How To Use Eleventh In A Sentence

  • The lower opening is formed by the twelfth thoracic vertebra behind, by the eleventh and twelfth ribs at the sides, and in front by the cartilages of the tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh ribs, which ascend on either side and form an angle, the subcostal angle, into the apex of which the xiphoid process projects. II. Osteology. 4. The Thorax
  • At the two-minute mark of the eleventh round, De La Hoya delivered a left uppercut that traveled less than 6 inches.
  • Having held Grange to 177-9, Prestwick looked in some trouble as they slumped to 18-2 in their eleventh over.
  • It's pretty clear he was brought in as an eleventh-hour replacement.
  • The Benedictine abbey is long gone but the eleventh-century church remains, and is one of the finest survivors of the Romanesque in France.
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  • Paid first, last and a cleaning deposit on Monday, June the eleventh. SILENT JOE
  • He postponed his trip at the eleventh hour.
  • When later poets in an uncritical age take up and rehandle the poetic themes of their predecessors, they always give to the stories "a new costume," as M. Gaston Paris remarks in reference to thirteenth century dealings with French epics of the eleventh century. Homer and His Age
  • At the eleventh hour the government decided that something had to be done.
  • The plot is transparently thin; our hero, named F.W. and writing in the first person throughout, delivers what he calls a travelogue through time to the Eleventh Cosmic Capital Year of Virgo, an unspecified time 100,000 years or so in the future. Star of the Unborn (1946)
  • He raised the binoculars again and zeroed in on an eleventh-floor room.
  • Our pianist had fallen ill, and then, at the eleventh hour, when we thought we'd have to cancel the performance, Jill offered to replace him.
  • She looked properly concerned when he described how the film had been jostled from its place of victory at the eleventh hour. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • Quinn pushed the door open, walked through the lobby, and rode the elevator to the eleventh floor.
  • These are adjoining castles built from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries by sundry lords of Merle.
  • When soldiers returning from the Crusades introduced wind technology to Europe in the eleventh century, the windmill helped usher in the Industrial Revolution.
  • After each prophecy, (and the Tract that follows the fourth, eighth and eleventh) the priest, standing as usual at the Missal on the Epistle side, with the deacon and subdeacon in line behind him, sings “Oremus”; the deacon sings “Flectamus genua”, and all kneel for a moment of silent prayer, then the subdeacon sings “Levate”, and all rise for a collect, as already mentioned for the Mass of the Presanctified. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 6.1 - Holy Saturday and the Blessing of the New Fire, Procession, Exultet, Prophecies
  • A week ago a national rail strike was called off at the eleventh hour when the management backed down over pensions.
  • This one comes our way on the eleventh of October.
  • There are no transverse costal pits on the transverse processes of the eleventh and twelfth vertebrae.
  • If Edward Cowell hadn't been able to interest Edward FitzGerald in the study of the Persian language in 1852 and brought to FitzGerald's notice in 1856 a Persian manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, then FitzGerald would not have translated these ‘Epicurean tetrastichs by a Persian of the eleventh century’.
  • Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward or, failing that, the bridewell and an appearance in the court next day before Mr Ulysses
  • Even when the Constitution vests in Congress complete law-making authority over a particular area, the Eleventh Amendment prevents congressional authorization of suits by private parties against unconsenting states.
  • Lincoln cathedral is one of the most perfect Gothic cathedrals in Europe, dating back officially to the eleventh century and like as not a fair way before that.
  • A ball detent on the magazine follower proved to be the fix at the eleventh hour.
  • By the eleventh century a number of towns existed along the valley and important civic and ecclesiastical buildings were erected.
  • Rathdowney / Errill shot their eleventh wide before two quick long range efforts from Liam Tynan had the large crowd in raptures ten minutes into the half.
  • It figures for the first time in a Latin episcopal notitia, dating probably from the eleventh century, where it is given under the name of Legionum, between the Bishoprics of Diocæsarea and Capitolias The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • Hirschau, who died toward the end of the eleventh century, invented a horologium modeled after the celestial hemisphere; therefore he may have been the inventor of the clock, for soon after his death these striking bells begin to make their appearance on church towers and in other religious buildings. Christopher and the Clockmakers
  • Each time European policymakers reacted similarly: with denial and dithering, followed at the eleventh hour with a half-baked rescue plan to buy time.
