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Sentences starting with fourteen

Fourteen years and three months old. [6]
Fourteen pages later the width of the brook's outlet from the lake has suddenly shrunk thirty feet, and become "the narrowest part of the stream. [5]
Fourteen months ago the prisoner told Archibald Smith that he was going to kill Richardson. [5]
Fourteen years ago I stood in this place for the first time to address those who occupied these benches. [3]
Fourteen hundred drachmae certainly, at the first thought of it, seems a very large sum, but if the material and the trimming required are bought with judgment, after the festival we may very likely sell it back to the man with profit. [10]
Fourteen portraits in a row. [5]

Sentences ending with fourteen

He was then twelve years and a half old, but might easily have been taken for fourteen. [10]
In my time the person who then owned it turned it into a mausoleum for his daughter, aged fourteen. [5]
It was a jolly company, the fourteen. [5]
Nell is nearly fourteen. [12]
Accordingly, a little below the middle of page twelve in the message last referred to, he enters upon that task; forming an issue and introducing testimony, extending the whole to a little below the middle of page fourteen. [7]
Mr. Chauncy saw an aboriginal do it over eleven; and was assured that he had sometimes done it over fourteen. [5]
Lise was fourteen. [9]

More example sentences with the word fourteen in them

A sample: a youth staked out a claim and tried to sell half for L5; no takers; he stuck to it fourteen days, starving, then struck it rich and sold out for L10,000. [5]
For fourteen hundred years St. Mark has been her patron saint. [5]
She is fourteen years old, light-haired, blue-eyed, unassuming and pretty. [5]
But about fourteen years before his death he became closely connected with Harper's Magazine. [4]
There was fourteen yards in the piece. [5]
And yet I would rather that he should arrive in fourteen days than in eight. [10]
He built it with a tail, teeth, fourteen legs, and a snout, and said it ate grass, cattle, pebbles, and dirt with equal enthusiasm. [5]
He waltzed in with a spanner in one hand and a trumpet in the other, and sent fourteen men home on a shutter in less than three minutes. [5]
There was no wife in the general's house, as he was a widower; and his daughters, of twelve and fourteen, under a faithful old housekeeper, had no knowledge of the woman's life. [11]
In the Close, which is a little Garden of Eden, with no serpent in it that I could hear of, the deaths were only fourteen in a thousand. [6]
Off to the west from this point is the long sand line to Cape Henlopen, fourteen miles away, and the Delaware shore. [4]
You might as well tell me that if one horse weighs more than another horse he is worth more,--a cart-horse that weighs twelve or fourteen hundred pounds better than Eclipse, that may have weighed a thousand. [6]
The season Dorothy was fourteen, we had a ball at the Hall the last day of the year. [9]
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]
As for the two ships loading of corne Newport promised to provide us from Powhattan, he brought us but fourteen bushels; and from the Monacans nothing, but the most of the men sicke and neare famished. [4]
The result seems trustworthy, and shows that during the fourteen years, previous to 1858, the decrease was 19.42 per cent. [1]
Mitscherlich said it took fourteen years to establish a new fact in chemistry. [3]
I also wish to thank you for the welcome you gave me fourteen years ago, which I also forgot to thank you for at the time. [5]
That warn't enough to take us fourteen hundred mile, deck passage nor no other way. [5]
On our voyage to San Francisco we ran into a calm in the middle of the Pacific, and did not move a rod during fourteen days; this gave me a chance to copy the diaries. [5]
A wild desire to fly took possession of him at the same time, and it seemed as if he were only fourteen years old once more. [10]
The eldest among them were not more than twelve or fourteen years old. [5]
The princess--I mean the Shiek's daughter--was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and had a very sweet face and a pretty one. [5]
These fourteen in the procession are not all satisfied. [5]
He carefully held the lantern, and, as its flickering light fell for brief moments upon the artist's face, the lad of thirteen or fourteen asked if he was Hermon of Alexandria. [10]
He had asked the landlady the altitude of her place above the level of the lake, and she told him fourteen hundred and ninety-five feet. [5]
Immediately on leaving the governor's, Nicholas hired post horses and, taking his squadron quartermaster with him, drove at a gallop to the landowner, fourteen miles away, who had the stud. [2]
E. Lee's' time the distance had diminished to about one thousand and thirty miles; consequently her average was about fourteen and one-eighth miles per hour. [5]
That was in the augur's line, and furnished him no difficulties, but it would have taken Rawlinson and Champollion fourteen years to make sure of what it meant, because they would have been surprised and dizzy. [5]
You must remember that he was a poor farmer's son, and that he began to work at fourteen in Brampton, running errands for a country printer. [9]
