| 单词 | eighty-seven |
| 例句 | "What about something much harder, like two times four hundred and eighty-seven? Could you tell me that?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Pm nearly eighty-seven,” said Millard with his mouth full of goose drippings, and as he spoke a half-chewed mass quavered in his invisible jaw for all to see. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z In 1984, at the age of eighty-seven, Anderson accepted the first Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award, given in memory of Mrs. Roosevelt in a ceremony at New York’s City Hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z But when old Master Nkrumah, age eighty-seven, had begun referring to the Greater Jungle as “her,” that had been the last straw. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z "What is it then, two times four hundred and eighty-seven?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Jus doesn’t know much about watches, but he’s about eighty-seven percent sure this one is vintage and worth more money than Mama’s ever had in her bank account at once. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Comes to two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z By the time she had reached eighty-seven, the room had begun to lighten as her eyes adjusted to the blackness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "I'm eighty-seven," the old man said, his voice low and bewildered. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But only eighty-seven seats were filled that spring morning. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She’s eighty-seven years old and will be flying in from Amsterdam. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He said eighty-seven seconds got them to be perfect golden brown, and I must admit, most of them were perfect. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “But what about the eighty-seven of your great record?” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I came in from the garden, eighty-seven kicks of the garden shed wiser, but I couldn’t make myself heard. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Nineteen eighty-seven was the fax machine Tipping Point. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He counts to eighty-seven, and then he flips the pancake by tossing it in the pan. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The Countess, now eighty-seven, lives in Paris, and last week I phoned her there. Haute Ticket: Jacqueline de Ribes at the Met 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Derek Walcott, whose poetry about the landscapes, cultures, and history of the Caribbean earned him the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, died this morning, at the age of eighty-seven, in his home on St. Lucia. Derek Walcott in The New Yorker 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z This may be a result of simple demographics: in Russia, there are only eighty-seven men to every hundred women, whereas in China there are a hundred and six men to every hundred women. Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Over all, of the hundred and thirty-five candidates supported by the Victory Fund, an advocacy group that works to get L.G.B.T. politicians elected, eighty-seven won their races. Gay America’s Harrowing, Heartening Year 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z He put the seeds of eighty-seven kinds of plants in bottles filled with salt water for weeks and months, then planted the seeds to see if they were still viable. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z “At eighty-seven years old, I am the world’s oldest mime,” Richmond Shepard says. The World’s Oldest Mime 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Robert B. Silvers, the founder and long-serving editor of The New York Review of Books, died on Monday, at the age of eighty-seven. Remembering Robert Silvers 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z “One hundred eighty-seven million Americans describe themselves as fans of the NFL,” she writes. Weekend Reading: Biggie’s Brooklyn, N.F.L. Dysfunction, and More 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z At eighty-seven, he is one of the last living links to the writer. The Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The book finds Walcott, who has himself always made paintings, and who will soon turn eighty-seven, responding to the dreamscapes of the painter thirty years his junior. A Trinidadian Friendship: Derek Walcott and Peter Doig 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Yet a second factor threatens the government’s plan: eighty-seven per cent of new hires in 2015 were temporary, and of these seventy per cent were for less than a month’s duration. A Movie that Captures France’s Dystopian Employment Situation 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z But of course we’d never be reading this, eighty-seven years on, if Powell and Yorke did not exert themselves a bit, becoming, by any account, two of the most important English writers of their generation. A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The process that is documented on these eighty-seven tracks is not one of looking for the “right” take; it’s the beginning of an endless sequence of variations, which are still unfolding on his Never-Ending Tour. Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Jacques Rivette, who died today, at the age of eighty-seven, was both the most open and the most reticent of French filmmakers. Postscript: Jacques Rivette 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Weinberg, who is now eighty-seven and retired, spent his career dredging up ugly memories from the remnants of the Second World War. A Historian Who Fled the Nazis and Still Wants Us to Read Hitler 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Now it is April 22, 2016, and Jane has been dead for more than two decades. Earlier this year, at eighty-seven, I grieved for her in a way I had never grieved before. Double Solitude 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z James Stevenson, who died last week, at eighty-seven, was a New Yorker artist and writer whose breathtaking artistic skills were matched only by his young reporter’s curiosity and energy. Looking at the Field: Remembering James Stevenson 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z “Thirty-eight thousand, three hundred and eighty-seven,” he said like he was committing the number to memory. NBA's career scoring record is a unique total, one LeBron James is sure to eclipse 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Two hundred eighty-seven homeless people took their last breath on the sidewalk, 24 died in alleys and 72 were found on the pavement, according to data from the county coroner. A Rising Tally of Lonely Deaths on the Streets 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Three hundred and eighty-seven days after Broadway went dark, a faint light started to glimmer on Saturday. Broadway Reopened. For 36 Minutes. It’s a Start. 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z Three hundred and eighty-seven days after Broadway went dark, a faint light started to glimmer Saturday. Coronavirus daily news updates, April 3: What to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the world 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z On Wall Street, the consensus forecast had been for job growth of a hundred and eighty-seven thousand, which in itself would have been a pretty strong number. What Does a Strong Jobs Report Mean for Trump’s Reëlection Chances in 2020? 