Sentence examples for centuries of which from inspiring English sources

Turning once again, and this time more generally, to the question of invasion, I would observe that there has never been a period in all these long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against invasion, still less against serious raids, could have been given to our people.

Italian textiles from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, of which chasubles were made, were dyed with a limited number of dyestuffs, consistently used for all batches of fabrics.

In the Epicurean stream lay also the utilitarianism of the 19th century, of which the greatest representative was John Stuart Mill.

The virtual sequel to the movie is the twentieth century, of which Bergman was, for more than fifty years, a crucial chronicler.

These are brave people who have often suffered for their efforts, in prison or exile, as did their predecessors in the 19th century, of which there were many.

However, Bunin's work had more in common with the traditions of classical Russian literature of the 19th century, of which his older contemporaries Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov were models.

Hedwig glass, Egyptian-made glass of the 11th or 12th century, of which only 12 known examples exist; they are among the last cut glass produced in the East.

The actor confirmed that her research had involved consuming countless lesbian novels written in the middle of the last century, of which Carol appeared to be "the only one with a happy ending".

Thompson belonged to a historical moment as "remote" from us, Conradi writes, as the Romantic period of the early 19th century, "of which his heroic age was the last flowering".

Batting in an almost entirely pressure-free situation, Warner raced to a half-century of which all but eight runs came in boundaries.

Hundt's book is less about China's impact on the United States than about the response of American political and business leaders to the challenges of the 21st century, of which the growth of China as an economic juggernaut is a significant feature.