He indicated the stud farms at which Nicholas might procure horses, recommended to him a horse dealer in the town and a landowner fourteen miles out of town who had the best horses, and promised to assist him in every way. [2]
Yours is a stubborn, bad case, and I think the first fourteen dishes in the bill are each and all too delicate for its needs. [5]
They were to stay ten or fourteen days, he said, but an effort would be made to have them stay over July 4th. [5]
It was a stately truth, a lofty truth --a Tower; and I think it was a mistake to go on and distract attention from its sublimity by building another Tower alongside of it fourteen times as high. [5]
The Rostov party spent the night at Mytishchi, fourteen miles from Moscow. [2]
Within the next six hundred yards he crossed the street fourteen times and attempted thirteen gates, and in the meantime the tropical sun was beating down and threatening to cave the top of my head in, and I was literally dripping with perspiration. [5]
It is true she was the very nonpareil of his kingdom, and at most not past thirteen or fourteen years of age. [4]
When he finished, she began the account of her discovery: "I do certainly believe I have found an account of his case in an Italian medical journal of about fourteen years ago. [6]
I understand the seven additional batteries now sought are to be 6-gun batteries, and the object is to mix them with the fourteen batteries they already have so as to make each battery consist of four 6-pounders and two 12-pounders. [7]
The distance is probably nearer fourteen, and our horses were five hours in walking it. [4]
Clark himself had picked fourteen men to go under Lieutenant Bayley through the town and take the fort from the other side. [9]
He was fourteen or fifteen feet high. [5]
Well, all at once here comes a canoe; just a beauty, too, about thirteen or fourteen foot long, riding high like a duck. [5]
The northeast side of this, with Naples in the right-hand corner, looking seaward and Castellamare in the left-hand corner, at a distance of some fourteen miles, is a vast rich plain, fringed on the shore with towns, and covered with white houses and gardens. [4]
There are fifty-two of them; none younger than fourteen, and none above seventeen years old. [5]
The fourteen columns of the nave are each six feet and three inches in diameter and thirty feet in height. [6]
At the age of fourteen I had begun secretly (alas, how many things I did secretly! [9]
These telegrams consist of fourteen and two-thirds lines from Berlin, fifteen lines from Vienna, and two and five-eights lines from Calcutta. [5]
In some households of five rooms, including the kitchen, I found as many as fourteen, fifteen, and once seventeen people living. [9]
The farmer was occupying the middle of the road with his wagon, leaving barely fourteen or fifteen yards of space on either side. [5]
The American has never thought of his own, or his friends', or anybody's weight in _stones_ of fourteen pounds. [6]
Myrtle Hazard had nearly reached the age of fourteen, and, though not like to inherit much of the family property, was fast growing into a large dower of hereditary beauty. [6]
Total, say--well, upon my word, the grand total is about two hundred and thirteen or fourteen thousand dollars! [5]
By working on my vanity, the stranger had seduced me into declaring an income of two hundred and fourteen thousand dollars. [5]
But in the moonlight, her fourteen centuries of greatness fling their glories about her, and once more is she the princeliest among the nations of the earth. [5]
This time the monster rushed upon the beautiful flowering grave, tore the body out of its coffin, hewed it into fourteen pieces, and strewed them over the shores of the lake. [10]
They get the money for a full pound and a full gallon, and we get fourteen ounces of food and seven pints of liquor, or less. [11]
Not only did Millicent learn to cook, but Cynthia, at the age of fourteen, had taught her. [9]
There were fourteen men present, including the Bishop. [5]
With fifteen thousand men I held the enemy at bay for thirty-five hours and beat him; but he would not hold out even for fourteen hours. [2]
This enormous block lies there, squared and ready for the builders' hands--a solid mass fourteen feet by seventeen, and but a few inches less than seventy feet long! [5]
The subdivision of labor, which, as we used to be told, required fourteen different workmen to make a single pin, has reached all branches of knowledge. [6]
What should I know, when I was still but fourteen and fifteen years old, of love and its dangers? [10]
M. White' ran it, was about eleven hundred and six miles; consequently her average speed was a trifle over fourteen miles per hour. [5]
They went right into the town, the fourteen of them, into the main street that led directly to the fort. [9]
He frequently called into council the seal-ring of his deceased father, an old family possession, which the chief priests of Abydos had laid upon the holiest of the fourteen graves of Osiris, and endowed with miraculous power. [10]
A Peter who, instead of fourteen, is six and twenty; a full-fledged lawyer, in the office of that most celebrated of St. Louis practitioners, Judge Stephen Brice. [9]
