There's a handful of men locked up inside a little ship for thirteenor fourteen months.
We have gone where the fighting had been at such close range that in one barnyard in Ramscappelle lay thirteen dead--Germans, French and Belgians.
I was fortified against unproved allegations by thirteen years of newspaper and magazine investigation and by professional experience in social work.
The first minster at York was built nearly thirteen centuries ago for the baptism of Edwin, King of Northumbria.
The Archbishop with his retinue and the thirteenreformers were alarmed and took refuge in the church, and after a time were permitted to leave the abbey.
To the right of the names were thirteen columns, representing a quarter of the year.
No matter what the method of paying, when a copy was paid for, or thirteen copies were paid for, a crossing tick had to be made in the book for each copy.
Thirteen Archie's Old Desk," he read on a parcel, but when he opened the parcel he found seven "From Jest to Earnest.
After the massacre he counted thirteen women and three children, but he says he did not see the body of a single man.
Among those captured by the redcoats was a small boy, thirteen years of age.
It was a long, hard struggle, covering nearly thirteen years of anxious watching and ceaseless toil.
Thereafter that Yamabushi travelled in various provinces; returning only when that girl wasthirteen years old.
It is written in an irregular measure, varying from twelve to sixteen syllables in length; the greater number of lines having thirteen syllables.
The British loss was only 1 killed and 8 wounded, a small total considering the thirteen hours' risk run by the little party.
The defence lasted about thirteen hours and reflected credit on all concerned, especially on Captain Rowley, whose foresight had averted great loss of life.
Van Rensburg andthirteen burghers captured by Colonel Lowry Cole in Wepener district.
On the 11th, Colonel Byng surprised a laager near Smithfield, captured thirteen tatterdemalions, who were not loth to rest, and some horses and stores.
Gallantly led by Sergeant Gambi, thirteen of them came four miles from their own post to reinforce the garrison.
On the 15th Burchard records that he was bled, thirteen ounces of blood being taken from him.
Out of twenty millions of ducats, collected as the revenue, only thirteen millions reach the treasury; and the king pays four ducats where he should pay one.
The armament at Toulon consisted of thirteen ships of the line, seven forty-gun frigates, with twenty-four smaller vessels of war, and nearly 200 transports.
Of thirteen sail of the line, nine were taken and two burned.
If, however, one is willing to turn from articles fit for use, he can find those as cheap as he desires, going down from thirteen cents to three or one, if he likes.
In England, under a Protestant government, no child under thirteen can be employed for more than eight hours a day; nor can any young person, just emerged from childhood, be employed more than twelve hours a day.
The Transvaal has an average annual precipitation of twenty-three inches, with a large district that receives between thirteen and twenty inches.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand acres are irrigated by pumping in the United States, and Mead states that there are thirteen million acres of land in India which are irrigated by water pumped from subterranean sources.
In fact, Farrell reports that upon the Nephi (Utah) substation the average of six years shows about twenty bushels of wheat from fall-sown seed as against about thirteen bushels from spring-sown seed.
Oh, not much--from twelve tothirteen hundred thousand francs.
And you say this treasure amounts to"-- "Two millions of Roman crowns; nearly thirteen millions of our money.
He caused me to be instructed, gave me masters, and when I was thirteen years of age he sold me to the Sultan Mahmood.
It is a general declaration in the act announcing to the world the independence of the thirteen American colonies, that all men are created equal.
Did any one of the thirteen colonies entertain such a design or expectation?
It is a general declaration in the act announcing to the world the independence of the thirteen American colonies, that men are created equal.
That declaration, whatever may be the extent of its import, was made by the delegations of the thirteen States.
If a player and his partner make thirteen tricks, independently of any tricks gained by the revoke penalty, they score Grand Slam and add forty points to their honour count.
The importance of first seeing the thirteen cards in the dummy is self-evident.
The cards are dealt one at a time, from left to right, until all are exhausted, each player having thirteen cards.
A GRAND SLAM, winning all thirteen tricks, adds 40 points to the honour score.
The revoke penalty may be claimed for as many revokes as occur during a hand; but the accumulated penalty shall in no event exceedthirteen tricks.
When he was thirteen years old his father formally withdrew from the Jewish congregation, and the children were baptized into the Christian faith, Benjamin's godfather being Sharon Turner.
The new husband was more loyal to politics than to his wife, so that, when their son, who was destined to achieve fame, was butthirteen years old, there was a separation between the parents by mutual consent.
She is especially warned to abandon Canada, which, after loss of the thirteen colonies, will be a constant charge.
Paine contended that to the sovereignty of the Crown over all territories beyond limits of the thirteen provinces the United States had succeeded.
What a contrast between the peace and order amid which the thirteen peoples, when the old laws and authorities were abolished, formed new ones, and these scenes in France!
The quantity of iron I had allowed in my plan for this arch was five hundred and twenty tons, to be distributed intothirteen ribs, in commemoration of the Thirteen United States.
The Count de Menou, commandant of the place, pointed out in the harbor, among the flags raised in his honor, one bearing thirteen stars.
In one instance—that of a fractured humerus—it was left inthirteen months, notwithstanding which it finally failed.
The longest period of the existence of the fracture in these cases was five years, the shortest ten weeks, the average thirteen months and nineteen days.
The average time required for effecting a cure was four months, the shortest one month, the longest thirteen months.
Prout speaks of a family of which the grandfather and father were affected with uric acid calculi, and who had a son, aged thirteen years, that was very much predisposed to the same disease.
The young bride, who might have been about thirteen years of age, was being pursued by her future spouse as she pretended to run away, and it need hardly be said that he succeeded in bringing her in by feigned force.
Twenty of the scouts were cut to pieces and mutilated, whilst thirteen more died of their wounds.
Thirteen days afterwards the San Fernando, which had been repaired, reached Zamboanga also.
In 1901 Abad surrendered, and hostilities, with real political aim, definitely ended in these Islands thirteen months after the capture of Aguinaldo in Luzon.
The shadow of a Pompeian Senate sat once more, passing resolutions, at Utica; while Cato was busy organizing an army, and had collected as many as thirteen legions out of the miscellaneous elements which drifted in to him.
He divided the Mediterranean into thirteen districts, and allotted a squadron to each, under officers on whom he could thoroughly rely.
Her own grandmother had locked up in a cupboard some prunes covered with a piece of linen, and when the cupboard was opened a year later they saw thirteen of them on the cloth forming a cross.
But thirteen pounds, due to Beard the butler: Do but bail me, and I will save you harmless.
I knew he would not let me want For thirteen pounds.
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