How To Use Seventeen In A Sentence

We have a report that four unidentified persons have set up a rocket launcher two hundred yards west of seventeenth green.
CHAPTER Seventeen EMERSON was unreasonably annoyed with me for what he called my unwarranted interference. The Curse of the Pharaohs
There followed seventeen years of sectarian vagabondage: founded in 1830, the sect settled in Kirtland, Ohio, Jackson, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois, reaching Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah, in 1847.
Poland has ten symphony orchestras, seventeen conservatories, over one hundred music schools, and almost one thousand music centers.
The upper part of the gablet over the centre doorway is of the seventeenth century, and bears the shield of Sir George Hay of Kinfauns, who rented the lands of the bishopric about the beginning of the seventeenth century, the crozier being added to the shield in connection with the lands of the see. [ Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys

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The cembalo was the favorite instrument in Italy during the seventeenth century, and in England it had a great currency under the name of harpsichord. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
In the seventeenth century, the country was ruled by a monarch with a severe speech impediment and a fragile ego.
I was barely even seventeen yet and so I could not get a job as a schoolmistress or a governess.
Read in studio Thieves have stolen seventeen rare parrots from a bird sanctuary.
The central theme of Sugar and Slaves is the rise of the big slave-owning sugar planters who completely dominated their island societies by the late seventeenth century.
Louis Jordan, a historian with a strong interest in numismatic issues, has written what is undoubtedly the definitive history of Massachusetts' seventeenth-century mint.
It was originally built of brick and rubblework, but since the restoration in the seventeenth century it has lost its primitive character. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
These seventeen new pieces by some of the world's leading classicists have been brought together to celebrate the bimillenary of the Horace's death.
This second Adam Winthrop, at the age of seventeen, went to London, binding himself as an apprentice for ten years under the well-esteemed and profitable guild of the "clothiers," or cloth-workers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
`Reporting safe arrival of Tonopah Maru with iceberg of approximate seventeen-hundred-plus kiloton mass.
In the mid-seventeenth century, Spain began to import the bitter bark of cinchona trees from Peru and Ecuador as an antidote for malaria.
From this latter practice arose their name — CONDOTTIERI; a term formidable all over Italy, for a period, which concluded in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, but of which it is not so easy to ascertain the commencement. The Mysteries of Udolpho
The milliammeter showed sixteen or seventeen; that was about normal at the beginning of the run. In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs
Seventeen-year-old Jack Kirkby has just returned from a trip to New Zealand, where he has been skiing, taking helicopter rides and even abseiling.
A seventeen-year-old tourist died late last night of injuries sustained in yesterday'sbomb blast.
I hadn't spent my whole seventeen years perfecting my defenses to my mother's attempts at shaming me for nothing.
Burbank spent seventeen years hybridizing the common oxeye daisy with the English daisy, the German daisy, and the small but brilliantly white Japanese daisy. Jane S. Smith: Daisies, Weddings, and Making the Ideal Real
By 1920 the Catholic population numbered about seventeen million and included some twenty-eight ethnic groups.
Although this was the first time I had been late in my seventeen years of life, she was one of those rigid teachers who loathed latecomers and expected everyone to have her neat perfect penmanship.
The clearest single advance in technique was the introduction in the mid seventeenth century of preservation in spirits of wine.
There was one very dark night in the month o 'January, when I was little mair than seventeen, my faither and me were gaun to Morpeth, and we were wishing to get forward wi' the beasts as far as Whittingham; but just as we were about half a mile doun the loanin 'frae Glanton, it cam' awa ane o 'the dreadfu'est storms that e'er mortal was out in. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII
By the time he was seventeen he had bought himself a second-hand car; quite an achievement in this part of the world. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
Then one day, when I was seventeen, I came home to see my mother had done spring-cleaning. Broken Symmetry
I first encountered Patti Smith's music in 1985, at the age of seventeen.
Papist," but as far as I can tell, Pise is wrong: "Romanist" appears to be a familiar term of opprobrium in English polemic by the late seventeenth century. Religion
One of the last photographs of him shows him in his seventeenth-century timbered cottage, resting on a sofa beside the massive open fire chimney corner.
His granddaughter, a sweet seventeen, came to the doorway, ‘Yes, grandpapa?’
Yet proverbs were objects of curiosity, collected on an encyclopedic scale by Italian virtuosi as well as other European scholars throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
A third passenger, a seventeen year old girl, was not seriously hurt.
