Fifteen years later, he laid the first stone of the present magnificent church, which is so generally admired.
This staircase is composed of a single straight flight, of five metres (fifteen feet) in breadth, and is crowned by a porch in the style of the building.
The length of this subterranean chapel is thirty five feet, by sixteen in breadth and fifteen in height.
There are in all fifteen rooms, containing together more than six hundred beds, the half of which are of iron.
Since that time, it has been lighted by the fifteen large windows, which we now see.
This handsome steeple, in the form of a cone, rose to a height of one hundred and fifteen feet above the lantern: one could ascend to the cross, by the exterior of it, without a ladder.
I have been a detective fifteen years, and no one at the prefecture knows either my true face or the color of my hair.
Fifteen days later, to the great surprise of the Orcival gossips, who had never learned the details of these events, M.
To Romanus, the neophyte, the well-deserving, who lived eight years, fifteen days.
The dimensions of these figures were in some cases nearly the same in the Jewish and Assyrian temples, namely, fifteen feet square.
The bodies here found were on the lapillo at a height of about fifteen feet from the level of the ground.
Its peristyle is composed of forty-two columns, fifteen on each side and eight on each end.
Another important object of remark connected with this subject, is the thickness of the wall surrounding the palace of Khorsabad, which Botta states to be fifteen metres, i.
This enclosure, about fifteen feet wide, appears to have been covered with a trellis, and must have been much frequented, since there is a noble flight of steps leading down to it from the upper garden.
In this house, at a height of seventeen Neapolitan palms (nearly fifteen feet) from the level of the ground, were discovered four skeletons together in an almost vertical position.
The catalogue of the tapestries and embroidered hangings include fifteen suites at Kenilworth only; and three other houses are equally well provided.
The size of the garment was Homeric--it was fifteen cubits, or twenty-two feet in breadth.
Poland preserved her distinct national organisation, in any full degree, only for fifteen years; even in the faintest degree, it was preserved for less than fifty years.
Within fifteen years of the fall of Napoleon, the French flag was flying in Algiers.
And all this was the work, in the main, of some fifteen years.
Fifteen years later Mr. Romanes published his theory of physiological selection, which covered much the same ground.
The largest inhabited building is the mairie, a modern structure, at one end of which is the village school, where fifteen or twenty urchins enjoy the instructions of the worthy teacher.
In the first edition of the Théorie he says fifteen years, writing in 1812.
For thirst and febrile symptoms, give drinks of barley-water, or cold water, and every three hours put ten to fifteen drops of spirits of sweet nitre in a dessert-spoonful of either beverage.
They pluck the leaves, one selecting them according to the kinds of tea required; and, notwithstanding the tediousness of the operation, each labourer is able to gather from four to ten or fifteen pounds a day.
Here they often grow to an enormous size, sometimes weighing as much as fifteen or sixteen pounds.
When the breathing is very laboured and difficult in consequence, from fifteen to twenty leeches are to be immediately applied to the outside of the throat, and when they drop off, warm poppy fomentations constantly kept to the part.
Nine eggs may be placed under a Bantam hen, and as many as fifteen under a Dorking.
About fifteen years ago, the arrival of this distinguished Asiatic created in England as great a sensation as might be expected from the landing of an invading host.
A marked peculiarity of this breed is that its hind quarters stand higher than the fore, the quarters weighing from fifteen to eighteen pounds.
These visits should be short, a stay of from fifteen to twenty minutes being quite sufficient.
The wood grouse is further distinguished as the cock of the wood, or capercalzie, and is as large as the turkey, being about two feet nine inches in length, and weighing from twelve to fifteen pounds.
Madam Liberality's mother's first cousin had fifteen thousand a year.
What is the good of a thing being cheap when one has fifteen thousand a year?
There were nephews and nieces to be provided for, and a world so full of poor and struggling folk that fifteen thousand a year would only go a little way.
With fifteen thousand a year one can afford to be quite at ease in an old shawl.
