(1) This was a princely sum in the year of our Lord, 1926.

(2) The date was the year of Our Lord 1896—a period in which gentlemen were proud to spend several thousand dollars of lousy paper money to dig up a couple of ounces of mica "in the Klondike. A blizzard.

(3) It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

(4) In the year of our lord 1247, in the City of London was founded the priory of St. Mary of Bethlehem.

(5) C. (Before Christ )and A. D. ( a Latin phrase, Anno Domini, "in the year of our Lord."

(6) We in religious studies tend to like these terms, AD rather than BC, Before Christ, and AD, because AD actually stands for Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord.

(7) And thus, on the sixth day of the month of May in the year of our Lord 1527, did the second sack of Rome begin.

(8) Suppose he had blundered over the line and written, "In the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy-six."