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Sentences starting with fifteen

Fifteen years ago you came to see my father, and now you have come to see me--all in the light o' the moon, as it were; like a villain in a play. [11]
Fifteen or twenty years ago I had an experience I shall never forget. [5]
Fifteen of us were of the great city families, and this day, being the first day of the school-term, we were all neatly clad in fine woollen stuffs of Florence or of Flanders make, and colored knitted hose. [10]
Fifteen applicants were under consideration for the position, and the prudential committee had so far been unable to declare that any of them were completely qualified. [9]
Fifteen miles as the crow flies is the usual limit of vision. [5]
Fifteen minutes had passed, and the old house-keeper's face still glowed--no longer from anger, but because, full of zeal, she now moulded cakes before the bright flames on the hearth, now basted the roast on the spit with its own juices. [10]
Fifteen years old,--he nearly ten years older,--but such things had happened before, and this was no time to stand on trifles. [6]
Fifteen florins, good money. [10]
Fifteen years he lived with his family under its roof. [6]
Fifteen years ago I had a deep reverence for the physician and the surgeon. [5]

Sentences ending with fifteen

If delayed until we carry the corpse to the grave there must be ten; but after it is deposited in the grave there must be fifteen. [5]
I never write 'valetudinarian' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen. [5]
I confess with shame--and I now beseech your pardon for it--that I said to the ruined stranger all of the words contained in the test-remark, including the disparaging fifteen. [5]
This makes our number fifteen. [5]
It is a mere plain, simple fact--as clear and as certain as that eight and seven make fifteen. [5]
It is a mere plain simple fact--as clear and as certain as that 8 and 7 make fifteen. [5]
Such are the joys and sorrows of fifteen! [9]
The King of England brought seven dollars, and his prime minister nine; whereas the king was easily worth twelve dollars and I as easily worth fifteen. [5]
Saladin had less, by fifteen. [5]
I questioned them, and then locked them into their rooms--the frailest ones to starve nine or ten hours, the others twelve or fifteen. [5]

Short sentences using fifteen

We have fifteen thousand. [11]
There were fifteen of us. [5]
Starts in fifteen minutes. [4]
Fifteen minutes later another bang. [5]
And fifteen years ago--here? [11]
Fifteen vote over again. [9]
She was looking about fifteen. [5]
Twelve or fifteen. [5]
Fifteen years ago! [10]
Fifteen. [6]

Sentences containing fifteen two or more times

It's ten years--ten years since I saw you, and you were only fifteen, but a fifteen that was as good as twenty. [11]
Ten men, battalions, or divisions, fighting fifteen men, battalions, or divisions, conquer--that is, kill or take captive--all the others, while themselves losing four, so that on the one side four and on the other fifteen were lost. [2]
At the end of ten seconds each man had struck twelve or fifteen blows, and warded off twelve or fifteen, and no harm done; then a sword became disabled, and a short rest followed whilst a new one was brought. [5]
Fifteen months more have been added since I uttered that sentiment; and I call upon you and all other right-minded men to say whether that fifteen months have belied or corroborated my words. [7]
It takes but fifteen minutes to get reconciled to the tattooing, and but fifteen more to perceive that it is just the thing. [5]
Smith obtained fifteen bushels of it, and on his homeward way he met two canoes with Indians, whom he accompanied to their villages on the south side of the river, and got from them fifteen bushels more. [4]

