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Sentences starting with sixteen

Sixteen persons, besides reporters, had tickets for this place, and a seventeenth was issued for me. [5]
Sixteen years ago--it is a long time. [5]
Sixteen railroads meet in Minneapolis, and sixty-five passenger trains arrive and depart daily. [5]
Sixteen miles (two hours) by rail from Port Louis. [5]
Sixteen in succession, all fatal. [3]

Sentences ending with sixteen

She was now sixteen. [10]
Hardin, or some other Morgan candidate, will get Putnam, Marshall, Woodford, Tazewell, and Logan--making sixteen. [7]
There was a mortgage--I was only sixteen. [11]
And that foolish little fop, her father, had more than once declared before a company in our dining room that it was high time another title came into his family, and that he meant to take Dolly abroad when she was sixteen. [9]
It is beautiful, it is noble; for its object is, not to reap profit, but to convey a pleasure to the sixteen. [5]
Thirteen years, for I was then sixteen. [10]
Yes, and much good he'll do the King's service; he'll eat for six and run for sixteen. [5]
The seats were for sixteen. [4]
Young Irving's school education was desultory, pursued under several more or less incompetent masters, and was over at the age of sixteen. [4]
Venters began to count them--one--two--three--four--on up to sixteen. [13]

Short sentences using sixteen

Under surveillance for sixteen years! [4]
She is sixteen now. [10]
C. Sixteen years ago. [5]
Sixteen. [6]

Sentences containing sixteen two or more times

For sixteen years he had gone in and out of the harbor of Honolulu in command of a whaleship, and for sixteen more had been captain of a San Francisco and Sandwich Island passenger packet and had never had an accident or lost a vessel. [5]
I multiplied it by sixteen, brought it into town from sixteen different directions, made sixteen separate items out of it, and got up such another sweat about hay as Virginia City had never seen in the world before. [5]

