1 When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.
2 Remember, my love, that you are not seventeen.
3 Perhaps," said Elinor, "thirty-five and seventeen had better not have any thing to do with matrimony together.
4 At seventeen she was lost to me for ever.
5 This, and the resumption of my ring, as well as of the bear's grease in moderation, are the last marks I can discern, now, in my progress to seventeen.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 6 There were seventeen officers in all riding in this race.
7 The race was an unlucky one, and of the seventeen officers who rode in it more than half were thrown and hurt.
8 Standing at the first litany, Levin attempted to revive in himself his youthful recollections of the intense religious emotion he had passed through between the ages of sixteen and seventeen.
9 There I once shot seventeen snipe.
10 Petrov, the bank director, had twelve thousand; Sventitsky, a company director, had seventeen thousand; Mitin, who had founded a bank, received fifty thousand.
11 And she remembered how, long, long ago, when she was a girl of seventeen, she had gone with her aunt to Troitsa.
12 The green muslin measured seventeen inches about the waist, and Mammy had laced her for the eighteen-inch bombazine.
13 But for all her plainness of feature and smallness of stature, there was a sedate dignity about her movements that was oddly touching and far older than her seventeen years.
14 She was only seventeen, she had superb health and energy, and Charles' people did their best to make her happy.
15 She was only seventeen now and there was still a lot of dancing left in her feet.