More example sentences with the word fifteen in them

Another, a mature young lady of fifteen, who waited on the table, in the leisure after supper asked the Friend for a light for her cigarette, which she had deftly rolled. [4]
Gustave Blittersdorf, who you say is enlisted in the One hundred and nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers as William Fox, is proven to me to be only fifteen years old last January. [7]
Bless me, if you had gone along there some such nights after twelve you might have seen as many as fifteen of us roosting on one limb, with our joints rattling drearily and the wind wheezing through our ribs! [5]
We'll say fifteen years, since I was riding to Haarlem with the innkeeper Aquarius, who as you know, is a learned man and has all sorts of old stuff and Latin manuscripts. [10]
It was fifteen years since Soolsby had been in this room; and then he had faced this man's father with a challenge on his tongue such as he meant to speak now. [11]
At nearly fifteen years old, when she was growing fast, and in an irritable state of mind and body, she had had a governess placed over her for whom she had conceived an aversion. [6]
She is fifteen years old, tall and womanly for her age, has dark hair and eyes, fresh complexion, regular features, pleasant smile and voice, but shy with strangers. [6]
Sheila was two years old when her father disappeared, and fifteen years had gone since then. [11]
The first fifteen years of the nineteenth century in Europe present an extraordinary movement of millions of people. [2]
And not many years after the time of which I now write Lord Carlisle was paying fifteen hundred a year on the sum he had loaned him, cheerfully denying himself the pleasures of London as a consequence. [9]
When they were within fifteen yards, I sent that bomb with a sure aim, and it struck the ground just under the horses' noses. [5]
He came up within about ten or fifteen feet of Reeder, and called out to those with him to "look out! [5]
I kept quiet, with my ears cocked, about fifteen minutes, I reckon. [5]
Some fifteen men with merry shouts were shaking down the high wattle wall of a shed, the roof of which had already been removed. [2]
He it was who had weighed in the balance the fifteen applicants and found them wanting. [9]
And what wonder, when there are twelve hundred pictures by Palma the Younger in Venice and fifteen hundred by Tintoretto? [5]
Thirty years later, when his fame was not much more extended, his pay for the same matter would have been fifteen times as great, that is to say, at the rate of thirty cents per word. [5]
He told me what it was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides. [5]
Taking stock of what he brought in, Smith found food enough to last till the next harvest, and at once organized the company into bands of ten or fifteen, and compelled them to go to work. [4]
The whole mob were suffering for exercise, and it was not fifteen minutes till they were all on foot and I had the lead again. [5]
Everywhere dead men were lying outside the second fence--not plainly visible, but still visible; and we counted fifteen of those pathetic statues--dead knights standing with their hands on the upper wire. [5]
His two sons were in Thessalonica, and a ship, just arrived from thence, brought the news-only too well substantiated, that fifteen thousand of the inhabitants of that town had been treacherously assassinated in the Circus there. [10]
Bet and Nan were fifteen years old--twins. [5]
Consequently the four were equal to the fifteen, and therefore 4x = 15y. [2]
You know we were all of us rakes at fifteen, to whom everything good in the universe was a joke. [9]
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]
Working by night, we stowed the powder in the tower--dug stones out, on the inside, and buried the powder in the walls themselves, which were fifteen feet thick at the base. [5]
We discussed everything we knew, during the first fifteen or twenty minutes, that morning, and then branched out into the glad, free, boundless realm of the things we were not certain about. [5]
Here the flat was towed alongside the gin-house where there were fifteen head standing in water; and yet, as they stood on scaffolds, their heads were above the top of the entrance. [5]
Chief among these was the Duncan house--still so called, although Mr. Duncan, who built it, had been dead these fifteen years, and his daughter and heiress, Janet, had married an Italian Marquis and lived in a Roman palace, rehabilitated by the Duncan money. [9]
At fifteen Bacon was sent to the university, and he spent three years there. [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]
The third damsel was but fifteen year of age--" Billows of thought came rolling over my soul, and the voice faded out of my hearing! [5]
In the skiff was a youth of fourteen or fifteen years, holding by the slender twigs, the boat dragging at them all the time, and threatening to tear them away and go over the fall. [6]
Three miles away was a saw-mill and some workmen, but there were not fifteen other human beings throughout the wide circumference of the lake. [5]
I had to visit Niagara fifteen times before I succeeded in getting my imaginary Falls gauged to the actuality and could begin to sanely and wholesomely wonder at them for what they were, not what I had expected them to be. [5]
Their point of view was singularly unchanged, and their impressions of New York remained the same that they had been fifteen years before: huge, noisy, ugly, kindly, it seemed to them now as it seemed then. [8]
Here was a vast balloon structure, founded on a rock, but built in the air, and anchored with cables, with towers and a high pillared veranda, capable, with its annex, of lodging fifteen hundred people. [4]
Indiana largely for us,--Governor, it is said, by fifteen thousand, and eight of the eleven members of Congress. [7]
And I raised up, garbed as I was, not for public exhibition, right in front of a mirror fifteen or sixteen feet high. [5]
If you move up the valley of the Shenandoah, not more than twelve or fifteen thousand can be sent you. [7]
They were toiling up a long, slanting ridge of snow--twelve persons, roped together some fifteen feet apart, marching in single file, and strongly marked against the clear blue sky. [5]
If you dip up a gallon of water, you will get about fifteen thousand of these. [5]
Every moment or two a straggler was added to my audience; and before I got to the head of the island I had fifteen or twenty people assembled down there under my nose. [5]
You'll pass about twenty-five in the next fifteen minutes, and you'll recognize ours when you see it--and if you don't, you can yell down and ask. [5]
Hotel and cottages together, it is said, can lodge fifteen hundred guests. [4]
From this point to the Mississippi River, fifteen miles, there is not a spot of earth above water, and to the westward for thirty-five miles there is nothing but the river's flood. [5]
The telegram seems to say, "The Sovereigns and the Royal Children expect themselves at Rome tomorrow at fifty-one minutes after fifteen o'clock. [5]
You will have to ring your bell ten or fifteen times before you get a servant there; and when he goes off to fill your order you will grow old and infirm before you see him again. [5]
They are down to one meal a day now--such as it is--and fifteen hundred miles to crawl yet! [5]
So they're going to neither eat, sleep, smoke, nor speak the truth till they've crammed home the whole fifteen Meisterschafts auswendig! [5]
It is due to Mr. Gridley's memory to mention that the expenses of his sanitary flour sack expedition of fifteen thousand miles, going and returning, were paid in large part if not entirely, out of his own pocket. [5]
I took occasion to measure one of the lemons, called a citron-lemon, and found its circumference to be twenty-one inches one way by fifteen inches the other,--about as big as a railway conductor's lantern. [4]
Now it seems to me unfair, Dowley, and a deadly peril to all of us, that because you thoughtlessly confessed, a while ago, that within a week you have paid a cent and fifteen mil--" Oh, I tell _you_ it was a smasher! [5]
Couldn't do justice to it on fifteen hundred a year, could he? [9]
I am obliged to doubt that the three-dollar Science and Health costs Mrs. Eddy above fifteen cents, or that the six dollar copy costs her above eighty cents. [5]
I listened undisturbed to a piece of music that was fifteen minutes long--always expecting some tardy ticket-holders to come crowding past my knees, and being continuously and pleasantly disappointed--but when the last note was struck, here came the stream again. [5]
Before I had time to ask them what they wanted, a whole crowd of temple-servants and policemen--there must have been at least fifteen of them--forced their way into the house. [10]
But you sell thousands of my moss-backed old books every year--the youngest of them being books that range from fifteen to twenty-seven years old, and the oldest reaching back to thirty-five and forty. [5]
It has fifteen thousand people, is a thriving and energetic place, and is paved like the rest of the west and south--where a well-paved street and a good sidewalk are things so seldom seen, that one doubts them when he does see them. [5]
She was sometimes thought to be fifteen or even sixteen; her mobile face did not retain the same expression a single instant. [10]
I've been all this time struggling and despairing over these few little Meisterschaft primers: but as sure as you live, I'll have the whole fifteen by heart before this time day after to-morrow. [5]
The men came; they arrived within about fifteen yards when I stepped up and said, 'Stand! [5]
The expedition found there no one of the colony (whether it was fifty or fifteen the writers disagree), nothing but the bones of one man where the plantation had been; the houses were unhurt, but overgrown with weeds, and the fort was defaced. [4]
He had stood there dripping barely fifteen minutes when loud shouts and yells were heard on the road from Pelusium by which he had come, and upon the flooded dike appeared a body of men rushing forward with marvellous speed. [10]
Sometimes, of course, there are fifteen or twenty to a block. [5]
