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Definition of Nineteens
1. nineteen [n] - See also: nineteen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nineteens
Literary usage of Nineteens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative British Dramas: Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"Forward! Go and get killed ; and to those who escape the Emperor will give a
little bit of ribbon ! Nineteens, about I Forward ! Gallop ! Charge ! ..."
2. Among the Isles of Shoals by Celia Thaxter (1892)
"it, "Brahn Wolf," and one famous song of a naval battle, of which only two lines
remain in my memory : — " With sixteen brass nineteens the Lion did growl, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1875)
"... as Mrs. Burnett had said, was the victim of such a formidable conjunction of
nineteens. She sought for self-knowledge according to the number of her ..."
4. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"Thus two young Americans of the late nineteen nineteens dissociate themselves
from a war of their own choice through desertion from ..."
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