How To Use Sixteen In A Sentence
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Except for the fact that his hair was a solid black, the thin, slight boy of about fifteen or sixteen bore an uncanny resemblance to Kunihiko.
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Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is on the lineup, as is outgoing Pentagon undersecretary for policy Eric Edelman and proliferation official Bob Joseph (he of the Sixteen Words).
We Look To The Horizon | ATTACKERMAN
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Sixteen years later, her ardour hasn't dimmed.
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She is sixteen but has a mental age of five.
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The first great European ocean sailors were sent out in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to explore the world.
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To remove these difficulties, we transmit you a certified copy of an authenticated decree of the National Convention of France, of the sixteenth Pluviose, second year of the Republic; (February fifth, 1794,) which has been lately received by the Pennsylvania
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921
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Süleyman the Magnificent in the sixteenth century extended his reach from the Sudan and the northern shore of Africa to Baghdad and far into Europe, where - twice - Turkish rams would batter at the gates of Vienna.
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Sixteen teams will compete in the group stages on Saturday, with the bowl, plate and finals to take place the following day.
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Last March members organised the first two-week permaculture course for sixteen intending residents and the general public.
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He got his first job in Joyce's of Ballymoe at the age of sixteen and went into business himself some years later as a street trader.
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I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
Horrible Boys
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Sixteen people were injured in the attack.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chances of obtaining a "larl" with one throw of one die is one in six, of obtaining "larls" with two dice, one in thirty-six, of obtaining "larls" with three dice, one in two hundred and sixteen, and so on.
Magicians of Gor
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The premise of this show is that a beautiful girl goes on TV to find true love amongst sixteen eligible bachelors.
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Sixteen hours later, cells from both groups were subjected to OGD for 6 hrs, fixed under hypoxia, the nuclei were Hoechst-stained and then scored (in a blinded fashion) for presence of either a normal vs pyknotic / mis-shapen / condensed morphology.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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In the heliocentric universe conceived by the sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, for example, planets orbited the Sun in perfect circles.
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Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished.
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The milliammeter showed sixteen or seventeen; that was about normal at the beginning of the run.
In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs
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A total of fifteen salmon were caught by anglers ranging in age from four years to sixteen years.
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His work thus has the tendency to reproduce the elisions of the religious and political polemics of the sixteenth century while seeking to explain them.
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Jupiter has sixteen moons
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Sixteen standing commissions were also created to advise on domestic and foreign affairs.
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An important development of the early sixteenth century was the Apocalyptic image of her, standing in front of a sunburst, crowned with twelve stars, with at her feet a crescent moon.
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They proposed raising the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen and extending the provisions of the Industrial Schools Amendment Act.
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The sixteenth variation - a famous tour-de-force - is a ‘French overture’ - that is, a grand introduction of slow dotted rhythms, followed by a fugal allegro.
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In the sixteenth chapter, Gibbon examines the persecution of Christians by several Roman emperors.
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Recently, literary scholars have been keen to discuss the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in terms of continuity as well as change.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This red delaine I wore to a spelling bee when I was about sixteen and I got a book for a prize for standing up next to last.
Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'
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Sixteen days after liver transplantation a deterioration in liver function tests occurred and liver biopsy showed cytomegalovirus inclusion bodies.
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It will be observed that this hymn provided syllables only for the six tones of the _hexachord_ then recognized; when the octave scale was adopted (early in the sixteenth century) the initial letters of the last line (s and i) were combined into a syllable for the seventh tone.
Music Notation and Terminology
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Phil felt all of sixteen again and remembered as if it were yesterday the repercussions of her aftergame tryst with Kyle Thompson under the bleachers.
Good Girl Gone Bad
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Beginning in the sixteenth century many Greek classics were translated into the popular languages.
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It was October 17, 1896 and I was nearly sixteen. On an impulse, I opened the book again.
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For they barter even for pieces of porringus, and of broken glass cups, so that I saw sixteen skeins of cotton given for three Portuguese centis, that is a blanca of Castile, and there was more than twenty-five pounds of spun cotton in them.
The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
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The small tower room had been given to Sameth on his sixteenth birthday and had had much use since then.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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At the age of sixteen he qualified for a place at the University of Hamburg.
