Adjective : from time immemorial. From Dictionary.com.
They seem to have been immemorially handed down to him from ancestors emulating the urbanity of. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
A pair of pewees have built immemorially on a jutting brick in the arched entrance to the ice-house. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
It has been immemorially the custom of the world, practically to undervalue his services, and in all time teaching and poverty have been inseparable companions. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Cicero the Jews had been settled immemorially in Spain. From Wordnik.com. [Lord George Bentinck A Political Biography] Reference
His paternal ancestors had been settled immemorially at. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books Second Series] Reference
Babylonian contracts, and prove how immemorially old it is. From Wordnik.com. [Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs] Reference
It was a concession -- and concessions were immemorially worth what they would fetch. From Wordnik.com. [The Market-Place] Reference
The estate which his ancestors had immemorially possessed was much augmented by captain. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
But, like adults immemorially, Mis 'Winslow bore far more the adult manner than its heart. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas A Story] Reference
Two of his staff accompanied him from the vigorous young West to the immemorially old East. From Wordnik.com. [The Days Before Yesterday] Reference
Arabia being immemorially caravan-knit with India, it was thought that it might be understood. From Wordnik.com. [1492] Reference
Worth's has been immemorially a stopping-place in a region where places of accommodation are few. From Wordnik.com. [On Horseback] Reference
This was immemorially old, it seemed, and it had reappeared mysteriously in Europe in the Dark Ages. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
That the professors of literature generally reside in the highest stories has been immemorially observed. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II] Reference
That the professors of literature generally reside in the highest stories, has been immemorially observed. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
It did not occur to you to be tired of those of your own immediate family, for you loved them immemorially. From Wordnik.com. [The Children] Reference
This has been immemorially the reliable point in performances of the kind he was giving, but he introduced it in. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
Prose Romance has immemorially asserted, no less than the Epic or the Drama, its heritage in the Realm of the Marvellous. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference
O my soul, to thy domain gave I all wisdom to drink, all new wines, and also all immemorially old strong wines of wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference
Masons, the North has immemorially been the place of darkness; and of the great lights of the Lodge, none is in the North. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
This sweet-scented wood has been used immemorially as an incense throughout eastern countries, and was early introduced into. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference
The orthodox had immemorially asserted that revelation imparted information not otherwise attainable, or not then attainable. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant] Reference
He was descending a long, open valley that seemed from its trackless snows to have been immemorially life-shunned and accursed. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
The path they entered upon had been immemorially marked "no passing"; for many of them the end of it was suicide or the madhouse. From Wordnik.com. [Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects] Reference
"Pelota" is the father of racquets and fives, and is an immemorially old game, going back, it is said, to the times of the Romans. From Wordnik.com. [Here, There and Everywhere] Reference
Halys, and in that region which, taking its name from Ees, or As (a word designating light or fire), has been immemorially called Asia. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
Obviously he is a much more microscopic creature than the immemorially despised tailor, and, alas! his case is nearest that of most of us. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Fancies] Reference
The Bedouins possess a good many of these coins, handed down immemorially from father to son, and never sell them unless compelled by want. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
They seem to have been immemorially handed down to him, from ancestors emulating the urbanity of Caesar, and refined by the grace of Horace. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
And my indignation kindled at the substitution of modern names for these ancient mountain names bestowed immemorially by the original inhabitants of the land!. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska] Reference
Territory is given up to tribes which are neither Algonquin, Iroquois, nor Appalachian in their original, but are of the races living immemorially beyond the Mississippi. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Question (1874)] Reference
Sir E.B. Lytton tells us that 'the air of Malvern is in itself hygeian: the water is immemorially celebrated for its purity: the landscape is a perpetual pleasure to the eye.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
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