But if they did not then go to the bottom, they may be here in about fourteen days, or perhaps sooner.
Thus much, however, he did say: that if the princesses were not wrecked during that fierce storm, they would certainly arrive in fourteen days, or even sooner.
Meanwhile Fairy Grumble-do had provided for almost all thefourteen princes.
There he passed fourteen nights in tears, and prayers, and lamentations for his beloved; by day, however, he concealed himself in the neighbouring thicket.
He is fourteen years of age, and a newsboy, from New York City, and Coney Island.
Fourteen out of fifteen give the latter rendering.
He had never seen her equal for traveling, and he knew that she must be making a good fourteen knots, for the cutter was capable of twelve.
Code asked to see her, and the great-eyed, dark little thing wept bitterly over him, for to her fourteen years he represented all the heroes of romance.
This great victory of the Austrians, after fourteen years of almost uninterrupted success, decided not only the campaign but the war in their favour, and marked irrevocably the decadence of the military power of the Ottoman Empire.
He traced the lines of fourteen batteries from which the walls were bombarded.
It had served its purpose by giving to the Porte a respite of fourteen years from naval attack by Russia.
What remained of their army retired on Veria, where it was reinforced by fourteen fresh battalions.
He reigned as Sultan for only fourteen years, the last of which was spent in captivity.
Mahomet, after eight years of a vacuous reign, was succeeded by his son Achmet, who reigned for fourteen years.
He had formed a body of fourteen thousand artillerymen, drilled and armed on the new model, and on whom he could thoroughly rely for support.
The Russian force detailed for this was not more than fourteen thousand men.
After Acta had been sent to the honourable the central court, about fourteen days passed over before any answer was received.
Besides all this, a boy of fourteen was missing (old Labahn his son), and was never more heard of, so that I shrewdly think that the wolves devoured him.
And all the fourteen men left their paving for the beer-house close by.
Old Jack had always been old Jack since at fourteen young Jack had come 'prentice in the same engine-turner's shop.
The amount of gastric juice secreted in twenty-four hours is from six to fourteen pints; of pancreatic juice, one pint; of bile there are two to three pints, and of saliva one to three pints.
He said that the taxes, which had been as high as thirteen or fourteen dollars a thousand, and as low as four dollars and eighty cents, were just now six dollars and ten cents a thousand.
All this reminded Mrs. Gordon of her visit here some fourteen years before, when she had seen the workmen cutting the eagle for the Boston post-office.
The frame is of hewn timber, generally nine byfourteen inches.
The Old Irish knew it some fourteen hundred years ago as their "Fatherland.
Representatives of the Irish race sat in the Parliament, Hugh O'Neill in the Lords, some fourteen Irishmen in the Commons.
And then the horses made another move, this time for good, and swung along with their burden of fourteen souls all told.
When within about fourteen hundred yards of the kopjes we were advancing to attack, the Boers opened a heavy rifle fire; and, though we could not see a solitary enemy, our fellows began to drop.
Captain, then Lieutenant, Davies was as close to his side as a shadow to a serpent, and they only had fourteen men with them at the time.
This valley is about twenty-eight miles in length, and fromfourteen to fifteen miles across its widest part.
Don't you know, Patricia, it couldn't have been settled in fourteen ninety-two?
The idea of looking into my history to see when Virginia was settled at Jamestown when any one knows it was in fourteen ninety-two!
He was soon joined by his brother Antonio Zeno, who remainedfourteen years in those countries.
One had a plate of pure gold worth fourteen ducats, another an eagle worth twenty-two ducats.
Cublai Khan consented with great reluctance, and a splendid fleet was fitted out and victualed for two years, consisting of fourteen ships of four masts, some of which had crews of two hundred and fifty men.
The indefatigable Adelantado set forth again on the 16th of February, with an armed band of fifty-nine men, marching along the coast westward, a boat with fourteen men keeping pace with him.
The wind continuing north, he stood east fourteen leagues from Cape Cuba, which we have supposed the lesser island of Guajava.
The British rangers lost one of their number by death; of their Indian allies, ten were killed and fourteen wounded.
