How To Use Eighteen In A Sentence

  • Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
  • The term aesthetics was coined in the eighteenth century by the German philosopher Alexander Baumgarten from the Greek word aisthetikos meaning “perceptive, especially by feeling”. MARKETING AESTHETICS
  • His Eminence Don Pelasio de Labastida, an eighteenth century bishop of Mexico City set a scandalous example of such indulgence in earthly pleasures. To the charreada with stars in her eyes
  • Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Billy Budd
  • Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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  • John emigrated to England at the age of eighteen.
  • That last post might have been a completely unintentional plagiarism of a song that I haven't heard for probably eighteen years.
  • But marketing alone cannot explain why "onanism" and related terms began to show up in the great eighteenth-century encyclopedias or why one of the most influential physicians in France, the celebrated Samuel Auguste David Tissot, took up the idea of masturbation as a dangerous illness or why Tissot's 1760 work, L'Onanisme, became an instant European literary sensation. Me, Myself, and I
  • While there is a legal working age of eighteen, this is not enforced, and many children are engaged in farm work and street vending.
  • Throughout the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth, scarcely a year passed without violent protest or armed rebellion.
  • Rima's dusky ayah, Asha, at eighteen almost a child herself, makes up the required third player in their games.
  • The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.
  • The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture.
  • Eighteen months later an appellate court reversed the convictions and criticized the conduct of the trial judge and the prosecution.
  • The honey seems extraordinarily expensive, but then sweetness was a prerogative of the rich until the eighteenth century.
  • Eighteen years and 110 Tests later he bowed out, with Nemesis unable to resist shaking her fist at him.
  • Kathryn led her own contemporary dance company for eighteen years and now choreographs for ballet companies nationally and internationally.
  • Many dictionaries of Neapolitan dialect from the late eighteenth century onward tell us that pizza, at its simplest, was merely a generic word for all kinds of pies, and for what would be called focaccia or schiacciata elsewhere in Italy, that is, a flat piece of dough dappled with fat or oil and cooked quickly in a hot oven. Delizia!
  • A full eighteen minutes after I turned in at the Gibbs Ranch sign I find the ranch house.
  • At eighteen months, Monica has just this week cut two of her three emerging molars, which had been bulging and sore for weeks.
  • By the heyday of the binder's craft, the early to mid eighteenth century, two types of leather were recognized as the best: skiver, or lambskin, which was strong but so thin that it scarcely required any paring, and Moroccan goatskin, which was highly valued for its skiver-like characteristics combined with its delightful reddish color. Books: Modernity's Abuse of an Art
  • The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
  • On the afternoon of the Saturday in Easter week, say these writers, the priests of the eighteen principal 'deaconries' -- an ecclesiastical division of the city long ago abolished and now somewhat obscure -- caused the bells to be rung, and the people assembled at their parish churches, where they were received by a 'mansionarius,' -- probably meaning here 'a visitor of houses, '-- and a layman, who was arrayed in a tunic, and crowned with the flowers of the cornel cherry. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
  • The eighteen guns were back in the cemetery, and a storm of shell began bursting over and among our infantry.
  • The rise of the netbook - affordable ultra-portable laptops - over the last eighteen months has been fascinating to watch.
  • Even the eighteenth century British art is looking strikingly exotic.
  • At the age of eighteen, he came under the guidance of the great yogi, Bhagwan Chandra Mauliji.
  • This was the most important technological innovation which ships experienced in the eighteenth century. The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
  • We ended the last chapter with the glacial conditions that prevailed eighteen thousand years ago. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
  • Jason gives a detailed account of the creation of the boiserie for an early eighteenth-century Parisian mansion and its recent restoration and installation in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
  • But it is hard to say, because although under age, he enlisted as an Ordinary Seaman on the outbreak of World War II, later going to the Fleet Air Arm as a telegraphist air gunner, earned a commission, and served overseas - at eighteen years of age probably the youngest sublieutenant in the RCNVR. Looking for Trouble
  • The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.
  • Eighteen years after their mad cow epidemic was first diagnosed, the British are still destroying all cattle over 30 months of age.
  • They mustered eighteen in all, and in half an hour they were ironed in a row along the stanchioned rail of the torpedo-boat. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility
  • In the first half of the eighteenth century ebony rosewood, and padouk were inlaid with floral designs ivory that was then engraved and highlighted with lac.