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If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty. Chris Rock
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But the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
The Times Literary Supplement
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The man is a sixteenth Spanish navigator.
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The Philosophical Transactions, * [629] in the last century contain accounts of Cesarean section performed by an ignorant butcher and also by a midwife; and there are many records of the celebrated case performed by Jacob Nüfer, a cattle gelder, at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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By definition, many thirteen-year-olds in secondary schools will be achieving at the level of many sixteen-year-olds.
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When Jaggard and Blount published the First Folio, they apparently purchased sixteen of the previously unprinted plays from the King's Men and negotiated with the owners of the remaining 20 who had registered titles.
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He thought vaguely what a good moral the contrast would have pointed to the sixteenthly of one of his great ancestor's sermons; then he fell to wondering if the old gentleman's theology would have stood the strain of an experience like this.
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
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MR. STILL: -- I take this opportunity of writing a few lines to you hoping that tha may find you in good health and femaly. i am well at present and doing well at present i am now in a store and getting sixteen dollars a month at the present. i feel very much o blige to you and your family for your kindnes to me while
The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Auth
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Yet proverbs were objects of curiosity, collected on an encyclopedic scale by Italian virtuosi as well as other European scholars throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Similarly, sixteenth-century Italian paintings show little of the various new Turkish types influenced by Ottoman court art that were arriving in Venice by the 1530s.
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In the first part of the sixteenth century it had been one of the busiest and richest trading cities in the world.
HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
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The pastorale was another form which flourished from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, sometimes having religious texts and then again voicing secular sentiments.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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[455] For the early divisions of verse and prose story were all Topsies, and simply "growed"; although the smaller romances of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and the larger of the latter date, were undoubtedly influenced by the Greek, it was more a case of general imitation than specific endeavour; the Sensibility school was very limited and chiefly attended to tricks of manner; and the "Romantic vague" was never vaguer than in the vast and rather formless, though magnificent and delightful, novel-work started by Nodier, Mérimée,
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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'Man's Fate,' translated into sixteen languages, is probably his masterpiece.
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The permanent embassy building with which we are so familiar had no counterpart in sixteenth-century London.
Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
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The main entertainment room was called the Internationale and held sixteen hundred people for the dinner show and nineteen hundred for the late show.
Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!)
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Chapter sixteen has been written from the viewpoint of establishing bioavailability and bioequivalence of drugs and formulations.
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The arrobe of Castile contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the
Les Miserables
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Two years past, he had managed to work a parole from the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville for a celebrity convict author, a man who had been in and out of reformatories and jails since he was sixteen.
The Glass Rainbow
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Polyphonic sound is basically a ringtone that can produce more than two notes at a time, sixteen to be precise, allowing for a tune that covers a broader spectrum of music.
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Kaspar Campèll, who in the first half of the sixteenth century preached the Reformed religion in the Engadine.] [Footnote 4: I have translated and printed at the end of the second volume some sonnets of Petrarch as a kind of palinode for this impertinence.] [Footnote 5: This begs the question whether [Greek: leukoion] does not properly mean snowflake, or some such flower.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
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Sometimes his working day would last sixteen or more hours.
The Search for Justice - a history of Britain and the British people Volume III
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The success of the humanists fostered a palpable sense of the difference between fifteenth- and sixteenth-century attitudes toward cultural inheritance and earlier attitudes.
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As well as levelling the town, the quake has also destroyed what remained of the ancient city and its sixteenth century citadel.
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The point is that the president is getting a team together of young fire-eaters that can work sixteen hour days up to and through the election.
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There have been sixteen drug regulatory actions worldwide against triazolam since 1980 aimed at the manufacturer's recommended doses.
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Reuter, a trooper, which has given the sixteenth-century Eng. rutter, but not as a surname.
The Romance of Names
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Project of a new system of arithmetic, weight, measure, and coins, proposed to be called the tonal system, with sixteen to the base.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
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But besides his height his body showed the average maturity of a sixteen year old.
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Florentine Codex: an encyclopedia of Nahua culture and life in precontact Mexico, composed under the auspices of Fray Bernardo de Sahagún during the sixteenth century.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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They wear three braids when they are thirteen or fourteen, and five braids at the age of fifteen or sixteen.
