| 单词 | seventeen |
| 例句 | Robert, the future Green Beret, was seventeen then. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She was seventeen, small, buxom, with a classically round face of a kind much admired among Japanese. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the years nine children were born, four boys and five girls, and with each birth another quarter-section was added to the ranch, and that makes eleven quarter-sections, or seventeen hundred and sixty acres. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I thought about my mother, pregnant at seventeen—gone for nearly a year at that point. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Well, here’s what we know for sure. The final count: one hundred and seventeen students injured in total.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The battle, which took place largely on Kacanik’s main street, left seventeen dead. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z There are eighteen, then seventeen when I realize I’ve written “Fluff” twice.“Wow,” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z She had discovered when she was seventeen that she could shape the behavior of men with her behavior and that this ability was founded on her appearance. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There the boy had lasted only seventeen hours before breaking out, this time with an unlikely accomplice. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I met my first one when I was around seventeen. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I was told that if your parents were dead, you could probably join the army at seventeen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The main building, a fortress of dark brick, was seven stories high, the smokestacks seventeen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z You had to be seventeen to drive without an adult in the car, but nobody followed that rule. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Thanks. You know I turned seventeen yesterday,” I told him, resting the cigarette lightly on my lips and pausing in the shade of a palm tree so he could light it for me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, after seventeen years, he was finally coming to collect. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z At seventeen I have my rights, and besides, I’d made my own secret plan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether he knew it or not, Don had become the spitting image of his dad, Charlie Billingsley reborn seventeen years later. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, finally, on May 13, 1607, seventeen days after we first landed in Virginia, our explorers bring us the news we have been waiting for: They have chosen a place for us to settle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Seventeen times seventeen make four hours and forty-nine minutes.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though he’s just seventeen months old I can read something hard and tough in that Ralph’s face already.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Eighteen planes had let down through a beaming white cloud off the coast of Elba one afternoon on the way back from the weekly milk run to Parma; seventeen came out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She was seventeen, and not even a cavity. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Love? Boy, you seventeen years old. You don’t know nothin’ about love.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The remaining seventeen players, waiting their turn to audition, were sent home. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z And then I realize I do not have seventeen more days. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Don’t be stupid. I’m seventeen, you idiot. Of course I don’t get tired of parties. You know what, you’re an old man trapped in the body of a seventeen-year-old guy.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Maybe moms and dads forgot about this one small fact: being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful and confusing. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I had done seventeen miles over a reasonably challenging mountain in hot weather. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She had the same thought Katie had had seventeen years ago dancing with Johnny—that she’d willingly accept any sacrifice or hardship if she could only have this man near her for always. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you can call seventeen convictions doing better,” chuckled Root. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “There are something like fifty-two thousand characters in the Chinese language so you can imagine seventeen messages which were nine or ten groups long each one, what a gigantic hunt would have to go on.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I guess to be fair, though, he didn’t know Travis very well. And what do you say about someone who’s only lived seventeen years?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It’s made of rabbit skin, and she’s had it for seventeen years. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Joe gave the same alibi Rose did: on the night of May 21, 1921, they had been together in Pawnee, seventeen miles southwest of Gray Horse, and had stopped at a rooming house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She handed him seventeen dollars that she and his brother had saved for James’s education. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z When he assumed the presidency, the ANC had seventeen shillings and sixpence in its treasury, and he had boosted the amount to four thousand pounds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was seventeen, she had made a fleeting effort to get her GED. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Since the SS recruited Hitler Youth as young as seventeen, former Hitler Youth became part of the inhuman concentration-camp system and the business of genocide. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He offered to fill a room twenty- two feet by seventeen feet full of gold objects—and two equivalent rooms with silver—in exchange for his freedom. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After all, a ship setting out at once from the closest of Winter’s newallies could not arrive before seventeen years, planetary time, had passed. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z For the past seventeen days, everyone on the team—except for slow-witted Heinck—had suffered from seasickness. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z One bullet hit a Honduran girl, seventeen or eighteen years old, in the arm. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Richard was not sure how long they had waited before boarding their flight at Lisbon, but the wait at São Tomé for a relief flight to Biafra had stretched to seventeen hours. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I daydreamed constantly about working at Zimmerman’s that summer to save me the embarrassment of the stupid uniform, but I knew Mr. Zimmerman didn’t hire people under seventeen. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I counted the shaven rabbits; they numbered seventeen. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The clock on the wall pointed to seventeen minutes before midnight. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Wearing a black-and-white crash helmet and the official race T-shirt, Levi Jr. sailed across the line at a relatively blazing seventeen miles per hour. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “That awkward moment when you realize you’ve been making gay jokes in front of your gay kid for the last seventeen years.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z "When I bleat here on page seventeen, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and 'bleat, bleat'? " I asked. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They marched, seventeen thousand men, their wagons, their artillery. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Faint voices broken by static came through. “.. . final score: New York Giants, twenty-four. Detroit Lions, seventeen . “Lions suck,” Jennifer said, shaking her head. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Both of the boys look to be about my age, seventeen or so. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z What that meant for Alabama death row prisoners and EJI staff was seventeen executions in thirty months. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z King pushed his written speech aside, gripped the lectern with both hands, and gave his country seventeen of the most memorable minutes in its history. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Let me call the next one Bigger No. 2; he was about seventeen and tougher than the first Bigger. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I was sixteen, but I would be seventeen on the twelfth of August. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Jamie sighed, “I gave him seventeen cents. So it wasn’t such a great tip. Also, it would never be enough to get us back. We’re broke. How do you feel about that, Miss Taxi Rider?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Being seventeen and bored in a small town, I like to pretend sometimes that I’m a pessimist. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Hermione, who had now achieved Apparition twice, was a little more confident, but Harry, who would not be seventeen for another four months, could not take the test whether ready or not. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Everyone seventeen and over was required to fill it out. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “It took you seventeen minutes to clean that last room,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I’m seventeen. Don’t you think I’m supposed to be changing?” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z To prove his family was patriotic, and because he thought being in uniform would attract girls, Country Joe had joined the navy in 1959 at the age of seventeen. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Eugene Williams's mother buried her son a few days later, some seventeen years after she had brought him into the world one spring day in Georgia. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Are you at least seventeen years old?” he asked me in a slow voice. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Six months have passed, a not insignificant period of time for seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z These were the future stars of the sport—seventeen-, eighteen-, and nineteen- year-olds who had been skating and shooting pucks since they were barely more than toddlers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was the seventeen- year-old’s constant preoccupation—who could whip him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He was on a pirate ship that raided ports up and down the eastern seaboard back in the early seventeen hundreds. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “My daughter was getting to an age where I was trying to tell her to do right,” Whitiker said of Ishtar, now seventeen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Report to the Hub auditorium at seventeen hundred hours for orientation.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Wedding rings? He’s only…Wait. He’s seventeen, right?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “But because of Rob’s impressive organizational skills, which were apparent even when he was sixteen and seventeen, he was soon running the entire production side of the company.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z There were seventeen of them, each as round as a ball, and white. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The way her old lady talks you’d think Lorraine needed internal plastic surgery and seventeen body braces, but if you ask me, all she needs is a little confidence. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Joanna was only seventeen and friendly and she wanted everybody to be friendly with her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z According to a printout in Cradle’s office, he was the block’s longest-term keeplock, having spent the past seventeen months in his cell, with three more to go, a sentence within a sentence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “What if Roli goes along, too? He’s seventeen. He can have a passenger with him in the car until eleven p.m.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “At this rate we’ll reach six million in a little under seventeen years.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Leah’s already seventeen, which makes a difference in Georgia with your license. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z My brother, Richie, was seventeen years old and a junior in high school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Back then, he was seventeen, and I was seven, but we were both very good at soccer, so we respected each other like men. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Only seventeen, yet carrying more valor than those twice my years. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He had two younger daughters, and Alice, the eldest, was seventeen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z For seventeen years, I've never wanted to be seen by guys. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I remember one of our customers, Mrs. Mayfield, they found her son out there, he wasn’t more than seventeen or so. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt his mouth near her ear, and she turned to him, prepared to be kissed, at seventeen, for the very first time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Behind them were seventeen of the best horses in the nation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z You will recover to spend the next seventeen years consumed in a battle with him—a battle you will lose. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Next June I would be seventeen, and in my entire life I had only had one real date, and that was when I was thirteen, in junior-high school. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And even though he knew that in a few seconds he’d be about seventeen steps to freedom, there was no way he could leave without somehow talking to Grandpop. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It’s all a little cliché for my tastes—the words on the phone, the silly smile I can’t get rid of—but so is being seventeen and unkissed. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Burger had recently spent seventeen months in a concentration camp. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Dad had no interest in a life like that, so he left Welch when he was seventeen to join the air force and become a pilot. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z If something captured my undisciplined imagination, I pursued it with a zeal bordering on obsession, and from the age of seventeen until my late twenties that something was mountain climbing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He stumbled upon a magnificent ranch sprawling over seventeen thousand acres of California’s remote redwood country, 150 miles north of San Francisco, near a tiny lumber village called Willits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The day before, Shelly and I had divided the stash of food coloring: seventeen bottles for me, seventeen for her. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It was a matter of hours—during which the equivalent of something like seventeen fat volumes of mathematical physics were fed into The Brain. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z My sister’s seventeen, she would lose her mind if anyone ever even looked at me funny. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z No matter how hard he tried, he never developed any imperishable allegiances to the washed-out, bloodless Marine bases where he had lived for most of his seventeen years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She is seventeen and the only woman among eleven Central Americans trying to sneak around a Mexican immigration checkpoint at Huehuetan in Chiapas. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Working with him was Broadbent, who at seventeen had observed pilot error in the RAF, and who was on his way to becoming a godfather of cognitive psychology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Somehow his great-grandfather had survived for seventeen days, before he was rescued by a couple of rattlesnake hunters. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The heart of a canary beats seventeen times in a second. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The two young people began to see each other socially and were married when Florence was seventeen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She said it was pure hate that had driven her to the courtroom and pulled the trigger seventeen times. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z "It seems like yesterday that I was seventeen. I was already considering suitors by then." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I am seventeen years old, after all, not a child, and I alone will decide the fate of my life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come back to me when you’re seventeen and I might make your dreams come true,” he said, winking. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Hopefully, the limit is more than the seventeen in a row I played with mine. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z With credit for time served and good behavior, the deal would mean Richard, now seventeen, would be released just before his twenty-first birthday. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z My friends are buying long-pants suits that cost from seventeen to twenty dollars, a sum as huge to me as the Alps! Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She'd barely been allowed to pluck her eyebrows, but they didn't think seventeen was too young for major plastic surgery? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He always acted like he understood her, just because he had changed his name to Krishna Blue at the age of seventeen. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They divided into groups of seventeen, and each group climbed into a glider. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I had seventeen new messages, which looked promising. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When I get over there precisely seventeen minutes later, she’s also showered and changed and has I Love Lucy season four cued up on the TV. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z They were seventeen and eighteen and doomed from the start, both convinced they were the smartest person in any room. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z His record mile, run when he was seventeen, was three and a half seconds faster than Cunningham’s fastest high school mile, run when he was twenty. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I hadn't even met her husband yet, and they're married seventeen years. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z I’m expecting it, like you do for a dog that’s seventeen. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z She was seventeen and didn’t have to finish her education. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Phoebe’s sister, Prudence, was seventeen years old, but she acted like her mother. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I laughed and started to remind him that I’m not old enough, but then realized, my gosh, I was seventeen years old. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He took the rest of his money—seventeen dollars in bills—folded them, and zipped up the cash in his book bag. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z After ten months of training and combat as a Marine, I was now seventeen years old— according to the records kept by the Indian agent. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The class included seventeen students with a perfect SAT score. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She was seventeen years old but trailed with the twelve-year-olds—making up the last in line or meeting the others on their way back down the row. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He needed to make seventeen dollars on Friday, seventeen dollars on Saturday, and seventeen dollars on Sunday. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z I was afraid that Mr. Becker wouldn’t give me the job if he knew I was only thirteen, so I told him I was seventeen. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For the next seventeen years he was based at home in The Hague and devoted himself to the scientific study of nature. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She was fifteen at home, seventeen at work. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Five hundred repetitions once a week from thirteen to seventeen,” said Bernard wearily, as though to himself. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Girl, he was like seventeen! They in high school! Ain’t got no business with us.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He had spent seventeen years trying to get someone to stick around for him, and now that they did, he just wanted them to go. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Ray was seventeen and man-sized, and I’d worked hard to know him because I wanted him to teach me how to drive. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z You are seventeen now, a young man, and I think you are doing great academically and spiritually. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Beginning with Andrew Jackson in 1829, seventeen presidents of the United States have been of Ulster Scots lineage, including Ronald Reagan, the Bushes, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He counts a full seventeen seconds before she lets go. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z And if not all the sudden, they’d age out at seventeen and get shipped somewhere else anyway. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It took them about seventeen hours a week to hunt and gather enough food for them and their families. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Papa had said we must wait until I was seventeen, but he consented to giving me those three days of dispensation. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So I said, “I am seventeen years old. That’s almost eleven billion miles.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z And so the following weekend, Ron joined Hermione and the rest of the sixth years who would turn seventeen in time to take the test in a fortnight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He even used two shaving brushes to lather his face, because he found that by so doing he could cut seventeen seconds off his shaving time. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z At seventeen, I may not have known how to engage a girl in small talk, but I had read Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At seventeen, Johanna was old enough to work and take part in meetings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Wearing a blue suit with a little trim of white handkerchief sticking out of the breast pocket, Ivory made a striking figure, his poise like that of someone thirty years old instead of seventeen. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a new month and exactly seventeen days since the world changed. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Not after the last seventeen years of my life in this cave. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Jack was especially fond of Uncle Sigmund, his father’s younger brother, who was only seventeen when Jack was born. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z After that he was constipated for seventeen months. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Might have been there seventeen thousand years with nobody knowing it. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z —Look, when my dad was seventeen, he was already out of school and workin’ fulltime in the mail room of Proctor and Gamble. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He said you came here seventeen years ago. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z And Julia seemed so worldly to me, like the kind of girl who would think that sex was a perfectly reasonable gift to give a kid when he turned seventeen. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He was seventeen years old, like her, and had, this year, fallen almost all the way over the line into adulthood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Why, after seventeen years, do I still crave her approval so much? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Then too she considered thirty-five is twice seventeen and nothing was the same at all. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Won’t you get bored stuck on a boat for seventeen days?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “It's the tortoise and the hare, though, K. I learn faster than other people, but they keep learning. I've slowed down, and now they're coming. I know I'm seventeen. But I'm past my prime.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “Work, play—at sixty our powers and tastes are what they were at seventeen. Old men in the bad old days used to renounce, retire, take to religion, spend their time reading, thinking—thinking!” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z On the factory floor, my grandfather was trained for his job in seventeen minutes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The letter covered seventeen handwritten pages, its tone jumping from self-pity to anger to irony to guilt to a kind of feigned indifference. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Three days before I turned seventeen, Mother drove me to Utah to find an apartment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She made a face to indicate just how old five-and-forty is, when you happen to be seventeen. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Raggedy-behind squirts of sixteen and seventeen would be giving him their merciless pity out of their eyes while their mouths said something humble. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z In our seventeen months in Kilanga, thirty-one children died, including Ruth May. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I keep it vague because I don’t want to break the news to this bookseller that the customers he’s ringing up are dying at seventeen and eighteen. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z You walk into any trading post on any rez in the United States and shout, “Hey, Junior!” and seventeen guys will turn around. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I was seventeen years old at the time, which meant I didn’t have to take the test because I was under the age of eighteen—I would become a citizen when my parents did. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When we got back to the pink house in the woods, it smelled sweet again, because Betty Allen was baking another one of her seventeen cakes. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was the extension of a dialogue we’d been having over seventeen years already. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Teddy having just turned eight and me being seventeen means that we are long past giving off that sour-milk smell that makes adults melt. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There were three adult supervisors and seventeen Boy Scouts, all charmingly incompetent. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Boom. We’re all finished. And we still have”—he consulted his watch, a Gucci; she remembered reading once that when they were that expensive, they were timepieces, not watches—“seventeen minutes to go.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He’d been training with the guards at seventeen, but he’d still lived here, still had a roof over his head and good food and friends. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “My dad split a long time ago. My mom got cancer when I was seventeen,” said Scott. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Over the next two days, the Gestapo grilled Hans and Sophie for seventeen hours. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Ortega has let seventeen migrants stay—some for days, some for months. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z "No, it's seventeen. You forgot the amperage minimum for the heaters to keep the—" "Guys," Venkat interrupted, "I get the idea." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom laughed and hugged her mother for the first time in seventeen years. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was Luke, my old enemy. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Alex thought he would never get to the end, but the second time he finished it in twenty-five minutes, which he had cut to seventeen minutes by the end of the week. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I knew in that instant that my life on the run was over; my seventeen months of “freedom” were about to end. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have seventeen rooms to clean,” he went on as though I had not spoken. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It belonged to my brother Shawn, who’d quarreled with my father at seventeen and run off to work odd jobs, mostly trucking and welding. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Nineteen, that way”—he pointed toward the middle of the yard—“and seventeen that way to get to the front door.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The Watch had once manned seventeen castles along the hundred leagues of the Wall, but they had been abandoned one by one as the brotherhood dwindled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "Yes, I'm seventeen, and my sister's fifteen," Starry answers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As crack and guns flooded the cities and gangs battled over turf, the violent-crime rate for juveniles ages fifteen to seventeen doubled, as did the violent-crime rate for people ages eighteen to twenty. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Kay and three other girls are here, too, but two are sixteen and the other is seventeen. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Here I am, seventeen years old, and I take business trips for the weekend, speak on the same stage as Hillary Clinton, fly back home, and go to school the next day. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z During a single, early week of senate business in Springfield, Barack had introduced seventeen new bills—possibly a record, and at the very least a measure of his eagerness to get something done. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Two cannot be a day older than seventeen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z October 28, the day I turned seventeen, was now a funeral day. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A horse-drawn hearse took Garfield's casket to the Capitol, where he had spent seventeen years as a congressman. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But she—at seventeen—had gone to a death camp. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Fischer finds it inconceivable that Dawes could have ridden all seventeen miles to Lexington and not spoken to anyone along the way. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother was only seventeen when she gave birth to me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I’ve been in the ring with him seventeen years and counting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Throw my little brother, Sekani, in there and you have the same person at eight, seventeen, and thirty-six. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z My older sister, Janell, is seventeen and lives in the room right across from my grandma. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure you do. You’re only seventeen. You have lots of time.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z For the thirty-eight riot deaths, twenty-one people were indicted, seventeen black, four white. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He is shot seventeen times in the back by his captors, dying ingloriously but not unlawfully. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But she hid that feeling by sending Hezekiah who was the best imitation of Joe that his seventeen years could make. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I am seventeen now, but I see resemblance. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I would pretend I was seventeen and join the army. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “I have seventeen minutes and thirty seconds left and I’m done.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z At seventeen, however, he met his Beatrice, who was three years his senior. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But their knowledge peaked at seventeen, when they ventured out of their parents’ homes and discovered that America had guns and cousins, too. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He repeated the radio call seventeen times at the ten-minute intervals, working on what he would do between transmissions. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seventeen male children by seventeen different women and they were exterminated one after the other on a single night before the oldest one had reached the age of thirty-five. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When he was seventeen years old they had sent him north with eighty dollars hidden in his shoe. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I can’t believe that at seventeen years old I have to make a decision that will dramatically affect the rest of my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She remembered her house with the junglegym in the backyard and the seventeen stuffed dogs on her bed. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nearer my sister Jo’s; I am seventeen in August,” returned Meg, tossing her head. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She tells me about meeting August—she was seventeen, and it had just dawned on her that the recent spate of bachelors joining her family for dinner were actually being presented as potential husbands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “I fed a fireplace once with seventeen pages about a man who needed to be mutilated. I described the torture lovingly.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Pete was seventeen and the hired boy around their farm—picking cotton, cutting cane, chores like that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For five days the previous October the “power fire,” as it was called, had roared across these mountains, consuming seventeen thousand acres of pine and cedar. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He had a few more minutes to destroy seventeen years of evidence. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, she was seventeen and dominating on the high school fencing circuit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Then again, I think I turned seventeen last year, and I hadn’t noticed that, either. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Joaquin had learned a lot of things in his seventeen years. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Massasoit had considerable experience with Europeans—his father had sent Martin Pring on his way seventeen years before. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Here is the tissue I used to blot my tears the night he told me he would be volunteering for the military when he turned seventeen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He is Frank Volkheimer, an upperclassman, seventeen years old, a colossal boy from some boreal village, a legend among the younger cadets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Katie, at seventeen, had only been working four years when she married. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered how angry Dumbledore would be if someone younger than seventeen did find a way to get over the Age Line. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Then he watched signs—the names of towns that lay twenty-two miles ahead, seventeen miles to the east, five miles to the northeast. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z At seventeen he had been a district organizer of the Junior Anti-Sex League. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z When she was almost seventeen, a man in a carriage came to town and watched as she rode for provisions. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The Cowboys came right back, moving fifty-eight yards in a minute to tie the score, the touchdown coming on a seventeen- yard pass from quarterback Robert Hall to flanker Marcus Grant. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking for all the world as he had seventeen years ago when he had called her pig meat He was twenty-one then, she twelve. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was the ultimate question for all seventeen- year-olds that year, and it drove Brinker’s insinuations from every mind but mine. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not much older than John, only seventeen, and he was already saved and was a preacher. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z But they turned Mama out of the Baptist communion just the same, and her only seventeen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And I was altercation free...for seventeen hours and two minutes. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z In all of my seventeen years I ain’t never been so tired. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z For Ulbricht, the problem with the city's open border had nothing to do with spies: It was with the dissatisfaction of his own people, the seventeen million citizens of the German Democratic Republic, or GDR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When you've got seventeen million followers, it's never hard to find a competent hacker who's willing to do you a favor. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “I was seventeen when I first met you,” Katie was saying, and I was working in the Castle Braid Factory.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have seventeen households represented here. How much water do you have, Alyssa?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She must be as old as Guitar, maybe even seventeen. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z When he turned seventeen, his dad sent him to America to earn money. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “By the way, do you know what tomorrow is? Nancy Clutter’s birthday. She would have been seventeen.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, I walked through Stagecoach Pass yesterday, and I counted seventeen empty storefronts,” I said as I took a bite of roll. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I’ve saved a total of seventeen dollars from my lunch money in the last few weeks and should be able to buy two books. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “He’s seventeen, Life. How old were you when you left home?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was seventeen years old, and my life was under way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Two tubes and seventeen Popsicle sticks later, Miles’s locker was well and truly glued shut. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z With only seventeen days until our deadline, I work through the day and night with a speed and efficiency I didn’t know I possessed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z At seventeen, his favorite thing to do was to take me to four-star restaurants throughout Silicon Valley. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Harry was seventeen years her senior, but that was not about to stop him, or her. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Patent and Trademark Office database turns up more than seventeen thousand patents involving HeLa cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I cough now because of those seventeen years of breathing dust. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Painfully, Enrique, seventeen years old, has learned a lot about “the beast.