rigorous answers to the time-honoured questions as to whether one should tell the truth to an invalid in a dangerous illness or to a would-be criminal.

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