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  • I was try­ing to see if it was from the Bible, but when I googled “blood and trea­sure” + “King James” I found this “Protest Against the Treaty of Ryswick”, which, in addi­tion to being sev­en­teenth cen­tury, is inLatin!

    Red Badge of Verbiage « Snarkmarket 2006

  • The Jets aren't new in town — they won a Super Bowl back in the 17th cen tury — but they have never been a citywide treasure.

    Now Boarding All Passengers Jason Gay 2011

  • Via Curbed LA: Designer-developer Billy Lehman and wife Dana Goodyear (a poet and New Yorker writer) are selling their mid-cen tury modern compound above Chateau Marmont ...

    Mid-Century Compound Above Chateau Marmont In Hollywood Hills 2010

  • We have a replica of it that's been in my family since Earth's eighteenth cen-tury.

    Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

  • They told him a story almost every American child of the twentieth cen-tury knew, about a Kansas farmgirl named Dorothy Gale who had been carried away by a cyclone and deposited, along with her dog, in the Land of Oz. There was no 1 -

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • Little villages straight from the seventeenth cen - tury.

    Climbing the Mountain Kirk, Douglas 1997

  • She had to wake up to the fact that she had here the journalistic scoop of the cen - tury.

    Mostly Harmless Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1992

  • Chaos and pestilence had followed the Cataclysm, and for most of that cen - tury the threats to Thorbardin from outside were fright - eningly real.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • Chaos and pestilence had followed the Cataclysm, and for most of that cen - tury the threats to Thorbardin from outside were fright - eningly real.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • Chaos and pestilence had followed the Cataclysm, and for most of that cen - tury the threats to Thorbardin from outside were fright - eningly real.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

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