Thirteenth Sentence Examples

On the thirteenth of August Pierre reached Moscow.

Vermont has been governed under the constitution of 1777, that of 1786 and that of 1793, with twentyeight amendments, of which the first was adopted in 1828, the second to thirteenth in 1836, the fourteenth to twenty-third in 1850, the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth in 1870, and the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth in 1883.

It seems probable that his parents were among the early converts of Wesley; at any rate, Francis became converted to Methodism in his thirteenth year, and at sixteen became a local preacher.

If he marries, it is to have children who may celebrate them after his death; if he has no children, he lies under the strongest obligation to adopt them from another family, ` with a view,' writes the Hindu doctor, ` to the funeral cake, the water and the solemn sacrifice.'" "May there be born in our lineage," so the Indian Manes are supposed to say, "a man to offer to us, on the thirteenth day of the moon, rice boiled in milk, honey and ghee."

Euclid discusses them in the thirteenth book of his Elements, where he proves that no more regular bodies are possible, and shows how to inscribe them in a sphere.

His precocity was extraordinary; at three years of age he was able to read, and in his thirteenth year he composed Greek and Latin orations and delivered them in public. When he was about eighteen he went to the university of Copenhagen and afterwards studied at Rostock and Wittenberg.

The doubling of the sign of Pisces still recalls, according to Sayce, 8 the arrangement of the Babylonian calendar, in which a year of 360 days was supplemented once in six years by a thirteenth month, a second Adar.

In her thirteenth year her brother promised her in marriage to Alphonso of Portugal, but she firmly refused to consent; her resistance seemed less likely to be effectual in the case of Pedro Giron, grand master of the order of Calatrava and brother of the marquis of Villena, to whom she was next affianced, when she was delivered from her fears by the sudden death of the bridegroom while on his way to the nuptials in 1466.

The number of peach-trees, especially in the west part of the state, where the quality is of the best, is rapidly increasing, and in the yield of peaches and nectarines the state ranked thirteenth in 1899; in the yield of pears it ranked fifth; in apples seventeenth.

In 1899 the total value of fruit grown in Kentucky was $2,491,457 (making the state rank thirteenth among the states of the Union in the value of this product), of which $ 1, 943, 6 45 was the value of orchard fruits and $435,462 that of small fruits.

The general's supremacy received a shock when the eleventh general congregation appointed Oliva as vicar, with the right of succession and powers that practically superseded those of the general Goswin Nickel, whose infirmities, it is said, did not permit him to govern with the necessary application and vigour; and an attempt was made to depose Tirso Gonzalez, the thirteenth general, whose views on probabilism diverged from those favoured by the rest of the Jesuits.

In the thirteenth, after the death of Alexander (June 323) in the archonship of Cephisodorus (323-322), having departed to Chalcis, he died of disease (322), after a life of three-and-sixty years.

The Period Of Meton, Therefore, Consisted Of Twelve Years Containing Twelve Months Each, And Seven Years Containing Thirteen Months Each; P And These Last Formed The Third, Fifth, Eighth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Sixteenth, And Nineteenth Years Of The Cycle.

According to the presidential plan of reorganization, a provisional governor for Alabama was appointed in June 1865; a state convention met in September of the same year, and declared the ordinance of secession null and void and slavery abolished; a legislature and a governor were elected in November, the legislature was at once recognized by the National government, and the inauguration of the governor-elect was permitted after the legislature had, in December, ratified the thirteenth amendment.

A governor and legislature were elected in November 1865, the legislature ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on the 9th of December and five days later the governor-elect was inaugurated.

In January 1895 he was elected to the chamber as a Socialist for the thirteenth arrondissement of Paris.

They begin in the thirteenth year of his reign, and tell us that in the ninth year he had invaded Kalinga, and had been so deeply impressed by the horrors involved in warfare that he had then given up the desire for conquest, and devoted himself to conquest by "religion."

He further tells us that in the ninth year of his reign he formally joined the Buddhist community as a layman, in the eleventh year he became a member of the order, and in the thirteenth he "set out for the Great Wisdom" (the Sambodhi), which is the Buddhist technical term for entering upon the well-known, eightfold path to Nirvana.

The extent of Asoka's dominion included all India from the thirteenth degree of latitude up to the Himalayas, Nepal, Kashmir, the Swat valley, Afghanistan as far as the Hindu Kush, Sind and Baluchistan.

