Words similar to nineteenth

Example sentences for: nineteenth

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Pearce's New Mexico Place Names as late as 1790 the range was called Sierra Madre and has been called by its present name only since the early nineteenth century.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, fundamentalists helped articulate anticolonial grievances but played little role in the overwhelmingly secular struggles for independence after World War I. Western-educated lawyers, soldiers, and officials led most independence movements, and clerical influence and traditional culture were seen as obstacles to national progress.
It would be impossible to compile a definitive glossary for this group, but a few examples follow: the heads (naval colloquialism, dating from the late nineteenth century, said to be from the location of the latrines on a ship); the longs (pet-name for latrines at Brasenose College, Oxford, from c. 1870, so-called because they were built from funds donated by a certain Lady Long); and greenhouses (Ulysses , Book VIII), James Joyce's personal slang for the public toilets after the color of their paint.
In the nineteenth century, however, kanbun was still widely used, and it is interesting to note that some of the first European language instruction books written in Japan employ similar systems for reading English and other languages in Japanese!
The percentage of the population wearing factory-made apparel has grown steadily since the nineteenth century.