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z “Thirty-eight thousand, three hundred and eighty-seven,” he said one last time. NBA's career scoring record is a unique total, one LeBron James is sure to eclipse 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Square-built and direct of speech, with ears like miniature satellite dishes, Moody runs a team of eighty-seven chemists, biologists, food scientists, and support staff, developing field rations for all five branches of the military. Can Babies Learn to Love Vegetables? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z In the E.P.L. this season, there have been two hundred and eighty-seven goals, which works out to roughly a goal every half hour of play. The Disastrous Arrival of Video Replay in English Soccer 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z There are aspects of the criminal-justice-reform bill that we passed that eighty-seven senators said, “This sentence is way too long.” Cory Booker Considers His Presidential Prospects 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Not Charlize Theron, or the ghost of Marlene Dietrich, but a paunchy Russian widower of eighty-seven, with a birthmark on his scalp. The Silly Satisfactions of “Long Shot” 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z If you live there, the likelihood that your representative will be a Republican is about eighty-seven per cent. A Democrat’s Midterm Bid to Win in Virginia’s Fifth District, Home of Charlottesville 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Over eighty-seven days and nights, Clinton asked all sorts of people their opinions. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Unlikely Path to the Supreme Court 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Even more women are running this year: two hundred and thirty-nine, of whom a hundred and eighty-seven are Democrats. Christine Blasey Ford’s Experience Was Just as Bad as Anita Hill’s—Maybe Worse 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z In all, the personal data of eighty-seven million people had been harvested. Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Reading her “Illness as Metaphor,” a book only eighty-seven pages long, I started keeping a list of the sources she brought to bear on her argument. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z While women of Asian descent earn eighty-seven cents on the white-male dollar, black women are typically paid sixty-three cents and Latina women fifty-four. How the BBC Women Are Working Toward Equal Pay 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z According to a ProPublica report from March, at least a hundred and eighty-seven of Trump’s political appointees are former federal lobbyists. Elizabeth Warren Makes a Case for Democrats to Be the Anti-Corruption Party 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Women fill eighty-seven percent of roles in the sector, while black workers hold 27.3 of the jobs. Analysis | The GOP health-care plan threatens to kill jobs nationwide 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z After Professor Szczepański’s graceful acceptance speech, a vote is about to be taken on a list of eighty-seven constellations. The Irish Constellation 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z In his Rolling Stone article, Kennedy wrote that vaccines exposed infants to a hundred and eighty-seven times the daily limit of ethyl mercury, as determined by the Environmental Protection Agency. Trump’s Dangerous Support for Conspiracies About Autism and Vaccines 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z At eighty-seven, he was digging into the hard ground with a shovel. Making Peace with Trump’s Revolutionaries 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Her back is bent now with age—she’ll be eighty-seven this month—and she has to be careful with a resource she once had in abundance. The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z 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 A year later, after the company had spent eighty-seven billion dollars buying back its stock, Icahn announced that he had sold most of his Apple shares, for an over-all profit of around two billion dollars. The Literary Fiction of Investor Letters 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z In barely fifty years, eighty-seven of Brazil’s two hundred and thirty known native groups died off, and the ones that remained lost as much as four-fifths of their population. An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Nine hundred and eighty-seven individual remains were transferred to the Cypress Hills National Cemetery in Brooklyn. Prairie Heals an Old Wound at a Former Brooklyn Cemetery 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z But the June report ended fears of a slowdown: the economy added two hundred and eighty-seven thousand jobs. How the N.B.A.’s Salary Cap Favors Talent-Rich Teams 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z He noted that whereas, ten years ago, only eighty-seven per cent of the Antarctic Peninsula’s glaciers were known to be shrinking, the figure now seems to be a hundred per cent. A Voyage to the End of the World 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Still, eighty-seven per cent of American Jews now say that caring about Israel is either an essential or an important part of what being Jewish means to them, according to the Pew Research Center report. A Missed Opportunity to Support Secular Life in Israel 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Worldwide, eighty-seven million children under the age of seven have lived their entire lives in conflict zones. The Pigeon Boy and Other Forgotten Fugitives from ISIS 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Soon afterward, the Indian Space Research Organization found nearly the opposite, that eighty-seven per cent of them were stable. The View from a Himalayan Glacier 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z He does well with distance, too: his longest punt in a game is seventy yards, managed against the Ravens, and footage exists of him kicking as far as eighty-seven yards in practices. Marquette King Is the N.F.L.’s Only Black Punter. How Come? 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z The pollsters from Quinnipiac University found that Sanders’s rating was a stunning eighty-seven/three, compared with seventy-four/twenty-one for Clinton. Cassidy’s Count: Bernie Sanders Is Gaining in Iowa, and It Matters 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z “People today benefit from things that were sacrificed years ago,” his ex-wife Carol Foster Sidney, who is now eighty-seven, told me. One Man’s Crusade to Integrate TV 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Susie Jackson, who, at eighty-seven, was the oldest of them, sang in the Emanuel choir; she was a close relation of his. After Charleston 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z In the Sixty-seventh Precinct, for example, they have identified two hundred and eighty-seven gang members, who were responsible for the majority of the felonies in the district. What’s New About Bill Bratton’s N.Y.P.D.? 