How To Use Thirteen In A Sentence

It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition. Our Frank and other stories
He himself bore them submissively for thirteen years; for six he suffered from lithiasis, and for seven years from stomatitis (or, as some say, six years from the former and seven from the latter). Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
Roughly two hours after they begin, Ralph, Begoña, and thirteen others are still dicing carrots into tiny cubes. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
Thirteen months on from his last visit to Wales, he is keen to put the record straight. Times, Sunday Times
They shared the joy and burden of editing for the next thirteen years, the longest period of any coeditorship in the journal's existence.

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Eleven score and thirteen years ago, a document was signed - it demanded greatness from a people and a place. 8 posts from July 2009
During the whole of the thirteenth century, and for some time afterwards, the Hojo continued to govern the country; and it is noteworthy that these regents never assumed the title of shogun, but professed to be merely shogunal deputies. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
The students would stay at the thirteenth-century Dominican priory while the brothers took a brief holiday; Mass would be said each day in the priory's chapter room.
The _first glume_ is chartaceous, obovate-oblong, obtuse, many-nerved (thirteen or more), thinly ciliate with long hairs and with A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Chapter thirteen covers the various options available for mounting your photos.
A thirteen-person steering committee was elected to draw up a draft constitution and a programme of activities.
Six officers were lightly injured and thirteen people were detained. Times, Sunday Times
The children were ragged and dirty, and all looked to be between the ages of eleven and thirteen.
Thirteen years of dithering is unacceptable. The Sun
Ray then spent thirteen years travelling around Britain and Europe collecting specimens and studying animals.
Again Arabs such as Avicenna and Abū'l-Barakāt had used equivalent Arabic termi - nology to express the same idea, and thirteenth-century Dictionary of the History of Ideas
One paterero, new casting of Manila, caliber eight libras, length thirteen calibers, in front of the palace. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
Later, when he discovered the identity of the child, then thirteen, he wrote to apologize.
The original interpretation of the Thirteenth Amendment was to prevent the state from enforcing labor contracts with penal sanctions.
At the age of thirteen, he had a traditional Jewish confirmation which was soon followed by an interest in Catholicism.
The thirteen colonies began with a defensive revolution against tyrannical oppression and they were victorious.
The same youngster will have spent only thirteen thousand hours in school, assuming that he or she is regular in attendance.
I counted at one time thirteen of them ranged along shore, and three hippopotami. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
A.-area junior college and high school basketball for thirteen years.
They proposed raising the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen and extending the provisions of the Industrial Schools Amendment Act.
Of the authors of the thirteen articles, seven were academics and six non-academics.
When later poets in an uncritical age take up and rehandle the poetic themes of their predecessors, they always give to the stories "a new costume," as M. Gaston Paris remarks in reference to thirteenth century dealings with French epics of the eleventh century. Homer and His Age
There are fourteen contributors, and thirteen admit to an ongoing full or part time academic appointment.
This was my thirteenth consecutive Varsity match. Times, Sunday Times
The horse stands thirteen hands if an inch; the van is a converted coster's barrow. Try Anything Twice
The list also includes Her Majesty The Queen, eight more Dukes, five Marquesses, thirteen Earls, five Viscounts, twenty-three Lords, seven Baronets, fifty-four Knights, two Dames and six Ladies.
Many people think thirteen is an evil number.
Despite the fact he was only thirteen, it seemed the young prince was already a Casanova in the making, an expert at coaxing and cajoling girls.
That same year another daimyo, also with shogunal consent, led an expedition to Taiwan to explore the possibilities of setting up a trading center there, although nothing came of the attempt. 43 In 1616, a Japanese merchant-adventurer named Murayama Toan (村山東庵) sent thirteen junks to conquer Taiwan. 44 They were ambushed in a creek by headhunters and decided to give up on Taiwan and instead pillage the Chinese coast. How Taiwan Became Chinese
He looked hardly more than a child to me, maybe thirteen or fourteen.
