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Sentences starting with thirteen

Thirteen acres, you see, for just one building; it's a farm. [5]
Thirteen years, for I was then sixteen. [10]
Thirteen hundred years hence--so says the unwritten law--the 'combine' will be the other way, and then how these fine people's posterity will fume and fret and grit their teeth over the insolent tyranny of trade unions! [5]
Thirteen cannon thundered from the blockhouses--one for each colony that had braved a king. [9]
Thirteen hundred and fifty dollars seems a good deal to pay for a dressing-case. [6]
Thirteen is the death-rate for the average citizen of the Province, but there seems to be no death-rate for the old people. [5]
Thirteen or fourteen busy years follow; years in which he accumulated money, and also reputation as actor and manager. [5]
Thirteen delegates are actually missing this time. [9]

Sentences ending with thirteen

In December six of their number died, in January eight, in February, seventeen, in March thirteen. [3]
Then the luxury of the life was something to startle a provincial, even tho' he came, as did I, from one of the two most luxurious colonies of the thirteen. [9]
Then she learned in what a remarkable manner Elizabeth of Valois, the King's new wife, favoured the lad of thirteen. [10]
And so it has --from every point of view except thirteen. [5]
Printers get six dollars and a half a month, but I have heard of a foreman who gets thirteen. [5]
Prepared for the consideration of the Republican members of the Senate Committee of Thirteen. [7]
Tommy is the Colonel's son, and is fifteen and the oldest in the Battalion; Fanny Marsh is Brigadier-General, and is next oldest--over thirteen. [5]
Three courses of a table d'ho^te dinner were enough for me, but Harris preferred thirteen. [5]
He was thirteen. [9]
I killed thirteen. [5]

Short sentences using thirteen

That was thirteen years ago. [5]
Thar's thirteen of us. [5]
Has nobody got thirteen cents? [6]
A dollar and thirteen cents. [6]

Sentences containing thirteen two or more times

The main house is of brick, with verandas and galleries all round, and a colonnade of thirteen huge brick and stucco columns, in honor of the thirteen States,--a relic of post-Revolutionary times, when the house was the resort of Southern fashion and romance. [4]
The curious old book called The English Rogue makes the limit thirteen pence ha'penny: death being the portion of any who steal a thing 'above the value of thirteen pence ha'penny. [5]

