Fourteen

Examples

• His body is now fourteen years of age, but his soul is already thirty. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• On the heights of the Andes he found marine shell foss ils at a height of fourteen thousand feet above sea-level. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• A ring or watch case marked 14K or 18K means that fourteen or eighteen parts of it are pure gold, the balance of the twenty-four carats being some sort of alloy, copper being generally used. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• All of this is very reminiscent of the religious and political state of affairs in Greece fourteen centuries earlier. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hence very few of the original species will have transmitted offspring to the fourteen-thousandth generation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But after his death the art became common and in 1794 there were fourteen large ropewalks in that city. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He was then less than fourteen years old. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In this case its affinities to the other fourteen new species will be of a curious and circuitous nature. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The space between these two rolls allowed pieces of rock measuring less than fourteen inches to descend to other smaller rolls placed below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Eleven leaves in the Twemlow; fourteen in company all told. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• After fourteen years of litigation the patent was finally awarded to Berliner. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Then, after fourteen or fifteen centuries, we find the harp, both in a horizontal and an upright position, with its strings played upon by keys. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Any way,' said Sleary, after putting his lips to his brandy and water, 'ith fourteen month ago, Thquire, thinthe we wath at Chethter. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The navy was the only escort and protection for these steamers, all of which in getting below had to run about fourteen miles of batteries. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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