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Now eighty-seven and ailing, he currently lives in a military hospital, and has had a series of ignominious court appearances in which he has usually appeared on a stretcher, mute, and wearing sunglasses. The Farce Behind Morsi’s Death Sentence 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z In 2014, there were eighty-seven homicides in Milwaukee, which has a population of just under six hundred thousand. How to Stop Mass Incarceration 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z He sits atop a pyramid of eighty-seven million members of the Communist Party, an organization larger than the population of Germany. Rise of the Red Prince 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z My grandmother, who is eighty-seven, doesn’t think much of modern life. Silencing “India’s Daughter” 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z In the past eighteen months, Ribot reported, his band made a hundred and eighty-seven dollars from sixty-eight thousand streams of his latest album, available on Spotify in Europe and the U.S. Spotify: Friend or Foe? 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Among these partisans is the party’s patrician leader, Essebsi, who is eighty-seven, and who fulfilled key roles under Bourguiba, including interior and defense minister, over the course of three decades. The Future of Tunisian Democracy 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z In a press conference the next day, police officials disclosed that eighty-seven rounds had been deployed. Tear Gas On the Streets of Hong Kong 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Constantly referring to lists, reading notes, using eighty-seven PowerPoint slides, and shuffling papers truly undermines one’s gravitas and women are oftentimes guilty of these behaviors. Are You 'Leadership Material'? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Most of the money is spread among the eighty-seven branch libraries throughout Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Ian Frazier: Defending New York’s Public Libraries 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Besides these latter, there are also eighty-seven cases in which those originally condemned to crosses were permitted to lay them aside. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z He left two hundred and eighty-seven pictures and five hundred and seventy-six drawings and studies. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z The first day, which is for eighty-seven persons, extends from the preaching of St. John the Baptist, in the wilderness, to his beheading. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He died there in 1719, aged eighty-seven, and was buried in a grave in the King's Chapel burial-ground in Boston, on the spot where the family tomb now stands. 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 The Hippocratic Collection consists of eighty-seven treatises, of which a part only can be accepted as genuine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z He said aloud: "I am eighty-seven years old." The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z This day is for eighty-seven persons, like the first. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The father, Josiah, now died at eighty-seven, already proud of his son Benjamin, for whom in his poverty he had done the best he could. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z One, which was felled by our wood-cutters, measured eighty-seven feet in length, and was three feet five inches in circumference. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Granny, who was eighty-seven, and with a screen at her back and a wood-fire toasting her old toes, could tell wonderful tales of the great war. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z When he got near, he said: "I am eighty-seven years old." The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z While I was in prison at Tupelo, eighty-seven of the Arkansas infantry deserted in a body. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z He and a boy companion found lodgings at eighty-seven cents per week; very inferior lodgings they must have been. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z He received two warrants for eighty-seven dollars and they recouped them both. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z He also showed that all the slaves in Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri could be bought, at the same price, for less than the expense of carrying on the war for eighty-seven days. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z A lady, aged eighty-seven, had diarrhœa, which was soon relieved; then I found her heart acted badly, about every third beat omitted, and she said it had been so for a year or more. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z He estimated the number of characters at eighty-two or eighty-seven, and judged the writing to be partly alphabetic and partly syllabic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Given in Manor of Fulham, in the diocese of London, on the 18th May, in the year of our Lord one thousand, three hundred, and eighty-seven, and in the sixth year of our translation.” Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z An Irishman, brilliant and useful in his day, Dr. R. R. Madden, has passed away from among us at the age of eighty-seven. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z I have eighty-seven cents in my bank, and I was going to save up to buy my Alice-doll a new carriage. The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered 2012-01-20T03:00:16.183Z There were one hundred and eighty-seven persons within the walls of the fort that night. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z When baby Lamech was born, his father was a young fellow of one hundred and eighty-seven. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Rhythmically he had been counting the strokes to himself—eighty-five, eighty-six, eighty-seven—when he should reach one hundred he would stop—stop and rest a while. Loaded Dice 2012-01-04T03:00:36.343Z It was adopted by a majority of eighty-seven votes on March 14. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z There was a brief silence and then Mr. Peasley said:—"Three shillings is seventy-five cents—seventy-five and twelve make eighty-seven." In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z He died at Toledo in 1623, at the age of eighty-seven. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z All they knew or cared to know was that it weighed eighty-seven ounces, and this weight, at the rate of 6s. an ounce, gave �26:2s. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z At this time, King Ethelwalch gave to the most reverend prelate, Wilfrid, land to the extent of eighty-seven families, to maintain his company who were wandering in exile. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England 2011-12-19T03:00:41.437Z This is scarcely surprising, seeing that the weight of a recently killed adult male which I have before me is eighty-seven grains; so that five and a half full-grown birds weigh but an ounce. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z The effect was to reduce the number of southern delegates by eighty-seven, and the number of northern delegates by seven. Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z On the 27th of May, 1593, a grand auto-da-f� took place at Grenada; five individuals were burnt in person, and five in effigy; eighty-seven were condemned to penances. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z Before 1758 the Great North Mail, as it was called, went three days a week and occupied eighty-seven hours in going from London to Edinburgh, and 131 hours in going from Edinburgh to London. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Well," answered the Watch-Dog of Merryland, confidentially, "there are either eighty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty-six, or else eighty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty-eight. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z It soon became a popular movement, spreading to what is now over a thousand cities in eighty-seven countries around the world. Why #OccupyWallStreet is Corporate America's Final Warning 2011-11-10T19:20:41Z I have collected sixty-four dollars in cash, but about eighty-seven has been subscribed. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z The Spanish forces, designed to operate in this last attack, consisted of eighty-seven horse and eight hundred and eighteen infantry, of which one hundred and eighteen were arquebusiers and crossbowmen. 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 At the end of the same year Cuba exported to Spain and various points in America twelve thousand five hundred and forty-six and in the following year twenty-one thousand one hundred and eighty-seven arrobas. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z She describes it as "a souterrain containing six chambers, with a length of eighty-seven feet exclusive of a flooded chamber." Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z "The September option is at this moment quoted at eighty-seven and one-eighth cents," went on Mr. Wallingford. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z But out of two hundred and eighty-seven letters from those young people over two hundred mentioned, directly or indirectly, their strong desire for a husband, a wife, or a home. Health, Healing, and Faith 2011-07-31T02:00:09.737Z We of the headquarters company, or rather eighty-seven of us, start Monday on the first leg of that longed-for journey to France. Conscript 2989 Experiences of a Drafted Man 2011-07-26T02:00:15.197Z For eighty-seven days more the sun would be absent, but the moon visited the dark, cold skies, appearing for ten days without setting, and then going out of sight for thirteen. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z His father is eighty-seven, his mother four years younger. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z The wall was eighty-seven feet broad, and three hundred and fifty feet high. Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study 2011-07-09T02:00:14.273Z On this he lived until eighty-seven years of age, when he died in Brooklyn, New York. Four American Naval Heroes Paul Jones, Admiral Farragut, Oliver H. Perry, Admiral Dewey 2011-07-04T02:00:24.047Z This was followed by instruction to an increasing class of boys whom she had in the laundry at Earlham Hall, and on her marriage with Joseph Fry, these lads numbered eighty-seven. The Childhood of Distinguished Women 2011-06-28T02:00:13.170Z Diligently exploring the bag, she brought to light a scanty store of small change: three quarters, a nickel, seven coppers—eighty-seven cents wherewith to face the world! Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z I had spent but eighty-seven dollars, "pi�ces", and the rooms did look so inviting! A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z The congregation disembarked at a jetty, moored their boats, and climbed the eighty-seven stone steps that led steeply upward. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z Of these seventy-nine were foreign born, eighty-seven were natives of the South, and four hundred and three—a vast majority of the whole, first breathed the vital air in the free North. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z Despite her eighty-seven years, Katherine Eppes, known to everyone as "Ma," came as spryly to her tiny porch as her rotund body would permit. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z And then her mind failed totally, she died At eighty-seven here. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z "Do you mean to tell me that you provided all this comfort and made this homey atmosphere with eighty-seven dollars and sixty-three cents?—I'm particular about those sixty-three cents." A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z So they climbed the eighty-seven rough stone steps that led up from the shore, and scrambled over the wall into the little churchyard. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z Fourteen thousand one hundred and eighty-seven workmen were there—those workmen who divided the ten millions—everything and every one was there with a single exception. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Altogether," he says, "the repairs amounted to eighty-seven francs.... Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z I am not quite sure of the technical charge against your prisoner, but I imagine it is just plain theft—of three hundred and eighty-seven dollars. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z "It's on the First National Bank of New York, Ewart, for the amount of fifty-two dollars and eighty-seven cents—how 's that about the cents, Marcia?" A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z With the exception of eighty-seven priests and monks, the whole of the besieged, twenty-two thousand in number, were cruelly slaughtered. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z The main dwelling of the Community is a brick structure consisting of a center and two wings, the whole one hundred and eighty-seven feet in length, by seventy in breadth. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z Members voting for death unconditionally, three hundred and eighty-seven. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z “You don’t mean to say you’d keep three hundred and eighty-seven dollars in that crazy old safe that’s falling to pieces, do you?” Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z Upon its passage, the vote in the House of Representatives was eighty-seven for, and sixty-eight against, the measure. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z If you count, you will find that there are eighty-seven tenements of various kinds, and the dwellers in them are, of course, all tenants of our father. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z It was stated in the Richmond “Dispatch” during the last days of December, 1861, that a gentleman, just from the West Indies, had said that there were eighty-seven British ships-of-war lying in those waters. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z His last illness was the result of a cold, and his advanced age, eighty-seven, left him little resistive vitality. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z There were eighty-seven of the members present, only thirty being absent. 30,000 Locked Out. The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago. 2011-02-16T03:00:39.173Z First octavo edition, with a portrait of the author, engraved title, eighteen plates, and eighty-seven woodcuts. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z He is the husband of the most remarkable Indian squaw in America, and he would have been Crowfoot's successor were it not that he was eighty-seven years of age when the Blackfoot Cæsar died. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z In Mexico, during its 99 years of independence, there have been forty-seven rulers and eighty-seven administrations. Self-Determining Haiti Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 2011-01-22T03:00:17.567Z They had a family of fifteen children, eight of whom survived their father though he lived to the ripe age of eighty-seven years. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z A woman of Cerny, eighty-seven years old, small and white-haired, with red eyes and a shaking head, told us how she had left her lodging. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z One of three hundred and eighty-seven copies printed, with two portraits of Carlyle etched by Alfred Jones, and facsimiles of the original manuscript. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z We were eighty-seven guests at an immense round table. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z Mr. Webster's retainers—nine hundred and eighty-seven in number—tell him, "You have pointed out to a whole people the path of duty, have convinced the understanding, and touched the conscience of a nation." Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z Nineteen eighty-seven was the year of the state-employee strike, which was particularly troubling for us, since my father worked at the National Library and my mother at the Ministry of Health. Daniel Alarcón: “Second Lives.” 2010-08-09T04:00:00Z I must have missed eighty-seven per cent of the real meaning there my first time through—I was probably twelve—but even then I knew that Major Major Major was a triumph of a character. 20 Under 40 Fiction Q. & A.: Rivka Galchen. 2010-06-07T04:00:00Z It rained two hundred and eighty-seven days of the year, and the locals were given to magnificent mood swings. 2010-01-25T05:00:00Z Cow's milk holds casein, one of the albuminoids, about five parts in one hundred; a fatty principle, when separated, known as butter, about four parts; sugar of milk four parts; water and salts eighty-seven parts. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers "My admiration for you has increased eighty-seven per cent.," put in Toppleton, "that is, it has if all you say you said to the spook is true." Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile Three hundred and eighty-seven officers of the regular army received volunteer commissions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" He had a talk with the manager, and came back and made me a net cash price of eighty-seven cents! The Bread Line A Story of a Paper In spite of her eighty-seven years, her eyes are still soft and bright, though closed to the world. Glories of Spain Eight years later, in 1656, there were again one hundred and twenty-one citizens in L�wenberg and about eight hundred and fifty inhabitants; eighty-seven per cent, of the population had perished. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. The singing of hymns was joined in by many of the eighty-seven passengers on the boat, and prayers were offered by no less than four individuals. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers It was of oblong shape and measured two hundred and sixty-seven feet in length by eighty-seven feet in width. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Anselm, do you think that an old man of eighty-seven years of age is afraid to speak the truth? Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. Here, not to mention any other consideration, two hard facts stare one in the face: First, in October, 1907, there were eighty-seven licensed opium shops in the International Settlement. The Opium Monopoly Her death at the age of eighty-seven may furnish a moral lesson to those who desire a long life. Rambles in Womanland The board passed through many vicissitudes in its life of nearly eighty-seven years. British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations, 1622-1675 This was allowed to spread out into a lake, covering nearly two hundred square miles, at a level of eighty-seven feet. Bert Wilson at Panama The base of the cone is almost circular, and eighty-seven English miles in circumference; but if we include the whole district over which its lavas extend, the circuit is probably twice that extent. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Our party buried nine hundred and eighty-seven men. Personal Recollections of the Civil War By One Who Took Part in It as a Private Soldier in the 21st Volunteer Regiment of Infantry from Massachusetts For the Orphic cult which had the longest period of influence, we possess what may be termed a hymn book containing eighty-seven hymns. Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries There was, too, and it was the eighty-seven pounds that a fool handicapper had put on Tip-Top. The Garden of Eden Pontis died at the age of eighty-seven, and had been for fifty-six years in the army. A Short History of French Literature This same stone was, in 1836, a hundred feet nearer the water's edge than in Linnæus's time, or eighty-seven years before. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Then the elder girls melted away again into their own room, and a kind of uneasy hush settled down on the eighty-seven inhabitants of Wootton Beeches. The Youngest Girl in the School I climbed eighty-seven steps by actual count every time I came home from a lesson. Confessions of an Opera Singer Out of Zeki's force of eighty-seven thousand souls before the famine there remained, after it was over, only ten thousand, including women and children. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 Nelson managed to escape, but his misguided followers were captured, twelve executed, and eighty-seven transported to Australia. The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History The cotton exportation from the United States increased from four hundred eighty-seven thousand six hundred pounds in 1793 to one million six hundred thousand pounds in 1794, the year in which Whitney's gin was patented. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 In the same year, when he was eighty-seven years old, he spent a week-end in Manchester, and spoke his last words to his followers there. The Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls Under Tiberius eighty-seven days of the year were regularly occupied by these entertainments but by the time of Marcus Aurelius there were one hundred and thirty-five such holidays. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. Of course, my actual life-span has been nearer three hundred and eighty-seven; but please don't credit me with being a Methuselah. Rich Living For Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years before he devoted himself to this duty, and Lamech lived also one hundred and eighty-two years before he had a son. The White Chief of the Caffres The adoption of these by the convention gained for the Constitution the support of Hancock and Samuel Adams; and the question on ratification was carried by one hundred eighty-seven against one hundred sixty-eight. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 They left eighty-seven eggs in the incubator after the test. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks In this immense amphitheatre there were seats for eighty-seven thousand spectators, and fifteen thousand more were able to find standing room. Roman Women McKinley's mother was still living at Canton, Ohio, at the age of eighty-seven, at the time of her son's first inauguration as President. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 Sparrer gave them a surprise with eighty-seven and Pat slapped him on the back. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp He was eighty-seven when, in 1630, a truce was patched up, that both sides might rest a little. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women Among these French people who had lived for seven weeks through the hell of battle that had raged about the town, was Madame de Prey, who was eighty-seven years old. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" Statistics are not at hand from which to give our casualties in full, but Long’s Brigade lost seven officers and eighty-seven men in killed, wounded, and prisoners. Bugle Blasts Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Another indication is given in Henslowe's list of the costumes belonging to the Lord Admiral's men, which included some eighty-seven garments, for the most part of silk or satin, ornamented with fringe and gold lace. An Introduction to Shakespeare The Convention comprised seven hundred and twenty-one voters, three hundred and thirty-four of whom voted for exile, and three hundred and eighty-seven for death. Maria Antoinette Makers of History The surrendered people numbered eighty-seven men, three hundred and thirty-one women and children. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women "One million two hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-six cents," replied Henriette instantly. Mrs. Raffles Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman Near the ends, within the basin, two pairs of small animal-like figures are carved, and ranged about the lower margin of the periphery are eighty-seven neatly sculptured heads of animals. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 She says she is at least eighty-seven and probably much older. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 "Two thousand and eighty-seven," corrected Romper, "and it's a good thing school lets out at noon to-morrow." The Boy Scout Fire Fighters "I'm only seventy-seven, and my mother lived to be eighty-seven." Mark Mason's Victory There are four stories of arches, one hundred and fifty-seven feet high in all, the arena it encloses is two hundred and eighty-seven feet long. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife The tricky Jarmuthians, however, mount their men on a diplodocus, a huge dinosaur some eighty-seven feet in length. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 It was eighty-seven feet––and she only a hundred and ten feet over all––and 44 it stepped plumb in the middle of her, further forward than a mainmast was generally put in a fisherman. The Seiners I couldn't do anything—couldn't help myself; four years, and I got down to eighty-seven pounds. Amaryllis at the Fair From the policemen's books alone I found a record for that week of six dockers killed and eighty-seven injured. The Harbor Mrs. Howe in the dignity of her eighty-seven years made a lovely picture in a gown of mauve satin with a creamy lace scarf draped about her head and shoulders. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V The Eiffel Tower, the most elevated monument of which human industry can boast, is only one hundred and eighty-seven times the average height of the worker. The Industries of Animals The spire of Norwich Cathedral rises two hundred and eighty-seven feet. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel A guy who can beat the yellah streak we all pack somewheres, every time he fails to register a win, and will keep rememberin' that to-morrow has got yesterday beat eighty-seven ways, is no loser! Alex the Great "One week I got three dollars and eighty-seven cents." The Harbor He carried his one hundred and eighty-seven pounds easily and with an athletic swagger. Interference and Other Football Stories It is eighty-seven miles long, and reaches with its enormous grades a height of over 13,000 feet. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses The suspension-bridge, erected by the munificence of a citizen, spans this gorge at the height of two hundred and eighty-seven feet, and cost nearly $500,000. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel He died there, on the eighteenth of November, 1674, aged eighty-seven years. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 “Three thousand one hundred and eighty-seven pounds!” he exclaimed. The Tale of Timber Town Why, the nearest of all our planets to the sun, the wee Mercury, takes eighty-seven days to complete its orbit, and here is a mighty body hastening round its sun in three! The Children's Book of Stars The system has since grown to over 26,000 miles, and no less than eighty-seven per cent. of the mileage is under state control. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses The artist's pencil has also been called into requisition, and the four hundred and eighty-seven illustrations will give an idea, such as no words can convey, of the attractions England presents to the tourist. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel In the last part, consisting of eighty-seven pages, the thirty-ninth and fortieth are missing. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 The Colosseum at Rome This enormous out-door theatre seated eighty-seven thousand people. Rafael in Italy A Geographical Reader The star we know as the nearest to us in the heavens, Alpha Centauri, is composed of two very bright partners, which take about eighty-seven years to traverse their orbit. The Children's Book of Stars The charge has often been made that women never invent anything, but statistics on the subject declare that in 1880 patents for their own inventions were issued to eighty-seven different women in the United States. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III It's eight dollars and eighty-seven cents—marked down—they always are, ain't they? The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill The names best known to European and American traders are those of the regencies of Besoeki and Pasoeroean; because their coffees make up eighty-seven percent of Java's production. All About Coffee "The Colosseum was an enormous out-door theatre which seated over eighty-seven thousand people, and there was standing room for many more," the guide told them. Rafael in Italy A Geographical Reader New England regards these four hundred and eighty-seven churches, which she has built, to be the product of blind guides, that are leaders of the blind. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Entertainment was provided for eighty-seven delegates, besides the friends who came from different parts of the State. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III This is about half the thickness of the wall of Babylon, upon which "six chariots could be driven together," and which Herodotus tells were eighty-seven feet broad, or nearly double that of Khorsabad. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life The Mercantile Marine was not in a position to lend much assistance in this respect, for our ships at that time carried eighty-seven thousand foreign officers and men, three parts of whom were Teutons. The Message At the depot eighty-seven coffins were piled up and boxed. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin The army assembled at Nagoya totalled over three hundred thousand men, whereof some seventy thousand constituted the first fighting line and eighty-seven thousand the second, the remainder forming a reserve to meet contingencies. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era The loss of the Allies in the Crimean war was upwards of eighty-seven thousand men, and more than two-thirds of the slain fell to France. Lord John Russell In Bohemia, e.g., the diet consisted of 241 members: of these five were ex officio members; the feudal proprietors had seventy; the towns and chambers of commerce together had eighty-seven; the rural districts seventy-nine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" As a result of Benson's gesture he was busy estimating the value of eight and a quarter carats at eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents a carat. Elkan Lubliner, American In a house isolated as are most of our Basque houses they find, one morning, an old man of eighty-seven murdered in his bed. Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux The gate called Beautiful was eighty-seven and a half feet high, made of Corinthian brass, and plated with gold. Ancient States and Empires At length, we drove the sheep apart, and the salt being eaten by this time, we contrived to enumerate eighty-two on one side and eighty-seven on the other. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine The town was taken by the insurgents, and the inhabitants, 22,000 in number, inhumanly put to death, with the exception of eighty-seven priests and monks. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests He was neat and explicit—and almost funny—in his description of an outdoor presentation of Midsummer Night's Dream, in which a domestic and intellectual lady weighing a hundred and eighty-seven stageside had enacted Puck. Free Air You can't imagine how excited your father was when they waked him up to tell him that an old man of eighty-seven had been murdered in his district! Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux Until the ripe age of eighty-seven she ruled her subjects trustingly and lovingly—yet withal firmly—earning for herself from all the British traders the nickname of "Queen Bess of the Pacific." Terribly Intimate Portraits Beyond, reached by stone staircases, spreads the great lake, which covers eighty-seven acres. The Dukeries In 852 Charles' soldiers refused to fight, and for two hundred and eighty-seven days the pirates ravaged the valley of the Seine at their will. The Story of Paris During the nine hundred and eighty-seven years that the Government of the Republic held its seat in Venice, the State papers passed through many dangers from fire, revolution, neglect, or carelessness. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Of the class of eighty-seven only thirty-nine were graduated. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Ela counted eighty-seven before at last they came to a landing from which one door opened. The Secret House At one time the superintendent of the Illinois Training School for Girls, at Geneva, found that eighty-seven per cent of her girls attributed their first wrong steps to temptations such as these. Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade I heard him sing them in 1872, when he said that he was eighty-seven.—I am, yours very truly, J. F. Campbell. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. I’ve got three hundred and eighty-seven geese finished, and four hundred’s enough. Patty's Summer Days O Wahi, the most easterly, and by much the largest, is eighty-seven miles long and seventy-five broad: it has three mountains, which may well bear a comparison with the highest in the world. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 But a third is still larger; it represents the King Rameses II., and, when whole, was of a single stone, and weighed eight hundred and eighty-seven tons. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture He is at the age of eighty-seven this year. Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing Mr. Riehl is eighty-seven years young now and is the only one of the three men living. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 A MAN eighty-seven years of age, meeting another aged man not quite as old as himself, the other inquired of him how long he had been interested in religion. Anecdotes for Boys He afterwards saw much active service, and died aged eighty-seven, supposed to have been the last survivor of the army of Saratoga. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 The gold coinage of the French mint, since 1726, has amounted to eighty-seven hundred millions of francs, of which fifty-two hundred and fifty millions have been issued since 1850. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy He thinks of a college student only as something to teach—whereas, of all the nineteen hundred and eighty-seven things a college student is, that is about the least important to his notion. At Good Old Siwash I'll be eighty-seven the eighteenth of this month if I live. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 One million, three hundred and eighty-seven thousand, six hundred and forty-five. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 The Hall of Examination is open to the public only once in three years, when students of high-school grade are examined for entrance to a university course, eighty-seven of the applicants being chosen. Travels in the Far East It was a pile of stone-work, raised pyramidically upon an oblong base or square two hundred and sixty-seven feet long and eighty-seven wide. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries In a surprisingly short time Mr. Heron had made eighty-seven button-holes. The Tale of Ferdinand Frog One gramme of clean mastic is dissolved in eighty-seven grammes of absolute alcohol, and the transparent solution is allowed to drop into a beaker containing clear water, kept briskly stirred. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The procès-verbal still exists upon a roll of parchment fairly written, nine feet in length, with the evidence of eighty-seven witnesses. The Story of Rouen In eighty-seven per cent of the cases, your strategy proved to be superior to our own. The Highest Treason At one spot the river plunged over a precipice eighty-seven feet in height. Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky Leopold added the sums he had deposited, and made the amount eighty-seven dollars and some cents. The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock Yet the man who could live to eighty-seven, and retain his health in a retirement of nearly a quarter of a century, could not complain of his constitution. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 The Library occupying the upper story that extends over part of the eastern arcade is an important collection, its manuscripts alone filling a hundred and eighty-seven volumes. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum During the eighty-seven years of his life he accomplished many things and taught the world lessons which it has not yet memorized. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen She lived, a whimsical, spiteful, sprightly oddity, to be eighty-seven years of age. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III S. Roe, author of many popular stories, died in East Windsor, Conn., aged eighty-seven years. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. Out of one hundred trials d was read correctly eighty-seven times, s only twenty-eight times. The Booklover and His Books A report in 1810, of Albert Gallatin, Madison's Secretary of the Treasury, states that by the end of the year preceding, eighty-seven cotton factories had arisen in this country, calculated for eighty thousand spindles. History of the United States, Volume 2 Of passengers we had, all told, four hundred and eighty-seven. A Woman who went to Alaska Thus we continued till by dead reckoning we calculated that we were about thirty leagues south of the parallel of the Horn, and in longitude eighty-seven degrees west. The Frozen Pirate Annie Huff moved to Macon when she was freed and her daughter, Mary, now eighty-seven years old, was reared here. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 In 1916 eighty-seven counties out of a total of one hundred counties reported a shortage of labor, and in many parts of the State farmers adopted the plan of raising live-stock instead of agricultural crops. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Through the passes of the South Mountain, over Red Hill, out upon the broken ground east of the Antietam poured the blue torrent—McClellan and his eighty-seven thousand. The Long Roll Mrs. Sherman is now living at Washington, D. C., at the age of eighty-seven, with her son John. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. The weak tears of age rolled down his cheeks and all the feebleness of his eighty-seven years showed in his grief-stricken countenance. The Scarlet Plague When sown at the commencement of the season, the plants will blossom in six weeks, produce pods for the table in seven weeks, pods for shelling in ten weeks, and ripen in eighty-seven days. