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Example sentences for "century afterwards"

  • But Sozomen, a century afterwards, ventures to assert the treasonable practices of Licinius.

  • Near a century afterwards, Tertullian with an honest pride, could boast, that very few Christians had suffered by the hand of the executioner, except on account of their religion.

  • About a century afterwards, that is in 1453, France could boast of her wealthy merchant, as well as Florence and England.

  • Fuller, however, tells us, that when he wrote, almost half a century afterwards, the book was become scarce.

  • Bede half a century afterwards, tells us, of course very hyperbolically, that there were still surviving disciples of Theodore and Adrian, who understood the Greek and Latin languages as well as their own.

  • Probably Roscoe did not mean all that his words imply; for the origin of recitative, in which the essence of the Italian opera consists, more than a century afterwards, is matter of notoriety.

  • This was not wholly regarded; but it was not till a century afterwards, that public lectures in that science were re-established in the university, on account of the uncertainty, which the neglect of the civil law was alleged to have produced.

  • Rucellai led the way to those accumulations of horrible and disgusting circumstances which deformed the European stage for a century afterwards.

  • Some of the inhabitants of the Eastern Shore at this time were engaged in committing depredations on the estates of the planters on the other side of the bay, just as the adherents of Lord Dunmore acted a century afterwards.

  • A] The same measure had been before adopted by the Long Parliament, and was resorted to a century afterwards by Governor Dunmore.

  • Tertullian does not say that the Greek synods met twice a year, and we know that, at least half a century afterwards, they assembled only annually.

  • This decree was nearly as ample in its provisions as that which was issued in their favour by the great Constantine upwards of half a century afterwards.

  • Rome, also, was far weaker when the Athenians were in Sicily, than she was a century afterwards, in Alexander's time.

  • Then the English columns burst in among them, and a carnage ensued, the extent of which may be judged of by the exhaustion and inactivity of Norway for a quarter of a century afterwards.

  • What is still worse, it leaves the Grecian world in a state incapable of repelling any energetic foreign attack, and open to the overruling march of “the man of Macedon,” half a century afterwards.

  • We may infer that the country had been deplorably ravaged or neglected in the civil wars, which, half a century afterwards, was to be covered by the fat beeves of the graziers of Elizabeth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    century afterwards; century ago; century before; century date; century earlier; century later; century literature; century manuscript; century onwards; century were; century work; declare their; fool enough; great love; heard that; kindled against; musical instruments; other method; quarto edition; slight start; take from the fire and add; that shall; that side; took much; white bear; white water