She gestured toward a gold, late-nineteenth-century couch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The I Inside]

Puccini set it to music and fixed it firmly in late-nineteenth-century Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia] Reference

It depicted a late-nineteenth-century French vase from the Daventry collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharp Edges] Reference

However, in late-nineteenth-century Vienna public discussion of the topic was taboo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emancipation] Reference

Judging from its late-nineteenth-century downtown buildings, Scranton was once a rich little city.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brand-New Olmsted] Reference

The term "feminist" dates back to late-nineteenth-century France, when it was actually not pejorative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leora Tanenbaum: Goodbye, F-Word; Hello, 'Women's Lib'] Reference

Compare the plot of the modern blockbuster film to the plot of late-nineteenth-century Italian grand opera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Avatar] Reference

Adams despaired at the plight of late-nineteenth-century America with its excess, corruption, and urbanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zane Grey, Romancing the West]

It was bounded on that side by a long row of late-nineteenth-century brownstones, all of them four stories tall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza]

The late-nineteenth-century New Jersey estate, across the street from a graveyard, looked bleak in the afternoon light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden History of Ralston Heights] Reference

Foucault borrows from Nietzsche are in fact quite typical of a certain late-nineteenth-century discourse about history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault)] Reference

Here's the abstract: Spiritualism was one of the most salient cultural phenomena of late-nineteenth-century American life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

Rustaveli Prospekt was a late-nineteenth-century architectural confection with touches of Budapest, Ljubljana, and Prague.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Europe Vanishes] Reference

It had been the birthplace, after all, of Ward McAllister, that self-appointed social arbiter of late-nineteenth-century America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]

Religious ornamentation was erased, and late-nineteenth-century buildings (which smacked of capitalist excess) were simply never rebuilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cities Rising] Reference

So did the ascension of the extremist Boulangist movement in late-nineteenth-century France, and the Action Française movement after World War I.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meltdown: A Case Study] Reference

Recently refurbished late-nineteenth-century homes sat adjacent to massive redevelopment projects, vacant lots, and old apartment houses gone to seed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warning Signs]

I was glad to see that Professor Wise, an expert on late-nineteenth-century physics, finds no error in what I had to say about the history of science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange] Reference

The late-nineteenth-century cases discussed in chapter two would have been resolved far more fairly with the application of an alternative model of privacy.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.] Reference

But very few Grignolino vines survived the late-nineteenth-century phylloxera epidemic, and today just 1 percent of Piedmont vineyards are planted with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grignolino] Reference

A late-nineteenth-century mathematician would be able to understand the idea of Turing computability and a von Neumann architecture with a few days instruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

For decades, his name was inseparable from the two stock phrases (robber baron and Gilded Age) that were allowed to define late-nineteenth-century American industrialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rich Man’s Burden] Reference

The muted interiors of the late-nineteenth-century Danish painter.    From Wordnik.com.  [artforum.com] Reference

It has imported a characteristically late-nineteenth-century separatist project into a world that has moved on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference

He felt that somehow, owing to his late-nineteenth-century tact, the breach between him and Pete had been healed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Happiest Time of Their Lives] Reference

Ovilo's Ensanche harkens back to the homogeneous and Neo-Classical aesthetic of late-nineteenth-century Spanish architecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [VQR] Reference

Her lecture is titled “The True Story of Ah Jake: Translation and Justice in late-nineteenth-century Sierra County, California.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Portland Book Events: March 8-14 - Reading Local: Portland] Reference

"Hamlet," the opéra in which Ambroise Thomas and his librettists adapted Shakespeare to the very demanding tastes of the late-nineteenth-century Parisian public.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

94Despite these initial efforts of the late-nineteenth-century activists, the first half of the twentieth century was a quiet time for anti-domestic-violence activism.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.] Reference

In my room is a curious artifact of late-nineteenth-century medicine: a heavy wooden chair with a cast-iron lever extending up to each arm, within easy grasp of the sitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Art do you know your major movements 1. A late-nineteenth-century French school of painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [[art] do you know your major movements] Reference

The gin-and-tonic arrived in a late-nineteenth-century English rock-crystal glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharp Edges] Reference

The maternal melodrama derives from several late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century theatrical prototypes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference