She was "a good-looking, rather tall girl, seventeen years of age, dark complexion and dark hair.
She is seventeen years of age, good-looking and rather tall; dark complexion, and dark eyes; lisps somewhat when in conversation.
Her kind protector had furnished her with a clean, white bed-gown and cap, and a prettier face, indicating about sixteen or seventeen years, never looked up smilingly from a downy pillow.
What, the one that looks so pale, the one who makes shirt collars; the one you gave the bouquet to, sir?
Of just such life scenes as I depict, there are enough transpiring every night to fill a volume.
At the age of seventeen years Mr. Litsey entered the banking business, and he is now connected with the Marion National Bank, of his present home, Lebanon, Kentucky.
The distance to Shadwell, where Thomas Jefferson lived as a boy, was only thirty miles, but these two who were to have such a large place in the early history of America, did not meet until Madison was seventeen years old.
Thompson, who has served the church for seventeen years.
Nine children were born to this union: One daughter died at the age of seventeen years; Emma, wife of Ira Smith, of Monroe, N.
Mr. Morrison was educated in public schools and the Montgomery Academy, and at the age of seventeen years became a teacher.
He attended the public schools of Middletown and Wallkill Academy, where the rudiments of his education were obtained, and later Peekskill Military Academy, from which institution he was graduated in 1878, at the age of seventeen years.
The photograph from which the cut was made was taken in 1875 At the present time (seventeen years later) the case presents the typical condition of the worst form of elephantiasis.
Routier speaks of ankylosis of the tongue of seventeen years' duration.
He had chewed tobacco one hundred and seventeen years, contracting the habit when a child; his father gave it to him to allay hunger while shepherding in the mountains.
He had escaped the wreck; but that is seventeen years ago.
A loud and cheerful whistle sounded behind her, and looking back, she saw a ruddy country lad, of some sixteen or seventeen years, trudging blythely along the pathway; she stopped him to ask the way.
Thus was inaugurated the system of petite correspondence now practised in divers newspapers, and at the same time, this correspondence with her who was seventeen years later, in 1850, to become his wife.
I've had to keep this one jealously guarded for seventeen years!
It was five years after the marriage--seventeen years ago," replied Mr. Gilwaters.
It is sixteen or seventeen years," said he, and stared frowning at his boots.
It is sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France," said the orator, rapidly.
We waited, and presently he resumed: "It is sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France.
It is sixteen orseventeen years since I saw the Queen of France," he said, impressively, and stopped.
In the adult stage the insect lives little more than a month, just time enough to lay the eggs, and bring into the world the new generation, which in its turn will not appear above ground until after another period of seventeen years.
Another observation, reported by Charcot, related to a young man, seventeen years old, the son of a large manufacturer, and of good address.
At the age of seventeen years he came to Montreal and entered the employ of the brokerage firm of Gordon Strathy & Company, later becoming a partner in the business.
At the age of seventeen years he entered the firm of Dufresne & Mongenais and a year later became a member of the firm of Hudon, Hébert & Company, wholesale grocers.
Slowly perishing, it would fall to dust in seventeen years' time when it came into his hands.
He asked himself what it would look like in seventeen years' time when it would be his.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seventeen years" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
