of a former period
Example Sentences
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Correspondences ensued, in which the policy and events of a former period were discussed with earnestness and warmth.
From Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. by Quincy, Josiah
That is the wonderful part of it all, granite is the basis, granite distinctly showing the progress of glaciers of a former period.
From Through Finland in Carts by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)
What a wide contrast between such education and that of a former period!
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob
But it is hard to persuade reasonable people to swallow the abominations of a former period.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
The gross immoralities of a former period had subsided when he wrote: he mentioned the change with regret.
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John