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Man Singh, also a vassal to the Mughal Empire, had nonetheless managed to live with the extravagance of a king, with sixteen hundred wives populating his zenana, a veritable swarm of children, so many sons he could not remember all of their names.
Shadow Princess
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In parts of Europe, the legal drinking age for beer, and sometimes hard liquor, is sixteen.
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Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with a sixteenth century, copper Portuguese mirror.
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He looked to be sixteen or seventeen and he was kind of small.
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Broker figured fourteen to sixteen hours of nonstop paddle and portage to the lodge.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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I was exiled from my village when I was sixteen under the charge of witchery.
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Sixteen years old, he wears a nylon jacket with round cigarette burns in the shell, dirty cotton batting seeping out.
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Sixteen songs, and not a clunker amongst them, really is an embarrassment of riches and will surely bring this gifted singer songwriter the audience he deserves.
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His conception of the infernal regions had been actively debated throughout the sixteenth century, two opposed views having been set forth by commentators on Dante's text.
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The sixteen digit strings were converted to floating point losing the last digit of precision so all numbers ended in zero.
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My escape and at moments my salvation from this particular trail was to come in the form of nearly sixteen hundred acres of blackland prairie in an extended finger of the Texas Hill Country, a ranch near a town named Crawford.
Spoken from the Heart
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I looked up from my book and saw this guy who looked like he was around sixteen or seventeen.
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After the driver brought him to the River Overlook Hotel, he gave the taxi driver a sixteen percent tip on his fare, and took his baggage out of the taxicab's trunk.
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Four is the square root of sixteen, everyone is able to calculate it.
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It was for sixteen-year-olds at an all-girls school (like hers, long time ago, in Secunderabad, St. Ann's) with a crush on a cricket player (like Imran Khan, it was almost natural to have a crush on him).
For the Sake of the Boy
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He was tall and lanky, with angry dark eyes, and looked about sixteen or seventeen at the most.
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The two manufactures produce about three Kantars, or fifteen or sixteen quintals per month of saltpetre, which is sold at about fifteen shillings per quintal.
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
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He orders the witch to repel the charge of sorcery by the oath of sixteen women, so these jurywomen must have been often exposed to peremptory challenges.
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Allegretto third movement with an endless stream of sixteenth note rhythms, showing a dynamic and imaginative spiritual realm.
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Every moment dies a man, every moment one and one sixteenth is born.
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Hence find bireme, hemiolia, merchantman, myoparo, quinquereme, sixteener and trireme in the glossary of Fortune's Favorites.
Fortune's Favorites
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Several Jewish enclaves already existed within the Holy Roman Empire (from Prague to Frankfurt) well before the sixteenth century.
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Sixteen Irish people would be brought to an uninhabited island in the South Pacific and left there to survive on the food they could gather or kill for themselves.
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On the outward downwind leg, against the flood tide, he covered the two miles in ‘half a quarter of one hour’, an impressive speed of sixteen knots.
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Plenty large enough to begin with, not less than sixteen feet long by twelve wide, and at least eleven high, all wood, not papered or painted, which I like much, as the kauri is a darkish grained wood; no carpet of course, but I am writing now at 10 P.M., with no fire, and quite warm.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson
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I had just turned sixteen and as a present Jimmy proposed to me.
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There was an older couple that picked me up who had been together since she was sixteen and he was seventeen, and they were driving around in an old jalopy, holding hands.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive: Playing For Change's "Groove In G," Plus A Conversation With Author Paul Samuel Dolman
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I look at the photo of me at sixteen with dyed black hair and a zit on my chin and think, ‘why did they let me out in public?’
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Sixteen years later, her ardour hasn't dimmed.
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Reformers of the sixteenth century, partly followed by the Baianist and Jansenist school, so minimized the native power and moral value of our free will as to make final perseverance depend on God alone, while their pretended fiducial faith and inadmissibility of grace led to the conclusion that we can, in this world, have absolute certainty of our final perseverance.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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This is the sixteenth book by a woman whose name has become the byword for the authentic account of Irish living in the ‘Forties’ and ‘Fifties’.
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For historians of reading and historians of the book, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries offer particularly rich ground for tracing the evolution of the reading experience.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He bought her a birthday card with a big gold sixteen on the front.
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Mayan civilization had collapsed by the sixteenth century, when Spanish expeditions reached the area.