  • I was informed, I believe by the late Dr. Whytt of Edinburgh, that of twenty cows in this situation two had died, and that he directed a pint of gin or whisky, mixed with an equal quantity of water, to be given to the other eighteen; all of which eructed immense quantities of air, and recovered. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • In the literature of the eighteenth century the warrant is inseparably associated with the short, incurvated service sword commonly known as the cutlass or hanger; but in the press-gang prints of the period the gangsmen are generally armed with stout clubs answering to Smollett's The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
  • This toponymy, dating from medieval times, reappeared spontaneously in southern and eastern Ukrainian towns and cities, such as Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Simferopol that were built in the eighteenth century.
  • Cicero was out of Rome during the eighteen months preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, being selected under regulations following Pompey's lex de provinciis.
  • Their ability to communicate unfolds in a sequence of stages, starting between about six months and eighteen months of age.
  • The datable artifacts indicated that the site may have been occupied as early as the 1670s and that it fell out of use by the middle of the eighteenth century, apparently not long after Uring's visit.
  • Export of superfluous man-power from the poorer inland farms was an established tradition by the eighteenth century.
  • The eighteenth century was thus a period of slow evolution rather than radical change in military affairs.
  • The United States was founded on the pro-liberty ideals of the eighteenth century; the nineteenth century might not have provided such propitious foundations.
  • England's Regency style was a natural outgrowth of the neoclassical style that prevailed in eighteenth-century Europe.
  • I would weigh about a hundred and eighteen pounds, is what I would weigh.
  • All the colour and grace of the eighteenth century was seen at its best during the dancing of the minuet.
  • By age eighteen, most have witnessed thousands of murders on television and video games.
  • The Eighteen Arhat Skills is one of the first elementary boxing series in Shaolin Kungfu.
  • Eighteen cabbies have been banned from picking up fares after their vehicles were found to be too dangerous to drive.
  • Eighteen pieces range from early bronzes through mask-like aquatints and oil portraits of his sister Marguerite to a late and joyful cobalt-blue paper cut-out of a nude.
  • She had been a freewheeler from the age of eighteen, but she had always known that she hankered for security.
  • The bunkers were in an unbelievable condition no doubt due to the efforts by the ground keepers on the other eighteen which made them almost unplayable.
  • Anyone over eighteen years of age counts as adult.
  • In the eighteenth-century, this conversion shortened production time and reduced the quantity of heat necessary to complete the blue-dyeing process. reference The Saxon blue process (now called indigo sulfonate) creates colors that are bright and beautiful, and visually somewhat different from those obtained through the traditional indigo dyeing methods. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • Three months of futility with a team who finished eighteenth. Times, Sunday Times
  • By the late eighteenth century, porcelain had replaced ivory as the material of choice for teeth in dentures.
  • Aside from a large winch, called a capstan, and various blocks and pulleys to take off some of the strain, eighteenth-century sailing ships relied on brute man power. John Paul Jones
  • The precious place of the nude was bolstered by the economics of the art market in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  • Eighteenth-century prints caricature George III as a farmer, laugh at Hanoverian German accents – yet the same crowds who laughed at the printshop windows turned out loyally for coronations.
  • His great international stature remained unchallenged throughout the eighteenth century.
  • In its orthography, German gives an initial capital letter to its nouns, a practice common in English until the mid eighteenth century.
  • Over the eighteen-year horizon from birth until university, shares are likely to outperform all other mainstream investments.
  • As the flights lasted up to eighteen hours disembarking passengers were invariably cold and uncomfortable.
  • Why did men of rank in eighteenth-century Europe wear shoes with scarlet heels? Scarlet Heels
  • The man in the shop, perhaps, is in the baked ‘jemmy’ line, or the fire – wood and hearth – stone line, or any other line which requires a floating capital of eighteen – pence or thereabouts: and he and his family live in the shop, and the small back parlour behind it. Sketches by Boz
  • French Creoles dominated Louisiana, even after Spain officially took over the colony in the mid-eighteenth century and some Spanish settled there.
  • The Second World War started on 3 September, 1939, by which time I was eighteen and as a member of the Territorials I thought I would be called up into the army almost immediately.
