fifteen

“And is not above fifteen feet from it?”

Instead of a rude mixture of sailors, soldiers, and those belonging to the humblest grade of life, the present assembly was composed of the very flower of Marseilles society,—magistrates who had resigned their office during the usurper’s reign; officers who had deserted from the imperial army and joined forces with Condé; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and execrate the man whom five years of exile would convert into a martyr, and fifteen of restoration elevate to the rank of a god.

Jonathan Wild was the hidden force of the London criminals, to whom he sold his brains and his organization on a fifteen per cent.

He descended fifteen steps, and the door of a dungeon was opened, and he was thrust in.