464 Words to use with century

Doubtless there originally stood here a twelfth-century Norman church, consisting of nave with aisles and chancel, of which two arches remain in the south arcade of the nave.

In a word, the classic movement had become pseudo-classic, i.e. a false or sham classicism; and the latter term is now often used to designate a considerable part of eighteenth-century literature.

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They are mighty waving goldenrods, ever in tune, singing and writing wind-music all their long century lives.

It is therefore twelfth century Norman work we see at Rochester.

Though he was profoundly influenced by the seventeenth- century writers, he attempted definitely to create a new style which should combine the best elements of prose and poetry.

It marks a change from the artificial style of eighteenth century poetry and proclaims the dawn of the natural style of the new school.

DUNKELD, a town in Perthshire, 15 m. NW. of Perth, with a fine 14th-century cathedral.

AElfric, a tenth century prose writer, has left a collection of sermons, called Homilies, and an interesting Colloquium, which throws strong lights on the social life of the time.

Century readings In the Old Testament.

Many nineteenth-century poets are indebted to Malory.

GREEVER, GARLAND G. The century handbook of writing, by Garland Greever & Easley S. Jones.

Elsewhere, thirteenth and fourteenth century houses are becoming rare; here they are numerous.

In London in the seventeenth century men who were found guilty of pooling their efforts and dividing profits, were convicted by law and punished for "contumacy, contravention and connivance," and were given a taste of the stocks in the public square.

Just to the south of this gate is the twelfth-century building known as King John's Palace.

For fifty years, about the blackest half-century civilization has had to record, this condition of industrial slavery continued with little amendment.

"Now this is the part which will no doubt interest you most, Mr. Piercy," Morriston said; "this fourteenth century tower, which is to-day in a really wonderful state of preservation.

The advancing years have not only altered it in name, for, with the exception of the ruins of a twelfth-century castle, there is nothing to indicate its mediaeval origin; and as to the old-world look that is so pleasant to meet with, but now so rare, this town of the "Royal Mount" has no trace of it.

Letters of Thomas J. Wise to John Henry Wrenn: a further inquiry into the guilt of certain nineteenth-century forgers.

It rose straight up, up, up, generation after generation, tall, branchless, slender, palm-like; and finally, in the time of which I am to tell, flowered with all the rare beauty of a century-plant, in Artemise, Innocente, Felicité, the twins Marie and Martha, Leontine and little Septima; the seven beautiful daughters for whom their home had been fitly named Belles Demoiselles.

Early seventeenth century plays, 1600-1642, edited by Harold Reinoehl Walley and John Harold Wilson.

A curious essay might be written on the reasons why such names as Sir John Brute, Sir Tunbelly Clumsy, Sir Peter Teazle, Sir Anthony Absolute, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Lord Foppington, Lord Rake, Colonel Bully, Lovewell, Heartfree, Gripe, Shark and the rest were regarded as a matter of course in "the comedy of manners," but have become offensive to-day, except in deliberate imitations of the eighteenth-century style.

After nearly every nineteenth-century war there has been a marked revival of human activity.

Very few such masterpieces of twelfth-century carving have been so well preserved as this.

Their rationalism was naturally of the eighteenth-century type, and in the preamble to the Declaration of Rights (1789) deism was asserted by the words in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being (against which only one voice protested).

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