Century

Examples

• It is also said that one man to-day, with the aid of a steam engine, performs the work of 120 men in the last century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• These got fairly to work at the beginning of the century, and the uses of machinery spread to the treatment of leather. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Heating by the circulation of hot water through pipes was also originated or revived during the 18th century, and a short time before Watt's circulation of steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This was the India into which the French and English were thrusting during the eighteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In agriculture the raising of grain has extended in the Nineteenth Century to enormous proportions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A century and a half later came Wycliffe (1320-1384). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Among the important and interesting achievements of chemistry in the Nineteenth Century is the _artificial production of organic compounds_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Whatever women may be, I thought that men, in the nineteenth century, were above superstition. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• His Art and its Defects Lasted until Nineteenth Century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We have given an epitome of the development of the submarine vessel up to the opening of the twentieth century. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And yet some of the brightest intellects of the century have been engaged in devising means to accomplish the result, and all are not yet agreed as to which is the best way. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is even related that in the third century B.C. Buddhist missionaries came from the court of King Asoka in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I think St. Helena, the mother of Constantine, found this wonderful memento when she was here in the third century. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The church in the thirteenth century was extending its legal power in the world, and losing its grip upon men's consciences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Is it not the Bible of the Massachusetts language, translated by Elliot, and printed in New-England about the middle of the last century? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Originally no doubt, and for untold centuries, the use was confined to the hairy, undressed, fresh, or dried skins, known as pelts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• By the ninth and tenth centuries there are not only grammars, but great lexicons, and a mass of philological learning in Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For many centuries Constantinople was the greatest and richest city in the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The bark of trees made into a liquor has been used for centuries in treating practically all kinds of hides. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• During those two centuries the Japanese remained as completely cut off from the rest of the world as though they lived upon another planet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All of this is very reminiscent of the religious and political state of affairs in Greece fourteen centuries earlier. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nevertheless, Manich?ism held its own in Persia with Nestorian Christianity and orthodox Zoroastrianism (Mazdaism) for some centuries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were two centuries each of mechanics and musicians, and the _proletarii_ made up one century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But it is taking the revolution many centuries to produce a new mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• 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). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But before coming to that, we have to note the theory of experience and knowledge developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The English mind again had a phase of brightness in the seventh and eighth centuries, and it did not shine again until the fifteenth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At this point a voice echoes down the centuries to us. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Seventeen or eighteen centuries ago this Coliseum was the theatre of Rome, and Rome was mistress of the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Presently in the fourth and fifth centuries the weather grew drier and the grass became scanty, and the nomads stirred afresh. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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