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Sentences starting with eighteen

Eighteen hundred and twenty came;-- Running as usual; much the same. [6]
Eighteen years' growth should make a strong friendship--there was always friendship on his part at least. [11]
Eighteen years!...I feel pretty old now. [13]
Eighteen persons hanged or butchered, and two yeomen and thirteen prisoners lost in the fire. [5]
Eighteen years ago I was in London and I called at an Englishman's house on a bleak and foggy and dismal December afternoon to visit his wife and married daughter by appointment. [5]
Eighteen years old he was, only eighteen-- just a straight slip of a lad from Malahide. [11]
Eighteen months afterward he retired from the hay business, for his mining income had reached a most comfortable figure. [5]
Eighteen hundred increased by ten;-- "Hahnsum kerridge" they called it then. [6]
Eighteen years old, and as pretty as you are, to be kept locked up as if in prison! [10]

Sentences ending with eighteen

She was the youngest of five maiden sisters, and had arrived at the mature age of eighteen. [4]
And this game would have gone on still longer but that she remembered that the seventeen must not be included at all, and that he ought to begin with eighteen. [10]
And you're not the marrying kind," she added, with the superior knowledge of eighteen. [9]
But I am sure that the likeness of Mademoiselle must be a true one, for it has the stamp of a remarkable personality, though Helene can be only eighteen. [9]
This was what she facetiously called herself one July morning of that summer she was eighteen. [9]
There is certainly room for difference of opinion as to whether so precocious a woman, as her intelligent apprehension of affairs shows her to have been, should have remained unmarried till the age of eighteen. [4]
Or perhaps you'd rather get married when you are eighteen? [9]
About the little porch were carved initials and dates, at various heights, from the stature of nine to that of eighteen. [6]
Well, I can't help it--in reality I am not as old as I was when I was eighteen. [5]
The ark is arriving at the stream's exit now, whose width has been reduced to less than twenty feet to accommodate the Indians--say to eighteen. [5]

Short sentences using eighteen

The Eighteen to the front! [5]
Length, about eighteen inches. [6]
Nine months in eighteen years. [9]
They've floated it about eighteen. [4]
These eighteen require: 1. [5]

Sentences containing eighteen two or more times

It is a wine-cask as big as a cottage, and some traditions say it holds eighteen thousand bottles, and other traditions say it holds eighteen hundred million barrels. [5]
When I was there she had one hundred and eighteen thousand people, and of this number eighteen thousand were Chinese. [5]
When I was eighteen, a young medical student named Barrett lived in Columbia (Ky.) eighteen miles away; and he used to ride over to see me. [5]

