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Example sentences for "thirteen years"

  • This has been the pleasantest week I have known in thirteen years.

  • From the age of thirteen years he has lived in Washington and in the public schools of this section of the state he completed his education.

  • McKinney took charge of the home place, which he cultivated for twelve or thirteen years.

  • She was then a child of twelve or thirteen years of age, beautiful and innocent as an angel.

  • If thirteen years ago I could sell my body to save my soul, now I can sell my body to save the soul of another.

  • Sylvia could not make out why she did not feel more nervous when she was following Miss Johnstone up-stairs to meet Philip for the first time since she had run away from him, thirteen years ago.

  • When she first saw him she had been surprised to find that he did not appear much older than thirteen years ago; now, looking back at him in his office, he seemed to her a very old man.

  • Mounsey of Riga, physician to the army of the Czarina, sent to the Royal Society in 1748 the bones of a fetus that had been extracted from one of the fallopian tubes after a lodgment of thirteen years.

  • A native medical witness testified that in about 20 per cent of marriages children were born by wives of from twelve to thirteen years of age.

  • At thirteen years of age he commenced clerking for C.

  • An orphan at thirteen years of age, Mr. Macy's early life was full of changes, adventures and vicissitudes.

  • Accordingly, at the time we are speaking of, she was in a condition to resist, thirteen years together, a monarch, to whose yoke all the rest of the East had submitted.

  • Esarhaddon, taking advantage of this juncture, made himself master of Babylon, and annexing it to his former dominions, reigned over the two united empires thirteen years.

  • Malipiero to strike me thirteen years before, had just returned from Bayreuth, where the margrave had made her fortune.

  • In a moment my thoughts flew back to the time in which Henriette had written these words, thirteen years ago, and my hair stood on end.

  • Carlin Bertinazzi who played Harlequin, and was a great favourite of the Parisians, reminded me that he had already seen me thirteen years before in Padua, at the time of his return from St. Petersburg with my mother.

  • But in this matter Grimani did not act honestly, for the patrimony was only settled thirteen years afterwards, and even then only in a fictitious manner.

  • Footnote B: Among the Israelites, girls became of age at twelve, and boys at thirteen years.

  • But, on the other hand, he has found spermatozoa in the semen of a boy aged only twelve or thirteen years.

  • He states that this tendency was well marked in him at the age of thirteen years.

  • They were unanimous in their desire to have no more delay before hearing the law which Ezra had brought up to Jerusalem as much as thirteen years before.

  • Therefore the mischief must have been wrought some time during the intervening thirteen years.

  • London attic, and dies at forty-five, having received over two million dollars from his sewing-machines in thirteen years.

  • Thirteen years later, when all Great Britain was aflame with the sermons of this same man, he wrote his friend, "Pray for me every day; pray now that the Lord will keep me humble.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another genus; half inclined; human learning; hundred paces; industrial disputes; kill their; little patience; long handle; make anything; may take; often impossible; other human; parallel columns; permanent cure; simmer slowly; something quite; soon learned; thirteen cities; thirteen days; thirteen fathoms; thirteen hours; thirteen miles; thirteen stripes; thirteen thousand; thirteen years; thirteenth century