- The year is a unit of time
based on the
roughly 3651/4 days
taken by the
Earth to
revolve around the Sun. The
modern calendar year, as
reckoned according...
-
thirty years a
teacher of
literature in Edinburgh. His
books include A
Twelvemonth and a Day (chosen by The List
magazine in 2005 as one of the 100 best...
- 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...
- officer.
Accounts of Zumalacárregui
include The Most
Striking Events of a
Twelvemonth Campaign with
Zumalacarregui in
Navarre and the
Basque Provinces, by...
- 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...
-
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...
- book's
title is
taken from an
English folk song of the same name: The
twelvemonth and a day
being up, The dead
began to speak: 'Oh who sits
weeping on...
- ' It is, indeed,
hardly within the
range of
probability that
another twelvemonth should p**** over the
House of
Habsburg without bringing upon the Austrian...
-
Christopher Young for
Young films. The film is an
adaptation of the
novel A
Twelvemonth and a Day by
Christopher Rush. It was
screened in the Un
Certain Regard...
