Seventeen Sentence Examples

At seventeen, Jenny would easily have passed for twenty-one.

Open it at sixteen hundred today and close it at seventeen twenty.

I was seventeen and stupid.

It wouldn't have mattered if there were seventeen capable people with me – or just you.

He was then only seventeen.

That's what a hundred and seventeen days on the road does to you!

But here was twenty-year-old Randy Byrne, at the threshold of life, batting .362 with seventeen home runs, a slew of RBI's, and a glove that could stop a freight train, being offered the world!

Antoine, taken to the secret meetings of the persecuted Calvinists, began, when only seventeen, to speak and exhort in these congregations of "the desert."

Forrest traversed seventeen degrees of desert in five months, a very wonderful achievement,.

Not until the age of seventeen did he attack the higher mathematics, and his progress was much retarded by the want of efficient help. When about sixteen years of age he became assistant-master in a private school at Doncaster, and he maintained himself to the end of his life in one grade or other of the scholastic profession.

William was still struggling to carry out that larger scheme of a union of all the seventeen provinces, which at the time of the " Pacification of Ghent " had seemed a possibility.

It had six columns at each end (a double row in the front) and seventeen on each long side.

When seventeen years old he entered the army, which he left in 1797 to become a lawyer.

After seventeen years of active teaching, he retired in order to complete his philosophical system.

The implements of man are relatively more common, seventeen chipped flints having been found.

It is safe to say that the man with seventeen puppies is creating more happiness by giving one each to sixteen friends than he is forgoing by his loss of puppies.

How many seventeen year old virgins do you know?

After his death, his son, Valentinian Ii., an infant of four years of age, with his half-brother Gratian a lad of about seventeen, became the emperors of the West.

Thus the captain touchingly recounted the story of his love for a fascinating marquise of thirty-five and at the same time for a charming, innocent child of seventeen, daughter of the bewitching marquise.

After several seasons and seventeen children, we discovered the right age for a host.

Agostino (1280-1298) contains a famous series of seventeen frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli, with scenes from the life of St Augustine (1463-1467).

As a boy he attended the Volksschule of his native village, and at the age of seventeen, having passed through the gymnasium of Kdslin, went to Berlin to study medicine.

So far as the organization of the Anglican Church is concerned, the most important outcome of the conference was the reconstruction of the Central Consultative Body on representative lines (54-56); this body to consist of the archbishop of Canterbury and seventeen bishops appointed by the various Churches of the Anglican Communion throughout the world.

In 1631 the spahis of Asia Minor rose in revolt, in protest against the deposition of the grand vizier Khosrev; their representatives crowded to Constantinople, stoned the new grand vizier, Hafiz, in the court of the palace, and pursued the sultan himself into the inner apartments, clamouring for seventeen heads of his advisers and favourites, on penalty of his own deposition.

Hadrian adopted, as his successor, Titus Antoninus Pius (uncle of Marcus), on condition that he in turn adopted both Marcus (then seventeen) and Lucius Ceionius Commodus, the son of Aelius Caesar, who had originally been intended by Hadrian as his successor, but had died before him.

Marco remained for seventeen years in the service of the Great Khan, and was employed on many important missions.

The anterior half of the sclerotic is composed of a ring of some ten to seventeen cartilaginous or bony scales which partly overlap each other.

Being ordered to co-operate with Sherman in North Carolina, Schofield moved his corps by rail and sea to Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in seventeen days, occupied Wilmington on the 22nd of February 1865, fought the action at Kinston on the 8 - 10th of March, and on the 23rd joined Sherman at Goldsboro.

In addition to this there is compulsory service in the National Guard (a) in the first class, consisting of men between seventeen and thirty years of age, liable for service with the standing army, and numbering some 15,000; (b) in the second class, for departmental service only, except in so far as it may be drawn upon to make up losses in the more active units in time of war, consisting of men from thirty to forty-five years of age, and (c) in the third class, for local garrison duty, consisting of men between forty-five and sixty years old.

An opportunity occurred when he was seventeen, and by the intervention of friends he obtained admission into the Zaikonospasski school.

When the news of the troubles at Caesarea reached Jerusalem, it became known also that Florus had seized seventeen talents of the temple treasure (66).

He killed Berenice and, dying in 51, bequeathed the kingdom to his eldest son, aged ten years, who was to take as wife his sister Cleopatra, aged seventeen.

This was when he was seventeen years of age.

In Tibicen septemdecim the life of the larva extends over from thirteen to seventeen years.

Though a comparatively small number of species of birds are figured in this magnificent work (seventeen only in the first series, and twenty-two in the second), it must be mentioned here, for their likenesses are so admirably executed as to place it in regard to ornithological portraiture at the head of all others.

It consists of two storeys with open colonnades, forming a long loggia on the ground and first floors, with seventeen arches on the sea front and eighteen on the other facade.

The Boston theatre dates from 1854, and there were seventeen theatres altogether in 1900.

The metropolitan water district (1895) included in 1908 Boston and seventeen cities or townships in its environs; the metropolitan sewerage district (1889) twenty four; the park service (1893) thirty-nine.

Four months later he was suddenly cast into prison; and, after seventeen days, he learnt that he was falsely accused of sending two noble ladies on a pilgrimage to Jaen.

There are eight other rivers on the same side, seventeen on the south side, six at the east end and four at the west end, besides more than 1200 smaller streams, and the deep valleys cut by the streams add to the broken surface of the country.

He was at that period between seventeen and eighteen years old, and at nineteen, he says, "I married, or rather I was married."

They were to be elected for five years by seventeen of the tribes chosen by lot from the thirty-five; the imperium was to be conferred upon them by the lex curiata, together with judicial powers and the rank of praetor.

