Sentence examples for former ages from inspiring English sources

The level of popular expectation is much higher than in former ages.

The silt of the great rivers encroaches constantly on the sea, leaving seaports of former ages dry.

Needless to say, it's not possible to conduct epistolary experiments to deduce the human social networks of former ages.

After examining seashore fossils, Hooke wrote in 1667: "There have been many other Species of Creatures in former Ages of which we can find none at present".

He stated that "when buildings, dedicated to God's service by the piety of former ages, are allowed to be treated in this manner by the constituted authorities of the land ... the institutions to which they are attached cannot be expected to find greater favour at the hands of the fickle and ignorant multitude".

Thus hath party got the better of the very genius and constitution of our people; so that whoever reads the character of the English in former ages, will hardly believe their present posterity to be of the same nation or climate.

He it is who has chosen to simulate the mannered ampleness of a former age.

And it sounds like no one else: a throwback to a former age, but entirely modern at the same time.

Overheard conversation: "Does that Chelsea boot date from the late 50s or, would you say, early 60s?" There are, though, some unmediated remnants of a former age.

Artworks such as Laura Oldfield Ford's Ferrier Estate picture them as decayed and dilapidated remnants of a former age now taken over by the creative class.

Lucian Sanmartean is a sumptuously gifted playmaker, one who recalls the football of a former age in his languid elegance, but he is 35 and playing in Saudi Arabia.