  • Around the middle of the eighteenth century, the breeding of livestock was dramatically changed by Robert Bakewell, an English agriculturist.
  • She was born in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
  • (_Celosia cristata_), which is an annual, there are several races in which the flower-stem is wonderfully "fasciated" or compressed; and one has been exhibited [788] actually eighteen inches in breadth. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
  • A seventeenth- or eighteenth-century lithograph of a small town. CHAMELEON
  • Do not, under any circumstances, place the juice in a jug, stopper the jug with a cork, and allow it to sit in a cool, dry place for eighteen to twenty-one days.
  • It was neatly folded and carefully done up, with various seals and blue ribbons, in a package about six inches wide by eighteen in length, and was guarded by the select half of the Faroese army and navy, being exactly twelve men, and delivered by the amtman of the island with a few appropriate and impressive remarks, after which it was hung up over the cabin gangway by the captain as a solemn warning to all future passengers. The Land of Thor
  • The vessels forming the flotilla consisted of praams, ship-rigged, and brigs carrying one or two eighteen or twenty-four pounders, and the largest a thirty-two pounder (with sixty or ninety men), all of them flat-bottomed. A Sailor of King George
  • I don't want to get married until I turn eighteen or nineteen.
  • It is quite unusual for a freshman to be younger than eighteen or older than nineteen.
  • He read the visions of the Venerable Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich, an eighteenth-century German stigmatist and mystic.
  • Usually of a pale green or grey-green nephrite, they are worked to a high standard and are generally dated to the eighteenth century largely on stylistic grounds.
  • For the next eighteen days life was supported by a kind of bouilli made from the bones and the skin of the game killed the previous year, and at last, on the 29th October, Dr. Richardson arrived with John Hepburn, only looking thin and worn, and scarcely able to speak above a whisper. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
  • New kid on the block Ben Pollitt is shaking things up with his label pendant by Portland designer Stephanie Stimek hangs from an eighteen inch 14 carat gold chain. Lost At E Minor: For creative people
  • My granny went first when I was fifteen, and my grandpa went next when I was eighteen.
  • With the aid of a single soldier, by patching together all the three, after eighteen days, he constructed a boat, forty feet in length, and six in breadth, which he termed the schooner Joliba. Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
  • Eighteen ships having arrived, with merchandise and five thousand five hundred Chinese on board, besides five hundred more who remained in this city from last year, I ordered the cabildo and regimiento of the city, if Chinese were necessary for the public service, to enter petition therefor within four days, giving a memorandum of the number necessary and the duties that they were to perform. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
  • Considering how opposed many conservative Christians are even to soft-core pornography (at least publicly!), I find it hard to fathom how a soi-disant conservative Christian can legitimately justify posing for titillating photographs with the goal of material and professional gain in mind — and especially not while technically still a minor (Prejean was not yet eighteen when she chose to pose for the topless photographs). Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death.
  • Since the eighteenth century, sex has not ceased to provoke a kind of generalized discursive erethism.
  • Most neoclassical works based on the discoveries at Herculaneum and Pompeii were imitations of an art thought to be formally and morally superior to that of the eighteenth century.
  • This a facsimile edition of an eighteenth century book.
  • Rovere, or of other smaller fry who have lent their helot's pens to weave mendacious records of her life, dubbing her murderess, adulteress, and Heaven knows what besides -- I will but refer them to the archives of Ferrara, whose Duchess she became at the age of one-and-twenty, and where she reigned for eighteen years. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
  • That is the keynote of the Crébillon novel: it is the handbook, with illustrative examples, of the business, employment, or vocation of flirting, in the most extensive and intensive meanings of that term comprehensible to the eighteenth century. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
  • —On June eighteenth, M. Doléris informed me that a woman had been confined at the Cochin Hospital five days before and that fears were entertained as to the results of an operation that had been performed, it having been necessary to do an embryotomy. On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases
  • Instead, I attempted to steer the conversation toward the socioeconomic differences between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Christianity Today
  • In the late eighteenth century, physicians like the German doctor Willhelm Gottfried Ploucquet permitted themselves to palpate the bellies of pregnant women—but only those who were pregnant out of wedlock, poor and desperate, who traded such indignities for a bowl of soup or a place to stay for the night. Origins
  • The lawsuit comes on the eighteenth day of a strike at the world 's largest copper mine. Times, Sunday Times
  • Speed was important because the ‘H’ body models are scheduled for replacement in eighteen months and that meant amortizing the tooling costs was a major consideration in making the deal pay off.
