Hannibal Retires to the Bruttian Territory On the day after the battle Nero started, and after scarcely fourteen days' absence once more confronted Hannibal in Apulia, whom no message had reached, and who had not stirred.

Many children, nominally fourteen, but looking very young, were employed.

There succeeded an interval of practically fourteen years (1798-1812), during which time the novelist let her mind lie absolutely fallow.

Two young girls, respectively about fourteen and fifteen, were craning necks out of nightdresses over the balusters in a shadowy angle of the staircase.