antediluvians

Updated: June 13, 2025

The places were either become factories, or some charming new family lived there; and for the people, it seemed as if she might as well ask for antediluvians; Lady Britton had seldom heard their names, or if any trace survived, they had never been on her visiting list. At last Oliver came up to her, saying, 'Here, ma'am, Mr. Henderson claims an early acquaintance with you. 'Mr.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2

I know that thousands will doubt they think they have us so well secured in wretchedness, to them and their children, that it is impossible for such things to occur. So did the antediluvians doubt Noah, until the day in which the flood came and swept them away.

Benjamin Griffith Brawley - A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including: A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia

To have announced the intention of boring for petroleum into the bowels of the earth, would have been to provoke mirth and ridicule. The enterprise would have appeared quite as visionary as that of Noah to the antediluvians in building his ark against an anticipated inundation.

Various - The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 : Devoted To Literature And National Policy

All along our history in Scotland, Ireland and America, the sin of the antediluvians and of Israel after the flesh has been imitated by us joining with the known enemies of truth and righteousness, in the face of many fearful judgments for such breaches of solemn vows.

The Reformed Presbytery - The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and: Solemn League and Covenant: With the Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties, as They: Were Renewed at Auchensaugh, Near Douglas, July 24, 1712. (Compared: With the Editions of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.) Also, The: Renovation of These Public Federal Deeds Ordained at Philadelphia,: October 8, 1880, by the Reformed Presbytery, with Accommodation of: the Original Covenants, in Both Transactions, to Their Times and: Positions Respectively

The moral account of the antediluvians was closed off and the balance brought down in the year of the deluge; but the account of those who come after runs on and on, and the blessed bow of promise itself warns us that God will not stop it till the Judgment Day! O God, I thank thee that that day must come at last, when thou wilt destroy the world, and stop the interest on my account!"

George Washington Cable - Madame Delphine

While talking on this subject, imagine my surprise to hear my informant who looks as if the Scriptures are the last thing in the world for him to speak of volunteer the information that our venerable and venerated ancestors, the antediluvians, used to count time in the same way as the Indians, and that instead of Methuselah being nine hundred and sixty-nine years of age, it ought to be revised so as to read " nine hundred and sixty-nine moons," which would bring that ancient and long-lived person-the oldest man that ever lived-down to the venerable but by no means extraordinary age of eighty years and nine months.

Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 : From San Francisco to Teheran