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How many angels could dance on the head of a pin, and with what matters did God occupy himself in all the infinite aeons before the Creadon? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
In fact, he says that increasingly technology is appealing to and preying upon deep primitive instincts, parts of us that existed aeons before the phone. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
“Love”? Dad hasn't called me that in aeons. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
But from afar, a galaxy reminds me more of a collection of lovely found objects—seashells, perhaps, or corals, the productions of Nature laboring for aeons in the cosmic ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
But, as Darwin and Wallace showed, there is another way, equally appealing, equally human, and far more compelling: natural selection, which makes the music of life more beautiful as the aeons pass. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Once, aeons ago, the Appalachians were of a scale and majesty to rival the Himalayas—piercing, snow-peaked, pushing breathtakingly through the clouds to heights of four miles or more. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
And if there are cycles in the years of humans, might there not be cycles in the aeons of the gods? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
That life has changed fundamentally over the aeons is entirely clear from the alterations we have made in the beasts and vegetables during the short tenure of humans on Earth, and from the fossil evidence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Every other mammal that went to sea—seals, sea cows, dolphins—had to evolve for aeons to develop specialised organs and a hydrodynamic body. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
With a faint hum and rattle the moving racks crawled imperceptibly through the weeks and the recapitulated aeons to where, in the Decanting Room, the newly-unbottled babes uttered their first yell of horror and amazement. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
At bus stops, the minutes drag by like aeons. In a world moving at breakneck speed, growing indoor plants is teaching me patience | Mel Campbell 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z
While the hi-tech boom is transforming many of India's major cities, some industries haven't changed in what seems like aeons. Artist of the week 123: Sheela Gowda 2011-01-26T13:02:41Z
JR Narrated by Stephen Fry, this series is marred a little by its cliched percussive soundtrack and the too-brisk pace at which it traverses aeons of history. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 12-16 November 2012-11-12T08:09:51Z
The high-end Japanese-built tourist tour buses shuttling foreigners around Pyongyang are aeons more advanced than the rusting hulks North Korea has been using for average citizens since the 1970s. Pyongyang goes pop: Jarvis Cocker unites the divided 2011-03-29T14:52:43Z
"In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli." Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-11T13:22:00Z
Crucial to his approach to the film was the creation of a sense of intense claustrophobia on Nostromo which, he decided, should appear as if it had been drifting around space for aeons. Dr Alien, PhD: the horror classic that academia loves 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z
It reminds us that the cycle of life and death turned for aeons before we were born and will continue its rotations for aeons after. Why Christmas is for everyone | Julian Baggini 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z
While our childhood in progress seems like an aeon, to our parents it flashes past in a dreamlike instant. Boyhood review – one of the great films of the decade 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z
But there are also duff jokes about the Duchess of Cornwall and Ann Widdecombe's looks, and material aeons past its sell-by date. Rory Bremner 2010-04-18T21:15:00Z
In political terms both of those situations dragged on for aeons before the two ministers were shown the door. Suella Braverman row: Who's scared of Rishi Sunak? 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z
Astronomers think the blast originated aeons ago from a supermassive black hole in the cluster. Daily briefing: Economists and scientists, assemble 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z
Writer and explorer Robert MacFarlane has been voyaging in this hidden world, going back in "deep time" to places measured in "millennia, epochs and aeons, instead of minutes, months and years". Glimpsing a world beyond human extinction 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z
Its editors offer thematic paths through the aeons. 'It's urgent': controversial history France in the World comes to America 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z
Bombardment with cosmic radiation over the aeons is thought to alter the surfaces of these planetary building blocks. Spacecraft's 'bomb' crater found 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z
For deep time is measured in units that humble the human instant: millennia, epochs and aeons, instead of minutes, months and years. What lies beneath: Robert Macfarlane travels 'Underland' 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z
The idea is for Hayabusa2 to get at pristine samples from below the surface, samples that haven't been altered by aeons of exposure to space. Asteroid mission exploring a 'rubble pile' 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z
Art may both alter and grow out of a life over the decades, the way a river, over aeons, hollows and takes its course from the rock through which it flows. An Artist’s Archeology of the Mind 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z
The fall lasts long enough that I have time to watch the blue ice race upward, aeons of time compressed into glacial ice, flashing by in fractions of seconds. When the ice melts: the catastrophe of vanishing glaciers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z
So here's another important caveat: If a week is a long time in politics these days, a fortnight is an absolute aeon. Labour, the Brexit vote. And what next? 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z
There are texts in which Dugin presents himself as a prophet of a “new aeon” that “will be cruel and paradoxical,” involving slavery, “the renewal of archaic sacredness,” and “a cosmic rampage of the Superhuman.” Stephen Bannon’s world: Dangerous minds in dangerous times 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z
They believe that modern technology ultimately offers humans the chance to live for aeons, unshackled – as they would be – from the frailties of the human body. No death and an enhanced life: Is the future transhuman? 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z
“Mary Magdalene” is similarly a retelling of some of the faith’s main events from a 21st-century perspective, one that takes the original texts seriously but sets out to peel away aeons of sexist prejudice. Redeeming Mary Magdalene 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z