[455] For the early divisions of verse and prose story were all Topsies, and simply "growed"; although the smaller romances of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and the larger of the latter date, were undoubtedly influenced by the Greek, it was more a case of general imitation than specific endeavour; the Sensibility school was very limited and chiefly attended to tricks of manner; and the "Romantic vague" was never vaguer than in the vast and rather formless, though magnificent and delightful, novel-work started by Nodier, Mérimée, A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
An ancient Russian icon in nielloed silver and one of these Christs in carved wood, executed in the seventeenth century by Bogard de Nancy, in an antique frame of gilded wood backed with velvet, were the only things that slightly relieved the banality of the decoration. Là-bas
A seventeenth- or eighteenth-century lithograph of a small town. CHAMELEON
It is a small treatise of seventeen folios in which we find nothing on mensuration that the arithmeticians of the East did not know.
In northern Italy and in France, south of the Loire, the main tenurial development of the seventeenth century was a massive extension of share-cropping, whereby landlords received rents as a fixed percentage of their tenants' crops.
Watch out for furniture descriptions such as ‘seventeenth century style’ which means it is made in that style, but is usually a reproduction piece.
MS. 1063, a seventeenth cent. transcript of Abbot John Lyle's chartulary compiled in 1471. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
His side were in complete control and at one stage led by seventeen points.
His hair was the brown of sodden straw, and it stuck out at awkward, seventeen-year-old angles, wet and comb it howsoever much he tried. STARDUST
The victory of the Trinitarians in England in the latter half of the seventeenth century was not only as complete, but also as extraordinary, as St. Athanasius’s original triumph.
Seventeen teams, one of the largest number of entries for many years, participated and competition was very keen.
The month in which my seventeenth birthday arrived I signed on before the mast on the Sophie Sutherland, a three-topmast schooner bound on a seven-months 'seal-hunting cruise to the coast of Japan. That Dead Men Rise Up Never
On top of that, you will note that there are seventeen outstanding warrants filed by various state and federal authorities against her.
He looked to be sixteen or seventeen and he was kind of small.
Ever since the decline of the Inns of Court in the seventeenth century, law students had obtained a lot of their legal education from books. The Judicial Education of William de Grey
I dinna consort wi 'shoplifters, an' idiots, an 'suckin' bairns -- wi 'long nose, an' short nose, an 'pug nose, an' seventeen Deuks o 'Wellington, let alone a baker's dizen Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
Seventeen and trembling on the brink of womanhood, she has already suffered the humiliation of being packed off as the poor relation with her rich cousins on holiday.
Foster has spent seventeen years working on his life of Yeats and has absorbed the store of sources.
So in the seventeenth century the writers, exhausted by the mental effort of the Renaissance and prevented by the tyranny of kings and the domination of the church from occupying themselves with the great issues of life, turned their minds to gongorism, concettism and such-like toys. The Summing Up
Number seventeen is a chiropodist and once did Fergie's feet. RESCUING ROSE
I looked up from my book and saw this guy who looked like he was around sixteen or seventeen.
Delano modeled his design on a seventeenth-century palazzo in Genoa, and the building was completed in 1909.
When I was seventeen, I worked in a London pub where all the locals would turn up on Friday nights wearing cowboy outfits, order Jack Daniels instead of their usual pint of bitter, and deposit replica six-shooters on the bar.
He was tall and lanky, with angry dark eyes, and looked about sixteen or seventeen at the most.
A life devoted to instant gratification produces permanent infantilization: ‘at sixty-four… tastes are what they were at seventeen.’
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).
It tastes of deepening autumn and makes me long for one or two haiku [seventeen-syllable Japanese poems to capture the feeling.
I was about seventeen and a half now and I had my own flat, which was ok, but it was just a place to sleep for me.
These handsome insects swarm out of holes in the ground where they have been hibernating for precisely seventeen years.
There were seventeen of them - one minister from each of the seventeen autonomous regions.
But in the beginning of their senior year, at the age of seventeen, no one expects a relationship to last forever.
There was an older couple that picked me up who had been together since she was sixteen and he was seventeen, and they were driving around in an old jalopy, holding hands. Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive: Playing For Change's "Groove In G," Plus A Conversation With Author Paul Samuel Dolman
Seventeen years later a British government chose to act on that suggestion and dispatch the fleet.
