Sentence examples for and in the nineteenth from inspiring English sources

The American habit of treating early settlement as prophetic gets snagged on this gap in the story, this founding failure-to-found, and in the nineteenth century Roanoke grew into a slow-burning obsession.

The dances of every Plains Indian tribe include imitations of the bird's mating strut, and in the nineteenth century the birds, sometimes called prairie chickens, were so numerous — as many as sixteen million — that they enabled hungry Europeans to expand across the American West.

And in the nineteenth century Britain's East India Company, in one of the most successful acts of industrial espionage ever, sent a botanist to China, where he stole both the technique for processing tea leaves (which is surprisingly complex) and a vast collection of tea plants.

Tanning in Cullompton goes back to at least the sixteenth century and in the nineteenth century there were three tanneries: Crow Green, Lower King's Mill and Court Tannery.

Skull-cups have been reported as being used by Australian aborigines [9] [10], and in the nineteenth century human skulls were used as drinking cups in Fiji [11] and other islands in Oceania [4].

And in the eighteenth century?

And in the eighth he swept back.

And in the fourth quarter, he prevailed.

He also singled in the seventh and in the eighth.

And in the second place, no.

Thirty-nine and, in the second-half, 40.