More example sentences with the word eighteen in them

Moreover, of the young birds hatched from the eggs of the common geese, only four were pure, the other eighteen proving hybrids; so that the Chinese gander seems to have had prepotent charms over the common gander. [1]
When you're eighteen you can read Ivanhoe, and you want to wait until you are ninety to read some of the rest. [5]
When, a few years ago, my mother was ill in Holland, a reply to a telegram marked "urgent" was received in Leipsic in eighteen minutes. [10]
I say it with shame, that I have learned fifty times, yes, a hundred times more about New Zealand in these two hours at this table than I ever knew before in all the eighteen years put together. [5]
This is a wild time, Jane Withersteen, this year of our Lord eighteen seventy- one. [13]
I was eighteen when I married, an' he come when she went--jest a year--jest a year. [11]
At the Hermitage we were about fifteen or eighteen hundred feet above the sea, and thus far a portion of the ascent had been pretty abrupt. [5]
At this point we have an episode: Beside the shore of the brook sat a young man, about eighteen or twenty, who seemed to be reading some favorite book, and who had a remarkably noble countenance--eyes which betrayed more than a common mind. [5]
And indeed it was fine and stirring to hear the Paladin rehearse his deeds and see him pile his dead, fifteen here, eighteen there, and thirty-five yonder; but this only postponed the trouble; it could not do more. [5]
I said she was eighteen, Harris said she was twenty. [5]
When the colony was about eighteen or twenty years old it was discovered that the land was specially fitted for the wool-culture. [5]
At eighteen George was a sailor before the mast, and Henry was teacher of the advanced Bible class. [5]
In Deerslayer Cooper violated eighteen of them. [5]
She gave birth to you in Texas eighteen years ago. [13]
We were compelled to jump over upwards of eighteen hundred donkeys, and only one person in the party was unseated less than sixty times by the camels. [5]
Rostov was horrified to hear later that of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. [2]
We were beginning to feel pretty important now, for I was eighteen and the other youths were from one to four years older--young men, in fact. [5]
The eighteen miles to Burnsville had now to be added to the morning excursion, but the travelers were in high spirits, feeling the truth of the adage that it is better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all. [4]
When I went to bed, I put my mustard plaster --which was a very gorgeous one, eighteen inches square--where I could reach it when I was ready for it. [5]
The money has to be divided among the eighteen Incorruptibles. [5]
For the first time in eighteen months he was alone with his old quiet duties and recreations. [11]
More than eighteen thousand worthy citizens have come to the gallows through his 'ad patibulum. [10]
The "George" of this letter was Mark Twain's colored butler, a valued and even beloved member of the household--a most picturesque character, who "one day came to wash windows," as Clemens used to say, "and remained eighteen years. [5]
I have been thinking of that day just before you were eighteen, when you rode out here. [9]
I use to think of that when he was ten, and when he was eighteen I spoke to him about it; but he wouldn't listen--jest laughed at me. [11]
I have got the refusal after next week of a room on first floor of a fire-proof brick-rent, eighteen hundred dollars a year. [5]
To write "hyland," the pen has to make eighteen strokes. [5]
Old Martsche received the order to send Ortel, the youngest manservant in the household, a good-natured fellow eighteen years old, with a basket, to wait for her and Sister Perpetua at the weir. [10]
The lady in the miniature might have been eighteen, or thirty-five. [9]
The war against the Libyan rebels had detained him eighteen months from his home, and he had seen ten crescent moons grow full since any news had reached him of his kindred. [10]
Heinz had instructed the lad of eighteen in the use of the lance and the sword, and Hartmann had sent him word the day before that the Rhine was beautiful, but without him he but half enjoyed even the pleasantest things. [10]
Mavra Kuzminichna opened the gate and an officer of eighteen, with the round face of a Rostov, entered the yard. [2]
Alpatych, arriving from the devastated Bald Hills estate, sent for his Dron on the day of the prince's funeral and told him to have twelve horses got ready for the princess' carriages and eighteen carts for the things to be removed from Bogucharovo. [2]
They made rum the currency of the country--for there was little or no money--and they maintained their devastating hold and kept the colony under their heel for eighteen or twenty years before they were finally conquered and routed by the government. [5]
The brown face, the clear, strong brown eyes and the brown hatless head rose up eighteen inches above his own, making a gallant summit to a robust stalk. [11]
