| 单词 | eighteen |
| 例句 | A boy and a girl—both older than him, maybe eighteen or nineteen, would be getting their rings today and become junior scythes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If he got married at eighteen he’d be ruining all that. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Older, somehow, even though he had just turned eighteen. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “This one’s about fourteen years old, this one’s twelve, this one just turned eighteen, this one’s...” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z They finally found a dingy room in a building downtown, rented it for eighteen dollars a week, and immediately went out looking for work. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For the first time since our family had been forced into the ghetto some eighteen months before, the five of us still together were to be separated. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I keep it vague because I don’t want to break the news to this bookseller that the customers he’s ringing up are dying at seventeen and eighteen. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Deductible. Meds. Hospital stays. Surgeries. When I turn eighteen, no more full coverage.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z It took eighteen stitches to close the cut across my eyebrow, some inside the skin, and some outside. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I was only eighteen years old, the youngest in my chalk. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The winter that Ana turned eighteen, Prince Aidan and his soldiers returned home at last from a successful five-year campaign in the south. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z After eighteen sentences that mix wistful nostalgia with abstract philosophizing, the reverie is punctured by a stark revelation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Naturally there are a few smashups every day. The speed limit is eighteen miles in the city, but everybody goes thirty to thirty five, or forty, even in the down-town section.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z None were more than eighteen months apart in age, all blond and freckled and sunburned, and who could tell one from the other? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z There was a huge debate a couple years ago about whether or not Deckers eighteen and up should be allowed to purchase drinks. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z About fifteen feet forward-ship from the first row of deck chairs, and eighteen or twenty rather sun-blinding feet overhead; a young man was steadily watching him from the Sports Deck railing. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Old times with R.C. hadn’t always been fun, but maybe fishing wouldn’t be so bad; he was eighteen and probably had mellowed some since we were kids. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z "Well, don't bother copying that one. Twenty-three barrels of pickled cod, eighteen jars of fish oil, a cask of salt ..." "An inventory," Sam said, "or perhaps a bill of sale." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The girl would be seventeen or eighteen now, he realized; older than Robert had been when he fathered her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “He was eighteen feet from nose to tail,” the fisherman who was measuring him called. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z One summer my dad harpooned eighteen tuna, twice as many as the next best man in Spinney Cove. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Paul told Nate that he’d been in the army for more than eighteen months, and stationed here in New York City since May. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “When the doctor first asked me to do this, I could reach twenty-three. Now it’s eighteen.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Within the average, older children ages eight to eighteen spent nearly double the time with media than toddlers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I added five to eighteen, the typical age for coming out, and came up with the usual result. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “We’re not getting married, Kojo. Under current law, the minimum age of marriage in this state is eighteen. We’re both twelve. Case closed. Do you have your note from your mom and dad?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Her hands shook and her lips chattered together as if she’d just come in from a snowstorm although it was warm and humid outside, about eighteen degrees. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, he left when he was like eighteen,” said Andrew. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He had gone beyond where I—being just eighteen—could measure age. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A wiry girl of seventeen or eighteen years stepped up beside Lord Nestor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Booth’s father abandoned his first wife and two children in England and fled to America with eighteen- year-old Mary Ann Holmes, who became Booth’s mother. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, choiceless, she went, leaving husband, sister, Rose Dear and May behind, and if she worried, the blond baby helped soothe her, and kept her entertained for eighteen years, until he left home. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, at eighteen, Matthias suspected that he was the oldest of the bunch. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I’m betting he’s at least eighteen, betting he stands alone at parties leaning against walls, knocking back shots while long-legged girls in fire-engine red mini-dresses slink up to him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There were eighteen different types of rendezvous which could result if various things went wrong. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I spoke to you for the first time when I was eighteen, on the stage of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, when I introduced my mother as the nominee for president. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven twenty-eight twenty-nine... The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A boy about Mark’s age named Darnell is next, then a girl named Misty—another teenager, but older, maybe eighteen—then a dude, also older than Mark, but short and loaded with muscles. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He’d come away with eighteen fish and had furthermore set his net in the dark beside a large and labyrinthine kelp island. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They were seventeen and eighteen and doomed from the start, both convinced they were the smartest person in any room. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was like some bizarre version of a geocaching club; the minute somebody’s daughter turned eighteen, all the aunties began to scheme the shortest route from her parents’ home to the ultimate prize—her sasural. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z If I throw twenty darts at a target and manage to hit the bull’s-eye eighteen times, the next time I throw twenty darts, I probably won’t do as well. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She would be eighteen years old today if her life hadn't been cut short. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z That meant Charlie wouldn't be sent to an adult prison, and he would likely be released before he turned eighteen, in just a few years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Instead, we shouted, “Please, we are harmless and just passing by,” in every possible one of the eighteen local languages that each of us knew. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Julia moans nonstop about being eighteen but eighteen’s epic, from where I’m standing. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It can make about fifteen or eighteen miles an hour—quite fast enough when you have no windshield and no springs. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Since the 1940s, the United States had kept a draft in place, requiring all men ages eighteen to twenty-four to register for military service. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He didn’t appear to be very old: eighteen, maybe nineteen at most. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I can't do this myself for all kinds of reasons, not the least of which is that you have to be eighteen years old to even legally operate the equipment. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “I'm going to be eighteen in a month. I think I should be allowed to have a lock on my door.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Twenty minutes later, Ben Meecham, eighteen years old, on the brink of manhood, was carried from the Officers’ Club of Ravenel Air Station on the shoulders of his father. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Here I am, counting down to eighteen, while Poe is trying to slow time down, wishing for more of it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Would they follow me around, a smudge on my record until I was eighteen when it would finally disappear? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z If he canceled his insurance he would get a check from the insurance company for eighteen thousand dollars. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Grierson, meanwhile, merely walked, but he did so for as much as eighteen hours a day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z My dad thankfully had the common sense to send me to the bank after I turned eighteen so I could get a debit card. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “I have to wait until I’m eighteen on account of Mother. But do you think I’m good-looking?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Over eighteen hours had passed since our last conversation, and there was little chance that the Sunday papers would have distracted him upon his return to the Green Door. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Mother says I may when I’m eighteen perhaps, but two years is an everlasting time to wait.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was eighteen, she got into a bus accident that broke her spine, crushed her right leg and foot, and made it impossible for her to have babies. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z My mother is sitting at the table with a girl who looks around eighteen. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z When a. filovirus begins to amplify itself in a human being, the incubation period is from three to eighteen days, while the number of virus particles climbs steadily in the bloodstream. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ooh wee! Yo, Benny, we got steel and eighteens on this one!” he shouted like he was talking about a car. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He walked all day, about eighteen miles, looking for a stretch of the Tumen that was shallow and easily crossed. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Still, it had been decided to build the walls three feet thick this time instead of eighteen inches as before, which meant collecting much larger quantities of stone. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They dated for eighteen months before he asked her to marry him. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z During the eighteen years of his reign, the city acquired diplomatic stature and commercial clout; its population grew to perhaps ten thousand and it established trade contacts throughout Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “You keep calling us kids,” I say to Jacqui, “but you don’t look any older than eighteen.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Holmes would increase his salary from twelve to eighteen dollars a week, so that Ned could pay Holmes six dollars a week to cover the purchase. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He had been smoking them since he was sixteen, and regularly, as many as a dozen a day—expensive panatelas, for the most part—since he was eighteen. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z I started to explain and go back to page eighteen when it came to me that he had not even noticed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The outer shell was the crust, and it was about eighteen miles thick. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z As if you weren’t supposed to get sick when you were eighteen. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the course of eighteen months Bruno published six books in London, all of them written in Italian. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The next morning, as another thousand children between the ages of six and eighteen gathered at a church to march, Connor unleashed a furious preemptive strike. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z There was eighteen dollars and sixty-two cents in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z After eighteen hours of discussion and debate over a two-day period, the suffrage resolution passed by a narrow margin. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She spent the first part of the war training male pilots—out of eighteen instructors, she was the only woman. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I was hearing about my future eighteen times a day. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z While he exhibited flashes of brilliance, this wasn’t the same Bobby Fischer who’d swept through the United States Championship eighteen months earlier. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Maybe one of their fathers had died, and they knew what it was like to have to provide for a mother and sister when you are only eighteen. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Barely eighteen, James was not much older than some of his students, and he had trouble controlling the unruly ones. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She could have been eighteen herself, just like the girl at the magazine rack, reading Collier’s and playing for time in the drugstore. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She wasted four whole years with him—from the age of eighteen, when she started working at the office, to the day she died. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The project staggered on for eighteen months and was shuttered for good in December 1953. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There are eighteen, then seventeen when I realize I’ve written “Fluff” twice.“Wow,” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Ms. CeeCee started to count them out, and a few seconds later there were eighteen pieces of candy in front of them. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z "And you are there alone and you have no one over eighteen other than your parents who live there, right?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “But that was almost eighteen years ago,” Grace protested. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z "Well, you better get used to it. You're going to be thirsty for the next eighteen months." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The Great Chicago Fire took nearly eighteen thousand buildings and left more than a hundred thousand people homeless. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If it did, Richard would be transferred to an adult prison when he turned eighteen. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Let us turn to hymn one hundred eighteen,” announced Reverend Buckminster. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z At least eighteen hands tall, proud head, and black from his nose to the tip of his tail. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The soil was damp but no water oozed into the hole he had made, even when it was eighteen inches deep. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Fully 70 percent of men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five in the impoverished and overwhelmingly black North Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side are saddled for life with a criminal record. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was eighteen when his father sent him east to study with private tutors to prepare him for the entrance exams for Harvard and Yale. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When James was eighteen months old, a fast-burning fire spread in the nearby woods. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The twins, Leanne and Lorraine, were twenty-two; and their youngest, Sammie, had just turned eighteen and was still in foster care. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z They had said all along that when I was eighteen and going to college, I could go out with boys, and then only in the company of a chaperon. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He rotates it in front of his eyes: eighteen little windows, six balconies, a tiny entrance door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Burnham and Root had been partners and friends for eighteen years. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Joaquin had to keep reminding himself that it was him, that someone had once loved him enough to save his pictures for nearly eighteen years. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The spear was as sharp as a razor, and it had a cross-piece about eighteen inches away from the point. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s one of the younger players—only eighteen, same as me—and is from Ireland. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I hope you were eighteen when you married him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw her at age eighteen, clutching the hilt of her newly formed bloodsword as she crept up the flagstone steps to a little cabin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Those of you who aren’t eighteen yet will need a parent’s permission — I have slips at my desk.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She was eighteen years old, and next to Bill she was the oldest of all the kids in the family. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Naturally, he doesn't get carded, and while he is on the hairy side of puberty, there's no way he's eighteen. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z She knew from school that in some cities they spoke other languages, or didn’t turn pretty until they were eighteen, and other weird stuff like that. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I had to defend somebody where the victim was eighteen months old. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “You didn’t really expect Maya to get engaged. She’s not even eighteen yet. She has to focus on her studies.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He still does not wake up, but his respiration is down to eighteen per minute, almost normal, and his color has come up from blue to white. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They better let me in even though I don’t turn eighteen for another few weeks. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “You know, that sounds like something the Joaquin I met eighteen months ago would have said.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Jerome Paisley played in the major leagues for just eighteen days in September, when teams are allowed to expand their rosters. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “So how did you get tattoos? I thought you had to be eighteen.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z After a while in America, I returned abroad—and this time, I spent eighteen weeks in the Middle East and Africa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A third survey of 400 skeletons from various pre-agricultural sites in the Danube Valley found evidence of violence on eighteen skeletons. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, eighteen hours. That sounds about right,” he said to the doctor. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Don Hume, sitting just eighteen inches in front of him, couldn’t make out what Moch was shouting. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It puzzled everybody that an eighteen- minute age difference could cause such a discrepancy in front- tooth timing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Waitressing is also something I’d like to avoid, because I remember it leaving me bone-tired when I was eighteen, and I’m decades of varicosities and back pain beyond that now. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I hear him discuss her with another firefighter, who looks like he can’t be more than eighteen. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I go through my pockets and find eighteen dollars. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In about half an hour I had a respectable-looking small fireplace, its back about eighteen inches high on the downhill side. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Seventeen of the eighteen boats on the river this year had again come out of his shop. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Andrew had turned nine, and in my world I was counting down until he turned eighteen, thinking that would finally free my mom from this abusive man. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Tristran Thorn approached the gap in the wall, from the Faerie side, for the second time since his conception eighteen years before, with the star limping beside him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He is now eighteen and struggling to overcome all the setbacks he has had over the years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z However, if, for example, somebody like Billy Boy killed Kaira before she turned eighteen, then her mother would inherit all her money. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z At the age of eighteen, propelled by his admiration for the Beat Generation of writers, he moved out of his parents’ house and into the city itself. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z A record crowd of sixty thousand fans had come to see eighteen horses try for the richest purse in the world. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I think he was eighteen, but he was built like a streetlamp, just like me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Judging by how far the infection has progressed, I’d estimate he was bitten eighteen to twenty-four hours ago.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “That the one. That’s my son. Toomer, the flower boy. For eighteen years he be right there in that alley makin’ a nice livin’ from his flower, his herb, and his honey. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sonia has done the same as her brother, a new room every year ever since she was eighteen, new roommates Ashima must keep track of when she calls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “The oldest is barely eighteen. The boys have not yet learned how to live, but by God they know how to die!” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He had eighteen extra cartridges, six in the gun. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "MoMo has these parties. And usually no one is allowed unless you are eighteen or older. But I got invited." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “This one shows main highways. Shows a lot of rivers too, and in eighteen fifteen there were probably not many bridges.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “What did that man say? Why should I tell them I’m eighteen?” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z There are some eighteen thousand photographs taken in the Jupiter system by Voyager 1 that are stored on such magnetic discs, and an equivalent number for Voyager 1. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the couple married; my mother was sixteen and my father, Moshe, was eighteen. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He borrowed a cup of dried peppers and a block of salt, and he brought in a long working knife, eighteen inches long and heavy, as a small ax, a tool and a weapon. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Then suddenly there I was, at eighteen, thrust into a world where all those illusions were shattered. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She is perhaps eighteen, perhaps a bit younger. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z My brother Richie got married at eighteen over Mommy’s objections, divorced, then entered college, and was home on summer break when he got stopped by two cops while walking down the street with a friend. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There could be the whole team, eighteen of us, waiting for some water at the colored fountain, and the white fountain next to it be empty. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Lev enters the gate, counts out eighteen steps along the side of the garden and four steps toward the house, crouches down and begins to dig with his hands. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone married, but eighteen years later he went insane and murdered her, using a gun and knife, the same type of weapons Booth carried the night he killed Abraham Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He was only eighteen months older than me and was the brains behind many of our heroic exploits and the person I most wanted to be like. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Well, if this is eighteen nineteen, the President is James Monroe, right?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Tell them your boy is eighteen and has a trade.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She and Mr. Nielsen have been married for eighteen years, since she was twenty-five and he was in his early thirties. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Joaquin knew very well that he was turning eighteen in three months. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Of the one hundred eighteen Jewish families in the community only forty-three survived. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The soldiers were mostly eighteen or nineteen years old. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z We talked about how Ivan DeVore, the postmaster, had finally worked up the nerve to ask Velma T. to the upcoming Second Annual Homecoming Celebration, being held eighteen years after the first one. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Gregor sawed away at the bread, managing to get eighteen slices out of one loaf. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For decoration, I draw eighteen frosted daisies with white petals and a white center across the top. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Coach says he only has enough uniforms to keep eighteen players, and cuts will be next week. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By year’s end perhaps eighteen thousand had died in the city area and the disease was racing through the countryside in every direction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I’m getting her out of that place when I turn eighteen in May, and I need the money for her, so...so she has something, you know? Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z She had given birth to three children by the time she was eighteen, before her parents arranged for a hysterectomy. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “We danced to this when we were eighteen!” said Mrs. Weasley, wiping her eyes on her knitting. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z At eighteen, I temporarily went blind and mute and had boils on my arms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In English it said the ration consisted of eighteen fortified biscuits of baked wheat, animal fat and glucose, and that no more than six should be eaten in a twenty-four-hour period. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z At fourteen, the boys advanced to the Hitlerjugend where they stayed until age eighteen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z For this formal affair, however, places were set at table, and the buffet was enormous, eighteen or twenty hot and cold dishes, mostly variations on sube-eggs and breadapple. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Most everybody said, “Wait till Christmas. It’s only eighteen days to wait. Santa’s got big gifts—big enough for your birthday and your Christmas!” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z At seventeen she took county board examinations, which covered all the arts and sciences, and at eighteen she was teaching school at Peach Tree. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “We baked these for eighteen minutes, and used more fig pieces. Dig in.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Look, I’ve been playing basketball almost every day of my life for the past three years. I’ll be eighteen soon. He’s getting older. It’s time I started whipping him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A Polish count, aged eighteen, devoted himself to the ladies, who pronounced him, ‘a fascinating dear’, and a German Serene Something, having come to supper alone, roamed vaguely about, seeking what he might devour. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma left Belize and came to America when she was eighteen. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z There were, by his count, only eighteen people on this particular road. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “That’s how it is until you are eighteen, Sam,” she said. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The initial four-year appointment eventually extended to a stay of eighteen years in Padua, which Galileo later recalled as being the happiest years of his life. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Starting in 2012, we had eighteen months with no executions in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The barriers were seemingly endless miles of ditches, eighteen feet wide and fifteen feet deep. