What is "ages"

Usage examples of "ages".

That it became, in the course of ages, a populous and mighty nation, from whose overflowings the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River, the Amazon, the Pacific coast of South America, the Mediterranean, the west coast of Europe and Africa, the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Caspian were populated by civilized nations.

I will now describe the plain, which had been cultivated during many ages by many generations of kings.

Paradise, and the emblem of the cross surrounded by a circle, which, as we will show hereafter, was, from the earliest pre-Christian ages, accepted as the emblem of the Garden of Eden.

Plato did not invent the name of Poseidon, for the worship of Poseidon was universal in the earliest ages of Europe.

North Atlantic before America began to be, and onward at least through the palæozoic ages of American history.

Professor Marsh, of Yale College, has identified the several preceding forms from which it was developed, rising, in the course of ages, from a creature not larger than a fox until, by successive steps, it developed into the true horse.

The first was connected with the name of Ogyges, the most ancient of the kings of Bœotia or Attica--a quite mythical personage, lost in the night of ages, his very name seemingly derived from one signifying deluge in Aryan idioms, in Sanscrit Angha.

Plato's history that the Athenians long preserved in their books the memory of a victory won over the Atlanteans in the early ages, and celebrated it by national festivals, with processions and religious ceremonies.

Christian ages touching the Deluge pointed to the quarter of the world in which Atlantis was situated.

It consists of four symbolic pictures, representing the four ages of the world preceding the actual one.

When the sun Nahui-atl came there had passed away four hundred years, plus two ages, plus seventy-six years.

Egypt at the beginning appears mature, old, and entirely without mythical and heroic ages, as if the country had never known youth.

Aryan, an Egyptian, a Chinese, they represent the work of a great many ages, perhaps of several myriads of centuries.

American nations believed in four great primeval ages, as the Hindoo does to this day.

Middle Ages in Europe to exorcise evil spirits were Assyrian words, imported probably thousands of years before from the magicians of Chaldea.