What is "latter-day"

Usage examples of "latter-day".

Holo Corporation of America, tied to Loring Aircraft, engaged to Entertainment Talent Associates, in bed with Deseret Pacific Industries, romantically linked to Latter-Day Shale.

Perhaps Priestess Poogli is a throwback and senses somehow that this latter-day monosexuality is like a last gasp of a dying civilization and that, food or no food, unless there is a return to the duosexual era, the race of Sacred Fishers is doomed.

No doubt that explains your phe nomenal latter-day success as a model.

An orthodox martyr had been caught from the East, and an oily latter-day St Paul, from the other side of the water--to the horror and amazement of Archdeacon Grantly, who had come up all the way from Plumstead to be present on the occasion.

They threaded their way past the modern gravestones of latter-day Silvers and their kinfolk, and walked the few hundred yards along Route 80 to the dirt trail that led off into deep woods.

Snow lay on the onions now, dimming the blues and greens and golds that sparkled on the picture postcards, but I stood there wondering how a nation which had produced a building of such joyous, magnificent imagination could have come to its latter-day greyness.

Certain now of his archangelic status, he banished from his thoughts all remorse for his time of doubting, replacing it with a new resolve: to bring this metropolis of the ungodly, this latter-day "Ad or Thamoud, back to the knowledge of God, to shower upon it the blessings of the Recitation, the sacred Word.

The list of offer­ings was incredible: baked salmon steak, Maine lobster, roast sirloin, filet of sole, a whole roster of unobtainables, none of your dreary latter-day soybean clevernesses and seaweed con­fections.

Wars and revolutions, or their subtle latter-day cognates, sweep the globe as constants become variables.

Yet it exists like the Trojan horse, lacking only its complement of latter-day Acheans to threaten the Procyon peace—" "We've discussed this before," broke in Bright.

Latter-day adventurers had, however, carved their names on to its walls—notably the former circus strongman Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823) who had forced his way into the monument in 1818.

He had arranged deals so lopsided that, when daylight hit them, they brought the high councilor of his Latter-day Saints stake down from Blanding to remind him of what was said about such behavior in the Book of Mormon.

Players of Null-A, the Prelude to Space, Thunder and Roses, Armageddon, the Time Machine, the Mason' Word, the Monkey Business, the Works, the Eight of Swords, Gorilla Warfare, the Box Lunch, the Primate Kingdom, the New Aeon, the Enola Gay, the Octet Truss, the Stochastic Process, the Fluxions, the Burning House, the Phantom Captain, the Decline of the West, the Duelists, the Call of the Wild, Consciousness III, the Reorganized Church of the Latter-Day Saints, Standard Oil of Ohio, the Zig-Zag Men, the Rubble Risers, the Children of Ra, TNT, Acceptable Radiation, the Pollution Level, the Great Beast, the Whores of Babylon, the Waste Land, the Ugly Truth, the Final .

Not surprisingly, the Guide's graphically enticing description of the general state of affairs on this planet has proved to be astonishingly popular amongst hitch-hikers who allow themselves to be Guided by it, and so it has simply never been taken out, and it is therefore left to latter-day travellers to find out for themselves that today's modern Brequinda in the City State of Avalars is now little more than concrete, strip joints and Dragon Burger Bars.

Not surprisingly, the Guide's graphically enticing description of the general state of affairs on this planet has proved to be astonishingly popular amongst hitch-hikers who allow themselves to be guided by it, and so it has simply never been taken out, and it is therefore left to latter-day travellers to find out for themselves that today's modern Brequinda in the City State of Avalars is now little more than concrete, strip joints and Dragon Burger Bars.