seventeenths

These clubs began as coffeehouses in the seventeenth century.

in the seventeenth century science was still married to religion.

Girls used to put their hair up on their seventeenth birthdays.

he did not proceed to university in his seventeenth year.

Her reign lapped over into the seventeenth century.

I’m not really at home with seventeenth-century literature. I specialize in the nineteenth century.

The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.

The modern poets have gone back to the fanciful poems of the metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century for many of their images.