Fifteenth Sentence Examples

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  • This suspicion seems to have arisen chiefly from his intimacy with Christopher Davenport, better known as Francis a Sancta Clara, a learned Franciscan friar who became chaplain to Queen 1 An obviously erroneous entry in the Admission Book states that he had been at school under Mr. Lovering for ten years, and was in his fifteenth year.

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  • The latter, however, with his usual sagacity, anticipated the objections which he saw could be urged against the famous fifteenth and sixteenth chapters.

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  • The constitution as adopted limited the suffrage to adult white males, but this provision was annulled by the fifteenth amendment to the Federal constitution; and in 1880 amendments to the state constitution were adopted striking out the word " white " from the suffrage clause and adding a new article granting rights of suffrage and office holding without regard to race, colour or previous condition of servitude.

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  • For, if the Sun presides over the first hour of Sunday, and therefore also over the eighth, the fifteenth and the twenty-second, Venus will have the twenty-third hour, Mercury the twenty-fourth, and the Moon, as the third in order from the Sun, will preside over the first hour of Monday.

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  • The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Fedc al Constitution were ratified in 1870, and the state was formally readmitted into the Union on the 23rd of February of that year.

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  • The judges at Lyons placed it fifteenth in order of merit among the sixteen essays sent in.

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  • In his fifteenth year he entered the order of St Augustine, was afterwards professor of theology at the university of Alcala, and published a Cursus theologiae in five volumes (1732-1738).

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  • Of the total sugar consumption of the country in1899-1904Louisiana produced somewhat more than a fifteenth.

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  • By the 13th century it was a great commercial centre second only to London in paying £780 for two years to the fifteenth levied in 1205, and Edward III.

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  • But never, never, never in his entire life had David Dean felt less like crawling out of his sleeping bag and mounting his bicycle than on the misty Colorado morning of June fifteenth.

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  • In memory of this the Israelites were for all time to eat unleavened bread (matzoth) for seven days, as well as keep the sacrifice of the Passover on the eve between the fourteenth and the fifteenth of Nisan.

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  • In his fifteenth year, during a dangerous illness, he came under the personal influence of Johann Arndt, author of Das wahre Christenthum, and resolved to study for the church.

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  • Theodorus Aemilius, a priest, who had turned Protestant, adopting Jakob, sent him to school at Utrecht, but died when his charge was in his fifteenth year.

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  • As the fifteenth book of the Speculum Doctrinale is a summary of the Speculum Naturale, so the Speculum Historiale may be regarded as the expansion of the last book of the same work.

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  • The most important domestic event of Grant's first term as president was the adoption of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution on the 30th of March 1870, providing that suffrage throughout the United States should not be restricted on account of race, colour or previous condition of servitude.

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  • The fifteenth article, treating of the Lord's Supper, defines the ground common to both parties even in this debateable region, recognizing the necessity of participation in both kinds, and rejecting the sacrifice of the Mass.

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  • In 1866, 1867 and 1869, respectively, the legislature refused to ratify the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Federal constitution.

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  • In his fifteenth year he entered the order of the Dominicans at Naples, and is said to have composed a treatise on the ark of Noah.

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  • Here he wrote his Neue Apologie des Socrates (1772), a work occasioned by an attack on the fifteenth chapter of Marmontel's Belisarius made by Peter Hofstede, a clergyman of Rotterdam, who maintained the patristic view that the virtues of the noblest pagans were only splendida peccata.

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  • The time since the last glacial epoch is but a fraction of the time since the first probably no more than a fifteenth or a twentieth.

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  • In his fifteenth year he made the acquaintance of Kazinczy and zealously adopted his linguistic reforms. In 1809 Kolcsey went to Pest and became a "notary to the royal board."

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  • When the remainder is o, the proposed year is the fifteenth of the cycle.

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  • In retaliation the 41st Congress excluded the state's representatives on a technicality, and, on the theory that the government of Georgia was a provisional organization, passed an act requiring the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment before the admission of Georgia's senators and representatives.

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  • With his aid, and that of Congressional requirements that all members of the legislature must take the Test Oath and none be excluded on account of colour, a Republican majority was secured for both houses, and the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.

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  • Certain races moult or cast their skin three times during their larval existence, but for the most part the silkworm moults four times - about the sixth, tenth, fifteenth and twenty-third days after hatching.

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  • When, in the spring of 1878, Lord Salisbury became foreign minister on theresignation of the fifteenth Lord Derby, Mr Balfourbecamehis private secretary.

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  • The provision last mentioned was nullified by the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States.

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  • The first two books, and parts of the third, eleventh and fifteenth, are only extant in epitome, but otherwise we seem to possess the work entire.

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  • The mandibular symphysis extends backwards at least to the fifteenth tooth.

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  • Roman taxcensuses, taking place every fifteenth year, probably originated in Egypt, in A.D.

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  • In 1850 the state ranked fifteenth, in 1860 eighth, in 1870 sixth, in 1880 fourth, in 1890 and again in 1900 third, in the value of its manufactures.

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  • The fifteenth legislature (April 1864 to April 1865) ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, and passed laws against " bush-whacking," a term used in the Civil War for guerilla warfare, especially as carried on by pretended neutrals.

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  • From the latter period until the fifteenth or sixteenth year vitality is at its best.

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  • Clothed in a visionary body, in the likeness of a man of thirty years old, the Son made his appearance in the fifteenth year of Tiberius, and preached in the synagogue at Capernaum.

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  • The last satire is now imperfect, and the authenticity both of this and of the fifteenth has been questioned, though on insufficient grounds.

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  • The latter, in twenty books, of which only the first ten and fragments of the fifteenth are extant, endeavours to prove from the Hebrew Scriptures themselves that the Christians are right in going beyond the Jews and adopting new principles and practices.

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  • The constitution as amended in 1875 forbids the legislature to pass any private or special laws regulating the affairs of towns or counties, or to vote state grants to any municipal or industrial corporations or societies, and prescribes that in imposing taxes the assessment of taxable property shall be according to general laws and by uniform rules; and anti-race-track agitation in1891-1897led to a further amendment prohibiting the legalizing of lotteries, of pool-selling 1 The constitution of 1844 limited the suffrage to white males, and although this limitation was annulled by the fifteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution, it was not until 1875 that the state by an amendment (adopted on the 7th of September) struck the word " white " from its suffrage clause.

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  • The Fifteenth Amendment was rejected by one legislature, but was accepted by its successor, in which the Republican party had obtained a majority.

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  • Of the fifteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth Yashts the few useful copies that we possess are derived from a single MS. of the year 1591 A.D.

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  • This marriage is held to have taken place in 277 B.C., and a recently discovered inscription shows that Arsinoe died in 270, 'in the fifteenth year of her brother's reign.

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  • In 1902 the state ranked fourteenth among the states in the value of its mineral products, $12,378,350, and took thirteenth rank in 1907, with a product of $38,099,756, but dropped to the fifteenth rank in 1908, when the total value of its product was $26,422,121.1 The value of products manufactured from minerals in 1902 was $9,123,228, or 43-1% of all the manufactures in the state.

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  • A vivid description of the festival at Alexandria (for which Bion probably wrote his Dirge of Adonis) is given by Theocritus in his fifteenth idyll, the Adoniazusae.

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  • The so-called union party broke up after the Civil War, and by 1870 the Democrats were strong enough to prevent the ratification by Oregon of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution.

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  • Newton was then in his fifteenth year, and, as his mother in all probability intended him to be a farmer, he was taken away from school.

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  • It was not until 1881 that the restriction of the suffrage to " white " males, which was in conflict with the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Federal Constitution, was removed by constitutional amendment.

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  • In 1907 and 1908 the state ranked fifth among the states of the country in the value of granite quarried; in 1902 it ranked fifteenth.

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  • In his fifteenth year, after passing through the usual elementary studies, he entered the Society of Jesus.

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  • In his fifteenth year he entered the Augustinian order, and subsequently joined the Franciscans in 1220.

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  • Tycho Brahe was from his fifteenth year devoted to astrology, and adjoining his observatory at Uranienburg the astronomerroyal of Denmark ha .d a laboratory built in order to study alchemy, and it was only a few years before his death that he finally abandoned astrology.

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  • The wedding was set for June fifteenth, but it was looking as though they might have to put it off a while.

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  • By the fifteenth century it had become a house of Augustinian canons feeding only 27 of Bristol's poor.

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  • By the end of the fifteenth century carracks of 600-700 tons were common.

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  • In the fifteenth century the walls of the nave were raised to form a clerestory and the nave covered with a new low-pitched roof.

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  • The twelfth-century arcade and triforium support a later clerestory and great hammer-beam roof dating from the fifteenth century.

