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Example sentences for "eighteen years"

  • Germany, at eighteen years of age, began to show the symptoms of a heart abandoned to impiety, infamous debauchery, treachery, and cruelty.

  • At eighteen years of age he retired to a mountain near that city, called, The place of the Ark, where he lived for twenty-five years among many holy solitaries in the practice of all virtues, and was endowed with the gift of miracles.

  • She told me that she was expecting her god-father, who was an intimate friend of her father's, and had come every evening to spend an hour with her for the last eighteen years.

  • It's eighteen years ago," said he, "since I chose M.

  • The candidates must be not under fifteen and not above eighteen years of age; in the Marine School Company not under thirteen and not above fourteen.

  • A man must be eighteen years of age and a woman fifteen in order to contract lawful marriage, except a dispensation is granted by the King.

  • The consent of the father or mother is necessary in marriages of males under the age of twenty-one years, and of females under the age of eighteen years, unless the party under age has been previously lawfully married.

  • If both the contracting parties are over eighteen years of age parental consent to a marriage is not obligatory.

  • A male must be eighteen years or more and a female sixteen years or more in order to be lawfully married.

  • Taught by the experience of eighteen years, I affirm it to be superior to all other remedies.

  • During an eighteen years' acquaintance with Paraguay and its inhabitants, I discovered a disease amongst the Abipones Nakaiketergehes, entirely unknown elsewhere.

  • Intimacies are quickly formed at eighteen years; we proffer and give our friendship as if it were the most commonplace thing in the world.

  • At eighteen years and a half, I could have loved all four quarters of the globe.

  • To be sure, it was fifteen or eighteen years ago.

  • I don't think you can see any difference between her present appearance and that of eighteen years ago, for I don't see how she can ever have been handsomer than she is now.

  • It is eighteen years ago," said she, "since I fell asleep on the same spot that we now occupy.

  • Florida now heads the list, but with a rather inadequate penalty, the age of consent being raised from sixteen to eighteen years in 1901.

  • Clarke pursued his early studies at Atkinson Academy, of which his maternal grandfather was one of the founders, and then entered Dartmouth College, at the age of eighteen years.

  • Believing that the whole family had retired, and that they were safe from interruption, Doctor Jay and his host had returned to the tragedy of eighteen years before--the loss of the infant that had nearly cost the mother's life.

  • Her victim--the victim of eighteen years of most barbarous cruelty--lay pale and motionless before her, the mute lips uttering no reproach for her crime.

  • He came to Illinois in his boyhood and remained there till eighteen years of age, when he came to Marine, Minnesota, and engaged in lumbering.

  • At eighteen years of age, he went to Weston, New York, where he studied law with Martin Grover and W.

  • This daughter became a teacher and taught in the public schools of St. Paul for a period of eighteen years, and with her earnings purchased a home for her foster parents.

  • At eighteen years of age he bought his time of his father for three hundred and sixty dollars.

  • Ah, how Fairthorn had leapt for joy when, eighteen years ago, he had thought that Caroline Lyndsay was to be the sunshine and delight of the house to which she had lived to bring the cloud and the grief!

  • Eighteen years since we parted--seeing her not, she remains eternally the same!

  • Krapf, Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours during an Eighteen Years' Residence in Eastern Africa, p.

  • At Nuernberg, girls of seven to eighteen years of age, dressed in their best, carry through the streets a little open coffin in which is a doll, hidden under a shroud.


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