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If found guilty, he could be sentenced to a maximum of sixteen months in jail.
Although he resented his father for the neglect of the family he joined him as a fisherman when he was sixteen.
Where I was brought up, heroin and methadone was the big problem from age sixteen.
She had her rubella vaccination when she was fourteen, but when she was sixteen, she still caught the measles.
At about the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a sign painter in whose shop his work included painting tinned cans.
Five hundred and sixteen other patients who also had surgery there have been warned of the remote possibility of exposure.
Her outward appearance was no more than a child of sixteen, but she was, in reality, a good deal over five hundred.
The premise of this show is that a beautiful girl goes on TV to find true love amongst sixteen eligible bachelors.
My brother Cal has been shellfishing off the north shore harbors of Long Island, New York since he was sixteen.
The launcher was a simple open-frame device holding sixteen rockets and capable of being towed behind a light truck.
I had fine hair which was worn long until it was cut when I turned sixteen.
You also created a turbine powered by gluing sixteen May bugs to a tiny windmill.
But besides his height his body showed the average maturity of a sixteen year old.
I'm sixteen years old with curling black hair that goes just a little past my shoulder.
Ivan was sixteen, Alexis thirteen, Andrei eleven, I was nine and Natalia was three.
Mozart had with him a B flat string quintet with two violas written when he was sixteen and just back from his third Italian journey.
Starting from the time when the child is in the womb, these sixteen rituals end in the final journey of the body into the afterlife.
Twenty contestants squared off against each other to see who could eat sixteen ounces of chili the fastest.
At the time he was sixteen years old and part of a survey party that followed the Shenandoah River into the wilderness.
What floor he was born on is still unknown, but for the better part of his sixteen years of life he was a thief, a pickpocket.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Perspinal holes circular, with ciliated margin, which forms a crown of sixteen to twenty-four thin parallel teeth.
The old fascination was still as dominant as at its birth, sixteen years ago.
It was the only moment for sixteen long years when Balthazar forgot the alkahest.
At sixteen I was secretary to the agglomerated association for vindicating the rights of man.
In 1835 Lieutenant Albert Lea thought that the population had reached at least sixteen thousand souls.
As a boy of sixteen, he wrote verses in the Alcaic and Asclepiadeian measures, and soon acquired a considerable mastery over them.
He now remembered that sixteen years before he had put in the almirah an egg he had found in the nest of a toontooni bird.
At fifteen or sixteen, she affected, both in dress and manners, to ape such of the quality as were most apish.
I had with me two of the younger Eskimos, arco and Kudlooktoo, two sledges and sixteen dogs.
The baidarka is about sixteen feet in length, and two feet in width at the middle, tapering to a point at either end.
Item, six thousand and sixteen Seleucid birds marching in battalia, and picking up straggling grasshoppers in cornfields.
The wickets to be sixteen yards apart, the bowling crease to be eight yards from the wicket.
And he jumped off of the buckboard with his rifle and sixteen rounds of ammunition.
The last exhibitor was old Anchorite, a faithful performer in harness for sixteen years, but a twenty-year-old bucker.
This outbreak led to the inoculation of one hundred and sixteen persons in the bustee out of about two hundred.
Instead of keeping the sixteen dollars for your carfare and incidentals and such?
Was this due to the skill of the chef de cuisine, or to the sixteen hours of hard work in the trenches?
A few days ago I pitched some halfpence into a reservoir sixteen feet deep at the Chiltern Hills.
I had to move around into about sixteen screwy positions to do all the fixing.
We set sail in the evening, and came to claver Rack, sixteen miles further down, where we also took in some grain in the evening.
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