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  • Its aims are to trace the evolution of urban society from the expansion of the twelfth century to the uncertainty of the fifteenth.

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  • The Levesons prospered from the wool trade to such a degree that by the fifteenth century they were the wealthiest family in the area.

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  • During the 1930's Sir Ronald could be found racing cars and drove for Lagonda in the 1935 Le Mons, finishing fifteenth.

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  • The earliest phase was a hall and two story cross wing, probably of late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.

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  • The impressive ruins of its mainly fifteenth century cathedral are beautifully situated beside the Tay.

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  • Among the " anonymous treatises " translated at the end of this volume is a late (probably fifteenth century) treatise on insolubles.

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  • Club that discriminates at the fifteenth high octane las provided by quintessentiallytelevision.

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  • This detachment received a huge impetus with the invention of the modern printing press in the fifteenth century.

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  • The octave quint which stands on the former harmonic flute slide is the old fifteenth, with five extra pipes at the bottom.

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  • Hatfield had served his time as a working silversmith, but afterward enlisted in the fifteenth Light Dragoons.

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  • This revised version rapidly supplanted its predecessor, and became the current form of the Wycliffite Bible during the fifteenth century.

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  • He had received tonsure but was only in his fifteenth year; he was instituted to the rectory in 1308 while still a minor.

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  • The addition of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution caused a reaction, the Democratic party secured control in 1870, and in 1871 the constitutional amendment of 1866 was abrogated.

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  • The Rhodesian railway system in 1910 had penetrated north of Broken Hill, which is just above the fifteenth parallel of south latitude, while the Egyptian railway system had reached Gondokoro, located close to the fifth parallel of north latitude.

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  • The most famous chapters of the Decline and Fall are the fifteenth and sixteenth, in which the historian traces the early progress of Christianity and the policy of the Roman government towards it.

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  • He was a weak and sickly child of poor parents, and from his sixth to his fifteenth year, when he was left an orphan, he worked on a farm.

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  • He was the fifteenth child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley (see Wesley Family).

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  • I I (see, for the parallel with the case of Vespasian and Titus, Ramsay, St Paul the Roman Traveller, p. 387), so that the fifteenth year would be roughly A.D.

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  • John was elected scholar of Corpus in his fifteenth, and fellow of Oriel in his nineteenth year, April 1811.

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  • Two days later, on the fifteenth of July, an immense number of carriages were standing outside the Sloboda Palace.

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  • The princess decided to leave on the fifteenth.

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  • On the fifteenth, the day of the old prince's death, the Marshal had insisted on Princess Mary's leaving at once, as it was becoming dangerous.

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  • However, once the fifteenth or sixteenth litter has arrived, the possibilities grow slimmer and naming becomes much more of a challenge.

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  • There are several great architectural examples of the early intarsia method found in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome as well as fifteenth century Florence buildings.

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  • Inuyasha - On her fifteenth birthday, Kagome Higurashi falls through a well and finds herself in feudal Japan fighting evil alongside the half-dog demon Inuyasha.

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  • The test requires a sample of maternal blood, typically taken during the fifteenth and twentieth week of pregnancy, and measures the level of certain pregnancy hormones.

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  • Rubies are also the traditional anniversary gems for the fifteenth and fortieth anniversaries, and a ruby and diamond anniversary ring can be a lovely and meaningful gift.

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  • The earliest known alarm clocks that didn't use water were created in Nuremberg, Germany in the fifteenth century.

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  • By the second half of the fifteenth century, soap making was very popular in Europe.

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  • A Quinces, as it's fondly called, is a party in celebration of a young Hispanic lady's fifteenth birthday, when she becomes a woman.

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  • Since a Quinces is a fifteenth birthday party, it's acceptable to use paper party ware for parties in a more relaxed setting.

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  • A Romanian warlord of the Fifteenth Century who ruled as Prince of Wallachia, Vlad III was noted for dispatching his enemies by impaling them on long stakes.

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  • The addition of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution caused a divided reaction.

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  • St Francis, the first child of this union, was born in August 1567 when his mother was in her fifteenth year.

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  • He further found that there was an element which he termed boreal in a more intense degree, which amounted to about a fifteenth of the whole flora.

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  • This was the grandfather of the fifteenth duke, earl of Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk, and hereditary earl marshal of England.

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  • In his fifteenth year he entered the order of the Dominicans, attracted partly by reading the lives of Albertus Magnus and Aquinas, partly by his love of learning.

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