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- noun Plural form of
epocha .
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Abraham; through all the pilgrimages of the patriarchs, to the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt — and throughout all the Dynasties, Olympiads, Urbeconditas, and other memorable epochas of the different nations of the world, down to the coming of
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Abraham; through all the pilgrimages of the patriarchs, to the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt — and throughout all the Dynasties, Olympiads, Urbeconditas, and other memorable epochas of the different nations of the world, down to the coming of
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His clothes were never young in our memory; you might make long epochas from them, and put them into the almanack with the dear year [94] and the great frost, [95] and he is known by them longer than his face.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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Madame de V was vibrating betwixt the first of these epochas: the color of the rose was shading fast awayshe ought to have been a deist five years before the time I had the honor to pay my first visit.
63. Paris 1917
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There are three epochas in the empire of a FrenchwomanShe is coquettethen deistthen dévote: the empire during these is never lostshe only changes her subjects: when thirty-five years and more have unpeopled her dominions of the slaves of love, she repeoples it with slaves of infidelityand then with the slaves of the Church.
63. Paris 1917
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Madame de V — was vibrating betwixt the first of those epochas: the colour of the rose was fading fast away; — she ought to have been a deist five years before the time I had the honour to pay my first visit.
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There are three epochas in the empire of a French woman. —
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As respects logical inductions, for instance, the linum usitatissimum draws as largely on the intellectual acquisitions of the various epochas that belonged to the three or four parent stems which preceded it, as on its own.
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Madame de V - was vibrating betwixt the first of those epochas: the colour of the rose was fading fast away; - she ought to have been a deist five years before the time I had the honour to pay my first visit.
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There are three epochas in the empire of a French woman.
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