Seventeenthcentury

In the civil struggles of the seventeenthcentury, the Whigs had maintained, with courage and perseverance, a long contest with the Crown, one that prevented the emergence,in the British islands, of an absolute monarchy. ❋ MICHAEL KNOX BERAN (2007)

This remnant of the ancient aristocracy of Russia, jealousof its heritage, had for many years stood aloof, unsympathetic to the changes the country had undergone since the seventeenthcentury. ❋ MICHAEL KNOX BERAN (2007)

For example, the Japanese allowed a huge rally in Batavia renamed Jakarta to celebrate by tearing down a statue of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the seventeenthcentury governor general. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The house was a reproduction of a seventeenthcentury French castle. ❋ Mark Fisher (1996)

Nicknamed Titus after a seventeenthcentury intriguer, ❋ Wheeler, Sarah (1996)

Cookbooks had been written for and even by women in sixteenth- and seventeenthcentury England, Germany, and Holland, but France had lagged behind.49 Can this have been the result of a lower level of female literacy, or does it reflect a different set of expectations of those women who were literate? ❋ Wheaton Barbara Ketcham (1983)

In seventeenthcentury France it was largely replaced by grated, boiled staghorn corne de cerf. ❋ Wheaton Barbara Ketcham (1983)

It reminded him of Guy Fawkes Night in England, fireworks and baked potatoes and the burning effigy of a seventeenthcentury traitor. ❋ Follett, Ken, 1949- (1980)

The celebrated seventeenthcentury Jesuit Petavius composed in a very ingenious manner two chronological tables which, as brought by him into relation with the preChristian chronology have, with few alterations, been in vogue for a long time. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

As a picture of the life and manners of the seventeenthcentury, the work has great historical interest, which will, ❋ Johann Amos Comenius (1631)