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- noun Plural form of
centry .
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Examples
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Over the centries, Hebrew religious authorities have been very clear about their motivation behind the forced circumcision of Jewish babies.
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The majority of Tamils in Sri lanka have lived on the island for centuries upon centries.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Third-wave feminists claim that detailing their sexual exploits in the public sphere makes them feel empowered, they argue men have done it for centries and get the title of a "stud".
You always take your weather with you Ms Robinson 2008
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Brain-less clone's reals got out back when they were peasants, just as the wealthy, royal families and Pharrohs did centries/milenia before.
RCI ~ TAMIL CUISINE ~ ROUNDUP Lakshmik 2007
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They appointed double centries over me for some days before I was to be sent down in the French King's large boat.
Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Constance Lindsay Skinner 1908
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One feels that a few of the pages given up to Leviticus might well have been devoted to a detailed account of this escape from "double centries" and a fortified garrison, and the plunge through the tangled wilds, by
Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Constance Lindsay Skinner 1908
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Proper centries were placed round it, but no Indian attempted to approach it the whole night.
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Our garrison consisted of about five-and-forty men with small arms, including the officers, and the gentlemen who resided on shore; and our centries were as well relieved as on the best regulated frontier in Europe.
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The centries therefore were doubled at the fort, and the gentlemen slept under arms; at two in the morning, Mr Banks himself went round the point, but found every thing so quiet, that he gave up all suspicions of mischief intended by the natives as groundless.
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China: for upon all the great roads at every half league are centries stationed, and the exact notice that the Mandarines have of every thing that passes in their respective wards and districts, makes it very rare that they can lie concealed.
Hau Kiou Choaan : 1761
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