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
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 Katharine Lee Bates
Above, the old weathercock groans, but remembers Creaking, to turn, in its centuried rust.
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Amy Lowell
The centuried oaks To their very roots rock; And crying, for shelter Course cattle and flock.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
To-morrow we'll deliver the matter to you—and the wheels that grind the centuried darkness to destruction will again start a-rolling.
From Mother by Maksim Gorky
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