last-mentioned

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In the last-mentioned year he was sent by the king into Burgundy to paint the portrait of the Duchess of Milan, and in 1539 to Germany to paint that of Anne of Cleves.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

Their foreign military operations had hitherto been confined to plundering expeditions into the last-mentioned countries, unless they were the Hycsos, or Shepherd Kings, who, according to tradition, once made the conquest of Egypt.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Keightley, Thomas

His researches on the last-mentioned subject led him to form a new theory of the aurora borealis.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

The last-mentioned writer expresses himself thus: Our sentimental faculties are far stronger than our cogitative; and the best impressions on the latter will be but the moonshine of the mind, if they are alone.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

By sailing packet the average duration of voyage between the last-mentioned stations had been seven hours and forty-eight minutes.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert