Out of the sack

Usage examples of arisen.

Before his departure for this distant expedition, Carus conferred on his two sons, Carinus and Numerian, the title of Caesar, and investing the former with almost an equal share of the Imperial power, directed the young prince, first to suppress some troubles which had arisen in Gaul, and afterwards to fix the seat of his residence at Rome, and to assume the government of the Western provinces.

A charitable hope might perhaps be indulged in favor of Socrates, or some other sages of antiquity, who had consulted the light of reason before that of the gospel had arisen.

History gives us distinct notions of the synods, held towards the end of the second century, at Ephesus at Jerusalem, at Pontus, and at Rome, to put an end to the disputes which had arisen between the Latin and Asiatic churches about the celebration of Easter.

After ten centuries of a very free and open trade, some suspicions have arisen among the more learned Catholics.

Before the structure of the church had arisen two cubits above the ground, forty-five thousand two hundred pounds were already consumed.

The seeds of the faith, which had slowly arisen in the rocky and ungrateful soil of Judea, were transplanted, in full maturity, to the happier climes of the Gentiles.

A dispute had arisen, who, among the citizens of Mecca, was entitled to the prize of generosity.

In the moving picture of the dynasties of the East, a hundred fortunate usurpers have arisen from a baser origin, surmounted more formidable obstacles, and filled a larger scope of empire and conquest.

The modern reader must not confound this old Cherson of the Tauric or Crimaean peninsula, with a new city of the same name, which has arisen near the mouth of the Borysthenes, and was lately honored by the memorable interview of the empress of Russia with the emperor of the West.

A slighter provocation inflamed the more irascible temper of their descendants: a new spirit had arisen of religious chivalry and papal dominion.

From the remains of a solid and stately wall, it appears to have arisen to the height of threescore feet in the valleys.

Suppose we try out the following definition: a complex thing is something whose constituent parts are arranged in a way that is unlikely to have arisen by chance alone.

Each successive change in the gradual evolutionary process was simple enough, relative to its predecessor, to have arisen by chance.

Could the human eye have arisen directly from no eye at all, in a single step?

Could the human eye have arisen directly from something slightly different from itself, something that we may call X?