Thirteen other species of a type of bird known as the Hawaiian honeycreeper had also become instinct.
More precisely, you adapt a variation of decasyllabic meter, where your lines alternate between thirteen and seven syllables each.
Aspendus, sailed thitherward himself with thirteen ships, promising the army at Samos that he would not fail to do them a great service. The History of the Peloponnesian War
In thirteen weeks the builders demolished the old gallery and amphitheatre, and constructed a new large amphitheatre with 600 seats instead of benches. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
I never feel anything like youth about me except when I am learning something; and when I am turning over the leaves of my Italian dictionary, I could fancy myself thirteen: whether there be any/[Page 52]/good in fancying oneself thirteen after one is turned of thirty, I leave your charity to determine. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
He left topologists a treasure-trove of theorems and techniques and left the University of Texas Mathematics Department with a goal and thirteen years of good progress toward it.
Notwithstanding that the name Albigenses was given after the council of Lombers to the new Manichaeans, Albi was less identified with the great religious and political struggle of Southern Gaul in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries than were Castres and other neighbouring towns. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
Thirteen years ago she found herself having to conjure a career from thin air.
A began making music at thirteen with local Cape bands, and was mostly noted for his singing.
His name 'etheric' may, thirteen years ago, have seemed to many people absurd. Edison, His Life and Inventions
There is a bar code plus thirteen digit number on the front of this copy of Everyday Electronics.
Beaumanoir in the thirteenth century laments the fact that every castellany in France had a differing law of its own, and Glanville still earlier makes a similar complaint of England. The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
Thirteen minutes after taking off from Rufforth for a raid on Duisburg, Germany, a Halifax heavily laden with bombs crashed near Poppleton.
Towards the end of the twelfth century, stone from Caen was used for the rebuilding of Canterbury Cathedral, and in the mid-thirteenth century freestone from Caen was used for mouldings and carvings in Westminster Abbey.
It was the night of my thirteenth birthday party, and I was blowing out the candles on my cake.
By definition, many thirteen-year-olds in secondary schools will be achieving at the level of many sixteen-year-olds.
I must have watched the thirteen or so hour-long episodes right through five or six times, with an undiminished pleasure, and undistracted by any sense of discontinuity with the book.
The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero
With 363 voted, he was just thirteen short of the quota and was elected on the second count with votes to spare.
These are adjoining castles built from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries by sundry lords of Merle.
Thirteen months of twenty days gave a cycle of 260 days that formed the core of the Maya almanac.
The thirteenth-century Rocca Scaligera, with its elegant crenellations and swan-filled moat, is so photogenic that it might have been built by the local tourist board.
There were valid arguments on both sides, but generally the race-blind believers in birthright made a better case: that ten of the thirteen original states allowed free black men to vote; that Americans of African descent had been recognized as citizens by the federal government in various ways (even Andrew Jackson had hailed his free black soldiers as "fellow citizens" after the Battle of New Orleans). Van Gosse: Birthright Citizenship Is Bedrock Americanism
The original version was to remain unpublished for thirteen years. Miguel Angel Asturias - Biography
Each level was said to constellate a coherent span of human development, and the thirteen stages within that level could be seen as stages of evolvement somewhat similar to the stages of seasonal growth in the course of Nature's year. Breaking News: Science validates key Mayan Calendar premise
Once Frigga filled my hands with spindle and wool, and my mind with these Thirteen Goddesses, I've found life too full for heartbreak and illness.
In the planked room, or magazine, were placed one hundred barrels of gunpowder in bulk; and on the deck, immediately above the powder, were laid fifty thirteen-and-a-half-inch shells, and one hundred nine-inch shells, with a large quantity of shot, pieces of kentledge, and fragments of iron of different sorts. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
Thirteen nervous minutes into the contest Doran converted a free from 38 metres but Mulligan squared the match in the 16th minute after interplay between Smith and McGoldrick.
