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As soon as the sixteen were beheaded, the magistrate cried out to the executioner, "There is another stroke remaining yet; you must behead the minister; he can never die at a better time than with such excellent precepts in his mouth, and such laudable examples before him."— Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
A three under an eight; the double of eight being sixteen, which is three in excess of thirteen If the ground packets fail to produce suitable cards for numerals according to the calculations just named, vacant spaces must of necessity remain in the line of numerals, which will be filled as the game develops (Rule II When all suitable cards have been transferred from the ground packets to the numerals, the next process is that of addition_.— Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games
Down it came--sixteen, fourteen, ten-- and then at last--at bitter, long last--`Miss Marian White, six_!— A College Girl
To have been one of the five hundred was nothing; but to be one of the sixteen was a great deal,--was indeed so much that Phineas, not understanding as yet the advantage of his own comeliness, was at a loss to conceive why so pleasant an honour was conferred upon him.— Phineas Finn The Irish Member
I suppose we would call her sixteen or seventeen years old.— All the Brothers Were Valiant
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