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Pin-tsun Chang, "Maritime Trade and Local Economy in Late Ming Fukien," 63 – 82; Ren-Chuan Lin, "Fukien's Private Sea Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," 163 – 216; and Chin-Keong Ng, "The South Fukienese Junk Trade at Amoy from the Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries," 297 – 316.
How Taiwan Became Chinese
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In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries this jurisdiction was abandoned by the Chancellor and passed to the Court of Star Chamber.
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A student over sixteen reckons as two under eleven in the calculation of school building costs.
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Tests will be administered to schoolchildren at seven, twelve and sixteen years.
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She was received into the Christian church at the age of sixteen.
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The soldiers on the ground got pinned down for sixteen hours.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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Apart from the writings of Erasmus and Luther only two books of the sixteenth century can be acclaimed as bestsellers.
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Round here, you leave school at sixteen and next thing you know, you're married with three kids.
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The elevation of the Bible by the Protestants, and particularly the Calvinists — what has been called the bibliolatry of the sixteenth century — was to have im - portant and widespread consequences.
CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY
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By the time I was sixteen I was sailing in scow-schooners, fishing salmon with the Greeks up the Sacramento River, and serving as sailor on the Fish Patrol.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING
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Religious opposition to coffee drinking resulted in political proscription a number of times during the sixteenth century.
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By the mid-sixteenth century it had emerged as a distinct species of case involving four allegations.
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This music was full of accidentals, thirty-second notes, dotted whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes, slurs, ties and key changes.
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By the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, moral laxity in the administration of confession by the clergy was evident.
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Furthermore, not to be picky, but for a book that complains about poor vocabulary skills among digital readers and writers, I couldn't help but notice that on page sixteen he seems to misuse the word "querulous" in place of what sounds like he intended to be a synonym for "inquisitive.
Virtualpolitik
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Sixteen to 18 year olds could have other parts of their bodies pierced provided they had clearly verifiable permission from a parent or guardian.
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Sixteen goals conceded in 19 games is identical to last term.
The Sun
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For a millennium before the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the early sixteenth century, great cities flourished close to what is now the lively Peruvian coastal city of Chiclayo, as they did elsewhere in Peru.
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After sixteen weeks have elapsed it is worth checking that this is indeed happening.
Say Goodbye to Debt
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The concepts of both realism and instrumentality are tricky ones when it comes to moving from sixteenth-century Germany to late-twentieth-century North America.
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There are also countless manis, dykes of stone from six to sixteen feet in width and from twenty feet to a fourth of a mile in length, roofed with flattish stones, inscribed by the lamas (monks) with the phrase Aum, &c., and purchased and deposited by those who wish to obtain any special benefit from the gods, such as a safe journey.
Among the Tibetans
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At about the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a sign painter in whose shop his work included painting tinned cans.
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He looked about sixteen or seventeen, and his black hair was spiked up.
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The long Crusading Romance is relieved by a sequence of sixteen fabliaux, partly historiettes of men and beasts and partly apologues proper — a subject already noticed.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Today he won his tenth gold medal, and sixteenth medal overall.
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I never did, but I was a late bloomer, and had not yet begun to date in earnest by the time I was sixteen.
DOWNTOWN
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The changing iconography of witchcraft seems to relate to another trend that only developed fully in the later sixteenth century, that of turning demonology into a kind of experimental science.
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Shukla says that no existing appendix of the Atharva Veda contains the sixteen sutras, and when asked to produce them, Bharati Krishna was unable to.
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Sixteen metres below the raging battle, Hitler and his myrmidons were ensconced in a bunker that lacked the facilities to track enemy movements.
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I would not encourage my kids to smoke the stuff, but when they are sixteen, they can if they want.
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By the time whole areas up to the sixteenth floor were visible, David Childs's intentions could be seen clearly.
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Fragments found at the sixteenth-century Red Bank site in New Brunswick, Canada, show both twill and check weaves in cedar bark, possibly for mats or baskets.
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Ever since the late sixteenth century, the monuments from Britain's remote past have attracted the attentions of antiquaries, novelists, poets and, later, of historians and archaeologists.
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Do you remember when stock used to be priced in sixteenths of a dollar?
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The word aristocracy appeared late in our language, arriving via France in the mid-sixteenth century.
