The curious may be referred to the sixteenth and twenty-third chapters of the Book of Ezekiel.
In passing, it may be mentioned that the same controversy about the merits and demerits of the married state was still carried on in the sixteenth century among some learned Jewish writers in Italy.
The sixteenth to Hananias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
The fifteenth to Belga, the sixteenth to Emmer, 24:15.
In the first half of the sixteenth century occurred the two events which shaped the future of Geneva; Reformation theology was accepted; political independence was achieved.
Cotton is now extensively cultivated in the warmer countries of both hemi-spheres--in the southern United States since the sixteenth century.
The custom seems to have sprung up in modern Europe some time during the fifteenth or sixteenth century.
It was not until the middle of the sixteenth century that the confessional was devised, doubtless in consequence of the attacks of heretics, who found in these scandals a fertile subject of animadversion.
The splendid promise of the sixteenth century was blasted by the steady repression of all originality and progress, and Spain, from the foremost of the nations, became the last.
In the middle of the sixteenth century, branding with the letter " q" was still in force in Castile.
A corollary to this is that the unity of faith, which was the ideal of statesman and churchman alike in the sixteenth century, is fatal to the healthful spirit of competition through which progress, moral and material, is fostered.
Valencia, of all the tribunals, was the one which best maintained its activity throughout the sixteenth century, owing to the dense Morisco population.
The wise-woman is as potent as of yore in her control of the forces of nature and the passions of man, and the profession is as well filled and as well paid as in the sixteenth century.
Various ingenious theories have been framed to relieve the Inquisition of responsibility for the remarkable eclipse of Spanish intellectual progress after the sixteenth century.
About the middle of the sixteenth century I went to Rome, and took my jewels with me.
In quite early days she adopted Byzantine and Arabic architecture; then, in the sixteenth century, she took unto herself the art of the Milanese, who enriched the city with their work.
Among all those of the larger towns of northern Italy, Venetian women of the sixteenth century were the first to wear needle-point.
The greater part of the paintings by Van der Goes in Belgium were destroyed by the iconoclasts in the sixteenth century, including several of which his contemporaries and other early writers spoke in the highest terms.
In our tramps around the narrow, crooked streets of the old town, and along its picturesque quays, we found many fine examples of fifteenth and sixteenth century architecture.
In 1350 a mint was installed within the castle, where it remained until suppressed in the sixteenth century, and from the same year the Court of the Count held sessions here.
It contains one fine timbered ceiling room, with panelled walls, called the nuns' workroom, and some paintings by Kerel van Yper, an obscure local artist of the sixteenth century.
Adjoining the Halle aux Draps to the north is a fine modern post-office built from designs drawn by the great Malines architect of the sixteenth century, Rombaut Keldermans, for a new Hotel de Ville, which was never built.
The tourist who expects in Ostende to find much that is reminiscent of the Flanders of the sixteenth century, of which so much has been said in the other chapters of this book, will be disappointed.
The typeroom has still some of the old fonts of type and original matrices, while the composing and pressroom has two presses of the sixteenth century, and many quaint and curious devices then in use.
At the beginning of the sixteenth century work on the great tower was stopped, owing to lack of funds, after attaining a height of three hundred and eighteen feet.
The exquisite lace-work in stone of the north tower was completed during the sixteenth century, but was not wholly finished when the iconoclasts ravaged the interior of the edifice.
This portion of the edifice dates from the early sixteenth century, while the main body goes back to three hundred years before.
At Garennes one may see the trenches of the camp occupied by the Duc de Mayenne at the battle of the Ligeurs, at Ivry, in the last years of the sixteenth century.
It was built at great expense in the earliest years of the sixteenth century by Messire Guillaume Leroux, the seigneur of Bourgtheroulde.
The Church of St. Jacques dates from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries; and, though reconstructed in the Renaissance period, has many attractive and beautiful details.
Before it became a cathedral it was an ancient collegiate church, but this fine Gothic edifice as seen to-day dates only from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.
Blagny has the Church of Notre Dame of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries; and near by, at Séry, are the remains of a Premonstratensian abbey, founded toward 1120.
The first carriages at all approaching the modern fashion were imported from Italy in the sixteenth century, doubtless by the Medicis.