They transport us not only across space, but across the aeons, showing us the light of long-dead stars and the glow of cosmic fires extinguished billions of years in the past. A Potentially Game-Changing Message from the Dawn of Time 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z
Party whips have known for aeons that certain MPs couldn’t keep their hands to themselves. The victims of sexual abuse are the only voices that matter | Gaby Hinsliff 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z
But old Clio, muse of history, has learned to be patient but also hopeful over the aeons. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z
For soil is in part a creation of life, born of a marvellous interaction of life and inert matter aeons ago. Silent Spring—I 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z
Because if power can indeed be female, surely it doesn’t look like re-enacting the beauty parades that have objectified and nullified women as agents of political leadership for aeons. Is this real life? Or is this a cabaret of the Von Trump family on tour? | Van Badham 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z
Not surprisingly, the brain evolved over aeons of social conflict to entrench these fundamental biases. Hate Trump supporters? Hate liberals? Here's why | Marc Lewis 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z
Or perhaps you spent many aeons creating a civilisation worthy of song? 5 more of the best video games of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z
The dullness of a death in life, frozen through aeons in a test tube! Margaret Drabble: ‘I am not afraid of death. I worry about living’ 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z
But it was all, also, a little slapstick, as one after another shooting-gallery Greek popped up after aeons of obscurity, only to die a second time, walloped by Oswald’s powerful style. Alice Oswald’s Natural Terrors 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z
Their specialism is the division of deep time into aeons, eras, periods, epochs and stages, and the establishment of temporal limits for those divisions and their subdivisions. Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z
One with high complexity is analogous to a set of qubits encoding a number that would take aeons to compute. The quantum source of space-time 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z
The animals are thus detached from many of the communal microbes that their species has evolved with for aeons. The tantalizing links between gut microbes and the brain 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z
It is a partnership that has shaped and been shaped by aeons of evolution. The hidden risks for ‘three-person’ babies 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z
It seemed to him that civilization was dissolving: that mankind was falling “whole aeons back in nature.” Slavery Matters More Than Ever 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z
If the Anthropocene can be said to “take place”, it does so across huge scales of space and vast spans of time, from nanometers to planets, and from picoseconds to aeons. Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z
The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life-cycle is matched to the voyage – the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy would not daunt near-immortal beings. The geckos sent into orbit died, but don’t give up on life in space just yet 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z
"It's a very strongly selected behaviour. Over aeons, there's been good reefs and bad reefs and if you settle on the bad ones, you die." Stench of decay turns coral away 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z
The material that forms interstellar dust is a product of the aeons of stellar birth, evolution and death that went into building our cosmic neighbourhood. Cosmic grains pre-date Solar System 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z
Meanwhile, though the tedious torrent of prediction, speculation and fabrication continues, at some point in the next aeon, Louis van Gaal will be named Manchester United manager. Football transfer rumours: Mario Mandzukic to Chelsea? 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z
Planetary physicists aren’t quite sure where Pluto will be aeons from now, but they are confident that its orbit will always be completely in thrall to gravity. How Physics and Neuroscience Dictate Your "Free" Will 2012-05-16T18:20:46.707Z
The time frame matches Bottke’s model and corresponds to the Archaean aeon. Ancient asteroids kept on coming 2012-04-25T17:20:28.573Z
Their hopes were therefore directed to “the coming aeon.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z
In his system he appears to have regarded the divine nature as a vast abyss in whose pleroma were aeons of different orders and degrees,—emanations from the source of being. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z
Warmth he needs, and aeons ago the coal beds were formed in the bowels of the earth. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z
Sakhī:      Watching with streaming eyes the way her darling went, Half a second seems an aeon,— 'Fate is most bitter, sundering thus Murāri far from me! Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z
But everything essential in human evolution took place aeons ago, long before the four thousand years or so of which we know anything: during these man may not have changed very much. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z
Between the two aeons there would take place the advent of the Messiah, who would lead the struggle with evil powers which was called “the agonies of the Messiah.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z
A moment is as long to me as an aeon. Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z
There are concentrated the enormous gorges, cliffs, and other glaciated freaks caused by cataclysms that occurred aeons ago. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z
Many a night have I passed in play, And never have learnt what is dalliance: Myriad aeons I held Him close to my heart, And yet no rest has reached that heart. Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z
In them above all the world of the higher aeons is further extended and filled with a throng of varied figures. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z
This victory inaugurates the entrance of the “aeon to come,” in which the faithful Jews would enter their inheritance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z
In the ice temple his figure majestic Looms from a throne that through aeons uncounted Has stood in the gloom and the silence eternal. The Call of the Mountains and other Poems 2011-10-28T02:00:27.360Z
Aeons passed during this great upheaval, and aeons more passed before islands dotted the ‘face of the waters’ and God said ‘Let there be’ and there was! Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z
