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Example sentences for "fifteen years"

  • It is generally true, as we have intimated before, that the influence of habits at ten or fifteen years of age, is distinctly traceable through the whole career of eminent men.

  • The habits of life are usually fixed by the time a lad is fifteen years of age.

  • He was more indebted for it to the studious habits which he formed from twelve to fifteen years of age, than to any thing else.

  • In fifteen years--she had discovered that his time could be remitted to that extent--there would be quite a little fortune for him.

  • Then you'll get out on ticket-of-leave in fifteen years: it ain't as if you were a lifer.

  • Fifteen years I followed him in his travels and his campaigns, was at his court, and saw him in the privacy of his family.

  • His postilions were children from ten to fifteen years of age, and he directed them.

  • Twelve or fifteen years afterwards he was recognised among the Bavarian troops, in which he was serving in order to gain his bread and to live unknown.

  • We were in the condition of a man who unfortunately must choose between passing twelve or fifteen years in his bed, in continual pain, or having his leg cut off.

  • She had lost many friends and acquaintances; in fifteen years of absence all had passed away, and she felt the trouble she might be subjected to by the ministers of the Emperor, and by those of the two Crowns, with their partisans.

  • I shall have to mention him again in fifteen years.

  • The girl was, as I had said, fifteen years old, and I was in every way charmed with her.

  • Her athanor had been alight for fifteen years.

  • William took to Normandy, and held it fifteen years.

  • This year Eleutherius succeeded to the popedom, and held it fifteen years; and in the same year Lucius, king of the Britons, sent and begged baptism of him.

  • Every spring, whole shiploads of Chinese boys, from ten to fifteen years old, come over here.

  • In other countries, it is scarcely fifty feet high, and does not bear fruit before it is twelve or fifteen years old.

  • In order, therefore, to repay this expense, they were to be slaves for ten or fifteen years.

  • In passing sentence he addressed the criminal: "Warren Waring, the law leaves it with the trial Judge to determine the sentence which shall be passed on you; it may be from five to fifteen years of hard labor in the State Penitentiary.

  • It's pain and tenderness in this nerve and then in that one, and she hasn't walked a whole mile in fifteen years because of her sciatica.

  • As a man I could not help liking what I saw, but I could also grieve for the boy who would have been so disappointed if he had come to the Basque provinces of Spain when he was from ten to fifteen years old, instead of seventy-four.

  • After a lapse of fifteen years he rediscovered this interesting world, about which so many people go incredibly blind and bored.

  • And that was the outcome of fifteen years of passive endurance of dulness throughout the best years of his life!

  • Mr. Polly had no human intercourse thereafter with Rumbold for fifteen years.

  • Fifteen years ago, and it might have seemed to you that the queer little flower of Mr. Polly's imagination must be altogether withered and dead, and with no living seed left in any part of him.

  • Miriam appeared to be asleep, and her shoulders were humped up under the clothes in a shapeless, forbidding lump that Mr. Polly had found utterly loathsome for fifteen years.

  • It is usually through neglect of supervision of this sort that the ethical value of baseball for boys of from twelve to fifteen years of age is forfeited.

  • The minimum age for military service is fixed at fifteen years, and the enlistment of mestizos is discouraged.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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