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eighteenth-century

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  • The word was used to refer to eighteenth-century French, once-fired, tinglazed wares that were often decorated with hand painting.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The word was used to refer to eighteenth-century French, once-fired, tinglazed wares that were often decorated with hand painting.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The word was used to refer to eighteenth-century French, once-fired, tinglazed wares that were often decorated with hand painting.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The word was used to refer to eighteenth-century French, once-fired, tinglazed wares that were often decorated with hand painting.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • One for you, me, Jackson, and the last to be hidden for the future just as the original Adam St. Charles decreed, he said, referring to the eighteenth-century ancestor who returned from a sea voyage to find his family destroyed by debt.

    Sweet Defiance Lisa Bingham 1995

  • One for you, me, Jackson, and the last to be hidden for the future just as the original Adam St. Charles decreed, he said, referring to the eighteenth-century ancestor who returned from a sea voyage to find his family destroyed by debt.

    Sweet Defiance Lisa Bingham 1995

  • One for you, me, Jackson, and the last to be hidden for the future just as the original Adam St. Charles decreed, he said, referring to the eighteenth-century ancestor who returned from a sea voyage to find his family destroyed by debt.

    Sweet Defiance Lisa Bingham 1995

  • When John Adams explored the streets, he might have walked past men exposing their penises, the eighteenth-century transatlantic code for men seeking partners of the same sex.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • In eighteenth-century Virginia, a first conviction for hog stealing brought twenty-five lashes; the second offense was punished by two hours in the pillory, nailed by the ears.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • If he was in a typical lower-class eighteenth-century American urban tavern, he would have seen white men and black men sitting together and drumming their fingers to the music on long wooden tables.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

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