of a former period
Example Sentences
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So generally did they ingratiate themselves into the favor of the public that they passed among the people as seers and prophets of a former period.
From The History of the Negro Church by Carter Godwin Woodson
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 John West
So analytical, so refined is our age, that singing sometimes becomes a sort of musical declamation, but, unfortunately, without that power to declaim possessed by the actors and often the opera-singers of a former period.
From Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) by Wesley Mills
Many animals of a former period disappear, and are replaced by others belonging to still existent families—elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros—though extinct as species.
From An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges by Anonymous
I mention the four heroines of a former period, Valérie, Becky, Emma, Anna, not because they are all disagreeable, but because they are my pets in fiction.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
