Centuries

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• Originally no doubt, and for untold centuries, the use was confined to the hairy, undressed, fresh, or dried skins, known as pelts. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• By the ninth and tenth centuries there are not only grammars, but great lexicons, and a mass of philological learning in Islam. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• For many centuries Constantinople was the greatest and richest city in the world. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• The bark of trees made into a liquor has been used for centuries in treating practically all kinds of hides. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• During those two centuries the Japanese remained as completely cut off from the rest of the world as though they lived upon another planet. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• All of this is very reminiscent of the religious and political state of affairs in Greece fourteen centuries earlier. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Nevertheless, Manich?ism held its own in Persia with Nestorian Christianity and orthodox Zoroastrianism (Mazdaism) for some centuries. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• There were two centuries each of mechanics and musicians, and the _proletarii_ made up one century. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• But it is taking the revolution many centuries to produce a new mind. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• Other rocks, like limestone, are so readily soluble in water that from the small pores and cavities eaten out by the water, there may develop in long centuries, caves and caverns (Fig. 30). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• But before coming to that, we have to note the theory of experience and knowledge developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• The English mind again had a phase of brightness in the seventh and eighth centuries, and it did not shine again until the fifteenth. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• At this point a voice echoes down the centuries to us. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Seventeen or eighteen centuries ago this Coliseum was the theatre of Rome, and Rome was mistress of the world. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• Presently in the fourth and fifth centuries the weather grew drier and the grass became scanty, and the nomads stirred afresh. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• If only we could look closelier, we should see through all these sixty centuries a procession of lives more and more akin in their fashion to our own. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• For many centuries there may have been no men in Britain or Central Europe (Wright). 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Palladius, four centuries later, describes the same sort of machine. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• The linotype machine has added greatly to the rapidity of this centuries-old process. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• Lighthouses are also distinguished from those of preceding centuries by the substitution of iron and cast steel for masonry. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• Similar single machines were in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries devised in Austria and England. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• Then, after fourteen or fifteen centuries, we find the harp, both in a horizontal and an upright position, with its strings played upon by keys. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• Cast Iron Made by Ancients, Disused for 15 Centuries. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• He was two centuries ahead of his world. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• As if the Gorgon's head had surveyed it, when it was finished, two centuries ago. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
• The age of iron is not yet supreme, For youth still throbs in the old veins of Mother Earth, wan and weary with sorrowful centuries. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• Centuries hence, we Frenchmen and Englishmen might be boasting and killing each other still, carrying out bravely the Devil's code of honour. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• In the second, third, and fourth centuries some of the most lovely landscapes were painted that have ever been done by men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• After a brief submergence by Alexander the Great, it rose again as the Seleucid Empire, which endured for some centuries. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• But they preferred to stay in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.

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