- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
country by
aliens or denizens,
saving into France,
until Michaelmas come
twelvemonth.
Certain money shall be
abated to them that will pay
their custom beforehand...
- ' 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...
- "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...
