| 单词 | eighty-eight |
| 例句 | The season was slipping away, the fabled cry of “State in eighty-eight!” that had been etched on the backs of cars and scribbled in yearbooks a minute away from becoming a failed dream. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The eighty-eight players in the First Canadian Open may have composed a stronger roster than had been fielded at the United States Open a few weeks earlier. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I was sitting at a perfect piano, it turned out, with its surfaces carefully dusted, its internal wires precisely tuned, its eighty-eight keys laid out in a flawless ribbon of black and white. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The first thing that startled him, even though it increased his confusion at the same time, was the fact that it was precisely three hundred eighty-eight feet from Úrsula's bed to the backyard wall. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In a feat of modern aircraft design and engineering, Johnson's team built the first U-2 spy plane in only eighty-eight days. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I never stop being amazed that these eighty-eight slices of ivory and ebony can combine to create harmonies. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Number eighty-eight, do you have any special skills?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “That will be seven dollars and eighty-eight cents,” the salesgirl named Griselda tells me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z In July, Clement had presented the Durham Chamber of Commerce with a list of eighty-eight demands, covering nearly every area that concerned the city’s black population—including the formation of a Human Relations Commission. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Of the eighty-eight thousand residents, sixty-six thousand were white, while twenty-two thousand were black. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was a little doddery and flat-footed, but he walked reasonably well for a man of eighty-eight. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I ’ad six nippers, then I goes and leaves one on a bus, the eighty-eight up from Brixton. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Number eighty-eight flips up to her feet, which had shone in the air, shone as she spun, glittering in the light. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z And really, just like that, number eighty-eight performs a forward handspring, landing in the splits. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z And number eighty-eight—still in the splits!—spins out of them, onto her back, and yells “Faster!” to Sammy, which gets a nice big laugh out of Mark and Marc, the bearded boys. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I was eighty-eight and really did retire then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With eighty-eight weighted keys, it almost felt like a real piano. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The room erupts into applause, but number eighty-eight isn’t done, not by the half of it, calling to Sammy at the piano, “Do you know ‘Slow Boat to China’?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Erin goes eighty-eight for one hundred and I go ninety for one hundred. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Two thousand, eight hundred and eighty-eight minutes since the moment his chance to win the competition had evaporated. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The tenants of 40 Riverside Boulevard quite literally won the lottery to be able to walk through the poor door; the building received more than eighty-eight thousand applications for its fifty-five spots. The “Poor Door” and the Glossy Reconfiguration of City Life 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z In screenwriting, there’s always talk of the “rules”: the time machine only works at eighty-eight miles per hour, etc. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z I first encountered the work of the Irish writer William Trevor, who died this week at the age of eighty-eight, in one of his masterwork short stories, “The News from Ireland.” William Trevor’s Quiet Explosions 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The poet and translator Alastair Reid, who died on Monday, at the age of eighty-eight, had itchy feet. Postscript: Alastair Reid (1926-2014) 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z He relocated permanently in 1947, living fifty-two of his eighty-eight years there. The Sheltering Sound: Paul Bowles’s Attempt to Save Moroccan Music 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z When Herman Q Mildew, the world's most hated editor, is killed at his own party in his pickle factory, there are eighty-eight suspects. Who Done It? By Jon Scieszka - Review 2013-02-18T12:00:00Z Toni Morrison died on Monday evening, at the age of eighty-eight. Toni Morrison in The New Yorker 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The filmmaker Albert Maysles, one of the crucial artists of modern documentary filmmaking—or, simply, one of the most important filmmakers of the past half-century—died on Thursday night, at the age of eighty-eight. Postscript: Albert Maysles, 1926-2015 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z On Monday, Toni Morrison died in New York, at the age of eighty-eight. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z The poet, translator, and essayist Alastair Reid died yesterday at the age of eighty-eight. Alastair Reid in The New Yorker 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z My mother was eighty-eight, hard of hearing, and half blind in her right eye—which was her good eye. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z Mr. Plummer has it all going on at what, eighty-eight years old! Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z At eighty-eight, Harper Lee rarely leaves the Meadows; she was last seen outside the facility in November for her sister’s funeral. Harper Lee and the Mysteries of Monroeville 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z “Five hundred and eighty-eight thousand people have died because they didn’t get this vaccine. Nobody died that did take it. That’s pretty good odds for me.” Coronavirus live news: Brazil anger as death toll mounts; Olympics will go ahead – Tokyo chief 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z I am eighty-eight years old at this writing, and I know that those four hundred and thirty-one plays were serving to extend Thornton Wilder’s life. Tabula Rasa: Volume One 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z One promethium isotope, with eighty-eight neutrons, has a half-life of a few days; the other, with eighty-six neutrons, has a half-life of a few years. The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z O’Brien, who is eighty-eight, recently told me that she may yet write “some little poem, or fragments,” but almost certainly couldn’t manage another novel. Edna O’Brien Is Still Writing About Women on the Run 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Hugh, eighty-eight, a Christian Scientist living in Connecticut, is another amazingly healthy person. I interviewed people in their 80s about how they cope with aging. Here's what I learned 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z “Our whole intention was, and still is, to allow people to get out of their inherited orthodoxies and into the business of discovering truth,” Murphy, who is eighty-eight, told me recently. Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Morrison died on August 5th, at the age of eighty-eight. What Toni Morrison Understood About Hate 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Merce Cunningham died in 2009, at the age of ninety; Paul Taylor last year, at eighty-eight. Can Modern Dance Be Preserved? 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z One flew two hundred and eighty-eight combat missions in Vietnam; another, now in his seventies, served as a combat medic, and still carries a pocketknife in case he has to perform an emergency tracheotomy. Can Elizabeth Warren Win It All? 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Andrew, eighty-eight, is a good example of a Denier. I interviewed people in their 80s about how they cope with aging. Here's what I learned 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z The list for Texas named two hundred and eighty-six priests, the list for New Jersey a hundred and eighty-eight priests. What Do the Church’s Victims Deserve? 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Kushner now has an almost filial status with Murdoch, who turns eighty-eight this month, and numerous sources told me that they communicate frequently. The Making of the Fox News White House 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z When California is removed from the analysis, the annual number of burglaries in states with security requirements drops by as much as eighty-eight per cent. The Life Cycle of a Stolen Gun 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The only data point on the fact sheet that specifically describes trafficking is the number of arrests made by ICE and Homeland Security: fifteen hundred and eighty-eight in 2018. The Hypocrisy of Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Argument for a Border Wall 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Perkins, who is eighty-eight, told me by phone that he believes in “a need for Biblical, not racial, reconciliation,” which centers on Jesus’ message of love for all people. Evangelicals of Color Fight Back Against the Religious Right 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z In 2017, the company made four hundred and eighty-eight million dollars, an increase of forty-six million from the previous year. The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country’s Sunniest State 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Walter died suddenly, on September 12th, at the age of eighty-eight. Remembering Walter Mischel, with Love and Procrastination 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z After several weeks of research, OVDInfo located eighty-eight people whom the organization believes are in Russian custody for political reasons stemming from the war in Ukraine. Russia’s Indifference to Two Political Prisoners Sends a Strong and Familiar Message 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z In the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, eighty-eight per cent of Republican voters said that they approved of the job he’s doing. Trump’s Steady Approval Polls Point to a Nasty and Divisive Midterm Election Ahead 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Around fifteen hundred E.U.-trained midwives currently work in British hospitals, but since 2016 the number coming from Europe each year has fallen by eighty-eight per cent. Theresa May’s Impossible Choice 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z There were other kinds of fellowships, but none of them provided as much money—eighty-eight hundred dollars—as the Peaslees. “Show Don’t Tell” 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Denali, he failed to record celestial navigations for eighty-eight days of his trip, and he later paid someone to fake the missing data. Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z One recent night, the house was buzzing with people, including Nottage’s brother Aaron and Gerber, her husband, who observed that the ages of the house’s population ranged “from eight to eighty-eight.” The First Theatrical Landmark of the Trump Era 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Schumer had recently taken his parents—his mother is eighty-eight—to one of their favorite restaurants, Stella’s, in the town of Floral Park, on Long Island. Can Chuck Schumer Check Donald Trump? 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z After my mother died, in 2005, when she was eighty-three and he was eighty-eight, he entertained much less. Behind the Cellar Door 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Take African-American voters: according to the network exit poll, Clinton got eighty-eight per cent of the black vote. How Donald Trump Became President-Elect 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, eighty-eight retired senior military officers released a letter of endorsement for Donald Trump’s Presidential candidacy. What to Make of Military Endorsements 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Gary Graffman, who is eighty-seven and now retired as the head of Curtis, and his wife, Naomi, who is eighty-eight, are Yuja’s best friends in New York and perhaps in the world. Yuja Wang and the Art of Performance 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z By official count, there are twenty-eight sports, three hundred and six events, and twenty-four hundred and eighty-eight available medals in this year’s Rio Olympics. Fu Yuanhui Teaches China to Relax at the Olympics 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Mary Trump died in New York City, in 2000, at the age of eighty-eight, just a year after her husband. Donald Trump’s Immigrant Mother 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Among Republican voters, eighty-eight per cent said that they were angry or dissatisfied with the federal government, and sixty-four per cent said that they wanted an outsider as President. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s New York Wins: A Preview of the General Election? 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The polls are close, he’s been drawing big crowds, eighty-eight per cent of the population is white, and Wisconsin has a strong radical tradition. Can Bernie Sanders Really Win the Nomination? 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Sister Mercedes is eighty-eight; Sister Terence will turn ninety-five this year. The Nuns Who Love Chris Mullin 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Bentleys and Range Rovers in the parking lot and the expansive waterfront view gave me a good idea of the clientele, as did the Peking duck, which was eighty-eight dollars. China’s Rich Kids Head West 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z This week, he was disqualified from running for the Assembly of Experts, a body of eighty-eight clerics, akin to the Vatican’s College of Cardinals. Iran’s Revolutionary Grandchildren 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z It was that eighty-eight per cent agreed that the word “optimist” described them. Bernie Sanders and the New Populism 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Toward the end of the last century, an increase in the incidence of autism—by one estimate, one out of every eighty-eight children in the U.S. is affected—prompted talk of an autism “epidemic.” What Is Autism? 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Now the energy company Crestwood plans to convert depleted salt caverns beneath the lake’s banks into storage for eighty-eight million gallons of propane. Video: Is Gas Storage the Future of Seneca Lake? 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The number is now closer to two hundred and eighty-eight thousand. An Island of Refugees 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Since 2000, at least eighty-eight journalists have been murdered in Mexico. Who Killed Rubén Espinosa and Nadia Vera? 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Nineteen eighty-eight is a long time ago, and Biden has achieved a lot since then, including serving as Vice-President for the past six and a half years. Will Joe Biden Decide to Run for President? 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z The Borkowskis reduced the footprint of their house by eighty-eight per cent in a matter of days, and at no net cost. Solar Power for Everyone 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z During the current debate, the Vermont State Health department reported that fewer than eighty-eight per cent of children entering the state’s kindergartens were fully vaccinated. Vermont Says No to the Anti-Vaccine Movement 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Ashbery is nearly eighty-eight; more than ever, his style is a net for the weirdest linguistic flotsam. John Ashbery’s Feat of Style 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z One hundred eighty-eight people were monitored, none of whom received a diagnosis of the contagion. Hospital Says Man Who Died of Lassa Fever Initially Didn’t Disclose Trip to Africa 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Lady Sergeant is a small, spry woman of eighty-eight. London’s Most Mysterious Mansion 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z The first four moves alone open up some two hundred and eighty-eight billion possibilities. The Return of the Chess Cheat 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Fidel Castro, who turned eighty-eight last August, and who has not been seen in public for a year, was reported to have died, for the umpteenth time, on the Twittersphere. Slow Change in Cuba 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The Cold War—the first, pre-Vladimir Putin one—has been over for nearly a quarter century, and Fidel Castro is now a frail retiree of eighty-eight. Obama and Castro Seize History 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Just as important, the eighty-eight million dollars will be gone before the end of January. Getting Help to Syria 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z This time, the vote count was a hundred and eighty-eight to two. Cuba’s Ebola Diplomacy 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Ian Paisley, the Northern Irish Protestant leader, died today at the age of eighty-eight. Takes: Ian Paisley 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z At eighty-eight, Shoji seems to have thrown off that cosmic shrug. Hiroshima and the Inheritance of Trauma 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z At the United Nations, the opprobrium heaped on the U.S. for its Cuban ban was all but unanimous; in the last vote, an annual ritual, a hundred and eighty-eight countries voted to condemn the embargo. Obama and Castro Seize History 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Two hundred and eighty-eight cases of measles may not sound like much in a country of 313.9 million people. This Graph From The CDC On Measles Infections Should Scare You 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z In early April, when the death toll was eighty-eight, a voter-in-the-street interview found the dominant mood even more robust. When Republicans hated the troops 2014-02-23T17:00:00Z One in eighty-eight American children are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Autism’s Invisible Victims: The Siblings 2012-11-30T12:00:27Z Ross spent one hundred and eighty-eight days alone in the Yakima country. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z "Well, I don't think I shall ever forget eighty-eight," Jasmine affirmed with conviction. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z Then there were eighty-eight scalps of women, and "some hundreds of boys and girls." Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Fifty or sixty per diem was not an unusual allowance, and Parry counted eighty-eight large ones from the crow’s nest on one occasion, besides a profusion of smaller ones. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z No. 5 containing eighty-eight scalps of woman's hair, long-braided in Indian fashion. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z At last, after eighty-seven, eighty-eight, and eighty-nine have been given out, he raises his voice to a chant, and sings forth, Numero novanta, 'number ninety,' this completing the number put in. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z He died of an attack of paralysis at the advanced age of eighty-eight, in the year 1799. A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation 2012-03-17T02:01:03.693Z She was then eighty-eight years old, yet as agile as a girl of eighteen, and neither sight nor hearing had began to fail. Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z As you probably know, any object traveling at a speed of a mile a minute traverses eighty-eight feet in one second, and it is on this that we have based our calculations.” Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z His famous ride remained unsung, if not unhonored for eighty-eight years, or until Longfellow, in 1863 made it the text for his Landlord's Tale in the Wayside Inn. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z The capital invested upon these was only eighty-eight millions. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The number of acres is peculiar and points to some agrarian division of which eighty-eight and forty-four were fractions or multiples. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z He belongs to a very long-lived family; his grandfather died at ninety-three, his father at eighty-three, his mother at eighty-eight, his eldest brother at ninety. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z The original pay was one thousand four hundred and eighty-eight dollars. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z Do you wish to trust Louisiana, or do you wish to trust Alabama that gave, in 1872, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight Republican majority and now gives ninety-two thousand Democratic majority? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z This was the period in which Hogarth’s masterpieces were bought for prices ranging between a maximum of eighty-eight pounds and a minimum of twenty-seven pounds. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z There is one free tenant of eighty-eight acres holding de antiquitate and the Scholars of Merton hold forty-four acres freely. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z In line of communication canteens, located at railroad junction points, eighty-eight American women workers have served an average of 20,000 soldiers daily. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z The original pay was three hundred and eighty-eight dollars. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z At the time of the little occurrence, which I have related, Mr. Adams was eighty-eight years old. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z "Before meals he weighs two eighty-eight; after meals two ninety-eight." Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z Anyhow, it is impossible to reduce them to fractions of eighty-eight; for some reason or another, the reckoning is made on a different basis. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z The distance stated in the text is one hundred and eighty-eight miles. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z New York in June is frightful—eighty-eight yesterday, and Heaven knows what it will be to-day. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z Out of respect, however, for Crebillon's eighty-eight years, the tragedy was applauded, but in a few days the "Triumvirat" was played to empty benches. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z The same individual had, moreover, presented to the same personage, fifty-three thousand and eighty-eight castellanos of gold, which paid thirteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars in duties. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z He was eighty-eight years old; feeble in body, nearly blind, yet keeping to the last his clear spiritual vision, his vigour and eagerness of soul. Ruysbroeck 2011-10-29T02:00:16.413Z In the House there were one hundred and nine Republicans, eighty-eight administration Democrats, thirteen anti-Lecompton Democrats, and twenty-seven Americans, all of the latter, except four, from the South. A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z The eighty-eight acres of the north part were sold at 25 dollars an acre. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z "Twelve hundred and thirty and eighty-eight thousand crowns make thirteen hundred and seventeen thousand crowns," replied Cornélius, mechanically, absorbed in calculations. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Colorado has already produced in gold four hundred and eighty-eight million five hundred thousand dollars, and there is no indication of a diminution in the supply. Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z As I have stated above, I received the signatures of eighty-eight prominent physicians and surgeons of Portland to this document, the original of which I have in safe-keeping. The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church 2011-08-18T02:00:21.113Z Wheat sold at ninety-four had dropped to eighty-eight. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z Witness my hand this fifth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z An inventory later on shows that Frances had only twelve glasses and not more than eighty-eight pieces of earthenware. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z The first edition now known to exist was published at Augsburg in 1531, a small octavo containing eighty-eight pages with ninety-seven emblems, and as many woodcuts. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z He cruised to the West Indies, captured New Providence, and sailed away with eighty-eight cannon, fifteen mortars, and a large quantity of stores. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z When C has failed us אA agree fifty-two times and differ eighty-eight. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z Witness my hand this fifth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z She was one of the elder children, as she was eighty-eight at the time of her death, January 15, 1713/4, and consequently born in 1625. Pope: His Descent and Family Connections Facts and Conjectures 2011-06-29T02:00:22.613Z He had attained the good old age of eighty-eight, when his mother appeared in a vision to warn him to make ready for the approaching end. A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381 2011-06-14T02:00:22.820Z According to these reporters, out of some eighty-eight men, who dashed down the road on that fateful night to slaughter the Lutts clan, forty-two of them never got away alive from the graveyard facade. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z "Two million three hundred and eighty-eight thousand five hundred," she said glibly, showing me her pretty teeth. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z April 17, 1860, Virginia, by a vote of eighty-eight to fifty-five, seceded from the United States. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z A week passed, and then a special edition brought the long-awaited announcement which dashed the hopes of one thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight bursting feminine hearts. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z You must start as a pure Whig, upon the Revolution principles of sixteen hundred and eighty-eight.” Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 2011-03-04T03:00:58.347Z Of the intermediary congregation of the year eighty-eight, and the houses which were accepted by it. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 2011-02-26T03:00:46.860Z He was actually the means of saving some eighty-eight lives. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z It was two hundred and eighty-eight signs,—as long as the Queen's Speech. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z In addition to the thirteen steel plates and facsimiles and eighty-eight woodcuts issued with these volumes, one hundred and ten portraits and views have been inserted, forty of this number being proofs on India paper. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z One dear old lady, calm, sedate, Age, very likely, eighty-eight. Right off the Bat Baseball Ballads 2011-02-13T03:00:19.390Z No, it is Psalm eighty-eight dat I brood over. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Nothing much else under ninety, though; one or two eighty-nines, I believe, and an eighty-eight; better get limbered up a bit, Jack; it’s getting near our turn. The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z No less than eighty-eight Honey-eaters are found in Australia, but they are often restricted to very limited areas, so that no district would contain many kinds of these birds. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z We have now before us the receipts of the bankers of the Company for the whole amount, eighty-eight thousand pounds sterling. The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph 2010-12-29T03:00:29.577Z Betty was disappointed to find only an eighty-eight for her grade, but she knew that anything over eighty was good with Miss Smith. Betty Lee, Freshman 2010-12-20T17:12:25.800Z As the clock ticked down, many of the 15,232 fans at Madison Square Garden began chanting, “Eighty-eight, eighty-eight,” serenading the Connecticut women into history as well as onto victory. UConn 81, Ohio State 50: UConn Women Match the Streak of U.C.L.A.?s Men in the 1970s 2010-12-20T15:00:21Z Nor can I now determine whether you are eighty-eight miles nearer to me, or farther off than you were before. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams He was born two hundred and eighty-eight years before the Christian era, and from fifty to one hundred years after the appearance of the far-famed Euclid. Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) He told me, when eighty-eight years of age, he had made it a rule, all his life long, never to eat enough, but always to leave off his meals with a good appetite. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician It was but their one evening of liberty before they settled down to ordinary school routine, and for the rest of the eighty-eight days before Easter their behaviour would be quite exemplary. The School by the Sea It was Christmas morning; the thermometer stood at eighty-eight. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches A large level space, consisting of several acres, lies in front of the buildings, forming a peninsula, and commanding the navigation of the Hudson, above which it is elevated one hundred and eighty-eight feet. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Mercury rotates on its axis only once a year—its year being only eighty-eight of our days long. The Secret of the Ninth Planet Had he been ninety-eight or even eighty-eight, I should have had no difficulty in understanding his case. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician Cast on eighty-eight stitches, viz.—thirty on each of two needles, and twenty-eight on the third.—Knit four rounds,—two stitches of each alternately pearl and plain. My Knitting Book It is regretted that all the eighty-eight officers and men of H.M.S. Sea-Hounds This canal.... is three hundred and sixty-two miles in length, with eighty-three locks, between the Hudson and Lake Erie, which lies six hundred and eighty-eight feet above the level of the former river.... Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Gladstone, who worked every minute of his life, always in search of new subjects to master, and who took his recreation in bodily work—gardening, cutting down his trees—died at eighty-eight. Rambles in Womanland The best we've ever done is one to one hundred and eighty-eight. H. R. Then, with white, cast sixteen stitches on the same needle, and knit seventy-two stitches; cast on sixteen stitches, and knit three rows of eighty-eight stitches. My Knitting Book He began to write late in life, and his last opera, The Dream of Love, was produced when he was eighty-eight. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women A large level space, consisting of several acres, lies in front of the buildings, forming a peninsula, and commanding the navigation of the Hudson, above which it is elevated one hundred and eighty-eight feet. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact As a matter of fact, nobody could remember when there had been a fire in Glen Gardner, unless it was Aunt Ann Fritts, who was eighty-eight years old, and remembered back farther than was necessary. Careers of Danger and Daring Its height is eighty-eight feet, and to the top of the building it is one hundred and five feet. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. Here are two men, one eighty and the other eighty-eight, on whose words history rests, differing materially about historic facts. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence The copper sheets which form the outside of the statue weigh eighty-eight tons. The Greater Republic A History of the United States A large level space, consisting of several acres, lies in front of the buildings, forming a peninsula and commanding the navigation of the Hudson, above which it is elevated one hundred and eighty-eight feet. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact It was decreed that eighty-eight battalions should be furnished in quotas, by the different States, according to their abilities. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools In the convention of this State, also, the ratification was aided by the adoption of a bill of rights and certain proposed amendments, and was carried, eighty-eight yeas against eighty nays. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 By October 1906 eighty-eight experiments with fifteen different subjects had been completed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Since the author's death, which took place in 1779, when he had reached the great age of eighty-eight, the work has been repeatedly published. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 This gives a list of eighty-eight constellations, including thirty-six southern ones, and has tracings of twenty-eight. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place This volume contains eighty-eight maps and views, executed in a most creditable manner. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Better than to descend into the immense crypt below the Cathedral, with its eighty-eight massive piers corresponding to those above, is it to stray into the broken sunlight of the green and fragrant cloister arcade. Cathedrals of Spain The average product of asparagus beds is about two hundred and eighty-eight dozen bunches per acre—probably less since the rust appeared in 1897. Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history The difference between two hundred and twelve degrees and one thousand degrees, is seven hundred and eighty-eight degrees; and what has become of all this heat? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 This marriage, to prevent which so many efforts were made, prolonged for eighty-eight years the unfortunate House of Stuart. Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Eight years later, when the Commonwealth was admitted into the Union, this number had increased to one hundred and two thousand three hundred and eighty-eight. History of the Constitutions of Iowa The debate on the several paragraphs lasted till the beginning of July, and the decree passed at length with eighty-eight dissentient votes. The History of Freedom In these two places were confined eighty-eight lunatics and idiots. Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles She died, after a short illness, at the advanced age of nearly eighty-eight, in the unimpaired vigor of all her faculties. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 She had died the evening before, November 11, aged nearly eighty-eight. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years It was through this that he bade Domenico follow him, bearing a certain mysterious package in his cloak, one January day of the year fourteen hundred and eighty-eight. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion I was born and raised in Harrison County, and I was eighty-eight years old this July past and has wore myself out here in this county. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 I have a wife, a mother aged eighty-eight, and two female domestics. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery There were various seculars in charge of the administration there, until the year one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. One hundred and eighty-eight men and officers were either killed or wounded. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 At 10.45 A. M. shut down engine; temperature, eighty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons Among the letters received from the many pioneers still living was one from Mrs. Abigail Bush, now eighty-eight years old and residing in California, who presided over the Rochester meeting, Aug. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV At96 noon we had run eighty-eight knots, from which time until 8 p.m. we were in the midst of a flat oily calm, beneath a burning sun. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' When last I heard of him he was eighty-eight years old. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail The morning light disclosed the fact that the killed and wounded of our army, numbering between eight and nine hundred men, amounted to one hundred and eighty-eight. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 Ohio, for example, had some form of local organization in eighty out of the eighty-eight counties in the state, and California had ninety local county and city committees all reporting to the central committee. Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work Just prior to this consideration of the bill ninety-five petitions in its favor, representing eighty-eight towns and bearing several thousand signatures, were presented. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV After more than a year of war," says a British admiralty statement, "the steam shipping of Great Britain increased eighty-eight vessels and 344,000 tons. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War The first had taken this direction under Alaric eighty-eight years before. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I His year—the time he takes to go round the sun and come back to the same place again—is eighty-eight days, or about one-quarter of ours. The Children's Book of Stars Given under our hand at Gamewell, the 4th day of June, in the year of grace one thousand one hundred and eighty-eight. Robin Hood When he was nearly ready for an English university she returned to England, and passed her tranquil age among her friends until she died at eighty-eight. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 You will have left for these a space of eighty-eight inches, or a little more than seven feet. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts At the advanced age of eighty-eight, Ferdinand de Lesseps is in deep disgrace. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Their period of revolution is about eighty-eight years. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' One hundred and forty-five shorter pieces out of an original collection of three hundred and eighty-eight, the first half being lost. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors These men, when multiplied by the months, make two hundred and eighty-eight thousand. Hebrew Literature I had passed two whole years and a few days in Germany, and during a period of eighty-eight weeks, had been fully at work. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France The writer asked Tena her age; before she could answer, her great-niece came to the door and said, "She eighty-eight." Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 The total cost of this, to the city, was three hundred and nineteen thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty-eight cents. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The province of Friesland, which is eighty-eight kilometers long, is protected by three rows of enormous palisades sustained by blocks of Norwegian and German granite. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) Under Philip III., there were in Spain nine hundred and eighty-eight nunneries, and thirty-two thousand mendicant friars. Principles Of Political Economy To pull the fastest train in Great Britain, or indeed in the world, for one hundred and eighty-eight miles, at more than forty-eight miles an hour, is first-rate running. Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young After eighty-eight years, I have a vivid recollection of her sympathy and the ideal relations she maintained with her slaves. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 We counted four hundred and eighty-eight with our sticks along the ridge. The Vanishing Race The time taken by the planet to complete one of its revolutions is eighty-eight days nearly. The Story of the Heavens It comprises eight sections and eighty-eight pages, and very likely does really, as it boasts, contain "more reading matter than the whole Bible." Appearances Being Notes of Travel Without my knowledge these eighty-eight small donations had been contributed, and were sent to me. The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller They have all been abolished, and the amount saved in this is two hundred and eighty-eight pesos 288 p. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 "But—but the Weather Bureau average is only eighty-eight percent!" Summer Snow Storm The planet moves around the sun in this path, and regains the place from which it started in eighty-eight days. The Story of the Heavens Most of these were rescued, but eighty-eight were killed. Stories of Authors, British and American The lower house consists of one hundred and eighty-eight members, fifty-five of whom are elected by the towns, and the rest by the rural districts, at the rate of one for every forty thousand people. Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark “Well, eighty-eight per cent. isn’t as good as it might be, but it’s a good deal better than lots of the fellows made,” remarked Andy. The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch The Cowboys' Double Round-Up You mean," Chief Botts corrected him, "eighty-eight percent is the figure we try to foist on the unsuspecting public. Summer Snow Storm Two of a small landing-party were killed, and eleven, wounded; while of the soldiers there were killed eighty-eight, and wounded three hundred and fifty-two. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 But the Journal makes it eighteen hundred and eighty-eight miles to the mouth of the Yellowstone. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri Of the six hundred and thirty-six cases tried by Bernard Gui, eighty-eight were posthumous. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church Under wheat that land will feed forty-two people; under oats, eighty-eight; under potatoes, maize, or rice, one hundred and seventy-six; under the banana, over six thousand. The Golden Age Cook Book The grayheaded porter at the gate, a very communicative and happy old man, aged eighty-eight years, soon gave us a history of the institution. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 "The Girl I Left Behind Me" was a complete success, and played two hundred and eighty-eight consecutive performances. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man If it’s two hundred and eighty-eight miles by the river, it would be maybe two hundred and fifty by trail. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri This chart has pictures in colours of eighty-eight Canadian birds. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study The two sisters, with their husbands, were Wesleyan Methodists, and Mrs. Donald, although eighty-eight years of age, attended church twice on Sunday, and always walked both ways, to the Metropolitan Church on Pandora Street. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria This bird actually laid upon the back of poor Will one thousand and eighty-eight blows, with only a barely perceptible pause here and there, as if to catch its breath. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs In reality there was exactly two hundred and eighty-eight dollars in the box-office. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man The great body of these settlers took possession of their lands, which had been previously surveyed into tracts of eighty-eight acres each, in the year 1767. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America And Alice said, "Eighty-seven, eighty-eight—oh, do be quiet half a sec.!—eighty-nine, ninety—now I shall have to count the stitches all over again!" New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune There were eighty-eight shells in their vicinity within an hour. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" "Oh, known the earliest, and esteemed the most,"— The MS. of the Second Canto numbers eighty stanzas; the First Edition numbers eighty-eight stanzas. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 He was born in 1703 and lived on till 1791, and the Methodist body had passed through every phase of its history before he sank into the grave at the age of eighty-eight. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 The only reinforcements received in response to this appeal were thirty-two gallant men from Gonzales, who made the whole number one hundred and eighty-eight. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality This small body of troops held a number of forts and batteries mounting eighty-eight guns, none of them of large calibre. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima There was a still larger rectangular terrace with eighty temples, and a158 lower terrace with eighty-eight temples, making two hundred and forty in all; hence, by exaggeration, the name, "One Thousand Temples." Travels in the Far East The Second Canto, in the first six editions, numbers eighty-eight stanzas; in the Seventh Edition the Second Canto numbers ninety-eight stanzas. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 No fewer than two hundred and eighty-eight persons, among whom were five bishops, twenty-one clergymen, fifty-five women, and four children, were burned for religious opinions, besides many thousands who suffered various other forms of persecution. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges The bill before the House was referred to the Committee on Reconstruction by a vote of eighty-eight to sixty-five. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Mendenhall's battery, in the course of the day, expended five hundred and twenty-six rounds of ammunition, or about eighty-eight to the gun. From Fort Henry to Corinth At last somebody made a mistake and a little Austrian eighty-eight came tumbling in and popped about fifty yards from his staff car. One Man's Initiation—1917 The siege of the city had steadily and relentlessly continued for five hundred and eighty-eight days. The Flag Replaced on Sumter A Personal Narrative They made an inventory and the one-fourth came to just eighty-eight dollars and ninety-six cents. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Mr. Conkling closed by moving that the joint resolution be laid on the table, which was carried by a vote of eighty-eight to thirty-one. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States At this time, from the crow’s nest, upwards of eighty-eight enormous icebergs were seen, besides many smaller ones. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold The motion was carried by a majority of eighty-eight to fifty-six. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Three of the French ships carried eighty-eight guns, and one, L’Orient, was a monster three-decker with 120 guns. The Battle and the Breeze "Good as gold for eighty-eight cents on a dollar," replied the captain. The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder Thus three hundred eighty-eight students attend these Sunday afternoon or Sunday evening meetings. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Somerset, on the 8th April, 1831, at the age of eighty-eight. Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. When my next birthday comes in December I will be eighty-eight years old. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 In 1417 it was only one hundred and eighty-eight thousand five hundred; now it is over eighteen millions. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy "But you say it is worth only eighty-eight cents on a dollar." The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder On joint ballot there were sixty-seven whites and eighty-eight colored—135 Republicans and twenty Democrats. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 This road is one hundred and eighty-eight miles long, and has been in operation throughout its whole extent since November, 1858. Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings Between 1811 and 1816 the number of these state institutions increased from eighty-eight to two hundred and forty-six, all of which exercised the right of issuing notes with little or no restriction. Union and Democracy If the whole number of incidents in the Synoptic Gospels be reckoned as eighty-eight, the distribution of the incidents shared by at least two Gospels is as follows:— In all three Gospels . The Books of the New Testament She died in February 1919 in Vienna at the age of eighty-eight. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 We did the work for about eighty-eight cents apiece, each tree having a thorough spray. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 Seven vessels and two hundred and eighty-eight men were put under the command of the lucky treasure-hunter. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 One half of the consignees of these slavers were Americans, of whom thirteen were natives of Charleston and eighty-eight of Rhode Island. Union and Democracy Before the hurricane, eighty-eight houses stood there; after the hurricane, there were three. The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men The nave is six hundred and thirteen feet long, eighty-eight wide, one hundred and thirty-three high; the transept is four hundred and forty-nine feet long. Pagan and Christian Rome It was adopted the next day by a vote of eighty-eight to fifty-five. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 The last year of this period, namely 1684, was that in which his master, Niccolò Amati, died, at the age of eighty-eight. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators To look down upon the village and the yard from the throbbing roof of the steel mill, seven hundred and seventy feet long and a hundred and eighty-eight wide, is a thrilling sight. The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth The total cash value of supplies received is three hundred and six thousand and eighty-eight dollars and one cent. Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience On the 17th of June, at St. Charles, eighty-eight miles up, the enemy were discovered in two earthworks, mounting six guns. The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. The admiral led the way in the Resolution, followed by the Sovereign, the largest of our ships, carrying eleven hundred men and eighty-eight guns. The Boy who sailed with Blake This is composed of three hundred and eighty-eight companies. Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York Of two hundred and eighty-eight votes, the whole number cast by the electors, he had received two hundred and nineteen, Henry Clay being the chief opposing candidate. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. The institutions making no reply of any kind numbered eighty-eight, or about 83 per cent. of those addressed. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals "How rude," said the marshal, "to expose my eighty-eight years." The Queen's Necklace Mr. Jacob, who was formerly Comptroller of Corn Returns in the Board of Trade, died on the 17th of December, at his residence in London, aged eighty-eight. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Cuvier dying at seventy-five, Sir Joseph Banks at seventy-seven, Buffon at eighty-one, Blumenbach at eighty-eight, and Humboldt at fourscore and ten, are some of the cases which make such a supposition altogether reasonable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 It is a mere fragment, only twenty-six leaves of purple vellum—that is, bearing the imperial stain—yet it contains eighty-eight pictures. Illuminated Manuscripts In eighty-eight we were snowed up a week here. While Caroline Was Growing "Impossible, duke! that you are eighty-eight," said M. de Condorcet. The Queen's Necklace Moreover, in destroyers, which are as dangerous out at sea as they are round a base, the German "High Sea Fleet" began with no less than eighty-eight against the forty-two in the British "Grand Fleet." Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas And he continued till eighty-eight in full possession of his faculties, laboring with body and mind alike to within a week of his death. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 She received eight cents a dozen for the leaves, or eighty-eight cents in all, or less than the thread and car fare had actually cost her. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City At one time he counted five hundred and eighty-eight stars in the field of his telescope. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Another of her brothers who died at the age of eighty-eight, when I was thirty years old, and at whose house I was often a visitor, spent three weeks as Washington's guest at Mount Vernon. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 It contains eighty-eight figures, in three rows, representing angels, warriors, kings, and saints. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The velocity was two thousand and eighty-eight feet per second, and the pressure four thousand pounds. Frank Merriwell's Reward As she stared dully after them she could see the twenty-two curly tails bobbing along, and she heard the soft patter of eighty-eight sharp little double hoofs on the earth. Among the Farmyard People He has written a book of three hundred and eighty-eight pages for the express purpose of proving that the phenomena of life, instinct, and intellect cannot be referred to any known natural forces. What is Darwinism? The Secretary of the Commonwealth sent out blank forms of returns, and replies were received from two hundred and fourteen towns, while eighty-eight were entirely silent. Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions The new risks run by workers were brought out when, for the first time in history, a great mining accident took place in 1515, a flood by which eighty-eight miners were drowned. The Age of the Reformation And I proceeded thither, and followed the northern coast, as with La Juana, eastwardly for a hundred and eighty-eight great leagues in a direct easterly course, as with La Juana. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Has the French fleet dispersed Secretary Welles's five hundred and eighty-eight vessels of war, broken the Southern blockade, and appeared before our Northern harbors? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Like other Indian soldiers, he won a splendid record as a sniper, and is officially credited with having destroyed no less than eighty-eight of the enemy. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Mercury's periodic time, i.e., the period required for it to make a single revolution about the sun—or, in other words, the length of its year—is eighty-eight of our days. Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries He was two months over eighty-eight when he passed away, the senior admiral of Great Britain. Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy The whole structure weighed three hundred and eighty-eight pounds. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance A certain number of equal electoral districts of fifty thousand inhabitants elect one member each; and twenty-six large districts, having several representatives, send eighty-eight members to the Cortes. Spanish Life in Town and Country Chauncey M. Depew in his address that evening stated that for the only time in one hundred and eighty-eight years the alumni of Yale met solely to celebrate her athletic triumphs. Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball Athos, where he devoted himself to literary labors until his death, which is said to have occurred at the advanced age of eighty-eight. Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form The rail rate on salt in Washington is eight dollars seventy cents for eighty-eight miles; the river rate one dollar fifty cents. The Canadian Commonwealth “Peregrine Pickle” and “Roderick Random” were both reprinted by Isaiah Thomas as early as seventeen hundred and eighty-eight. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book His province, called "El Raba Tab," contains eighty-eight large and fertile islands, and the shores of the river adjacent. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy At the age of eighty-eight years he retains much of his original energy. Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 Nellie Parks was counting: "Eighty-six, eighty-seven, eighty-eight, eighty-nine, ninety!" she went on. The Bobbsey Twins Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out Population.