  • It reminded her of the time eighteen months or so before, when she'd been waiting for her first ever period. IN REAL LIFE
  • Pagoda Trellis is based on a fragment of a silk panel hand painted in France in the eighteenth century in response to the European rage for chinoiserie that pervaded every aspect of interior decoration.
  • Furthermore, many clerics in the eighteenth century held modest livings though they too occupied a position of privilege in society.
  • Over a period of eighteen months, there were twenty-three days of university lectures and five assignments completed off-campus.
  • Indeed, citation, in Benjamin's theses, is the very model for revolutionary action, following the lead of the spectacular opening pages of Marx's The Eighteenth History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin
  • There's a country house up there on the Cleveland Hills with about eighteen acres of prime land. A TROUT IN THE MILK
  • He left her a childless widow at the age of eighteen.
  • He received his degree at eighteen, the youngest graduate in Thiel history.
  • For some eighteen years he was occupied in exploring and in opening telegraphlines through the eastern or northmiddle part of the great forest state, the wilderness state of the “matto grosso” —the “great wilderness, ” or, as Australians would call it, “the bush. IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay
  • Eighteen is the minimum age for entering most nightclubs.
  • But parts of the eighteenth-century limestone doorcases were ‘not entirely original’ which would ‘allow for a more flexible approach to either demolishing them or allowing them to be dismantled for re-use elsewhere’.
  • Mary's Catholic High School are British eleven-to-eighteen secondary schools offering General Certificate of Secondary Education and A-Levels.
  • In the eighteenth century the Protestant Irish relatively easily became acculturated and socially accepted.
  • He was perhaps the crookedest lawyer I had ever come across; it still smarted that eighteen months before I had been forced to abandon a case against him through the ruthless machinations of his patron, Richard Rich. Excerpt: Revelation by C.J. Sansom
  • Even newborn babies were not washed, and until the eighteenth century they were swaddled in bands of cloth that were changed twice a day at most.
  • He cared deeply about Greek and Latin history and mythology and possessed a comprehensive knowledge of the prose, poetry and prosody of the eighteenth century.
  • In one verse he introduced a sideswipe at the repressive legal system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (again something he criticized in his earlier historical novel, Barnaby Rudge).
  • Behind the high walls, hidden by a long screen of ilexes, you are suddenly back in the eighteenth century, surrounded by the obelisks and mausolea of sea captains and corsairs, exiled aristocrats and shipwrecked plantation owners.
  •  And when he jumps down from the cab-over bunk to use the bathroom in the RV he shares with two other men the next morning, I'll find his wallet, find out he's really eighteen and that it doesn't matter. Nigtingale
  • The best examples of this are found in explorations of manufactured colors. reference Even without widespread acceptance of new theories in chemistry — assumptions about elements, or measurement, or phlogiston-based theories of coloration — the focus on colormaking as a chemical operation grew during the eighteenth century. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • Their two faces were hardly more than eighteen inches apart.
  • The texture of the revolving bowl and the softness of the reflection convert the view into an eighteenth century aquatint in which motor cars seem as delicate and exotica as sedan chairs.
  • He was fired within six weeks even though he had headed the department for eighteen years.
  • My neighbour ingeniously cobbled together a plant doing the same job for around $10,000, one eighteenth of that.
  • For eighteen long months had he plied the oars on board of a Saracen galley, while Sir Franz, who was overweak for such toil, served as keeper of slaves on the benches, himself with chains on his feet. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
  • By comparison, eighteenth-century painters are more hackneyed, whether producing ‘classical’ landscapes or topographical views.
  • While her earlier houses were twentieth-century pastiches of the Louis XVI style, here she had authentic eighteenth-century French boiserie installed in the drawing and dining rooms.
  • At some point after that summer, it wasn't good enough to have your single go in at number eighteen. THE LAST PARTY: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock
  • The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.
  • I have eighteen cents and take away five cents to buy a 'scratch-book,' and have thirteen.
  • The ages of the students of our class range from fifteen to eighteen.
