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Example sentences for: nineteenth

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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!
A social historical study of the vaquero life on the King and Kennedy ranches, from the early nineteenth century to the present, has been written by Monday and Colley.
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 century, the Age of Euphemism, the word unmentionables designated only one specific referent--men's trousers.
By the late nineteenth century, these uses of great and small became obsolete, but to go great guns continued to allude to the loudness, forcefulness, and large size of long-ago cannons and still means to `proceed with considerable momentum, to go full steam ahead, at full bore.