centuried
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Origin of centuried
Example Sentences
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The Free Synagogue is aligning itself with that centuried tradition.
From Time Magazine Archive
The human mind, bared to a centuried slime, is teeming with repulsive life of countless world-delusions.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa
The centuried oaks To their very roots rock; And crying, for shelter Course cattle and flock.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval
Nothing, for example, could be better adapted for nesting purposes than these cedar trees; not so much the centuried veterans, as the young things of ten or twenty years' growth.
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee
He praised the progressive, resourceful and hygienic habits of the West, and the religious ideals which give a centuried halo to the East.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa
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