More example sentences with the word thirteen in them

She is thirteen years younger than Cleopatra, but her mistress holds the first place in her heart also. [10]
In the thirteen years since he married he had been able to keep a good many irons in the fire, and also keep them more or less hot. [11]
In England, thirteen years ago, my wife and I were stabbed to the heart with a cablegram which said, "Susy was mercifully released today. [5]
For thirteen years, winter and summer, this coachman had driven this monotonous, uninteresting route, with always the same sandy hills, scrubby firs, occasional cabins, in sight. [4]
Jean's coffin stands where her mother and I stood, forty years ago, and were married; and where Susy's coffin stood thirteen years ago; where her mother's stood five years and a half ago; and where mine will stand after a little time. [5]
I was a Unique; and glad to know that that fact could not be dislodged or challenged for thirteen centuries and a half, for sure. [5]
Here is a town of twelve or thirteen thousand population, with electric lighted streets, and with blocks of buildings which are stately enough, and also architecturally fine enough, to command respect in any city. [5]
In his letter to Queen Anne, written in 1616, he speaks of her as aged twelve or thirteen at the time of his captivity, several months before this visit to the fort. [4]
Yes, I seemed to have flown back out of that age into this of ours, and then forward to it again, and was set down, a stranger and forlorn in that strange England, with an abyss of thirteen centuries yawning between me and you! [5]
This is said to beat the English professional record by thirteen yards. [5]
We now made three night marches of twelve or thirteen leagues each, riding in peace and undisturbed, being taken for a roving band of Free Companions. [5]
That is, she thought she knew her Jean Jacques after living with him for over thirteen years; but hers was a very common mistake. [11]
He was only thirteen years old, but he was a true Greylock, and fear and cowardice were as unknown to him as to his ancestor, Wendelin I. [10]
I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to live in Europe; and now I have lost Jean. [5]
Eight of the thirteen mules distanced. [5]
The Moa stood thirteen feet high, and could step over an ordinary man's head or kick his hat off; and his head, too, for that matter. [5]
Well, sir, next they took it into their heads that they would like some music; so they made me stand up and sing "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" till I dropped-at thirteen minutes past four this morning. [5]
In combined length these three stones stretch nearly two hundred feet; they are thirteen feet square; two of them are sixty-four feet long each, and the third is sixty-nine. [5]
First he told them of the causes of war, of the thirteen council fires with the English, and in terms that the Indian mind might grasp, and how their old father, the French King, had joined the Big Knives in this righteous fight. [9]
She shrank from the uprolling of the curtain of the last thirteen years, from the grim exposure of the nakedness of their life together. [11]
I entered upon the small enterprise of 'learning' twelve or thirteen hundred miles of the great Mississippi River with the easy confidence of my time of life. [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]
I've been in the service thirteen years, but I never saw him like this, not even after the defeat in Algiers. [10]
Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. [7]
La Hire survived the martyrdom thirteen years; and always fighting, of course, for that was all he enjoyed in life. [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]
I would only the language method--the luxurious, elaborate construction compress, the eternal parenthesis suppress, do away with, annihilate; the introduction of more than thirteen subjects in one sentence forbid; the verb so far to the front pull that one it without a telescope discover can. [5]
At dinner in the evening, a well-written original poem was recited with spirit by one of the ship's captains, and thirteen regular toasts were washed down with several baskets of champagne. [5]
Our trip around the earth ended at the Southampton pier, where we embarked thirteen months before. [5]
Captain Martin of the Council was till then ignorant that only store for thirteen and a half weeks was in the hands of the Cape Merchant, or treasurer, who was at that time Mr. Thomas Studley. [4]
She lay on the bed with her cheek pressed to the guitar, and her eyes hungrily feeding on the face of a woman whose beauty belonged to spheres other than where she had spent the thirteen years of her married life. [11]
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]
We have seen that in spite of dreadful weather, deprivation of sleep, scorching, drenching, and all manner of miseries, thirteen days of starvation 'wonderfully recovered' him. [5]
Even authorship was taking a start; Sir Dinadan the Humorist was first in the field, with a volume of gray-headed jokes which I had been familiar with during thirteen centuries. [5]
No journey ever taken since has equalled in ecstasy that leisurely trip of thirteen miles in the narrow-gauge railroad that wound through hot fields of nodding corn tassels and between delicious, acrid-smelling woods to Claremore. [9]
In the Revolutionary struggle few of the States among the Old Thirteen had more of the battle-fields of the country within their limits than New Jersey. [7]
The New England States, New York, and the Old Thirteen were all rather quiet upon the subject; and it was seen just now that a member from one of the new States was the first man to rise up in opposition. [7]
Measured by this standard, it is thirteen hundred years since the world has produced any one who could reach up to Mrs. Eddy's waistbelt. [5]
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]
One leaves no sign after him of the one dish, but the thirteen frighten away his appetite and give him no satisfaction. [5]
Lest this confession should make me seem very aged, I will add that the visit took place in 1851, and that the man was then one hundred and thirteen years old. [4]
A darkey on shore who had observed the boat go by, about thirteen times, said, 'clar to gracious, I wouldn't be s'prised if dey's a whole line o' dem Sk'ylarks! [5]
It is true she was the very nonpareil of his kingdom, and at most not past thirteen or fourteen years of age. [4]
He sleepeth now--and shall sleep thirteen centuries. [5]
There is the Sea of Galilee and this Dead Sea--neither of them twenty miles long or thirteen wide. [5]
That is to say, three journeying ship-masters, a Boston merchant, and a returning Bermudian who had been absent from his Bermuda thirteen years; these sat on the starboard side. [5]
Yet if I refused this place I must presently become dependent upon somebody for my bread, a thing necessarily distasteful to a man who had never experienced such a humiliation since he was thirteen years old. [5]
