Meanings
- pluralplural onlyThe decade from 1690 to 1699.
In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.
2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 632 more examples
Certainly Sibbald's account of Falkland makes no mention of Gedde's apifacture in the Royal Park, nor is there any physical sign of it in Slezer's view of the Palace and surrounding countryside drawn in the early 1690s
1994 July, DJ Bryden, “John Gedde's bee-house and the Royal Society”, in Notes and Records of the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, volume 48, number 2Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.
2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, “Finding zombies, ghosts and Elvis in the fossil record”, in The Guardian
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