In reality, the struggle which they had carried on in defence of this principle for seventeen years, with a good faith which it is impossible to ignore, ended in a defeat.

Arriving in Dublin at the end of October he received information to the effect that seventeen counties were ready to take up arms if a successful effort were made in Dublin.

In the report of 1835 the borough is said to consist of seventeen parishes and to be unfit for corporate government.

He had early fallen under the influence of the great revival movement in Wales, and at the age of seventeen had been "converted" by a sermon of Daniel Rowland's.

After seventeen months he resumed his former religion, and, to avoid persecution, fled to Geneva, where he became acquainted with Cartesianism.

According to Nordenskjold r it numbers only twenty-nine species of mammals, of which seven are marine and seventeen or eighteen may be safely considered as living beyond the forest limit.

There are seventeen towns with a population of 10,000 or more, namely, Tomsk (63,533 in 1900) and Irkutsk (49,106) - the capitals of West and East Siberia respectively; Blagovyeshchensk (37,368), Vladivostok (38,0co).

Andrews, and at the age of seventeen married Magdalene Carnegie, daughter of Lord Carnegie (afterwards earl of Southesk).

At the age of seventeen he became himself a winter schoolmaster, and in his twentieth year he entered himself at Harvard, working on the farm as usual (until 1831) while he followed his.

In theory, the twelve plebeian centuries were open to all freeborn youths of the age of seventeen, although in practice preference was given to the members of the older families.

At the age of twelve he was sent abroad to complete his education, and resided at the principal universities of Germany, Holland, France, Italy and Switzerland for seventeen years.

The chancellor is elected for life by the general council, of which he is head; and the rights of the city as the original founder have been recognized by giving to the town council the election of four of the seven curators, with whom rest the appointment of the principal, the patronage of seventeen of the chairs, and a share in other appointments.

Siena is divided into seventeen contrade (wards), each with a distinct appellation and a chapel and flag of its own; and every year ten of these contrade, chosen by lot, send each one horse to compete for the prize palio or banner.

There are also seventeen distinct coast streams in the colony.

It is now represented in the Union Parliament by eight senators and seventeen members of the House of Assembly.

He had designated as his successor his natural son, g the highly gifted Janos (John) Corvinus, a youth of seventeen.

During his primacy they were revived, and in 1650, only seventeen years after his death, they were as numerous as ever they had been.

The last seventeen years of Retz's life were passed partly in his diplomatic duties (he was again in Rome at the papal election of 1668), partly at Paris, partly at his estate of Cornmercy, but latterly at St Mihiel in Lorraine.

In August 1711, at the age of seventeen, he came home, and the usual battle followed between a son who desired no profession but literature and a father who refused to consider literature a profession at all.

At the age of seventeen she married the marquis de Lescure, whom she accompanied in the war of La Vendee.

The City Steamboat Company, established in 1848, began with eight boats, and by 1865 had increased their fleet to seventeen, running from London Bridge to Chelsea.

There are four commissioners of revenue and circuit, and nineteen deputy commissioners in Lower Burma, and four commissioners and seventeen deputy commissioners in Upper Burma.

In 1379 they massacred seventeen nobles in the town hall, but this crime brought down on them the vengeance of the duke, to whom in 1383 they made the most abject and complete surrender.

A stone bridge, consisting of seventeen arches, was built in 1485 over the river, and made a county bridge under James I.

Peter, then a youth of seventeen, married her on the 27th of January 1689 at the command of his mother, who hoped to wean him from the wicked ways of the German suburb of Moscow by wedding him betimes to a lady who was as pious as she was beautiful.

The names of seventeen of these kings are known from the inscriptions.

The Speculum Doctrinale, in seventeen books and 2374 chapters, is a summary of all the scholastic knowledge of the age and does not confine itself to natural history.

At seventeen he wrote his Vernal Walk in imitation of Thomson.

It consists of seventeen atolls with an immense number of islands, of which some three hundred are inhabited.

His episcopate, which lasted some thirty years, was characterized by great missionary zeal, and by so much success that, according to the (doubtless somewhat rhetorical) statement of Gregory of Nyssa, whereas at the outset of his labours there were only seventeen Christians in the city, there were at his death only seventeen persons in all who had not embraced Christianity.

He was said to have been the son of Belos or Bel, to have conquered in seventeen years the whole of western Asia with the help of Ariaeus, king of Arabia, and to have founded the first empire.

Entering the army at seventeen, he left it two years afterwards; and at nineteen he produced Azemire, a two-act drama (acted in 1786), and Edgar, ou le page suppose, a comedy (acted in 1785), which were failures.

Though he was of a strong constitution, the seventeen years' application ruined his health.

In 1609 a charter of incorporation provided for a mayor, recorder, six capital burgesses and seventeen assistants and courts of record and pie powder.

He studied at the university of Alcala, and was admitted at the age of seventeen into the Society of Jesus.

Silesia, now split up into seventeen principalities, was the bone of contention between them; and when Casimir suddenly invaded that country, took Wschowa, and made Prince Charles of Bohemia a prisoner, war between the two kingdoms actually broke out and Casimir was besieged in Cracow by the Czechs.

It must not be confounded with the Caesarean era of Antioch, which began seventeen years earlier.

Seventeen years later, his second son, Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam, was cut off like his brother at the very threshold of what might have been a great career.

He was educated at the Kreuzschule in Dresden and entered at the age of seventeen the mining academy at Freiburg in Saxony, where he remained two years.

In the case of a North American species it is known that this larval life lasts for seventeen years.

He took the first important step in that way by winning a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford, before he was quite seventeen years old.

Regensburg had its due share in the Thirty Years' and other wars, and is said to have suffered in all no fewer than seventeen sieges.