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In the summer of’27 he was seventeen, aloof, clever, and utterly singular. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The oldest were men grown, seventeen and eighteen years from the day of their naming. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z An Asian dude, maybe, like, seventeen, opens the door. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “Well then,” he said, “if you must know, I’m seventeen.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I was seventeen, in a red jeep, and a boy I loved had just touched my hand. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Out of curiosity, she brought up the first of the seventeen images. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Only seventeen people, seventeen untouchable people, know about the roof. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He was seventeen years older than Mammachi, and realized with a shock that he was an old man when his wife was still in her prime. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had come into the army at seventeen, and I remembered who I was, and who I was had been a kid. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If he knows I am seventeen, what else does he know? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Trains chugged up all afternoon; one of them, from San Francisco, had all seventeen cars filled to bursting with Seabiscuit fans. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the last month he’d gone down to Bursa a total of seventeen times. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was feeling cocky anyway on this first day in the new world, seventeen years old and a little money burning in his pocket. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bless me! How old I shall be, twenty-seven!” exclaimed Meg, who felt grown up already, having just reached seventeen. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The bicycle pulled up before the porch, a seventeen- year-old colored boy on it, all arms and feet and long legs and round watermelon head. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ooh, my mother bought me this white dress with little black polka dots. It’s got a patent-leather belt around the waist. It makes me look like I’m at least seventeen. Veiy ooh-la-la sophisticated!” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “Look there on page seventeen. Eternity. What does the word eternity mean?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was seventeen minutes of Barack’s deft and easy way with words, seventeen minutes of his deep, dazzling optimism on display. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z One week there were three; the next, six; two weeks later, seventeen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Rudy Noyes, who was still young at thirty-six, had been with the office, had, in fact, been Bookman’s personal sidekick, apprentice, and mouthpiece for eleven of those seventeen years. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Leang and his wife have six children, so with the nine of us it makes seventeen under one thatched roof.Their house would not be called a house by city peoples standards. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of my height I could pass for older than I was, seventeen, maybe eighteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At its zenith, Monte Alban housed seventeen thousand people and was by a considerable margin the biggest and most powerful population center in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We were on page seventeen of the rudiment book, right? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She ain’t quite got up to seventeen in her numbers yet, but she know this be a big one. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The girl would be seventeen or eighteen now, he realized; older than Robert had been when he fathered her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She was only seventeen when she became an instructor. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Bethlehem Steel brought giant ingots and great slabs of military armor, including a curved plate seventeen inches thick meant for the gun turret of the dreadnought Indiana. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Suddenly I wish I’d done nothing but study her for all of my seventeen years. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He smiles at me, and I know that he knows I’m seventeen. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z I was seventeen, in my last year of high school, and for the first time in my life I was starting to have opinions of my own. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Understand now, she was barely rated in the top twenty; her hair was uncombed, unclean; her age was just seventeen, so there was still, in occasional places, the remains of baby fat. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Predmore was the last of seventeen children and always said the family gave out of strong stomachs before it got to her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The last time I saw Bas: He was seventeen, I was sixteen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Even though I told Darren I wasn’t going to practice, I played my recital piece, like, seventeen times. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Through the first eight games of the season he had thrown for seventeen touchdowns. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m seventeen. I can do this on my own.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “We’ve got to be back to the audition in, like, seventeen minutes.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Thus far, as I hope you agree, I have shown you reasonably firm sources of fact for my deductions as to what Voldemort did until the age of seventeen?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In October, seventeen months after her arrest, the state withdrew its case without explanation, and Winnie was released. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For all time since the arrival of Christ, he had lived on seventeen inches of a yardstick. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I have never been outside the state of California in the nearly seventeen years that my atoms and molecules have been stuck together, walking around and calling themselves Finn. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z At seventeen, he was deemed incapable of management and was left homeless. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They were simplyscaled back, the number of clinicians cut from seventeen to ten. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One good bale of tobacco would pay for seventeen more bags of fertilizer, enabling his farm to stay strong, given the good weather. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Raised as an aristocrat, he was dispatched to the academy in Athens at the age of seventeen to study philosophy under Plato and spent two decades there. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z From the time he first saw her, when he was twelve and she was seventeen, he was deeply in love with her, alternately awkward and witty in her presence. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a youth of about seventeen, with the blunt hands of a farmer. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z In it were seventeen men, including a captain. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And then before I can stop myself, I blurt out, “Well, that makes sixteen instead of seventeen I have to decide between, doesn’t it?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I comb his hair until he turn eighteen, but I have not done for seventeen year. It got messy!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Later that week, we heard that two more Coxsackie officers had been hurt, bringing the total to seventeen. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She saved her money in England and now she wants to go back with him and get married even if he’s only nineteen and she’s only seventeen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z For a boy just turning seventeen, she maintained, the important thing was to keep him sequestered from “the wickedness of the state university.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z With no tent, and often navigating with nothing better than road maps, he walked for 123 days, from April to August, averaging seventeen miles a day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I was seventeen—and this was something out of a triple-X daydream. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Only that they can’t afford a babysitter, let alone the special weekend Dad is treating Mom to, on account of their admittedly remarkable seventeen years together. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He looked about seventeen and wore well-tailored clothes stained with the effects of the fever. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I liked being alone with poor Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, who—oh, come on, he’s not going to survive these seventeen bullet wounds, is he? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z ‘We’ve got seventeen officers staying with us. We got sheets by the dozen.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Besides,” she went on, her eyes twinkling, “some incredible things have been happening in the real estate market since the sixties. I just sold Garland for seventeen million dollars.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “I want no assistance from you,” he told Rowan, the emphasis on the word “you” filled with more vitriol than anyone had expressed to Rowan in all his seventeen years. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z "For the purpose of convenience,” he began pompously, "I have divided my talk tonight into thirty main headings and one hundred and seventeen sub-headings. I will commence with the first main heading...” