"Decennium" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this decennium (writes Sir M. Foster) were in part continuations of his former labours, such as the paper and subsequent full memoir on Stagonolepis, which appeared in 1875 and 1877, and papers on the Skull. The facts that he called a communication to the Royal Society, ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley
... war of that day contended for the possession of Belgrade. The same army now surrounded that fortress which a few years before had stormed Constantinople reputed impregnable. The same hero defended it who had so often in the course of a single decennium defeated the Turkish foe in an offensive war, who now, regardless of danger, with a small but faithful band of followers, was prepared to do all that courage, ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various |