The highest average quantity of rough milled rice per establishment in the United States in 1905 was for Texas, where seventeen establishments produced an average of 18,598,259 ib, valued, together with that of other rice products, at $4,638,867.

His investigations into the usages and customs of his native Attica were embodied in an Atthis, in seventeen books, a history of Athens from the earliest times to 262 B.C. Considerable fragments are preserved in the lexicographers, scholiasts, Athenaeus, and elsewhere.

The list of his characters in tragedy, comedy and farce is large, and would be extraordinary for a modern actor of high rank; it includes not less than seventeen Shakespearian parts.

Through his father's relatives in South Carolina, McGillivray received a good education, but at the age of seventeen, after a short experience as a merchant in Savannah and Pensacola, he returned to the Muscogee Indians, who elected him chief.

Armstrong resigned his position in 1863, and for seventeen years the government adhered to the older method of loading, in spite of the improvements which experiment and research at Elswick and elsewhere had during that period produced in the mechanism and performance of heavy guns.

In building the fortress of Sacsahuaman, heights had to be scaled; in Tiahuanaco stones weighing 4 00 tons were carried seventeen miles; in the edifices of 011antaytambo not only were large stones hauled up an ascent, but were fitted perfectly.

Of these thirty are chosen in the first district (New York county) and seventeen in the second district (Long Island and Staten Island)_ The jurisdiction of each justice extends over the entire state.

In politics nearly twelve years of Conservative government, or at least capitalistic predominance in public affairs, were succeeded by more than seventeen years of Radicalism.

The party headed by Ballance, Seddon and Ward held office without a break for more than seventeen years, a result mainly due to the general support given to its agrarian and labour policy by the smaller farmers and the working classes.

At seventeen he went back to the Mississippi, determined to become a pilot on a riversteamboat.

It is now represented in the Union parliament by sixteen senators and seventeen members of the house of assembly.

The circle was complete, but there were no Russians in the centre, and a map of the positions of the Japanese on the evening of the 10th shows the seventeen divisions thoroughly mixed up and pointing in every direction but that of the enemy.

At seventeen years of age she 5 married General Leclerc, a staff officer of Napoleon, and accompanied him to St Domingo, where he died of yellow fever in 1802.

The policing of the seventeen montons is provided for by a gendarmerie of over 7000 men and officers (many of the latter Danes), a well-equipped and well-disciplined force.

On his death in 1580, after a brief reign of seventeen months, the male line of the royal family which traced its descent from Henry, first count of Portugal (c. i ioo), came to an end; and all attempts to fix the succession during his lifetime having ignominiously failed, Portugal became an easy prey to Philip II.

From 1819 to 1835 he wrote about seventeen pieces and then abandoned publishing, having taken offence at some severe criticisms. At his death he left several comedies, which were issued in a posthumous edition.

Seventeen years of a country bishopric determined him to seek a position at court.

At the instance of their representatives in the chambers it was abandoned in 1870, and was not revived till seventeen years later.

At seventeen Edward Everett graduated from Harvard College, taking first honours in his class.

When the Descriptio was published Briggs was fiftyseven years of age, and the remaining seventeen years of his life were devoted with steady enthusiasm to extend the utility of Napier's great invention.

He then by means of a simple proportion deduced that log (I 00000 00000 00000 I)=o 00000 00000 00000 0 434 2 944 81 90325 1804, so that, a quantity 1.00000 00000 00000 x (where x consists of not more than seventeen figures) having been obtained by repeated extraction of the square root of a given number, the logarithm of I 00000 00000 00000 x could then be found by multiplying x by 00000 00000 00000 04342 To find the logarithm of 2, Briggs raised it to the tenth power, viz.

Westphalia returns thirty-one members to the Prussian Lower House and seventeen to the Reichstag.

Queen Mary survived her husband for seventeen years and her daughter for two.

Seventeen states produced from $ioo to $500 per sq.

There are seventeen buildings, among which the Holden observatory, the John Crouse memorial college (of fine arts), the hall of languages, the Lyman Smith college of applied science, the Lyman hall of natural history, the Bowne hall of chemistry, and the Carnegie library, are the most notable.

The strong anti-slavery sentiment here manifested, itself in 1851 in the famous " Jerry rescue," one of the most significant episodes following the enactment of the Fugitive .Slave Law of 1850; Samuel May, pastor of the Unitarian church, and seventeen others, arrested for assisting in the rescue, were never brought to trial, although May and two others publicly admitted that they had taken part in the rescue, and announced that they would contest the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law, if they were tried.

The work consists of seventeen books, of which the seventh is imperfect.

The state endorsed railway bonds at the rate of $12,000 and $16,000 a mile until the state debt had increased from eight millions to seventeen millions of dollars, and similar corruption characterized local government.

Dale of Peckham, and at seventeen he attended some courses in_ literature at King's College, London.

At seventeen he wrote for Blackwood a defence of Turner, which the painter, to whom it was first submitted, did not take the trouble to forward to the magazine.

In the church of St Gall, Switzerland, in the 9th century there were seventeen.

In 1242 he led an expedition to Gascony which terminated disastrously with the defeat of Taillebourg; and hostilities with France were intermittently continued for seventeen years.

No change occurred till 1859, when the system of Belgian defence was radically altered by the dismantlement of seventeen of the twenty-two fortresses constructed under Wellington's supervision in 1815-1818.

In 1803, accordingly, in the territorial rearrangements consequent on Napoleon's suppression of the ecclesiastical states, and of many free cities of the Empire, Bavaria received the bishoprics of Wurzburg, Bamberg, Augsburg and Freisingen, part of that of Passau, the territories of twelve abbeys, and seventeen cities and villages, the whole forming a compact territory which more than compensated for the loss of her outlying provinces on the Rhine.'

