The deity commanded that the Moonstone should be watched, from that time forth, by three priests in turn, night and day, to the end of the
generations of men.
Generation is distinct from destruction, increase and change of place from diminution, and so on.
Today, a
generation raised in the shadows of the Cold War assumes new responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom, but threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues.
Since this country was founded, each
generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.
Square offspring has sometimes resulted from a slightly Irregular Triangle; but in almost every such case the Irregularity of the first
generation is visited on the third; which either fails to attain the Pentagonal rank, or relapses to the Triangular.] Such a birth requires, as its antecedents, not only a series of carefully arranged intermarriages, but also a long, continued exercise of frugality and self-control on the part of the would-be ancestors of the coming Equilateral, and a patient, systematic, and continuous development of the Isosceles intellect through many
generations.
I have read desultorily the writings of the younger
generation. It may be that among them a more fervid Keats, a more ethereal Shelley, has already published numbers the world will willingly remember.
It seems pretty clear that organic beings must be exposed during several
generations to the new conditions of life to cause any appreciable amount of variation; and that when the organisation has once begun to vary, it generally continues to vary for many
generations.
The Realists, who were undoubtedly the masters of fiction in their passing
generation, and who prevailed not only in France, but in Russia, in Scandinavia, in Spain, in Portugal, were overborne in all Anglo-Saxon countries by the innumerable hosts of Romanticism, who to this day possess the land; though still, whenever a young novelist does work instantly recognizable for its truth and beauty among us, he is seen and felt to have wrought in the spirit of Realism.
You see, comparatively few alcoholics are born in a
generation. And by alcoholic I mean a man whose chemistry craves alcohol and drives him resistlessly to it.
Sir Patrick never allowed "his time" to be made the subject of disparaging remarks by the younger
generation without paying the y ounger
generation back in its own coin.
121-139) But after earth had covered this
generation -- they are called pure spirits dwelling on the earth, and are kindly, delivering from harm, and guardians of mortal men; for they roam everywhere over the earth, clothed in mist and keep watch on judgements and cruel deeds, givers of wealth; for this royal right also they received; -- then they who dwell on Olympus made a second
generation which was of silver and less noble by far.
He looks upon it as a man may look at a vast nursery in an old, old mansion where innumerable
generations of his own people have learned to walk.