He argues that, despite the severe strain on population and economic growth caused by the slave trade, the economy continued to expand from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, and the colonial state acted as an economic depressant rather than a stimulant.
First invented in the seventeenth century, manometers are used to measure the pressure of gases.
Pin-tsun Chang, "Maritime Trade and Local Economy in Late Ming Fukien," 63 – 82; Ren-Chuan Lin, "Fukien's Private Sea Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," 163 – 216; and Chin-Keong Ng, "The South Fukienese Junk Trade at Amoy from the Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries," 297 – 316. How Taiwan Became Chinese
In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries this jurisdiction was abandoned by the Chancellor and passed to the Court of Star Chamber.
Intelligible extension, then, is just the idea of geometrical extension and its properties, or what in the seventeenth-century came to be known as the ˜primary qualities.™ Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God
There are seventeen days to go till my birthday.
The Union of the Crowns in 1603 largely brought about an end to such activities, though mosstroopers and horse thieves were still active in the borders throughout the seventeenth century.
The task of resolving the euro crisis lies in the hands not of one nation, but of seventeen fissiparous democracies. Times, Sunday Times
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.
This festival of performance is emceed by Joe Giamalva, a director, dancer and choreographer, and is host to more than seventeen studios.
In the early seventeenth century it appeared in an Italian translation that reflected certain Italian sensibilities and was republished a number of times with emendations. Seder Mitzvot Nashim.
A preposterous seventeenth century opportunist, a loose cannon, an incorrigible hypocrite. BEHINDLINGS
The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.
By the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, moral laxity in the administration of confession by the clergy was evident.
He thought back to the flush of excitement that had driven him to propose at seventeen.
Of these seventy-seven, eight resided in Kabul, seventeen in Tashkurgan, thirty-nine in Bukhara, three in Katta Kurgan, two in Karshi, three in Kolab, one in Charjui, one in Yarkand, and four in Ourganj or Khiva. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
But from about the seventeenth century until the 1930s, we were called dab hands. White Cat
When they met, Monet was seventeen and Boudin thirty-three.
Chinese wallpapers, known as India papers, began to arrive in Europe around the end of the seventeenth century and proved so popular that they were soon being produced especially for the European market.
For over three centuries, up to the final defeat of the seventeenth century, they fought as gallowglasses in the struggles of Ulster, mainly on behalf of the O'Donnells.
Despite suffering two punctures during his first competitive drive in eight years, Malcolm Wilson and seventeen year old son Matthew took the title by 54 seconds from three-time winner Steve Petch.
He looked about sixteen or seventeen, and his black hair was spiked up.
The jury returned an acquittal after only seventeen minutes.
There are seventeen days to go till my birthday.
There is a CD, Holiday Rag, which has seventeen songs by Kees, who plays the piano accompanied by his friend, Bob Helm, on clarinet and washboard.
He is as adept in the conceits of metaphysical poetry as he is in the tones and tunes of seventeenth-century verse; the strings upon which he strums are held taut by centuries.
Students in the seventeen districts gradually improved their performance on standardized tests.
A large number of teenagers visited the family to offer their sympathy with over seventeen signing a card.
At the end of the seventeenth century, King's Counsel began to wear richly laced cravats, which together with their silk gown and full-bottomed wig, remain their full dress to the present day.
Restoration of the seventeenth-century grade II building is complete following sensitive redevelopment which began early this decade.
During the seventeenth century, French Jesuit missionaries converted many of the Iroquois to Catholicism.
“Hera is the third planet of 492 Lyncis, a class G-2 subdwarf star approximately twelve hundred and seventeen light-years from Earth,” Data said. Infiltrator
The music was drawn from his two most recent recitals recorded for Decca, a compilation of early-seventeenth-century English song and Italian madrigals and familiar folk songs from the British Isles.
They had all been drinking even though the majority of them were sixteen and seventeen.
The European Commission proposes to allow seventeen Member States to either continue or start to apply reduced rates of Value Added Tax until 31 December 2010, on some labour-intensive services such as renovation of private dwellings, hairdressing, window-cleaning, domestic cares and small repairs.
In 1901 he married a second time, a science teacher called Evangeline Land, seventeen years his junior and the daughter of a prominent Detroit dentist.
A freckled boy of about seventeen was stooped over his jointer, busy bevelling a barrel-stave, and another a year or two younger was carefully paring long bands of willow for binding the staves together when the barrel was set up in its truss hoop. An Excellent Mystery
For the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher who had so impressed Einstein, God and nature were as one deus sive natura, and the practice of doing math was tantamount to a quest for the divine. SuperCooperators
He spent seventeen years as an airline pilot.