Order was soon restored, and when, fourteen miles out upon the homeward trail, Indians were discovered upon their rear, the enemy were met with vigor, and thereafter the retreat was unhampered.
Six were killed, several wounded, and fourteen captured; the rest escaping into the forest.
Lewis Wetzel, the son of a German settler on Wheeling Creek, some fourteen miles above its mouth, was born about 1764.
Fourteen days later, the missionaries were summoned to appear before the British commandant at Detroit, Major De Peyster.
Benjamin Logan was by birth a Virginian; and at the age of fourteen was left by the death of his father, to provide for his mother and her other children, and with the other cares of a family upon his infant hands.
John Clark, a sergeant, and fourteen men, returning to Fort Pitt from convoying provisions to Fort Laurens.
Fourteen were killed on the spot, and the remaining two were taken prisoners.
Ain't seen such a nice crowd since I sailed on the Mary Elizabeth, up the coast o' Maine, jest fourteen years ago.
Now, Aleck, hump yourself and you'll get the widow sure along with her fourteen children.
They have collected great numbers of observations, and have reached this conclusion: In the middle portion of the temperate zone, the average age when the first period appears in healthy girls is fourteen years and six months.
Two short years change the awkward and angular girl of fourteen into the trim and graceful maiden of sweet sixteen.
The epoch of puberty comes to a boy at about the same age as it does to a girl,--fourteen or fifteen years.
We have witnessed the most frightful convulsions in girls of fourteen or fifteen, which were brought on by this complaint.
Had 'bout fourteen cabins and dey was placed so dat de old master could sit on his porch and see every one of dem.
We wore long shirts dat reached to de knees until we was twelve or fourteen years old.
I's born in 1830 on Castor River 'bout fourteen miles east of Fredericktown, Mo.
Look at dat grandson of mine, just crossed de porch--why he's fourteen and he can't even use a ax.
It was de Ketrens Hotel den, for about fourteen years, and den I worked for de Claytons for about thirteen years.
The town of Marshalltown, the county seat of Marshall County, in the great State of Iowa, is now a handsome and flourishing place of some thirteen or fourteen thousand inhabitants.
With fourteen games of ball to be played and seven games of cricket we had but little time to devote to sight-seeing, though you may be sure that we utilized the days and nights that we had off for that purpose.
For fourteenconsecutive days the Senate did not adjourn, but from time to time took recesses.
At an early period the State of Ohio established the common-school system, by which every child between the ages of seven and fourteen years is furnished with the rudiments of a good education.
How comes it that fourteen years after these notes were issued, and eleven years after the exigency was over, we are debating whether they shall be paid, and when they shall be paid?
On the 31st of October the journal had not been read forfourteen days.
No less than four bills were introduced in the Senate and fourteen in the House, providing for the repeal, in whole or in part, of the act for the resumption of specie payments.
I was well advanced in arithmetic and in mathematics generally, and was confident, even if I was hardly fourteen years old, that I could do the work of a junior rodman.
After a continuous service in Congress for fourteen years, he retired from active political life and engaged in important business enterprises, but always took an interest in political affairs.
Now Hundreds are discovered in one Shire; and, if Fame Deceives us not, in a Village of Fourteen Houses in the North, are found so many of this Damned Brood.
I thought the rear rooms were fourteen dollars a month.
No fewer thanfourteen masters had to depose, nine that they knew, and five that they believed the candidate to be fit.
Marriageable age isfourteen in males and twelve in females.
With respect to crime, mere infancy is not a defence, but a child under seven years of age is presumed to be incapable of committing a crime, and between seven and fourteen his capacity requires to be affirmatively proved.
She survived him more than fourteen years, passing the greater part of the time in the priory of St Jean at Corbeil, which she had founded.
Other insanities may, it is true, arise at this period, but those which occur within the first fourteen days after parturition are generally of infective origin.
In fourteen of them chains and irons were still being used.
In Roman law, the age of puberty, fixed at fourteen for males and twelve for females, was recognized as a dividing line.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fourteen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dozen; eleven; fortnight; fourscore; octogenarian; score; teens