The rains come when they must come, and the earth yields or withholds her crop, as a system of causes determined from immeasurable aeons of time prescribes. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z
Primal Chaos simply clapped the lid down over me and kept it there for several aeons—fifteen minutes to be exact. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z
The thistle, however, has not been entirely unmolested during its aeons of existence. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z
We know not how many aeons the tale of The Two Brothers may have existed in Egypt before Ennana, the head librarian, wrote it out for Pharaoh's treasurer, Qagabou. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z
He believed that perdition was limited to aeons. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z
The flies came and lighted on the crusted stain on the vest and crawled down inside the shirt ... and after an aeon a sharp, white wire of consciousness commenced to glow in Two-Bits' blank mind. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z
Below it were piled stones which had been carried over by aeons of floods, and above it boulders, too heavy to admit of their being moved by water over the obstacle, had lodged. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z
Is this flower a grail, bearing beauty too ineffable to die, through an arid aeon from one cycle of fertility to another? Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z
In the silvery sheen with which the moon joyously and approvingly bathed them their eyes, wide, dark, luminous, clung for an aeon of time, reckoned in the history of love. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z
The duration of an aeon he was not clear upon; but whatever its length, it was then an unusual and merciful limitation of eternal torture. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z
At the most we have 7,000 years of history and the evolutionists would tell us that this is as nothing in the unnumbered aeons of evolution. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z
Each aeon starts off with the universe being of zero size and high uniformity. Cosmology: Going round in circles 2010-12-02T11:05:00Z
I interviewed George aeons ago in, of all places, Southend-on-Sea, where he was lying low with his first in-laws in a terraced house just off the prom. Tears for souvenirs as Best and Stiles memorabilia go up for auction 2010-10-19T23:06:00Z
United went on to secure the title, their first in aeons. The Joy of Six: Football's surprise packages 2010-07-30T10:00:00Z
Those cool, winter days in Jerez, in southern Spain, where Ferrari were so impressive in testing, feel aeons away now. Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa hope to revive Ferrari in Montreal 2010-06-12T06:00:00Z
The irony is that, in the world economy, gold has never meant less Gold has been symbolising things for aeons, too. The power of gold 2010-04-12T07:00:00Z
Life will adapted and thrive, as it as done since it aeons. 2010-01-05T10:51:00Z
The new proposal suggests not just that the Hadean should be formalised, but also that a new aeon, the Chaotian, should be recognised as extending extend further back in time than the Earth itself. 2010-01-07T09:04:00Z
After what seemed aeons of time a cab rattled to the house. Cinderella Jane
She was hardly aware of the walk back to the little house in Mayfair, back to the doorstep where, such aeons ago, she had paused to look at the crying cat. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece
Ask why the sun shines And is not measured, Ask why the rain falls Aeon by aeon, Ask why the wind comes Making the strong trees Blossom in springtime, Forever unwearied! Later Poems
Re-arrange them into the positions they occupied years ago, decades, generations, aeons—and you have time travel. Disaster Revisited
Latent psi-power, dormant and unused and unneeded and uninteresting for aeons. Earthsmith
But we are contemplating aeons of time, and changes innumerable may have occurred. The Woodlands Orchids
All that happened a long time, years, centuries, aeons, perhaps, ago. Frontier Boys in the South Seas
This was a couple of aeons ago when Earthmen looked like Martians do now, which seems to indicate that Martians, as well as Men, have their ups and downs. Mars Confidential
She keepeth her watch through the aeons, But the heart of her groweth not old, For the peal of the bridegroom's paeans, And the tale she once was told. Poems
And as the aeons recede, as the intensity of the idea of the Divine within man increases, so does this conflict, this agonia increase. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe
A. Throughout numberless births and aeons of years he had been cultivating this love, with the unfaltering determination to become a Buddha. The Buddhist Catechism
But the aeon of our race may extend to millions of years. Flowers of Freethought (First Series)
The eternal purpose of the ages was now to be made clear, and the long, long aeons of creation explained. The Church, the Schools and Evolution
She keepeth her watch through the aeons, But the heart of her groweth not old, For the peal of the bridegroom's paeans, And the tale she once was told. Poems
And as the aeons advance, the soul grows ever more conscious of the end of all its striving, and its serenity deepens as the certainty of the ultimate attainment of that end increases. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe
It seemed aeons before he reached the narrow little control compartment, and got the ultra-wave radio into action, nearly wrecking it in his clumsy-fingered haste. Rescue Squad
There was no dawn, but after aeons Sime saw the familiar green disk of Earth coming up in the east, one of the brightest stars. The Martian Cabal
One human lifetime is too infinitesimally small to relearn procedures that have taken aeons to develop. The Great Gray Plague
Given such a culture-hero, the common herd was capable of carrying on more or less mechanically for an aeon or so. Progress and History
It is the contemporary of all the ages, and to none of the aeons is it a stranger. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe
The Greeks add Amen after each person, and conclude with the words, "Now and ever and to aeons of aeons, amen." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Domestic animals entered into such a partnership aeons ago. The Machine That Saved The World
Only because of the developed toughness, acquired through the aeons, does the majority of mammalian life choose to continue. The Great Gray Plague
This noun cannot mean eternity for it is repeatedly used by St. Paul in the plural "aeons" and "aeons of aeons." The Gospel of the Hereafter
Her power is deep-based as the foundations of the rocks, her glance wide as the boundaries of the world, far-searching as the aeons of time. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe
It is pathetic that only after many aeons of human existence the dimensionality of man has been discovered and his proper status in nature has been given by the definition of “time-binder.” Manhood of Humanity.
