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Example sentences for "fifteen hundred"

  • A good alligator pilot could always get fifteen hundred dollars a month.

  • That issue of the paper consisted of forty pages; seven columns to the page; two hundred and eighty columns in all; fifteen hundred words to the column; an aggregate of four hundred and twenty thousand words.

  • Returning from Modon with a number of families, he touched at the islands of Corsica and Minorca, added another vessel to his fleet, and increased the number of his settlers to fifteen hundred.

  • This done, M'Carstrow signs a bond in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, making himself responsible for the property.

  • In furtherance of this-my lady's mandate-Annette is sold to Mr. Blackmore Blackett for the nice round sum of fifteen hundred dollars.

  • Moreover, she had a few sous, left her by a woman who had reared her, a good number of sous, almost a little dowry, fifteen hundred francs in the savings bank.

  • He was now making three thousand francs a year, having started at fifteen hundred.

  • The barometers mark twelve hundred metres, then thirteen, fourteen, fifteen hundred; and the little rice papers still fall about us.

  • But if the rope were cut the trawling net would be lost, and this net was worth money, a great deal of money, fifteen hundred francs.

  • Write him it's fifteen hundred, Mr. Laicus.

  • If the church can't pay me fifteen hundred dollars a year I do not want to receive it.

  • I wish we could make it two thousand a year instead of fifteen hundred.

  • I thought may be we could get him for less than fifteen hundred dollars.

  • Fifteen hundred people of one mind, doing anything in unison--do you know what it means?

  • In Fifteen Hundred Seventeen, came Luther with his bombshells of defiance.

  • At Violet's majority the estate was to pass into her possession, charged with an income of fifteen hundred a year, to be paid to the widow for her lifetime.

  • Still, fifteen hundred a year and the Abbey House were a long way on the right side of nothing: and Captain Winstanley felt that he had fallen on his feet.

  • Fifteen hundred a year in such a house would mean genteel beggary, he told himself despondently.

  • This fine income is to be reduced seven years hence to fifteen hundred a year an income upon which--with mine added to it--you could not expect to be able to carry on life decently in such a house as this.

  • Fifteen hundred houses, many of them beautiful villas surrounded with orchards and pleasure gardens,--were soon in flames, and afterwards razed to the ground.

  • The second division, of fifteen hundred, proceeded to attack Fort Niagara by way of Oswego, but returned without success.

  • I'll heave up my commission and you pay her the fifteen hundred.

  • Well, in a way it is my business, because, if you have all the money you need, fifteen hundred a year for the next two or three years won't tempt you any.

  • Fifteen hundred a year looked like a lot of money to him.

  • Fifteen hundred a year looks like a lot to me now.

  • He made short work of the Little Turtle army of fifteen hundred.

  • The Division of Southern and Eastern Virginia, fifteen hundred men, had mustered at Lewisburg, West Virginia.

  • They reported that they had been attacked by fifteen hundred savages.

  • Santo Domingo at that time had a population of fifteen hundred persons.

  • By 1664 the population increased to fifteen hundred.

  • The treasurer, marshal, and cape merchant were each granted fifteen hundred acres, the physician and secretary five hundred acres each.

  • In 1633 the number of plants per family was reduced to fifteen hundred.

  • Taxes, too, grew annually, from about four hundred dollars a year to fifteen hundred, besides all sorts of special taxes.

  • General Potter had twelve to fifteen hundred men, the object being to carry out your views.

  • We supplied the necessary money, fifteen hundred dollars (five hundred dollars each), and Bestor carried on the store at Coloma for his share.

  • These establishments all had their origin in the religious enthusiasm attending the settlement of Canada, in which France took great pride, although Voltaire afterwards derided it as "Fifteen hundred leagues of frozen country.

  • Fifteen hundred on the counter is the danger mark, Roger, and as long as we keep it under that, I'm going to try and save this wagon!

  • She seems to have steadied around fourteen hundred ninety--and believe me, the ten points to the official danger mark of fifteen hundred is so small that we could find out where the angels live any moment now!

  • Your friend McGraw robbed me of fifteen hundred dollars on the San Pasqual-Keeler stage a few days ago.

  • Mr. Hennage had a haunting suspicion that Carey's animus did not arise from the fact that McGraw had robbed him of fifteen hundred dollars.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blind alley; college girl; dead calm; fifteen cents; fifteen cubits; fifteen days; fifteen feet; fifteen francs; fifteen hundred; fifteen leagues; fifteen miles; fifteen millions; fifteen minutes; fifteen thousand; fifteen yards; general judgment; meteoric stones; million francs; much success; personal friend; raising himself; rest till; seafaring life; seemed natural; serious illness; take office