M's alphabet position

Usage examples of thirteenth.

Chapter 12 In which the thirteenth book is concluded The elegant Lord Shaftesbury somewhere objects to telling too much truth: by which it may be fairly inferred, that, in some cases, to lie is not only excusable, but commendable.

The rough hand-made papers so heartily despised by the copyists of the thirteenth century are now preferred by neat penmen and skilled draughtsmen.

With this view he passed the Maese on the thirteenth day of September, and advanced towards mareschal Saxe, whom he found so advantageously posted at Tongres, that he thought proper to march back to Maestricht.

Own were in column, after part of the Thirteenth had gone out in skirmishing order.

After entering the wheat field I saw the line of the Thirteenth Battalion to my left, below me, in skirmishing order, advancing towards the enemy.

I also wish to state that I saw the right wing of the Thirteenth extend and advance in skirmishing order, and that nothing could exceed the steadiness and regularity with which they advanced.

The greatest stupa is that of the thirteenth Dalai Lama, which is built several stories deep into the palace.

Question--About what proportion of the Thirteenth Regiment was wholly undrilled at the time of the affair at Lime Ridge?

The Judeo-Christian concept of imposed laws of nature, which burst into prominence in seventeenth-century scientific thought, can be traced to the latter part of the thirteenth century, when a new tradition of Christian theology arose, called the theory of voluntarist natural law.

For nearly 600 years, between the collapse of the Abbasid Empire in the thirteenth century and the waning years of the Ottoman era in the late nineteenth century, government authority was tenuous and tribal Iraq was, in effect, autonomous.

When it is said that the Abbasid Khalifate maintained itself from 750 till the Mongol storm in the middle of the thirteenth century, that only refers to external appearance.

The scouts came in to report that Belgica was boiling, so the legions were shuffled round again: the Seventh was sent to Caesar, the Thirteenth was shifted to the Bituriges under Titus Sextius, and Trebonius inherited the Fifth Alauda to replace the Seventh at Cenabum.

Trebonius marched up with the Fifth Alauda, the Fourteenth and the Thirteenth.

At which precise moment Trebonius marched up with the Fifth Alauda, the Fourteenth and the Thirteenth.

But on the fourth of the month Hideyoshi had made peace with the Mori, on the fifth he had departed, on the seventh he had arrived at Himeji, on the ninth he had turned toward Amagasaki, on the thirteenth he had struck down Mitsuhide in the battle at Yamazaki, and by the time Katsuie had reached the borders of Omi, he had already swept the capital clear of the remaining enemy troops.