| 单词 | fourteen |
| 例句 | I watched the paper as it fluttered to the floor and kept my eyes there as she shouted, "That's no excuse. Next you'll be number five, then number fourteen. You must work harder." I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “And he held my hands for a few seconds. I was fourteen years old then, and I had never kissed a boy, but he kissed me that day, Julian.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The boy was accustomed to working from eight to twelve, sometimes fourteen hours in a day. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The last Wilson versus Mount Pitts football game I went to, I was fourteen and Dad and I took Charlie with us. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “The noise of fourteen thousand aeroplanes advancing in open order. But in the Kurfurstendamm and the Eighth Arrondissement, the explosion of the anthrax bombs is hardly louder than the popping of a paper bag.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “We thought you knew too much already for fourteen,” said Evy coming out of the bedroom. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mere weeks ago, they’d stood on these very steps crowded among fourteen other Yaba boys who, like them, had spent their whole lives dreaming of becoming Sons of the Six. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Andrew McBride, my biological father, had died while she was pregnant with me fourteen years earlier. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I was always known as the person that was going to be a druggie, or get pregnant before I turned fourteen and drop out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But Rev. John Luckey, a Protestant minister who spent at least fourteen years as Sing Sing’s second chaplain, saw how it was eclipsed in importance by the character of the guards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Within two years it had topped out at almost fourteen hundred feet and was more than half a mile across. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She says I can’t start till I’m fourteen so come back in August. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It weighs only ten pounds, he claims, although, as I soon find out, with the attachments dangling from the strap around your waist, the total is probably more like fourteen. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys had built a wooden raft they kept tied up there, fourteen feet long, nine feet wide, big and solid enough to carry them out into the lake. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Keav, who is fourteen—the same age as Davi—sat holding her knees to her chest, her eyes misted over, her shoulders heaving visibly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We crossed the clearing, heaved our packs onto the platform, and in the same instant discovered that there were two people there already—a man and a boy of about fourteen. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I tell him fourteen but I have over forty and I’m not telling him because you never have to tell the truth to people who lie about your bad eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She arrived at the office early, went home in the late afternoon to check on her daughters, and then came back in the evening, maintaining a schedule of fourteen- or sixteen-hour days. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He hadn't been in school in fourteen years. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z When he did, he was carrying a birthday cake, blazing with fourteen birthday candles. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Even now that we were fourteen, not eight. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I knew it was that bodega because I heard the owner, Hugo, say one time that they’re the only ones for fourteen blocks who use the blue cups. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z If the rent for this room is five shillings a week we’ll have fourteen shillings for food and clothes and coal to boil the water for the tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z For a tragic crime committed at fourteen, Trina was condemned to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “It is too much. Before that, I sleep for five hours, and I drove fourteen hours before that. We are shorthanded, before Christmas.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z It belonged to a large Man-like, almost Troll-like, figure, at least fourteen foot high, very sturdy, with a tall head, and hardly any neck. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He flew into the country with five hundred rolls of film, .22- and .30-.30-caliber rifles, a shotgun, and fourteen hundred pounds of provisions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was small, only fourteen or fifteen feet. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z "And the intercept has to be within two hundred and fourteen meters," Beck said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the big showdown, so Nergal had brought all fourteen of his demons. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In .45 of a second an android equipped with such a brain structure could assume any one of fourteen basic reaction-postures. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The ropes are thick, heavy—fourteen feet long for double Dutch. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Finally, just fourteen minutes before entries closed, he made the entry. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, since it was first installed at a cost of two hundred and thirty-six dollars to the Milagro exchequer, that parking meter had received only fourteen dimes, eight nickels, and eleven pennies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were fourteen of us in a flat that had been cozy for three. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The suffragists returned to their posts, and fourteen women, including Lucy Burns, were arrested for carrying banners that said, MR. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The needle zoomed up and wavered between fourteen and fifteen pounds. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She sincerely hoped that the first tuition payment of fourteen dollars might be refunded to the diocese. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z To Chinese people, fourteen carats isn’t real gold. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Doctors had spent fourteen hours removing a tumor that weighed more than the small girl whose body it had been growing in. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Who broke Babe Ruth’s record of seven hundred fourteen home runs?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z When my father was fourteen, which is still more than one hundred years ago, he was up on the roof of the family house replacing some loose tiles when he slipped and fell. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rain used to be one, back in the sixties. There were fourteen families at Garland then. Now it’s just Rain and me.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z She’s been reading it for five days now and I flip it open today and she still on Chapter One, page fourteen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z At fourteen, the boy on the cover wasn’t much older than they were, but lying in that coffin, beaten beyond recognition, Emmett Till looked more like a monster than a human being. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I was fourteen years old, so maybe she thought I was a late bloomer. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z By the rules devised for the 1936 Olympic rowing regatta, each of the fourteen eight-oared crews was to have two chances to make it into the medal race on August 14. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At fourteen dollars a month, his duties included controlling the mules along the canal’s towpath as they pulled the boat, which was loaded with supplies such as lumber, coal, iron, or copper ore. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Ordinarily if anybody was saying hush up around here, it was Aunt Loma, despite she was fourteen years younger than my mother. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I was not a self-possessed lad of fourteen. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was only fourteen years old. About the same age as David was then.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My atoms have been around for fourteen billion years. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z She is Pa’s first daughter, and at fourteen she must survive on her own. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The King was dressed in a robe of velvet which had belonged to Uther the Conqueror, his father, trimmed with the beards of fourteen kings who had been vanquished in the olden days. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When Fern was fourteen, she changed her name, and for the rest of her short life she tried to justify the replacement: Joy. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Having children wasn’t something I thought much about at fourteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z From police in a Massachusetts town, I heard of a fourteen- year-old boy sitting in his bedroom with his father s shotgun in his mouth, a computer screen open to Slashdot. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Howards came to the barn almost every morning, and Charles stayed on, sometimes for fourteen hours at a stretch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "Bono was fifteen when he met his wife, and Robert Smith was fourteen—" "Romeo, sweet Romeo . . ." "It's not like that, Eleanor, and you know it." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Her father refused to take her until she was fourteen. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z I miss my family and see them only briefly each night when they return exhausted from working twelve to fourteen hours in the field. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He also increased the length to fourteen inches, and that looked about right to me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z So they knew each other for fourteen days before their first marriage, and twenty-three years before their second marriage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z She sings in a salsa duo with her sister, Thaimi, who is fourteen years older, and spends a great deal of time with family and friends across the Delaware River in New Jersey. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Well, I think I’m about fourteen,” I say. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother—my maternal grandmother, Jenny—had her first child when she was fourteen, but she put that baby up for adoption. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Two hundred repetitions, twice a week from fourteen to sixteen and a half,” was all his comment. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time they reached fourteen, many young people were pulled out of school and called upon to earn their keep as messenger boys, door openers, office girls, and seamstresses. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Their vehicle was a streamlined “palace” horse van painted in Howard crimson and white and featuring two musical horns, eight headlights, fourteen cigar lighters, and a luxurious stall with kapok-stuffed walls. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She’ll never be strong enough again to work in a mill thirteen, fourteen hours a day. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I could speak English well, but I was only fourteen when that attack came on Pearl Harbor. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Lloyd: My name is Lloyd Newman, I am just fourteen years old and I live in a row house in the Ida B. Wells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I lived in constant fear for ten long years, from the time I was four until I was fourteen years old. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I figure Rowdy and I have spent an average of eight hours a day together for the last fourteen years. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Baba was telling me about the time he’d cut fourteen kites on the same day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the nervous strain of enduring Dad’s driving; perhaps it was simply that fourteen persons have different personal habits. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The fourteen panels I took to Pathfinder provided the 18 kilowatt-hours that the batteries could store. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I was almost fourteen years old, had never handled a tennis racket in my life and knew absolutely nothing about the rules of the game. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She graduated from high school at fourteen and enrolled at West Virginia State Institute, a black college located just outside of Charleston, the state capital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Coming in at number fourteen in the rankings, I’d missed making the thirteen-woman team by a hair, but it might as well have been a mile. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z After fourteen weeks Sister Rita tells me I can go home and aren’t I a lucky boy that the day will be the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At fourteen, he and his father had joined the jihad against the Shorawi. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z All I had with me were the clothes I wore, a few photographs, my official immigration papers, and fourteen cassette tapes. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A pair of striplings followed her, boys no older than fourteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Martha did wonder if, at fourteen, I was already too old to groom, but I guess she thought I was promising enough to at least evaluate me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She had fourteen years of teaching experience with lots of awards to her credit. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, let me see...will it be oozing chocolate lava cake at sixteen dollars or the caramelized runny butter tarts at fourteen dollars or the...,” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z We wind up with twenty-four kids, ages five to fourteen, and despite the low-key relational upheaval, it really is a lovely sight. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He ran the ball five times for fourteen yards and seemed even more tentative than he had against Abilene High. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Since he won the Sixty-fifth Hunger Games when he was only fourteen, he’s still one of the youngest victors. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Most were two or three years his senior, yet not one was half the fighter Robb had been at fourteen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I was fourteen years old when the University of Mississippi confrontation took place. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The crowd of fourteen thousand five hundred, sensing the kill, rose to its feet on almost every play, the cries of “Mojo! Mojo! Mojo!” louder than they ever had been, almost scary. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I hug fourteen people, which is like drowning. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z Although she was only fourteen, she and her mother agreed that she could pass for sixteen easily. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, depending on how long a day or a month is on this planet, you might be...fourteen years old already.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Bernstein’s The Careful Writer, an informal style manual, takes five pages to explain fourteen rules, exceptions, and exceptions to the exceptions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There were seven sows, two long-tushed old bar’ hogs, and fourteen small shoats. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z However, by then Luke had been in the system for fourteen of his fifteen years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “It’s okay. I’d rather use these...fourteen minutes to find Jack’s dad,” he said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z By the time Milkman was fourteen he had noticed that one of his legs was shorter than the other. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I must have been fourteen, fifteen, that age when daughters are most embarrassed by their mothers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z At fourteen, I went away to Inmaculada Concepci6n, and all the country people around here thought I was entering the convent. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And what awaits me at the bottom of those fourteen stairs? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When Pearl was born—on an unseasonably warm May afternoon, at the hospital, after fourteen hours of labor—Mia took the birth record card from the nurse. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "I was in Memphis last year when NC State whooped Georgia fourteen to seven in the Liberty Bowl," she said. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When I had become pregnant at fourteen, it was because of my own irresponsibility. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He had a house big enough to fit fourteen of The Dumps into. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z There’re fourteen seconds left to play and Hazelwood is still down by two. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But if his first fourteen years hadn’t been rooted in a healthy diet of education and the richness of his heritage, Malcolm wouldn’t have found himself gravitating to the prison libraries after he was incarcerated. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mabel was fourteen when Grayson arrived on the southern half, sold down south by a drunken indigo farmer in North Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The first time I met Bas: He was fifteen, I was fourteen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Alabama is among the growing list of states that make the murder of a person under the age of fourteen a capital offense punishable by the death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Of course, Newcomen could have invented all this and more; after all, he worked on his new engine for some fourteen years before he was ready to put it into public operation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At fourteen weeks her face begins to grow plump, so that for the first time I can recognize the yia yia of my childhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For as she drew closer, he reckoned she couldn't be more than fourteen or fifteen years old. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z A total of fourteen unmanned missions deposited everything we would need for surface operations. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z That day they made fourteen miles, and were glad of it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z By age fourteen, she would be considered an adult. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was hard to tell much about him under the helmet, but he looked stout like a wrestler, maybe fourteen or fifteen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “We do not embrace such archaic customs, and furthermore, does she look ready to be married? She is fourteen years old.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It was fourteen years old and its strips were battered. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z With T there was this one time—we were maybe thirteen or fourteen, so it wasn't even all that long ago—when we scored a bag of small orange balloons from somewhere. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He survived fourteen attempts on his life, seventy-three ambushes, and a firing squad. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z By the time I was fourteen, I basically thought of myself as half a grown-up anyway—maybe even as two-thirds of a grown-up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We focused on the youngest kids, who were thirteen and fourteen. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z From Georgia to Maine, it wanders across fourteen states, through plump, comely hills whose very names—Blue Ridge, Smokies, Cumberlands, Green Mountains, White Mountains—seem an invitation to amble. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He was an accomplished doctor who would treat patients in exchange for marrying their young and pretty daughters, some as young as thirteen or fourteen years old. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Has a girl of fourteen a heart large enough, vigorous enough, to hold the swelling spring of pure, full, fervid eloquence? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Neil caught fourteen mice, and scores of others escaped with missing limbs and tails. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z That guy had to have been fourteen at least, but Jenna would not let him pass. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z A skinny boy of fourteen looked back at him, his bright green eyes puzzled under his untidy black hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z One Hitler Youth, about fourteen years old, was carried into a hospital tent. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z His father, Anthony, had been living on his own since age fourteen, first as a coal miner and boxer, then as a construction worker. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z At fourteen, Keav was beautiful and stylish, and bought only the latest fashions. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought it was preposterous, that she, a girl of fourteen, with nothing but a grade school education, would be considered eligible to take over the work of a thirty-year-old college graduate like Miss Armstrong. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was fourteen, my mother took up two new hobbies: riding a bicycle and playing piano. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The first class I attended was in baton twirling, taught by a chubby girl about fourteen named Nancy. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “What of it? What? She’s too young, you think? She’s fourteen. Hardly a child. You were fifteen, remember? My mother was fourteen when she had me. Thirteen when she married.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z No longer the entire fourteen—the battle had taken its toll—but I was disappointed to see that Idiptu and Sidana were still alive. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There wasn’t any fourteen in the problem but there was a two times four which was eight. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z It’s hard to sleep when you know the next day you’re fourteen and starting your first job as a man. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He hadn’t spent a birthday at home since he’d turned fourteen. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z There were nine grownups and five children, fourteen in all. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z And when I was fourteen I used to ride Poosh’s horse, Quince, in horse shows. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’m afraid I’m already familiar with the basics, sir. I know the three laws and the fourteen corollaries. As well as the first ninety—” “Yes, yes. I see,” he cut me off. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Two weeks! It’s fourteen endless days after your explosion before you pass on. And it’s no pleasant death either, you finally die from starvation.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z It was little enough to show for fourteen years on this Earth. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I was exactly fourteen and a half that month, and still getting used to the embarrassment of having the monthly visits. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “How can you keep saying that he’s a man and you’re not? Just because of some stupid birthday? If you were where I came from you’d already be fourteen and a month!” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He sees the pile of birthday cards scattered on the carpet, and remembers a hot August day fourteen years ago in Cambridge when he held his son for the first time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He was fourteen, looked like he was nine. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “A week has already passed; we only have fourteen more days till we’re toads,” Valley said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Lola says that as the eldest of fourteen siblings, it’s her job to take care of everyone. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z One day my father summoned the courage to ask Schindler to hire my brother David, then fourteen, to work in his factory, and Schindler agreed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z His voice broke with sudden emotion, and Catelyn remembered that he was only fourteen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “We try to keep each other from going crazy,” says Agueda Navarro, thirty-four, who left behind her children, fourteen and four, a few weeks earlier. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Twelve or fourteen in the class, but I dare say they won’t all come.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Sure. Number fourteen and eighteen. Crispin Drive.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z He wanted to teach his children all that he knew so that at fourteen or fifteen, they would know as much as he knew at thirty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The radioactive element used in the core was solinium 2, which had a half-life of fourteen seconds. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I’m not sure how old Jason is, maybe fourteen or fifteen, but even though he’s almost grown, his mother stays with him in the waiting room. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind was really whipping around here, fourteen stories up. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He was a rather skinny boy, neither large nor small for fourteen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z One week, after a lecture by the foreman on increasing productivity, Lefty speeded up his work, grinding a bearing every twelve seconds instead of fourteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I finished chapter fourteen last night,” said Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Derrick ran down fourteen flights of stairs to try to save his brother—he thought he could catch him before he hit the ground. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Think of that distance: fourteen billion times all those hundreds of millions of miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Carl dropped out of school after the eighth grade and worked twelve to fourteen hours a day on the farm, harvesting with a team of horses, baling hay, milking and feeding the cows. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z He was fourteen years old then, still brand-new to the spotlight. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At that point, the trailer had sat, unused and unusable, for over fourteen months. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He was older than the Young Wolf’s murdered brothers, fourteen or fifteen by the look of him, and his eyes were older still. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I sat under the dome light of the airplane, worried that I’d somehow blown it with those fourteen stupid words. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The grandchildren ranged in age from four to fourteen, and one of them, Violet, was twelve years old when True Belle arrived. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I underwent, during the summer that I became fourteen, a prolonged religious crisis. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z He is older than I am, probably thirteen or fourteen. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z When she was fourteen, her mother sent her to live with her eldest brother, Marco, in southern Honduras. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I was only a few months from turning fourteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A group of American girls of fourteen or fifteen had dressed up as much younger girls—with pigtails and teddy bears, wearing pajamas and kiddie clothes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z It started simply, with the words “My name is Calliope Stephanides. I am fourteen years old. Going on fifteen.