aeonian

Example Sentences

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His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleared away.

From Four Weird Tales by Blackwood, Algernon

For we miss to hear the fairy tale of time, the aeonian chant radiant with light and color which the spirit prolongs.

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William

That a thing must cease takes from it the joy of even an aeonian endurance—for its kind is mortal; it belongs to the nature of things that cannot live.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George

If the days of Genesis mean indefinite periods of aeonian duration, how is the seventh day of rest to be understood?

From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry

To invest them with aeonian privileges, is in effect, and by its results, to distrust and to insult the Deity.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas