Many less durable goods are rented for brief periods.
At stated periods it makes a noise exactly like a cuckoo clock.
In the earlier periods of Rome, separate baths were appropriated to each sex.
It is a fact well known that continents have periods of elevation and depression.
The history of the country has, therefore, in the first two periods little to say of the people.
They were the first astronomers, calculating eclipses, and watching the periods of planets and constellations.
There were periods when fear clogged his throat and left him gasping with the need to scream and beat his cell walls.
From that date down to the present time we have a continuous record, the whole course of which may be divided into three clearly distinguished periods.
This consideration of duration, as set out by certain periods and marked by certain measures or epochs, is that, I think, which most properly we call TIME.
I return to the scriptural periods or ages of the world, conventionally called 'days,' long before the appearance of man, when the unfinished world was as yet unfitted for his support.