  • In the 1820s Bath, Bristol, Dublin, and Edinburgh, cities which had flourished in the eighteenth century, were all still raising classical squares, streets, and crescents.
  • Because of their lowly social status and outspoken behavior, the reputation of laundresses in late eighteenth-century Spain was problematic at best.
  • Membership in the Centuriate Committee required certain economic status, and power was heavily vested in the first eighteen Centuries; the Centuriate Committee was dominated by the First and Second Classes.
  • For the most part they were Creek Indians who, over the course of the eighteenth century, had migrated from Georgia and Alabama to Florida, intermarried with other Indians residing there, and developed distinct identities. Between War and Peace
  • She was eighteen and adorable, but her mother would not hear to a betrothment. Floyd Grandon's Honor
  • Wednesday may be languishing in eighteenth place, but have won six of their past eight league games. Times, Sunday Times
  • In November eighteen sixty-three, President Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He spoke at the opening of a military cemetery.
  • First stirrings occurred during the early decades of the eighteenth century. Christianity Today
  • As at the conclusion of the eighteenth century, the English unlocked their hospitable store, for the relief of those driven from their homes by political revolution; so now they were not backward in affording aid to the victims of a more wide-spreading calamity. II.5
  • This will be my eighteenth national conference, the last eleven consecutive.
  • On his eighteenth birthday, his parents had believed it necessary to commit the act that would decisively save their only child.
  • In the corner opposite the dragoon was a boy of eighteen or so in the working clothes of a terrassier or labourer. The Soul of the War
  • The same piece encouraged a leading Jungian to sermonize in rotund eighteenth-century style on the esoteric, as opposed to the exoteric, meaning of the Sea-God Manannan's Crane Bag. The Crane Bag
  • I set up a small company eighteen months ago, specialising in auto-care products.
  • At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Johann Mattheson, the great, stunningly eloquent peacock of Baroque musical literature, was in no doubt that the chalumeau the forerunner of the clarinet – with its “rather howling sound”, was not an appropriate instrument to be heard in sophisticated entertainments. Archive 2009-04-01
  • I was the first of eighteen cousins to earn more than one master's degree, and yet the only job I could find in my town was as an elementary school custodian.
  • This day the wind came in gusts from the potato fields and orchards and the strongest gusts measured eighteen miles an hour. Bomber
  • So it came down to the difference between about five and eighteen months. Times, Sunday Times
  • Anyone over eighteen years of age counts as adult.
  • Turkish eighteenth-century yataghans are fine examples of artistic decoration: their wavy blades have near the hilt embossed plates with protruding coral insets.
  • The main focus, however, was on cattle and by the start of the eighteenth century there was already extensive ranching. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
  • From at least the closing years of the eighteenth century the decline of gentry involvement and even tolerance of plebeian sports was evident.
  • During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries increasingly smaller oligarchies came to power in the Swiss cantons but were overthrown in 1798 in the wake of the French Revolution.
  • Eighteenth century playwrights and novelists often made their hero a criminal, a highwayman or confidence trickster.
  • She was like a figure from a rococo fresco, an eighteenth-century nymph. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • At eighteen, Victoria was crowned queen .
  • Belief in the truth that the creation is God's handiwork generated the scientific progress that began not in the eighteenth century but in medieval scholasticism.
  • Two stones at the quarry in 1884 weighed eighteen tons each.
  • Using eighteen inches as a standard, the ark would have been roughly the size of a soccer field, four stories high. WALKING THE BIBLE
  • Wednesday may be languishing in eighteenth place, but have won six of their past eight league games. Times, Sunday Times
  • He had achieved this by the time he was eighteen but at this stage he did not know even that the moon and planets described elliptical orbits.
  • In the eighteenth century the great naturalist, Gilbert White of Selborne, paid a man to shoot blackbirds by the score every spring to protect his fruit trees.
  • Each, regardless of seniority or committee assignment, is allotted eighteen employees.
  • Both forms of contredanse were performed in France until the Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century.
  • The rue Mouffetard was the main street of the bourg of St. Me dard, which until the eighteenth century lay outside the city of Paris.
  • Be realistic you can't expect a big salary at eighteen.
  • On the eighteenth day of the month of June, in the sixth year of my sojourn on the island, I descried a sail. Chapter 19
  • By the mid eighteenth century the new game laws and increasing enclosure (see pp. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
  • Despite its late date, the conservative display of raised-panel doors, applied ogee moldings, and a scalloped opening to the display area are all borrowed from eighteenth-century design.
  • The champion is leading by eighteen seconds.
  • They have to be what the art-critics of the eighteenth century called "sub-fusc. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
  • Reaching the age of eighteen was quite significant for me, as it allowed me the opportunity to cast my first parliamentary vote.
  • From at least the closing years of the eighteenth century the decline of gentry involvement and even tolerance of plebeian sports was evident.
  • Eighteen months later the family Davids emigrated to Holland, where they settled in a poor suburb just north of Amsterdam.
  • The rise of the bourgeoisie at the end of the eighteenth century created a demand for more pictures.
  • Evolutionary and naturalistic theories of the earth's creation based on uniformitarian assumptions and advocating old-earth theories emerged in the late eighteenth century.
  • We ended the last chapter with the glacial conditions that prevailed eighteen thousand years ago. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
  • In his eighteenth year he entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a sizar, that is, a poor student who pays in part for his tuition by doing certain kinds of work. Selections from Five English Poets
  • Their language contrasted with that of the eighteenth-century reformers who had entrusted the mission of modernity and progress to enlightened rulers.
  • In short, the traditionally separated out categories of science and religious enthusiasm were in the eighteenth century as mutually invasive as Newton's own scientific and prophetical modes of enquiry.
  • Eating at one of their tiny tables is not grand dining, you're eighteen inches away from the people standing on line. Avery Corman: New York Hero Sandwiches: Not Always Heroic
  • Collars were six and eight cents, said the ad, cotton half-hose eighteen cents a pair. Time and Again
  • Up to eighteen pianists will advance to the semifinal round, where each will present a program of no more than twenty minutes.
  • Many of those rights found legal expression at the close of the eighteenth century.
  • The larger fontanel usually closes by eighteen months after the birth; the smaller one closes by two to six months. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn
  • I had 'beaus' enough, I reckon, when I was eighteen. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies
  • We lost all contact, but as it happened we both enlisted in the armed services the moment we turned eighteen.
  • Since the early eighteenth century the red wines of Ambonnay have ranked alongside those of the now more famous Bouzy.
  • Arriving there, Legrand noted one particular ledge about twelve inches wide and eighteen inches long, several feet below the top of the rock.
  • An eighteen inch snood dropped off from the swivel so that the two baits would fish almost in line with one another.
  • Jacobinism -- the doctrine of the ultra-radical and anticlerical wing of the French revolutionary movement -- was as much of an ogre to eighteenth and nineteenth century conservatives as socialism and communism were their latter-day counterparts. Lerdo de Tejada: Jacobin to liberal elitist
  • The woman who raised me was an aunt, if your definition of being raised is being kept in a basement twenty-four-seven for eighteen years, where I got fed every day. Blood Trinity
  • All band members, however, must be aged eighteen or over.
  • The words are also haunted by Dickens's fear of a reprise of a violent social revolution akin to that experienced in France in the last decade of the eighteenth century.
  • The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture.
  • Ever since the modern study of art history began in the eighteenth century, there has been a variety of more or less unconvincing answers to that question.
  • Mouchoirs were produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to commemorate notable and royal events.
  • “Inessential driving” was banned eighteen months before Pearl Harbor, and soon thereafter production of rubber-soled tabi shoes was halted to save raw material. Whirlwind
  • On Saturday we continued with the sorting out and tackled three boxes of assorted stuff that have been carefully hidden away in the cupboards in the spare room since we moved in over eighteen months ago.
  • During the eighteenth century fashionable accessories became an important complement to a lady's attire.
  • Eighteenth-century miniaturists were part of an industry of copyists who provided full-scale replicas for a range of residences and official sites or reduced life-size portraits to handy pocket-size miniatures.
  • The annual competition is now in its eighteenth year.
  • Another late eighteenth-century palampore was generously donated recently.
  • But if the first three had specifically assigned to them eighteen oun - ces, then the dupokdium or double as would again take place; and the estate being divided into iwo asses or 24 ounces, the three heirs niMdinated simply, without assignment of shares, would divide be - tween them in equal portions six asses* Ferriere in loco. The Institutes of Justinian

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