Mineptah, the thirteenth son in the huge family of Rameses, must have been old when he ascended the throne; after his first years of reign his energies gave way, and he was followed by a quick succession of inglorious rulers, Seti II., the queen Tuosri, Amenmesse, Siptah; the names of the last two were erased from their monuments.

Every child is bound to attend the parish school at least from the seventh to the thirteenth year, unless the parents can prove that it receives suitable instruction in other ways.

By her thirteenth year she had acquired Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish, German and other languages.

In his thirteenth year his father died, leaving the family well-to-do; the home at Woodford was broken up, as being unnecessarily large; and in 1848 William Morris went to Marlborough, where his father had bought him a nomination.

The new legislature was the first among the legislatures of the states to ratify (on the 1st of February 1865) the Thirteenth Amendment.

In its period of 406 days it fluctuates between the thirteenth and the fourth magnitudes; thus at maximum it emits 4000 times as much light as at minimum.

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.

It is true that in the thirteenth and fourteenth books the purpose of Zeus is thwarted for a time by other, gods; but in books ii.-vii.

In his thirteenth year he went to Magdalen College, Oxford, and two years after took his degree in arts.

The fourth, which alone has any political significance, and reflects on the emperor as a frivolous 1 This is especially noticeable in the seventh satire, but it applies also to the mention of Crispinus, Latinus, the class of delatores, &c., in the first, to the notice of Veiento in the third, of Rubellius Blandus in the eighth, of Gallicus in the thirteenth, &c.

San Francisco in 1900 held twelfth place among the cities of the Union in value of output; in 1905 it ranked thirteenth.

In his thirteenth year he was sent to the evangelical seminary at Blaubeuren, near Ulm, to be prepared for the study of theology.

The Patriarchate of Alexandria, consisting of Egypt and its dependencies, was at one time the most powerful, as it was the most centralized, of all, and the patriarch still preserves his ancient titles of " pope " and " father of fathers, pastor of pastors, archpriest of archpriests, thirteenth apostle, and oecumenical judge."

Elected as an Anti-Nebraska Democrat, he naturally joined the Republicans, and when this party secured control in the Senate he was made chairman of the important judiciary committee, from which he reported the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States abolishing slavery.

There were consequently a few vestiges of the slavery system in New Jersey until the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution.

The state readily consented to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution, but in 1868 withdrew its consent to the latter.

The prince was wounded in the heat of the action, this being the thirteenth time that he had been hit upon the field of battle.

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.

He came forward as a prophet in the thirteenth year of Josiah (626 B.C.), still young but irresistibly impelled.

Lightfoot was also one of the original members of the Westminster Assembly; his "Journal of the Proceedings of the Assembly of Divines from January 1, 1643 to December 31, 1644," now printed in the thirteenth volume of the 8vo edition of his Works, is a valuable historical source for the brief period to which it relates.

It is therefore not surprising that the Aeolic element grew weaker; strangers or refugees from the Ionian Colophon settled in the city, and finally Smyrna passed into the hands of the Colophonians and became the thirteenth of the Ionian states.

The Thirteenth, raised as heavy dragoons (mounted infantrymen) as early as 1715, were also converted to the light role.

Thus, Morris's work indirectly augments our sense of changes that took place between the thirteenth century and the late fourteenth.

Saintonge ware is the most common type of imported medieval pottery found in the city from the middle of the thirteenth century.

It is uncertain when territorial prebends were introduced, all that can be stated for certain is that it was during the thirteenth century.

It has a romanesque crypt, twelfth century quire and thirteenth century stained glass windows.

During the twelfth century it expanded rapidly as a trading center and by the early thirteenth was one of the principal ports of England.

Beside a common core of early matter, all these manuscripts contain law which is manifestly of twelfth and even thirteenth century origin.

Among 55 to 64 year-olds, Britain is ranked thirteenth among the thirty OECD nations.

A third round of spades revealed that East now held the thirteenth trump.

But that neither plea would avail her for a moment in Scotland she had ominous evidence on the thirteenth day after her marriage, when no response was made to the usual form of proclamation for a raid or levy of forces under pretext of a campaign against the rievers of the border.

In his thirteenth year, encouraged by friends who had even then remarked his aptitude for mathematical and physical science, he entered the university of St Andrews.