Their story is the subject of a new book titled "The Golden Thirteen".
Not much -- any list of the Thirteen Best Books is pretty random and thus useless and I have to wonder whether, in including the Hardy Boys, he means the ones he read as a lad (nostalgia time) or the ones currently published (out-and-out lame). Speaking as one old fart to another
But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport: for thirteen years he lived a double lifeas the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd. Passing Strange: Summary and book reviews of Passing Strange by Martha Sandweiss.
One of the Libertys signalmen grabbed a holiday ensignthe ships largestand hoisted the seven-by-thirteen-foot flag up the mast at 2:26 P.M. The Attack on the Liberty
For example, if there's a number thirteen on the third line down then you know you've got to put your finger on the thirteenth fret of the third string, and so on.
In 1921, for instance night patrols made thirteen arrests for cattle stealing in the Southern and Western Provinces.
They've only sold thirteen tickets so far.
No one wants to hear a bunch of pubescent boys confessing their love repeatedly in about thirteen songs on one album.
They wear three braids when they are thirteen or fourteen, and five braids at the age of fifteen or sixteen.
Early in the thirteenth century, the monastic map of western Europe was transformed by the emergence of the mendicant friars.
There is a curious case reported 15.26 of cirsoid tumor of the ear of a boy of thirteen. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Inc. the sum of thirteen hun - dred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty cents for materials furnished by it to said city, the claim for such sum being legally unenforceable by reason of the failure of said city to invite bids for such materials pur - suant to law. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
The aigrette, which is a sort of artificial plume, or feather, represents a hand with thirteen fingers, covered with diamonds; allusive to the thirteen ships taken and destroyed by the hero: and it's size is that of a child's hand, at the age of five or six years, when open. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1
He shook off a couple would-be tacklers and bulldogged it for a couple yards more till our own Michael Jameson came flying in like a Mack Truck and blindsided him at the thirteen yard line. An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football
Marco Polo is said to have sailed on the Pacific on his way to Java in the thirteenth century.
Connacht woman, but an out-and-out Connamara quean, and when only thirteen had wrought with the lads who used to make the raal cratur on the islands between Ochterard and Bally na hinch. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
Thirteen pages with drawings for man-powered aeroplanes survive and there is one design for a helicoidal helicopter.
Its replacement marker indicates a thirteen-foot drop between the present ground level and that of the mid-nineteenth century.
I played "hooky" with my soon to be thirteen-year old daughter. James M. Lynch: 5 Tips for Budgeting Time
The thirteen marble fireplaces all remained, as did the gas jets over the parlor mantels and near the windows.
Thirteen years ago I spent three weeks in Auckland as a gymnast competing for Wales in the Commonwealth Games.
This is planned as a thirteen episode “event” that could continue with new characters (since most the old ones will be dead) if the show proves a success (unlikely based on the overnights from the premiere). Sci Fi TV Briefs – Krod Mandoon Gets the Laughs and Benjamin Linus Gets his Comeuppance
There is a bar code plus thirteen digit number on the front of this copy of Everyday Electronics.
Thirteen under par may have paled in comparison with the exploits of Tiger Woods and a number of others but it is still a decent score on a golf course measuring 7,246 yards.
I have eighteen cents and take away five cents to buy a 'scratch-book,' and have thirteen.
For example, most males raised in the South have shot a gun before their thirteenth birthday.
Thirteen of the vehicles were served with defect notes and only 11 of all the coaches were free from any defects.