Maurice of Nassau, William's second son, had indeed on his father's death been appointed captain and admiral-general of the Union, president of the Council of State, and stadholder of Holland and Zeeland, but he was as yet too young, only seventeen, to take a leading part in affairs.

Again, while the annals record Ceawlin's accession in 560 and his expulsion in 592, the preface with other early authorities assigns him a reign of only seventeen years.

He was educated at an academy at Rome, New York, where at the age of seventeen he became a bank clerk.

In the seventeen years ending1896-1897the capital expenditure on such works was Rx.10,954,948, including a sum of Rx.1, 742, 246 paid to the Madras Irrigation Company as the price of the Kurnool-Cuddapah canal, a work which can never be financially productive, but which nevertheless did good service in the famine of1896-1897by irrigating 87,226 acres.

In the seventeen years ending 1896-1897, 1x.827,214 were spent on the former, and during that year they yielded a return of 9.13%.

He wrote rude, coarse satires, crude verse, and compositions on the American government, temperance, &c. At the age of seventeen he had attained his full height, and began to be known as a wrestler, runner and lifter of great weights.

Liability begins at the age of seventeen, and actual service, as a rule, from the age of twenty.

In the federal council Prussian policy nearly always prevails, for though Prussia has only seventeen votes out of fifty-eight, the smaller states of the North nearly always support her; practically she controls the vote of Waldeck and since 1885 those of Brunswick.

Essentially a German, not a Prussian, party, they were joined by the Nationalists from the annexed provinces of Hanover and Hesse; in 1871 they were greatly strengthened by the addition of the National representatives from the southern states; out of fourteen representatives from Baden twelve belonged to them, seventeen out of eighteen Wurttemberger, and a large majority of the Bavarians.

Ten girls, aged nine to seventeen years, two of them house servants, met during the winter of1691-1692in the home of Samuel Parris, pastor of the Salem Village church, and after learning palmistry and various "magic" tricks from Parris's West Indian slave, Tituba, and influenced doubtless by current talk about witches, accused Tituba and two old women of bewitching them.

His mother, Isabel Fenton, of a good family which had suffered from connexion with the Stuart rising of 1745, resolved that he should receive a first-rate education, and sent him first to the parish school and then to the Montrose Academy, where he remained till the unusual age of seventeen and a half.

The work itself, and the author's official connexion with India for the last seventeen years of his life, effected a complete change in the whole system of governing that country.

At seventeen he was a captain of dragoons, and saw some service in the closing campaign of the Seven Years' War.

When in 1888 the two clubs, the German Austrians and the Germans, joined once more under the name of the " United German Left " into a new club' with eighty-seven members, so as the better to guard against the common danger and to defeat the educational demands of the Clericals, the National Germans remained apart with seventeen members.

At the age of seventeen he seized the reins of government.

The time occupied between Liverpool and Forcados is about seventeen days.

Seventeen legislative proclamations were enacted in the first year dealing with the immediate necessities of the position, and providing for the establishment of a supreme and provincial court of justice, for the legalization of native courts of justice, and dealing with questions of slavery, importation of liquor and firearms, land titles, &c. In the autumn of 1901 the emir of Yola, the extreme eastern corner of the territories bordering upon the Benue, was, in consequence of the aggressions upon a trading station established by the Niger Company, dealt with in the same manner as the emirs of Nupe and Kontagora, and a new emir was appointed under British rule.

The whole country was divided into seventeen provinces, in each of which there was a provincial court presided over by the resident in charge, whose assistants were commissioners of the court.

In all he fought seventeen campaigns in Syria until the spirit of revolt was entirely crushed in a second capture of Kadesh.

Tumanbey continued the struggle for some months, but was finally defeated, and after being captured and kept in prison seventeen days was executed on the I5th of April 1517.

Except !in India, where it is controlled by the government, In 1878 seventeen lecture-rooms of the Azhar had 3707 students, of whom only 64 came from Constantinople and the northern parts of the Ottoman Empire, 8 from North Arabia, I from the government of Bagdad, 12 from Kurdistan, and 7 from India with its thirty million Sunnites.

Chronological and other proofs show that if such a suit was fought at all, it must have been in connexion with another set of Darer's woodcuts, the first seventeen of the Life of the Virgin.

At the Diet of Augsburg (1530) Melanchthon was the leading representative of the reformation, and it was he who prepared for that diet the seventeen articles of the Evangelical faith, which are known as the "Augsburg Confession."

She received her early education in a school maintained by her father for his own and neighbours' children, and from the time she was seventeen until she was thirty-two she taught in various schools.

He had by that time formed the resolution to direct all his reading and to devote all his energies to the preparation of some great historical work, and during the next seventeen years he bestowed ten hours each day in working out his purpose.

At the age of seventeen Paul found himself an assistant field cornet, at twenty he was field cornet, and at twenty-seven held a command in an expedition against the Bechuana chief Sechele - the expedition in which David Livingstone's mission-house was destroyed.

Days of grace are abolished in many of the seventeen states in which the Negotiable Instruments law has been enacted.

During his reign of thirty-three years he extended the limits of his father's kingdom from Persia on the east to the Ganges on the west; and it is related that he led his armies into the plains of India no fewer than seventeen times.

At the age of seventeen he became an officer of the Guards.

At the age of seventeen he served in the social war successively under Pompeius Strabo and Sulla (89 B.C.).

Marcus Tullius Cicero, only son of the orator and his wife Terentia, was born in 65 B.C. At the age of seventeen he served with Pompey in Greece, and commanded a squadron of cavalry at the battle of Pharsalus.

In 1724 he published seventeen sermons, eleven of which had not before been printed.

This edition contains seventeen books.

Mikhail was seventeen when he began his reign, and died in 1645.