We know that the Bible-Annex was not written by Mrs. Eddy, but was handed down to her eighteen hundred years ago by the Angel of the Apocalypse; but did she translate it alone, or did she have help? [5]
He said that the average German cow yielded from one to two and half teaspoons of milk, when she was not worked in the plow or the hay-wagon more than eighteen or nineteen hours a day. [5]
The result was that, within eighteen months, every one of these parti-coloured rabbits was destroyed; and there was evidence that this was effected by the cats. [1]
It is believed that in all these eighteen years that have elapsed since the institution of the corpse-watch, no shrouded occupant of the Bavarian dead-houses has ever rung its bell. [5]
He wrote home that he was eighteen Alta letters behind and had refused everything. [5]
He rose from that burial-place more than eighteen hundred years ago. [6]
Tahoe is from ten to eighteen miles wide, and its mountains shut it in like a wall. [5]
An' though your teeth have been shut tighter 'n them of all the dead men lyin' back along that trail, jest the same you told me the secret I've lived these eighteen years to hear! [13]
The butterflies have taken the places of the queens of fashion and beauty of eighteen centuries ago, and the lizards sun themselves in the sacred seat of the Emperor. [5]
The shore, solid, substantial, a great deal more than eighteen hundred years old, is natural humanity. [6]
On a high, steep hill, toward the sea, is a gray ruin of ponderous blocks of marble, wherein, tradition says, St. Paul was imprisoned eighteen centuries ago. [5]
Besides the twenty stabled here, eighteen were put in the brewery in the Hundsgasse, and eight belong to Countess Cordula. [10]
He was now soliloquising somewhat like this: 'None of the Eighteen are bidding; that is not satisfactory; I must change that--the dramatic unities require it; they must buy the sack they tried to steal; they must pay a heavy price, too--some of them are rich. [5]
He will sleep so sound for half a day, perhaps eighteen hours, and then!--Val will have a long start. [11]
There were about sixteen or eighteen conductors on the overland, for there was a daily stage each way, and a conductor on every stage. [5]
Bear Island is situated some eighteen miles from shore, and about equidistant between Asquith and Far Harbor, which latter we had to pass on our way northward. [9]
The days got shorter and shorter, and we were sometimes eighteen hours in absolute darkness. [11]
She moves us, she haunts us, she stays in our thoughts for many days, we do not know why, for she is nothing to us, she has been nothing to anyone for eighteen centuries; whereas of the like case to-day we should say, 'Poor thing! [5]
Everybody about the place was barefooted, except the mistress, including the comely daughter of eighteen, who served our dinner in the kitchen. [4]
He left the Pipi Valley eighteen months ago, and I never saw him afterwards; still I doubt not he is somewhere on the plains, and we shall find him--we shall find him, please Heaven. [11]
They made a pile eighteen feet long, seven feet high, and eight feet wide. [5]
We were driving over the spot where, eighteen centuries ago, the Roman fleet used to ride at anchor. [4]
I afterward carried out that scheme, and got five years' good service out of him; in which time he turned out upward of eighteen thousand first-rate tow-linen shirts, which was ten a day. [5]
I started her out once, sir--Colonel Bilgewater, you recollect that animal perfectly well --I started her out about thirty or thirty-five yards ahead of the awfullest storm I ever saw in my life, and it chased us upwards of eighteen miles! [5]
They say the other day Matthew Ivanych Platov drove them into the river Marina and drowned some eighteen thousand in one day. [2]
By advertisement she offered him privileges whereby he could add eighteen lessons to his store for five hundred dollars more. [5]
In the dead of winter he and Henri de Tonty, son of Lorenzo Tonty, who invented the tontine, his lieutenant, started down the Illinois, with a following of eighteen Indians brought from New England, and twenty-three Frenchmen. [5]
The most conspicuous of these is Mount Pisgah, eighteen miles distant to the southwest, a pyramid of the Balsam range, 5757 feet high. [4]
There's the lot of them--every one, not an ounce of peace among them, except with old Casson, who weighs eighteen stone, lives like a pig, grows stuffier in mind and body every day, and drinks half a bottle of whiskey every night. [11]
Prosperous tourists, most of them, with servants and stewards carrying bags of English design and checked steamer rugs; and at last a ruddy-faced bonne with streamers and a bundle of ribbons and laces--Honora--Honora, aged eighteen months, gazing at a subjugated world. [9]
Beside the shore of the brook sat a young man, about eighteen or twenty, who seemed to be reading some favorite book, and who had a remarkably noble countenance--eyes which betrayed more than a common mind. [5]
Her awakening powers of observation had discovered him in bondage, and in bondage he had been ever since: for their acquaintance had begun on the first Sunday afternoon after Honora's arrival in St. Louis at the age of eighteen months. [9]
