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Example sentences for "fifteenth"

Lexicographically close words:
fift; fifte; fifteen; fifteene; fifteens; fifteenths; fiftene; fifth; fifths; fiftie
  1. Machado de Assis published his fifteenth volume and his fifth collection of tales.

  2. This was about the beginning of the fifteenth century.

  3. This was the Gairloch home of Hector Roy Mackenzie, the founder of the family in the latter part of the fifteenth century.

  4. Done, and passed, on Wednesday, the fifteenth day of February, in the year 1531.

  5. Even at the end of the fifteenth century it was unusual for a gentleman to be able to read and write.

  6. The majority of women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries profited little, he considers, by the great movement known as the Renaissance.

  7. Writing of the fifteenth century, Sir James Ramsay says-- “If we are led to form an unfavourable opinion of the male aristocracy of the period, far otherwise is it with regard to the ladies.

  8. By the middle of the fifteenth century, however, some improvement is noticeable.

  9. Most of the beer-houses in London were owned by women who brewed their own beer up to the end of the fifteenth century, by which time brewing was passing into the hands of men.

  10. After this it is less surprising to find, at an earlier period, one of the Paston family, whose well-known letters throw so much light on domestic life in the fifteenth century, ill treated and beaten as if she were an unruly slave.

  11. It was a fashion that was in full vogue in the middle of the fifteenth century.

  12. Lieutenant Pettis arrived in San Francisco about the fifteenth of October, and immediately commenced business by opening his recruiting office on the corner of Montgomery and Clay streets, in the same building with the Morning Call.

  13. The Crusades and the growth of the Ottoman power are amongst the principal events which influenced Europe from the twelfth to the fifteenth century.

  14. The town was frequently occupied by the English in the fifteenth century.

  15. This palace, situated opposite the Academy of Arts on the Grand Canal, also dates from the fifteenth century.

  16. This is one of the most notable examples of domestic Gothic architecture in Venice, and dates from the fifteenth century.

  17. This was not the opinion of those who remembered the wars of the fifteenth century.

  18. The aspirant after sanctity in the fifteenth century of the Christian era found a model which he could imitate in detail in the saint of the fifth.

  19. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries saw even more important work done.

  20. Some of the best hospitals ever constructed date from the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

  21. In the fifteenth century came Joan of Arc, in the sixteenth and seventeenth some of the brave women who founded great humanitarian works in connection with the early missionaries in this country.

  22. Cantor has half a dozen men in the fifteenth century to whom he devotes more than twenty-five pages each.

  23. This tradition of close affiliation between religion and medicine continued down to the fifteenth century.

  24. When Constantinople fell, about the middle of the fifteenth century, the prestige of the old capital of the Greek empire was lost, and scholars abandoned it for Italy in large numbers.

  25. Europe had but a small population altogether in the fifteenth century.

  26. From documents of the fifteenth century, still existing in the convent of Mount Sinai, there appears at that time to have been an inhabited convent at Feiran.

  27. A quarter of an hour from Bab Ullah, to the left, stands a mosque with a Kiosk, called Kubbet el Hadj, where the Pasha who conducts the Hadj passes the first night of his journey, which is invariably the fifteenth of the month Shauwal.

  28. As the rock of Moses has been described by travellers of the fifteenth century, the deception must have originated among the monks of an earlier period.

  29. Not far from this there is one of the timber-framed fifteenth century houses ornamented with curious carvings of small figures, and down in the Rue St Malo there is an even richer example of the same type of building.

  30. Internally the church shows its twelfth century origin, but all the intricate stone-work outside belongs to the fifteenth century.

  31. The tall spire of the church of St Foy is comparatively new, for the whole structure was rebuilt in the fifteenth century, but its stained glass is of exceptional interest.

  32. It was built in the early years of the fifteenth century in place of one which had fallen into ruin when Henry V.

  33. This church belongs to a later period than the cathedral as one may see by a glance at the classic work in the western tower, for most of the building is subsequent to the fifteenth century.

  34. It belongs to the thirteenth century, while the nave and most of the remaining portions date from the fifteenth or sixteenth century.

  35. The chapel to St Mary did not make its appearance for some years, and the side portails were only added in the fifteenth century.

  36. At the eastern side of the town stands St Croix, a fifteenth century church with a most spacious interior.

  37. The west front belongs entirely to the Renaissance period and the north transept is in the flamboyant style of the fifteenth century so much in evidence in Normandy and so infrequent in England.

  38. Both towers belong to the fifteenth century, but they were not built at quite the same time.

  39. On the opposite side of the Place stands the beautiful town belfry built at the end of the fifteenth century.

  40. He graduated with the highest honors on the fifteenth of May, 1764, and delivered the Latin salutatory.

  41. Venice became a modern Corinth, and was a resort for all the profligates of the continent; it was estimated that there were twelve thousand prostitutes within its gates at the beginning of the fifteenth century.

  42. The first printing in Europe was done in the early part of the fifteenth century from wooden blocks on which the words were cut.

  43. On the last occasion the Council granted the King in return a fifteenth of their movable or personal property.

  44. Before the end of the fifteenth century Europe had lost its moral and political equilibrium.

  45. Thus from the architects' plans we see the executive and financial offices, including that of advertising upon the thirteenth and the fifteenth floors of this super-cupola; and the store's own great laundry upon the high nineteenth.

  46. At Irving Place and Fourteenth and Fifteenth Streets had just been completed the new Academy of Music.

  47. On the fifteenth day of its occupation, the wives of several German staff officers arrived in motor cars.

  48. The first corps would be disembarked on the tenth day, and the second on the fifteenth day.

  49. When she has attained her fourteenth or fifteenth year, and is already marriageable, she is allowed to indulge her penchant at will, which is forbidden when younger.

  50. When the young plants have grown to a finger's length, they are taken up between the fifteenth and twenty-second of May, and planted in ground that has been previously well manured with the dung of doves or swine.

  51. April in the fifteenth year of King Charles II.

  52. Every year on the fifteenth of October Fifth Avenue opened its shutters, unrolled its carpets and hung up its triple layer of window-curtains.

  53. By the fifteenth the season was in full blast, Opera and theatres were putting forth their new attractions, dinner-engagements were accumulating, and dates for dances being fixed.

  54. The landlord of the small house in which Tchartkóff lodged, was no bad type of the class of house-owners in such quarters as the fifteenth line of the Vasílievskü Ostrov.

  55. Towards the middle of the fifteenth century the great epoch of the free towns was over, and the glory of the guilds went with them.

  56. It is hardly found before the beginning of the fifteenth century, and developed particularly in Central Europe, France, the Low Countries, and in Germany.

  57. The fifteenth century saw the formation of the great States in Europe.

  58. The Castle of the Star dates from the fifteenth century; when Louis XI.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fifteenth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.