At seventeen he entered the junior class of Allegheny College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania; but he studied beyond his strength, and returned to Poland, where for a time he taught in a neighbouring country school.

All able-bodied citizens between the ages of seventeen and fiftyfive are compelled to serve one year with the colours and are then enrolled in the reserve.

It is in favour of the theory that it spread by some means from Holland that plague had been all but extinct in London for some seventeen years, and prevailed in Holland in 1663-1664.

In his hatred of idleness, he ventured to suppress no less than seventeen fetes, and he had a project for lessening the number of those devoted to clerical and monastic life, by fixing the age for taking the vows some years later than was then customary.

He was educated by his father till he was seventeen, when he was placed under the tuition of Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, the orientalist and archaeologist.

She was a bride of only seventeen and was related to the royal house; yet, as his Catholic biographer put it, "by sorcery and witchcraft he did so allure that poor gentlewoman that she could not live without him."

The Ynglingatal and Ynglinga Saga enumerate Aail's ancestors to no less than seventeen generations, with short accounts of each.

After a seventeen years' struggle against all manner of financial difficulties, the twofold enterprise was completed.

In twenty-two years (1792-1814) there were seventeen changes in the governorship. After that date changes, although not quite so rapid, were still frequent.

At the age of seventeen he too became a member of that church.

He remained for seventeen years in the service of the emperor, distinguishing himself as a soldier and as a captain.

In 1799 the office of chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas falling vacant, Sir John Scott's claim to it was not overlooked; and after seventeen years' service in the Lower House, he entered the House of Peers as Baron Eldon.

In the same year, however, he was one of seventeen Kentish ministers suspended for refusing to sign an acknowledgment of the queen's supremacy and of the authority of the Prayer Book and articles.

Charles was succeeded by his son Wenceslas, who was then seventeen years of age.

His father intended him for surgery, and he began the study of medicine on ist October 1833, when he was a few days short of seventeen.

His share in this revolt resulted in his imprisonment, on the charge of heresy, for seventeen weeks in the dungeons of the papal palace at Avignon.

Fishing, as a commercial pursuit, is carried on in seventeen counties, and attains its greatest importance in Cumberland county, where the catch in 1904 was valued at $1,090,157, and the oyster catch alone at $1,046,147.

The western or mountain collieries were seventeen in number, employing 540 men and raising about 418,000 tons.

For seventeen years he acted as parish priest at various small places in Venetia, until in 1875 he was appointed canon of the cathedral and superior of the seminary at Treviso.

Auletes, born 69 (or 68) B.C. At the age of seventeen she became queen of Egypt jointly with her younger brother Ptolemy Dionysus, whose wife, in accordance with Egyptian custom, she was to become.

In the same year he married Sarah Pierrepont, then aged seventeen, daughter of James Pierrepont (1659-1714), a founder of Yale, and through her mother great-granddaughter of Thomas Hooker.

In the Unity Building, Chicago, of seventeen storeys, the metal framework from basement columns to finished roof was accomplished in nine weeks.

Thirty mares put to a Burchell zebra produced seventeen hybrids, and subsequently twenty pure-bred foals.

When he was about seventeen the ordinary course of his life was interrupted by an event which gave a lasting colour to his thoughts.

Of the Quadrumana there are at least seventeen distinct species, and this number may be increased after a thorough exploration of the forested eastern plains.

To please his father, who was old and infirm, he married at seventeen.

Having successfully terminated the affairs entrusted to him, he returned to Venice in 1588, and passed the next seventeen years in study, occasionally interrupted by the part he was compelled to take in the internal disputes of his community.

These fissures are in vertical planes stretching entirely across the puddle trench, and reaching in one case, aa, nearly to the highest level at which the reservoir had been worked for seventeen years after the leakage had been discovered.

When only seventeen he fought together with his father in the Social War.

On the other hand, it would seem that, for most educated people, sixteen and seventeen or twenty-six and twenty-seven, and even eighty-six and eighty-seven, are single numbers, just as six and seven are, and are not made up of groups of tens and ones.

At the age of seventeen he joined the Benedictine order, and in 1698 was appointed to teach theology and philosophy at the abbey of Moyen-Moutier.

In fact, during the seventeen and a half years of the reign of Louis Philippe, Cousin mainly moulded the philosophical and even the literary tendencies of the cultivated class in France.

For the purpose of conveying some idea, one theory may be taken, according to which the fine was made up of seventeen clansmen, with their families, viz.

Later it extended only to the land of a fine, each fine making its own distribution at its own time and in its own way as determined by the seventeen men above specified.

Born at Stade on the 10th of December 1816, he aspired from his earliest years to the Prussian service rather than that of his own country, and at the age of seventeen obtained a commission in the 24th regiment of Prussian infantry.

In the above period of seventeen years the yearly means in the west section varied from 11'93 to 29'21 in.

There was a precarious interval of peace for three years after, but in 997 began a series of invasions led by Sweyn which lasted for seventeen years, and at last ended in the complete subjection of England and the flight of Aithelred to Normandy.

The duke of Albany, who became regent when Robert died, had no wish to see his nephew return, and concluded a corrupt agreement with the king of England, by which he undertook to keep Scotland out of the strife, if Henry would prevent the rightful heir from returning to claim his own.i Hence Albany and his son ruled at Edinburgh for seventeen years, while James was detained in an honorable captivity at Windsor.

The tool selected was one Perkiri Warbeck, a handsome youth of seventeen or eighteen, the son of a citizen of Tournai, who had lived for some time in London, where Perkin had actually been born.

The first three ministries of the queen had endured from the spring of 1835 to the spring of 1852, or for very nearly seventeen years; but the next seven years had seen the formation and dissolution of no less than fout cabinets.

