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Three centuries had flowed past the old Manor House, centu - ries of births and of homecomings, of country dances and of the meetings of fox hunters.

Chennai 2010

"Well, it hasn't had to be used on a big scale for centu - ries."

Soul of the Fire Goodkind, Terry 1999

Located in the western wing of the Great Library, the resi - dence of the historian was small and, like all other rooms in the library, was filled with books of every type and binding, lining the shelves on the walls and giving the central living area a faint musty odor, like a mausoleum that had been sealed for centu - ries.

Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

Located in the western wing of the Great Library, the resi - dence of the historian was small and, like all other rooms in the library, was filled with books of every type and binding, lining the shelves on the walls and giving the central living area a faint musty odor, like a mausoleum that had been sealed for centu - ries.

Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

However, these theories have not emerged from re - laxed meditation about, or passive observation of those complicated biological signals; what little we have learned has come from deliberate and intense exploi - tation of the accumulated discoveries of three centu - ries of our scientists 'and mathematicians' study of analytical mechanics and a century of newer theories about servo-control engineering.

True Names Vinge, Vernor 1984

Beginning as a critical and rhetorical movement, Atticism later on conquered the schools and emerged as a radical linguistic reaction, an attempt to restore the pure Attic of the fifth and fourth centu - ries.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

Utopianism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centu - ries was supported not only by a belief in the inevita - bility of progress, but also by the widely held doctrine of the malleability or perfectibility of human nature which implied that men's minds and characters could be quickly molded by education to be vastly, if not totally, different from what they were.

UTOPIA ROGER L. EMERSON 1968

Adam Smith coined “mercantile system” (mercantilism) for the eco - nomic policy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centu - ries.

PERIODIZATION IN HISTORY DIETRICH GERHARD 1968

In the case of Plato the texts generally agreed to be as authentic as can be expected following centu - ries of recopying, translation, burned libraries, and careless handling, are numerous enough to allay most fears about the writings, but the questions of inter - pretation continually arise, as in, for instance, Gilbert

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN FISHER 1968

For the first time in many centu - ries, a complete treatise of atomist natural philosophy became available to western scholars.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT H. KARGON 1968