Every German theatre has attached to it a "choir school," where girls are admitted from their fifteenth year and boys from their seventeenth.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway
"It is high time, I think," said Martin; "this is my seventeenth night of losing,-losing heavily, too.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
The gross annual produce of the United Kingdom is reckoned at present at twelve hundred millions sterling, and the rent of the land at less than seventy millions, or about one seventeenth of the whole.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae