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Example sentences for: sixteenth

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In paragraph three we are told that “the Dare family named the first white baby born in Virginia Virginia, not a conventional name in the late sixteenth century but hardly daring considering the religious association.
And it might be imagined that in giving directions to get to one's hovel, one would say, “Go to the fifth hovel, and mine is the next one,” for sixth did not come into being till the sixteenth century.
Most often the small banner-sized sheets are made to decorate altars and nacimientos (nativity scenes), or for such celebrations as Cinco de Mayo (the Fifth of May) and El Diez y Seis de Septiembre (the Sixteenth of September).
In Los Pastores, or the Shepherds’ Play, a mystery play performed in Mexico and the Southwest since the sixteenth century, the shepherd who plays the role of a buffoon, a jester, is named Bato.
(Seemingly a popular subject for that era—an early sixteenth century apostil refers to the poor scribe's fucking abbot.)