"...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..."

"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..."

"I was 15 years old and in love with her and I was covered with boils and there was nothing that either of us could do."