In medieval theories of action in the early part of the thirteenth century, "liberum arbitrium" is a technical term. Philip the Chancellor
From the thirteenth century onwards _pilei_, and the overtopping tufts, were of various colours according to the faculties which it was intended to distinguish. The Customs of Old England
Of course the scoffers again pooh-poohed the idea that any nations could be found willing to conclude such treaties; but those who ridiculed have been again put to shame, for within the last twelve months, thirteen treaties have been concluded between various nations. Randal Cremer - Nobel Lecture
For me, that makes the choice a no-brainer, which is why I have one car and thirteen horses. Firedoglake » Late to the Party
He was the congregator of those great spirits who presided over the resurrection of learning; the Lucifer of that starry flock which in the thirteenth century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. English literary criticism
Thirteen subjects with allergic asthma and six normal nonallergic subjects were enrolled in this study from November 2002 until January 2004.
the clubs attract revelers as young as thirteen
Indeed, some 15,000 indigents from 5,000 households registered with the Welfare Bureau of the Thirteenth Arrondissement during the winter of 1868-69.
The richest and most beautiful specimen is the flabellum of the thirteenth century in the Abbey of Kremsmünster in Upper Austria. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
The next day he rose early, and while the rest of his suite were sleeping went out unattended, returning before breakfast was over with a tally-card showing a killing of thirteen dinosaurs, twenty-seven megatheriums, and about six tons of chlamy-dophori, not to mention a mammoth jack-rabbit that some idiot had told him was the only specimen in the world of the monodelphian mollycoddle. The Autobiography of Methuselah
Thirteen-year-old Alan Dale, only son of a poor widow, scrapes a meagre living as a thief and cutpurse in and around the busy town of Nottingham. Archive 2009-12-01
Owen was soon to become an assistant in cataloging the Hunterian Collection of thirteen thousand human and animal anatomical specimens, which had been purchased by the Crown after the death of its owner, the famous surgeon John Hunter.
After a lucky thirteen episodes, Crawford decided that Frank Spencer should bow out.
Sir James instantly dispatched orders to the cessed soldiers either to come to Dumfries or meet him on the way to Dalry, and commanded the thirteen or fourteen men in the town with him to come at nine next morning to his lodging for supplies. Lay Morals
The tājika texts of the thirteenth and later centuries brought to Indian genethlialogy some elements of ASTROLOGY
“Chechen,” most experts agreed, was a term chosen by Russian colonists after the name of a local village that, ironically, bore the name of thirteenth century Mongol conqueror. The Return
One of the orders in the ninth and thirteenth claries of the Linnean fyftem; containing thofe plants which have fix ftyles in the flowers. The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...
There are twelve or thirteen of them brought here by him unaccounted for; hear his prevarications in the jail and elsewhere: and if he is an innocent man, cruelly imprisoned under an illegal warrant, and these vile, calumniatory libels, are actually this The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements
The term laborer as used in chapter five hundred and three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve, as amended by chapter forty-seven of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and fifteen and by chapter twenty - one of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and nineteen, providing for the pensioning of laborers in the employ of cities and towns and as used in chapter four hundred and thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven, as amended by chapter three hundred and sixty-seven of the Pensioning of foremen, in - spectors, me - chanics, draw - tenders, assistant drawtenders and store - keepers in employ of cities and towns. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
Thirteen churches in the Louth-South Armagh border zone have been asked not to celebrate Sunday mass.
Thirteen years later, in 1989, she had a rainproof house, her two children were in school and she had diverse income streams, both constant and seasonal - bamboo weaving, livestock, vegetable gardening.
I haven't seen it there for something like twelve or thirteen years!
Is it possible to turn a paraglider pilot into an ATOS pilot in thirteen flights, and on their fourth solo?
One paterero, cast in Portugal, caliber thirteen libras, length thirteen calibers. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
There is a curious case reported of cirsoid tumor of the ear of a boy of thirteen. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Thirteen points from the final five games could keep them up. Times, Sunday Times
The proportion of the arable lands is about a thirteenth of the whole.
The world, as the Indian boy knows it from fairy tale and folklore, has seven seas and thirteen rivers. Tr.
