"...when at age fifteen he had the chance to watch from a front-row seat as the Hansa, a new double-screw mail-steamer, was launched from the docks of Blohm and Voss, he painted a strikingly good watercolor of the trim ship..."

"When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm..."

"“You are fifteen,” said old Mitsima, in the Indian words. “Now I may teach you to work the clay.”"

"...he wanted to know how old I was – I said eighteen, though I was really three years younger..."

"Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it—later in life he almost completely slew it — but at fifteen it made him consider himself a great deal worse than other boys..."

"He took the gun and the box of bullets and went out to see what he could kill. He was a big lout of a boy, fifteen years old this birthday..."

"He was only fifteen at the time, but that was how he felt and thought..."

"Dear Aunt Clara, I am a fifteen-year-old schoolboy. My grandma tells me that I am attractive..."

"Her talk of kings had carried him oddly back in flashes to the pearly White Way of Main Street in Erie, Pennsylvania, when he was fifteen..."

"In the corner behind the door, only just visible, stood a country lad of about fifteen..."

"That was everything. I’d done the lot, now. And me still only fifteen..."

"I was fifteen years old and I had a hundred dollars in my pockets..."