For aeons, the immensity of which overwhelms man's conceptions, the earth was unfit to maintain what we call life. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
It seemed to him that he lay awake for aeons, but he must have dozed off because he was awakened by a yell. The Pirates of Ersatz
These aeons or ages are thought of in Scripture as vast periods past, present and future in which the Divine purpose is working itself out, e. g., The Gospel of the Hereafter
Geology flung back the aeons of the past till they receded beyond imagination's wing. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe
Time-binding energy—what may it not achieve in course of the aeons to come? Manhood of Humanity.
Life, as we define it, was not possible for aeons subsequent to this separation. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
Oh, in time, of course; but aeons in experience. Old Valentines A Love Story
He made obeisance before the machilla, in which men of his own kind bore up a delicate, pale prodigy, an incredible creature from another aeon or planet. Sacrifice
White-robed time telling his beads Of aeons on the thread of Eternity By the ocean of space Slumbering in peace at thy feet; While Destiny stringing the lyre of death Sings Nirvana's hymn. Sandhya Songs of Twilight
But it was peculiarly smooth, as if sand grains had rubbed over it for uncountable aeons and carefully worn away every trace of unevenness. Sand Doom
He learned there what these familiar forces are capable of, in what directions they operate, and in them he found the clew to the story of the past aeons. The Chief End of Man
Could you for one moment admit the possibility that after countless aeons of nothingness a flash of lightning should occur or an animal be born? Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge
Ages and aeons were nothing for her to spend in preparing for his coming, or to make his existence possible. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
Ages and aeons are nothing to her; out of them she has been carving her great statue, a perfect man. Pushing to the Front
To Claire, as to Erskine, a four months’ delay seemed an aeon of time through which to wade before the consummation of a perfect happiness, but it seemed impossible that it could be avoided. The Independence of Claire
Studying the universe, he learns that man has come into being through the processes of material law,—that the aeons of astronomy and geology have been working toward his production. The Chief End of Man
But only a sea could so brood with the memory of aeons. Rebels of the Red Planet
Ages and aeons are nothing to her, out of them she has been carving her great statue, a perfect man. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
I tried to take an interest in everything she said, only it seemed such aeons away. Man and Maid
After what seemed an aeon, they saw that it was daylight outside. The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier
Caliban thinks Setebos is himself a creature, made by something he calls "Quiet;" and what is this but the Gnostic notion of aeons and their subordination to the great, hid God? A Hero and Some Other Folks
For he knows too well that only aeons after he is dead will the night finally pass. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
To the vigilant thinker a decade is worth more than aeons to his sleeping brother. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
I must have written it—when I was alive aeons ago, and far from here. The Hills of Hingham
But that name gripped me with a sudden spell; The grim old Volsungs as they fought and fell, With all their faded aeons, seemed to rise In never-ending line before my eyes. Love's Comedy
Nay, modern science links him on to other worlds and other aeons. Nature Mysticism
What had their owner thought of, hoped, or planned while fashioning this bowl, fragments of which I turned over in my palms aeons later? I Married a Ranger
A whole aeon of resinous sunbeams breathed their essence through the dark from the spicy evergreens. The Freebooters of the Wilderness
For ages, untold ages—aeons longer than the world has known—I looked into that still, awful face, into those unnatural green eyes. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor
"Can anybody guess the time?" he asked, after aeons seemed to have passed. Operation Terror
In all the aeons four-footed wild-folk never seem to have learnt to look up, and, for the omission, die some painful deaths that might otherwise be avoided. The Way of the Wild
The days dragged and the weeks seemed to be aeons long. The Trail Horde
Once, aeons ago, before the white sea had borne her away, she would have understood. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst"
This fire will last for aeons upon aeons. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil
They are terms of contempt, and used generally only in reference to the dross and residues of the Dark Ages and its preceding aeons of paganism. Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky No. 1: Practical Occultism—Occultism versus the Occult Arts—The Blessings of Publicity
The air was filled with low sounds that had been dead for aeons. Dan Merrithew
I wrote him two or three aeons ago, when he might have been of assistance. The Furnace of Gold
Everything but the silence had been left behind aeons ago. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst"
For these few steps that my horse had carried me Had taken in my dream countless aeons of time! More Translations from the Chinese
There are "natural-born magicians"; Mystics and Occultists by birth, and by right of direct inheritance from a series of incarnations and aeons of suffering and failures. Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky No. 1: Practical Occultism—Occultism versus the Occult Arts—The Blessings of Publicity
Over the corroded iron rocks strata of red earth and deeper crimson ore ran like the streaky stains of monstrous and unhuman murders committed in aeons past. The Eternal Maiden
In this second interval of readjustment, yesterday seemed aeons back. Kenny
For last night I dreamed that she Told me all the mystery— Why for aeons mute she sat—: She was just cut out for that! Afterwhiles
Age after age, and aeon after aeon, hot water has been spreading over these miles of masonry its variegated sediment, like pigments on an artist's palette. John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park
If acute in understanding, they become free from confusion after three births; but if they are dull, they pass sixty kalpas8 or aeons before they attain to the state of enlightenment. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
Probably all these lists are based on some calculation as to the proper allowance of saints for an aeon. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
And like the day in the garret, yesterday seemed aeons back. Kenny
Anyhow, we should have the laugh of them there; but these aeons of time are desperate waters into which to sink one's thought. London River
When it was spent, they would rest for aeon, then stir again. Lewis Rand
The disciple, by training in thought, by destroying passions and practices, by meditating on the only knowledge, must pass through three kalpas or aeons. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
In the Moses, we sense warfare, with victory, to attain and to hold its attainment; in the Dai Butsu, something that has passed through all that aeons ago. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
This is seen from the nature of the hymns, and also from the fact that it is either as fire or as sun that Vishnu destroys at the end of the aeons. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
All this passed in a few lying instants, but centuries—- aeons—could not count its length in the anguish-stricken human soul. A Dream of the North Sea
Each atom or molecule of ordinary scientific hypotheses is not a particle of something, animated by a psychic something, destined to blossom as a man after aeons. Five Years of Theosophy
A huge rock stood alone and apparently unsupported near its mouth, as though aeons long gone by an iceberg had perched it there. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
As it had happened, many centuries and aeons ago, a man had been denied comfort for-want-of a fundamental principle way of thought. Scorched Earth
And he will do this again when the new aeon begins. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
And, so this Evolutionary process has continued ever since, and must continue for aeons yet. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga
The dust of the aeons of ages dead, And the peoples that tramped by! The California Birthday Book
This confidence in Christ's Person and Work is the anchor,—an anchor that was never yet wrenched from the clefts of the Rock of Ages, and never will be through the aeons of aeons. Sermons to the Natural Man
His beauty once their beauty tried; They could not feed him, and he died, And wandered backward as in scorn, To wait an aeon to be born. Poems Household Edition
All civil charms And priestly spells which late held hearts in     awe— Fear-bound, subjected to a better sway Than sway of self; these like a dream dissolve, And man rebounds whole aeons back in     nature. John Marr and Other Poems
And the Cosmic Evolution continues, and must continue for aeons of time. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga
It might well have been some dead lunar landscape in which for aeons no living thing had stirred. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion
Now, let us project our thought as far back into duration as we can—count the periods by any thinkable measurements, years, centuries, ages, aeons, anything you please that will help. Dorian
Roomy Eternity Casts her schemes rarely, And an aeon allows For each quality and part Of the multitudinous And many-chambered heart. Poems Household Edition
So when the anthracite glows in your grate, you feel the veritable sunbeams that were emitted aeons upon aeons ago upon the primeval world. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe
It seemed to her that aeons had passed over her since last she had stood beneath that tree. The Top of the World
Nowhere perhaps has the great water erosion of bygone aeons wrought more grotesquely and fantastically than in the Moqui basin. Overland
The lapse of aeons touches us as little as the reach of space; even the building of our planet, and man's infancy, have the faint and distant reality of cradle records. Heart of Man
But his heights topple over with this world's decline, while the other builds for the eternal aeons. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862
Yet every smallest motion of every particle is the working put of laws which go far back into the dark aeons of creation. The Silent Isle
On the other hand, if our time sense were always as acute as it is in dreams, uncounted aeons would seem to be lived through in the interval between childhood and old age. Four-Dimensional Vistas
The washings of geologic aeons have exposed to view immense quantities of these enchanted forests. Overland
Beth was thinking that America was not yet aeons distant from this Japanese institution, the male incubus of the girl child. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel
Certainly, that cravat in the frame has receded a million, million leagues, ten thousand forgotten aeons, from me! The Purple Cloud
It seemed aeons later that he was dragged up from the depths of slumber by continued pounding on his door. Bambi
What if in some piece of amber an accidental seed were sealed, we found, and planted, and brought back the lost aeons? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
Shabby,—let me here pause to say that in Virginia shabbiness is the grand universal law, and neatness the spasmodic exception, attained in rare spots, an aeon beyond their Old Dominion age. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
The elders of science who measure the spheres And weigh the vast bulk of the sun— Who see the grand lights beyond aeons of years, Are less than a bullock to one. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens
On their left they broke in booming spray, tearing and fretting the base of cliffs that had stood impregnable through aeons of such ceaseless attack and repulse. Her Father's Daughter
In suchwise, then, the lapsing aeons change The nature of the whole wide world, and earth Taketh one status after other. On the Nature of Things
I bowed quite as though I were being introduced to some charming young lady met in that old life now seemingly aeons removed. The Moon Pool
I sighed, following the sartorial train of thought, even to the loathly arrows that had decorated my person once already for a little aeon. Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
Mr. Wells might grow taller and taller for unending aeons till his head was higher than the loneliest star. Heretics
"I'd rather have one year of your ability, backed up with common sense, for the work of making this world better," cried the exasperated "Aunt Susan," "than a million aeons in the hereafter!" The Story of a Pioneer
Nor by prolonging life Take we the least away from death's own time, Nor can we pluck one moment off, whereby To minish the aeons of our state of death. On the Nature of Things
I think," I said, even more cautiously, "that the race to which the Three belong never appeared on earth's surface; that their development took place here, unhindered through aeons. The Moon Pool
He learned so much in that first week that when Sunday came it seemed as though aeons had passed over his head. Buttered Side Down: Stories
So after aeons of flame, I may, by grace of God, Rise up to kiss the dust that Shakespeare's feet have trod. Main Street and Other Poems
Mrs. Besant sighed and said that life was short and aeons were long, and that while every one would be perfected some time, it was useless to deal with individuals here. The Story of a Pioneer
So primal germs have solid singleness Nor otherwise could they have been conserved Through aeons and infinity of time For the replenishment of wasted worlds. On the Nature of Things
We have been here for ever: even yet A dim watch tells two hours, two aeons, more. The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
According to Himself the Son was a sword separating brother and brother that they should for an aeon hate each other. Orthodoxy
For infinity has no end; and so, prolong the penalty as we might through uncounted aeons, there would still be an eternity to come. Love's Final Victory
She was in a trance, gazing into the aeons. The Story of a Pioneer
Then shall crash That massive form and fabric of the world Sustained so many aeons! On the Nature of Things
Along the weathered walls, or standing deep In riven valleys where no foot may tread, Are lonely pillars, and tall monuments Of perished aeons and forgotten things. Songs out of Doors
The aeons are easy enough to think about, any one can think about them. Orthodoxy
For when man shall have suffered for aeons and aeons untold he would really be as far from the end as he is now. Love's Final Victory
For a moment, precious as an aeon, she held her hands upon me—then slowly opened her eyes. Wilfrid Cumbermede
For lapsing aeons change the nature of The whole wide world, and all things needs must take One status after other, nor aught persists Forever like itself. On the Nature of Things
Who knows but such sin may need for its cure the continuous punishment of an aeon? Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II.
Providence through aeons had built up the chalk to be man's first home. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
He gives no hint of the means that He will use in future aeons for the fulfillment of His designs. Love's Final Victory
That was an additional hardship, for if George insulted his guests, then that horrid Penny— Genevieve had always liked Penny, and had danced and flirted with him aeons ago. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors
For that which a man loves most is not on this side of Time, and all which drifts on its aeons is a lure. Time and the Gods
It had been the best kind of life possible in all the preceding aeons of the world's history. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform
The form of this only true knowledge is subject to change; fresh 'mirrors' or 'portraits' are provided at the end of each recurring cosmic cycle or aeon. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions
Hence, if the suffering were prolonged through countless aeons, there would still be countless aeons to come; and when these would have run their course, we would only be at the portals of eternity. Love's Final Victory
Master offered shelter and shepherding for the aeons, but many disciples miserly demanded ego-balm as well. Autobiography of a Yogi
It is certain that the hills decay and that rivers as the dusty years proceed run feebly and lose themselves at last in desert sands; and in its aeons the very firmament grows old. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
Yet how fruitless its functions—to glorify for aeons the intractable rock, and to leave it ever unstained! Tropic Days
How many years, how many ages, aeons, must pass before I can find my way back to that day of nine years ago? The Home and the World
His spirit, drawn forth after the vanishing vibrations, seemed to traverse waste spaces without beginning or ending, and aeons of monotonous duration. Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
Irenaeus founds an argument upon this directed against the heretics who supposed that the Christus and Jesus were not identical, but that Jesus was the son of Mary, upon whom the aeon Christus afterwards descended. The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion'
And were we not ourselves like pulsing suns Who, once an aeon met within the void, So fiery close, forget how far away Each orbit sweeps, and dream a little space Of fiery wedding. English Poems
Thy fall may last a million aeons, but thou shalt die at last. Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul.
