Word: fifteene
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...single and double sculls were common property, one could be sure of finding a boat in, or, at the worst, of having to wait only a few minutes before one of the number would be returned. A Holworthy man could not then complain that he was paying fifteen dollars for one fourth the accommodations given to a Holyoke member; the trouble of four different organizations would be avoided, and with it the inevitable necessity of continual changes in the limits, if the clubs are to be fairly equal in size...
...lain so long dormant, of publishing by numbers, - an art now brought to such perfection that even dictionaries are divided and exhibited piecemeal to the public; nay, one bookseller hath (to encourage learning and ease the public) contrived to give them a dictionary in this divided manner for only fifteen shillings more than it would cost entire." - Fielding...
...parts of the hill are scattered in little groups gentlemen and ladies, boys and girls, - of all ages, from fifteen to thirty, - married and single, engaged, and still to have that pleasure. Instead of sleds they are dragging up the hill "taboggins," which is the Indian sled, and which finds a mate in the bark canoe. They are made of thin pieces of cedar-wood, which have been planed perfectly smooth; these pieces are bent up at the front so as to form a sort of runner, but the boards themselves lie flat on the snow, being fastened together above...
...wheels rolled down either bank. We were half-way to Pelican Swamp after six hours' travelling. I instantly determined to leave the old lady, bab and baggage, to the tender mercies of the railway officials, and I seized my carpet-bag and walked the rest of the way in fifteen minutes...
...foot-ball match with Yale will take place to-morrow in New Haven, at two o'clock. The Fifteen is made up as follows...