How to use "nineteenth" in a sentence

He and his men stole horses and hid from the law during the last years of the nineteenth century.

The story was set in the mid-nineteenth century, when a physician's perception of the thin line between life and death was often cloudy

Furthermore, this was not the mid-nineteenth century; these days, doctors could detect even the vaguest heartbeat, the shallowest respiration, the dimmest traces of brain-wave activity.

In the last years of the nineteenth century, no one believed that this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than our own

But people are so blind that no writer, before the end of the nineteenth century, suggested that much more intelligent life had developed there than on Earth