Fourteenth

(noun.) position 14 in a countable series of things.

(adj.) coming next after the thirteenth in position .

整理:昆廷

• And why did Bretton and my fourteenth year haunt me thus? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• This action, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'is expected to come on, on the fourteenth of next month. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It'll come on, in the settens after Term: fourteenth of Febooary, we expect; we've marked it a special jury cause, and it's only ten down the paper. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Ten years ago I bade them good-by; since my fourteenth year they and I had never met. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The contest in Europe from the fourteenth century onward therefore was a three-cornered contest. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• On the three following days he remained perfectly well, and on the fourteenth day he went away to join Lucie and her husband. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Missing, it said, on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman named Hosmer Angel. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• They were invented in the fourteenth century but were not much used until the fifteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Throughout the fourteenth century the papacy did nothing to recover its moral sway. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Robert B oyle (1626-1691), born at Castle Lismore in Ireland, was the seventh son and fourteenth child of the distinguished first Earl of Cork. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Brunel, in 1805-1808, devised a set of circular saws run by a steam engine, which cut sheets of rosewood and mahogany, one-fourteenth of an inch thick, with great speed and accuracy. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The high seas called for the sailing ship, and in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries it appears, keeping its course by the compass and the stars. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• With the fourteenth century the real history of the European literatures begins. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The cross marks the spot where a celebrated troubadour was waylaid and murdered in the fourteenth century. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• On the fourteenth, came Mr. Godfrey's answer. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

整理:辛克莱