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I looked up from my book and saw this guy who looked like he was around sixteen or seventeen.
Living in this world is Luchino, a seventeen year old girl with a tragic past and hidden telepathic abilities.
I'm a month ahead of schedule so I plan to go back up to seventeen and then take it down again.
I was barely even seventeen yet and so I could not get a job as a schoolmistress or a governess.
There are actually a bunch, seventeen on my version in fact, ranging in quality from scoffingly angst-ridden to the creepingly draggy.
Students in the seventeen districts gradually improved their performance on standardized tests.
A year earlier a start had been made on dismantling the batteries, and seventeen electric cabs were scrapped.
Girls fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen years of age, mere children, are out on the street when they should be in school.
He was tall and lanky, with angry dark eyes, and looked about sixteen or seventeen at the most.
The young woman looked around sixteen or seventeen with light brown curls and green eyes.
He attended school in his home town and obtained his baccalaureate in 1881 at the age of seventeen.
I'm sixteen years old, but I'll be seventeen in a little more than a month.
The girl looked only about sixteen or seventeen, and she did not look healthy at all.
But in the beginning of their senior year, at the age of seventeen, no one expects a relationship to last forever.
They had all been drinking even though the majority of them were sixteen and seventeen.
My favourite was Tilly Mathewson who worked part-time when I was sixteen or seventeen.
Oh, and did I mention the fact that Vic Fraser was seventeen and I was sixteen?
Returning to Britain from Lagos at the age of seventeen, he started art school as a painter.
A severe early trauma was when, in 1963 at the age of seventeen, he lost his mother.
Forty teams representing ten schools competed in this year's semi-finals with the top seventeen qualifying for the final.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We arrived at the river A La perle at three o'clock and camped for the night having traveled seventeen and a half miles.
After supper, he marked seventeen sets of papers desultorily in red pencil, then got up to look for the baby book.
I did not expect McNeice to deliver a harangue on the whole seventeen, but that is what he did.
For instance, the number of columns on the side of a hexastyle temple varies from thirteen to seventeen.
The balloon frame was divided into seventeen compartments, each of which held a ballonet filled with hydrogen gas.
The valley of Umpqua River, Ore., produces nearly seventeen million pounds of wool yearly, the staple being an ordinary variety.
A subcommittee of seventeen men was appointed to look into the labor situation.
From the time he was seventeen he had been employed in a large china-importing house, starting as a stock boy.
In the case of interval B the error is one of overestimation in seventeen instances, of underestimation in two.
You see, that tall hatthink of a stovepipe hat 69 on a boy of seventeen!made Purt the tallest person at the party.
I'll show them what it is to streek dead Whigs like honest men, and row them dainty in seventeen hunder linen on my land!
The whole operation of self-righting and self-emptying, from first to last, occupied only seventeen seconds!
Another time, but that was when he was barely seventeen years of age, he fought in the dramshop with soldiers on furlough.
Jarvis, were you absent from sub-level number seventeen at any time during the day?
The intramural road is about three miles around, and makes the trip in seventeen minutes.
There are seventeen miles of workings down here in the jackrabbit, let alone the Mal Pais.
Blaney's muster of 1625 included fifteen men all in the age group from seventeen to forty with most being under thirty.
Two days, en suite, I have walked to Gayhurst, a longer journey than I have walked on foot these seventeen years.
There is an English translation, by Mr. kench Suyematsu, of the first seventeen chapters.
The work of the surgeon general's office is divided up among seventeen general main divisions.
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