  • The lumbar form of transverse process may be present in the eleventh thoracic vertebra.
  • The modern Chams find no difficulty worshipping the Hindu Trinity,the linga, the bull of Siva, a pythoness, Allah-- who is believed to have been an eleventh century Cham king-- plus Mohammed and a number of uncomprehended words taken from the Muslim invocations and regarded as the names of deities, each with its special function. Archive 2005-07-01
  • The eleventh stage is formed by the primæval fish or selachii (sharks); the twelfth by the mud fish, of which there still live the protopterus in Africa, the lepidosiren in the tributaries of the The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
  • The eleventh and twelfth chapters are also related to assessment of learning disability with language based test and remediation of reading disabilities.
  • The idea of secular power in itself meant little before the propagandists of the eleventh-century papal reform mounted their assault on it.
  • Coinage was at a very early stage in all parts of Britain and Ireland during the ninth to eleventh centuries.
  • For Universal Berrios, an eleventh-grader, the priority is decent jobs for all Americans. Alan Singer: Pablo's Kids March on Washington
  • It wasn't as if Martinez was unaccustomed to physical labor: She grew up in Fresno, the eleventh of twenty-two children of farmworker parents.
  • The ancient horse harness was no more and no less efficient than the famous horse collar of the eleventh century.
  • And, suddenly, just as had happened to Michael Banks, at the eleventh hour the rhythm started to come.
  • A relapse; little sleep; urine throughout of a good color, but thin; the alvine evacuations were thin, bilious, acrid, very scanty, black, and fetid; a white, smooth sediment in the urine; had a sweat, and experienced a perfect crisis on the eleventh day. Of The Epidemics
  • Anyway, yesterday Xander exclaimed something like, "God, smart girls are hot!" as Anya figured something out and Willow lamented, "Why couldn't you have discovered that in eleventh grade? Buffy Quote of the Week
  • The first written literature dates from the eleventh century, with the production of religious texts, including translations from Byzantine works, original sermons and other didactic works, and hagiographies.
  • Their plan was called off at the eleventh hour.
  • Eleventhly, God of his grace had pierced her heart, it is read that S. Clare for to dispend amorously the time that God had lent her, in especial she was determined that from the hour of mid-day unto evensong time, she would dispend all that time in thinking and beweeping the passion of Jesu Christ, and say prayers and orisons according thereto, after unto the five wounds of the precious body of Jesu Christ, as smitten and pierced to the heart with the dart of the love divine. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
  • This last is observed in Burma and Laos, but not in Siam and Camboja where is substituted for it the Kôn Chũ̆k or shaving of the topknot, which is allowed to grow until the eleventh or thirteenth year. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
  • As a non-finisher in the event that determines grid placings, Griffiths should have left last for Finke, but was offered a start among the six bikes leaving the grid in the eleventh to sixteenth placings.
  • It is therefore no surprise to find that the manuscript, more technically known as the ‘eleventh fascicle of Wi’ used in this recording originated in Paris around the year 1230.
  • That said, the Federal Reserve has just cut US interest rates for the eleventh time this year.
  • The incident shows that force might still play some part in the creation of marriage alliances in the eleventh century.
  • You were re-recording and rewriting bits of the album beyond the eleventh hour. The Sun
  • Barbarossa's foot soldiers were often still attired like this eleventh-century warrior.
  • The taserers were sued and in due course the case got to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals that concluded that if the alleged facts were proved "the unlawfulness of the conduct was readily apparent to an official in the shoes of these officers. Christopher Brauchli: Crime and Children's Punishment
  • The oldest painted picture-window that has survived the action of time is one representing the Ascension in the cathedral of Le Mans, which is believed by many antiquarians to be a work of the late eleventh century. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • Moreover, Virginia acted as godmother to her ninth and eleventh siblings - but not to the tenth, who had been named after a previously dead infant.
  • The bell tower dates from the eleventh-century and is the oldest in the Lombardy Romanesque style that still exists.
