Let us glance at some sixteenth-century books of accounts. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
It may have been the sixteenth-century way of closing a battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
Norman and Early English with some sixteenth-century additions. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
It is one of your vivid sixteenth-century English ejaculations. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Some of the deficiencies in sixteenth-century theory are supplied by. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
There are other interesting sixteenth-century works by Abraham de Bruyn. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
The recumbent figure of a sixteenth-century Bill-Tasman was taking shape. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
Now at last the full fruits of sixteenth-century discovery were to be reaped. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Thus the sixteenth-century form of our legend is of the most tragic character. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
These gentlemen considerably shake my traditional respect for sixteenth-century. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
Liz glowering on the other side of the creekbed, a sixteenth-century landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Micros] Reference
The old beams and the large sixteenth-century gallery have escaped "improvement.". From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
The greatest of the sixteenth-century surgeons, the lovable and loving Ambroise Paré. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
I have no doubt but that this feature is traditional from the unknown sixteenth-century ballad. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference
Dr Rashdall describes the scene, from a rare sixteenth-century tract, which contains an illustration of. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
We may still regret the injustice, but we know better than to wonder at any misconception sixteenth-century. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
The disciplinary regulations of fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Oxford may be paralleled from other universities. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
Rochellers, as they are often called in sixteenth-century chronicles -- and now many of them fled to this shelter. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Two monolith jambs support a huge lintel, cambered in the middle like the tie-beams of our sixteenth-century roofs. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Beckmann relates that a collection of these sixteenth-century German book-catalogues was in the library of Professor. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
A short distance to the north, through the hamlet of Flanders, is the fine sixteenth-century mansion called Nash Court. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
COSTELLO (voice-over): That's the movie version of "Ivan the Terrible," the legendary sixteenth-century czar of Russia. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2009] Reference
There is a number of works dealing with it, chiefly sixteenth-century Spanish books, and all are of considerable value. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
| 339 | The method of choosing the Epiphany king is thus described by the sixteenth-century writer, Étienne Pasquier. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
Condalmiero and his gallant crew had shown to all a splendid example of disciplined valour unexcelled in sixteenth-century annals. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
Or compare a good modern yacht, swift, lithe, and plain, with a lumbering heavily gilded sixteenth-century galleon, or even with a. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
In judging the action of Leon de Castro and his allies we must endeavour to adjust ourselves to the sixteenth-century point of view. From Wordnik.com. [Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment] Reference
Minor penalties were enforced by the Head of a college, the Vice-Head, the Deans, and, in sixteenth-century colleges, by the tutors. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
The same year he picked up for ten shillings, in London, an early sixteenth-century folio, rubricated and with illuminated initials. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
In many cases the standards recognized by sixteenth-century translators were little more exacting than those of the medieval period. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
Its sixteenth-century manor house bears the name of "King John's House," as do several others over the length and breadth of England. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
In discussing the vocabulary to be employed by the translator, Hobbes professes opinions not unlike those of the sixteenth-century critics. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
For here some sixteenth-century humorist had displayed the arms of Abbot Beere in the form of a convivial rebus or riddle -- to wit, a cross and two beer flagons. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
It also saw a defiant denial of ancient authority among those more radically inclined, such as the disciples of the sixteenth-century alchemist and physician, Paracelsus. From Wordnik.com. [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference
Thus, even the Faust of the older sixteenth-century legend, although he ultimately falls a victim to the devil, has noble and high impulses by which we feel strongly attracted. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
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