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Sentences ending with century

Now and then you will have a young man on your benches like the late Waldo Burnett,--not very often, if you lecture half a century. [3]
Nikola Tesla, the world-wide illustrious electrician; see article about him in Jan. or Feb. Century. [5]
Hawkins, it will work the grandest moral reform of the 19th century. [5]
He speaks of Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality as the high-water mark of the poetry of this century. [6]
A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century. [6]
It was Paul who had liberated that message of rebirth, which the world has been so long in grasping, from the narrow bounds of Palestine and sent it ringing down the ages to the democracies of the twentieth century. [9]
Votes upon motions, whether carried or defeated, could make endless delay, and postpone the Ausgleich to next century. [5]
Yes, most Frenchmen were soldiers; and admirable runners, too, both by practice and inheritance; they had done next to nothing but run for near a century. [5]
In fact it was only brought into more general use by Cheselden and Sharpe so late as the beginning of the last century. [3]
Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. [6]

Short sentences using century

Century, The, essay in, 295. [6]
Of the new century. [9]
In the eighteenth century, Mrs. [9]

Sentences containing century two or more times

In antique Roman times it was the custom of the Deity to try to conceal His intentions in the entrails of birds, and this was patiently and hopefully continued century after century, although the attempted concealment never succeeded, in a single recorded instance. [5]
An evidence of this early influence, which strengthened from century to century, Dubois finds in the architecture of Jenne and Timbuctoo. [4]
Like most of the writers of the seventeenth century, and the court ladies and gentlemen of the eighteenth century, he is an independent speller. [4]
It is not overstatement to say that the imagination-stunning material development of this century, the only century worth living in since time itself was invented, is the creation of men not college-bred. [5]
It had triumphed over the violence and robbery of the open road until the dying years of one century and the young years of a new century. [11]
The nineteenth century is not likely to add to them; we must wait for the twentieth century. [6]
Year by year, and almost month by month, my life has kept pace in this century with his life in the last century. [6]