After Independence, orphaned and alone at seventeen, Jackson apprenticed in the law at Salisbury, North Carolina, and developed a reputation as a wild young man who drank, gambled, and roistered. A Country of Vast Designs
A variety of purely mechanical devices were used from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries to increase the size and capacity of the ear to conduct sound.
Girls fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen years of age, mere children, are out on the street when they should be in school.
Teams of students aged between eleven and seventeen from across Europe were challenged to design and implement their own community health research project.
Lightning rods, carpentry, and brickwork-all were spelled out, arrayed on legal-sized paper across seventeen numbered sections.
Ukrainian folk architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries shows a considerable influence of baroque ornamentation and neoclassic orders while preserving traditional materials like wood and wattled clay.
Worldly-wise though she thought herself, Grace was innocent, even ingenuous, for seventeen. GRACE
What reason was it, O rose of seventeen, adorning thyself with cloudy films of lace and sparks of jewelry before the mirror that reflects youth and beauty, that made Miss Lucinda array herself in a brand-new dress of yellow muslin-de-laine strewed with round green spots, and displace her customary hand-kerchief for a huge tamboured collar, on this eventful occasion? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries AD, the region was administered as a province of the Mogul Empire.
(_abiturient_) examination, a rather severe test, twelfth in a class of seventeen. William of Germany
The 1974 act was rushed through the houses of Parliament with a mere seventeen hours of debate.
Lorimer; she was not more than seventeen when the poet made her acquaintance, and though she had got a sort of brevet-right from an officer of the army, to use his southron name of Whelpdale, she loved best to be addressed by her maiden designation, while the poet chose to veil her in the numerous lyrics, to which she gave life, under the names of "Chloris," "The lass of Craigie-burnwood," and "The lassie wi 'the lintwhite locks. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle betweenthe Summer King and Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance. January 2009
In desperation Mahoney went to the market pl ace and bought seventeen tons of pineapples, as his own cargo. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
When Roland Graeme was a youth about seventeen years of age, he chanced one summer morning to descend to the mew in which Sir Halbert Glendinning kept his hawks, in order to superintend the training of an eyas, or young hawk, which he himself, at the imminent risk of neck and limbs, had taken from the celebrated eyry in the neighborhood, called Gledscraig. The Abbot
Suddenly, I do not see a happy-go-lucky seventeen year old looking back at me, but an unknown man with an obscure past that I know nothing about.
Early Americans enjoyed clams with the same passion as we do today, and polished clamshells served as currency (known as wampum) from the 1600's to the end of the seventeenth century.
Wright looks back to sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England to explain the social origins of Australia's distinctive pub culture.
She'd left Dansky two days after her seventeenth birthday without giving it so much as a backward glance. GALILEE
Cinchona bark had long been used by indigenous people as a remedy for fevers, and at the end of the seventeenth century, a British physician, in one of the earliest controlled studies of a drug, proved that its effect was unique to what was then known as tertian fever. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
After spending seventeen minutes in blackness, trying to fumble the lock of the cellar open, Jack Moore kicked the door open with a curse and began climbing the stairs.
After being enrolled at the university at the age of seventeen, Freud studied physiology, biology and anatomy.
Bishop John Fleming will administer the sacrament of Confirmation in Rathlee Church on Saturday next to seventeen students from Rathlee National School.
The ebony veneered case was probably made by one of the other Flemish artisans active in Rome in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
If he had been a seventeenth-century samurai I believe that he would refuse to hire ninja to circumvent the laws of Bushido. FLOATING CITY
It was bounded by two rivers from seventeen to thirty metres wide, and navigable for boats three to five kilometres.
On October 3, 1973, Edelin performed a legal abortion at the request of a pregnant seventeen year-old, completing the operation by hysterotomy or mini-Cesarean, after three attempts at saline infusion failed. When Is An Abortion Not An Abortion?
We worked it out to eight-pence ha'penny, or seventeen cents, for two men working three hours and a half. HOPS AND HOPPERS
A rare collection of cookbooks consumed her private attic rooms from floor to ceiling, an archive that grew like a fungus above and around her good pieces of furniture, such as the seventeenth-century gueridon or the Louis XV–style walnut bergère armchair. The Hundred-Foot Journey
They wrote letters and sent circulars, mailing seventeen bushels of material relating to the fair on one day alone.