Vacancies were originally filled by co-optation, but by the Domitian law (104) the selection was made, by seventeen out of the thirty-five tribes chosen by lot, from candidates previously nominated by the college.

Yet for seventeen years, with very brief intervals, he controlled the destinies of Sweden, and his influence in France was for some time pretty considerable.

He was barely seventeen when (in November 1821) he was taken into the office of Messrs Swain, Stevens and Co., solicitors, in Frederick's Place, Old Jewry.

Wurttemberg is a constitutional monarchy and a member of the German empire, with four votes in the federal council (Bundesrat), and seventeen in the imperial diet.

On the next morning he was beheaded along with his brother, Couthon, St Just, Hanriot and seventeen more of his adherents.

The next seventeen years were passed in active ministry at Brooklyn, whence in 1854, owing to a throat affection, he removed to Owego, N.Y.

In 1606 there were twenty-two Birkarlians in Tornio, seventeen in Lule, sixteen in Pite, and sixty-six in Ume Lappmark.

The seventeen provinces of the colony (at the head of which is either a European or a roko tui or native official) are assessed annually by the legislative council for a fixed tax in kind.

Both ends of the island were soon in a blaze, and the Four Masters says that in seventeen days there was not one son of a Saxon left alive in the Desmond territories.

Seventeen inches, or more than one-third, falls during the summer, and for the other seasons the range is only from 10.1 in.

Divisions.-Austria is composed of seventeen "lands," called also "crown lands."

Of the two most notable impostors, the first, Lambert Simnel, personated the earl of Warwick, son of the duke of Clarence, a youth of seventeen whom Henry had at his accession taken care to imprison in the Tower.

No fewer than seventeen cuttings have been made, reducing the original course of the river by 75 m.

The ancient territorial divisions Belgium, Gallia Lugdunensis (Lyonnaise), Gallia Narbonensis (Narbonnaise)were split up into seventeen little provinces, which in their turn were divided into two dioceses.

From the hands of his unthinking pupil Fleury eventually received the supreme direction of affairs, which he retained for seventeen years.

In one of the best-known species, Cicada septemdecim, from North America, the life-cycle is said to extend over seventeen years.

But Alphonso did not use his freedom to act legibus solutus except against such hoary and incorrigible intriguers as Don Juan ci Tuerto or the Caballero Diego Gil, whom he beheaded with seventeen of his men after promising them security for their lives.

Barely seventeen months after the death of his first wife, the king listened to the advice of Canovas and married, in November 1879, the Austrian archduchess Maria Christina of Habsburg.

At the age of seventeen he went to the university of Gottingen, where he spent a little over a year; he joined the corps of the Hannoverana and took a leading part in the social life of the students.

The palate is long and narrow; its mucous surface has seventeen pairs of not very sharply defined oblique ridges, extending as far back as the last molar tooth, beyond which the velum palati extends for about 3 in., having a soft corrugated surface, and ending posteriorly in an arched border without a uvula.

There are seventeen pairs in P. capensis and eighteen in P. balfouri, while in P. jamaicensis the number varies from twenty-nine to forty-three.

He published, when only seventeen, a pamphlet On the War in North America, and in 1761 went to London and started a periodical work, entitled The Universal Museum, which was dropped by the advice of Samuel Johnson.

The moderation he displayed caused his election by seventeen departments to the Council of Five Hundred.

I was sixteen and pregnant and my mother tossed me out of the house and then I was a street smart seventeen year old mother without a pot to piss in and no options to get one then if I screw this guy I can maybe get a million dollars and feed my baby and not listen to gun shots outside my door and I been standing here at the window a long, long time, begging for a ticket to fly out of here and no one has handed me anything but shit and now this guy is holding this first class pass and all I have to do is reach out and grab it but I know I might hate myself for tacking it because this ticket clerk is kind of a jerk sometimes but an okay guy most of the time and he's nice to me and he listens to me, and he loves me and I know if I take it and fly it will kill him.

It wouldn't have mattered if there were seventeen capable people with me – or just you.

When I was seventeen I was very bashful, and a sixteen-year-old girl came to stay a week with us.

With seventeen offices, we specialize in the placement of temporary and permanent clerical and accountancy personnel across the Midlands and North of England.

Magnus Bain started his sailing with the Kirkwall club where he sailed a laser dinghy for seventeen years.

I'm also slightly flabbergasted that they're 40% taller than they were just seventeen days ago.

After seventeen months the Georgic emerged on 12th December 1944 with one funnel and a stump foremast.

Seventeen people were killed, fourteen seriously injured and thirteen slightly injured, when twelve HEs and many IBs fell in the above area.

Seventeen of the centers did not offer hep B viral load testing.

By seventeen years old he was working to support himself by gardening and teaching in a local kindergarten.

Fifth place has seen five out of seventeen teams promoted whilst sixth place has sen five out of sixteen teams promoted.

She mounted two carriage and seventeen brass swivel guns, having a crew of eighty men.

Seventeen women showed up for the first rehearsal, all of whom Balanchine managed to deploy in an ingenious opening tableau.

In verses twelve to seventeen we have a wonderful picture of communion with the king.

Edward overcame the tyranny of his guardians at the age of seventeen and then set about developing a new form of awe-inspiring chivalric kingship.

Comrade Rusov's motion was deemed votable by twenty seven votes to fifteen, and was then adopted by twenty five votes to seventeen.

On the thirty-fourth he received seventeen, on the next fifty, and on the next almost the entire vote hitherto cast for Blaine and Sherman, and was declared nominated.

He was in the House of Lords, however, in 1675, when Danby brought forward his famous Non-resisting Test Bill, and headed the opposition which was carried on for seventeen days, distinguishing himself, says Burnet, more in this session than ever before.