'Aristocrats'
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Portugal's sixteenth-century king Sebastian, ascribed messianic splendours after his death, was a total disaster in life.
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At the age of sixteen, he was abducted from his homeland of Kilpatrick and enslaved in Ireland.
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They had all been drinking even though the majority of them were sixteen and seventeen.
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A sixteen-page reference list in typescript of bills introduced, bills discussed, and special speeches delivered by La Fontaine, prepared by the Services d'étude et de documentation du sénat de Belgique.
Henri La Fontaine - Biography
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Although he resented his father for the neglect of the family he joined him as a fisherman when he was sixteen.
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Five and eleven add up to sixteen.
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I was a young strapper about sixteen years old, and thinking about wenches pretty hard and wanting something to help me out wid the one I liked best.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives
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The printed page is relatively wide, and the whole effect of the book is that of a tiny quarto, though in reality the dimensions are those of a rather small sixteenmo of normal proportions.
The Booklover and His Books
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For example, consider the widely accepted sixteenth-century ˜tower argument™ against the Copernican claim that the earth moves: the earth can't be moving, because a stone released from a tower will fall ˜straight down™ to the foot of the tower, and not land some distance to the west as apparently required by Copernicus.
Naturalism
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From the late sixteenth century, stasis replaced the earlier dynamism of ideas and applications.
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Girls fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen years of age, mere children, are out on the street when they should be in school.
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He opened it to find reel upon reel of sixteen millimeter film, labeled in black marker.
DO NO HARM
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The columns of these pillared porches have sixteen flutings, a plain abacus, and no plinth.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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She began to tremble in fear when her heart's steady pace quickened into a fast-paced minuet, her breath's stable rhythm raced into a sixteenth note, and her feet's adagio tempo sped into a presto.
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His half day off was invariably spent tinkering about the stuffy little flat -- painting, nailing up shelves, mending a broken window shade, puttying a window, playing with his pasty little boy, aged sixteen months, and his pasty little girl, aged three years.
Gigolo
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What influences prepared the way for the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century?
A Short Guide to Writing About History
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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries AD, the region was administered as a province of the Mogul Empire.
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Young people between the ages of ten and sixteen are usually dealt with in the Juvenile Court.
Working with Teenagers
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By the sixteenth square there was already a kilo of rice on the chess board.
Times, Sunday Times
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At home it had been so clear that for six dressing jackets there would be needed twenty-four yards of nainsook at sixteen pence the yard, which was a matter of thirty shillings besides the cutting-out and making, and these thirty shillings had been saved.
Anna Karenina
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It is calculated that the French of the sixteenth century had four hundred names for the parts genital and three hundred for their use in coition.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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There are six realms of Samsara staring at the Naraka or hell realms of which there are sixteen levels divided between Hot and Cold realms.
Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 8
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One late sixteenth-century commentator on America recommended it as a purge for superfluous phlegm; and smokers believed it functioned as an antidote for poisons, as an expellant for "sour" humors, and as a healer of wounds.
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699
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If some parts of this document sound like a reprise of themes from the sixteenth century, it is because those themes have grown faint for many.
Christianity Today
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In the sixteenth century the vessels of the Tabernacle motif appeared on the inner sides of the doors of the Holy Arks in Synagogues.
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Almost half of all working women have children under the age of sixteen.
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Rimbault (Edward F) on Agapemone of the sixteenth century, 50.
Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 2, May-December, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.
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[12] Mr.E. H. E.mes reports (in _The Auk_, vol.vii. p. 287) that, on dissecting a humming-bird, about two days old, he found sixteen young spiders in its throat, and a pultaceous mass of the same in its stomach.
The Foot-path Way
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Sixteen football teams are contending for the World Cup this year.
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Wright looks back to sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England to explain the social origins of Australia's distinctive pub culture.
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In the form shown in Fig. 73 we find, first, a row of sixteen simple leaves, like those of a reed, with the points of a second row showing between them; then a single row of eight acanthus leaves; then the scroll-work, supporting a palmette on each side; and finally an abacus whose profile is made up of a trochilus and an ovolo.
A History of Greek Art
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And on Cinematreasures. org, one explorer posted a note about sneaking into the Plaza and finding posters for "Sixteen Candles" and "Amadeus" - movies that were in theaters around the time the Plaza went dark.