Nonetheless, after a generation or two, the movement withered away leaving few traces behind it (except for the German Lutheran cities of the north); and this occurred, not because the movement was persecuted out of existence, but because its principal sponsors, the independent-minded szlachta, abandoned it for a revived, populistic Catholicism as a result of the crisis of national survival produced by the mid-seventeenth-century Swedish invasion, the "Deluge. Poland's Past
They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon.
It went onto the slopes of Pia Fortress and counted five fortalices, as attested by the maps of the seventeenth century.
Seventeen pages of notes support his hypothesis.
In both pattern books and extant artifacts, quilted feathers resemble the gadrooned edgings of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century furniture and fine metalwares.
Repeated in a new situation, the old formulations can often be misleading, as instanced by the examples of Baius and Jansenius in the seventeenth century.
We now know that the duty of the lexicographer is to record and not to criticize, that refined speech and elegant speech are the delusions of a mistaken optimism, and that the only people who now speak English with any approach to historical correctness are the few surviving agricultural laborers who are old enough to have escaped the devastating effects of the Elementary Education Act. Johnson's Dictionary went far to accomplish, in the eighteenth century, what the Italian and French Academies had unsuccessfully attempted in the seventeenth. On Dictionaries
It could be a party to celebrate your seventeenth birthday, a new year, a new you.
Already in the seventeenth century the possibility was widely discussed that animals could be understood as machines or automata.
It has a grand establishment known as the Société d'Automobiles Bauchet, which will cater for any and every want of the automobilist, and has a half-dozen sights of first rank, from the old Hôtel Dieu to the bizarre doubled-up Eglise St. Nicolas and the seventeenth-century, wood-roofed market-house. The Automobilist Abroad
There is an elm about a mile from the village seventeen feet in girth, and not long since we heard of a bass-wood or linden twenty-eight feet in circumference. Rural Hours
In his treatment of the sexual undertones of courtly love and seventeenth-century gallantry, Maidment's wicked sense of humour could reduce a tutorial to helpless laughter.
Almost all the nutmeg graters in the Green Collection were made in England or America between the late seventeenth and early twentieth centuries.
The full dress of a Proctor's man or "bulldog", as he is vulgarly called-is picturesque enough, for it is of a seventeenth-century pattern and consists in a long blue cloak studded with brass buttons.
We worked our way north; a single covered wagon and seventeen housecarls mounted upon lamas.
There are many genres where prints of the highest quality, such as seventeenth-century French portraits, early lithographs and mezzotints are ridiculously cheap.
the periodic appearance of the seventeen-year locust
Seventeen years after his election, the country accepts his main argument: for lower taxes and smaller, fewer Washington-controlled programs.
What is more, she had been a committed political activist in a way that only a seventeen-year-old can be.
Oh, and did I mention the fact that Vic Fraser was seventeen and I was sixteen?
The only fish we got were some torsk and halibut, which were chiefly brought by the natives to sell; and we caught a few sculpins about the ship, with some purplish star-fish, that had seventeen or eighteen rays. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
No wide secession to Rome, however, followed the development of this seventeenth-century school, though it played a large part in the nonjuror schism, and with the decay of that schism and under the latitudinarian tendencies of the eighteenth century it greatly dwindled. The Map of Life Conduct and Character
In south-east Leicestershire two anthropoid shells of local manufacture are to be found in an extensive seventeenth-century vault.
The humoral vision of the body lasted until the late seventeenth century in Europe.
Looking back to the seventeenth century, or forward to the late twentieth century.
The jingles on the King of France, against the Scots in the time of James I., against the Tory, or Irish rapparee, and about the Gunpowder Plot, are of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Nursery Rhyme Book
But he discovered other groups who were far from being like the Baptists of the seventeenth century, such as the millenarian Munster radicals.
The more ordinary receptacle for this purpose, up to the seventeenth century, was the armarium near, or an octagon-shaped tower placed on the Gospel side of, the altar. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
By the seventeenth century, more radical treatments, often chemical, came into fashion and the gentle, gradual, and individualized diet fell out of favour.
For Durkheim this explained the harshness of punishment in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when absolute monarchy was at its height.