  • Johann Christian (1735-1782), the eleventh son, known as the Milanese or London Bach, devoted himself to the lighter forms of music, and after having served some years as organist of the cathedral at Milan, and having distinguished himself by certain operas successfully produced in Italy, he removed to London, where he led an easy and enjoyable life. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
  • It is surprising, therefore, how seldom armies joined in pitched battle in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
  • Until now, public universities have reveled in the sovereign immunity they enjoy under the Eleventh Amendment.
  • He arrived there at the eleventh hour.
  • The topsoil contained a small amount of mid-Byzantine common wares, as well as a late eleventh-century A.D. coin (an anonymous follis). Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Antoninus Pius Report 1
  • French is the eleventh most widely spoken language in the world, English the third.
  • That the three months 'notice given to any caveator, in pursuance of the requirements of the eleventh section of this act, shall be computed from the day on which such notice is deposited in the post-office at the seat of government of this Confederacy, with the regular time for transmission of the same added thereto, which time shall be endorsed on the notice. The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, from the Institution of the Government, February 8, 1861, to its Termination, February 18, 1862, Inclusive. Arranged in Chronological Order. Together with the Consti
  • The modern Chams find no difficulty worshipping the Hindu Trinity,the linga, the bull of Siva, a pythoness, Allah-- who is believed to have been an eleventh century Cham king-- plus Mohammed and a number of uncomprehended words taken from the Muslim invocations and regarded as the names of deities, each with its special function. Some Travel Writing
  • He arrived there at the eleventh hour.
  • ‘As its debt payment to IBRA, it will issue exchangeable bonds, which start to mature in their eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh years,’ Sjahrial said on Tuesday.
  • Sure our tenth year together was worth celebrating, but I think our eleventh is just as deserving - and more. Milestones
  • Torrick Dixon, an eleventh-grader, was thinking about future jobs when he and his classmates graduated from college. Alan Singer: Pablo's Kids March on Washington
  • As for the theophany in the eleventh chapter of the Gita, Arjuna has a vision of Krishna's awesome cosmic form and feels overwhelmed.
  • While most scholars agree that the style of The Water Mill is typical of the early Northern Song court, datable to the late tenth to early eleventh century, many fundamental questions remain.
  • This island is now usually called Holy Island, a designation dating back to the eleventh century. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • In the eleventh century, many slaves were enfranchised, the greater part of whom settled in cities.
  • Statistics on climate in northern Europe for the ninth to eleventh centuries are virtually non-existent.
  • The most exalted initiation is also called "the fourth initiation" or "the word initiation" The previous great wisdom-gnosis initiation empowers the disciple to achieve the eleventh bodhisattva stage. Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
  • Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud 
  • As the announcer calls fifteenth through eleventh place, the Memphis women look calm. Cheer!
  • But when they had reached this prince’s famous halls, they sat down all orderly on seats and high chairs; and when they were come, the old man mixed well for them a bowl of sweet wine, which now in the eleventh year from the vintaging the housewife opened, and unloosed the string that fastened the lid. Book III
  • Anselm of Canterbury, eleventh-century theologian, monk and Church hierarch, is arguably the major figure in the theological road from Augustine to Aquinas.
  • In the early eleventh century one branch of the powerful ÓNéill family drew up a pedigree that traced its descent for twenty generations.
  • The polyptych of St. Victor, compiled in 814, the large chartulary, or collection of charters (end of the eleventh and beginning of the twelfth century), and the small chartulary (middle of the thirteen century) edited by M. Guérard, and containing documents from 683 to 1336, enable the reader to grasp the important economic rôle of this great abbey in the Middle Ages. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • Upon this, when the interreges found the commons incensed against the fathers, the contest was carried on by various disturbances to the eleventh interrex. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
  • Most of the present walls date from the fourth, fifth and eleventh centuries and, although broken in places, it is still possible to walk their four-mile length.
  • It was, politically speaking, "the Anatolic theme", one of the twenty-nine provinces of the Byzantine empire from the seventh century to the eleventh century, when it became a Turkish land. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • Earth and timber fortifications were hastily erected, whether in motte-and-bailey or in ringwork form, in new areas during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
  • As it happened the earldom had died out with the death of the eleventh earl. SANDS OF TIME
  • With their eleventh release Canada's progressive minstrels have hunkered down and created their best since '93's Whale Music.