A score of them number from fifteen hundred to five thousand people. [5]
Within ten days the whole fifteen were in as good condition as they had been when the shipwreck occurred. [5]
The story of the two brothers--David Claridge and Lord Eglington--in that book was brewing in my mind for quite fifteen years, and the main incidents and characters of other novels in this edition had the same slow growth. [11]
He soon overcame the trivial objections made by the philosopher and, fifteen minutes after they had left the Corner of the Muses, he was permitted to open the door of his house to his guests, and he did so with genuine pleasure. [10]
He knew that the town, even the inn, might be full of spies; but one other thing he also knew: the innkeeper of "The Golden Crown" would not betray him, unless he had greatly changed since fifteen years ago. [11]
I count out the tailor, but not the others--they are all allowed a cent a day, and in driving times they get more--yes, up to a hundred and ten and even fifteen milrays a day. [5]
We stood on the summit at last--it had taken an hour and fifteen minutes to make the trip. [5]
For fifteen centuries, the recognition of this authority and power has been altogether exceptional. [5]
It had cost the Railroad many times fifteen thousand dollars to fight Galligan's case. [9]
One aspect of the publishing business which has become increasingly prominent during the last fifteen years cannot be overlooked, for it is certain to affect seriously the production of literature as to quality, and its distribution. [4]
At this time the population of the Territory was about twelve or fifteen thousand, and rapidly increasing. [5]
He thoughtfully patted the plump abdomen which, thanks to the fleshpots of The Blue Pike, had grown so rotund in his fifteen years of service. [10]
That issue of the paper consisted of forty pages; seven columns to the page; two hundred and eighty columns in all; fifteen hundred words to the column; an aggregate of four hundred and twenty thousand words. [5]
He can buy the one for from three to six dollars, and the other for fifteen cents. [5]
A telegram carried the news to Virginia, and fifteen minutes afterward that city's population was massed in the streets devouring the tidings--for it was part of the programme that the bulletin boards should do a good work that day. [5]
As I "raised the hill" overlooking the town, it lacked fifteen minutes of twelve. [5]
Cambyses had been the first-born son of Kassandane, the wife whom Cyrus had loved and married young; three daughters followed, and at last, fifteen years later, Bartja had come into the world. [10]
It nearly killed the fifteen or twenty people who understood it. [5]
In his impatience the fifteen minutes that he waited seemed an hour. [4]
By the time the ditch has become twelve or fifteen feet wide, the calamity is as good as accomplished, for no power on earth can stop it now. [5]
In fifteen minutes the disintegration was complete. [5]
They reckoned that the convoy had fifteen hundred men. [2]
Within fifteen minutes the carriage halted again, and before another silk store. [5]
At four in the afternoon we arrived on the summit of Big Mountain, fifteen miles from Salt Lake City, when all the world was glorified with the setting sun, and the most stupendous panorama of mountain peaks yet encountered burst on our sight. [5]
The manuscript of the "Observations" was received by Professor Smyth, as he tells us in his introduction, about fifteen years ago, from the late Reverend William T. Dwight, D. D., to whom it was bequeathed by his brother, the Reverend Dr. Sereno E. Dwight. [6]
Then it appeared that there were fifteen of the latter among the liberated prisoners and, to Ephraim's special delight, Reuben, the husband of poor melancholy Milcah, who clung so closely to Miriam. [10]
He should say that the youth was at that time fifteen or sixteen years old, and the time was about ten years ago. [6]
It was estimated that the current in the cut-off was making about fifteen or twenty miles an hour; twelve or thirteen was the best our boat could do, even in tolerably slack water, therefore perhaps we were foolish to try the cut-off. [5]
The laws is that the battle must continue fifteen minutes if the men can hold out; and as the pauses do not count, this duel was protracted to twenty or thirty minutes, I judged. [5]
A week before that fifteen minutes of calm reflection would have enabled that man to contrive some last words that would have been a credit to himself and a comfort to his family for generations to come. [5]
It had been testified that she was a strong, swift boat, able to run eight miles an hour up stream in a current of four miles an hour, and fifteen miles down stream. [7]
At five or ten or fifteen years old they put their hands up to their foreheads and ask, What are they strapping down my brains in this way for? [6]
Sell it at ten or fifteen cents--duty added--and destroy the market for the original $3,50 book? [5]
There he had ten miles of country under his command and a military guard of fifteen men, with authority to call out 2,000 more upon occasion. [5]

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