At the Cistercian female house of Weinhausen in Saxony a very elaborate decoration program survives. 12 The church of the male Dominican convent in Constance, located closer to the female Dominican houses of the Upper Rhine, contained friezes and medallions. 13 Most choir spaces seem to have been decorated, but unfortunately few survive in their thirteenth - and fourteenth-century state. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
The last stronghold of the Druids, it was also rich in history and lore, from its moated, thirteenth-century Beaumaris Castle to its Tudor pubs and Georgian mansions. William and Kate
Thirteen of us working for five hours in a closed kitchen with molten sugar, hot burners, and open flames.
Here I am thirteen years later, sobbing on a therapist's couch.
He pitted for his compulsory pitstop at the end of lap thirteen in ninth position and when the field regained shape he was back to ninth.
Take of nitrate of baryta, twenty-seven parts, by weight; of sulphur, thirteen; of chloride of potassa, five; of realgar, two; and of charcoal three parts. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants
Ban-Lon shirts were the polo shirts of the fifties and came in thirteen colors. My Bat Boy Days
They pay likewise subsidies with the temporalty, but in such sort that if these pay after four shillings for land, the clergy contribute commonly after six shillings of the pound, so that of a benefice of twenty pounds by the year the incumbent thinketh himself well acquitted if, all ordinary payments being discharged, he may reserve thirteen pounds six shillings eightpence towards his own sustentation or maintenance of his family. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
I walked into the room and was greeted by about twelve or thirteen little sophomores.
His mother on discovering this note pinned to her chair gave way to very natural alarm and rushed upstairs to her darling, with whom she remonstrated in terms deservedly severe, pointing out the folly and wickedness of self-destruction and urging that such thoughts were unfit for one of his tender years, for he was then barely thirteen. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
With these words, found in the collection of ethical wills edited by Israel Abrahams, R. Yehudah ben Asher introduces us to the woman oculist in thirteenth century Cologne who preserved his sight. Doctors: Medieval.
The poor girl must have been only thirteen, with short brown hair, a snub nose and the pointed ears of an elf.
The band set off to record their thirteenth album.
He indicated a colossal towering figure, easily thirteen foot high, meandering towards us along the wide roads.
In making the annual contract with the baker, his perquisite was the thirteenth loaf of every dozen furnished—hence the baker’s dozen.23 He was expected to know how to make “all kinds of preserved fruit, both liquid and dry, stewed fruits, creams, sweet cakes, marzipans, syrups, flavored waters, and distilled liqueurs.” Savoring The Past
It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778.
He began making bird decoys when he was thirteen in Birds Landing, California.
The Buddha of Compassion or His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been reborn thirteen times.
His writing has been published by qarrtsiluni, Thirteen Myna Birds, ouroboros review, Bolts of Silk, a handful of stones, The Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing and Good Gosh Almighty! Author! Author! » 2010 » January
He birdied thirteen of fourteen holes but these scores were overshadowed by the events on the par three eight.
The principle that nature worked by the simplest means was gathering momentum during the thirteenth century.
Canaria, commonly called Grand Canary (which gives its name to all the reft) is equally large as it is long, being about thirteen or fourteen leagues either ways, and in drcuit about forty: the town of Canary is a biihop's fee, and the refidence of the Spaniih governor. Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World
Then at age thirteen I got involved in satanism and calling up demons.
91 The light brigantines of the Greeks were scattered in ignominious flight: the nine castles of the Venetians maintained a more obstinate conflict; seven were sunk, two were taken; two thousand five hundred captives implored in vain the mercy of the victor; and the daughter of Alexius deplores the loss of thirteen thousand of his subjects or allies. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Aegidius Romanus, more commonly known as Giles of Rome, was one of the most influential of high papalist theologians in the latter half of the thirteenth century and early part of the fourteenth century.
He notes that Philip loved to read the lauds of Jacopone of Todi, a thirteenth-century Franciscan poet.