It covers a period of a little more than thirteen months, from the arrival at Cape Henry on April 26, 1607, to the return of Captain Nelson in the Phoenix, June 2, 1608. [4]
A., almost exclusively ours, were thirteen paragraphs, without credit, taken verbatim from our books. [5]
Pierre and thirteen others were moved to the coach house of a merchant's house near the Crimean bridge. [2]
Eighteen persons hanged or butchered, and two yeomen and thirteen prisoners lost in the fire. [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]
But Rameses sat on the throne, held the sceptre with a strong hand, and thirteen young sons promised to his house the lordship over Egypt to all eternity. [10]
At the end of two months it had left all the timepieces of the town far in the rear, and was a fraction over thirteen days ahead of the almanac. [5]
In the course of thirteen years they had worn that boulder tolerably smooth, sitting on it. [5]
Did any one of the thirteen colonies entertain such a design or expectation? [7]
In the center of the inner circle, on a spacious platform six feet high, I've grouped a battery of thirteen gatling guns, and provided plenty of ammunition. [5]
Imagine the benefits of so admirable a system in a piece of river twelve or thirteen hundred miles long, whose channel was shifting every day! [5]
Within a period of six years I crossed and recrossed the Sierras between Nevada and California thirteen times by stage and listened to that deathless incident four hundred and eighty-one or eighty-two times. [5]
They touch thirteen of our States-Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa. [7]
The express plighting of faith by each and all of the original thirteen in the Articles of Confederation, two years later, that the Union shall be perpetual, is most conclusive. [7]
Total, say--well, upon my word, the grand total is about two hundred and thirteen or fourteen thousand dollars! [5]
She is too much alone, and if she has travelled by the compass all these thirteen years without losing the track, it is something to the credit of human nature. [11]
It appears by Mr. Wingfield's statement that the supply left with the colony was very scant, a store that would only last thirteen weeks and a half, and prudence in the distribution of it, in the uncertainty of Newport's return, was a necessity. [4]
I live eight miles from Printing House Square; the Times leaves that point at 4 o'clock in the morning, by mail, and reaches me at 5 in the afternoon, thus making the trip in thirteen hours. [5]
There was thirteen men there--they was the watch on deck of course. [5]
It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. [7]
He bought the literature of the dispute as fast as it appeared, and we discussed it all through thirteen hundred miles of river four times traversed in every thirty-five days--the time required by that swift boat to achieve two round trips. [5]
Now I suppose it will not be denied that these thirteen States are a little more interested in improvements on that great river than are the remaining seventeen. [7]
A single-carat echo is worth but ten dollars over and above the value of the land it is on; a two-carat or double-barreled echo is worth thirty dollars; a five-carat is worth nine hundred and fifty; a ten-carat is worth thirteen thousand. [5]
He was thirteen inches high, and rather sluggish, when he was two years old--as nearly all of us are at that age. [5]
The oldest family in Haworth failed lately, and have quitted the neighbourhood where their fathers resided before them for, it is said, thirteen generations. [14]
Within this inclosure, in early times, has been three rude temples; each two hundred and ten feet long by one hundred wide, and thirteen high. [5]
Of the nineteen important men charged with the government of the town, thirteen had to "make their mark" in attesting important documents, because they could not write their names. [5]
It is four hundred and thirteen feet high. [5]
From Napier to Hastings, twelve miles; time, fifty-five minutes--not so far short of thirteen miles an hour . [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]
Gilbert was the half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh and thirteen years his senior. [4]
Since then I've had thirteen aliases. [5]
A certain nobleman had been owing my Lord Carlisle thirteen thousand pounds for a couple of years, that his Lordship had won at hazard. [9]
The thirteen mules got away in a body, after a couple of false starts, and scampered off with prodigious spirit. [5]
It is a general declaration in the act announcing to the world the independence of the thirteen American colonies, that men are created equal. [7]
It is a general declaration in the act announcing to the world the independence of the thirteen American colonies, that all men are created equal. [7]
To bunch the figures, 17,900 persons to-day do the above-work, whereas fifty years ago it would have taken thirteen millions of persons to do it. [5]
There stood his father, strong, gigantic, as he had looked thirteen years before. [10]
The entire "inspection" did not occupy thirteen seconds. [5]
Master Dirks is dead, and there were only thirteen of us to-day. [10]
We were fifteen days making the trip--two hundred miles; thirteen, rather, for we lay by a couple of days, in one place, to let the horses rest. [5]
Two of his daughters, Mary, aged thirteen, and Elizabeth, aged nine, were sleeping in a room with the maid-servant, Hagar. [6]
My liege, as clear as the vision of an eagle does my prophetic eye penetrate and lay bare the future of this world for nearly thirteen centuries and a half! [5]
Then, by the bungling of Congress, thirteen officers were promoted over his head. [9]
A great railroad bridge connects the two towns--one of the thirteen which fret the Mississippi and the pilots, between St. Louis and St. Paul. [5]
Els did not bestow a single glance upon these familiar pictures, but gazed down at the thirteen elderly and the same number of much younger men, who in their high-backed chairs were holding council together at her left hand far below her. [10]
The quarrels revived before they reached the Canaries, and there Captain Smith was seized and put in close confinement for thirteen weeks. [4]
They will not be born for more than thirteen hundred years yet. [5]
It was an attempt to satisfy thirteen colonies, each of which clung tenaciously to its identity. [9]
First, she was at the bottom of the ladder, and absolutely obscure wages thirteen dollars a week and find her own pads. [5]
Nor is it astonishing that she should not have understood the highly complex organism of the young lady we have chosen for our heroine, who was shaken, at the age of thirteen, by unfulfilled longings. [9]
The king was as hungry to find out everything that was going to happen during the next thirteen centuries as if he were expecting to live in them. [5]
He has died and come alive again thirteen times, and traveled under a new name every time: Smith, Jones, Robinson, Jackson, Peters, Haskins, Merlin--a new alias every time he turns up. [5]

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