More example sentences with the word sixteen in them

He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather important post in Vienna. [2]
For sixteen weary years I have yearned for a moment like this, and--" Here his feelings were too much for him, and he swooned away. [5]
For sixteen weary years I have yearned for a moment like this, and"-- Here his feelings were too much for him, and he swooned away. [5]
Let the sixteen years I have lived in obedience to thee by my future security. [5]
At sixteen the wild fellow went out into the world to seek his fortune, and had found it as a daring sailor. [10]
The trees from which the fine fruit I have spoken of, came, had been planted and replanted sixteen times, and to this treatment the proprietor of the orchard attributed his-success. [5]
My uncle's Oregon-echo, which he called the Great Pitt Echo, was a twenty-two carat gem, and cost two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars--they threw the land in, for it was four hundred miles from a settlement. [5]
The way she weakened her eyesight was this: When she was sixteen or seventeen, she wanted much to draw; and she copied niminipimini copper-plate engravings out of annuals, ('stippling,' don't the artists call it? [14]
What that life was, however, she had only the dimmest comprehension, and it was only in the last two years, since she was sixteen, that she began to understand it, and that mainly in contrast to her own guarded life. [4]
It is the very way Professor Osborn and I built the colossal skeleton brontosaur that stands fifty-seven feet long and sixteen feet high in the Natural History Museum, the awe and admiration of all the world, the stateliest skeleton that exists on the planet. [5]
And I raised up, garbed as I was, not for public exhibition, right in front of a mirror fifteen or sixteen feet high. [5]
It was not until I was sixteen that a player came and touched the keys of my soul, and it awoke, bewildered, at these first tender notes. [9]
The dwelling has two rooms--each forty-five feet long and sixteen feet wide, let us guess. [5]
When we took Troyes a calf was worth thirty francs, a sheep sixteen, a French prisoner eight. [5]
Ours have amounted to sixteen thousand dollars and some cents up to this time. [5]
He went on to his platform at eight in the morning, and left it at twelve at night, sixteen hours of continuous labor every day in the week. [4]
I should like to hear of some summer resort where the men are over sixteen and under sixty. [4]
At sixteen minutes to eight a mild excitement occurred, an incident of some significance which served to detain many waverers. [9]
And in those times brides of sixteen were common as now they are rare. [11]
With this tribunal, thus constituted, the people have been satisfied for near sixteen years. [7]
As he walked through the Vier Marchi with his officers, there flashed before his eyes the scene of sixteen years ago, when, through the grime and havoc of battle, he had run to save Guida from the scimitar of the garish Turk. [11]
He converted sixteen thousand South Sea islanders, and taught them that a dog-tooth necklace and a pair of spectacles was not enough clothing to come to divine service in. [5]
He tried to think of himself as fifty years old, with the courage to address sixteen thousand people on such a day, and quailed. [9]
She was sixteen, they tell me, when the old gentleman emerged from the pit, and they packed her off to a convent by the next steamer. [9]
Jim said that there were sixteen thousand people in that grove. [9]
In this Congress there were sixteen of the thirty-nine fathers who framed the original Constitution. [7]
The arch of the west entrance is sixteen feet high and thirty-four feet wide. [6]
Whole families of the Rostovs' and Bolkonskis' relations sometimes came to Bald Hills with sixteen horses and dozens of servants and stayed for months. [2]
In looking over the fuller list of twenty-eight districts, I find that the quotas for sixteen of them are above 2000 and below 2700, while, of the rest, six are above 2700 and six are below 2000. [7]
One such from the circle of my own friends, sixteen years old, slipped away from his nursery, and dashed in under, an assumed name among the red-legged Zouaves, in whose company he got an ornamental bullet-mark in one of the earliest conflicts of the war. [6]
The depth of the channel was twenty-two feet, the width one hundred and sixteen feet; multiply these and you have the square-feet across the water of the draw, viz. [7]
The great-grandson of the "Reformer" flourished in sixteen hundred and something, and was known in our annals as "the old Admiral," though in history he had other titles. [5]
We walked home that way, sixteen blocks, with a retinue a mile long: Every time we passed a lamp-post, death gripped one at the throat. [5]
He should say that the youth was at that time fifteen or sixteen years old, and the time was about ten years ago. [6]
I am confident that land can be made to produce for Mother at least $30 a year, and I can not, to oblige any living person, consent that she shall be put on an allowance of sixteen dollars a year. [7]
Hear her sad story: She says that when she was sixteen years old she met and loved, with all the devotion of a passionate nature, a young man from New Jersey, named Williamson Breckinridge Caruthers, who was some six years her senior. [5]
Before she could stoop to pick it up, one young lady of about fifteen or sixteen, who had been standing a little apart from the others, as though she had no recognised place among them, sprang forward and put it in her hand. [12]
As the emperor stepped into the gilded imperial wheelbarrow at the church door, the social democrat stabbed at him fifteen or sixteen times with a harpoon, but fortunately with such a peculiarly social democratic unprecision of aim as to do no damage. [5]
There are sixteen starving babies from one to six years old in the party, and their legs are no larger than broom handles. [5]
We went to St. Louis in sixteen days. [5]
She was about sixteen, and very sweet and gentle looking, but awful pale and scared. [5]
You are still sixteen years old, that's why I like you. [9]
They were written sixteen years ago, when I kept school in Boston, and lived in a corner of Roxbury called Canterbury. [6]
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]
Sonya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. [2]
Not many days since, Katharina, who was but just sixteen, would gladly have followed her example. [10]
In sixteen hours she was attacked with the symptoms of puerperal fever, and narrowly escaped with her life. [3]
Mauna Loa is said to be sixteen thousand feet high. [5]
One of them, Rosa M., is not more than sixteen years old, I think they say; but Nature has forced her into a tropical luxuriance of beauty, as if it were July with her, instead of May. [6]
It must be remembered that there were times when young ladies made their entrance into the world at sixteen, and for a beauty to be unmarried at twenty-two was rare indeed. [9]
There are sixteen public schools, with buildings which cost $500,000; there are six thousand pupils and one hundred and twenty-eight teachers. [5]
Nilus undertook to procure legal sanction and the necessary sixteen witnesses to this transaction. [10]