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Then we watched Susan board a bus that would take her and eighteen other contestants to Phoenix West High School. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z In his eighteen years of long-distance hauling he had never gotten a serious infraction. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z At that time Dunstan Thorn was eighteen, and he was not a romantic. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z In the end, some eighteen hundred people died, and more than half a million others were displaced, a tragedy exacerbated by the ineptitude of the federal government’s response. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Still eighteen, Ted Hall was the youngest scientist at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He told her, “The child will turn eighteen and paint her hair purple,” and she said, “Yes, but by then I would have kicked her out of the house.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "Lower than I'd like, but he's been in Mars gravity for eighteen months, so it's expected." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Still only eighteen years old, he worked mornings as a mason and ironsmith, afternoons as a fisherman, and at night he began to train for the next years race. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Thirty-four point zero five. One hundred eighteen point twenty-five.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a young woman of about eighteen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There’s something about his birthday, him turning eighteen. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Now I get why Brady got the hell out of here the second he could. But I’m not waiting until I’m eighteen.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Slaves had to make sure there was just enough cane to feed the turning wheels during every one of those eighteen hours. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They were both eighteen, but so far neither of them had graduated from high school. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z At eighteen, Martin left North Carolina and after a period of lonesome meandering took a position as a clerk in a Norfolk shipping office. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Because Dana was under eighteen, the authorities weren’t allowed to release his name to the media—a fact that rankled Roy’s mother, who believed Dana’s mug shot should have been plastered on the front page. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d be eighteen and wouldn’t be allowed to go with them, but that would be all right. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He was a veteran of the drug game at eighteen. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In front of us, these thugs, who could not have been more than eighteen years old, taunted my father, shouting at him to tell them where he had hid the key. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Otherwise, the people Dad owed the money to would come looking for me the instant I turned eighteen. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Uncle Willie only earned eighteen a week and he was forty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “It should now be about eighteen minutes before the planet is fully within the sun’s disk.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Because the Martian atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as the Earth’s, a very large parachute, eighteen meters in diameter, was deployed to slow the spacecraft as it entered the thin air of Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s about two v months since I had a proper tilt, and last winter they put me up to eighteen. That was when they had the new handicaps.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And so on and so on until you reach the age of eighteen, the final year of eligibility, when your name goes into the pool seven times. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Time, as she had done to me for the past eighteen years, will provide them also with the half-baked answers to the surreal life I was about to sever myself from. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A year to eighteen months of steady work might tell something more solid about the shape of the hemoglobin molecule. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “I didn’t bring you over here this afternoon to drink soda pop and eat pretzels. You’re eighteen and that means you’re now old enough to buy a drink. You ever drank before?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In comparison, the disappointments experienced by Britain’s eighteen scattered observers were mild. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This was N. A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility, known as Chad, home to some two hundred and thirty males ages eighteen to twenty-five. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “By the time I got to be eighteen or nineteen, I thought I was like the Princess of East Oakland,” she says. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Just a lad of eighteen summers Sure there’s no one can deny As he marched to death that morning How he held his head on high. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z For the past eighteen months, ever since she’s arrived in Cambridge, nothing has felt normal at all. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Technically, you know I m still winning, right? Twenty to eighteen.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They were eighteen and sixteen when they walked down the aisle in Vegas, told each other “I do.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Cavalry soldiers, ninety-seven Cheyenne, Kiowa, Pawnee, and Sioux Indians, another fifty Cossacks and Hussars, 180 horses, eighteen buffalo, ten elk, ten mules, and a dozen other animals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They don’t want to believe that the place I occupied for eighteen months was anything less than a dreamy waiting room. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Roland Weary, eighteen years old, insinuated himself between the scouts, draped a heavy arm around the shoulder of each. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Sure. Number fourteen and eighteen. Crispin Drive.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Between the point, worn away into a little hole, and the pink lips of the mouth, lay eighteen inches of shell with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I have to admit that the Earthbound greens, in their plastic bag, stayed crisp right up to the expiration date, a full eighteen days after leaving the field. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It would be eighteen hours at the least before she was in time again. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “It took us eighteen days to get from Rome to here—a trip that should’ve only taken two or three days, max.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z You were eighteen, and I didn’t worry about you overly. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “Yeah, it’s got copper and eighteen gauge,” Robbie said, stepping back into the aisle to make sure it was centered on the big table. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Alex’s whole reason for wanting to go into politics, when he knows so many past presidential sons and daughters have run away screaming the minute they turned eighteen, is he genuinely cares about people. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z With the most common spelling of the name, Brittany, at number eighteen among high-end families and number five among low-end families, it is surely approaching its pull date. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I’d certainly be willing to spend eighteen months of my life on a trip to find out. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, he did not. Professor Dippet told him that he was too young at eighteen, but invited him to reapply in a few years, if he still wished to teach.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z For example, she doesn't know that Mom got pushed around by Chicago cops when she was eighteen during the 1968 Democratic Convention. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Rob piled eight pieces of com on the cob, a mountain of mashed potatoes, eighteen chicken wings, and three pieces of cheesecake on his plate. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "When I went into Teacher's Training I was eighteen," Miss Honey said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z They went to City Hall, where Sissy swore that she was eighteen, and were married by one of the clerks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When they turned eighteen, men had to register with the Selective Service System, the agency responsible for implementing a draft. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It had been more than eighteen months since either of the Sorensons had visited. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Maybe it's because she was only eighteen when her parents married her off. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The top eighteen floors were occupied by the College of Emotional Engineering. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He enlisted in the Army in 1964 at the age of eighteen, at a time when America was heavily involved in combat. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Another staircase led up to the room where the van Pels family had lived, this one steeper than the last and eighteen steps, essentially a glorified ladder. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z My Nelson had only turned eighteen a few weeks ago in prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was later going to leam to my surprise that in Ethiopia, with eighteen million people, ten million are Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The draft didn't begin until men were eighteen, the officer said. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z At eighteen, Pesza was sent to the right with the younger, stronger women. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Because that means I’m eighteen years older than I was when you were baptized. It means I’m getting old.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She explained that the bullet had grazed my temple, near my left eye, and traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder, where it stopped. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A moment later a girl no more than eighteen, very lovely, came out upon the balcony. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The blackness encroached around my field of vision as I pulled myself up, eighteen steps, steep as hell. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “Me returns eighteen barks; eighteen errs makes burnt.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z By 1935, it numbered nearly four million members—nearly 50 percent of all German youth, age ten to eighteen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z So my daddy, who had just turned 18 eightteen eighteen years old, got up early before daylight and walked all the way to Spindale to town. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z "You over eighteen?" the man behind the counter asked me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I can tell, this is what the next eighteen minutes are going to be about. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The young man, who was no more than eighteen years old, was wearing his prison cap in the presence of senior officers, a violation of regulations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was eighteen, Baby Kochamma fell in love with a handsome young Irish monk, Father Mulligan, who was in Kerala for a year on deputation from his seminary in Madras. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She kept threatening to get it tattooed on her ankle when she turned eighteen. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z For eighteen years I never thought of that day, not in any probing way. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A fold in the ground has to be quite eighteen inches high before they can see it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee said, “Let’s see, eighteen pounds, twenty minutes to the pound— that’s eighteen times twenty—that’s three hundred and sixty minutes, six hours even—eleven to twelve, twelve to one—” He counted on his fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z To find employers who will put up with the prickliness of newcomers from the North, the Ministry of Unification pays companies up to eighteen hundred dollars a year if they risk hiring a defector. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Royal lit out for Manhattan at eighteen, and his first sight of the majestic city from the rail of the ferry confirmed his fate. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Now eighteen and dressed in an impeccably tailored suit with a white handkerchief deftly positioned in his breast pocket, he looked somewhat older and carried himself with an athletic swagger. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He's about eighteen, and he's got on baggy blue jeans and a snowboard sweater and a beanie, and I'm watching him. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But when I see it on his table I’m taken aback by what I overlooked at age eighteen: the Caspian Sea, for example. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had not been back to America since completing his survey there eighteen years earlier and had no known reason for being there, or any friends or patrons to greet him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z You have to take into account that Aunt Loma was just eighteen when Miss Love hit town, and the jealous type. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Close up, he saw that Stan Shunpike was only a few years older than he was, eighteen or nineteen at most, with large, protruding ears and quite a few pimples. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Nineteen years that your mother and I have been married. She was eighteen when I married her.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z At many places it is only eighteen inches high, it is broken by holes, and craters, and mountains of earth. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Blossom is almost eighteen, I think. You can’t be very much younger.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He looks younger, a boy still, about eighteen, with wide, friendly eyes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In less than five months they had travelled twenty-five hundred miles, during the last eighteen hundred of which they had had but five days’ rest. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z Short or tall, they were all of a similar circumference, about eighteen inches, and they were all cut flat across the top. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z My leaving had broken down the barrier which for eighteen years had barred me from reaching into my father and sharing with him the love and understanding of fathers and sons. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Still in the same quarter, he backpedaled, saw Robert Brown break free, and threw another touchdown pass, this one good for eighteen yards. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the same Socialist who had had his eye on the Presidency for the past eighteen years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, how accepting would I be if I met a man who claimed to be from eighteen nineteen—or two thousand nineteen, for that matter. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z And it looked like Deborah’s son Alfred was taking the same path as his uncles: by the age of eighteen, he’d already been arrested several times for minor offenses, like breaking and entering. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Indeed, his system precisely anticipated one put forward by Tycho Brahe some eighteen centuries later. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It was hard to believe he was only eighteen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z But he must have been eighteen or close to by now. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Properly called the Öpik–Oort cloud, it is named for the Estonian astronomer Ernst Öpik, who hypothesized its existence in 1932, and for the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, who refined the calculations eighteen years later. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Because of my height I could pass for older than I was, seventeen, maybe eighteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "Car number two," the father went on, "cost me one hundred and eighteen pounds and sold for seven hundred and sixty. Got it?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z France dispatched thirty-two observers, Britain eighteen more, and still others set out from Sweden, Russia, Italy, Germany, Ireland, and elsewhere. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “They took me from my family, cut my hair, beat me every time they felt like it, and sent me to work for the mayor when I was eighteen.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But the noise in my head is quieting down and there’s a Death-Cast herald on the other end of the phone waiting to tell me I’m going to die today at eighteen years old. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z On the contrary, at eighteen Rosa was still slender and remained unblemished; her maritime grace had, if anything, increased. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured that I probably would be there until I was eighteen, but at least I was not at the Mosses’ or with some of the other creepy parents I heard about. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The poor black-and-white rodent had been by himself for the past eighteen months, and Virgil couldn’t help but think he’d been pining the hours away in desperate loneliness. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “You are eighteen years old. Not sixteen, as you have claimed.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the eighteen years that I lived in that house, I stepped into Hassan and Ali’s quarters only a handful of times. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In 1994 Neel and Wallace sifted through mitochondrial DNA from eighteen widely dispersed Indian groups, looking for mutations that had occurred since their common ancestors left Asia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was quite a sight, all right — sixteen Pickwells plus Maniac, plus a down-and-out golf caddie — eighteen so-called white faces and Mars Bar Thompson. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was eighteen, six feet tall and a grown man. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At the age of eighteen, propelled by his admiration for the Beat Generation of writers, he moved out of his parents’ house and into the city itself. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The last time I saw her was August 31, the day I turned eighteen. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Mr. Butterbur paid for it himself, and offered Merry another eighteen pence as some compensation for the lost animals. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z My dad was eighteen years old, just finishing high school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The man who’d proudly owned eighteen suits as a teenager, and who’d aspired to own a hundred more, now dressed the same way every day. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "Meanwhile, this daughter of his has been fetching and pouring, a fat little thing, eighteen or so—" "Thirteen, more like," Raff the Sweetling drawled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She already had four dollars and eighteen cents. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I had cut down a small ash tree and was chopping it into lengths of about eighteen inches each. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z On a usual day we would have pulled for eleven or twelve hours, and made between twelve and eighteen miles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Him: Two reasons: If Noah can be eighteen or sixteen or even fourteen when he has to watch his father go to jail, that will be better than it happening when he’s thirteen. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was Luke, my old enemy. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z In order to make enough money he had to keep the speakeasy open sixteen, sometimes eighteen, hours a day. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There were more of them than he would have guessed—forty-seven in the Gatehouse Tower and another eighteen in the Drunkard’s Tower. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Dave probably wouldn’t do more than eighteen months home confinement with probation after. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Next year when he was eighteen, he could stay out till the cacao needed picking. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifteen minutes, or eighteen thousand miles, later, a man named Billy Gruber from the Craig County, Oklahoma, sheriff's department phoned my parents—Mike and Tracy Easton—in an attempt to track down their son. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Actually, the whole process took eighteen years, but the end felt deceptively easy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Goddamnit! You’re eighteen. How much growing up do you need to do? There are soldiers dying in the field at eighteen. Old enough to be left to die on the roads. Did you know that?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I watched as another egg dropped, another egg broke, and I counted: Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as much as Alaska, said, “I’ve had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that’s a record,” before dying. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z There were four proper beds, with sheets, and towels, a great luxury for men who had spent much of the last eighteen years sleeping on thin mats on a stone floor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Around the age of eighteen, Alba left childhood behind for good. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “And before you get all high-and-mighty—‘I’m eighteen and can do what I want’—with me, you might want to consider your options.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z In his mind, he realized that moment he left her on the farm when she swore love, certainly she meant it, but she was barely eighteen. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “And since you’re officially on your own when you turn eighteen, you might want to start looking into it. There are some decent scholarships out there for aged-out foster youth.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The water at the house was far lower, only about eighteen inches. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The engineers estimated that the upcoming orbital flight, including the fully manned global tracking network, required a team of eighteen thousand people. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z "YOU?! What do you know about women's rights? You just said you were married off at age eighteen!" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He spoke a number of languages, ancient and modern, and had published a translation of Anacreon, with commentary, when he was only eighteen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z After all, who wouldn’t want to be eighteen? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z As crack and guns flooded the cities and gangs battled over turf, the violent-crime rate for juveniles ages fifteen to seventeen doubled, as did the violent-crime rate for people ages eighteen to twenty. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But though the Epsilon mind was mature at ten, the Epsilon body was not fit to work till eighteen. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The other reason was: They weren’t hiring anyone under eighteen now, on account of a new community service program they’d set up with the high school. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The cake was fully eighteen inches in diameter and it was covered with dark-brown chocolate icing. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z She put Salim’s camera to her eye and clicked eighteen times. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘A young boy of seventeen or eighteen, who left home with a group of boy scouts, is reported to be still scouting in that area, according to the fire warden of the Catskill Mountains. “ My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Colbey rejected the State's offer of a plea agreement, pursuant to which she would have gone to prison for eighteen years, because she was adamant that she had done nothing wrong. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Why do you think there’re eighteen pebbles in my wagon?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z ‘Give me eighteen hours,’ she said so seriously. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Their new lives—the frustrating job interviews, the bills that arrive with red warning letters on the outside—are consequences of a decision made at age eighteen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z As we zag along, I practice with my sling, missing eighteen times out of twenty. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Banks of fluorescent lights hung down eighteen inches above the slanted, glass-topped desks where men wearing green eyeshades conferred over stacks of copy and photographs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She was quite beautiful, long blond hair, eighteen years old—and he thought, Who is she? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was true in its way, even if her husband had released her from the promise she’d made eighteen years ago, when she was only a girl. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But my father, respecting my grandmother’s last wishes, left Gerald alone to the justice system, which ended up sending him to prison for eighteen months. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The only other story Judy was working on was about eighteen new trees that were going to be planted along East Main Street. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "Velocity eight hundred and fifty, altitude eighteen hundred and forty-three," Johanssen said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They emerged without much fuss, within eighteen minutes of each other. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Little girls shouldn't have to worry about their parents' issues, but I guess when you're eleven going on eighteen, it's normal. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z President Wilson was calling for thirteen million men, ages eighteen to forty-five, to enroll. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z On full scholarship, he was one of eighteen students, whittled down from hundreds who auditioned. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z According to the Web, koalas sleep eighteen to twenty-two hours a day. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “According to the government, there are approximately a quarter of a million children under the age of eighteen, but our estimate is closer to a tenth of that.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Little by little, they fell into place on a fresh sheet of paper about eighteen inches wide. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z We had been in prison for more than fifteen years; I had been in prison for nearly eighteen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At eighteen, Pa left home and went to live in a Buddhist temple to get away from his violent home, further his study, and eventually became a monk. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In one month alone, according to my diary for 1939, I completed eighteen oil paintings. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “You’ve made your decision and now understand mine. As a daughter, you are dead to us. When you turn eighteen in June, you will leave this house.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “It will become a state in eighteen fifty.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Even Lola’s face at eighteen inches was an empty oval, and this figure was many feet away, and turned from her as it moved back around the clearing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A little while after she started working she became pregnant: she was unmarried and eighteen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew how my life would play out: when I was eighteen or nineteen, I would get married. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z That meant, according to the statistics, that eleven or twelve of them would be arrested again before they turned eighteen. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Until Theon had sent for her, she had lived all of her eighteen years in the winter town without ever setting foot inside the walls of the castle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was almost eighteen and no one minded that he’d been smoking for years anywhere he wanted to in the house or out in the fields with Daddy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In the space of four days, a house sixty feet long and eighteen feet wide was erected, complete with two chimneys. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “I’m actually eighteen,” I said, concentrating on my cake again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z In the winter’s long darknesses, during what they called their “maximum nights,” they might make twelve to eighteen bombing runs in a single evening. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “The basketball team was eighteen and five last year,” Spoon said. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z This is the house Ashoke had brought Ashima to eighteen months ago, late one February night after her arrival at Logan Airport. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There were only eighteen sleeping bags, originally meant for the overland journey, and the men drew straws to see who would get them. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z ‘My soul! Is that old mule still alive? He must be fully eighteen years old.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “I’ve got eighteen cans of cream soda in my room,” he blurted and then wished he hadn’t. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Some students hiked eighteen miles to join the march. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well, a lot is going to happen when I turn eighteen,” Kaira said. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z She took eighteen photographs of our back garden with the washing on the line and beyond that the shed. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The hardest people to reach, he told me, were the younger folks, the eighteen- to thirty-year-olds who seemed to have no faith in government at all. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He thanked Steve Jobs, or, at least, quoted the Apple cofounder: In the first sixteen to eighteen years of our lives, we have lived between 140,160 hours to 157,680 hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Enough! It’s over, Mom. I’m eighteen now, remember? I’m not going to any more hospitals.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z A century later he was gulping down eighteen pounds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “He drowned in the river, and he was eighteen, Colonel,” Hobie corrected. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who cares what he looks like? He’s unbelievable. He’s really young too. Only just eighteen or something. He’s a genius, you wait until tonight, you’ll see.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Let’s see— monkeys that inhaled Marburg virus took a long time to develop the disease, from six to eighteen days. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She got on the phone, and soon had promises from eighteen black residents to show up. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z "This is the work of a person far above eighteen years. This is no immature youth! The people must be protected from traitors like him! The Fatherland is at stake!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Frodo reckoned they had eighteen miles to go in a straight line. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Permian ran eighteen plays on that first drive out of ten dif-ferent formations. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the future stars of the sport—seventeen-, eighteen-, and nineteen- year-olds who had been skating and shooting pucks since they were barely more than toddlers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z That could come in as soon as eighteen months if Fermi’s program had full government support. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There it all was, my first eighteen years at a glance: streets and sails and shattered Stop & Shop. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When Penny giggled, she sounded like the sweet young girl she was... seventeen, eighteen, no more than nineteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The English public, now consuming some eighteen pounds of sugar a year, knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When they were checked over by a doctor, Jack, who was now eighteen, stood five seven and weighed 80 pounds. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The diamond was insured for eighteen hundred dollars. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time he was eighteen he was full-grown and he killed, alone by himself, a great lion which lived in the woods of Cithaeron, the Thespian lion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z At eighteen, he can see that much higher. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z But True Belle laughed out loud the minute she laid eyes on him and thereafter every day for eighteen years. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z At the age of eighteen, Yacub had finished all of his nation’s colleges and universities. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not a joke. David is afraid of the same thing. His dad is working on some way to get you out of here before you turn eighteen.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Standing on the porch was a young man who looked about seventeen or eighteen, although I am not as good at guessing people’s ages as blind Mrs. Partridge is. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z After that he kept his mind fairly blank over the eighteen miles to Dona Luz. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “In eighteen twenty-four. Monroe had—will have—two terms.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z His mom was eighteen, only two years older than Park. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z After eighteen solid hours of sleep and a light continental breakfast, Artemis climbed to the study that he had inherited from his father. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Our sofa, times eighteen, Rashid, times eighteen, Aunt Gloria, with her white sweater, her orange lips and pale cheeks, times eighteen. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Conversely, if it had arrived even one hour earlier, the storm could easily have killed eighteen or twenty climbers—me among them. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He was working eighteen- hour shifts, and when he could finally lie down on his cot, he was often unable to sleep. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the past eighteen months, my mets have hardly grown, leaving me with lungs that suck at being lungs but could, conceivably, struggle along indefinitely with the assistance of drizzled oxygen and daily Phalanxifor. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Cal hadn’t just won it—they’d done so in a near record time of eighteen minutes and fifty-two seconds, despite a stiff crosswind and heavy chop. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Since he’d been laid off eighteen months earlier, it was his only source of income. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Two to four weeks—if we’ve got it, we’ll send it over,” she’d promised, and Mrs. Richardson filled out her own address, attached a check for eighteen dollars, and dropped the envelope into the mail. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z On day eighteen of incubation, Joe Cassini looked up and noticed sticks and reeds where the fifth vertical met the bow. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In the first half Ben scored eighteen points. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right. I will give you eighteen points and we will play for a franc a point.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “I mean you own it. Right now it’s under your parents’ control, but when you turn eighteen, it’s all yours to do with as you please.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Only eighteen more days until they were safely out of New York. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Radar says, “God, did you wake up this morning and drink eighteen gallons of water?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z "Engineering? I don't think so. Your marks in maths and science are terrible, Ma. You're eighteen now. My marriage was already fixed by then." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Here I am eighteen years later knowing that I will graduate tomorrow. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z When I’d cleared the Third Gate, the eighteen Sixer avatars who were still inside had been ejected from the gate and deposited in front of the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A girl was with them; slim, dark-haired, no more than eighteen by the look of her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Boy think ’cause he eighteen now, he a grown man.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Dressed in short pants and khaki shirts and neckerchiefs, looking for all the world like Boy Scouts with swastikas on their armbands, they ranged in age from eighteen down to ten. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I thought of the eighteen shots of the back garden and the eighteen other shots, our last link to Salim. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “The turkey’s going to be done earlier than the chart says. I’ll bet that bird doesn’t weigh eighteen pounds.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The irony was that Mommy knew how to drive before she was eighteen. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But you had to be eighteen to work there. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Still only eighteen, still silent, he tended sheep now, and nursed a deep despair. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My mother returned when she was eighteen, to attend college at the state university in Gainesville. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Maisie was eighteen months old, but her weight was like a bundle of rags. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Or maybe, since he dropped out of state college and started working at Pagoda Pizza, he’s more like eighteen. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The other eighteen lie in the back room of the infirmary, cold beneath thin white sheets. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I paid half price, because I was under eighteen, but half price in those times was more than full price when everything was peaceful. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z After eighteen years of my knowing him, he was, for the first time, crying. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m drawn all the way into eighteen nineteen, and I don’t know what to do. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He was the city of kings, and the voice of Scheherazade, the whirling dervishes that leap, the fire worshippers, the nomad Kurds, and the eighteen sheep. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Doesn’t matter, would’ve gotten chucked anyway when they found out I wasn’t really eighteen.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z "Yes, Miss Honey," chirruped eighteen eager little voices. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z I was eighteen years old when I had my first school lesson. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z If all eighteen indeed died violently, it means that about 4.5 per cent of deaths in the ancient Danube Valley were caused by human violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m eighteen years old and I’ve never had a real boyfriend. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “But it’s only eighteen nineteen. How could you know...?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He had been working at the mill more than eighteen years—it was all he knew how to do. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In the remaining eighteen months that Tycho was to live, the two quarreled and were reconciled repeatedly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, my manager. But I bet he just married her to have more control over me, because he’s got a girlfriend, too. It doesn’t matter. I’m going to fire him when I turn eighteen.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z When she was eighteen, inflamed by a biography of Florence Nightingale, she enrolled as a student nurse at St. Rose’s Hospital in Great Bend, Kansas. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was just nineteen when you were born. I was eighteen when I married your father.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She had plans to send him off to the university in Austin fifty miles away when he turned eighteen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “She’s not there enough to listen. She’s always dictating, then out the door. But starting in two days, when I’m eighteen, I make the decisions.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z A young girl holding a sad brown sock doll preceded a young man, maybe eighteen years old, and a man and a woman, each carrying a child. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z She went for two hundred and eighteen dollars in a hasty exchange, a drop in price occasioned by the realities of the local market. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The alliance seemed to have a reasonable chance of succeeding, but eighteen months of warfare severely depleted Indigenous villages and agricultural resources. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Then the miracle man began improving King Lotharon, and eighteen pages are used up in describing the cures. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I stood in the cell that held Nelson Mandela for eighteen years on Robben Island, and I searched for family in a small Cuban town outside Havana. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Since she was eighteen, she didn’t need Mom or Dad’s permission. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The wound was eighteen inches long, perhaps more, and curved behind his knee. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was eighteen months before she let me go back. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But events unfolded quickly when, eighteen days later, Richmond fell, and then General Lee surrendered. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We had not fought like this in our eighteen years of marriage. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was surprised to read at the Toronto Zoo—a very fine zoo, I might add—that leopards can jump eighteen feet straight up. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z At least eighteen hands high, but not thick in the way of shire or draft horses. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I was sixteen when I started in his class, a week short of eighteen when I graduated from high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “For man-to-man talks and stuff. My dad’s like that about the Oak Bar at the Plaza. He took me and my brothers there to buy us our first drink when we turned eighteen.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Trying to stop an execution would mean nonstop work eighteen hours a day for a month, desperately trying to get a stay order from a court. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In this village, I'd have been married off at eighteen at the latest, and we probably would have two or three children by now. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Now? Perhaps the King was dispatched—overthrown—at some time. Seventeen or eighteen years ago.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Russell then organized eighteen Southern Democratic senators in filibustering this bill.4 I thought, This man must be a friend of George Wallace. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “The first phase of clinical trials on humans started just eighteen months ago.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z My father had promised we'd make enough money to buy me an eighteen- speed bike. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As it was, people were killed eighteen miles away. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They were back on South Georgia after eighteen months. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Guilt digs its claws into me, but if I go home, confessing my lie before figuring out some astonishingly clever next steps, I’ll be under total house arrest until I turn eighteen in June. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Then he’d have to swing onto a landing eighteen feet away, before making his way to the other gargoyles on which Grave and Nox now quarreled. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I’m just trying to get by—eight more years, I’ll be eighteen, and I won’t have to live in a shelter. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z For eighteen years, his off-and-on actions have made an impact in my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Kat’s behaviour, from snapping eighteen pictures of the garden shed, to making me get under her dressing gown, to darting off to buy nail-polish remover, was making my brain spin. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The system was responsible for children until the day they turned eighteen years old. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z By my estimation, I’m only eighteen feet from freedom. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z In Depression-era Europe, The Threepenny Opera clearly struck a chord: by the time Weill left Germany for the USA in 1933 it had been translated into eighteen languages and performed several thousand times. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Dependents have to be under the age of eighteen. You’ll need to bring your birth certificates and proof of residency.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I was seventeen years old at the time, which meant I didn’t have to take the test because I was under the age of eighteen—I would become a citizen when my parents did. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I got good marks during my final exams when I was eighteen. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He estimated there were eighteen inches of water on the ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z During one apparently typical summer he reported covering an average of eighteen miles daily. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I had begun to think of Four as rigid, like a soldier, and forgot that he’s also eighteen. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z As she lay moaning in her bed, Harry set off for Bonners Ferry, Idaho, eighteen miles away on twisting mountain roads, to fetch a doctor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “If you say one word about my brother and the gun, you will be grounded until you turn eighteen no matter what your father says—do you hear me?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “My sisters are twins. They’re not identical, but they look alike. They’re twenty-seven. My mom had them when she was eighteen.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I had drilled something like eighteen in a row. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Therefore,” verse eighteen had gone on to rub it in, “hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the next eighteen months, this indefatigable machine would produce two thousandths of a gram of plutonium, a quantity about the size of a grain of salt. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I had been on the island for over eighteen years, and to leave so abruptly? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The ship wandered from island to island—there were about eighteen in all—and Darwin ventured ashore, scrambling through the pumice, collecting birds, plants, and lizards. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z My backpack held little more than three empty oxygen canisters and a pint of frozen lemonade; it probably weighed no more than sixteen or eighteen pounds. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “And you can’t protect us. I might be under eighteen. I might legally be your property or whatever, but I’m my own person. Cilla was her own person.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I watched TV eighteen or twenty hours a day. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There were eighteen military bunk beds inside for thirty-six men. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He was going to take part of that eighteen thousand dollars and throw himself a funeral the way some people throw a party. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Writing was as forbidden as dark rouge on the cheeks or a first date before eighteen. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “You’re the same person you were five minutes ago and four months ago and eighteen years ago! This doesn’t change anything about you.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Piece of sky-iron of that size, if you take less than eighteen talents you’re cutting a hole in your own purse. Jewelers will buy it, or rich folk who want it for the novelty.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was a small picture of Gatsby, also in yachting costume, on the bureau--Gatsby with his head thrown back defiantly--taken apparently when he was about eighteen. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The day he turns eighteen he goes down to the recruiter’s office and presents himself for service. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z At eighteen hundred feet in the air, the large aircraft began to cruise and prepare to offload its twenty aspirants. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In this band of the invading horde there were about a hundred men, which is not many; but in the village were only eighteen men and boys. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She had one hundred and eighteen pages of her book written. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was eighteen—a little over a year older than Jack. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Walker, America soon learned, was overseeing a massive KGB spy ring in the US Navy that stretched back eighteen years. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Before Francie could speak up, a neighborhood bully, a boy of eighteen known as Punky Perkins, stepped forward and ordered the man to chuck the tree at him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If Michael Sanders was in the same grade as my brother, then next year he’d be at least eighteen. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z But it was a kid, all right, maybe eighteen, dressed in a droopy old army jacket, dungarees, and boots. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “That doesn’t make any sense. He’s eighteen; he’ll find another girlfriend once you’re dead. And he’s stupid if he doesn’t know that.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He’s a fifty-eight-year-old Sicilian who left home at eighteen, following a girl to Canada. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z One of my neighbors, Mr. Durfey, is cutting ice out of Wolf Creek eighteen inches thick. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z We walked eighteen miles to Front Royal, where my wife was to pick us up in two days if she managed to find her way by car from New Hampshire in an unfamiliar country. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Mark sixteen eighteen. Across each of his eight knuckles.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Gale, who is eighteen and has been either helping or single-handedly feeding a family of five for seven years, will have his name in forty-two times. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The Nazis struck the final blow to Jewish emigration in 1941 when they forbade Jews between the ages of eighteen and forty-five to emigrate. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I began at chapter eighteen, “The Noblest Gift—Freedom.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Don’t ask me how, but I could tell we were at 40.19° North, 71.90° West, making eighteen knots, which meant the ship would arrive in New York Harbor by dawn. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z But after eighteen years of Gogol, two months of Nikhil feel scant, inconsequential. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z After he died, Ma made us wear mourning clothes, nothing but black dresses, for eighteen months. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z From eighteen hundred bottles eighteen hundred carefully labelled infants were simultaneously sucking down their pint of pasteurized external secretion. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Plus, something I had forgotten in the years since I was eighteen: about a third of a server’s job is “side work” invisible to customers—sweeping, scrubbing, slicing, refilling, and restocking. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In Washington, DC, Jan Scruggs had been working tirelessly for eighteen months to make his dream of a memorial into a reality. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “It’s not like that. They got deported back to Colombia. But I was born here and they didn’t want to take me away from my doctors. I’m a ‘ward of the state’ until I’m eighteen.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “Eilis was one of our earliest huntresses; King Roland called her to service when she was only eighteen, and many people questioned whether she was ready to lead the Royal Hunt,” the huntress explained. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z At eighteen he looked much older, with a full mustache and a square jaw. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I was about to say something to that effect when she put her finger over my lips, distracting me in about eighteen different ways. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At sixteen he was too young to get in, so he lied about his age and got himself a voter’s registration card saying he was eighteen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He'd never anagrammed her before, and he was fascinated to find the word “eighteen” within her. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z And to himself he said, “I suppose they are of an age—the boy must be well on eighteen and she not over eighteen.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He was a handsome youth of eighteen, grey-eyed and graceful and slender as a knife. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Looking up homeless shelters online, Molly finds one in Ellsworth, but it says that patrons have to be eighteen or older “unless with a parent.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They decided to use Dr. Darwins money to buy the house and an additional eighteen acres. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I comb his hair until he turn eighteen, but I have not done for seventeen year. It got messy!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Half an hour later, the dancing and the liquor and the sweet, heady rush of being eighteen had filled them both with a feverish flush. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Plunging “eighteen feet,” he had raced away, pursued by “two columns” of armed guards, who had tackled and beat him. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The Director’s voice seems different than it did...eighteen hours ago? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The age of majority used to be twenty-one; now it is eighteen. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We crawl below the porches at numbers fourteen and eighteen Crispin Drive. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z You could tell how traumatizing the last eighteen months since Walter's arrest had been. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Mind you, a standing meerkat reaches up eighteen inches at most, so it was not the height of these creatures that was so breathtaking as their unlimited multitude. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no such thing as a perfect name. I think that human beings should be allowed to name themselves when they turn eighteen,” he adds. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And it meant doing all these things at the age of eighteen. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Simpson had spent eighteen years in the Senate, including ten as the Republican whip, the second-ranking senator in his party. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In 2007, we wrote to Joe and discovered that he had no legal assistance and had spent the previous eighteen years in prison with no one to help him challenge his conviction or sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress—to the future. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The oldest were men grown, seventeen and eighteen years from the day of their naming. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He couldn’t go up in the dern yard because of the dern cats, of which there were eighteen or twenty at least. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I think it’s an extrapolation of giving consent for one’s children under eighteen, but it seems a little odd.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It was the year of false spring, and he was eighteen again, down from the Eyrie to the tourney at Harrenhal. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was eighteen and one newspaper article about him said that he could be in the major leagues by the time he was nineteen. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared out at a magnificent banyan tree along a route that Pérez’s driver took, and said softly, “I’ve worked for eighteen years in Haiti, and everything has gotten worse.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Wild left Patience Camp with eighteen men at one o’clock in the morning of February 1. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z When he was eighteen, Dutchy moved to Minneapolis, where he took any work he could find playing piano in bands and bars. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She slept for eighteen hours, while Nately dashed about the apartment all the next morning shushing everybody in sight, and when she woke up she was deeply in love with him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Mom also drew pastel portraits on the spot for anyone willing to pay eighteen dollars, and every now and then she got a commission. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We pass eighteen, nineteen, twenty; I’m out of breath more because I’m surprised at her than because of the stairs. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I lived over in Cleveland Heights for eighteen years, then I moved back in to take care of my parents. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you’re going to have this child with this man? You’re going to stay with this man another eighteen years? Are you crazy?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In November, he paid eighteen pence to a Uruguayan farmer for a piece of a colossal skull of yet another extinct mammal—the rhinolike Toxodon, with giant squirrel teeth—that had once roamed the plains. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We have been on the road for eighteen days now and our food ration is getting smaller with each passing day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the hazards, there is stiff competition among Sherpas for the twelve to eighteen staff positions on the typical Everest expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Before long eighteen boys had joined Thomas and his friends in the tunnel, making a total of twenty-one Gladers in all. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z If she looks, she will see it, the time going forward to the day she gets to turn eighteen. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z But three summers ago, he turned eighteen, moved in with Madrina, and started acting funny around us—with an almost full beard, and a much deeper voice. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Let’s see. The cough syrup is eighteen cents, and the medicine is thirty-two cents. That comes to fifty cents.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “And I’m eighteen. And he’s a nice guy, so who cares how old he is?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z From the Widow Grubb of Chester, New Jersey, came eighteen bundles of shirts and dresses for the orphans. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z You could even start before you were eighteen with pills called androgen blockers that stopped the boy hormones already inside you from turning your body into a man's. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The general synopsis at eighteen hundred issued by the Met Office: Fitzroy, mainly northerly, four or five, becoming variable, thundery showers ... The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z We were of a sensible age, between thirteen and eighteen, and we knew intimately every chocolate bar in existence, from the Milk Flake to the Lemon Marshmallow. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he looked over the eighteen heavy water machines—they looked exactly like the ones he’d trained on back in Britain. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My brothers went to war when they turned eighteen, all three of them sent to fight Lakelanders. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z She was eighteen, pitifully small in the big bed, and she was frightened. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Her smile burst out again making her look closer to eight than eighteen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My mother had painted the cabinets eighteen years ago in an attempt to bring some sunshine into the house. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Smoke rose into the frigid air from eighteen conical lodges, thin undulating columns rising upward. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Just as I had before, I count the two hundred and eighteen steps and open the door. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He’s smoking a cigarette even though I know he isn’t yet eighteen, and he wears a collared shirt like he’s just come back from church. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z “I spent eighteen years out there—some kinda record they tells me. Every day the rice hands be exposed to the burnin’ sun. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were here when the cable went out. I never did find out if the Yankees won. Okay, that’s eighteen hours I owe you for. You got all your tip money?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I was over the age of eighteen, so the police couldn’t make me go home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But at eighteen, Benton had failed to live up to his father’s standards once again. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Up and back, up and back, eighteen laps, and when I’m done, I’m hanging on in the deep end, panting away, and over swims this starlet. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z God, why couldn’t the legal drinking age be eighteen in the US? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z For the next eighteen years, C.P. worked full-time as an organizer for the IUOE, traveling throughout the state and rolling up an impressive record of victories for unionized workers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I adjust the settings on my profile so I’ll only be visible to anyone between the ages of sixteen and eighteen; older men and women can no longer hit on me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Naked but for a white cotton breech-cloth, a boy of about eighteen stepped out of the crowd and stood before him, his hands crossed over his chest, his head bowed. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sayin’, there’s what, eighteen eleven billion crossroads in Brooklyn alone, right?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He started counting them down, “Nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen ... Twenty, nineteen ...” Each time he hit fifteen he reset back to twenty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He certainly does not know the conditions under which I was born and had to live for eighteen years. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She had all the knowledge then of a grown person, she’d enter into conversation with men and women as clever and full of tricks as someone of eighteen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The bomb had exploded with the almost unbelievable force of eighteen thousand tons of TNT, an explosive used in regular bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At eighteen, Elizabeth Manwill was an easy target for mockery: glasses perpetually sliding down her nose, forehead knobby with acne, clothes frumpy and ill fitting. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She had known all along her parents would not approve; all this time they had indulged her hobby but now that she was eighteen, she knew, things would be different. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z By eighteen years old, other teenagers have separated from their parents. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I had a book around my neck, fastened by a clip to my pressure suit, which contained procedures for eighteen different types of rendezvous that I might need. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of the Korean War, Congress had just lowered the minimum age for military service to eighteen and a half, so Lawrence was drafted at sixteen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “But not all of them. Of those eighteen people, I was able to identify about half of them. And three of them were granted immunity that very day.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Given that the Ice Age made Europe north of the Loire Valley uninhabitable until some eighteen thousand years ago, the Western Hemisphere should perhaps no longer be described as the “New World.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “They don't have to die to collect. They get a thousand dollars each when they're eighteen. It's insurance to get them through college.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z After the lunch break we even got matched up together, just the two of us, digging main line—eight inches wide, eighteen deep—where they were gonna install a fancy sprinkler system. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Her brother, Gordon, revealed that he had lived with the Mosses for eighteen months now and liked this home better than the others. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Mama had been a young woman, eighteen, when the Yanquis came. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Roland Weary was only eighteen, was at the end of an unhappy childhood spent mostly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mark sixteen eighteen. They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing; it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover “Bravo.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Somewhere, in the midst of all my fretting and fleeing, I turned eighteen today. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you’re eighteen, you can shave your scalp for all I care. In the meantime...” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have not been able to ascertain the supposed racial origin of all eighteen lines,” Gartler told the audience. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Just eighteen months after the investigation, he was found dead in his home in Philadelphia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z At just under ten feet wide and eighteen feet long, the room is furnished with a four-poster bed, a table, a bureau, and chairs. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “As soon as I turn eighteen, you’re going to be the second person I fire.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Now, at almost eighteen, he had long hair and a shaggy beard, a dislike for authority, a VW van in which, he said, they could live. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I thought that the Sun Temple is only eighteen miles north of Puri,” Mr. Das said, tapping on the tour book. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Ayres put together a team of thirty-eight people—eighteen white men, seven white women, eight black women, and five black men. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z This was the place he was supposed to inhabit until he turned eighteen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Only eighteen people in history had personally seen this view. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In eighteen months, Diaz has had to bury eight of them, nearly all mutilated by the trains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z ‘About, well’ — he stood for a moment measuring it with his eyes — ‘about eighteen fathoms, I should guess. Not more.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Handel’s first eighteen oratorios in London theatres were packed- house affairs. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Leonard is only eighteen years old and he is facing life in prison for a crime that he did not commit. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z All I felt was my fist slamming into something about eighteen inches closer than its intended receiver. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z At the end of the day, the contratista checked his notebook and handed my father eighteen dollars. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘Tm eighteen,” he says once to his parents as they drive back from a party, a fact that makes no difference to them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Lying on the ground next to Middleton was Henry Smith, eighteen years old and also dying, the result of five gunshot wounds. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “It is eighteen years since I have been after it” said the King pensively. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Dewey and the eighteen men assisting him had pursued hundreds of leads to barren destinations, and she hoped to warn him against another disappointment, for she was worried about his health. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The old prison wall was studded with nine of these towers; there was a total of eighteen towers, including the ugly new square ones around Tappan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After my April performance, one critic wrote, “She was the sweetest seductress you ever saw...but she has yet to develop any ballerina mystique. She is only eighteen.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He was probably about eighteen, but so skinny and sickly pale, he could’ve passed for younger. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “After all this time? The letter was written”—Lettie did the calculating in her head—“eighteen years ago. And I don’t see how this map is going to help us.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She was eighteen now, and her mother’s story held more weight than it had when she’d heard it earlier. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He poked at the fire with a stick, “I was eighteen when I began at the University,” he said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They yelled again after the Pats recovered from a sack and, on third and eighteen, scored a touchdown. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Setting her glass back down, she said, “Please. I’m freaking eighteen years old. Marriage is the last thing on my mind.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z When a recruiter asked their age, the boys would say they were “over eighteen.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Returning to his seat afterward, Farmer said this happened to him about once in every eighteen flights. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z We had eighteen different TVs to choose from but they were all tuned to the same channel. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the people there had to be eighteen or nineteen, even though a lot of them looked much older. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z A quest for a new life, different from the nightmare I had been living for eighteen years. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He had, indeed, remarked eighteen and snubbed the rest. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “This is a holiday camp compared to where you’re going; but if you work hard and keep your record clean, you can move up to full citizenship when you reach eighteen.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of teens who received the alert today, but there are only eighty-nine registered Deckers between the ages of sixteen and eighteen online right now. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He looked like a boy of fifteen, but she saw from his chart that he was her own age, eighteen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Except for some occasional thunder it was a deeply quiet morning, just the rain and the steady sloshing sounds of eighteen men wading through the thick waters. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Supreme Court ruled in In re Gault that children under the age of eighteen have the right to legal assistance with any criminal charges filed against them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z King, Jr., had preached his very first sermon at the age of eighteen. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Without a job, Park traveled north to the border with his wife, where they illegally crossed into China and stayed with his uncle for eighteen months. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She told me Quincy eighteen and free to do like she please, and it wasn’t real late. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Late that afternoon—eighteen hours after the president's death—he made his first incision into Garfield's wasted body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “So, when I was eighteen, some friends and I were hanging down on Sea Street Beach, and someone suggested we go do some bad things. Things that were against the law.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z He made himself look down at his own leaf-plate and count to eighteen before looking up again. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His own sympathies, even on a spring morning eighteen months later, were with the angry men as they prepared for the manhunt. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Here are the stats for Mrs. Windermere’s kitchen: The floor was white and yellow tile—twenty-four tiles wide, eighteen tiles long. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z As soon as the Federalists launched their prosecutions of Republican editors and writers under the Sedition Act—a total of eighteen indictments were filed—it became clear that the prosecutions were generally regarded as persecutions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “But it’s eighteen nineteen. It’s eighteen nineteen everywhere. You’re talking crazy.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z When she got to the first eighteen shots, the ones taken the morning of Salim’s disappearance, she slowed down. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z We were scheduled to go at different times, not as a family unit, because the UN handles people who are over the age of eighteen as individual cases. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It was about eighteen miles to Bywater, and they set off at ten o’clock in the morning. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The girls had Wab, who at eighteen was practically a woman. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the eighteen pictures that Kat took of our washing line when she was using up Salim’s film, with the sleeves of sweatshirts, jumpers and blouses waving in the wind. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fall of 1980, Mia Wright, just turned eighteen, left the little yellow house in Bethel Park for the New York School of Fine Arts. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Get your head back in the game. This a race now. There are eighteen Sixer avatars right behind you. So you need to make this next game count. Understand?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Men can enlist in the service at eighteen but cannot vote until age twenty-one. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Papa had lived in Japan from when he was nine until he was eighteen, and he was thirty-five now. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I once saw him get a triple double against Pennsville—sixteen assists, eighteen points, ten rebounds. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The world is sometimes just, and I spent the next eighteen months sick in bed with a mysterious illness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The laundry room was both one of the wars obscure crannies and a microcosm of the war itself, a sophisticated, efficient machine capable of processing eighteen thousand bundles of laundry each week. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Werner holds the field light in his mouth and gathers what he can: a small hammer, three jars of screws, eighteen- gauge line cord from a shattered desk lamp. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It essentially says computing power doubles every eighteen months to two years. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z You may not believe it, but when I was eighteen I used to win prizes and medals from the Royal Photographic Society in London, and from other places like the Photographic Society of Holland. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Washington boat neared the finish line, it was eighteen lengths behind Cal, and the only real question was whether it would sink before crossing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Where, eighteen years ago, she had spent five eager, tireless, burning nights with her beautiful young husband before the gods stole him away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Company books preserved in the Island County historical archives record that in 1907 eighteen Japanese were injured or maimed at the Port Jefferson mill. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “She’ll be eighteen in two months. Now’s the time to act. Opportunity is knocking. I’ve got no choice. Now’s the time to open the door.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z At eighteen, I was in Vietnam fighting for my country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There was only one problem: the girl was still young, eighteen, and much more self-centered than most Chinese girls. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Cautious estimates begin at eighteen million casualties, but the number may even be as high as forty-five million. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Under protest, he agreed to accept just eighteen dollars, the price he had paid for the boat. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I used to think of the campus as a haven, but now I saw it as a holding pen where my brother would stay until he turned eighteen or could find another family. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z And the great American emancipation of eighteen offers few alternatives for me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Nobody can touch it, not even your mother. You’ll get it when you turn eighteen.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Oh, diary, how I hate when she forgets I’m already eighteen. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another year, he thought, be eighteen, able to drive. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z All we have to be is eighteen or older, bondable, possessing a car and a home phone and having one year of Minnesota residency. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shayla is right. He lived in the eighteen hundreds and he did quite a bit of writing.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Naturally Matilda was put in the bottom class, where there were eighteen other small boys and girls about the same age as her. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z However, the soldiers say that Meng, at eighteen, is too old to live at home with us, and they force him to go live in the labor camp with Khouy and Laine. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As well as checking off the boxes on their countdown to when Markie turns eighteen and leaves home. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This happened to my first marriage, to Marvin Chen, with whom I had eloped when I was eighteen and he was nineteen. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “It does make her look at least eighteen,” conceded Sissy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It unnerved him, especially when he remembered she was only eighteen. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I turned eighteen in October and I went from pizza maker to pizza deliverer. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Visitors also have to be at least eighteen years old with a valid state-issued ID or be accompanied by someone fitting that description. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It stayed visible for eighteen months, and in all that time it never moved relative to the other stars. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She was going on eighteen and in charge. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “She will be eighteen next month, and in this country she is an adult and can make her own choices.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I will tell her that at eighteen the prettiness drained from my cheeks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere along the line they started buying buildings, apartments, and houses, and now they had six properties with eighteen tenants. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “These were guys who had performed in the old environment at Korean Air for as much as fifteen to eighteen years,” he said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Three days later, Mott had spoken with eighteen women and they had formed the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In Portland, eighteen draft horses, two zebras, and a smithy. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z At eighteen, Belky wears a blue gown and mortarboard for her high school graduation. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He pointed out to anyone who’d listen that Karpov “makes no less than eighteen consecutive moves on the light squares. Incredible!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But what he hadn't done was quite important—he hadn't gotten Katherine III on paper, and one cannot take an equation that predicts eighteen out of nineteen Katherines to the Nobel Prize Committee. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Scads of new laborers were needed to churn out nearly eighteen thousand engines in two years. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In eighteen seconds eighteen pictures of our back garden and the washing and the shed were all over my duvet cover. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaira had said many times that she planned to fire him when she turned eighteen. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z There are about eighteen pairs of scissors there, ones that have gone missing over the years from the drawer in the kitchen. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Even if he took the deal, what guarantee was there that Richard wouldn’t be sent to adult prison when he turned eighteen? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I keep counting down to eighteen, to being an adult, holding the reins. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z She was eighteen, a year older than I was, and much more sophisticated. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The next day’s papers carried the news: eighteen men in the fire-engine house with Brown, ten of them were killed, including two of Brown’s sons. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The guy’s friends had called the police, who arrested the Iceman and ran a check on him, which revealed that the Iceman had walked from a work-release program eighteen months earlier. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He joined the military at eighteen, but his anger and attitude got him in even more trouble there. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He imposed obligatory military service for men over eighteen, declared to be public property any animals walking the streets after six in the evening, and made men who were overage wear red armbands. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” she says, “she’s eighteen. She was in Four’s initiate class.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He turns eighteen tomorrow, and he officially became a high school graduate yesterday. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “FYI, women build and invent lots of things. A woman invented the circular saw in the eighteen hundreds,” I say. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Ho, even though she and Brian were eighteen and therefore legally adults, even though they had been together for so long. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I believe there should be a total ban on housing children under the age of eighteen with adults in jails or prisons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Actually,” said Jake, “mouthwash wasn’t invented until the late eighteen hundreds....” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Dad, I’m sorry. But I’m not a child anymore; I’m going to be eighteen in a few weeks. I’ll be legally emancipated, and I have a right to live my life how I want.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z One bullet hit a Honduran girl, seventeen or eighteen years old, in the arm. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He never missed a chance to let you know you were sixteen and he was eighteen. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Dazed and alone, Dunstan walked through the market, feeling a great deal older than his eighteen years. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z She wore too much eyeliner then, at age thirteen, and now, at eighteen, she wears so much black under her eyes, she looks like a slutty linebacker raccoon. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The world’s nations rushed to choose sides, and within a day, eighteen other countries, including the United Kingdom, also declared war on Japan. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The windows all roll down at once, and some boys around eighteen or nineteen poke their heads out. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z When he’s done, there are exactly eighteen books on the other side of the counter. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z But Humphrey, despite his size, didn’t last for long—only for eighteen months. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They were mistaken; the upstart’s experiments succeeded—partly because, in the beginning years, he labored eighteen hours a day. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course, the precise origin of burritos isn’t known. According to Wikipedia, some speculate that they might have originated in the eighteen hundreds among the vaqueros, the cowboys of northern Mexico.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I was to leave school for ever in July 1934 and join the Shell Company two months later in September when I would be exactly eighteen. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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