But a lad of eighteen is scarce a rational creature. [9]
This poor rack of bones was a woman of middle age, apparently; but only apparently; she had been there nine years, and was eighteen when she entered. [5]
The water was now eighteen inches higher than in 1874, and there was no land between Vidalia and the hills of Catahoula. [5]
But she was now eighteen and about to appear in the world. [4]
Mathias Brown, of Nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, is proven to me to be eighteen last May, and his friends say he is convicted on an enlistment and for a desertion both before that time. [7]
Mitchell, one seaman named Antonio Passene, and two passengers, Samuel and Henry Ferguson, of New York City, eighteen and twenty-eight years, are still at Hilo, but are expected here within the week. [5]
Laocoon shut his mouth, which had been stretched open for about eighteen centuries, untwisted the last coil of the snake, and stepped down, a free man. [4]
For eighteen long months the storms of war beat upon the helpless town, and left it at last the saddest wreck that ever the sun has looked upon. [5]
Yet within eighteen months he had become not only a pilot, but one of the best and most careful pilots on the river, intrusted with some of the largest and most valuable steamers. [5]
We had no money, not even the worthless scrip that Congress issued; but a beaver skin was worth eighteen shillings, a bearskin ten, and a fox or a deer or a wildcat less. [9]
Didn't he tell me Joel Mazarine married first whin he was eighteen years of age; an' his daughter was married whin she was seventeen; an' her son was married whin he was eighteen--an' Joel's a great-grandfather now. [11]
She had a marvellous intellect; she had a great heart, had a noble spirit, was absolutely pure in her character, her feeling, her language, her words, her everything--she was only eighteen years old. [5]
A second-rate ship like the Ariadne carried eighteen midshipmen; and as six lieutenants were appointed from them, only twelve remained. [11]
The two tables, King's and the Benson's, united in an expedition to the Old Sweet, a drive of eighteen miles. [4]
Near the square is the old cannon, Mad Margery, used in 1382 at the siege of Oudenarde,--a hammered-iron hooped affair, eighteen feet long. [4]
They say it is eighteen hundred feet deep at this point, but it does not look a dead enough blue for that. [5]
His career was interesting during the eighteen months wherein society papers chatted of him amiably and romantically. [11]
The bower, for instance, of the Fawn-breasted species, is nearly four feet in length, eighteen inches in height, and is raised on a thick platform of sticks. [1]
George I., an infant of eighteen, and a scraggy nest of foreign office holders, sit in the places of Themistocles, Pericles, and the illustrious scholars and generals of the Golden Age of Greece. [5]
To verify this impression I have just looked out the dates of his birth and death, and find that he was eighteen years younger than the speaker who is now addressing you. [6]
We put eighteen hundred pounds of provisions and mining tools in the wagon and drove out of Carson on a chilly December afternoon. [5]
There are a hundred and eighteen bad hotels, and only one good one. [5]
In eighteen months her figure had gained height; anxious yearning and constant contention with her mother had wasted her superabundance of flesh; her face had become oval, her bearing self-possessed. [10]
If Pocahontas gave her age correctly, as it appears upon her London portrait in 1616, aged twenty-one, she must have been eighteen years of age when she was captured in 1613 This would make her about twelve at the time of Smith's captivity in 1607-8. [4]
She does not have to work more than eighteen or twenty hours a day, and she can always get down on her knees and scrub the floors of halls and closets when she is tired and needs a rest. [5]
You know I had come over to your opinion that seventeen was perhaps better than eighteen, considering Evelyn's maturity. [4]
A large party had collected under the wide palm-thatched roof of the dyeing shed-pretty and ugly, brown and fair, tall and short; some upright and some bent by toil at the loom from early youth, but all young; not one more than eighteen years old. [10]
At eighteen he had awoke, and found, as he believed, that a young heart had grown to his so that its life was dependent on his own. [6]
Yet he only gets eighteen hundred dollars a year. [5]
He gives at full length a theatrical program seventeen or eighteen hundred years old, which he professes to have found in the ruins of the Coliseum, among the dirt and mold and rubbish. [5]
There is one friend of yours who has known you for eighteen years. [11]
Then the youth found his voice and begged Sellers to drop everything and hurry up the eye-water; and he got his eighteen dollars and tried to force it upon the Colonel--pleaded with him to take it--implored him to do it. [5]
You know that for these eighteen years her whole existence has taken its character from that influence which we need not name. [6]

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