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body partsharvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs and, perhaps, save their own lives. Books With Bite Teen Reads
There is no "thirteenthly and lastly" in his simple address. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
It was overflown thirteen times in the previous two days by Israeli Air Force planes and eight times just prior to the Israeli attack by various IAF aircraft, some passing so close their engine vibration rattled the Liberty's deck plates and some of their pilots even waved to crew members on board. Thomas Lipscomb: Maybe Brzezinski is Half Right?
Connecticut is currently one of thirteen states with major crack and powder cocaine sentencing distinctions.
Phillip turned to see the boy, no older than thirteen, stumble, and fall hard to his knees on the floor.
The bogginess and ruggedness of our route, for the remainder of the day, sufficiently tried our strength: we accomplished however thirteen miles, and halted in a small valley about four miles south of Whitwell Hill. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
They sprang up at almost the same time, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
After receiving benefit for the maximum period, an unemployed person cannot claim benefit again until he or she has been employed for at least thirteen weeks. Introduction to Social Administration in Britain
Their relationship is tested, fails, and rebuilds several times over thirteen episodes.
She first thought of it when she was twelve or thirteen years old. The Guide to Lesbian and Gay Parenting
Cairo has only thirteen square centimetres of green space for each inhabitant.
The Largo maestoso finale, at thirteen minutes, is the longest movement.
A thirteen year old girl is being treated after breathing in smoke.
Nobody was there but a touzy, ragged, halflins callant of thirteen, (for I speired his age,) with a desperate dirty face, and long carroty hair, tearing a speldrin with his teeth, which looked long and sharp enough, and throwing the skin and lugs into the fire. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
Thirteen per cent of the population live below the poverty line.
Thirteen months ago, the world was transfixed by the spectacle of a freezing but peaceful revolution unfolding on the streets of Kiev. Times, Sunday Times
A long-legged lad, of about thirteen, with a brog or awl was teasing out the end of a flambeau in preparation to light it for some purpose not to be guessed at, and a servant lass, pock-marked, with one eye on the pot and the other up the lum, as we say of a glee or cast, made a storm of lamentation, crying in John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Thirteen major companies milled durum wheat in the United States in 1991 when DGP was organized, but there have been significant changes since then.
I can maybe handle being thirteenbut fourteen is way out of my frame of reference. Gennifer Choldenko - An interview with author
The only reference to sustainable development was to be found in paragraph two hundred and thirteen.
Thirteen months after she gave birth, we have the answer. The Sun
Thirteen standard, plastic pitfall traps, with soapy solution in the bottom cup, were maintained throughout the stay to sample invertebrates.
Thirteen different types of evergreens were selected, including ivy and blue grass, and aromatics such as mint and rosemary.
Item, we gyve as good as bequest unto a poore of Stratford aforesaied tenn poundes; to Mr. Thomas Combe my sword; to Thomas Russell esquier fyve poundes; as good as to Frauncis Collins, of a precinct of Warr. in a countie of Warr. gentleman, thirteene poundes, sixe shillinges, as good as 8 pence, to be paied inside of a singular yeare after my deceas. Archive 2009-11-01
In others, it may include completion of a rite of passage, such as getting buried up to your chin in an ant nest on your thirteenth birthday.
The division brought charges against thirty-six Klan defendants in thirteen cases, resulting in fifteen guilty pleas.
Binyamin Ze’ev quotes several sages (Samuel of Evreux, first half of thirteenth century, talmudist and tosafist of Normandy; Elijah ben Judah of Paris, first half of the twelfth century, French talmudist, commentator, and halakhist; and Meshullam ben Nathan of Melun, twelfth century, talmudist in northern France) who were in favor of denying all the privileges of the community to the perpetrator who refused to give his wife a divorce. Wifebeating in Jewish Tradition.
Thirteen per cent of Christie's coin and banknote auction went unsold.
Over these thirteen days, we have learned that no one supports corporations' disproportionate influence in the political sphere.