  • Eleventh-century England is seen as intellectually isolated, rescued from barbarity only by Norman longships.
  • Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud 
  • This will be the eleventh such gay event and, really, I don't know how I managed to miss the previous 10.
  • The oldest painted picture-window that has survived the action of time is one representing the Ascension in the cathedral of Le Mans, which is believed by many antiquarians to be a work of the late eleventh century. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • Apart from the customs service, the finance ministry also oversees the tax service, which is named as the eleventh most corrupt institution in TII's list.
  • The smallest is the Tavistock Subscription Library which houses just 1500 books in a restored portion of a tenth and eleventh-century abbey building. Libraries
  • For a century the German rule was nominal, but with the outbreak of the conflict in the eleventh century between king and pope over the question of which one should invest the bishops with their authority (known as the _investiture conflict_, 1075-1122), Pope Gregory The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
  • The cattle farmers and ranchers appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
  • Three weeks earlier, the supreme court trial courtroom known as Part 39 on the eleventh floor of the Criminal Courts Building had contained a pool of seventy-five prospective jurors, when Judge David Marvin Mason began the proceedings by asking Karp to give the venire, or jury pool, a brief description of the case and the main players in the real-life drama about to be played out in front of them. Betrayed
  • And we have a fantastic Polynesian show on eleventh floor from six o'clock.
  • The " little Chinese girl " was rescued from oblivion at the eleventh hour.
  • An eleventh-century manuscript's depiction of war between Christians and Moors, and its inevitable outcome - baptism or execution.
  • Hirschau, which arose in Germany in the eleventh century, the term prior was also substituted for provost, and the example of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • By the early eleventh century the community of St Cuthbert owned extensive estates in northern Britain between the Tweed and the Tees.
  • These lands were retained for agricultural use, but the peripheral areas and the poorest or the heaviest were left to lie fallow, often until the assarting from the waste in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
  • That was a lot of street cred for Will, because here was the eleventh-grader hanging with the artist-of-the-moment, a little like someone in school today hanging with Jay-Z. Fallin’ Up
  • Regiment by a detachment of _equal force_ of the Eleventh Regiment, this force of _one company_ being now stationed at the Temiscouata post, as it _always has been_, for the necessary purpose of protecting the stores and accommodations provided for the use of Her Majesty's troops who may be required, as heretofore, to march by that route to and from the A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren
  • The main attraction is the eleventh century Saint Sophia Cathedral, the city's oldest standing church, which contains some of the country's greatest mosaics and frescoes.
  • The Portuguese nobles, with King Diniz (reigned 1279-1325) at their head, filled the idle hours of their bloody and passionate lives by composing strangely abstract, conventional poems of love and religion in the manner of the Provençal _canso, dansa, balada_ and _pastorela_, which had had such a luxuriant growth in Southern France in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Modern Spanish Lyrics
  • Increasing emphasis on celibacy in tenth and eleventh-century English reform may have been a factor making direct kinship between bishops or abbots and kings rarer here, though that did not apply to abbesses and nunneries.
  • He postponed his trip at the eleventh hour.
  • In the mid-eleventh century CE, King Anawrahta unified northern Burma, conquered the Mon kingdom at Thaton, established his capital at Pagan, and invited the Mon bhikkhu Arahanta to establish Theravada Buddhism throughout his kingdom. A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part One: Background
  • The gate at the center may allude to one of the two imperial gates along the processional route by boat between the Blachernai Palace, primary residence of the Komnenoi since the late eleventh century, and Hagia Sophia.
  • At the eleventh hour the door was left slightly ajar once more.
  • It begins in the neck at the lower border of the cricoid cartilage, opposite the sixth cervical vertebra, descends along the front of the vertebral column, through the superior and posterior mediastina, passes through the diaphragm, and, entering the abdomen, ends at the cardiac orifice of the stomach, opposite the eleventh thoracic vertebra. XI. Splanchnology. 2d. The Esophagus
  • From the eleventh century onwards Persian was increasingly used for books on popular science.
