The engagement at Las Marias, while not particularly momentous in itself, was note-worthy as being the last between our forces and those of Spain during the recent war.

"I know of heroic work against these great lines, work that will live with the most momentous of this struggle.

Her heart beat a little faster as, looking across that waste on waste of heroic labor, she realized she was nearing the end of a ride that might be momentous for her.

And yet were there any, on either side of that great question, who guessed that the passing of that even then belated institution was to give rise to and leave in its train problems quite as momentous as the abolition of slavery, and far more tremendous in their scope and range?

It was at this moment, so momentous to our hero, that some one who had been hiding unseen nigh them for all the while suddenly moved away, and Barnaby, in spite of the gathering darkness, could perceive that it was that villain man-servant of Sir John Malyoe's.

I read histories of the past, and I live in them; although, to abstract senses, they are far less momentous than the noises which keep Europe awake.

I certainly had, and felt all the uncertainty and secret alarm which an unexpected move occasions where the issue is momentous with life or death.

After Portia there was nothing momentous about it.