- A year is the time
taken for
astronomical objects to
complete one orbit. For example, a year on
Earth is the time
taken for
Earth to
revolve around the...
- a
breakfast whose cost
might have
regaled a
whole ship's crew for a
twelvemonth"; the
sailor was
supposedly jailed for
eating the bulb. However, tulips...
-
March 1817,
Austen wrote that she had a
novel "which may
appear about a
twelvemonth hence." John
Murray published Persuasion together with
Northanger Abbey...
-
confine my
retrospect of the
reception of the
Origin of
Species to a
twelvemonth, or thereabouts, from the time of its publication, I do not recollect...
- ' It is, indeed,
hardly within the
range of
probability that
another twelvemonth should p**** over the
House of
Habsburg without bringing upon the Austrian...
- were cast away upon an
uninhabited island in the
South Seas in May last
twelvemonth,
after they had lost
their ship they
lengthened their longboat and threw...
-
other Merchandise exported from
Easter next
until the
Feast of
Pentecost Twelvemonth following. —
repealed by
Statute Law (Ireland)
Revision Act 1872 Taxation...
- "Suffer
Little Children, and
Forbid Them Not to Come Unto Me", "Written a
Twelvemonth After the Events", "Charity", "Sonnet to a Friend" and "David" express...
- Let the
Spacemen Beware! (1963).
Expanded from the 1960
novelette "A
Twelvemonth and a Day". (Omnibus
reprints of the
Nicholas van Rijn and
Dominic Flandry...
- to
think on
serious subjects; and for the last half-year, nay, for a
twelvemonth, she has been
given up to
nothing but amu****t and vanity. She has been...
