The income from fees in the Scotch chairs in last century seems to have been subject to considerable variations from session to session.
A claim is set up in behalf of some of the other Oxford colleges that they kept the lamp of learning lit even in the darkest days of last century, but Balliol is not one of them.
It need scarce be said that the Glasgow of the middle of last century was a very different city from the Glasgow of to-day.
Factory owners and millionaires have taken the place of the noblesse of last century.
Last century it was received as an axiomatic truth.
The wars waged by the unreformed or partially reformed constituencies continue in their constitutional character the wars waged by the Monarchy or by the Whig or Tory oligarchies of last century.
Beattie, besides the one which I myself possess, printed in the earlier part of last century.
Caravat and Shanavest; the names of two hostile factions in Kilkenny and all round about there, of the early part of last century.
In the middle of last century, the people of Carlow and its neighbourhood prided themselves on being able to give, on the spur of the moment, toasts suitable to the occasion.
Colonel Lake, Inspector General of Constabulary in last century, one afternoon met one of his recruits on the North Circular Road, Dublin, showing signs of liquor, and stopped him.
In fact, the ordinary umbrella of that time no more resembled the dainty silk affair of modern use than an omnibus resembles a stage-coach of last century.
When the first "Elephant and Castle" was built on this site, the land to the westward as far as Lambeth and Kennington was quite rustic, and remained almost entirely open until the end of last century.
Putney Heath or Barnes Common, or any other of the many wildernesses that surrounded London in the midst of last century, were accounted somewhat romantic, even by the contemporaries whose pockets they occasionally lightened.
A quotation from Ives by Marsden shows it to have been applied in the middle of last century to a strong cotton cloth made at Mosul.
The Guebers were numerous here at the end of last century, but they are rapidly disappearing now.
This Kaempfer says was the case at the Court of Persia at the beginning of last century.
The west tower fell in the beginning of last century; the cloister lay to the north of the nave; the chapter-house, slype, and site of domestic buildings extended to the north of the transept.
The church demolished at the close of last century is believed to have been erected in 1412.
Some fragments of this church remained till the end of last century, the richly ornamented Norman porch, which had formed the entrance to the nave on the north side of the church, being removed about 1797.
He set himself to attract all the leading wits and men of letters in the Scottish metropolis at the time, and speedily raised his house to considerable celebrity during the third and fourth decades of last century.
Here is the condition of things that Ruskin found in the Borderland in the mid-seventies of last century, as described by him in a lecture delivered at Oxford in 1877.
But they did curious things in the name of Sport in the earlier half of last century.
Tradition says nothing as to the end of the false lover, but the ghost was still known--so say the country people--to have haunted the house until it was pulled down sometime early in last century.
Before influenza became adopted as the common English name towards the end of last century, what were the names popularly given to the malady in this country?
A headless skeleton found, before the middle of last century, near the spot where tradition says that Henry Duke of Buckingham suffered, is presumed to be that of the duke, of whose burial there is no other record.
M'Culloch, minister of Bothwell at the end of last century, was a man of sterling independence and great self-decision.
Percy was the first to establish this, towards the close of last century.
Borlase describes the engines that were employed just after the middle of last century.
There are other accounts of this Trwyn sprite which credit it to a time long anterior to last century; but all are consistent in this, that the goblin is always invisible.
In this field the Welsh traditions are innumerable, and deal not only with the last century or two, but distinctly with the middle ages.
But especially they accredit it to a previous age: in Wales, to last century, or the middle ages, or the days of King Arthur.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "last century" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
