Sentence examples for 19th from inspiring English sources

As of 2011-12, ELCs pay the standard $925,000 per year (not counting bonuses), but if a player is 18 or 19 (Monahan's 19th birthday was a few days ago) and plays fewer than nine games in a season, that contract gets pushed forward to the next year.

The law was first put on the statute books of more than 50 British colonies in the 19th century.

The negotiations were the 19th round of high-level talks in the 18 months since Zarif and US secretary of state John Kerry first met on the margins of the 2013 UN general assembly.

The island has no roads, cars, electricity or running water, but it does have more than 900 inhabitants, mostly descendants of freed slaves who settled the island in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In 2013 Fairfax Media entrusted a digitising business called Rogers Photo Archive in Little Rock, Arkansas, with millions of newspaper photographic prints and negatives dating back as far as the 19th century – from the Sydney Morning Herald, the Sun-Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the Age in Melbourne and 72 New Zealand newspapers.

This state of affairs is doubly extraordinary because, unlike the 1930s or late 19th century, there is a welfare state – even if it is under assault from the coalition – which thankfully underwrites collective demand.

Other options include a farmhouse with swimming pool in Poitou-Charentes (sleeps four, from £333 a month); a gite with a tower in Provence (sleeps five, from £393 a month); or a 19th-century wine lodge in the Pyrenees (sleeps two, from £428 a month).

In the mid-19th century, Majuli was about 1,200 sq km in area and was a contender for the title of world's biggest river island; now it is barely 400 sq km, about the size of the Isle of Wight, and surveys predict that it will disappear within 20 years.

Related: Nicola Sturgeon offers new deal to help Ed Miliband into No 10 In the concrete car park directly across from the ancient abbey of Paisley – resting place of the royal house of Stuart and a place where 19th-century radicals once plotted an overthrow of the government – Black's supporters are more warmly dressed in Puffa jackets and scarves.

Nearby Trouville-sur-Mer, across the Touques river, has sandy beaches and belle époque architecture, and Honfleur, a 30-minute drive east, is an attractive fishing port depicted by several impressionist painters, some of whose works are in the Eugène Boudin museum, in a former 19th-century chapel.

One of the company's leading lines, Casillero del Diablo, takes its name from the tale, although it seems unlikely that a 19th-century mining magnate and prominent politician would really have spent his evenings lurking in dank corners wearing fancy dress.