More example sentences with the word century in them

He was a young man and a distinguished warrior under that terrific fighter, Kamehameha I., more than half a century ago. [5]
My dear father, you are nearing the time-post of ninety years, with great health and cheerfulness; it is my hope you may top the arch of your good and honourable life with a century key-stone. [11]
The first fifteen years of the nineteenth century in Europe present an extraordinary movement of millions of people. [2]
During the earliest years of the new century the political atmosphere had changed, the public had shown a tendency to grow restless; and everybody knows how important it is for financial operations, for prosperity, that the people should mind their own business. [9]
He could not write about the sixteenth century any more than we could read about it, while the nineteenth was in the very agony and bloody sweat of its great sacrifice. [6]
The Marquess of Worcester had done all of this more than a century earlier. [5]
It is quite within the probabilities that a century hence she will be the most imposing figure that has cast its shadow across the globe since the inauguration of our era. [5]
It is quite within the possibilities that, a century hence, people would wonder and say, "How did your predecessors come to bury their great dead in this deserted place? [5]
If they don't wish to trade for either, send the articles to the Century, without naming a price, and if their check isn't large enough I will call and abuse them when I come. [5]
Delilah took the wisdom of the seventeenth century in her arms, and departed on her errand. [6]
The graver reader will not object to seeing the exact statement of a competent witness belonging to a by-gone century, confirmed as it is by all that we see about us. [6]
It seems a whole century since I saw him. [5]
Harvey in particular, who had come from England early in the century with my grandfather, spoke with bitterness of him. [9]
There exists already, what could not be said to exist a quarter of a century ago, a class who have leisure. [4]
The two thieves were dressed in the fanciful court costumes of the middle of the sixteenth century, while the Saviour was nude, with the exception of a cloth around the loins. [5]
But he has ways now, and he has had them for a century, but I do not see that he has tried to make serious use of then. [5]
Britain, because she was separated from the continent and protected by her fleet, virtually withdrew from European affairs in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and, as a result, made great strides in democracy. [9]
If the complaint was legitimate in Scaliger's time, it was better founded half a century ago when Mr. Emerson found cause for it. [6]
After that, I was just as much at home in that century as I could have been in any other; and as for preference, I wouldn't have traded it for the twentieth. [5]
All unconsciously she was a true daughter of the twentieth century, and probably a feminist at heart, which is to say that her conduct was determined by no preconceived or handed-down notions of what was proper and lady-like. [9]
That is the very mistake which was at first made in the Missourian village half a century ago. [5]
Northerly it looked upon its own outbuildings and some unpretending two-story houses which had been its neighbors for a century and more. [6]
He is looked upon as a kind of wizard, and is lucky in living in the nineteenth century instead of the sixteenth or earlier. [6]
A war not unlike it between the same parties occurred at the close of the last century. [7]
He had laboured under the delusion that matrimonial conditions were still what they had been in the Eighteenth Century--although it is doubtful whether he had ever thought of that century. [9]
The dusty cobwebs under the ceiling had the look of not having had any business for a century. [5]
They were frequently under fire --when they brought back the wounded or fetched car-loads of munitions to the great guns on the ridiculous little trains of flat cars with open-work wheels, which they named--with American humour--the Federal Express and the Twentieth Century Limited. [9]
But while the trouble with the last century is to find authors to mention, the trouble of this would be to name all that we find. [3]
Let us not trouble ourselves about the psychological problems involved, problems which the first century interpreted in its own simple way. [9]
The reader of to-day will not forget, I trust, that it is nearly a quarter of a century since these papers were written. [6]
The reader of to-day who has the curiosity to inquire into the correctness of this opinion will, if he is familiar with the romances of the eighteenth century, find little originality in Brown's stories, and nothing distinctively American. [4]
He had used tobacco for nearly a century, and the habit has very likely been the death of him. [4]
Apparently nobody happened to want such a river, nobody needed it, nobody was curious about it; so, for a century and a half the Mississippi remained out of the market and undisturbed. [5]
We are accustomed to think that with the advent of the genuine novel of society, in the first part of this century, a great step forward was taken in fiction. [4]
Starling was sent to the wine-cellar to bring back a cobwebbed Madeira near a century old, brought out on rare occasions in the family. [9]
It delights me to speak of him in the words which I have just found in a memoir not yet a century old, as "the Warwickshire bard," "the inestimable Shakespeare. [6]
It is necessary to show in a brief glance what had been going on in Europe during the latter part of that century, the first quarter of which had been made illustrious in the history of medical science by the discovery of the circulation. [3]
So I wanted to sample things, and be finding out what sort of reporter-material I might be able to rake together out of the sixth century when I should come to need it. [5]
It is easy to calculate, for his life began with the century, and this is its forty-sixth year. [10]
It appeared so to Bernard of Cluny in the twelfth century, when he wrote: "The world is very evil, The times are waning late. [4]
This mention led to a friendly correspondence between the writer and one of the professors in the theological school at Andover, and finally to the publication of a brief essay, which, for some reason, had been withheld from publication for more than a century. [6]
But by the time I'd gotten to the century mark I turned cautiously over and opened my eyes with great fortitude. [5]
For the second time I took the hand of Charles O'Byrne, the celebrated Irish giant of the last century. [6]
Or go rather through the great archway, and under the teeth of the portcullis, into the irregular quadrangle, whose buildings mark the changing style and fortune of successive centuries, from 1300 down to the seventeenth century? [4]
A landslip occurred three quarters of a century ago, on the route from Arth to Brunnen, which was a formidable thing. [5]
With two or three exceptions he copies none of those devotional poems which have attracted devout souls.--His poetical sympathies are shown in the fact that one third of the selections are from the seventeenth century. [6]
I cannot help thinking this century has Thomas for its model. [6]
I do not think we believe things because considerable people say them, on personal authority, that is, as intelligent listeners very commonly did a century ago. [6]