The Jewish presence in Romania dates back to the fifteenth century, but it reached significant proportions only in the seventeenth century with the major waves of emigration from eastern and northeastern Europe and, as a result of the Chmielnicki massacres (1648 – 1649), from Ukraine, Galicia and Bukovina as well. Romania, Women and Jewish Education.
Seventeen of the patients had a tracheostomy for airway obstruction.
I'm amazed that seventeen years later I was able to identify most of those autographs (thanks to some foresighted diligence and the wonders of technology) and to reconstruct the trip based on the schedule within the program.
In default of legal authority, in this early period, they formed squatter governments and land associations, comparable to the action of the Massachusetts men who in the first quarter of the seventeenth century "squatted" in the The Frontier in American History
The incestuous marriage between Oedipus and Jocasta, a fruitful symbiotic union, had continued for seventeen years when the play Oedipus Rex begins.
They were first written down by Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century and gave rise to a general view of nature known as the clockwork universe. Newton's laws of motion
May there be no clouds in the clear sky of your seventeen-year-old youth.
This fabric dates back to seventeenth century India when it was sometimes called nansook, nyansook or nainsook and was thought to give ‘pleasure to the eye’.
No one would adopt a seventeen-year-old orphan.
Local conservationists had their work cut out staving off redevelopment of the seventeenth-century town centre. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
The rest received sentences of seventeen or eighteen years.
The productivity of the eastern system of agriculture declined in the seventeenth century.
Here there are obvious earth shapes that tell of a village abandoned in the seventeenth century, and we saw a lovely patch of snowdrops and aconites, the prettiest harbingers of spring.
Slaves had been playing fiddle as early as the seventeenth century.
British diplomatist Sir Harold Nicolson (like him, an eighteenth century man living a seventeenth century life in the midst of the twentieth century) sought him out on his valedictory trip to the United States in 1963.
I have dropped a lot of names in my seventeen days of blogging - movie stars, artists, political figures.
The book does feel somewhat incomplete, but it is apparently purposely designed as one of a set of four - matching a similar volume also by Fara on electricity in the eighteenth century, and also books by Stephen Pumfrey on the seventeenth century and Iwan Morus on the nineteenth. Recap of Season 2
Later, at a lavish reception for three hundred at Frogmore House in Windsor Great Park—a spectacular seventeenth-century royal residence that is also the burial place of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert—Kate and Chelsy cut loose with Harry on the dance floor. William and Kate
Seventeen animals were found surrounded by excrement and urine.
‘The ‘great’ national historian Macaulay,’ Trotsky wrote, ‘vulgarises the social drama of the seventeenth century by obscuring the inner struggle of forces with platitudes that are sometimes interesting but always superficial.’
Awareness of the hallucinogenic properties of bhang, the resin from the Indian-grown variety of cannabis, certainly existed in Europe by the early seventeenth century, thanks to the adventurousness of colonial travellers.
The text comprises extracts from interviews by Peter McConchie with seventeen elders from different parts of the country, discussing an aspect of their culture.
C A S E - N O T E S: Johnny Anderson, September 9. Seventeenth session. A MEANS TO EVIL
Most looked like twenty-year-olds and others were maybe sixteen or seventeen years old.
I hated it when I was a teenager, sulking under the restrictions of life in a small village, pining to run away to London, to wear lace leggings, kohl my eyes, and backcomb my hair like the girls in Just Seventeen. *Earworms and guilty pleasures and country roads
In England, France and Germany magic lanterns, moveable gauze screens and transparencies had been used to experiment with light on stage since the seventeenth century.
The planter is made using a complex six-part mold (compared to the typical two-to four-part mold) with seventeen post-molding cuts. Modern Planter Box
These are generally rare books, such as incunabula and the higher class English literature of the seventeenth century, and are to be found in the libraries of wealthy collectors who are also learned men. The Book-Hunter at Home
Discussing the concomitants of ‘community,’ Schuster quotes P.M. Jones' study of neighborhoods in seventeenth-century Paris.
In 1989 the town had voted down a petition to close the school and bus the seventeen Granville students to Rochester Elementary.
I paid with a twenty and got seventeen or eighteen dollars in change.
The last aurochs, the wild bovines from which domesticated cattle are descended, died in Poland in the seventeenth century, not long before the last dodos were killed on Mauritius.
In an unprecedented action, the army, on its own initiative, arrested seventeen civilians.
A preposterous seventeenth century opportunist, a loose cannon, an incorrigible hypocrite. BEHINDLINGS

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