The resulting mat was then six or seven feet long by from twelve to sixteen inches broad, and could be used for a variety of purposes.
We called our guide and conferred on him the munificent sum of sixteen and a half cents; with which, apparently much pleased, he departed.
All of the boys, sixteenin number, became members.
Ten oxen were slaughtered every morning, sixteen hogsheads of wine and forty hogsheads of beer were consumed daily.
At Crecy, the Black Prince, when only sixteen years of age, led the English army to victory, and slew the King of Bohemia with his own hand.
At the age ofsixteen he could read Virgil and Horace as readily as the pupils of the English grammar schools.
He would thus have pushed back the limit of the learned world's knowledge from the south coast of Britain to the Arctic Circle, or about sixteen degrees farther north.
This was sixteenwinters before Christianity was made law in Iceland.
Inter alia, he is invited by "the Catholic dean to meet the archbishop and sixteen other clergymen at dinner.
The boy was delighted with the prospect--and at sixteenhis fate was fixed.
The length of both species is thirteen and a half to fourteen inches, their breadth sixteen inches to sixteen and a half; the wing measures five and a quarter, and the tail eleven inches; the female is not quite so large as her mate.
The average age attained by the Canary in Malaga is sixteen years, but we have heard of cases where by great attention they have lived to the age of twenty.
The Rose Starling is from eight and a quarter to eight and three-quarter inches long, and from sixteen to eighteen and a half broad; the wings measure three inches and a quarter.
This species is about eleven inches long, its breadth sixteen inches, the wing five inches and a quarter, and the tail five inches.
The entire length of the male is from fourteen to sixteen inches, ten of which must be allowed for the tail; the length of wing is about six inches from the shoulder to the tip.
The only two known species are moderately large birds from fifteen to sixteen inches in length, slenderly formed, but with tolerably strong beaks, the upper mandible reaching far over the lower one.
The length of the male is about sixteen inches, the female is somewhat larger, but exactly resembles her mate in the colour of her plumage.
She lives, but she is past sixteen And scarce can crawl across the rug.
The table itself is far from large--at most sixteen persons could sit down at it; the usual number is about twelve or fourteen.
And, droll enough too, though he has been doing so for fifteen or sixteen years, he has not a single acquaintance in all Cassel; indeed, I never saw him speak to a stranger till this morning.
When sixteen he chanced to read a treatise commending a vegetable diet, and forthwith he put himself under this regimen, finding he could thus set aside half his board money to increase his library.
The ranch belongs to him if he can hand over to you sixteen thousand dollars.
If the statement of Irenaeus is founded on tradition, and there is no other, then the tradition that Paul left John in Ephesus is one hundred and sixteen years old.
He cites numerous passages from Daniel, and all the prophets, and especially searched the pages of Isaiah, where he claims to have found at least sixteen different references made to Christ as the coming Saviour.
When he reached the Van Heigens' she had been gone some sixteen hours.
And until you weresixteen you knocked about a bit?
Landseer was only sixteen years old when he exhibited his wonderful picture called "Fighting Dogs Getting Wind.
When she was only sixteen years old she exhibited her first picture, which she called "Cats in the Window.
In his pocketbook were sixteen hundred dollars, and a document indicating a credit for a very much larger amount at the United Bank of New York, in favor of Merton Ware and another.
Sixteen ladies and gentlemen present at the meeting allowed their names to be published as a testimony to what they saw.
In the supplementary article above referred tosixteen more cases of identification are added to the thirty-five.
In a report by Mr. Guthrie, published in the Proceedings of the Society, sixteen of these drawings are given.
In the English criminal law, where corporal punishment is ordered by the court for certain criminal offences, the "cat" is used only where the prisoner is over sixteen years of age.
Foulche-Delbose, however, maintains that the original sixteen acts are by an unknown writer who had no part in the five supplementary acts.
On leaving the college at the age of sixteen he was first of his class, and received a commission in the engineers.
Blades, however, inferred that in 1438, when he was apprenticed to Robert Large, he would not have been more than sixteen years of age.
It is almost certain that each of the two floors in these caserns was divided by partitions into three chambers, as at the sale each of the sixteen was sold in three lots—the north end, the centre, and the south end.
Pretending deep commiseration, the prisoner said he had no change, but if he would give him sixteen shillings, he would give him a pound note and take his chance of the man.
The sixteen buildings faced the east, eight with their outer ends to the south fence, and eight with their outer end to the north fence.
Witness: If I did say sixteen feet, it was sixteen feet!
The process in use at the present day among the Indians of Mexico in making their arrows is described in a somewhat different manner by Signor Craveri, who lived sixteen years in Mexico, and who gave the account to Mr. C.
Some of the Brandon flint-knappers are, however, said to be capable of producing sixteen thousand to eighteen thousand gun-flints in a week.
His name was Clovis and he was only sixteen years old.
He thought it was so funny that a boy of sixteen should dare to fight against him that he couldn't do anything but laugh.
Choked by the thirst and dryness of his throat, at Ancenis he drank a glass of water: it was the first moment he had lost during sixteen hours, and yet the accursed courier was still an hour and a half in advance.
And yet," said Helene, reproachfully, "he has not seen me for sixteen years.
For sixteen years I had heard nothing of my family; how could I suppose that all at once it would reveal itself, or rather, that an odious maneuver should take me from my quiet retreat to my ruin?
Sixteen will be a proper multiple when we would bring the general value of money in this reign to our present standard.
He was to name sixteen counsellors, by whose advice he was solely to be guided, none of them to be dismissed without conviction of misdemeanor.
His plate however consisted only of sixteen spoons, and a few goblets and ale pots.
Thus Cicero returned sixteen months after his exile, and the cities were so glad, and the people so zealous to meet him, that his boast, that Italy had brought him on her shoulders home to Rome, was rather less than the truth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sixteen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