The other day in Britain, where they elect fourteen delegates, the editor of a weekly newspaper printed false ballots with two of my men at the top and one at the bottom, and eleven railroad men in the middle. [9]
The total number in 1858 was believed to be 53,700, and in 1872, after a second interval of fourteen years, another census was taken, and the number is given as only 36,359, shewing a decrease of 32.29 per cent! [1]
Fifty-one years ago I was fourteen years old, and we had a society in the town I lived in, patterned after the Freemasons, or the Ancient Order of United Farmers, or some such thing--just what it was patterned after doesn't matter. [5]
To prevent bloodshed I removed up stairs and took up quarters with the untitled plebeians in one of the fourteen white pine cot-bedsteads that stood in two long ranks in the one sole room of which the second story consisted. [5]
I tell you I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time I ever heard of a man's having to know anything in order to edit a newspaper. [5]
During this period he received from the United States treasury, for personal services and personal expenses, the aggregate sum of ninety-six thousand and twenty eight dollars, being an average of fourteen dollars and seventy-nine cents per day for every day of the time. [7]
When my opponent has sixteen men and I have fourteen, I am only one eighth weaker than he, but when I have exchanged thirteen more men he will be three times as strong as I am. [2]
At six-twenty we had attained a height of twelve thousand eight hundred feet, and halted for half an hour; we then continued the ascent without a break until nine-fifty-five, when we stopped for fifty minutes, at a height of fourteen thousand feet. [5]
Jimmy, fourteen, had got a place in a store, and earned two dollars a week. [4]
A very broad, gaily caparisoned divan, some twelve or fourteen feet long, extended across one side of each room, and opposite were single beds with spring mattresses. [5]
A little wee French midshipman of fourteen lay fearfully injured, but never uttered a sound till a physician of Memphis was about to dress his hurts. [5]
He was only fourteen, but already he had visions and dreamed dreams. [11]
She was scarcely fourteen, a dear little creature, with awkward limbs, and a face so wonderfully changeful in expression, that it could not fail to be by turns pretty and repellent. [10]
It is now fourteen years since I planned the story related in these volumes, the outcome of a series of lectures which I had occasion to deliver on the period of the Roman dominion in Egypt. [10]
Two hundred and fourteen thousand, cash, is my income for this year if I know how to cipher. [5]
Jerusalem numbers only fourteen thousand people. [5]
You were only fourteen then, but I've never forgotten. [11]
I was then fourteen or fifteen years old. [10]
That she had fourteen brothers and sisters who had to be fed and cared for did not seem to weigh with the farrier. [11]
My lecturing receipts for last spring and this winter were fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. [5]
About fourteen others followed in procession, with the hand-baggage; each carried an article--and only one; a bag, in some cases, in other cases less. [5]
There were but few Europeans--only fourteen but they were all kind and hospitable, and it amounted to being at home. [5]
And the same evening the prefect's steward conveyed to Pontius the information that he might count on having probably fourteen days for his work, instead of eight or nine only. [10]
He also presently discovered that all these trees were bound together, near their tops, by fourteen great ropes, one above another, which ropes were continuous, from tree to tree, as far as his vision could reach. [5]
If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither: one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other. [5]
In the 'Eclipse's' day the distance between the two ports had become reduced to one thousand and eighty miles; consequently her average speed was a shade under fourteen and three-eighths miles per hour. [5]
It was as dark as pitch, and one had to imagine the spectacle of those fourteen scant-clad men roosting gingerly on trunks and beds, for not a thing could be seen. [5]
The principal one cropped out of the top of a knoll that was fourteen feet high, and the inspired Board of Directors were running a tunnel under that knoll to strike the ledge. [5]
If Emmeline Grangerford could make poetry like that before she was fourteen, there ain't no telling what she could a done by and by. [5]
In 1909, Champ Clark, and those others who had gathered around him that afternoon, passed a measure that added fourteen years to the copyright term. [5]
And look at Charles Second, and Louis Fourteen, and Louis Fifteen, and James Second, and Edward Second, and Richard Third, and forty more; besides all them Saxon heptarchies that used to rip around so in old times and raise Cain. [5]
They are owned by the De Beers Company, a consolidation of diamond properties arranged by Mr. Rhodes twelve or fourteen years ago. [5]
Thirteen or fourteen busy years follow; years in which he accumulated money, and also reputation as actor and manager. [5]

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