—There are two hundred and eighty-eight Wasco on the Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, and one hundred and fifty on the Yakama Reservation, Washington. Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 When eighty-eight years old he was as active as a man of half his years. Dewey and Other Naval Commanders These were supported by the Crown Islands, mounting eighty-eight cannon; four sail of the line, moored in the harbour's mouth; and some batteries on the island of Amak. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 Le Genereux had on board nine hundred men; one hundred of whom were killed, and a hundred and eighty-eight wounded, in the action; the Leander had thirty-five killed, and fifty-eight wounded. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 At the age of eighty-eight, and forty-seven years after the transactions of Independence, this is not wonderful. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 It sells on the spot for eighty-eight livres, the one hundred pounds. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Darling bought the entire block in 1836 for eighty-eight thousand dollars. Fifth Avenue On the 9th, light breezes springing up, the fleet run eighty-eight miles; in the succeeding twenty-four hours, a hundred; and, the day after, a hundred and nineteen. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 "Which shall be in about eighty-eight hours from now," replied the Captain. All Around the Moon He observes that in 1881 my firm had the supervision of eighty-eight estates, upwards of three thousand farming tenants, and annually collected rents to the value of a quarter of a million sterling. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent The French fleet consisted of four ships, carrying one hundred and eighty-eight guns, two armed steamboats, and two bomb-ketches with four large mortars. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. I am almost ninety: I am eighty-eight year old. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Then, in each arm, comes the elaborate body shown as 3 c, with its eighty-eight atoms. Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements How many of the eighty-eight thousand stockholders in the Pennsylvania Railroad, for instance, have ever attended a meeting? The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 He went to eternity after a pilgrimage of eighty-eight years in the sunshine and shadows of this miserable world. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest She was well nigh as old as the nation, eighty-eight years old, when she died. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him He calculates the numéraire, or what we call specie, then actually existing in France, at about eighty-eight millions of the same English money. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) The same afternoon, the vessel arrived which had been hired at Batavia to bring provisions to the colony, having been eighty-eight days on her passage, and buried sixteen of her crew. An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island Of the army under governor Harrison, thirty-five were killed in the action, and twenty-five died subsequently of their wounds: the total number of killed and wounded was one hundred and eighty-eight. Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians It is dry here some years, and rather damp when they get eighty-eight inches. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East According to Beale, she was aged eighty-eight lunar years when she died, on the 27th January, 1836, equivalent to about eighty-five solar years. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official The statement says that during that period eighty-eight merchant vessels were sunk or captured. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 The legend eighty-eight dollars crossed out in red lines, with thirty-nine seventy-five written below, for a sample. The Real Adventure It was first thought to encourage migration to Sierra Leone, and eighty-eight Negroes were sent, but they were not welcomed. The Negro Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, by WM. The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making From the tenth to the thirteenth century the north was occupied by Kitans and Nüchêns, and the whole Empire was under Mongol sway for eighty-eight years in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Myths and Legends of China Our fathers in the residence at Ogmuc, having proceeded with due prudence and caution, had up to this time baptized only eighty-eight adults. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 1604-1605 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Mr. Field, at the final division of shares, took eighty-eight. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made A beginning was made in this work in the year one thousand five hundred and eighty-eight, as is related in the following discourse. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century The Charlotte, a Captain and forty-three men, with eighty-eight male and twenty female convicts. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) Dr. Cook Taylor describes the conditions there in the early part of 1842: 'I visited eighty-eight dwellings, selected at hazard. Recent Developments in European Thought The Old Testament has eighty-eight distinct references to the Holy Spirit. The Spirit and the Word A Treatise on the Holy Spirit in the Light of a Rational Interpretation of the Word of Truth This fort has an internal diameter of eighty-eight feet. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Most of these were rescued; but eighty-eight were killed. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 In Shikoku there are eighty-eight temples to Buddha and the founder of the Shingon sect, and it is estimated that it would mean a 760 miles' journey to visit them all. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People It has not less than eighty-eight pictures, partly on paper, partly on parchment; and besides this forty-one smaller figures, scattered through the text itself. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations It is, however, mentioned specifically eighty-eight times in the Old Testament. The Spirit and the Word A Treatise on the Holy Spirit in the Light of a Rational Interpretation of the Word of Truth The Pentateuch contains five thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight verses. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala They put a Beefeater at the Gate, But as his age was eighty-eight His Grandmother said he couldn't wait, Heigh-o, fiddlededee! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 10, 1917 By means of these boastful speeches he enrolled as soldiers such a multitude as the Romans had never before had at their disposal in any war, for there collected for the battle eighty-eight thousand men. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I This had provoked him into smashing his driver, as he had a score of only eighty-eight at that point, which was well below his personal bogey. V. V.'s Eyes Let us see how potatoes—which contain only twenty per cent. of starch, as against eighty-eight per cent. in rice, and sixty-six per cent. in wheat flour—can be prepared as just mentioned. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 In 1846, the city of Boston paid one hundred and forty-five thousand one hundred and seven dollars for the reservoir lot containing thirty-seven thousand four hundred and eighty-eight square feet. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884 I have already reported to your Majesty the removal from these forts of a quantity of artillery, for the security of the two ships which I despatched to Nueva España last year, eighty-eight. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Two direct hits from an Austrian "eighty-eight" ended its career. War in the Garden of Eden Bar iron did duty on all the eighty-eight hundred miles of American and sixty-five hundred of British railway; not many, if at all, more than are now laid, in this country at least, with steel. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 And lastly, because in the year eighty-eight You did early appear in defence of our right, We give no other proof of your zeal to your Prince; So we freely forget all your services since. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 He was eighty-eight years old but he only looked like he was approaching forty. Scorched Earth Sire: This past year of eighty-eight I gave an account to your Majesty of the condition of this land. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century The estimated distance from the nearest part of the Labrador coast was then eighty-eight miles; here we tried for soundings without gaining the bottom. The Journey to the Polar Sea We found ourselves in the midst of a great number of very high icebergs, of which I counted, from the crow's-nest, eighty-eight, besides many smaller ones. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 The 8th August the Hector sailed for Priaman and Tekoo, having eighty-eight Englishmen aboard in perfect health, the monsoon being now favourable. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 In the final reports given to Brook at noon, eighty-eight citizens were dead. Scorched Earth They are all dated at Madrid, four on the twenty-third of June of the year eighty-seven, and the fifth on the eighteenth of February of eighty-eight. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century He passed away in Milan, January 27, 1901, at the age of eighty-eight. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians I know a bright, cheery lady who is just beginning a new study for decorating china, along with her household cares, and she is eighty-eight. Supreme Personality It is one hundred and eighty-eight days to-day since we ran the blockade at New Orleans, and of this time we have been one hundred and thirty-six days at sea. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter The population is estimated at one hundred and eighty-eight thousand, but this number is generally considered as greater than the truth. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 And when I came upon the statement, in my geography, that there are eighty-eight counties in our State, the mind balked absolutely and refused to go on. Reveries of a Schoolmaster His oldest child, a daughter, is still living, aged eighty-eight years! Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Edmond Paul's logs in one raft gave a total of two hundred and eighty-eight logs, which cut at the mill 27,029 board feet of lumber. The New North He can, beforehand, select the twelve, and, by wiping out, if it suits him, the eighty-eight other names, put the twelve of his own choosing into the box. The Wearing of the Green, or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession Shakespeare is drawn on more largely than any other, no less than eighty-eight selections being made from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson In the deepest place it is one hundred feet high, and the thickness at the bottom is eighty-eight feet. A Trip Abroad He died, with calm composure, at his residence at Fort Defiance, on the 6th of May, 1839, aged eighty-eight years. Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical James II. understood this when he increased the Upper House to a hundred and eighty-eight lords; a hundred and eighty-six if we subtract from the peerages the two duchies of royal favourites, Portsmouth and Cleveland. The Man Who Laughs Writing on the Saskatchewan eighty-eight years ago he places the Eascabs, "called by the Crees the Assinipoytuk, or Stone Indians, west of the Crees, between them and the Blackfeet." Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 On the 13th, there were four hundred and eighty-eight persons under medical treatment at and about the hospital--a dreadful sick list! An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. They consisted of two government agents, one from the society, and eighty-eight persons of colour. A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832 At the time of these letters the philosopher is old, but vigorous in mind, and even gay at the age of eighty-eight. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character And after, the queen growing more redoubtable and famous, by the overthrow of the fleet of eighty-eight, the easterlings fell to despair of doing any good. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 The whole province of Friesland, for the length of eighty-eight kilometres, is defended by three rows of piles sustained by masses of Norwegian and German granite. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 She sailed with one hundred and eighty-eight convicts from England, but lost seven on the passage; the remainder came in very healthy, five only being so ill as to require removal. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. Twenty pounds of butter, twenty-two dozen eggs, eighty-eight quarts of milk! North, South and over the Sea These grew in size and strength, until in 1839 there were six hundred and eighty-eight of these societies. Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" The policy which he had inaugurated was followed by his successor with the result that the cases fell to two hundred seventy-five in September and eighty-eight in October. The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) One could now see all the elegant and daring beauty of the eighty-eight pillars soaring audaciously into space, white as frozen snow, and the delicate ribs interlacing to carry the vaulting. The Shadow of the Cathedral On November 13 the New York Tribune announced the death of Lucretia Mott, eighty-eight years old. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 "Aunt Amelia" as she is known around here is eighty-eight years of age, being sixteen years of age at the close of the Civil War. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives The whole province of Friesland, for the length of eighty-eight kilometers, is defended by three rows of piles sustained by masses of Norwegian and German granite. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 In 1788 he raised one thousand eighty-eight bushels of potatoes on one plantation, but they were not dug till December and in consequence some were badly injured by the frost. George Washington: Farmer If the troop with which he worked took part in the capture, he must have been twelve years old by 1862, and his age must be at least eighty-eight. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Between the death of Anne and the reign of George III one hundred and eighty-eight capital offences were added to the penal code; and crime at once increased to an amazing degree. A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. The carriage in which we returned from Salem had twenty-two seats on each side, to contain two each, or, in the whole, eighty-eight passengers. A Visit to the United States in 1841 He also erected alms houses, for five men and five women, which he endowed, with eighty-eight pounds per annum, out of the manor of Erdington. A Description of Modern Birmingham Whereunto Are Annexed Observations Made during an Excursion Round the Town, in the Summer of 1818, Including Warwick and Leamington Two years later again, the Company, in a fit of economy, reduced their military establishment to two lieutenants, two ensigns, and one hundred and eighty-eight rank and file. The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago Such was the "mania," as it was called, for banks, that the number rose from eighty-eight in 1811, to two hundred and eight in 1814, which was far more than the people really needed. A School History of the United States Leoni then assumed that Michelangelo was eighty-eight years of age when he cast the die. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Its weight is one hundred and thirty-nine and a half carats; and its value is estimated at one hundred and fifty-five thousand, six hundred and eighty-eight pounds. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Landor wrote his "Imaginary Conversations" when eighty-five, and Somerville his "Molecular Science" at eighty-eight; Isaac Walton was active with his pen at ninety; Hahnemann married at eighty and was working at ninety-one. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine The events which succeeded the famous Revolution of one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight, would neither be easily related nor easily understood in such a book as this. A Child's History of England Over eighty-eight per cent of them—men, women, and children—are farmers. The Souls of Black Folk One visiting the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute to-day will find eight hundred and fifty students gathered from twenty-four States, with eighty-eight teachers and officers training these students in literary, religious, and industrial work. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Even if the Rainbow had been fast—her run was called ninety-two days out to Canton and home in eighty-eight—it was absurd to suppose that there had been the usual monsoon. Java Head Brougham at eighty-two and Lyndhurst at eighty-eight could pour forth words of eloquence and sagacity for hours at a time. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine I walked a little way ahead, and at the room numbered eighty-eight, Mrs. Stapleton's room, I knocked. The Four Faces A Mystery It consists of eighty-eight novels and tales, and by far the greater number of these appeared in the first edition of 1842. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings Towards the middle of this area stands the Kaaba; it is one hundred and fifteen paces from the north colonnade, and eighty-eight from the south. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred For these fifteen hundred and fifty-five counties there are eight hundred and eighty-eight names, about one to every two. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Gordian, Valerian, Anastasius, and Justinian were octogenarians, Tiberius was eighty-eight at his death, and Augustus Caesar was eighty-six. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine One hundred and eighty-eight workshops for repairing arms of every description. Paris as It Was and as It Is It was eighty-eight years since the Conquest; and, although the higher classes talked French, almost every one of their number was of mixed descent. Outline of Universal History This collection of eighty-eight lyrics was at once taken to the heart of the world. Latin Literature Of the former, when all our sales were made, Dirck and myself had, between us, no less than one hundred and eleven, or eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars in value. Satanstoe Bassett tells of an old woman who had twelve molar teeth at the age of eighty-eight. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine He saw little essential difference between thirty-eight and eighty-eight, and his mother was to him not a woman but wholly a mother. The Magnificent Ambersons He gives the titles of sixty-one books and pamphlets published by Chauncy, and of eighty-eight about him or in reply to him. Unitarianism in America To do the same thing a hundred and seventy-six years ago, one had to go a hundred and fifty-eight miles!—shortening of eighty-eight miles in that trifling distance. Life on the Mississippi, Part 4. The altar having thus been cleansed of all impurities, the rain sutra is opened and the one hundred and eighty-eight dragon kings are urged by name in groups of ten to take action. Buddhism and Buddhists in China Like all the Shakers, they are long-lived—one sister, a colored woman, is eighty, and another eighty-eight—and their mortality rate is low. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation In seventy-three notes Johnson adds comments to his original note; in eighty-eight, to the notes of other editors and critics. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies From eighty-seven and eighty-eight it had risen until it now fluctuated between one hundred and ten and one hundred and fifteen. Shallow Soil Mr. Adams is eighty-eight years of age, and his constitution much debilitated within a few years. Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United States; From His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824. In 1784, there was a year's increase of fourteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight members, and of one hundred and four preachers to rejoice in the consecration of Bishop Asbury. The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut The Ellerbys, he said, had exhibited and sold their sheep there for a period of eighty-eight years, without missing a year, and always at the same spot. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs I have already eighty-eight names of men who will vote with Gladstone, and, the Front Bench having foolishly decided to support the previous question, the party will be equally divided, and Hartington will resign. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Aunt Peggy, who was much older than her brother, had died only four years ago, at eighty-eight, having kept her faculties to the last, and handed down many traditions to her great-niece. Chantry House Lady Peterborough lived in profound retirement, universally beloved and honored, to the age of eighty-eight. The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain The last, constituting fifty per cent out of the eighty-eight, or half the entire nation, had too little wealth to be estimated at all, apparently living a hand-to-mouth existence. Equality Then I went over old Fort Pickering and through the freedmen's hospital, containing one hundred and eighty-eight inmates, four of them cripples, and fifteen very old. A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences In 1186, after they had possessed the Holy City only eighty-eight years, they were deprived of it; it was taken again by the Saracens, and they retained only a few towns on the coast. The Chosen People A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children Grandfather Kelly was a fisherman nearly up to the year of his death at the age of eighty-eight. My Boyhood This was on the 18th April, eighty-eight days after their departure from the depôt, during which they had voyaged two thousand miles. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 This eighty-eight per cent of the nation was subdivided into the poor and the very poor. Equality The total time for the series was forty-five minutes, the total number of choices, eighty-eight. The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes A Study of Ideational Behavior Write on this circle eighty-eight days; this shows the time it takes Mercury to travel around the sun. De La Salle Fifth Reader In 1856 the exports of coffee were not more than seven thousand piculs; in 1865 they had increased to thirty-seven thousand, five hundred and eighty-eight; and in 1871, to fifty-three thousand, three hundred and seventy. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes In this eighty-eight miles from Portland to "The Dalles" there are twelve miles of trestles and bridges. Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist What to the eighty-eight who died that death of exquisite agony? Men, Women, and Ghosts In 1755, five thousand four hundred and eighty-eight pounds of cocoons were raised, and four hundred and thirty-eight pounds of raw silk spun. Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe At eighty-eight years of age, I can eat oysters every morning for breakfast. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century Pauw and Joachimi, the one sixty-four years of age, the other eighty-eight, the most able men of the republic, undertook the task of mediation. Holland The History of the Netherlands It is eighty-eight miles by rail to Portland, the train skirting the river bank up to within a few miles of the city. Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist She died in September, 1833, at the age of eighty-eight, retaining her intellectual faculties, like Madame de Maintenon, nearly to the last. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women Thus in addition to the massacres, the victory of the coup d'état was paid for by these figures: eighty-eight Representatives proscribed, one killed. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness The first I give is a sonnet, one of eighty-eight which he wrote to his wife before their marriage. England's Antiphon The total number of killed and wounded was one hundred and eighty-eight,--probably as great and possibly greater than the loss of the Indians. Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established The Mussulmans now make fifty-seven millions of the total of two hundred and eighty-eight millions in India. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) Twenty other guns and more than a thousand prisoners, including eighty-eight officers and four generals, were likewise captured, and about fifteen hundred Mexicans killed and wounded. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 As her circulation has exceeded eighty-eight milliards, how can she straighten out her money? Peaceless Europe "Every paper we send out—for one cent—costs us eighty-eight cents to manufacture." Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation Wesley died, at the ripe age of eighty-eight, in the year 1791. Beneath the Banner He died at the advanced age of eighty-eight. Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. The owner had been born there and he died there eighty-eight years later, without ever having left his cottage for four whole days in all those years. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Germany has passed eighty-eight milliards, and is rapidly approaching one hundred milliards. Peaceless Europe A beginning was made in this work in the year one thousand five hundred and eighty-eight.” Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot The eighty-eight days, fortunately, were not continuously stormy; there were occasional lulls. Christopher Columbus She had lived to be eighty-eight years old, and had not so much died as fallen asleep. The Hallam Succession Two gentlemen and two ladies, in gala attire, washing seventy-two dozen dishes in a violent hurry, with a limited supply of water and towels, on an August afternoon with the thermometer at eighty-eight. The Old Stone House Eight years later there were eighty-eight votes for a higher tariff and nineteen opposed to it. The United States of America, Part 1 Forty-eight from eighty-eight, forty—a young thing, perhaps ten—ten and forty, fifty. Greifenstein It is a magnificent granite structure, three hundred feet long and eighty-eight feet wide. Round the World The voyage from Cardiff to Hobart occupied eighty-eight days. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Its mean breadth from north to south is about one hundred miles; its extreme breadth is one hundred and eighty-eight miles. School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time The United States Commissioner of Labor reports that ninety per cent of the railways, eighty-eight per cent of the trades, and seventy-nine per cent of the manufacturers of the country discriminate already against drinkers. Problems of Conduct It begins with the visit of Commodore Perry to Japan eighty-eight years ago. The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt It has been estimated that the conversion of granite rock into soil increases its volume eighty-eight per cent, largely as the result of hydration, or the taking up of water in the chemical union. Time and Change Seventy of the eighty-eight counties now have such schools and the trend is toward them throughout the State. The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox It is an Arabian-Nights-Tale - not a thousand and one nights, but two hundred and eighty-eight. Palaces and Courts of the Exposition The distance drifted from August 2 to 6 was one hundred miles, and from the 6th to the 10th eighty-eight miles. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Of the eight-and-eighty, there were eighty-eight who dared; but there was an eighty-ninth, a lad of not yet twenty-two, whom Indian chivalry desired to honor. Rung Ho! But no! more yet, in spite of hopes and prayers, and for the next two days we were crossing them at the rate of eighty-eight per eight hours. Spinifex and Sand Nineteen eighty-eight was the golden age of the BBS culture across Australia. Underground We shall all be loath to part with in when the two hundred and eighty-eight days are gone. Palaces and Courts of the Exposition On the following voyage we did the same in eighty-eight days and a half. Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life "What! will you liberate him if I pay you eighty-eight pounds?" Love Me Little, Love Me Long Then, in a prolonged shudder of weakness, sank steadily down by quarters to ninety, to eighty-nine, and at last—a final collapse—touched eighty-eight cents. The Pit Mr. Roosevelt received over half a million more votes than Mr. Taft, and had eighty-eight electoral votes to eight for Mr. Taft. Theodore Roosevelt What they did you may judge of, when I tell you that, while two hundred and seventy-three Englishmen fell that day, only eighty-eight Americans were killed. Who Spoke Next The third world is this that we inhabit, and which is eighty-eight million miles distant from the Sun, and consequently moves round in a circle greater than that of Venus. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason Mr. Burke, in his review of the finances of France, states the quantity of gold and silver in France, at about eighty-eight millions sterling. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man II After the Christians had held Jerusalem for eighty-eight years, it was recaptured by the Moslems under the lead of the famous Sal'a-din, in the year 1187. Famous Men of the Middle Ages The Rough Riders had had eighty-eight killed and wounded out of less than five hundred men who were in the fight. Theodore Roosevelt This beautiful structure, which covers an area of three and one-half acres, stands on a plateau eighty-eight feet above the level of the Potomac. See America First In the first seven years of the nineteenth century eighty-eight incorporated road companies were formed with a total capital of over $8,000,000. The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway At the next election, the Republicans carried only eighty-eight seats in the House out of 332—the most crushing defeat they had yet sustained. The Cleveland Era; a chronicle of the new order in politics It is the largest, and when the railroad is built—the Uganda Railroad is now only eighty-eight miles distant—it will be the most valuable deposit of carbonate of soda ever found. Real Soldiers of Fortune Fort Harrison had fifty men, Fort Wayne eighty-five, Fort Dearborn fifty-three, Fort Mackinac eighty-eight, and Detroit one hundred and twenty—a total force of fewer than four hundred. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond "Of ninety-two specimens bearing corpuscula of Asclepias verticillata," says Professor Robertson, "eighty-eight have them on hairs alone, and four on the hairs and claws." Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors The naval force of the United States consists at this time of five hundred and eighty-eight vessels completed and in the course of completion, and of these seventy-five are ironclad or armored steamers. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865 A hundred and eighty-eight were for adhering to the vote of the eleventh of December. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 Only eighty-eight voted with Harley, two hundred and twenty-nine with Wharton. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 The angle of arc was between eighty-eight and eighty-nine degrees. The Cruise of the Snark She got down at the nearest corner, walked up a widish street of narrow grey houses till she came to number eighty-eight. Beyond It is an oval figure; the longest diameter extending to about one hundred and thirteen feet, and the shortest to eighty-eight; but I will not answer for the exactness of the measurement. Travels through France and Italy This resolution was rejected by a hundred and seventy votes to eighty-eight. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 A resolution clearing the Victualling Office was proposed by Montague, and carried, after a debate of two days, by a hundred and eighty-eight votes to a hundred and fifty-two. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 There was twelve acres of clearin’ at ten dollars, and eighty-eight at one, and the whole came to two hundred and eighty-six dollars and a half, after paying the men.” The Pioneers It has been my object so to picture events and narrate stories as to illumine the periods through which I have passed for eighty-eight years, and the people whom I have known and mightily enjoyed. My Memories of Eighty Years Each one of the squares formed by these intersecting strings is numbered, and represents one square foot of carpet, the numbers running from one to two hundred and eighty-eight. The Darrow Enigma In 1767, Portsmouth numbered in its population a hundred and eighty-eight slaves, male and female. An Old Town By the Sea If you came into it, there would be"—and the youth, closing his eyes, made a rapid calculation—"exactly three hundred and eighty-eight candles. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story She was eighty-eight, had undergone a lengthy coach journey from Exeter, and had eaten a remarkably good dinner before going to bed. The Grey Room All I know about them is seventeen million, four hundred and eighty-eight thousand nine hundred and twenty one boxes of sardines were imported into the United States last year. The Golf Course Mystery None of the forms of sensible matter can be imagined sufficiently elastic to propagate wave-motion at the rate of one hundred and eighty-eight thousand miles per second. The Unseen World and Other Essays |
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