In 1848, when Milan and Venice rose against Austria, Cremona, then only a lad of seventeen, joined the ranks of the Italian volunteers, and remained with them, fighting on behalf of his country's freedom, till, in 1849, the capitulation of Venice put an end to the hopeless campaign.

In a commune of 2500 inhabitants or less there is one deputy; in more populous communes there may be more, but in no case must the number exceed twelve, except at Lyons, where as many as seventeen are allowed.

So shamefully did they neglect their duty that when, at the age of seventeen, Charles XI.

He now ruled over seventeen provinces - i.e.

The account which has come down to us is that Mantegna began engraving in Rome, prompted by the engravings produced by Baccio Baldini of Florence after Sandro Botticelli; nor is there anything positive to invalidate this account, except the consideration that it would consign all the numerous and elaborate engravings made by Mantegna to the last sixteen or seventeen years of his life, which seems a scanty space for them, and besides the earlier engravings indicate an earlier period of his artistic style.

Having discovered that Peter, who had reached the age of seventeen, was thinking of taking the administration into his own hands, she conspired against him with the commander of the stryeltsi and some of his maternal relations; but she was circumvented by the rival faction and interned in a convent, and Peter's mother was put in her place.

Among the land plants may be noted the blue anemone; the ranunculus along the road-sides, with a strong perfume of violets; the Malta heath, which flowers at all seasons; Cynomorium coccineum, the curious " Malta fungus," formerly so valued for medicinal purposes that a guard was set for its preservation under the rule of the Knights; the pheasant's-eye; three species of mallow and geranium; Oxalis cernua, a very troublesome imported weed; Lotus edulis; Scorpiurus subvillosa, wild and cultivated as forage; two species of the horseshoe-vetch; the opium poppy; the yellow and claret-coloured poppy; wild rose; Cartaegus azarolus, of which the fruit is delicious preserved; the ice-plant; squirting cucumber; many species of Umbelliferae; Labiatae, to which the spicy flavour of the honey (equal to that of Mt Hymettus) is ascribed; snapdragons; broom-rape; glass-wort; Salsola soda, which produces when burnt a considerable amount of alkali; there are fifteen species of orchids; the gladiolus and iris are also found; Urginia scilla, the medicinal squill, abounds with its large bulbous roots near the sea; seventeen species of sedges and seventy-seven grasses have been recorded.

There are insane asylums at Austin (the State Lunatic Asylum), San Antonio (the Southwestern Insane Asylum), and Terrell (North Texas Hospital for the Insane); the Texas School for the Deaf (1857), an institution for deaf, dumb and blind coloured youths (1889), a School for the Blind (1856), and a home for dependent Confederate soldiers, at Austin, a state orphan home (1889) at Corsicana, an epileptic colony at Abilene, and a state reformatory (1889) for boys under seventeen years at Gatesville.

For administrative purposes the country is divided into seventeen montons (or divisions) each in charge of a high commissioner, and an eighteenth, including Bangkok and the surrounding suburban provinces, under the direct control of the minister for metropolitan government (see Bangkok).

During the seventeen years of his orderly government the country found time to recuperate its forces after the exhaustion caused by the extravagances of Louis XIV.

At the age of seventeen he saw Adele, the French daughter of Monsieur Domecq, Mr Ruskin's partner, a lovely girl of fifteen.

Thus Mozart's most perfect as well as most ecclesiastical example is his extremely terse Mass in F, written at the age of seventeen, which is scored simply for fourpart chorus and solo voices accompanied by the organ with a largely independent bass and by two violins mostly in independent real parts.

This agitation induced the Romans to deport 1000 prominent Achaeans, and, failing proof of treason against Rome, to detain them seventeen years.

In very few words Nicholas bought seventeen picked stallions for six thousand rubles--to serve, as he said, as samples of his remounts.

Green 's addresses for the next seventeen years are recorded in the quarterage books of the Clockmaker 's Company.

We seventeen boy seamen are still waiting for the Admiralty medal for the Russian campaign.

Comrade Rusov 's motion was deemed votable by twenty seven votes to fifteen, and was then adopted by twenty five votes to seventeen.

You can get heights in ten inches for kids, the standard fourteen to fifteen inches, or seventeen inches for disabled adults (often referred to as ADA designs, named for the American Disabilities Act).

Seventeen Magazine has been a staple in most teen girls' mail boxes for years, but this pop culture and fashion phenom now offers a digital version as well.

What makes this book a bit unusual is that it is narrated by seventeen year old Matt in the form of a letter to his youngest sister, Emmy.

I think all young teens start by reading Seventeen and other magazines to see what's hot and what's not.

You have probably seen ads in Seventeen magazine, and other teen magazines, showing a few of the styles available this year.

Being geared towards an older teen audience, Seventeen features sections that aren't present on other sites such as fitness and college/career sections.

Some of the best websites for high school students are run by magazines like Teen.com and Seventeen.

A Seventeen Magazine prom article can be found in a physical copy of most Seventeen Magazines, as well as on their website.

If you are looking for advice about prom, Seventeen Magazine's website also has a forum where teens can ask their questions and get accurate answers from other teens and young adults who have experienced similar situations.

When you are looking for advice, tips, and help with your prom, then Seventeen Magazine is a good resource to have on hand.

Well the Seventeen Magazine prom section of the website has information on all prom topics, and more.

The actual Seventeen Magazine also has a wide range of articles about proms, especially around prom and homecoming season.

The Seventeen Magazine website is a very useful website for teen girls looking for advice or information about proms, and many other topics.

If you're looking for advice on prom that you cannot find in an existing article, then you can visit Seventeen Magazine's questions forum to ask your question and get accurate answers quickly from other teens.

