Hundred Years' Warin a sentence
- It was the ninety-ninth year of what was to become known as the Hundred Years' War, or the Xenorian Wars.† (source)
- Tom had been buried so long ago that his stone was just a weathered rock, and he had lived and died during the Hundred Years War with France, while Miss Euphemia (1861-1883, She Sleeps, Aye, Yet She Sleeps with Angels) had been buried in Victorian times, after the graveyard had been expanded and extended and became, for some fifty years, a successful commercial enterprise, and she had a whole tomb to herself behind a black door in the Willow Walk.† (source)
- Then they lost it in the Hundred Years' War.† (source)
- To scrub the hundred years' war off this white skin till there's nothing left and I can walk out among my neighbors wearing raw sinew and bone, like they do.† (source)
- In thirteen years I had not been able to walk into the house without him bounding to his feet, stretching, shaking, panting, banging his tail into everything, greeting me like I'd just returned from the Hundred Years' War.† (source)
- The Hundred Years' War had progressed to approximately its twenty-sixth year with no indications of anything more than periods of uneasy truce.† (source)
- "There was the Hundred Years' War, for example," said a second gentleman.† (source)
- There were sidebar buttons, so that if you didn't know what Crime and Punishment was, or the Theory of Relativity, or the Trail of Tears, or Madame Bovary, or the Hundred Years' War, or The Flight into Egypt, you could double-click and get an illustrated rundown, in two choices: R for children, PON for Profanity, Obscenity, and Nudity.† (source)
- Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.† (source)
- If it's an hundred years' war he'll have time to try both of the services.† (source)
- But we had a good long way to hike, three or four miles across the fields, which were brown, turfy and stiff, these fields where battles of the Hundred Years' War had been fought, where the bones of the killed English were bleached and sent back to be buried in churches, where wolves and crows had cleaned up.† (source)
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- The Hundred Years' War ….† (source)
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