Ten years is an age in a city where epochs are counted by hours.
Ten years ago he showed me how horrible and unclean a thing can be made of this beautiful life.
Well, Frau Nirlanger, she has already a boy who is ten years old, and a fine sum of money that her first husband left her.
Oh yes," said he, "in the course of eight orten years I will be able to get out once more.
Leaving his home at the early age of ten years, thus deprived of all parental protection and restraints, he formed bad associations, and soon his future career was in the direction of crime.
He served a term of three years in the Missouri penitentiary, and is now serving out a ten years' sentence in the Kansas State's prison.
If the prisoner has been there for ten years, if not in the hospital, he has feasted upon hash every morning.
How many of my relatives and friends might have disappeared during my ten years' absence!
These and other recollections appeared with all the vividness of some horrible dream; but most of all, I felt those two visits which my father had made me ten years before, when I last saw him.
Is it not that same evil-minded conspirator who was condemned to death, and his sentence was changed to hard imprisonment, some eight or ten years ago?
Except in war, where apprenticeship takes less time than elsewhere, ten years of preparatory education plus ten years of practical experience are required for the good government of men and the management of capital assets.
Authentic and rather well kept cookbooks inform us about the cost of the cult: We can more or less estimate how much the sacred crocodiles consumed in ten years; we know their bills of daily fare, their favorite morsels.
Ten years passed, Carey continued to watch and to extend his agri-horticultural experiments in his own garden, and to correspond with botanists in all parts of the world, but still nothing was done publicly in India.
Ten years ago we attended an election meeting at Burghersdorp, a typical Dutch constituency at the Cape.
Germany, he said, had a ten years' treaty with England and could not go to war against the British, who were there again too smart for us.
The selection of the morning of our birthday for the execution of four prisoners at our home was curious as executions in Kimberley take place only about once or twice in ten years.
Commission after Commission had been sent out to them at intervals of ten years, systematic spoliation and pillage following the visit of each commission.
Young and happy, I too went, and I shall not soon forget that summer, ten years ago.
Ten years ago a young colored man came to the institute from one of the large plantation districts; he studied in the class-room a portion of the time, and received practical and theoretical training on the farm the remainder of the time.
I should have said that she was accompanied by a little grandson of ten years,--the fattest, jolliest woolly-headed little specimen of Africa that one can imagine.
One year passed, five years passed, ten years passed, and the expected transformation did not take place.
Ten years of experience somewhat cooled this enthusiasm, and voices might be heard declaring that the introduction of the jury was a mistake.
But the population of Russia, which increases more rapidly than that of any other European country, only augments in ten years at the rate of 9.
As for Madame Clapart, whom Georges had scarcely seen, ten years devoted to the exercise of the most severe piety had transformed her.
But in ten years I'll have the finest practice in Paris.
His sister Mariette, the famous danseuse, is laying up her money to buy him a practice in ten years.
His appetite and digestion are always good, and he has not lost a meal in ten years.
Ten years later, in 1832, Maudslay and Field built four iron vessels for the East India Company.
Harris refers to a Kentucky woman, a mother at ten years, one in Massachusetts a mother at ten years, eight months, and seventeen days, and one in Philadelphia at eleven years and three months.
The consequence is that girls are married at the age of nine or ten years, but it is understood or professed that the consummation of the marriage is delayed until after the first menstrual period.
This can easily be done by raising the age of punishable intercourse, which is now fixed at the absurd limit of ten years.
Do you know that I have made nearly a hundred thousand francs in ten years?
In ten years he had not met with the faintest pretext for a romance in his professional career; his practice lay among clerks and small manufacturers, people in his own sphere of life, with homes very much like his own.
That long, slow agony of ten years' duration can be brought to memory to-day in some few phrases, in which pain is resolved into a mere idea, and pleasure becomes a philosophical reflection.
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