Centuries

Examples

• 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.
• 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For many centuries there may have been no men in Britain or Central Europe (Wright). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Palladius, four centuries later, describes the same sort of machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The linotype machine has added greatly to the rapidity of this centuries-old process. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Lighthouses are also distinguished from those of preceding centuries by the substitution of iron and cast steel for masonry. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Similar single machines were in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries devised in Austria and England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Cast Iron Made by Ancients, Disused for 15 Centuries. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He was two centuries ahead of his world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As if the Gorgon's head had surveyed it, when it was finished, two centuries ago. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• 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. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Centuries hence, we Frenchmen and Englishmen might be boasting and killing each other still, carrying out bravely the Devil's code of honour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In the second, third, and fourth centuries some of the most lovely landscapes were painted that have ever been done by men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• After a brief submergence by Alexander the Great, it rose again as the Seleucid Empire, which endured for some centuries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But they preferred to stay in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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