" "I am happy, dear, in anything that makes you happy; though sixteen is not exactly an age contemporary with my own.

Sixteen of the twenty-nine vessels were British trawlers.

It is often said, why do their mothers let them go away (sixteen and eighteen are common ages) so young, so inexperienced?

The incident of the 24th of May cost the Bulgarians some 1,500 casualties, while the Greeks lost about 800 men, sixteen of whom were prisoners; two of these subsequently died from ill-treatment.

Why, in Italy and Rome itself, a majority of the Catholic clergy are hostile to the temporal authority of the Pope, and sympathize with Mazzini so generally, that of seventeen conspirators recently arrested for conspiring in favour of the Republic against Austria, sixteen were priests belonging to the humbler orders of the clergy.

Sixteen were hunters, of whom thirteen were men grown.