Usage examples (26)

• Each such effort steered the spoils of early-nineteenth-century commerce toward Manhattan.
• Maine, where we have an early-nineteenth-century farmhouse surrounded by flower gardens, woods, and wildlife.
• What had ghazals, poems in a Persian verse form popular in early-nineteenth-century Germany, to do with all this?
• Note 95: Cf. Timothy Keegan's recent overview of the early-nineteenth-century history of South Africa under British colonial rule.