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
Above, the old weathercock groans, but remembers Creaking, to turn, in its centuried rust.
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Lowell, Amy
Before the portico, however, grows a lusty scion, for the Tree of Guernica is of unbroken lineage, shoots being always cherished to succeed in case the centuried predecessor fail.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee
A sage and aged chap of infinite vest, who wears the broad-brimmed hat of reticent respectability, and nestles in much shirt-collar like a centuried owl.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
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