On the very night you speak of, Christmas eve, nineteen years ago, I was brought by a young man to a house in the distant part of the city to nurse a woman and child.
It has already been shown that in the modern Jewish calendar the intercalary month is introduced seven times in nineteen years, according to the Metonic, or lunar cycle which was adopted by the Jews about 360 A.
The Lunar cycle, or the cycle of the moon, is a period of nineteen years, after which the new and full moons fall on the same days of the year as they did nineteen years before.
After having found the paschal full moons for one lunar cycle, a period of nineteen years, then the paschal moons again occur in the same order, on the same days of the month, as they did nineteen years before.
What it means is this: that in any set of nineteen years, the new and full moons generally (not always) fall on the same days as in the preceding nineteen years.
There is no particular beginning to the cycle of nineteen years: anybody may make it begin when he pleases.
I am no astronomer, but I believe the moon's cycles is a period of nineteen years, and that whenever the new moon falls on the 1st January, the cycle begins.
In 1721, this disease, after a respite of nineteen years, again appeared as an epidemic.
Like you, at nineteen years of age, I believed that I should love for life; I deceived myself.
The tears rolled down his face; at nineteen years of age one sheds them still in the troubles of life; one has not then that strength of mind which is later acquired in the school of misfortune.
One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen years.
For she was but a girl of nineteen years:-- Yet stronger far than what most men can write: Had death delayed, what fame had equalled hers?
A bridegroom of eighteen or nineteen years is he, his kisses are not rough, the golden down being yet upon his lips!
The lad who acknowledged paternity was nineteen years old.
It's nineteen years since he left it, and he hadn't lived a good life there.
I should never have beheld the light of day, neither would you have passed some eighteen or nineteen years of your life in a penal colony.
Yes--those were the very words which you used when speaking of him to me nineteen years ago.
In spite of this large variation good crops have been obtained during the whole period of nineteen years.
The table shows that only one crop smaller than this was harvested during the whole period of nineteen years, namely, in 1903, when the same thing was done, and one crop was made to follow another without an intervening fallow period.
Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year that he made a last attempt, and only succeeded so far as to be recaptured in four hours: three years for these four hours, and a total of nineteen years.
The plate was heavy and old, the big soup-ladle was worth at least 200 francs, or double what he had earned in nineteen years, though it was true that he would have earned more had not the officials robbed him.
Have 700 apple trees, out from one to nineteen years.
I have been tortured so long with the dull, dull misery of Nothingness--all my nineteen years.
I of womankind and of nineteen years, will now begin to set down as full and frank a Portrayal as I am able of myself, Mary MacLane, for whom the world contains not a parallel.
My mother, having been with me during the whole of my nineteen years, has an utterly distorted idea of my nature and its desires, if indeed she has any idea of it.
I have lived my nineteen years buried in an environment at utter variance with my natural instincts, where my inner life is never touched, and my sympathies very rarely, if ever, appealed to.
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