The thirteen States, loosely confederated, were too loose an organization to conduct effective war.
There are about thirteen military men among the three services out of about 275 super grades that are running the show.
There is some evidence for development of robust, high-seas sailing junks in China by thirteenth century AD.
This last is observed in Burma and Laos, but not in Siam and Camboja where is substituted for it the Kôn Chũ̆k or shaving of the topknot, which is allowed to grow until the eleventh or thirteenth year. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
But a person (as I have shown before, Chapter thirteen) is he that is represented, as of as he is represented; and therefore God, who has been represented (that is, personated) thrice, may properly enough be said to be three persons; though neither the word Person nor Leviathan
I've read and enjoyed all thirteen of Carroll's novels, and this one is going right on the shelf with the others, and will occupy the same oft-visited part of my mental landscape wherein dwell his other magical books. Boing Boing
There were landscape painters in China in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries but these artists didn't paint pictures of actual places either. Improve Your Landscape Painting
_ -- The cavity containing the brain of a crocodile measuring thirteen or fourteen feet, will hardly admit the thumb; and the brain of the chamelion is not, according to the description of the Paris dissectors, larger than a pea. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832
In the thirteenth century context, liability for marital rape would clearly have been quite inconceivable.
Thirteen years ago, three airlines pooled their mainframe computing systems and created Worldspan.
My dear Ida, I wish to encourage no young lady of the hoydenish age of thirteen, in despising nice dressing and pretty looks and manners; or in neglecting to pick up any little hints which she may glean in such things from older friends. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
Thirteen churches in the Louth-South Armagh border zone have been asked not to celebrate Sunday mass.
Another work with Petrine iconography is a thirteenth-century dossal for, most likely, the little Florentine church.
How could we then measure time intervals with accuracies of better than one part in ten to the power thirteen?
At age thirteen, when Salinger was asked in a school interview what subjects he was interested in, he replied drama and tropical fish.
Aradia, Gwydion and Faunus were made to sit in three rickety and spindly chairs before the thirteen members of the Society of Sorcerers.
Forty-one of the children began working between the ages of eight and thirteen, most starting at ages ten or eleven.
In the thirteenth century the dignity of palsgrave was raised form its original ministerial character to complete independence, and the count palatine, largely in consequence of the union with Bavaria, became one of the powerful territorial magnates, subsequently the foremost of the secular princes of the empire. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
The following year there were thirteen weeks set aside for vacation. Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
Sometimes, he could pick up snatches of telepathic conversations between these strangers, but none of them had ever transmitted anything to him and he wondered if they were aware that a thirteen-year-old boy had sensed their presence.
Round thirteen saw them spend the last two minutes of the round trading in one corner without moving.
From rival tribes, the Tibetans were united in the sixth century; they were led by strong tribal leaders until the thirteenth century, when Mongol khans created a theocracy under their Buddhist spiritual advisors.
Each of the four participating countries entered thirteen rowers - five women, seven men and a coxswain.
Playing bumble-puppy with Minnie Beebe, niece to the rector, and aged thirteen -- an ancient and most honourable game, which consists in striking tennis-balls high into the air, so that they fall over the net and immoderately bounce; some hit Mrs. Honeychurch; others are lost. A Room with a View
A particularly contentious issue in medieval military debates concerns the longbow: was it a revolutionary or an evolutionary weapon Jim Bradbury turns his attention to this question in The Medieval Archer Boydell, 1985, convincingly challenging the conventional view that the longbow was a new and devastating weapon only fully adopted by the English after the experience of Edward I’s armies against Welsh archers at the end of the thirteenth century. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Myths of Medieval Warfare
France is no longer the uncertain, self-doubting nation that stood unmoving while the Germans remilitarized the Rhineland thirteen years ago. Archive 2009-10-01
By 1840 business directories in New York City listed thirteen iron founders, and sixteen the following year.

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