By the early thirteenth century the fortunes of Bridport were on the up.

On his thirteenth birthday, Joan treats him to a trip to London to buy his first pair of Levi 's Jeans.

The thirteenth chapter of Luke takes us deeper into the ministry of the gospel of God.

It will take place tomorrow, which is the thirteenth anniversary of the 1993 abolition of Soviet-era laws against male homosexuality.

Welcome to the thirteenth edition of the Law Careers Advice Network Newsletter.

She was reading the walls of the white granite wall on the northern side of the thirteenth floor.

This will be the thirteenth in a series of intrusion-detection workshops.

Clicking on Canals No 13 - The thirteenth of a regular series of articles on waterways on the internet.

Of these, 13 were baptized on the thirteenth of that month.

Rycroft first appeared as one of the bachelorettes on the thirteenth season of the popular dating show The Bachelor.

Stewart was cast in her first role in the television production of Disney's The Thirteenth Year.

Depending on the style of music you play, your familiarity with the more complicated chords, like suspended chords, sixth chords, thirteenth chords, etc., will likely vary.

A reproduction, the thirteenth bottle, illustrates clearly the differences between the original Hutchinson bottle and the reproduction.

Several slasher film franchises were born in the eighties, most notably Friday the Thirteenth and A Nightmare on Elm Street; each of which has piled up multiple sequels.

A thirteenth god, named Loki, walks in uninvited.

In this list, the Babylonians decided to do without a thirteenth law.

At the last supper, the thirteenth guest to arrive was Judas.

However, even before Christianity, religions made mention of the thirteenth.

Boston stockbroker Thomas Larson wrote Friday the Thirteenth, a book about a horrible businessman who attempted to crash the stock market on that date.

Many hotels built in the past and today do not have a named thirteenth floor.

The thirteenth Bachelor was Jason Mesnick, a single dad.

Melissa Rycroft is a former contestant on The Bachelor, during the thirteenth season of the show.

There are seven human models, five original Cylons from the thirteenth tribe and a missing eighth model that was destroyed.

They escaped in the last ships of the fleet and fled into space to find the mysterious thirteenth colony, a planet known as Earth.

The work includes the thirteenth book by Mapheus Vegius; and each of the thirteen books is introduced by a prologue.

The tenth canon tolerates the marriages of deacons who previous to ordination had reserved the right to take a wife; the thirteenth forbids chorepiscopi to ordain presbyters or deacons; the eighteenth safeguards the right of the people in objecting to the appointment of a bishop whom they do not wish.

The thirteenth 4to volume was issued in 1904.

In the thirteenth year of the war, Euphaes, the Messenian king, died.

It was finished in the thirteenth year of Domitian (93).

The civil year consisted in general of twelve months or lunations, but occasionally a thirteenth was added in order to preserve its correspondence with the solar year.

Thus Kea-tsze is the name of the first year, YihChow that of the second, Kea-setih that of the eleventh, Yih-hae that of the twelfth, Ping-tsze that of the thirteenth, and so on.

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

Delegates to a new constitutional convention were elected in 1868, the constitution framed by this body was ratified in November 1869, state officers and congressmen were elected the same day, the new legislature ratified the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, and on the 30th of March 1870 Texas was readmitted to the Union.

In his thirteenth year he was apprenticed to his halfbrother James, who was establishing himself in the printing business, and who in 1721 started the New England Courant, one of the earliest newspapers in America.

The " verification " of this hypothesis, offered in the thirteenth and following chapters of the second book, goes to show in detail that even those ideas which are " most abstruse," how remote soever they may seem from original data of outward sense, or of inner consciousness, " are only such as the understanding frames to itself by repeating and joining together simple ideas that it had at first, either from perceiving objects of sense, or from reflection upon its own operations."

The first book that gave me any real sense of the value of history was Swinton's "World History," which I received on my thirteenth birthday.

On the thirteenth of June the French and Russian Emperors arrived in Tilsit.

On the thirteenth of June a rather small, thoroughbred Arab horse was brought to Napoleon.

On the thirteenth of July the Pavlograds took part in a serious action for the first time.

Patau syndrome is confirmed by the presence of three, rather than the normal two, copies of the thirteenth largest chromosome.

A thirteenth card is placed in the center of the circle to give an overall reading for the year.

His long, thin fingers could span a thirteenth on the keyboard.