To be sure the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth letters made the English word. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
The basic form of the question mark (?) was developed much later, in sixteenth-century England. From Wordnik.com. [No Excuses] Reference
Catholic reforming activity in sixteenth century has been the subject of intense historical debate. From Wordnik.com. [Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:] Reference
Religious crime in sixteenth century Scotland by previous winner of Young Observer playwriting competition. From Wordnik.com. [March 2009] Reference
Both may appear abstruse to the modern reader but they were matters of public concern and discussion in sixteenth-century England. From Wordnik.com. [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference
For Native Americans, this chance aggregation of factors was momentous, as events in sixteenth-century Mexico so starkly demonstrate. From Wordnik.com. [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference
Land acquisition was the preferred method for consolidating political and social power amongst the elite in sixteenth-century England. From Wordnik.com. [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference
The sixteenth was the first really bookish century. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of the Reformation] Reference
One need only recall sixteenth century English history. From Wordnik.com. ["I worked under Cardinal Bernardin and he taught me how to collaborate..."] Reference
"The sixteenth has been the best birthday of all," she said happily. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party] Reference
The sixteenth is a brutally long par four where par is a good score. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
“Do you by any chance recall the sixteenth of August, 1946, Mahossier?”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Loner]
We called the sixteenth century the Renascence with admirable truth of language. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
The first appeared in 1871, the sixteenth is the last he will have put his hand to. From Wordnik.com. [Horace Howard Furness. VI. An Address Delivered in the Name of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, January 17, 1913] Reference
(Modena, 1777), calls the sixteenth century of Italian literature secolo d'oro rather casually, and so does. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The book definitely doesn’t feel modern, but neither does it feel like something set in sixteenth century France. From Wordnik.com. [1. The Dark Queen by Susan Carroll] Reference
50An anonymous observer in sixteenth-century New Spain wrote that "the ordinary diseases of the Spanish are apostems from which they die.". From Wordnik.com. [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference
Clearly, this was Brittany's "sixteenth" birthday. From Wordnik.com. [Cake Writing 101: The Art of Spacing] Reference
(1579-1613), a poet who in many ways recalls the sixteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
"During the whole of this century," that is, the sixteenth, says Dr M'Crie, in his "Progress and Suppression of the. From Wordnik.com. [Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge] Reference
"You mustn't run away with that idea and make me a kind of sixteenth-century sentimentalist. From Wordnik.com. [Innocent : her fancy and his fact] Reference
The sixteenth to Hananias, to his sons and his brethren twelve. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 13: 1 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference
The autopsy was at ten o'clock on the morning of the sixteenth. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Liz glowering on the other side of the creekbed, a sixteenth-century landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Micros] Reference
It turns out a fair amount is known about the sixteenth President's taste in music. From Wordnik.com. [If Abraham Lincoln Had An iPod] Reference
They climbed up to the sixteenth floor where the conference rooms lined up along the hallway. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.3: Five Months Later...] Reference
Ninive, which was destroyed soon after this, viz., in the sixteenth year of the reign of Josias. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 41: Sophonias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Near the playground where we met was an asbestos-shingled "country club" on sixteenth-section land. From Wordnik.com. [Classmates] Reference
And it is ever thus -- when I read the history of the glorious sixteenth century, I am in ecstacies. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
With the Scientific Revolution in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the root metaphor changed. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Ruse: Accommodationism in the Religion-Science Debate: Why It's Incomplete] Reference
Francis Spira, an eminent lawyer of Padua, Italy, flurished in the first half of the sixteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Everybody if they had a drop of Japanese blood, one-sixteenth, we were all gathered up and put into camps. From Wordnik.com. [Weenie Royale: Food and the Japanese Internment] Reference
One evening, many years afterward, Renestine returned to her home with her sixteenth commission in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Immigrant] Reference
From the dawn of the sixteenth century traditional medieval customs were giving way to a simpler vernacular liturgy. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Common Prayer, part 4: In the midst of life] Reference
We are near that sweet season of fresh green, of which the poets of the sixteenth century sang with so much feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This is the sixteenth article in a continuing series by the NRDC Action Fund on the environmental stances of candidates. From Wordnik.com. [Heather Taylor-Miesle: Congressional Candidates' Views on Clean Energy, Climate Change: SC-05] Reference
When I returned to my father's house to spend a short vacation among my earliest friends, I had entered upon my sixteenth year. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Thus, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, the picture that emerges is one of an uneasy co-habitation in the cities and a. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
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