Sentence examples for early custom of from inspiring English sources

The Greeks were no less superstitious than any other ancient people and saw omens in the flight of birds, in dreams, or in the frenzied utterances of an oracle, but they had no early custom of celestial divination.

The Romans observed the curious rite of the os resectum: after cremation a severed finger joint was buried, probably as a symbol of an earlier custom of inhumation.

Eastern Orthodox churches have maintained the early Christian custom of regarding the altar as a table.

The best-known example of the early customs unions is the German Zollverein (literally, "customs union").

Early customs connected with cornerstones were related to study of the stars and their religious significance.

The Scottish evolutionist John Fergusson McLennan used the term to denote symbolic forms of earlier customs.

This was a natural thing for all early civilizations, since the custom of writing out the names for large numbers was at first quite general, and the use of an initial by way of abbreviation of a word is universal.

The custom of early marriage has long been accepted in this traditional, conservative society.

("Michelle is Jewish and we are raising the baby Jewish," Mr. Buck had told the designer earlier, explaining the Jewish custom of waiting until after birth to set up a nursery).

The scene documents a custom of the early 19th century: families took tents to picnic in the parks of Istanbul, the way people today take umbrellas to the beach.

Within its boundaries there were as was the custom of the early kingdoms of the western Sudan two cities, one of which was occupied by the king, the other by Muslim traders.