There lay the letter, and after a second reading Madam Liberality picked up the thread of the narrative and arrived at the result--she had inherited fifteen thousand a year.
Fifteen was thought to be quite early enough for him, and so it came about that we were confirmed together.
Besides his bow and arrows, the Indian carries a little box made of bamboo, which holds a dozen or fifteen poisoned spikes six inches long.
The largest measure from fourteen to fifteen inches in length.
He has been in the service of my family forfifteen years.
My father, Sir Reginald Deedes, had, as many will doubtless remember, represented Her Majesty at the Netherlands Court for fifteen years until his death.
This course he followed till he was fifteen years old, without giving his mind to any useful pursuit, or the least reflection on what would become of him.
When you shall have seen a maiden fifteen years of age, perfectly beautiful, you need only look into the glass in which you shall see her figure.
I saw them once more go to the ship, and return soon after with an old man, who led in his hand a handsome lad of about fourteen or fifteen years of age.
In fifteen days the task was completed; he was wedded to the princess, and declared heir to the sultan.
There was one of Stevenson's new cages of dioptric prisms around the flame, and once every minute it was turned by clockwork, flashing a broad belt of radiance fifteen miles across the sea.
The fifteen painted salmon flies will be found excellent killers in this noble river, and the six large spring flies.
The best flies for the Shannon are the fifteen painted ones, and the six large flies for spring.
The fifteen painted Salmon Flies will be found great killers in this river, varied in size according to the state of the water.
These fifteen Salmon Flies may be considered by my readers as specimens of real perfection, and the "dons" of the present time amongst the great Salmon fishers.
You couldn't get any servant for fifteendollars a month.
Of course, I'll have to get a woman for fifteen dollars a month to take care of the babies, and the mothers can pay four cents a day for each child.
Old Susan Conner, who used to be my brother Tom's nurse, has offered to come for fifteen dollars.
These whisperings at the age of fifteen convinced her that her true sphere of action was literature.
At the age of fifteen he joined the Christian Brothers.
A man were better visitfifteen jails--or a dozen or two hospitals--than once adventure to come near them.
Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being thenfifteen and one half months old.
This association meets at Columbia University, New York City, during the last week of the present month, and with it some fifteen special societies devoted to different sciences.
The species measures about fifteen hands high, is profusely striped, and stands well apart from the other two groups.
The advance was slow, but it was unceasing, and by nightfall at least fifteen thousand men had crossed the river.
I must keep to facts as Felix did--Felix, who was but fifteen years old and yet found himself the only confidant and solace of this young girl betrayed by her protector.
Then he went out, and in the last glimpse I had of him before the door shut he wore the same look of easy self-satisfaction with which he had entered this place of death some fifteen minutes before.
For fifteen years he has continued to exist in the same state, and you may pronounce his name on the busy Exchange of the city where he flourished and fell, and haply the person you speak to shall have entirely forgotten it.
One man had been a pillar of the Church of Rome for fifteen years; his wife dying, he decided that must be a poor religion that could not save a man his wife, and turned Mormon.
Fifteen minutes later the business was repeated, only this time, as it was being dashed against the wall, the bird crew.
Between the ages of six and fifteen this is all that remains; and it is but a few years since we had a hundred and twenty from Nuka-hiva alone.
Some fifteen or twenty rebels had been captured; but these were not sufficient to give the victory all the eclat which the duke desired.
I shall give my daughter a dowry of at least--yes, at least fifteen hundred thousand,” replied M.
Crouching behind an oak tree scarcely fifteen paces from the road, Lacheneur recognized several of the captives in the grey light of dawn.
Out of four hundred shots fired into a dense mass of fifteen hundred men, only three hit their mark.
There was enough powder burned to win a battle, and yet there were only fifteen peasants wounded.
Men had been heard loading muskets in Sinclair's house, and fifteen of these weapons, fully charged, were discovered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fifteen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