If you are not looking from prom help or advice, then the Seventeen Magazine website also has many other activities, articles, and surveys you can participate in as well as their large prom section.

The Seventeen Magazine website is a really good website for teen girls to visit if they like Seventeen Magazine, or other magazines like it.

The Seventeen Magazine website has lots of resources to help you find the perfect prom dress.

If you live in New York, Seventeen Magazine, holds a modeling contest each year as well for youth aged 14 to 20.

According to a 2009 study done by Seventeen magazine on the spending habits of teenagers, 55 percent of teens wait for clothing items to go on sale before buying them.

Lastly, teen magazines such as Teen Vogue and Seventeen put out their prom issues a few months ahead of time and feature dresses, giving you an idea of the current trends.

Moments of Elegance-Pairs of tiki torches stand a foot high and cost around seventeen dollars.

When ordering just four to seventeen plants, the price will be almost twice that.

In October 2004, she told Seventeen magazine, "I used to think I was going to marry Tom Cruise."

She was the July 1990 cover girl of Seventeen magazine.

Among her early credits as a model were the 1997 cover of Seventeen magazine, as well as appearances in Vogue, Elle, and Glamour.

Over time, she began to appear in magazines such as Seventeen.

Seventeen Magazine featured her on its cover, and she was named one of the hottest stars under the age of 21 by Teen People magazine.

He passed away just seventeen days after the film wrapped, and Hepburn has spoken of production being held up because of his health issues.

Their follow up albums Away From the Sun, Another 700 Miles and Seventeen Days all went platinum and spawned the hits, Here Without you, Let Me Go and Behind Those Eyes.

For example, Seventeen Days has twelve tracks, and X Guitar has ten of them tabbed for the guitar.

Small bands will accommodate seventeen charms.

It is rose gold plated, seventeen inches long, and for sale at $52.70.

She has also posed for Macy's, Target, Seventeen, Essence and Walmart.

In 2001, 64 percent of mothers with children under the age of six, and 78 percent of mothers with children ages six to seventeen were in the labor force.

Seventeen percent of these students reported medical complications from the piercing, ranging from skin or cartilage infections to periodic bleeding from the nose.

A few months earlier, Katie had told Seventeen she once had a schoolgirl's crush on Tom.

One small Massachusetts town counted seventeen bulging bellies in the summer of 2008, the result of a possible pregnancy pact made by teen mothers-to-be.

Seventeen Magazine named her one of the most stylish stars of 2007.

Seventeen Magazine, where she is seen sporting her ever-famous skater look.

If she appears a little rounder in these pictures than her fans have seen her before, it is because she put on an extra seventeen pounds for her role in the musical film Nine.

Kathy Ireland began modeling when she was seventeen and quickly became a superstar and one of the original super models.

A native of Arkansas, Bridget Hall made her modeling debut at the tender age of seventeen.

To enter, you have to be between seventeen and thirty years of age, and that includes all newcomers, current members and alumni.

The oldest pub in Berkeley, California, The Albatross, provides seventeen board games for the enjoyment of their patrons.

It is natural that at seventeen she would be interested in other boys and have a desire to see what it would be like to be with someone else.

Besides containing all the necessary travel requirements (a three inch handle, a seventeen inch extended handle, a zipper front, etc.), the rich, ruby red color and leather details makes this carry-on a winner.

It has a six inch handle, a seventeen inch extended handle, an extra wide opening for easy packing and an astounding nine'' pockets!

If you are wondering what's in style at the moment, you can spend a few minutes flipping through the latest issue of Seventeen or Teen Vogue.

He moved to New York City at seventeen to pursue his dreams of becoming an actor, and appeared in several theater productions there.

The shape had an estimated length between seven and seventeen feet.

The site's selection of over 1,600 titles includes offerings such as Redbook, Shape, Seventeen, Rolling Stone, and Newsweek.

Seventeen percent of the city's residents earned below 50 percent of the poverty line and 29 percent received food stamp assistance.

The print ads have been featured in big magazines like CosmoGirl, Seventeen, YM, Vogue, and several other publications for young women.

If you have a pair of scuffed up heels and some old CDs, you can create shiny prom shoes using this Seventeen tutorial.

A watch, for instance, with one hundred jewels is not likely to be any more reliable than a watch with seventeen jewels.

Seventeen inch CRTs will be higher, $30-$40 or so.

CarFax - On model year cars 1984 and newer, get the seventeen digit vehicle identification number or VIN and spend $29.95 for a CarFax report.

CarFax - If buying from an individual, get the seventeen digit vehicle identification number or VIN, go to CarFax, and run a vehicle history report for a small fee.

Most seventeen year old drivers do not have a long driving history, and this makes potential auto insurance companies nervous.

On the bright side, a seventeen year old with one year of driving experience may pay less for car insurance coverage than a sixteen year old who just obtained a license.

Parents may have success in simply adding the seventeen year old to their existing auto insurance policy.

Most insurance companies will charge less for a seventeen year old added to an existing policy as opposed to an entirely new policy solely for the teen.

A seventeen year old driving a tiny sports car with very little safety features will pay more than a seventeen year old with comparable driving history and a safer vehicle.

Look to larger insurers like Progressive or Geico for car insurance coverage for your seventeen year old driver.

In a 2004 Rolling Stone list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", Nevermind was ranked number seventeen, placing higher than titles like Thriller and The Dark Side of the Moon.

The Cure - particularly Smith - exerted much more control over the release of 1980's Seventeen Seconds.

Whether you're seven or seventeen, it's all about the bling.

Seventeen men were selected to compete for Megan's attention.

In an interview with Seventeen magazine, Chanel said she named the brand in honor of girls from the Valley, like herself, who live a "Hollywood lifestyle."