The manor-house of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries took frequent root in Normandy, and was often very splendid in its appointments and proportions.
Dense, quaintly-shaped hornbeam hedges are not unfrequent in the gardens of many old English mansions, and in some old country farmhouses the sixteenth century craze is still perpetuated on a smaller scale.
A sailor before the mast he had been since his sixteenth year, and he had appeared on the books of the privateer brig Teaser as John Vance, A.
Such was the language of the Crown of England in the sixteenth century, and in no respect is the language of Great Britain altered in the present day.
But, in his Introduction Geographique, he observes, that in the sixteenth century no person in Mexico denied this fact; nor was it till the seventeenth century that the idea originated that California was an island.
In the sixteenth century the duel was accompanied by great ceremony.
Towards the end of the sixteenth century the municipal officers were chosen from among the most determined supporters of the Catholic League; in spite of which the Hôtel de Ville made every effort to bring Henri IV.
A duel was arranged; when the combatants arrived on the ground it was raining in torrents; Sainte-Beuve had come provided with an umbrella and with flint pistols of the sixteenth century.
He was attired in a costume designed expressly for the occasion, in the style of the sixteenth century.
Athanase Coquerel the younger, that the Reformation of the sixteenth century, before breaking out in Germany and elsewhere, had already appeared in Paris.
Lastly, thesixteenth column indicates that Water has a greater affinity with Spirit of Wine than with Salts.
Then add to this mixture a sixteenth part of its weight of charcoal, made of beech, or of any other wood except oak, because that also flies.
We witness under the fifteenth and sixteenth dynasties a fresh shipwreck of Egyptian civilization.
There is evidence that this festival was kept on thesixteenth day of the month Athor, in the eleventh year of Amenhotep III.
As the letter referred to in the Eighth and Sixteenth Articles of Charge is not contained in any of the Appendixes to the Reports of the Select Committee, it has been thought necessary to annex it as an Appendix to these Charges.
They were not common on the asphalt of West Sixteenth Street.
So he was gentle and sympathetic and talked West Sixteenth Street slang, to the rhetorician's lofty amusement.
He was much nearer to heaven than West Sixteenth Street appears to be to the outsider.
And please come down to see me--the old place--West Sixteenth Street.
But there were a terrifying number of things he could think as he crouched by the window overlooking West Sixteenth Street, whose dull hue had not changed during the centuries while he had been tramping England.
But, with the more peaceful conditions at the end of the sixteenth century, the expansion of commerce, the value of money became steadier, and prices advanced more slowly.
More correctly the Mercantilists (in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) held that where money was most plentiful, there would be found the greatest abundance of the necessaries of life.
Systematic study for an understanding of the laws of political economy is to be found no farther back than the sixteenth century.
In the sixteenth century a great change in the mode of expenditure took place.
This is the more notable that the wholly incorrect view persisted into the sixteenth century, so learned a writer as Lord Bacon (d.
A stone bas-relief of this subject, a carving of the sixteenth century, still remains in the Rue du Four, in Paris.
From the twelfth to the sixteenth century, it was at its greatest height.
A hatter at Ghent in the sixteenth century added to it this distich:-- "Onder den Hoedt Schuylt quaedt & goet.
Three Compasses were a frequent sign with the French, German, and Dutch printers of the sixteenth century.
There is a painted glass window at Betley, in Staffordshire, on which the characters performing the dance in the early part of the sixteenth century are represented; to these afterwards others were added.
We find it used as early as the sixteenth century by Julyan Notary, in St Paul's Churchyard, one of the earliest London printers.
In Paris, in the sixteenth century, the pastry-cooks used at nights to place a kind of lamp in their windows, which acted as magic lanterns.
By the beginning of the sixteenth century their power had reached to, perhaps, the highest point ever attained in these islands by any subject.
Even as late as the sixteenth century, refusal of praise from a bard was held to confer a far deeper and more abiding stigma upon a man than blame from any other lips.
In Ireland the parliament, throughout nearly the whole of its separate existence, was little more than a name, irregularly summoned, and until the middle of the sixteenth century, representing only one small corner of the country.
That extraordinary good fortune, however, which has so often befallen England at awkward moments, and never more conspicuously than during the closing years of the sixteenth century, did not fail now.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sixteenth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