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The second son was ordained at the age of seventeen, and by the time he was twenty had achieved an awesome reputation as a Talmudist. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “I don’t think they realize these are sixteen, seventeen, eighteen-year-old kids,” she once said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama has joked that my curves have finally kicked in at seventeen—not that I was waiting for them. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The issue was, Needles was sixteen, almost seventeen, and Noodles and I was fifteen going on sixteen. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The police have their hands full trying to track down the many girls of fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and older who are reported missing every day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to admit I was only seventeen, and that I should be in high school, finishing my junior year. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Needles's arms went twitching every which way, and he dropped about seventeen F-bombs in a row. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Her brother, Mars—Dad and Papi let Sunnie choose the names, and I kid you not, she named the babies Mars and Jupiter—died when they were seventeen days old. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “Let’s not go overboard. I’m seventeen and she’s my mom,” she says. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Pearl, who had only seventeen dollars and knew Lexie’s weekly allowance was twenty, paused. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She was barely seventeen when she got pregnant with me, my dad nineteen. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Mother told me I wasn’t allowed to smoke until I was seventeen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The next year he returned to the island with seventeen ships and a thousand men. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The Minnesota hatchet murderer I wrote about earlier, imprisoned for seventeen years starting at age nineteen, still had a pretty girlfriend when he was paroled and I met him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles was also there, talking to a girl named Sadie, who was seventeen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z So beer cost double for us, but whatever, we were seventeen. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z "I'm surprised you haven't. Max Attacks has seventeen different levels, and you can only move from one to the next if you kidnap the king and take over his minions." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She was a criminal—a prodigy at killing, a Queen of the Underworld—and yet...yet she was just a girl, sent at seventeen to Endovier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He might’ve been seventeen or twenty, it was hard to say, but he was built like a dancer—with long graceful arms and muscular legs, perfect posture and an air of regal calm. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Etty kept getting sick; she was, at seventeen, an invalid, very weak and at times close to death. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Here is our story: We would meet at the Grand Canyon when I was seventeen. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Even before the dealership opened, it had made about seventeen sales for its line of cars, which ranged in price from $85,000 to $200,000. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, I saw this older kid, who was maybe seventeen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z We lock up six times as many citizens per capita as England, for example, and seventeen times as many as Japan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Different how? I know girls who were strapped at sixteen, seventeen, who had to do foul stuff just to survive.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Alex is seventeen but he’s got bubonic zits and his body’s three sizes too large for him. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Are we really supposed to know what we want to do for the rest of our lives at the ripe old age of seventeen?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He must have been seventeen then, just the same age as Trip. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When Penny giggled, she sounded like the sweet young girl she was... seventeen, eighteen, no more than nineteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I graduated from high school when I was seventeen, and by that point life at home had become toxic because of my stepfather. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Even school would be less strange than the kitchen I spent the last seventeen years in. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z At an awkward seventeen, a bunch of facial piercings, a biohazard neck tattoo, and what his father calls “weed-whacked hair,” the general public isn’t melted anymore. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In less than twelve years they baptized with the name Aureliano and the last name of the mother all the sons that the colonel had implanted up and down his theater of war: seventeen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Tall Andras was young, just seventeen, but the family depended on him. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It had happened seventeen times before, so he knew the signs well. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Even in the room I’d slept in for seventeen years, the place I knew better than anywhere else, I had to make sure nothing was out of the ordinary. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z In the photos, her mother was young, a girl of seventeen or so, and her face was not so tired. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They had been living this kind of life for seventeen years now, ever since Gaines had gotten his first coaching job in Fort Stockton, and over time Sharon had built up a certain immunity. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If asked to, she could have capably wrangled seventeen dollars from the English or caught a pigeon with her bare hands. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The fat woman was co-coordinating a group of teenagers who looked sixteen and seventeen years old. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s totally fed up with her. His father and grandfather were both custodians here. Someone from theLyons family has always worked on this plot of land, ever since the seventeen hundreds.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “I did seventeen years, two days, four hours and twenty minutes on a twenty-year sentence as a third striker,” he explained in an interview posted on the Ella Baker Center’s website. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I hadn’t yet sorted out the shame I felt for having squandered my life, which, at seventeen, I thought was nearly over anyway. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z In i960, seventeen former colonies in Africa were scheduled to become independent states. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time she was seventeen her whole life was unbearable. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the leader of the group—perhaps he was seventeen— took a step forward. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z My best friend’s voice just kept repeating that phrase, and I gripped my skull as panic and confusion and helplessness pulled me in seventeen different directions. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He’s called the Doorman, and he’s seventeen years old. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I’m seventeen and the streets mess with me and keep me nervous, and he’s only nine. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Sarai and Feral were seventeen now; Sparrow was sixteen, and Ruby not quite. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I am lost,” said the Wart “Funny thing that Now I have been lost for seventeen years. “Name of King Pellinore,” continued the Knight “May have heard of me, what?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It went through seventeen editions and was still in print twenty-five years after his death. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Dad plans to take me to Australia and New Zealand for the whole of summer seventeen. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, it had taken Herrod seventeen hours to climb from the South Col to the summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she’s come to expect it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z There were seventeen dollar signs in each row. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Arranged around the columns on other wooden chairs, and sitting here and there on the stairs, are seventeen women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Inside his safe, they found a cache of seventeen short, encrypted messages on slips of yellow telegram paper. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z During the course of that week, at different places along the coast, his seventeen sons were hunted down like rabbits by invisible criminals who aimed at the center of their crosses of ash. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It both bothers and reassures me that, in my mind, he'll always be seventeen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z After another gas run and pause for lunch seventeen miles outside of Dallas—at least according to the sign they’ve just passed—they push on. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z His mother, when she had him, was only seventeen—a thin-blooded, capricious girl with red hair and a rich daddy, who ran off with the drummer for Vance Vane and his Musical Swains. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I know they went through seventeen gallons of salve in the first two weeks, and that Mother was ordering gauze in bulk. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “It is a kind of poem the Japanese write. It never rhymes, but it always has seventeen syllables.