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Example sentences for "one years"

  • In 1812, when she was twenty-one years of age, the old archaeologist handed over to her his guardianship accounts.

  • Fanny O'Brien was then twenty-one years old.

  • At twenty-one years of age a girl with such force of will is the equal of a man of thirty.

  • The oldest son, William Morgan, now thirty-one years old, is engaged in the manufacture and sale of lubricating oils.

  • A good portion of his first year after leaving home was spent in Pittsburgh, which he then left for Ohio, where he has since resided; twenty-one years in Akron, and the remainder of the time in Cleveland.

  • So behold a son at twenty-one years of age devoted by a father to imprisonment for life.

  • All men over twenty-one years of age, and of sound mind, and all unmarried women of like age and sanity, may by will bequeath their property to whom they please.

  • Nor did anyone claim that persons under twenty-one years of age had such a right.

  • In some states the law covers only the employment of women, but in most cases the principle of the minimum wage applies to women and minors under eighteen, or even twenty-one years of age.

  • Most male and female citizens over twenty-one years of age may vote for members of this more numerous branch, and hence for Representatives to Congress.

  • A son of the gentleman with whom I boarded, a young man about twenty-one years of age, had a plantation and eight or ten slaves.

  • In the year 1809, I think, when I was twenty-one years old, a man in the vicinity where I resided, in Brooke co.

  • William was now twenty-one years of age, but by the provisions of the Concept of Harmony his name was not to be proposed as captain-general until he had reached the age of twenty-two.

  • Donations to distressed artists who are or have been exhibitors at the Royal Academy, their widows and children under twenty-one years of age, are made twice a year in February and August.

  • Her curly brown hair was gray at the temples, and her oval little face was somewhat bloated, and she was stouter than she had been twenty-one years before; but all this was merely like a new dress.

  • The one of the fair complexion and beard was Yeffim, although I recognized him by his resemblance to Matilda and more especially to her father, rather than by his image of twenty-one years ago.

  • Some errors had stolen into my image of her, and now, that I saw her in the flesh, I recalled her likeness of twenty-one years before, and she now looked precisely as she had done then.

  • Dampier's voyages and made a large sum of money which he devoted to buying the Bahama Islands from the proprietors on a twenty-one years' lease.

  • The eldest child of the family was John Hayes, the deceased; who being then about twenty-one years of age, found so many charms in this Catherine Hall that soon after he coming into the house he made proposals to her of marriage.

  • He was, however, very attentive in the cart to the prayer of those who were a little better instructed than himself, and finished a wretched life with an ignominious death at twenty-one years of age.

  • If their wills were "well broken" in childhood, to use an expression then much in vogue, they would acquire habits of obedience which they would not venture to break through till they were over twenty-one years old.

  • I have put your boy down for something in the event of his attaining the age of twenty-one years.

  • The bequest was probably intended not to take effect till after the death of your mother and myself; nevertheless, as the will is actually worded, it will now be at your command if you live to be twenty-one years old.

  • For old age merely, he cannot begin to draw his full pension until he has attained the ripe age of seventy-one years.

  • For a defence of this on military grounds see Lord Roberts' Forty-One Years in India, vol.

  • See also Lord Roberts' Forty-one Years in India, vol.

  • For business and voting purposes a man "comes of age" at twenty-one years.

  • They were all over twenty-one years of age and all competent.

  • Probationer nurses are received for training from twenty-one years of age.

  • For thirty-one years he was addicted to the smoking of opium.

  • Mr. Talmage writes of the great change in a man notoriously wicked, who at fifty-one years of age yielded to Christ.

  • Mr. Doty was my first room-mate at college thirty-one years ago, and ever since we have been fast friends.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    economic freedom; hurried away; often somewhat; one can; one cup sweet milk; one day; one direction; one foot; one great; one hundred and fifty; one hundred and twenty; one hundred thousand dollars; one kind; one may; one more; one must; one occasion; one ounce; one pound; one sees; one side; one single; one thousand; one thousand five hundred; one was; one word