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  • Thousands more lined the fifteen-mile route to the St. Francis Hotel as the president passed by in a bubble top limousine.

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • Thousands more lined the fifteen-mile route to the St. Francis Hotel as the president passed by in a bubble top limousine.

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • Malemutes that would jerk Smoke along for twenty miles, and for the finish, with a fifteen-mile run, was his own team -- the team he had had all winter and which had been with him in the search for

    THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE 2010

  • Unless Netanyahu claims that a twelve or fifteen-mile width is more "defensible" in today's missile technology than a nine-mile width, it is difficult to comprehend what Netanyahu's "defensible borders" look like without a continued, substantial Israeli military presence in the West Bank.

    Alon Ben-Meir: The Settlers' Movement Is a Threat to Peace and Israel's Existence Alon Ben-Meir 2012

  • He was thinking of the fifteen-mile ride before him that afternoon, to the windward side of the island, and of Berthe, the pretty half-caste daughter of Lafi re, the pearl-trader, who was waiting for him at the end of it.

    THE CHINAGO 2010

  • With my stomach growling, I began the long fifteen-mile trek to my home.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • And you earn a fifteen-mile run in full gear if you end up with so much as a scratch.

    Risk No Secrets Cindy Gerard 2010

  • With my stomach growling, I began the long fifteen-mile trek to my home.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • With my stomach growling, I began the long fifteen-mile trek to my home.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • But once astride, I pedaled around a fifteen-mile hilly course around Newman Lake.

    The Grace to Race Sister Madonna Buder 2010

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