Fortieth Sentence Examples

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  • That the "district" of the author is the north-east of Scotland cannot be doubted in the face of a passage such as this, in the fortieth legend (St Ninian), 1, 1359 et seq.

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  • Eight editions of the pamphlet appeared in 1602, and the fortieth edition before the end of the following century.

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  • Although belonging to an orthodox family, he became a pupil of the great Mu`tazalite teacher al-Jubba`i, and himself remained a Mu ` tazalite until his fortieth year.

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  • In 1876, in his fortieth year, he was encouraged by the change in taste to publish a volume of realistic stories, Country Life, and in 1878 a novel, Without a Centre.

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  • Thus it happened that, in the fortieth year of Akbar's reign, the empire had more than regained all that it had lost, the recovered provinces being reduced, not to subjection only as before, but to a great degree of peace, order and contentment.

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  • The dispute arose from the designation, in the grant to Penn, of the southern boundary of Pennsylvania mainly as the parallel marking the " beginning of the fortieth degree of Northerne Latitude," after the northern boundary of Maryland had been defined as a line " which lieth under the fortieth degree of north latitude from the equinoctial."

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  • On the fortieth day from birth another rite is prescribed, of churching the child, which is now taken into the church with its mother.

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  • Tyre revolted in the seventh year of his reign, and was besieged for thirteen years; a contract-tablet dated in his fortieth year shows that at that time it was under Babylonian officials.

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  • No bill or joint resolution may be introduced at a regular session after its fortieth day except at the request of the governor.

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  • At birth it is proportionately much larger than in the adult, and forms one eighteenth instead of one r??"` fortieth of the body weight, /``?

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  • A normal birth is considered full term if the delivery occurs during the thirty-seventh to fortieth week after conception.

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  • Buying a house, whether it's your first or your fortieth, is a time consuming process, but free home mortgage calculators can help ease the strain.

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  • Rubies are also the traditional anniversary gems for the fifteenth and fortieth anniversaries, and a ruby and diamond anniversary ring can be a lovely and meaningful gift.

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  • Whether it is for the traditional fortieth anniversary or just because the ruby is a favorite gem, a ruby anniversary band is a beautiful and elegant piece of jewelry.

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  • Traditionally, couples will choose a ruby anniversary band to celebrate their fortieth anniversary - rubies are the traditional gift for that special year.

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  • He published, besides many orations, a History of the Anti-Slavery Measures of the Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eighth United States Congresses (1865); Military Measures of the United States Congress (1868); a History of the Reconstruction Measures of the Thirty-Ninth and Fortieth Congresses (1868) and a History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America (3 vols., 1872-1875), his most important work.

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