He received his preparatory education from Dr. Joseph Huntington, a classical scholar and the pastor of the church in Coventry, entered Yale College at the age of sixteen, and graduated with high honors in a class of sixty, in September, 1773. [4]
In sixteen hundred pounds crude cotton four hundred are lint, worth, say, ten cents a pound; and twelve hundred pounds of seed, worth $12 or $13 per ton. [5]
This mental and physical strain for sixteen consecutive hours, with scant sleep, so demoralized him that he was obliged once in two or three months to hire a substitute and go away to sleep. [4]
This day also passed, and another morning came; and now sixteen dogs, eight of them newly crippled, occupied the sidewalk, and the people were going around. [5]
This was fifteen or sixteen years ago. [5]
After about sixteen or seventeen hours, during which I played and sung a little, now and then --always the same tune, because I didn't know any other--I laid down my harp and begun to fan myself with my palm branch. [5]
The sun rose once more, and exhibited thirty-two dogs, sixteen of them with broken legs, occupying the sidewalk and half of the street; the human spectators took up the rest of the room. [5]
I lectured here, on the trip, the other night-over sixteen hundred dollars in gold in the house--every seat taken and paid for before night. [5]
One day Dorland --oh, Nett, of course I oughtn't to have stayed there, I know it now; but I was only sixteen, and what did I understand! [11]
The true number of those of the "thirty-nine" whom I have shown to have acted upon the question which, by the text, they understood better than we, is twenty-three, leaving sixteen not shown to have acted upon it in any way. [7]
Frankfort is one of the sixteen cities which have the distinction of being the place where the following incident occurred. [5]
Five or six of the early Popes--those who reigned about sixteen hundred years ago--held their papal courts and advised with their clergy in the bowels of the earth. [5]
No other part of the country originates so many excellent fish stories as the Sixteen Hundred and Ninety-two Islands, and King had heard so many of them that he suspected there must be fish in these waters. [4]
The great grandson of the "Reformer" flourished in sixteen hundred and something, and was known in our annals as, "the old Admiral," though in history he had other titles. [5]
At the age of sixteen he entered a law office, but he was a heedless student, and never acquired either a taste for the profession or much knowledge of law. [4]
For the sum of sixteen dollars I had the scarred and tarnished splendors of 'her' main saloon principally to myself, for she was not a creature to attract the eye of wiser travelers. [5]
The Grand Duke of Galilee, minister of war, complained that all the sixteen grown men in the empire had been given great offices, and consequently would not consent to serve in the ranks; wherefore his standing army was at a standstill. [5]
It was one of Galen's; in fact, it was Galen's favorite, and had been slaying people for sixteen thousand years. [5]
However, on one occasion, after having walked some sixteen miles, and sat up till nearly daylight, Eng dropped asleep, from sheer exhaustion, and then the question was asked and answered. [5]
For there are not merely the poetical Thousand Islands; by actual count there are sixteen hundred and ninety-two. [4]
Are not our muscles straining with those of these sixteen young creatures, full of hot, fresh blood, their nerves all tingling like so many tight-strained harp-strings, all their life concentrating itself in this passionate moment of supreme effort? [6]
We hear no more from them officially until 1848, sixteen years after their first attempt on the Treasury, and a full generation after the death of the man whose fields were destroyed. [5]
I commanded my mind to interest itself in the morning paper's report of the pork-market, and at the same time I reminded it of an experience of mine of sixteen years ago. [5]
Flint had a meek English youth of sixteen or seventeen with him, whom he treated roughly, both in public and in private; and of course this lad was applied to for information, but with no success. [5]
You who will may look at the plat made by William Clark, Surveyor for the Board of Commissioners, and find sixteen acres marked for Thomas McChesney in Section 169, and two hundred more in Section 3. [9]
Of these, 1,000 lived in Gippsland, a patch of territory the size of fifteen or sixteen Rhode Islands: they did not diminish as fast as some of the other communities; indeed, at the end of forty years there were still 200 of them left. [5]
While the trick lasted he won in sixteen successive duels in his university; but by that time observers had discovered what his charm was, and how to break it, therefore his championship ceased. [5]
My father, a last of sixteen, was in the Landwehr, under the noble Blucher in Silesia, when they drove the French into the Katzbach and the Neisse, swollen by the rains into torrents. [9]
This in a land which has groped in the midnight of priestly superstition for sixteen hundred years! [5]
This officer, a lad of sixteen who had recently joined the regiment, was now in the same relation to Nicholas that Nicholas had been to Denisov seven years before. [2]
It was a lad of not more than sixteen years, erect, well- poised, having an air of self-reliance, even of command. [11]
In the very jungle where I killed sixteen tigers and all those elephants, a cobra bit me but it got well; everyone was surprised. [5]
About sixteen feet is the measurement of a large elm, like that on Boston Common, which all middle-aged people remember. [6]
The bags of iron balls called grape-shot-the worst of all--varying in size from sixteen to nine balls in a bag, were prepared. [11]
True to the instinct which had kept him faithful to one idea for sixteen years, and in spite of the protests of Mattingley and Carterette--of the despairing Carterette who felt the last thread of her hopes snap with his going--Ranulph made ready to leave them. [11]
Yes, he was in the war, he was sixteen months in the Confederate army, this Homeric man. [4]
He had been in the war sixteen months, in Hugh White's regiment,--reckon you've heerd of him? [4]
I always walk in my sleep, and on this occasion I gained sixteen miles on him. [5]
Now only twelve hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the necessity of going back on his word. [2]
Instead of sixteen hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. [2]
There are sixteen hundred million people in the world. [5]
He has one hundred and sixteen school-houses, and pays out more than seventy thousand dollars a year in teachers' salaries. [5]
I put a hundred and sixteen men at work, and they rebuilt the chalet from its own debris in fifteen minutes. [5]
And she ended her speech by saying: "The steward's second daughter--she is sixteen and so beautiful that she must be exposed to every temptation--has now the whole charge of the nourishment and care of her six young brothers and sisters. [10]
However, thus far he thinks only sixteen of my wounds are fatal. [5]
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]
Next came a handsome young nobleman, who wanted to marry me when I was barely sixteen, but he was even more heavily in debt than my father, so he was sent home. [10]
At sixteen he had dreamed-and told his dream. [6]

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