Undefined
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Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style says the word "guillemet" honors the the sixteenth-century typecutter Guillaume le Bé. octothorpe: #
Archive 2008-05-01
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This morning, I did three miles on cruise control (around a fifteen-sixteen minute mile) without even pausing, and felt like I was good for another three (I walked in the door eight minutes ago and my pulse is already back under 90), but I decided to quit while I was ahead -- because three miles was my goal, and it seems like I should celebrate that with some sort of reward -- and because I am climbing tonight, and it seemed silly to kick my ass that totally beforehand.
They keep building all these big buildings and they build them all in one-- --spot.
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The ebony veneered case was probably made by one of the other Flemish artisans active in Rome in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished.
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The horse stood sixteen hands high, its jet black coat gleaming in the sunlight.
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When the quarter of wheat is sold for a shilling, then the wastell, well boulted and clean, shall weigh six pounds sixteen shillings.
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc
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After her astounding success with The Merry Widow, Elsie performed in sixteen more musical comedies, including The Dollar Princess in 1909; as “Franzi” in A Waltz Dream; and as “Angèle” in The Count of Luxembourg, both in 1911.
Cocotte of the Week: Lily Elsie | Edwardian Promenade
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A boy of sixteen, Charles sat on the bench by the window.
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In Germany in the sixteenth century the Briefmaler, or print colorist, either used stencils to cover predetermined portions of a print or executed the coloring freehand.
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In the late sixteenth century, English borrowed this word, now spelled mountebank, to refer to those roaming charlatans who would step onto a box or bench to attract the attention of potential buyers of such dubious offerings as “snake oil” medicine.1
The English Is Coming!
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But in the sixteenth century houses changed, a process which had begun much earlier but now became commonplace.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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Somewhat nervously, she pressed the button for the elevator that would take her up to the sixteenth floor and Adrienne.
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Sixteen years after the Surgeon General made fat public enemy No. 1, the American consumer - fatter than ever in a low-fat world - has turned a bilious eye on foods like bread and pasta.
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She entered a convent at the age of sixteen.
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In early 1942 she was appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards, at sixteen she carried out her first public engagement, when she inspected the regiment.
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Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with a sixteenth century, copper Portuguese mirror.
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There were eight drink driving offences in the first week, twelve in the second, sixteen in the third and eighteen in the fourth.
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When he was sixteen he joined a religious sect.
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He couldn't believe you were only just sixteen, Maria dearest.
THE GOLDEN LION
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The part of this clause relating to the mode of apportionment of representatives among the several States was changed by the Fourteenth Amendment, and as to taxes on incomes without apportionment, by the Sixteenth Amendment.
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I managed to beat him out for the position of head patron at age sixteen.
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I spent all but the two of my first sixteen years living in Japan, so even if I look like a gaijin, which I do, I am from Japan.
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A communal shower and bathroom served at least sixteen people.
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Out of seventy children in the village school only sixteen could go on to further education after the age of ten or eleven.
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The sublime is a concept that was first imagined in the first century AD by Longinus (but not really rediscovered until the sixteenth century), for whom the sublime was about greatness, loftiness, and elevation, inspiring awe and veneration.
Wunderkammern vs. Cabinets of Curiosity
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Alongside me was Sam Ratcliffe who, at the tender age of sixteen, had already had quite a bit of publicity.
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At Sevres, where the manufactory moved in 1756, some apprentices were accepted at the ages of nine or ten if they showed artistic ability, but they did not receive a wage until they were sixteen.
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The so-called Philadelphia bandbox was a tiny row house, ten to sixteen feet wide, built for renting to recent immigrants; on fashionable Society Hill the houses were wider and grander but were also built in rows.
Living Smaller
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Item, six thousand and sixteen Seleucid birds marching in battalia, and picking up straggling grasshoppers in cornfields.
Archive 2008-07-01
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It may be noted that the connecting rod is made up of exactly sixteen atoms of occultum, and that sixteen such atoms contain 864 ultimate atoms, the exact member of atoms in titanium.
Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements
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Wilson 12.164 mentions an instance of gastrotomy which was performed for the extraction of a fork swallowed sixteen years before.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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We only have about four hundred students in all, so the most we have in a class in fifteen or sixteen.