Then swung a new world for me out of primeval chaos, and for aeons of centuries I dizzied myself gazing upon the pyrotechnic marvel. The Boss of Little Arcady
The first heaven-wandering lights I see ascend     Upon the seventh and ninth centenary,     When in the Archer's realm three years shall be     Added, this aeon and our age to end. Sonnets
The chemical system is much the older system, and preceded the nerve system by aeons of time. The Glands Regulating Personality
In heaven, in some other aeon, we shall find out what they really mean! The Warriors
A great while later—aeons it must have been—a circular glow grew in the sky, ahead, and I saw the edge of the receding star, show darkly against it. The House on the Borderland
Skies might be swept for aeons ere one spark Among those myriads were both found and seen To move, at that vast distance round our sun. Watchers of the Sky
All the fierceness, all the desire, all the sternness of the wilderness in its aeons ran in his blood. The Law of the Land
While I sit here among these mountains—I have been filing away at them for this last aeon or so, just to attract your hotels, you know—will you be so kind―? A Modern Utopia
Far away, miles, and aeons, and abysses away, through the interminable depths of glory, a dark and shadowy spot. Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
Slowly, slowly, as the aeons slipped into eternity, the earth sank into a heavier and redder gloom. The House on the Borderland
This only is discoverable, as a general tendency, that the aeon, or generic period of evil, is constantly towards a fugitive duration. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
What an infinite monotony of existence for the poor old creatures to endure for ever—being bored by their own inane personalities for a million aeons! Philistia
It was like receiving word from the dead—it seemed such centuries—aeons—since I heard from you! Love's Pilgrimage
Must I stoop to think that gods, who live in a region above all sense, will deign to make themselves palpable to those senses of ours which are whole aeons of existence below them? Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
The sun was dying; of that there could be little doubt; and still the earth whirled onward, through space and all the aeons. The House on the Borderland
Doubtless the idea of an aeon is in one sense always uniform, always the same, viz., as a tenth or a twelfth is always the same. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
Light of the future aeons, I hail, I hail to thee! AE in the Irish Theosophist
They are evidently yet passing through that condition of cloud and vapor and heat that the earth passed through untold aeons ago, and they will not reach the stage of life till aeons to come. Time and Change
Eternity had passed, the Judgment Day had been overlooked and new aeons had gone their way, it seemed to the criminologist, when the voice was audible again. The Voice on the Wire
And fresh atoms, impalpable, had settled above that mixture of grave-powder, which the aeons had ground. The House on the Borderland
But, on the contrary, every object whatsoever, every mode of existence, has its own separate and independent aeon. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
So in broken accents I blessed him and wished him well through all the aeons, praying that I might be his companion to the end of time. Ayesha, the Return of She
It may continue a dead world for aeons longer before it is melted up in the eternal crucible and recast, and set on its career of life again. Time and Change
Through long bright aeons of endless glory," she said—"I have waited and prayed for thee! Ardath
In the first place, I am only fifteen years older than Peggy, who has just become engaged, but those fifteen years seem countless aeons to the child herself and the other members of the family. The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
And thus it happens, that everything in this world, possibly without a solitary exception has its own separate aeon: how many entities, so many aeons. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
The child who was born to free half the human race from aeons of slavery must be kept from all contagion of man's gold and man's bribery. The Woman Who Did
The cockroach is about the same creature to-day that it was untold aeons ago; so is the shark, and so are many other forms of marine life. Time and Change
The great unfolding from the stone to the God goes on through millions of years, through aeons of time. An Introduction to Yoga
I thrust this stick many aeons deep into its surface, and with my heel make a deeper furrow than the elements have ploughed here for a thousand years. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Having anchorage in God, innumerable entities may possibly be admitted to a participation in divine aeon. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
How many aeons divided the totem coyote from the she-wolf of Romulus and Remus? At the Mercy of Tiberius
The great ice sheet rubbed us and ploughed us, but our contours were gentle and rounded aeons before that event. Time and Change
I want to "lie down for an aeon or two." Letters of Franklin K. Lane
And these aeons are to be included in any estimate of the age of the sun. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
The aeon, it is alleged, must always express the same idea, whatever that may be; if it is less than eternity for the evil cases, then it must be less for the good ones. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
How many aeons shall we wait, to behold the leopard and the lamb pasturing together in peace? At the Mercy of Tiberius
The great interior sea, epicontinental, the geologists call it, seems to have been fermenting and laboring for untold aeons in building up these parts of the continent. Time and Change
Then I shall rest, "and faith I shall need it, lie down for an aeon or two, till the Master of all good workmen shall put me to work anew." Letters of Franklin K. Lane
The theories of both parties agree that, for untold aeons before the geological changes now visible commenced, our planet was a molten mass, perhaps even an incandescent globe like the sun. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
