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Example sentences for "fourteenth"

Lexicographically close words:
fourscore; foursome; foursquare; fourteen; fourteene; fourth; fourthe; fourths; fourtie; fourty
  1. Mongolian, of the Allan Line, which was to sail at eleven o'clock on the fourteenth of July, and the voyage was begun almost as promptly as a railway train leaves the depot.

  2. I reached home on the fourteenth of December, after an absence of five months and three days, in which time I had seen something of fourteen foreign countries, having a very enjoyable and profitable trip.

  3. This structure, completed in the fourteenth century, seems to have commenced to lean when the third story was built.

  4. The spirit of the sea-wolves of early times, of the sailors who in the fourteenth century fought at Sluys, and made the Levant an English lake, lives again in the Tudor mariners.

  5. The struggle against the Danes and Normans is not a struggle of English against foreigners; it is a conflict for political supremacy amongst men of the same race, who ultimately grow together into the England of the fourteenth century.

  6. When Froissart, for instance, in the fourteenth century, speaks of the English People, he sees before him the chivalrous nobles of the type of Chandos or Talbot, the Black Prince or de Bohun.

  7. In the fourteenth century, for instance, the Papacy is at Avignon.

  8. In the fourteenth century he dares to see in the Roman people a race not less divinely missioned than the Hebrew.

  9. When the horseman heard these words, he looked at Kanmakan and saw that he was a knight like a mane-clad lion in might, whilst his face was as the full moon rising on its fourteenth night, and velour shone from between his eyes.

  10. It cannot be denied that there are some excellent maxims respecting government in this treatise, and that it was a laudable work for the fourteenth century.

  11. Here, too, was his friend Pandolfo Malatesta, one of the bravest condottieri of the fourteenth century, who had been driven away from Milan by the rage and jealousy of Barnabo.

  12. They both date from the fourteenth century, when the popes sat, as the phrase is, at Avignon.

  13. The Middle Ages, from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century.

  14. On the opposite side of the river is the most interesting and unique parsonage of Little Hempston, a perfectly untouched building of the fourteenth century, exactly the priest's house of the time of Chaucer.

  15. The churches of Devonshire belong mainly to the Perpendicular style; that is to say, they were nearly all rebuilt between the end of the fourteenth and the sixteenth centuries.

  16. The church of Dartmouth was built at the end of the fourteenth century, and has happily escaped the reckless restoration which has befallen Totnes.

  17. Sir Theobald Granville in the fourteenth century was a large benefactor to the town in assisting in the building of the bridge, rendered advisable by the great loss of life at the ford or in the ferry.

  18. Certainly, both ye and you were applied in this manner, to the great, as early as the fourteenth century.

  19. Now, if you please, you may examine the quotations adopted for the Fourteenth Praxis, and may name and define the various figures of grammar which are contained therein.

  20. Duple time did not come into general use until the beginning of the fourteenth century.

  21. In France the Provençal poetry lasted only until the middle of the fourteenth century, after the troubadours had received a crushing blow at the time the Albigenses were extirpated in the thirteenth century.

  22. I never took a dishonest dollar in my life, and everybody in the Fourteenth Ward knows it.

  23. Of mixed Jewish and American extraction, he had been born and raised in the Fourteenth and spoke with a decidedly American accent.

  24. If a majority of the citizens of the Fourteenth Ward don't want you to vote for it, will you still vote for it?

  25. Another of the fourteenth century and a kind of wheel-map of the twelfth century, but with geographical names only without coast-lines, are also found in Icelandic MSS.

  26. Sidenote: The Isle of Brazil] On the maps of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries there lay out in the ocean to the west of Ireland the Isle of Brazil (cf.

  27. If, therefore, in a tale of the fourteenth century, the position of Wineland is to be described, it is natural that its shortest day should be given a length which according to Professor H.

  28. It is therefore perfectly natural that from this very fourteenth century a fundamental change in the relations between Norsemen and Skrælings set in.

