Not all eighth-century spiritual heroism meant retreat to solitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Middle Ages 500-1000] Reference

This identification occurs in the eighth-century Paulus Diaconus, and in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12] Reference

The eighth-century English lyrics are amongst the finest in the language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

Daya was restoring an eighth-century amphora from a site off the Turkish coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darkest Edge of Dawn] Reference

One of Islam's most enduring figures is an eighth-century general, Tariq ibn-Ziyad.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Than A Madman] Reference

Parfitt also found eighth-century accounts of the Ark in Arabia, by Jews-turned-Muslims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

The eighth-century scholar, Jabir-ibn-Hayyan, probably authored only a few works on alchemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [ALCHEMY] Reference

Among the most notable: an eighth-century B.C. ivory relief of a lioness attacking a Nubian man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mess O’Potamian Art] Reference

It was in fact an eighth-century forgery, but the papacy did not give in on sovereignty until 1929.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knock It Off] Reference

In the later eighth-century, Mercia had yet to decline in favor of the future ruling house of Wessex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Offa's Dyke] Reference

Ancient depiction of an eighth-century Greek ship matches those in the new movie Troy, set around 1200 B.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trojan Wars: On the Big and Little Screen] Reference

When I first encountered this character — this voice — from an eighth-century Old English poem, he was alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Believing the Wanderer] Reference

The Taliban did not spare sports when they attempted to turn Afghanistan back into an eighth-century medieval fiefdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A LONG ROAD TO ATHENS] Reference

We must remember that the enemy has an eighth-century agenda of gender apartheid, religious intolerance, and theocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why we Must continue the fight in Iraq] Reference

Drust or Drystan, son of Talorc, is an eighth-century wan who later was absorbed into the Arthurian legend as Tristram.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wicked Day]

This eighth-century B.C. basalt stele from Zincirli, Turkey, depicts a high official named Kuttamuwa at his funerary banquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insight into the Soul] Reference

Had he been quoting to another the eighth-century verse, If you do not see the Way, you do not see it even as you walk on it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drawn Toward Enlightenment] Reference

According to Damascene, an eighth-century patristic, a number of different stages come together in the production of an action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip the Chancellor] Reference

Bappa, An eighth-century Rajput hero, and ancestor of the present chiefs of Mewar; appears to have had strong Mormon proclivities.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference

'I used an eighth-century dialect that has since become accepted as the formal tongue of the Japanese royal family,' said the Doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Never Changes] Reference

The Sogdians were the first people with a Buddhist population that the Muslims met in their eighth-century expansion into Central Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)] Reference

Not long after June 4, 1989, a friend in Beijing sent me a famous Chinese poem, "Spring Dawn," written by eighth-century poet Meng Haoran.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Fitful Slumber] Reference

Arabs in their eighth-century expansion into Central Asia first had contact with Buddhism in present-day Uzbekistan and northern Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Islamic-Buddhist Dialogue] Reference

Small bronze and iron table was part of a banquet service found in the eighth-century B.C. burial of the Casa Nocera clan's progenitor (left).    From Wordnik.com.  [Dig Like a Surgeon] Reference

Down there, for example, on the eighth-century Northumbrian coast, he spots the Venerable Bede, who has worked out a way to count to a million simply by holding parts of his body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos] Reference

The other was an early eighth-century Thai/Cambodian sculpture of the deity Hari-Hara.    From Wordnik.com.  [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference

It boasts some 125 monuments including the eighth-century Great Mosque of the Umayyads.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Sinchew -] Reference

It has been often described, as it is really a most precious example of eighth-century art in this country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illuminated Manuscripts] Reference

It was evident that fifteenth-century English was ill-adapted to convey any just notion of eighth-century English.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography] Reference

It appears in eighth-century epitaphs and in early Islamic traditions, which elevated this belief to the status of dogma.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sudanese Thinker] Reference

Instead, we have dour, scrawny Jim Caviezel, come down from the cross, as a spaceman who crashes in eighth-century Norway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas Observer | Complete Issue] Reference