  • The eleventh century saw the formal rupture between East and West.
  • The cathedral of St-Etienne dates from the eleventh century but its north portal with its distinctive, well preserved tympanum depicting the Ascension instead of the more typical Last Judgement was carved in the next century.
  • Thomas Alva Edison was born on February eleventh, eighteen - forty - seven in the small town of Milan, Ohio.
  • Failure to participate in tournaments of such magnitude at the eleventh hour, he added, would be costly as the organisers demand heavy fines for inconveniencing them.
  • Their plan was called off at the eleventh hour.
  • The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not lean on thy left elbow, or else.
  • The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
  • What's a bit more interesting is that after the first eviction in two weeks time an eleventh house member will be added as voted for by the great unwashed.
  • In 1897, after an uncommonly long pause of more than four years, an eleventh son was born.
  • By the eleventh century the coif was often integrated with the hauberk becoming a hood.
  • In the introduction, he distinguishes many different kinds of fiddles, the eleventh of which is the Viola d' amore.
  • The monk Ordericus Vitalis, in the eleventh century, notes what he calls the "lasciviousness" of the wives of the Norman conquerors of England who, when left alone at home, sent messages that if their husbands failed to return speedily they would take new ones. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
  • The shires, initially tied into the burghal towns for defensive purposes, evolved in the tenth and eleventh centuries into complex legal and commercial provinces, and began increasingly to function as urban hinterlands.
  • At the eleventh hour the government decided that something had to be done.
  • A fold of peritoneum, the phrenicocolic ligament, is continued from the left colic flexure to the diaphragm opposite the tenth and eleventh ribs; it passes below and serves to support the spleen, and therefore has received the name of sustentaculum lienis. XI. Splanchnology. 2e. The Abdomen
  • The eleventh century saw the formal rupture between East and West.
  • The ninth, tenth, and eleventh perfect numbers were found after the twelfth was discovered.
  • On the eleventh lap Guillemot recovered his position, dislodging Higgins as pursuit man.
  • We only received the official signatures at the eleventh hour.
  • At the eleventh hour the government decided that something had to be done.
  • Phase 3: During the middle Byzantine period (eleventh century, again confirmed by an anonymous follis dated to the years 1078-1081), material was dumped here, inside the remains of the second encroachment phase, together with earlier refuse. Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Antoninus Pius Report 3
  • The execution is only the eleventh since reinstatement of the death penalty by California in 1992.
  • December," said he, "is surely, as its name indicates, the tenth month of the year," and he added thereto, in honor of the emperor, two others which he called the eleventh and twelfth. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1
  • Scandinavian Peninsula, much less of Greenland, Fillastre completed his codex by adding to Ptolemy's ten maps of Europe an eleventh. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • For Fred Eastham, age poses no barrier as it will be his eleventh marathon since 1984-and he will be joined in the race on April 13 by his 29-year-old son, John.
  • The antique is assigned to the eleventh Century.
  • But in our neighborhood a highwayman was a myth, -- we had hardly ever even heard of one; and so, after no end of misgivings lest one or another lion in the way should after all compel the relinquishment of the excursion, literally at the eleventh hour they were fairly on their way. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866
  • By the eleventh century the coif was often integrated with the hauberk becoming a hood.
  • It roughly dates from the birth of the Welsh language from Brythonic to the arrival of the Normans in Wales towards the end of the eleventh century. Archive 2009-09-01
  • In the articulations of the heads of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth ribs, each of which articulates with a single vertebra, the triradiate arrangement does not exist; but the fibers of the ligament in each case are connected to the vertebra above, as well as to that with which the rib articulates. III. Syndesmology. 5e. Costovertebral Articulations
  • Page the Ninth and Eleventh Clauses thereof in so far as the same are applicable to the question of the nature and character of the title acquired by The Board of Visitors minutes
  • In Cobija (in the Department of Pando), on the eleventh of September, eight people were killed and over thirty injured during a confrontation -- the first instance where firearms were used -- between government supporters and "autonomist" groups. Mathaba Highlights Briefing
  • By the time our friend has reached the eleventh chapter of Hebrews the eloquent encomium which is there pronounced upon faith will not seem strange to him. The Pursuit of God
  • The first efforts of the papacy to increase its power and restore its prestige coincided with the acme of the Patriarch in Constantinople around the eleventh century.
  • A unique eleventh-century image of four-faced Brahma seated as acharya for the wedding of Siva and Uma comes from the Asia Society Gallery in New York.
  • She raised her flute at her eleventh measure of rest, her piccolo on the stand in front of her, and after eight more beats she began playing the music.
  • Jehoiakim's fourth year, and ended in the first of Cyrus, these seventy years are to be computed from the eleventh of Zedekiah, when Jerusalem and the temple were burnt, about nineteen years after the first captivity, and which ended in this second year of Darius Hystaspes, about seventeen years after Cyrus's proclamation, as that seventy years mentioned ch.vii. 5 was about nineteen years after; the captivity went off, as it came on, gradually. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • By the eleventh century, almost every estate had a church of stone or wood, built and endowed with land by the local thegn.
  • Megson and his advisers only discovered Imerman was involved at the eleventh hour.
  • The eleventh century saw the formal rupture between East and West.
  • W hen I was in eleventh grade, I invited a new boyfriend to come to my house after school one day. Are You There God? It's Me, Monica
  • Thousands of English thegns, between the mid-ninth and the mid-eleventh centuries, came into possession of their own small estates.
  • In the eleventh century the Norse kings probably had an immediate retinue of about ninety men, excluding menial servants and hangers on.
  • In music, India gave to the world her system of notation, with the seven cardinal notes and the diatonic scale, all of which we enjoyed as early as 350 B.C., while it came to Europe only in the eleventh century.
  • It would whirl on regardless to October the eleventh and beyond.
  • The play even introduces elements of kabuki, shouted Japanese, and eleventh-century visuals into its overweening mix.
  • Garcia made the birdie at the eleventh to square the match.
  • Our pianist had fallen ill, and then, at the eleventh hour, when we thought we'd have to cancel the performance, Jill offered to replace him.
  • The "doughboy shavetail", a hero before the armistice, or the aviator who held the stage until November eleventh, once he put on his serge suit and went back to selling insurance or keeping books, became a nodding acquaintance, sometimes not even that. The Log-Cabin Lady
  • The interreges declined to hold the elections in consequence of the hostile attitude of the plebs, and the contest went on till the eleventh interregnum. The History of Rome, Vol. II
  • By the ninth century there were specific prayers for her feast day, and by the eleventh century there was "a complete mass dedicated to the saint (with introit, gradual, offertory, communion, and lessons)". Anti-Catholicism
  • King Alexander II., by charter, dated at Cluny, the 13th day of August, in the eleventh year of his reign (1227), granted to the Canons of the Abbey of Inchaffray the teind of his duties of Auchterarder to be drawn yearly by the hands of his tacksmen and bailies of Auchterarder. Chronicles of Strathearn
  • Later, in the eleventh century, under kings such as Harald Hardrada, the power-broking jarls were crushed.
  • The life-size crosses and figures of saints were one of the great forms of benefaction in the eleventh century and are described in churches across England.
  • But if any courtly romances were composed in eleventh-century Britain and Ireland, none survive.
  • In the latter case, Gothic evolved from Romanesque vaulting (modelled on Roman precedent) following brilliant experiments in the eleventh century.
  • It is surprising, therefore, how seldom armies joined in pitched battle in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
  • No better description of the purposes served by these lists and of the spirit which animated the whole institution of necrologies can be found than that contained in the preface to the Winchester book of the eleventh century known as the "Hyde Register". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • In the eleventh century, the prospect was again clouded by new enemies and new misfortunes: the relics of Italy were swept away by the Norman adventures; and almost all the Asiatic branches were dissevered from the Roman trunk by the Turkish conquerors. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • At the same time, fantasy is afflicting those who think that an eleventh-hour dose of Obama campaign oratory can reconstitute a solid Democratic base and get it to the polls in hefty numbers. Norman Solomon: Progressive Canaries in a Political Mine
  • After, in the eleventh part of the canon of the mass the priest beateth his breast saying: Nobis quoque peccatoribus, etc., and that signifieth the contrition and repentance that the thief that hung on the cross at the right hand of God had, when he said: Memento mei domine cum veneris in regnum tuum, that is to say: Lord I pray thee that thou be remembered of me when thou comest into thy realm. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
  • Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud 
  • In other words, by having progressed through eighth -, ninth -, tenth -, and (this) eleventh-level bhumi minds, the natural purity of primordial simultaneously arising (mirror-like deep awareness and the sphere of reality) that you have enlighteningly rendered manifest is a Dharmakaya, a Corpus Encompassing Everything. Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness ��� Part Four: Enhancing Your Practice
  • In fact, it is probably true to say that women in the Middle Ages, especially after about the eleventh century and up to the fifteenth, enjoyed a level of relative freedom not equalled until the twentieth.
  • The president's visit was called off at the eleventh hour.
  • In the mid-eleventh century CE, King Anawrahta unified northern Burma, conquered the Mon kingdom at Thaton, established his capital at Pagan, and invited the Mon bhikkhu Arahanta to establish Theravada Buddhism and its ordinatioin lineages throughout his kingdom. History of the Theravada Ordination Lineages
  • The vessel pictured here was known as an eleventh gradient class. STARSHIP SPOTTER
  • With the manfly dead and his wife, Patricia Owens, about to be carted off to an insane asylum for his murder, Price and police inspector Herbert Marshall make the ghastly eleventh hour discovery of a flyman caught in a spiderweb in the garden. 31 Screams: Al Hedison
  • Not only was travel difficult and slow in the eleventh century, he was also still Duke of Normandy and he had to return to Normandy to maintain his control of this land in France.
  • The eleventh would have been a Tory in 1999 and a Labourite in 2004. Eurodisparity
  • If some want to mount an eleventh-hour challenge, let them come out in the open.
  • The eleventh century saw the formal rupture between East and West.
  • It was her discovery of this shadowy Order—which still existed today—that had led her to discover Matilda of Canossa, a Tuscan countess who had lived in the eleventh century. The Poet Prince
  • 8 Nicephorus, Michael Constantine Psellus eleventh-century Byzantine philosopher, no. 7, in The chaldaean Oracles of Zoroaster, ed. Autobiographies
  • It is a remarkable coincidence that the elections were held on the eleventh anniversary of these dramatic events.
  • Des Murphy's goal in the eleventh minute was the score that mattered in the end.
  • The two trusses, one 122 ft. and the other 165 ft. 8 in. from center to center of end posts, had been assembled and riveted, lying flat on cribwork a few feet above the ground, south of the permanent position and between the New York Central tracks and Eleventh Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157
  • New-style communities based on a rule, first provided by St Augustine of Hippo, but refined and made more austere at the end of the eleventh century, emerged.
  • In the eleventh century he did not have the advantage of either a telescope to project an image safely onto a screen or optical filters.
  • Quasimodaspis lacks the high-set semicircular eyes of Paleomerus, and the elongated, trapezoidal eleventh and twelfth segments of both Paleomerus and Strabops.
  • In the eleventh century, the Scottish kingdom was a politico-ethnic patchwork of Scots, Picts, Angles, and Britons.
  • The car was in eleventh place when it hit the wall at the difficult bottom hairpin and was forced to withdraw as unrepairable.
  • On the eleventh of March, 1888, when Dad came in to breakfast from helping with the morning chores at the barn, he commented on the amazing mildness of the weather - the unseasonableness of conditions in nature.
  • In the eleventh century the Norse kings probably had an immediate retinue of about ninety men, excluding menial servants and hangers on.
  • Backman's "wheelin' dealin'" lifestyle lands him with a prison sentence, which is unexpectedly truncated at an eleventh hour Presidential pardon for a CIA plan. The Broker
  • The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
  • -- _Stuart_ was a great eleventh hour tip -- (why _eleventh_ hour I wonder? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892
  • + The eleventh ordained that the poor and needy, when travelling, should be provided with letters of recommendation (litterae pacificae) from the churches. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

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