The exact amount of the duration expressed by an aeon depends altogether upon the particular subject which yields the aeon. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
Such development as theirs, such an evolution, presupposes aeons of time—long as it took us to drag up from the lizards. The Metal Monster
Each in his turn those little supernaturals of our by-gone ages and aeons joined the monster procession of his predecessors and marched horizonward, disappeared, and was forgotten. Christian Science
It is unnecessary to state that she climbs the ladder of evolution much faster than the ordinary Theosophist, who is somewhat slow in his movements, and often deals in centuries, or even aeons. Marm Lisa
During all those aeons the sun must have been in existence as a vast nebulous mass, first reaching as far as the earth's orbit, and slowly contracting its dimensions. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
What may be the aeon of the whole species is utterly unknown. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
If now and today I die and go I'll join manes dead aeons ago! Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips
It seemed as if he had reached sanctuary after an aeon of chaos. Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course
You are right, Raoul; all that you say will happen; kings will lose their privileges, as stars which have survived their aeons lose their splendor. The Man in the Iron Mask
And instead of flying, after dreary aeons of singing, it was moved off on creaky rollers by men whose shadows were thrown grotesquely on the sea backing. Long Live the King!
Amongst birds, one species at least has become extinct in our own generation: its aeon was accomplished. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
The aeons came and the aeons fled, And the sleep that wrapped us fast Was riven away in a newer day, And the night of death was past. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4
Then all the works of darkness being done Through countless aeons hopelessly forlorn, Out to the very utmost verge and bourne, God at the last, reluctant, made the sun. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3
Poor, neglected, despised bit of days gone by!—days that are but yesterdays, aeons since as measured here. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan
But they were all of them wrong, incorrect; and no matter how holy their lives, how self-sacrificing their actions, they would have to suffer for their inexactitude through aeons of undefined torment. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
Nothing, in short, throughout universal nature, can for a moment be conceived to have been resigned to accident for its normal aeon. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
Through uncounted aeons the mountain has been gathering its forces. Gala-days
An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off—as we lay shaking behind the curtain—from Caylus and its life. The House of the Wolf; a romance
And when, after aeons of search, I found a knob and stumbled into the reception hall, I was as nearly in a panic as any man could be. The Man in Lower Ten
In fact, all the witty things were said aeons ago. An Old Town By the Sea
Age beyond age on British land, Aeons on aeons gone, Was peace and war in western hills, And the White Horse looked on. The Ballad of the White Horse
He has been in the flesh, let us say, one, two, three or four score years; before him are the countless aeons of eternity. A journey in other worlds A romance of the future
The pre-existence of Jesus, as an emanation from God, in whom were summed up the attributes of the pleroma or full scale of Gnostic aeons, was now generally conceded. The Unseen World and Other Essays
Will he be found in the aeons that are to come? The Story of an African Farm, a novel
Christianity tells us to purify ourselves that we may enjoy countless aeons of that bettered self hereafter; Buddhism would have us purify ourselves that we may lose all sense of self for evermore. The Soul of the Far East
Who knows even what may have happened on this little earth during the aeons of its existence, whenever its balance chanced to shift, as the Ice Ages show us it has often done? When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
"Nevertheless there is a tradition that in distant aeons—" "Doubtless on some issue you roused the High Ones past forgiveness and were thus deprived as the most signal mark of their displeasure." Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Or, according to "Colossians" and "Philippians," all the aeons are summed up in him, in whom dwells the pleroma, or "fulness of God." The Unseen World and Other Essays
Well, Mr. Macdonald was prating, as usual, about the antiquity of Scotland and its aeons of stirring history. Penelope's Experiences in Scotland
All the strong souls of the race  Thro' the aeons that have run, They have cried aloud to Thee — "Thou art that which stirs in me!" An Anthology of Australian Verse
Would that taste and likeness vary so very much over, let us say, a million years or so, which, after all, is but an hour, or a minute, in the aeons of Eternity? When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
I used to refute him by telling him that I measured his immortality by the wings of his soul, and that I should have to live endless aeons in order to achieve the full measurement. The Iron Heel
I have a dream of laying my head on your breast and sleeping an aeon or so, and the dream will come true ere another year is gone.” Martin Eden
As a matter of fact we mortals do not think in constellations, so to speak, or in aeons, but by the measures of our own small earth and of our few days thereon. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
I think it was then that for the first time I really began to believe that in fact Yva had lived all those aeons since and been as she still appeared. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
I grow old, since aeons of sleep have not renewed my strength. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
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