  29. It is possible that the common source may be the lost work of the English author Nicholas of Lynn, who travelled in Norway in the fourteenth century (cf.

  30. For the legislature of his northern kingdom was as obsequious as those provincial Estates which Lewis the Fourteenth still suffered to play at some of their ancient functions in Britanny and Burgundy.

  31. The English of that day were in the habit of talking with mingled admiration and despair of the immense trench by which Lewis the Fourteenth had made a junction between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

  32. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the English power in that island was constantly declining, and in the days of Henry the Seventh, sank to the lowest point.

  33. Some faint traces of the old Norman feeling might perhaps have been found late in the fourteenth century.

  34. But such were not the feelings of the Englishmen of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

  35. Early on the morning of the following day, the fourteenth of June, Grey, accompanied by Wade, marched with about five hundred men to attack Bridport.

  36. Our first great poet had described the excellent accommodation which they afforded to the pilgrims of the fourteenth century.

  37. That species of force, which, in the fourteenth century had enabled her to humble France and Spain, had ceased to exist.

  38. Corrupt as the Church of Rome was, there is reason to believe that, if that Church had been overthrown in the twelfth or even in the fourteenth century, the vacant space would have been occupied by some system more corrupt still.

  39. A law, beyond the control of human wisdom, had decreed that there should no longer be governments of that peculiar class which, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, had been common throughout Europe.

  40. Detachments of the Fourteenth Austrian Army Corps attempted an attack near Rawa-Russka, during the night of September 7, but were repulsed.

  41. After an hour's shelling the Germans sent one battalion of the Fourteenth Corps toward the redoubt, and two battalions of the same corps were sent to the north and south of this redoubt.

  42. He was slain upon the fourteenth of the calends of October [18th Sept.

  43. She was like the moon when at fullest on its fourteenth night, and was clad in a garment of blue, with a veil of green, overbrown flower-white that all wits amazed and those of understanding amated.

  44. And indeed, she saw that he was like unto moon at full on fourteenth night; but he was ever sighing with tears never drying, for that he recalled whatso he had been abying.

  45. The system developed regularity and rapidity, and in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was employed, although without authority, by the public generally.

  46. In our fourteenth chapter, we had occasion to consider the change which military affairs underwent in Italy about the time of the first French invasion, and we have seen in Duke Federigo of Urbino one of the last condottieri of the old sort.

  47. Passeri, however, asserts for this coloured glaze an earlier discovery in his own province, where pottery was certainly made in the fourteenth century.

  48. When I wrote the fourteenth note to the Introduction, I inclined to a contrary opinion, chiefly from recollecting to have read the following translation of a passage of El-Ma[k.

  49. The Troubadours flourished from the middle of the twelfth century till the latter end of the fourteenth century, when their dissolute and licentious habits caused them to be universally banished and proscribed.

  50. From this sketch of the history of the arts of music, sculpture, and painting during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, will be seen their state and condition, when the great work of the immortal Dante took his country by surprise.

  51. A carriage had been called, and into this Hoover was practically hustled by his preceptor, and together they were driven away towards Fourteenth Street, and Briggs was left behind.

  52. Five of these plates were etched three times, these including, besides the frontispiece and vignette title, the first six illustrations in the book, and two which appeared in the fourteenth number, viz.

  53. To me it has been a labor of love to record even the bare names of those Italian worthies who recovered for us in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ‘the everlasting consolations’ of the Greek and Latin classics.

  54. Miss Moncrieffe, before she had reached her fourteenth year, was probably the victim of seduction.

  55. Miss Moncrieffe was, at this time, in her fourteenth year.

  56. The beginning of clerical disintegration is distinctly visible in the first half of the fourteenth century.

  57. His effigy, like that of his father, dates from the fourteenth century.

  58. It will be natural to associate the fine round tower of the castle with this historic conference, but unfortunately, it was only built in the fourteenth century.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fourteenth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.