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As superintendent of the Union Stock Yards, Sherman ruled an empire of blood that employed 25,000 men, women, and children and each year slaughtered fourteen million animals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Prompted by Cora one night, Ridgeway maintained that he’d never owned a slave in his life, save for the fourteen hours Homer was his property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The captain gave the order to fire and fourteen machine guns answered at once. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I roll to a stoplight and close my eyes for a moment, but when I do, the only thing I see is that day when we were fourteen. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “All right. First to get the cube of fourteen goes.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z There is no place like home, Wilbur thought, as he placed Charlotte’s five hundred and fourteen unborn children carefully in a safe corner. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He looked fourteen, maybe fifteen, and had long, glossy black hair pulled back with a rubber band at the nape of his neck. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Twelve per cent of all deaths in children between the ages of one and fourteen are caused by cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z So I always struggled with pretending that maybe my friends could overlook that I was only fourteen, even if I couldn’t. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Last year, the state legislature cut Dad’s workday from fourteen hours down to eight. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z By the end of its fourteen minutes, the world of music had changed for ever. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They visited two-room shacks that housed as many as twelve or fourteen persons. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z At the counter, I order the largest meal I can buy with my fourteen bucks. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The next morning he asked for a glass of milk, the first sustenance he had volunteered to accept in fourteen weeks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Pete was every bit of fourteen, yet he was still stuck in the seventh grade. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Old soldiers—some of them survivors of that brave fourteen who had gone with Beowulf against Grendel—sat with their ale in the evening under golden-budded oaks and fought over battles long-ago. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “Something local, I think. About thirteen or fourteen years ago. A family was killed around here.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I was fourteen and it was my first day of high school. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z She was bearing an angel food cake with fourteen candles. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Marriage was still more mysterious to him than it was to me, but in the fourteen months we’d been engaged, he’d been nothing but all in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She’d be thirteen next year, then fourteen, fifteen, and so on. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “In the fifties, when my father was ranching, it was two or three years old. Now we get there at fourteen to sixteen months.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I was fourteen years old—and a well-content Hindu on a holiday— when I met Jesus Christ. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I spoke with your father last night. You deserve to have a little fun. You are fourteen; we’ve got to let you grow up a little.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The first time we’d gotten drunk together, we were fourteen years old. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Our flight to Dubai was fourteen hours, and we crossed another eight time zones. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Like all Blackcliff students, I came to the school at the age of six, and in the fourteen years since, I've witnessed punishments thousands of times. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Postage to America now cost fourteen Zim dollars—two weekends' worth of tips. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Those swaggering boys belong to the Jungvolk, the Hitler Youth group for boys ten to fourteen. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z But Robert was nearly fourteen, and the thought of the boy being sent to this never-ending war in Vietnam was one of Ellsberg’s main motivations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When Slash was just fourteen, the merchant ship he worked on was destroyed in a storm. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z When Mom was fourteen years old, the Makah Nation hunted a gray whale. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And one day, just after I had turned fourteen, I arrived home from school expecting to eat some snacks, watch some television, and begrudgingly start my homework, when my parents said the day had arrived. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Grandpa was just fourteen when he joined the Army of the South with his daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z 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 My heart broke into fourteen pieces, one for each year that Rowdy and I had been best friends. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “When you sign our book, we will be five hundred fourteen.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In 1532 King Joao III of Portugal divided the coast of Brazil into fourteen provinces and dispatched colonists to each one. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "And two hundred and fourteen meters isn't a hard limit, per se." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d turned fourteen and my fountain pen was enjoying the last year of its life with me when... The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It horrifies me to think that about fourteen years ago the spermatozoon that turned into me shot out of that. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z At fourteen, I attended my first church dance and received my first corsage from a boy. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I was fourteen and had never made less than an A. I was smart, but I was as naive as they come. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z That was eight years ago on a Thursday morning, when Grandpa Blakeslee was fifty-nine and I was fourteen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I sat in our seat—number fourteen—with my earphones in, listening to a mixed Motown playlist I made from Dad’s old vinyl. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z In October 2004, Shin and Park began spending fourteen hours a day together in the garment factory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “My son. He’s fourteen. He’s in ninth grade at Dunbar Junior High.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He went over to his racks of materials, selected a steel tube, and cut off fourteen inches of it with a hacksaw. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z For several years he had slept alone in the master bedroom, on the ground floor of the house—a two-story, fourteen- room frame-and-brick structure. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m nearly fourteen, actually,” I want to say, but I actually just go, “Um.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “My class starts in fourteen minutes. It’s an hour long, and afterward we'll go out to eat.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The boys, ages ten to fourteen, pushed streetcars into place, blocking the Maximilian Bridge. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Three dollars and twenty-nine cents, plus fourteen pennies for the governor, equals three-forty-three altogether,” Nick said bemusedly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One of fourteen children, my grandfather served as pastor of two churches south of Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 Eager, a little scared, they did not even nap during the fourteen hours of a ride smoother than a rocking cradle. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was a powerful force for me, especially at fourteen, with my nerves bright and jangling, ready to launch into a symphony at the slightest provocation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z By the end of the month, fourteen churches and four civic groups had chipped in to raise almost all of what the lawyers were charging. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I think how much less the three years between him and me seem than the years between Zephyr and me seemed when I was fourteen. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Another voice, musical and self-possessed, cried pleasantly: “Wit thou well, here are fourteen armed, and thou canst not escape.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m only fourteen, but those people scare me. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time he was fourteen, Tony had built a fierce reputation in the neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When Celia returned with the tea, Tam Lin shrugged and said, “In answer to your question, lad, you’re fourteen years old.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That summer was the worst in my short fourteen years of life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Mace was probably aware of Galileo's research, which included the design - not made in his lifetime - of a pendulum clock that pre-dates Huygens by fourteen years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “The older one was only fourteen. The next spring the family came back again, and then they stayed. You can see that family name all over this country now, on dozens of mailboxes.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Four there and four back, and somewhere along the way, those other thirteen or fourteen minutes disappear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I am fourteen years old, the second oldest of four brothers. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The longest blackout ever had been three minutes and fourteen seconds. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When the undertaker came back with the deed, Katie, remembering something her mother had said fourteen years ago read it slowly and carefully. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t have been more than fourteen or fifteen and seemed to have as many piercings in the cartilage of each ear. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z At one point there were as many as fourteen children in there, plus the parents, even though their legal capacity was for only seven. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z At fourteen, girls advanced to the BDM, where they stayed until age twenty-one. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z On her way to the washhouse one morning after breakfast Fujiko had seen her middle daughter—she was only fourteen—standing in a group that included four boys dressed nattily in Eisenhower jackets. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z From his perch fourteen feet up, he can see anyone approaching on either side of the tracks up ahead or from another car. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The British then moved on, razing fifteen more towns and burning fourteen hundred acres of corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Nothing could possibly suck worse than being a junior in high school, alone at the top of your class, and fourteen years old all at the same time. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Finally, Anthony and fourteen other women took the oath and had their names added to the official voter rolls. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z That made a total of twenty-six cents, fourteen cents of which would have to be saved for carfare to Mr. Dalton’s; that is, if he decided to take the job. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They had done nearly fourteen miles with only one rest at noon. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The jury found that the district attorney, Harry Connick Sr., had illegally suppressed evidence of Thompson’s innocence and had allowed him to spend fourteen years in prison for a crime he had not committed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z By the time Aziz turned fourteen, she had stopped glancing across the orchard every time she passed by, hoping to see the khan riding up the road. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I made fourteen dollars each week in my part-time job and planned accordingly. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “You know,” said Rufus thoughtfully, “you still look mighty young. You pulled me out of that river thirteen or fourteen years ago, but you look like you would have been just a kid back then.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “He didn’t bother to tell me until I was fourteen that I was expected to pay him back for all of it.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I was fourteen, and I had never even seen a real mountain. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It took you fourteen years to grow that hair,” said Mama, “and I’ll not let you have it cut off.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At fourteen I accepted a scholarship and got one for the next year as well. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of her whistle was lost in the roar from the crowd as fourteen brooms rose into the air. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z No light for fourteen days; that’s a pleasant thought, isn’t it? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z These were warheads loaded with eight to fourteen nuclear payloads, each one up to twenty-five times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It seems impossible to believe I was just in a room with fourteen other people just like me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “Why the hell not? She sold me to this outfit when I was fourteen.