After that, the thing was custom; and custom is a petrifaction: nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. [5]
I will close these fragmentary suggestions by saying that I, for one, should like to see this country a century from now. [4]
If I understand them, the civilization of the last century has not helped his position as a man. [4]
I proved to them that in a quarter of a century their wages had advanced but 30 per cent., while the cost of living had gone up 100; and that with us, in a shorter time, wages had advanced 40 per cent. [5]
You leave the theatre with the weight of a century upon you. [5]
And this was the twentieth century! [9]
Office established in the time of the Revolution, last century. [5]
He flourished at the time of our history and lived to a great age, far on into the fifth century. [10]
Especially we marked the steeple of Blenheim, where Jack Churchill won the name for his magnificent country-seat, early in the eighteenth century. [4]
The cross marks the spot where a celebrated troubadour was waylaid and murdered in the fourteenth century. [5]
The student of the seventeenth century opened his Licetus and saw figures of a lion with the head of a woman, and a man with the head of an elephant. [3]
The Puritans of the seventeenth century are my fellow-religionists. [6]
The lilt of the sensations, the idiosyncrasy of voice, emotion, and mind of the first hour of our century must now pass from the printed page to us, imperfectly realised; we may not know them through actual retrospection. [11]
The more distant the scene, the more uncertain the reflection; and so it must needs be with this tale, which will take you back to even twenty years before the century began. [11]
The influence of the reform he introduced must have been more or less felt in this country, but not much before the beginning of the eighteenth century, as his great work was not published until 1675, and then in Latin. [3]
I spoke of the previous conversation and said there something very pathetic about this half century of exile, and that I wished the L200 scheme had succeeded. [5]
I have illustrated the practice of the first century, from the two manuscripts I have examined, as giving an impartial idea of its every-day methods. [3]
I knew that the only total eclipse of the sun in the first half of the sixth century occurred on the 21st of June, A.D. 528, O.S., and began at 3 minutes after 12 noon. [5]
If this wasn't the one I was after, how was I to tell whether this was the sixth century, or nothing but a dream? [5]
She denied herself the morning attendance on the Literature Class that was raking over the eighteenth century. [4]
For instance, when the Mississippi was first seen by a white man, less than a quarter of a century had elapsed since Francis I. [5]
Then, whereas in the middle of the past century all towns were forbid by imperial law to hold tournaments, he went to Court, and had been dubbed knight by the Emperor Charles, and won fame and honor by many a shrewd lance-thrust. [10]
Pah-go-to-wah-wah-pukketekeewis (Mighty-Hunter-with-a-Hog-Eye-Twain) adorned the middle of the eighteenth century, and aided General Braddock with all his heart to resist the oppressor Washington. [5]
For even in the late seventeenth century, youth took itself seriously at times. [11]
He said that the iron hand which was made for him afterward, and which he wore for more than half a century, was nearly as clever a member as the fleshy one had been. [5]
As Valmond entered the garden, Madame Chalice was leaning over the lower half of the entrance door, which opened latitudinally, and was hung on large iron hinges of quaint design, made by some seventeenth- century forgeron. [11]
It was exactly the favor which he had done me, about a quarter of a century before, in that same spot, the first time I ever steamed out of the port of New Orleans. [5]
This was in the eleventh century, when our people were living in Aberdeen, county of Cork, England. [5]
No increase in the deviation was found to exist when it was examined early in the present century. [6]
This piece of the cross was discovered in the sixteenth century. [5]
Now we turn the corner of the century with a new line of monarchs--the Lancastrian kings. [5]
This then was the Chapter Coffee-house, which, a century ago, was the resort of all the booksellers and publishers; and where the literary hacks, the critics, and even the wits, used to go in search of ideas or employment. [14]
And then below the bridge the lad could see the historic meadow, which was a cornfield in the eighteenth century, where Captain Moses Rice and Phineas Arms came suddenly one summer day to the end of their planting and hoeing. [4]
The latest of the arts, music, culminated in composition, though not in execution, a century ago. [4]
If you recall the Americans in the nineteenth century who wrote books that lived forty-two years you will have to begin with Cooper; you can follow with Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allan Poe, and there you have to wait a long time. [5]
It is believed that the singing still continues, but it is known that nobody has heard it during the present century. [5]
It seems probable that the settlers, following traders, penetrated to the Niger valley from the valley of the Nile as early as the third or fourth century of our era. [4]
It was Holland that saved England in the sixteenth century, and, by so doing, secured the triumph of the Reformation, and placed the independence of the various states of Europe upon a sure foundation. [6]
His spirit was that of the Elizabethan admirals; he belonged to a century not his own. [11]
The old clock that Marmaduke Storr made in London more than a hundred years ago was clicking the steady pulse-beats of its second century. [6]
We have seen that many of the practitioners of medicine, during the first century of New England, were clergymen. [3]
When we reflect that her century was the brutalest, the wickedest, the rottenest in history since the darkest ages, we are lost in wonder at the miracle of such a product from such a soil. [5]
Another cry like that had rung out in another mob across the seas more than a century before. [9]
Hence it came that Asquith, before the house-warming, knew as little about Farquhar Fenelon Cooke, the man, as the nineteenth century knows about William Shakespeare, and was every whit as curious. [9]
It seemed incredible that a man could outlast half a century shut up in a dark hole like a rat, but here were his old wife and some old comrades to testify to it. [5]
Yet scarcely more than a quarter of a century was needed to make it "timely. [5]
We use the term in its popular sense, in the meaning, somewhat vague, it is true, which it has had since the middle of the eighteenth century. [4]
Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution --these can lift at a colossal humbug--push it a little--weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. [5]
There is no such memorial of the growth of American literature as is to be found in the first half century of that periodical. [6]
These pieces are strangers to each other, and it takes a century, more or less, to make them thoroughly acquainted. [6]
Two men were still living who had witnessed the grim catastrophe of nearly half a century before--Marie Couttet (saved by his baton) and Julien Davouassoux (saved by the barometer). [5]
Once more that steady pull began, and once more I lay torpid a century of dragging seconds till my breast was naked again. [5]

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