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z When she decided to become a dancer at seventeen, she disregarded all conventional wisdom, which preached that dancers must begin their training as young children. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z 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 Some chess players felt that it was an insult to proclaim Fischer the greatest American player at seventeen, and thereby diminish the reputation of Reshevsky at fifty. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 The dude looked about seventeen, with curly blond hair and a perfect tan. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I was seventeen years old when I saw my first dead body. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Grow up with them and perhaps, if it was true about the spring—then perhaps, when she was seventeen . Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A short paragraph at the end of the obituary mentions that he is survived by a daughter of seventeen years of age, a Miss Celia Bowen. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “And they’re fifteen and seventeen?” she said, deliberately getting their ages wrong. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He had been adjudicated as a juvenile delinquent when he was seventeen, for multiple convictions for arson, theft, aggravated assault, gun violence, and, finally, assaulting a police officer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “When I walked away last time, more than seventeen years ago, I never looked back. I just kept walking.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z None of them recognized who it was, because even though he was only seven span from the womb, Menda looked to be a young man of seventeen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z How can a guy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old? Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z How Madeline, at seventeen, had still not gotten her period, and how the doctor had then examined her and discovered that she had no uterus. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The work was incredibly exacting and involved seventeen delicate, interconnected measurements, which together took nearly a year to complete. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He asks Dad when he can start flying lessons, and Dad tells him he can take lessons when he’s seventeen. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z For the first time, I really see the resemblance between us—me, being twelve, and her, seventeen. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z At seventeen she took county board examinations, which covered all the arts and sciences, and at eighteen she was teaching school at Peach Tree. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Hey, I’m seventeen years old, six feet four, a hundred and sixty-two pounds, and I can definitely rise. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, first time in seventeen years,” Mom said, with not a whole lot of enthusiasm. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Twelve months since I said good-bye to Kim, seventeen months since the soldiers took Pa away, twenty-one months since Keav—I stop myself from counting more dates. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you’ll be aging out of foster care in . . . let’s see . . . you turned seventeen in January, so nine months. Have you thought about what you’re going to do then?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z For Papa, at seventeen, it made no difference that times were hard; the idea of a teahouse was an insult to the family name. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “On my left, there are about seventeen thousand souvenir shops.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Zinzi, now seventeen years old, was preparing to take the same path as generations of Xhosa boys before him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Ever since I had turned seventeen, she had brought it upon herself to take my case free of charge. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z No one over thirty-two or under seventeen was supposed to be accepted. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z No one gives you lessons on how to brace everyone for your death, especially when you’re seventeen and healthy. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Permian had a third and seventeen at the Carter 35. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On that bed, a thin, huddled figure, Helmuth, a boy of seventeen, lies awake. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Carlos is seventeen and drives an old and battered red car with giant silver rims, which seems ridiculous to me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “That is correct. March twenty-fourth. Same as the past seventeen years, Jupe.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The reporter returned to the Globe offices with seventeen hundred pages in a plastic bag. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On the other hand, the seventeen Americans killed by terrorists in 1985 were among the 28 million of us who traveled abroad that year—that’s one chance in 1.6 million of becoming a victim. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When Gramps tells this story, he starts with when he was seventeen years old and living with his parents in Bybanks. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z A wiry girl of seventeen or eighteen years stepped up beside Lord Nestor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I was seventeen and ready to join the army. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The details were few—two parents, three kids aged four, fourteen, and seventeen. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He said seventeen children from my community had been selected to enter the all-white Central High School in the 1957 fall term. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z During that time he had lost seventeen percent of his body weight. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “We haven’t got months—it’s after one now, and the wedding’s at six tonight. What parts can we hope to have in working order in seventeen hours?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z By the time Victoria was seventeen, and Tristran also, she was in all probability, he was certain, the most beautiful girl in the British Isles. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The French doors were closed; heavy drapes hung full against the seventeen windows he had counted so many times. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry led the way over to Dean and Seamus, who were discussing those Hogwarts students of seventeen or over who might be entering. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z In 1937, a typical year, the Rad Lab listed seventeen postdoctoral physics fellows on its staff but paid the salaries of only two. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He had been with Lord 'iywin when King's Landing fell, a new-made knight of seventeen years, even then distinguished by his size and his implacable ferocity. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Although I am seventeen and old enough to control my fear, I grip his hand like it's the only solid thing in this world. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She'd notice, for example, that a bookstore in London had an overdue account of seventeen dollars. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When it’s my turn, I introduce myself as Josh Raymond, seventeen, no previous experience beyond my recent halfhearted experiment with sleeping pills. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Everybody has seventeen of them, they said, and the Therbligs can be used in such a way as to make life difficult or easy for their possessor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I took my first time, with one of my brother’s mates from uni when I was seventeen, and I found the smallest, most cramped little broom cupboard I could muster, and I shoved it in. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Standing on the porch was a young man who looked about seventeen or eighteen, although I am not as good at guessing people’s ages as blind Mrs. Partridge is. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He looked so much like a teenage demigod it was unnerving - no more than seventeen, wearing jeans and a Camp Half-Blood T-shirt, with a bow over his shoulder and a sword at his belt. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It needs about seventeen hours of charge for seventeen minutes of chat. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I wondered if he was remembering how he, too, had left Welch full of vinegar at age seventeen and just as convinced as I was now that he’d never return. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Now all he’s seeing in his head are those seventeen missed calls. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z At best, Rat said, she was seventeen years old, fresh out of Cleveland Heights Senior High. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know your biggest dream is to see your daughter after not seeing her for seventeen years.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z At seventeen, Gerald was tough and stocky, with the muscles of a young man who knew hard work. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The first is that a pretty reliable figure for the time light takes to travel from the sun to the Earth was available seventeen years after Rømer’s first estimate of eleven minutes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He watched her for a moment and said he was sure he couldn’t pay more than seventeen fifty for that china. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He was seventeen years old, irreparably separated from her and already pressing forward in his drive for wealth, when he learned that there was probably not another stomach like hers on earth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Far scarier than any of my ideas is the fact that, at the age of seventeen, I was probably operating at my intellectual peak. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z James discovered that seventeen dollars wasn't enough to cover his tuition, room, and meals. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He started counting them down, “Nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen ... Twenty, nineteen ...” Each time he hit fifteen he reset back to twenty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z M.K.—That was what she would have written on everything when she was seventeen years old and very famous. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Being on the verge of seventeen could really suck. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z We all looked up to her as if she were a lot older than even the other seventeens. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My brother Tyler, who was seventeen, fell asleep at the wheel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Details such as food, drink, a change of clothing, a place to sleep, and needing more than the seventeen dollars squirreled away in the zipper pouch of his book bag. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “Harry,” I said, “do you think I could pass for seventeen?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Well, as alone as one could be in the midst of almost two hundred orphans and semiorphans between the ages of one and seventeen. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The happiest day of my life was many years ago when I was seventeen. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z When he was first saying it I didn’t like it because I thought maybe he was seeing things but now I was seventeen I was beginning to understand what he was talking about. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Funny how you can change so much,” Charles said, “but still sound the same as when we were seventeen.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Is this car ride going to last seventeen days?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Garfield had been a congressman for seventeen years. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The rest of us were between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, except Kanei, who was now seventeen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z If they were all put into one stack, it would be about seventeen feet high. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “I remember I would wait outside his door at night, listening to him as he slept. I was seventeen, remember. Childish in so many ways. I thought myself in love.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Somewhere around the boring part where the guy named Rolf and the oldest daughter are singing You are sixteen, going on seventeen, Jack nudged me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, let me think. Seventeen, I was seventeen.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He had attended military school in Japan until the age of seventeen, and part of him never got over that. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Was it over four thousand five hundred and seventeen miles? ’Cause that would be the length of a round trip to Bakersfield from Columbus and back.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z They were scruffy, maybe sixteen or seventeen years old, and both carried guns. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “How do you expect to begin this late, when she’s seventeen years old?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I was so tired by that time that I accidentally turned two pages at once, skipping from page seventeen to page twenty. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And the letter that appears most often in the message is “S,” at seventeen percent. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The bill came to seventeen dollars altogether, seventeen dollars and twenty-four cents to be exact. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The rent of our new home was seventeen shillings and sixpence per month. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Fitzgerald wrote, “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Not for a year or two. I won’t go before seventeen, anyway.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Along with his parents and three sisters, who were nineteen, seventeen, and fifteen, he hid under the bed during the night. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z There I was, seventeen years old, and the first time my dad showed me the littlest bit of attention was when I least wanted him to. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “The leader of the group that I belonged to was a boy who was seventeen,” said one Hitler Youth. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Hey! How come your daughter is seventeen years old and if you put a sack over her face you couldn’t tell she was Japanese from anybody else on the street?” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bells, I fed myself for seventeen years before you got here,” he reminded me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z So we added seventeen more Navajo words for A, E, I, O, U, D, H, L, N, R, S, and T. The most commonly used of those letters got more than one new word. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost seventeen years of life, and he never knew what a coward he was. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “There wasn’t enough evidence to charge him with a crime,” JT explained, “but my father made him join the army. He’s only seventeen, so my dad had to sign an extra form, but he’s gone.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They were only accepting men between the ages of seventeen and thirty-two. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z With Leper it was always a fight, a hard fight to win when you were seventeen years old and lived in a keyed- up, competing school, to avoiding making fun of him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Captain,” a man calls out, “there are seventeen wounded, no one dead.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z ‘A young boy of seventeen or eighteen, who left home with a group of boy scouts, is reported to be still scouting in that area, according to the fire warden of the Catskill Mountains. “ My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But while his breath was no longer that of a puppy, Hagar could still whip it into a pant when he was seventeen and she was twenty-two. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t like the first seventeen tops he picked. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Impressed by George’s perseverance, and by his ability on the water, Aaron Pocock entered him in a professional race, the Sportsman Handicap, at Putney on the Thames, when he was seventeen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I was only seventeen and hadn’t started to shave. We were troublemakers, tough kids, and we wanted experience and adventure.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The next night, he went cruising again, and came home after midnight to find Colin working on his Theorem, which now worked seventeen of nineteen times. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z By 1875, when Roosevelt was seventeen years old, he was no longer a timid and sickly child. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z After seventeen years, she still picked out my clothes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The original exemplar of American social mobility was almost certainly Benjamin Franklin, one of seventeen children of a candle maker. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I’m not going to say too much about Delaney except that his mother was never home, so by the time we were seventeen his basement pretty much reeked. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Behind him came a young boy of about seventeen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I was still seventeen and wasn’t allowed to do delivery yet, so I answered phones, mostly, and made pizzas. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I was seventeen when Mussolini attacked Ethiopia, an invasion that spurred not only my hatred of that despot but of fascism in general. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of chapter seventeen, “Lassie Comes over the Border,” Georgie finally let me stop and rest my voice. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Three times a week between thirteen and seventeen,” put in Bernard. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z With almost seventeen years of baffled living behind me, I faced the world in 1925. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But the pigeon owner, a youth of seventeen, stood on the edge of the roof with a long bamboo stick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Exactly seventeen minutes and twenty seconds left until the end of the school day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Before Marines were finally called in to restore order, two black men had been killed and seventeen people had been injured. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z They had a dozen children, six boys and six girls, in seventeen years. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z His seventeen might kill three, four, five times their own number, but in the end they would be overwhelmed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the early 1920s, Carter G. Woodson, a historian and educator who had earned a PhD in history from Harvard seventeen years after Du Bois, served as the colleges dean. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z At seventeen, the girls could join the Faith and Beauty group, which promoted physical grace through instruction in dancing, hygiene, and charm. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z This magic will cease to operate the moment that Harry turns seventeen; in other words, at the moment he becomes a man. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z |
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