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The fourteen fugues he did finish all start with the same relatively straightforward tune but then explore different options and techniques. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Now, Tidings is fourteen and too young to drive anything except the tractor, but Mama just said, “You do that, honey.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Charlotte,” said Wilbur dreamily, “are you really going to have five hundred and fourteen children?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I wish I had some sign of a shoulder so that people would know I was at least fourteen years of age. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And he was only fourteen months older than she was. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “Twenty-one years, three months, fourteen days,” Bodega said. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He graduated from this part of the course in 1591, second out of a class of fourteen, and moved on to his theological studies described by his tutors as an exceptional student. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z And I can think of one carer at least who went on for all of fourteen years despite being a complete waste of space. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think you have to be fourteen. Maybe older.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The doctor told him he could play again in ten to fourteen days. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The loudest was a girl maybe thirteen or fourteen. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z By the time he turned fourteen in 1941, he had been supporting his mother and brother with his daily labor for two years. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Gerald rode around the block fourteen times, came in for a glass of Kool-aid, and persuaded Aunt Queen to let him explore a little further. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept growing and by the time I was fourteen, I was strong enough to do as good a day’s work as any man. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I counted, by actual count, one hundred and fourteen.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He works fourteen- hour shifts in the neighborhood plant's friction stoves and always comes home rubbing his eyes from the smoke. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z And as Despereaux stood before them with the red thread around his neck and the fourteen members of the Mouse Council perched on the bricks above him, two burly mice came forward. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z She lived in a hut with fourteen cousins—fourteen children from fourteen different mothers and fathers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z 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 We girls eyed each other, suddenly aware we were frail flesh, fourteen mouthfuls crowding Doña Charito's patio and drinking up her lemonade. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Still reading from ancient texts, secret writings, and the Bible his mother had given him at age fourteen, Cabot had taken his curiosity to obsession. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He used to stand for fourteen or sixteen hours and not notice any effects at all. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The staff at Juvenile Hall remembered Richard from his previous stay there when he was fourteen, before he was sent to the group home. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I’m fourteen now and if I save something every week surely I should be able to go to America by the time I’m twenty. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s brusque four-paragraph letter reported deuteron-induced radioactivity in fourteen light elements and speculated brashly that “in these nuclear reactions new radioactive isotopes of many of the elements might be formed.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The total for the three of us came to fourteen dollars, and was packed up and ready to go in four minutes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I was fourteen years old to the day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The group also extracted DNA from fourteen Botocudo skulls in the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Ron was sixteen and a high school sophomore; Adam was fourteen and a freshman. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The fence is maybe twelve or fourteen feet high with three strands of barbed wire run across the top. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Some kids were thirteen, a few fifteen, but most of them Francie’s age—fourteen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all thirteen and fourteen and messing with guys like me was just a game for them. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It was a twenty-block drive to school, fourteen of them down a two-lane one-way street. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z We did fourteen miles, an exceedingly worthy distance in the circumstances, and might have gone farther, but at half past six we came to a broad ford called Wilber Brook and stopped. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we’re disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Elizabeth Cuthrell recalls being fourteen years old, a high school sophomore, and in the grip of turmoil and unhappiness in her home life when she first encountered Volpe. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Sticking with my plan to be a strong, educated woman became much harder when I got to be fourteen or fifteen. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There were probably fourteen or fifteen rabbits—no more—who set off with Campion, some time before ni-Frith, to try to retrace the long journey they had made only the previous day. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In all there were over fourteen hundred buckets. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He had lived his lies for fourteen years, yet they still haunted him at night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The radio announcer spent fourteen of the fifteen minutes before the race talking about Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They ranged from ten years old to fourteen, and Gareth was the youngest of the four. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Reverend Connerly, I am humbled to be in your presence. I am the lowly Charles Mondial Vaughn the Fourth, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. Knighted a mere fourteen years ago.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Seventeen days—fourteen days leave and three days for travelling. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Square boy. Middle- aged at fourteen, fifteen. Already caught in a routine. Wow.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After fourteen months, her stomach corrupted by monkey meat and snake stew, Úrsula gave birth to a son who had all of his features human. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “When she came to us, she didn’t look over eleven, but actually I think she was around fourteen.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I loved it—people assumed I was much older than fourteen. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The boys, from eight to fourteen years of age, looked alike in straggling knickerbockers and broken-peaked caps. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I ain’t got no room—I sleep right here on this couch every night—and I’m fourteen almost. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “He refused to teach me the advanced bindings. I was only fourteen and an E’lir. He told me I would have to wait until I was a Re’lar.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Ears stuck out. Elbows stuck out. My voice didn’t drop till the summer before high school, when I shot up fourteen inches.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Under criminal history: Arrested at fourteen for arson, set fire to family house in Los Angeles. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z After fourteen years, I have a father, I like it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z They rolled Yossarian away on a stretcher into the room with the other soldier who saw everything twice and quarantined everyone else in the ward for another fourteen days. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The clock said eight, just fourteen hours since he’d left Naomi on the porch the afternoon before. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He thought I was younger than my actual fourteen. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z His sentence was later commuted to life in prison and then reduced to fourteen years. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, man. Current ETA for basketball game on Sunday is fourteen hundred hours. How copy?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “You ever pull fourteen days straight and come home to a sweet woman, clean sheets, and a fifth of Wild Turkey? Eh?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Thiel had lived in America for fourteen years and worked as a toolmaker for automobile factories. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I count the trees: thirty-two banana trees, seven guava trees, fourteen mango trees, countless coconut and lychee trees. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z After seventeen years on the job, fourteen of them in B-block, she was showing signs of stress. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a nice smile, a pretty wife who had been runner-up in a state beauty contest fourteen years ago, and two good-looking kids. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Let's say I can find a home for fourteen more panels instead of seven. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He told them, for example, that the U-2 plane had not been shot down by a single missile, as Khrushchev had announced publicly, but by fourteen rockets, and by MiG fighter jets as well. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In human years, he was barely fourteen, just a year older than Hazel, but that didn’t tell the whole story. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He occupied a cell that measured nine by fourteen feet, with a narrow barred window high in its outer wall and a single electric lamp, which guards extinguished at nine o’clock each night. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A woman opens the door at number fourteen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I see pictures of her and her family when she is three, eight, ten, fourteen. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Such was the doom which awaited fourteen youths and maidens a few days after Theseus reached Athens. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The government reported that five inmates had been killed and that fourteen had escaped. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z A few years earlier, we won the release of Phillip Shaw, who was fourteen when he was improperly convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in Missouri. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Maybe they’d have enough music to entertain them while they drove fourteen or fifteen miles home and unharnessed in the dark and fed the stock and milked. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He was only fourteen at the time, and was making his way past a couple of high school seniors when one of them stuck out his foot. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Not in person, anyway. Our parents divorced when I was four and she was eight, and then when she turned fourteen, she moved to New Hampshire to live with my mom.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z That first night in Block 16, the rest of us squeezed into the second room—Granny, Lillian, age fourteen, Ray, thirteen, May, eleven, Kiyo, ten, Mama, and me. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Namontack, our new tent mate, is fourteen years old, or fourteen returns of the leaf as he puts it. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The train rolled through country where the temperature was fourteen degrees below zero. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Just about every individual atom in the universe, every last bit of the stuff that builds me, is nearly fourteen billion years old. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Jane thought: “I shall be grown up in another fourteen years!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Three years earlier, when Chapter Eleven was fourteen and I was eight, my brother had played a trick on me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She was aware that her mother was already on the lookout for a suitable match, though Aurelia would not be expected to marry until she was thirteen, or even fourteen if she was lucky. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Looking at them now as folks chased in and out, getting ready, it was hard for Cora to imagine a time when the fourteen cabins hadn’t been there. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There were fourteen students in the class, and each one of us, with the exception of Danny, sooner or later tasted that silence personally. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z When I was fourteen years old, I was sent to spend ten days with my maternal grandmother in western New York State. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z That meant dinner was over, the snack bar was closed, and I’d slept at least fourteen hours. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When she was fourteen she saw a boy on a bike playing chicken with a car at the corner of Eighty-Second Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The final count was two hundred fourteen slain, three times as many burned or wounded. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Because of his unusual caution, the following seven games, numbers fourteen to twenty, were all draws. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z When Jon had been a boy at Winterfell, his hero had been the Young Dragon, the boy ,king who had conquered Dome at the age of fourteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He tried to tell the counselor that he was more than he had been, not less—not just older, not just fifteen when before he had been fourteen, but more. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z He had been fourteen for one day, and it was the worst day of his life. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The places here were laid with gold, not silver, and the fourteen seats were not oak benches but mahogany chairs with velvet cushions. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Six Overseers managed the almshouse and were responsible for what went on inside that building, while fourteen Guardians took care of those in need outside the almshouse. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The building was split into fourteen rooms facing out toward the lake. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z But Anatole not being from here, that explains why he doesn’t have his mother and father and fourteen hundred cousins living with him like everybody else does. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Just then, a waiter came in with a plate in his hand and I heard him saying, "The old hag on table fourteen says this meat is too tough! She wants another portion!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z "Why? Why now? Jon Arryn had been Hand for fourteen years. What was he doing that they had to kill him?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At age fourteen, I didn’t own a lot of clothes because there were six children to clothe in our household. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “That was about fourteen billion miles back that way,” I argued. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Johnny White had a grand total of fourteen dollars in his pocket. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When I was fourteen, I started smoking cigarettes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A couple of girls thought it was her birthday, and she had thanked them and unwrapped the presents without telling them she wouldn’t be fourteen for eight more months. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He seems so much in control that I forget he is not quite fourteen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Half of that was fourteen, which meant her bill would be just about $40, plus tip. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Just fourteen years old, he was now officially ranked as a chess master, the youngest person ever to achieve that ranking in the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z With fourteen thousand arid acres to sell, truth in advertising was not something to dwell over. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent fourteen days in jail, was fined ten dollars, and departed from Worcester on another wet November afternoon. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He showed them, as he had the day before, a cabinet inside which fourteen coffee cups hung on angles from brass hooks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Walking along the weedy strip beside the highway for the second time that day, I was thinking how much older fourteen had made me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He held his breath as the orchard filled—fourteen deer in all. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He still had most of the fourteen dollars he’d left home with, but that wasn’t going to last long. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “This was my evening dress for quite some time,” Marian recalled, “and in some ways it made me happier than the one that would have cost fourteen ninety-eight.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z About my “little” brother: in truth, Drake is only fourteen months younger than me and just a year behind in school. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z And so, fourteen days after my parents first laid eyes on each other, friends and family gathered to celebrate their union. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z She was perhaps fourteen years old, dark like her brother, but very slight and slender. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Saipan was fourteen miles long and five miles wide. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, there were fourteen children instead of just five. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was fourteen years older than Farmer but considered myself in decent physical shape. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A millionaire named Lewis Hicks ran fourteen mines where bosses treated workers like slaves. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z But up those ominous fourteen steps is a shower. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I was fourteen years old, pretty near a grown man. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z But from his point of view, at fourteen years old, their love was entirely unavoidable. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Day fourteen started with a phone call from Ma. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They were fourteen years old; geoducks were important. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I was fourteen years old and lost from my village. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He, at fourteen, was pudgy, bespectacled, and totally unsentimental. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For two hours, Harriet recounted the story of how she was torn from her family and sold “for her beauty” in the New Orleans market when she was fourteen years old. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z With his father’s grudging approval, Mohammed crewed on local fishing boats in the afternoons and evenings, and even at fourteen, after a full day of fishing miles from land, Mohammed insisted on swimming to shore. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z But with fourteen of us, the farm felt different. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pd been hiding every year since I’d been eleven, and now at fourteen I was more than old enough to get carted off to one of the government schools. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z One of them—a girl, maybe fourteen—keeps flicking her eyes toward the clock. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The Flint girl was fourteen and fiat-chested as a boy, though she did not lack for milk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He knew that Hob had worked on Cully for fourteen hours a day to teach him his trade, and that his work had been like Jacob’s struggle with the angel. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Two half-bloods crouched in the shadows—a boy about fourteen and a girl about twelve. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z These were rights they didn't think I needed from the tender age of fourteen to twenty-five. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Prince Hamlet, who was then about fourteen, sprang about the hall with much silliness and some grace, his dark hair flying wildly about his head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Like Joyce, Swift had learned the butchering process from start to finish, entering the trade as his brother’s apprentice in 1855 at the age of fourteen in a little town on Cape Cod. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For fourteen to sixteen hours a day he worked in that sumptuously decorated hole in the ground and never stopped moving the entire time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Alex was fourteen, already well built, with the body of an athlete. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Last week, a lady in the elevator at the hotel guessed I was fourteen! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z In March, a British court convicted Fuchs of espionage and sentenced him to fourteen years in prison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The progress that the black women had made in the last fourteen years was unmistakable. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I am just past fourteen when my voice changes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Harding asked for the answer to number fourteen, and no one spoke up, so I raised my hand. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a light-skinned girl no older than fourteen or fifteen. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Inside was a cloth-covered book, about ten by fourteen inches and just over an inch thick. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z If one cup of lemonade sells for fifty cents and you sell fourteen cups of lemonade, how much money have you made? The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “Oh, ’bout fourteen or fifteen if all goes well. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It would cost fourteen hundred dollars to repair. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Uncle George had run away to be a drummer boy in the army, when he was fourteen years old. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The fourteen men ultimately elected consisted of half a dozen farmers, a pharmacist, a nursery manager, an airport employee, a well driller, two salesmen, a machinist, and the manager of Ray’s Bowling Alley. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I have fourteen days rest, because I have swallowed a bit of gas; in the little garden I sit the whole day long in the sun. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are about fourteen dead people for every living person,” he said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “I know you almost fourteen and everything, but you ain’t too old to hug your mother.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The bees came the summer of 1964, the summer I turned fourteen and my life went spinning off into a whole new orbit, and I mean whole new orbit. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At nineteen he married a rich widow fourteen years his senior, but at the outbreak of revolution in the colonies he unwisely sided with the loyalists, for a time spying on their behalf. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I was fourteen, and everywhere I went people whistled and complimented me. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I step out, realizing this is the first time I've seen my whole self in a mirror since I was fourteen. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I found fourteen fleas on him last night. Just on one side.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “Look at all these chickens! At least fourteen hens.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Then he went on his first tour, playing in fourteen cities throughout the American West and Midwest. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Then she says: “I never kept a secret from your dad in the fourteen years we’ve been married.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was fourteen, I loved going out at night. It’s a treat at her age.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “My God—I thought he was about fourteen years old,” said Trout. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, we were together fourteen months. Fourteen months is a long time. God, that hurts.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z She was around fourteen years old when she got pregnant with Nation. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “The check is for four thousand dollars, but I only need fourteen hundred.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Even though they’d lived together for fourteen years, they weren’t married, but it hadn’t been an issue in our lives until Mami returned from New York. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He spent fourteen months in a dried-up lake bed, where he did nothing except dig holes. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He thinks of himself at fourteen, his life nothing like it is now, still called Gogol and nothing else. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z If it was important, she and Daniel would step onto the balcony, where the noise of the traffic fourteen floors below drowned out their whispered words. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z By the end of the month, fourteen and a quarter inches of rain had fallen at the University of Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Of the seventy-five names, an astonishing fourteen are Americans born within nine years of one another in the midnineteenth century. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And then, turning into the wind, suddenly they would all be in the air together, fourteen or forty at a time, with wide wings scooping the blackness and a cry of triumph in their throats. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma returns to the field, working twelve to fourteen hours a day and leaves Geak behind with Chou. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At fourteen, he was still too young to look after himself. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z All day long he works, fourteen, sixteen hours, with unflagging concentration, his sandals leaving prints in the flour dust on the floor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As relations with Mark Antony broke down, Cicero moved to open condemnation, delivering no fewer than fourteen Philippics* denouncing Antony. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He looks about twelve or fourteen years old, has a round face, black wavy hair, and a small, dark sinewy body. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Ascent time: eight minutes, fourteen seconds. On course for Hermes intercept." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Army bomber accidentally flew into the seventy-ninth floor of the Empire State Building and killed fourteen people. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Everyone was quiet except Mom, who was sobbing that she really did carry Lori for fourteen months. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The details were few—two parents, three kids aged four, fourteen, and seventeen. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z My roommate, Ella, was fourteen and had a baby who lived with off- campus foster parents. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Of this group of fourteen, three would orbit the earth, three orbit the moon, four walk on the moon, and four would get killed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I have remade his bed fourteen times in one morning. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the one who told her in the summer of 1973, when Mariam was fourteen, that King Zahir Shah, who had ruled from Kabul for forty years, had been overthrown in a bloodless coup. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z And if so, was there a strong son of thirteen or fourteen left behind to take his place? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z That semester, fourteen of us left our respective corners of the United States and traveled to South Africa. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Lord Cerwyn was a captive of the Lannisters, but his son, a lad of fourteen, arrived one bright, blustery morning at the head of two dozen lances. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Those over fourteen have been given entry- level ranks in the military and are addressed respectfully as “Soldier.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I counted how many we were as we moved anti-clockwise from six to five o’clock: fourteen. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z We lived in our minivan for fourteen weeks. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "For instance," Miss Honey said, "if I asked you to multiply fourteen by nineteen...No, that's too difficult..." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Captain Newport also takes all of the food stores except fourteen weeks’ worth of wheat and barley for the one hundred or so of us colonists. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Even though I harbored a secret crush on Jonah, I knew at the tender age of fourteen that it wasn't wise to get wrapped up in someone with a drug problem. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In 1910, Washington became the first state to pass suffrage legislation in fourteen years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I’m still trying to understand what happened that rainy night not long after I turned fourteen. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s about fourteen and wears old clothes and a permanent sneer. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z But this morning, the bus had left for camp, and every kid between the ages of four and fourteen had been on it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She got five children elsewhere and the oldest one ’bout fourteen years old. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Thirteen thousand to fourteen thousand years ago, he suggested, a window in time opened. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Her job through two marriages—the first for sixteen years, the second for fourteen—had been to mother her children; but now she had to run a family, and she was learning late. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “He had just turned fourteen the weekend before the earthquake,” she said, stirring her drink. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z In my fourteen years, I had never been this adamant about anything. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z A devoted and talented writer with an eye for detail, her secret diary, which she began at fourteen, detailed her observations and encounters with the political, military, and diplomatic elite. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In three consecutive trips to Worlds, I’d earned fourteen medals, ten of them gold, which made me the most decorated American female gymnast ever. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I’m fourteen years old and I’ve got my own sailboat, my own complete sailboat and I would give everything, all that I am, to not have it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The voyage was supposed to take from twelve to fourteen days. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “It was made by a ring when I was fourteen. It said something in Latin, but I don’t know what it was.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I was fourteen now, and almost as tall as my father had been. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Amerinds, he concluded, had split off from northeast Asian groups about fourteen thousand years ago, which fit well “with the widely held view that the first Americans were the Clovis-culture big-game-hunting paleo-Indians.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He has been droning on now for twenty-five hours and thirty-two minutes, one hour and fourteen minutes past Thurmond’s record. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z She was fourteen years old and had been dating a boy two years older. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The whole sky turned a light orange color for the fourteen seconds the engine was scheduled to fire. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I was fourteen but, feeling very grown up, I lit it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It would prevail for fourteen years, until Rutherford laid it to rest. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And fourteen of them were right in the Cascades. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z I counted off seven minutes that night, and then fourteen minutes, and then thirty. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The incident had lasted fourteen and a half hours. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a bold, male version of what I could never have been at fourteen, what I still was not. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Year by year, its population had shrunk; now it was fewer than fourteen hundred. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Being fourteen and only second oldest, she didn’t usually take charge. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I turned to watch him, imagining myself at fourteen, imagining myself now. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z There was the shifty rustling of unreadiness but finally a boy of fourteen led us off and I dared not hang back, as much as I hated the idea of seeing Mrs. Taylor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The class initially consisted of fourteen girls and eleven boys, a small class for the time. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The boy could have been fourteen or nineteen. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Maybe fifteen degrees, maybe fourteen, maybe not even that. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Hatsue, carrying a garden shovel and a metal pail rusted through in its bottom, dripped water behind her as she walked the tide flats; she was fourteen and wore a black bathing suit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z At the time the facility housed some fourteen thousand inmates, twenty of whom Bobby played. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Jaime continued working fourteen hours a day, including Sundays, and took no part in the political process. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad whistled, and the house was evacuated in fourteen seconds—eight seconds off the all-time record. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He only knew he was fourteen years old, black, and already six feet tall. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z To make matters worse, by the end of 1871 fourteen out of fifteen state suffrage groups had left the National and joined the American Woman Suffrage Association. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z What if she’d been able to afford to pay a lawyer to defend Richard when he was fourteen instead of letting him be represented by the public defender? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Well, Ernie, he’s fourteen—today’s his birthday,” Grandma explained, forcing a frown. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z A real job I can have now, instead of waiting until I’m fourteen. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z My family, including two great-grandfathers and a great-great-grandmother who was one hundred and nine years old, traveled from place to place in seven wagons pulled by fourteen horses. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Therefore, Gemini was created to find out once and for all, by keeping two men up for fourteen days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Tony felt his brother’s life could be saved, even if he felt his own had already, at age fourteen, passed the point of no return. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Yes, I do. But I’m fourteen now and I can get my working papers easy.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in this town that I’d been compelled to spend a month every summer until I was fourteen. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z They look thirteen, fourteen years old and are wearing green Celtics jerseys. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I wanted to snuggle up on her lap like a toddler, but I was fourteen, so I sat as close to her body as I dared. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Waterman flew to the Kahiltna Glacier in December 1979 to begin the ascent but called it off after only fourteen days. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But I don’t believe in fighting—even though my fourteen- year-old brother, Khushal, annoys me to no end. / don’t fight with him. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was fourteen, now, and taller than his mother. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Mom told us the trip would be about fourteen hours if we took the highway, but we should tack on another couple of hours because we might make some scenic detours. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He was sentenced to more than fourteen years in prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She consulted Calpurnia, who said nobody could do anything about her shape, that’s just the way she was, which was the way all girls more or less were when they were fourteen. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The first school to win fourteen bouts won the meet. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I need you two to stay up here. Coordinate with the locals. LeVisqueux is wanted in fourteen states. His capture remains a federal matter.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z He was a powerfully built young man, and was finished with school at fourteen. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z In Zaire during the 1976 outbreak, grieving relatives kissed and embraced the dead or prepared the body for burial, and then, three to fourteen days later, they broke with Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Kristina must get to her soccer practice four miles to the north, and Kelsey to her practice fourteen miles to the south. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She passed the time with a game she had found on a shelf in the attic—a triangular board with fifteen holes and fourteen pegs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z When Kermit was fourteen, his father sent him to South Dakota, and Deadwood Sheriff Seth Bullock took Kermit camping, fishing, and bear hunting. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I counted ten injured survivors out of the original fourteen. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Here at fourteen, I was filled up to the brim with the rules that governed what my people could and could not do. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She was fourteen again, instead of twenty-four, and against all odds we were becoming friends. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Velutha was fourteen when Johann Klein, a German carpenter from a carpenter’s guild in Bavaria, came to Kottayam and spent three years with the Christian Mission Society, conducting a workshop with local carpenters. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mature and ladylike at just fourteen years old, she was a person on a mission: she seemed to know exactly where she was going in life, with a sort of inward direction driving her. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In another year, I would be nearly fourteen years old, which sounded so old it seemed nearly impossible. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I’ve never seen all fourteen at once, and my stomach dips. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z When I was fourteen, the grand climateric struck again, and my fortunes took a turn that made me actually long for the safety and security of the Brights' home. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z They couldn’t possess cash, cassette players with a record function, toiletries containing alcohol, sneakers worth more than fifty dollars, or more than fourteen newspapers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence fourteen days for Frank and Jim; I thought that was really a very' long time to spend inside the tiny Gemini cockpit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1957, when I was fourteen years old and first began to build my rockets, there were nearly two thousand people living in Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z To come out ahead after child-care costs, Generose figured she would have to find work that paid thirteen or fourteen dollars an hour. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “She was perhaps fourteen when she sang them for me,” he said, his voice unsteady. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We crawl below the porches at numbers fourteen and eighteen Crispin Drive. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z But then there were fourteen people in the family. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I was fourteen years old, and I was alone in the world again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z But at fourteen weeks pregnant, Grace knew that there weren’t a lot of options on the table to discuss. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z My own load, I know, weighed exactly one hundred and fourteen pounds, and someone else always had to help me hoist the rucksack on to my back in the mornings. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z At fourteen, Antonio became the youngest person in the United States condemned to die in prison for a crime in which no one was physically injured. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z By the height of the day, temperatures would soar to ninety-six degrees—fourteen degrees above normal. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z One night he bombarded Riohacha from a schooner and the garrison dragged out of bed and shot the fourteen best-known Liberals in the town as a reprisal. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He said, “Your daddy recalls it as fourteen on the button, and his memory’s likely better than mine.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “I kept track. She watched it fourteen times without any lagging of enthusiasm.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was fourteen and tall for his age. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Mikey is fourteen now, bigger than any of us and strong from his job delivering coal. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I was already considered an adult—that happens at age fourteen in our society. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I knew it was either fourteen or fifteen pounds, depending on who was telling the story. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z And when he was fourteen, he had said he wouldn’t take her on a gold platter. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost all of the fourteen entrants wanted an opportunity to go to the Interzonal, and it was rumored that some had entered to take a crack at Bobby Fischer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Fred gets fourteen hundred a week, plus expenses,” said her business manger, her mother’s husband. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I have fourteen dollars left after I paid to get to the Howard campus, so I just ask for water. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z When you’re fourteen and your body is changing as mine was that summer, you just plain get tired, but I couldn’t admit it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On his rare days off from school—about fourteen days a year— Shin was expected to go see him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I’m fourteen. Is my mom okay? You can tell me what happened.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z At age fourteen, by a process of osmosis, of dirty jokes, whispered secrets and filthy ballads, Tristran learned of sex. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z At fourteen, Gale, the eldest of the kids, became the main supporter of the family. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Jessie had her multiplication facts memorized all the way up to fourteen times fourteen. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z All of the youngest condemned children—thirteen or fourteen years of age—were black or Latino. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Here it is. Renault, Jerome E. Son of James R. Pharmacist at Blake’s. The kid’s a freshman, birthday—let’s see, he just turned fourteen. Oh—his mother died last spring. Cancer.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes” “There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter, yes?” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Why didn’t the experts at the Getty also have a feeling of intuitive repulsion during the fourteen months they were studying the piece? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She was only fourteen, it was true, but she was as tall as Nancy and within two years as old as Ellen had been when she married Matthew Creighton. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn't believe me until I finished the first test in fourteen minutes. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Our group of fourteen astronauts, having successfully finished our jungle, desert, and classroom training, were now put to work. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t have the resources at fourteen, didn’t know enough, hadn’t been to the Anatolian mountain the Greeks call Olympus and the Turks Uludag, just like the soft drink. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Ortizes had at least fourteen children at one point when their official capacity was two. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Now fourteen, Helmuth graduates into the Hitler Youth proper, though he skips the meetings as often as he dares. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “I work twelve, sometimes fourteen hours a day and when I come home I just want to go to sleep,” she said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She had a normal life that did not include being cloistered in a bubble for fourteen hours a day with her sick teenage daughter. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z President Johnson’s approval rating shot up fourteen percentage points. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He was fourteen and he was still feeling the physical and psychological effects of a football injury two years earlier. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I was fourteen and didn’t know what a stroke was. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z With the red-and-white checked scarf covering her thinning oily black hair that peeks out beneath it, she looks more like ten years old than fourteen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one silver piece and fourteen copper pence. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly he had an idea—he thought of the egg sac and the five hundred and fourteen little spiders that would hatch in the spring. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z One had been dead for nearly fourteen years—dead in a Chicago tavern, a knife kicking in his throat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Well, at fourteen years old, it’s not like he runs around biting women’s breasts, but he does punch and kick and spit. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “We measured gullies fourteen feet deep,” Joel explained. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “You bet I remember. Only it was fourteen pounds,” Dad said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z In one sense those fourteen minutes tell the story of the next fifty years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Days thirteen and fourteen were filled with prayer and resolve to never go through this again. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Henry was president of the Senior Debating Society, the only extracurricular activity he had time for, and Jean Louise was a fat fourteen, immersed in Victorian poetry and detective novels. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Mrs. Henry said I needed to live past fourteen years old before I would have a philosophy. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I was the first of our group of fourteen to be assigned to a flight crew. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I could make out about fourteen beehives tucked under the trees in the distance, the tops of them postage stamps of white shine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Like my classmates, I received the mask on my first day as a Cadet, when I was fourteen. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He was nice looking, about thirteen or fourteen, I would have said. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z That meant that he was fourteen and since that was her twin brother it made her almost fifteen, too. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z She could not have been more than thirteen or fourteen years old, but she was fully developed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, I threw myself into my schoolwork the next day, since I have little desire to still be a freshman when I’m fourteen or fifteen. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Lourdes closes her shop early and walks to the Sisters of Charity Hospital fourteen blocks away. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nineteen, thirty-one, twenty-seven, fourteen, thirty-nine. This week’s lucky numbers are ten, fourteen, nineteen, twenty-seven, thirty-one, thirty-nine. Thank you for playing Superlotto.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z A brass pin weighs lightly on each of their lapels; one hundred and fourteen hobnailed boots spark against pebbles on the trail. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The levees were meant to hold back fourteen feet of water, and the storm surges in the Gulf were already nineteen, twenty feet high. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z For the next fourteen hours without pausing to eat or drink or throw up again, Colin read and reread his yearbook, which he had received just four days before. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The “saving grace” was that no more than fourteen people came to watch. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The fourteen mice sat around a piece of wood balanced on spools of thread and listened in horror while Despereaux's father related the story of what Furlough had seen. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Cherie sits in a cafe in Oakland, drinking a smoothie and talking about the old days, back when she and Richard were fourteen. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z One row below the list of winners, at number fourteen, I saw my own name. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I’m fourteen. Today’s my birthday,” she said hesitantly. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After the fifth try, Coach yelled out, "Fourteen seconds? Fourteen seconds? On the track, that might as well be fourteen minutes! Are you kidding me?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I was only fourteen and too young to get a job. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The tale Uncle Jack told me during the fourteen minutes Mama was gone. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z For a moment Clara ceased to be a distracted angel and came to stand beside a simple mortal who suffered, at fourteen, the first torments of love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Five hundred and fourteen of them,” she replied. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I was fourteen, I should have been going to school all this while and learning something. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On a lonely road fourteen miles outside Cheyenne, a tire blew. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Aru had established a “record” time—for her—of taking fourteen minutes to run a mile lap around the track. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I keep thinking about it as fourteen singers sing “Let It Snow,” raising their hands at the end like snowflakes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I’m fourteen, and people think I should be scared because I’m surrounded by violence, but around here it’s an everyday thing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I’m thirteen going on fourteen and it’s June, the last month of school forever. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He put on a high voice, “‘Oh Professor Flitwick, I’m so worried, I think I got question fourteen b wrong.. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z One of the women arrested, Helena Hill Weed, was wearing a Daughters of the American Revolution pin decorated with bars that represented her fourteen ancestors who had given their lives in the fight. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He held his hand about fourteen inches off the ground and was dumbfounded by my blank look. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” she said, “this decision isn’t up to us. You’re fourteen, and we think you should decide whether the doctors do the operation or not.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z "They're way closer. But the math doesn't work out. Even SuperSurveyor 3, which has the strongest transmitter, would need to be fourteen times more powerful—" "Seventeen times," Chuck said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Simmon finished my sentence. “.. . brilliant. And not that young if you consider that he was admitted to the University when he was barely fourteen.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I had given up on fixing the tooth; I knew I would never have fourteen hundred dollars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If I’m on soak the bird for fourteen hours in the salt water, I’ll put it in the bucket around three this afternoon. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Can’t you bleeding well listen to what I say? I tell you no number ending in seven ain’t won for over fourteen months!” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I’m fourteen now. I guess I can say it if I want to.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His gold is like yours, it is only fourteen carats. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Here I was, almost fourteen, and I’d never danced with a guy who wasn’t related to me. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Thirty-eight dollars and fourteen cents is nice, but it’s not enough. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Jorge was fourteen years older than she and wore round steel glasses that shrank his blue eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Fischer actually devoted fourteen pages of exhaustive analysis to his draw against Botvinnik at Varna. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Francie was nearly fourteen and old enough to take care of herself. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The missions, the rote viciousness, will wear me down until there’s nothing left of the boy the Augurs stole fourteen years ago. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Summer fourteen, Gat and I took out the small motorboat alone. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “She was almost fourteen years old. She hadn’t been herself for a few days. I think that she probably went away to die.” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure, Nate was too young—Papa wouldn’t hire cabin boys who were younger than fourteen. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “You told the lady in the goofy hat that you’re fourteen.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I was fourteen and didn’t know what a stroke was. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten to fourteen bushels of wheat would have been most of his crop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z No child of twelve, thirteen, or fourteen can defend him- or herself in the adult criminal justice system. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z At fourteen, she was going with a fireman of twenty-five. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z No new endeavors, nothing bigger or better for nearly fourteen years. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z That meant there were now fourteen babies coming on—and two more hens were setting. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I could see her strong hands in her lap, not working fourteen pairs of needles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The execution of John Evans took fourteen minutes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z At the time, I was fourteen and small for my age. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In the living room, there are fourteen presents under the tree. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Formal schooling—if you could call what happened in the wooden barn next door to my grandparents’ house “formal schooling”—went only to fourteen years of age. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z We kids ran through the house and counted fourteen rooms, including the kitchens and bathrooms. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z After fourteen minutes and a lot of bad music, a voice says, "Hello, this is Renee. May I help you?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course. You’re fifteen. You went fourteen floors up a—” He takes a deep breath, closes his eyes, and steadies himself. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He chose fourteen men to go with him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s biting his nails again, something he stopped doing when he turned fourteen in August. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z They were girls of fourteen, always clad in the Virgin’s colors, blue and white, having been dedicated to the Blessed Virgin at their baptism. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 “Mom, come on, a kid in the mental hospital at fourteen, barely passing eighth grade—that’s not really what you had in mind, is it?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z "I...I...I simply put the fourteen down in my head and multiply it by nineteen," Matilda said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z James has me beat by one, with fourteen. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z "Fifteen," she said, "fourteen . . . thirteen . . . twelve . . . eleven . . ." Thousands had gathered at Cape Canaveral, the largest crowd ever to watch an unmanned launch. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She was fourteen and her breasts were beginning to show beneath her bathing suit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He had given Willow practice exams in everything from the required three-hour test for application to medical school to fourteen of the SAT Subject II's. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Even then, it took some time to serve up for fourteen children. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It has fourteen rooms, most of which are shuttered during the winter months. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Beside her was a facsimile of his father, constructed from the morning suit he’d worn on that glorious day in Christchurch Cathedral fourteen years ago. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Maybe the pink-faced kid was thirteen or fourteen, and the tot maybe three or four. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They wrote their names on fourteen pieces of paper which they put into a hat and each woman took one out. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z More than three hundred tents, housing as many climbers and Sherpas from fourteen expeditions, speckled the boulder-strewn ice. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I knew that the Senate, with fourteen of its one hundred members being female, was not quite as antiquated as it had once been. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the line we have had next to none, and fourteen days is a long time at one stretch. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There were fourteen kids in the class, and we all had on neat white robes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The insult of a child—a fourteen year old—hung between them, made their tongues heavy so that speech became a labor. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z All the buildings in St. Nick were fourteen stories tall. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z There, on the promontory, the blue-painted cannibals had piled up their cyclopean wall of unmortared stones, fourteen feet high and equally thick, with terraces on the inside from which they could hurl their flints. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In the confusion of those early moments, Powers could not reach his survival gear—including the money and the cloth with its message in fourteen languages. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I work fourteen hours a day so you can be educated!” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In her hometown of Rochester, Anthony had convinced a group of fourteen women, including three of her sisters, to join her in registering to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It’s always been like that with them, ever since they first met at a charity event when Alex was fourteen. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She was naked to the waist, and beside her two boys about fourteen were kneeling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Of the twenty-one men who had followed him to war, fourteen fell in combat, six were wounded, and only one accompanied him at the moment of final defeat: Colonel Gerineldo Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The next day they bused him for fourteen hours, all the way back to Guatemala. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z About them were packed some fourteen or fifteen people—the hut could hold no more. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve been trying to tell white women the truth about working for them since I was fourteen years old. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z With fourteen children, after slaughtering time, we didn’t have much left to sell. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For dinner there might be one chicken to feed fourteen children. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When Richie was fourteen he’d grown from a tittering, cackling torturer of me to a handsome, slick high school kid who was an outstanding tenor sax player. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I was in the middle, fourteen years old. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Deborah took an average of fourteen pills a day, which cost her about $150 each month after her husband’s insurance, plus Medicaid and Medicare. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She was still a hoyden girl of fourteen in spite of her womanly status. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, I’m thinking of Prim, who was not yet fourteen, not yet old enough to be granted the title of soldier, but somehow working on the front lines. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Blade Runner was referenced in the text of Anorak's Almanac no less than fourteen times. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I peeked down again at the footpaths fourteen stories below. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The band was on the field, all fourteen of them. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z She was sitting straight up in her seat, looking as pleased with herself as a motorcycle rider who’s just made it over fourteen trucks. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Only fourteen and pregnant at the time, Ann nearly killed herself with grief. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And besides—some of those fourteen people had bought refills but used the same cup. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z They slaved fourteen hours a day, from six o’clock in the morning until eight or nine o’clock at night, with starvation-level rations, little sleep, beatings and other forms of torture, and daily executions. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She examined it and said, “Six minutes fourteen seconds.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “I have a brother and a sister. My sister’s fourteen and my brother is eight. I’m going on sixteen.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Even though some of them are no more than fourteen — Start them soon is the policy, there's not a moment to be lost — still they’ll remember. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d been stealing Abel’s junkers to get around since I was fourteen. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “You’re only fourteen years old—exposure to that kind of stress might kill you or make you sterile, and I don’t want to be responsible for you not being able to have children someday.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z All of the fourteen men and women on the list above had vision and talent. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I ought to get a club and break your back—in fourteen different places.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z To improve the scenery, not only the Gypsies but more than fourteen hundred homeless people had been collected and removed from the streets. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z By then Heather had moved out, but there were still fourteen of us foster children there. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I’m only fourteen, but I’ve known for as long as I can remember that there will be times when I’m going to have to tell a lie. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One killer bragged that he personally had bludgeoned fourteen victims with a cooper’s mallet, which he had then handed to an accomplice. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z There were the three canvas sacks closed with copper wire, and inside of them the seven thousand two hundred fourteen pieces of eight, which continued glowing like embers in the darkness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The eyases grew their second, heavier coat of natal down when they were about fourteen days old. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z What gets a steer from 80 to 1,100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous amounts of corn, food supplements, and drugs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z At the time, my mom was just fourteen years old. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Aureliano gave her fourteen little gold fishes because she was determined to leave with only what she had: one peso and twenty-five cents. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “It’s almost Tendai’s birthday. He would have been fourteen. Will be fourteen, I mean. I always took him to the Starlight Room ... to ride the elevator . .. and have dinner....” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he was a little old boy of fourteen in knee pants and she made him watch his steps. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z What they really mean is that, until I was fourteen, I wasn’t on anybody’s radar. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Granddaddy, one of fourteen children, always talked about how God had taken care of his family. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She is fourteen years old, so she is of marriageable age, and I suspect we will have a wedding before too long. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z My mother then transferred Granddaddy to Princeton Hospital, where my grandmother had died fourteen years earlier. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was fifteen years after the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and fourteen years after the Civil Rights Act, but this Birmingham company still had an almost totally white workforce. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He was only fourteen, but he cleared six feet and was as good as an adult to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z And now I am here, decades older than fourteen. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “If I send it back, could you send me another one? I only need fourteen hundred. For a root canal.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There I would have celebrated my birthday by having a huge party, where fourteen couples would twirl around the dance floor as I made my grand entrance. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z She had been left back so many times that at fourteen she was still in the sixth grade. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was known, by the time he was fourteen, to have run away from home no less than twenty-seven times. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He was of such goodness that among the other laudable deeds attributed to him is this: in the fourteen years he ruled the empire, he never put anyone to death without a trial. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z A boy of about fourteen was approaching them fast, surrounded by a pack of wild dogs. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z At four feet eight inches tall, I looked about ten years old even though I’d turn fourteen in exactly one month. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z |
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