Sentence examples for remote ages from inspiring English sources

Finally, from initially portraying kings and princes of remote ages, Virués began to depict near-contemporary Spain and ordinary men and women.

The fig was one of the earliest fruit trees cultivated by primitive peoples, and its cultivation spread in remote ages over all the districts around the Aegean Sea and throughout the Levant.

Letter 1 begins "It is reasonable to suppose that in remote ages this woody and mountainous district was inhabited only by bears and wolves".

Hidden among papers, magazines, books, and correspondence from a remote age, there are the first three issues, in mint condition, unread and untouched for decades.

The evidence of Paleolithic burials shows that already, in that remote age, various ideas were held about death and the state of the dead.

Although in European music the concept of time measures reaches back to a remote age, only since the 15th century have they been indicated by means of bar lines.

Darwin wrote in his notes: To what a remote age does this in all probability call us back & yet we find the shells themselves & their habits the same as exist in the present sea.

To what a remote age does this in all probability call us back & yet we find the shells themselves & their habits the same as exist in the present sea.

Borrowing many of Hutcheson's arguments, he points out that if approval and disapproval were based on thoughts about the possible advantages and disadvantages of people's characters and actions to us, we would never feel approval and disapproval of people from "very distant ages and remote countries", since they cannot possibly affect us.

The post-strata were formed according to sex (male or female), remoteness (major city, inner regional, outer regional or remote) and age (five year age groups from 45-85 years or ≥85 years).

It was surely no accident that Mandela's inspiration rose from that seemingly remote Victorian age.