Rangoon are demonstrably more decrepit than the eleventh-century temples at Pagan. From Wordnik.com. [Burma] Reference
I'm not qualified enough to figure out whether they were nineteenth-or eleventh-century. From Wordnik.com. [Bono On Bono]
An eleventh-century letter, written on parchment, rolled into a cylinder and tied with thongs. From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
Serkong Dorjey-chang was widely recognized as an incarnation of the eleventh-century translator Marpa. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche] Reference
The Old Bonitians were the real founders of the community; the Late Bonitians, eleventh-century immigrants. From Wordnik.com. [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference
In eleventh-century France we find a widowed farmer who worked her land alone, with the help of sharecroppers. From Wordnik.com. [Entrepreneurs.] Reference
How Native Americans in the Southwest survived -- and even profited from -- an eleventh-century volcanic eruption. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets in the Cinders] Reference
A very important dictionary, Zamakhshiri's eleventh-century Assas al Balagha, doesn't even mention the rising camel. From Wordnik.com. [Orientalism: An Exchange] Reference
˜Ilm al-balâgha was a doctrine deriving from work by the great eleventh-century grammarian and Ash˜arite theologian. From Wordnik.com. [Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Language and Logic] Reference
The battle waged in eleventh-century Spain to hold back the Muslim extremists was thus part of our common culture in the early 1960s. From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: Charlton Heston's 'El Cid': A Hero for Our Time] Reference
The topsoil contained a small amount of mid-Byzantine common wares, as well as a late eleventh-century A.D. coin (an anonymous follis). From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Antoninus Pius Report 1] Reference
She told them to gather at 5 p.m. in front of the city's most prominent landmark, the sixty-foot-high eleventh-century stone drum tower. From Wordnik.com. [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]
The scientists theorized that the ancestor was Genghis Khan (or, more exactly, an eleventh-century ancestor of Genghis Khan). From Wordnik.com. [Random Mongolian Genetic Trivia Item of the Day « Snarkmarket] Reference
Also in place is an eleventh-century A.D. ornamental wall panel from the Ghaznavid winter palace at Lashkari Bazaar in southwestern Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Under Siege: Full Text] Reference
We spent twenty years conserving an eleventh-century shipwreck in Turkey, and are spending additional years publishing it in three large volumes. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations: Finding Artifacts is Not Archaeology] Reference
In fact, a number of architectural features found in Axumite churches were employed in the design of Lalibela's tenth - and eleventh-century rock-cut churches. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Houses of God, or Ancient Fortresses?] Reference
The Vietnamese Parliament has been filibustered by the discovery of an eleventh-century royal palace at the planned location of the body's new building in Hanoi. From Wordnik.com. [Make Way for the Old] Reference
With the beautiful Sophia Loren playing Jimene, El Cid's wife, audiences of that era were treated to a great love story set against the backdrop of eleventh-century Spain. From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: Charlton Heston's 'El Cid': A Hero for Our Time] Reference
This is a recurrent lesson from Iran's national epic, the eleventh-century Book of Kings, which chronicles, in myths and history-telling, the opposition between virtue and power. From Wordnik.com. [Iran: The Revenge] Reference
Epistle in an eleventh-century MS. in the library of the Seminary of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
An eleventh-century German translation was printed by Müllenhoff and. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Peter, on the contrary, was logical, arguing from eleventh-century premises. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipation of Massachusetts] Reference
At the Mount, the eleventh-century work was antiquated before it was finished. From Wordnik.com. [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] Reference
It was published in or after 403 and has been preserved in a single eleventh-century manuscript. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
But these eleventh-century vaults nearly all fell in, and had to be reconstructed on new principles. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
Normandy, is an eleventh-century representation of a huge hurdy-gurdy resting on the knees of two performers. From Wordnik.com. [In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc] Reference
A valuable document, describing the duties of a reeve, gives many interesting details of eleventh-century farming. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of English Agriculture] Reference
Mr. Warren finds an instance of this ceremony in the eleventh-century Jumièges Ritual, but otherwise it does not seem to be known. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
This "laisse" is even more eleventh-century than the other, but it appealed no longer to the warriors; it spoke rather to the monks. From Wordnik.com. [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] Reference
Normandy from 911 to 1216; an eleventh-century Oliphant; some glass mosaics; and the statue of Henri Court Mantel from his tomb in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rouen] Reference
These eleventh-century abbatial buildings faced north and west, and are close to the present parvis, opposite the last arch of the nave. From Wordnik.com. [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] Reference
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