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 centuried oaks To their very roots rock; And crying, for shelter Course cattle and flock.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
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 Katharine Lee Bates
The human mind, bared to a centuried slime, is teeming with repulsive life of countless world-delusions.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
He led me past his cottage screen Of flowers, far down the wood Where, towering o'er the landscape green, A centuried oak-tree stood.
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