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. A. T. Stewart, as a boy, lost eighty-seven cents when his capital was one dollar and a half in buying buttons and thread which shoppers did not call for. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power They immediately fell into a deep slumber, which was miraculously prolonged, without injuring the powers of life, during a period of one hundred and eighty-seven years. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 The tenth, usually called the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, was larger than the rest; the gateway being eighty-seven and one half feet in height, the doors seventy feet. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem From a list compiled by Mr. Harold P. Brown, of New York, we learn that eighty-seven persons have been killed up to the commencement of this year. The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Spring plantings will blossom in six weeks, produce pods for the table in seven weeks, and ripen in eighty-seven days. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. He was de oldest person I ever saw, eighty-seven. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 In one family at Newport four hundred and eighty-seven yards of cloth and thirty-six pairs of stockings were spun and made in eighteen months. Comic History of the United States The cost at Columbia University averages five hundred and forty-seven dollars, the lowest being three hundred and eighty-seven dollars. Pushing to the Front Then you will return and marry the constant Alice, and live in economical splendor, on a capital—let me see—of eighty-seven dollars and odd cents, being the proceeds of a certain auction-sale. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 The plants blossom in seven weeks, produce young pods in eight weeks, and ripen in eighty-seven days, from the time of sowing. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Anson Harp, eighty-seven years old, lives out in the country on Route #3. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 In my estimation all the other animals compared to a lion as latitude eighty-seven and a half compares to the north pole. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country A. T. Stewart, as a boy, lost eighty-seven cents, when his capital was one dollar and a half, in buying buttons and thread which shoppers did not call for. Pushing to the Front Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the eighty-seven cents. Short Stories of Various Types In a previous chapter we learned that in one-hundred parts of mother's milk, eighty-seven parts were water and thirteen parts were solid. The Mother and Her Child The highest attendance during last session was five hundred and eighty-one, the lowest two hundred and eighty-seven. Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America After hard fighting he completely defeated them, captured eighty-seven of their guns, and drove them from under the guns of Deeg, which at once opened fire on us. At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War Such are the Isthmus of Suez, eighty-seven miles wide, through which a canal was cut that saves a sailing distance of 3,700 miles from England to India. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation It weighs eighty-seven pounds; and close by it is the martial suit of the unfortunate Essex. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Stewart, as a boy, lost eighty-seven cents when his capital was one dollar and a half, in buying buttons and thread which people would not purchase. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune He is fifty-three years old, and claims to have fought in eighty-seven battles, often wounded, but never badly hurt. Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Then the order was given to retire, and the men fell back; having lost, in killed and wounded, nine hundred and eighty-seven of their comrades. At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War The first was to Murcia, in which he purchased the liberty of ninety-eight slaves: the second to Algiers, in which he redeemed eighty-seven, but remained himself a hostage for the full payment of the money. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Three hundred and fifty-five thousand, six hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-two cents. White Ashes The resolution was, however, taken up this day in the House of Representatives, read three times, and passed by a vote of eighty-seven to eighty-one. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. In our companion-way the thermometer rose to eighty-seven degrees, with icebergs glittering at every point of the compass. Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' Returning to England, Mr. Owen continued to labor in the dissemination of his ideas until the year 1858, when he died at the age of eighty-seven. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money He died in 1095, having sat thirty-two years, and lived about eighty-seven. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Footnote 43: The first five volumes were published this year, Madame D'Arblay having died in 1840, at the age of eighty-seven. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 It employed eighty-seven personages and made use of elaborate machinery. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera He belonged to a very long-lived race, his father having attained the age of ninety-three, and his grandfather eighty-seven. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Now, if this family of two persons could so increase in eighty-seven years, why could not Jacob's family, of seventy persons, increase in equal ratio? Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity In one case it was fifty-five dollars, in the other eighty-seven dollars. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters If you were to take a trip around Homeburg at seven a.m. on a Sunday morning, you would find about eighty-seven automobile owners out in the back yard over, under, or wrapped around their machines. Homeburg Memories He divided the eighty-seven cases of psychoses in criminals studied by him into two distinct groups, namely, the real psychoses and the degenerative psychoses. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry He asks me eighty-seven squeaky questions a minute all the time we're together. Blister Jones Its span is seven hundred and two feet; height from low water, two hundred and eighty-seven feet. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Mr. Rogers, the patriarch-poet, now eighty-seven years old, invited me to breakfast with him. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle He told them joyously that he had cleared eighty-seven thousand pounds, and protested that they should be his guests at his hotel as long as they stayed in Paris. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World At the beginning of the war France had thirty-one battleships, twenty-four armored cruisers, eight light cruisers, eighty-seven destroyers, one hundred and fifty-three torpedo boats and seventy-six submarines. History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War It is thirty miles wide from east to west, and twenty from north to south; and in coasting it we had sailed eighty-seven and a quarter geographical miles. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2 "My poor father was eighty-seven when he died; and he would have been alive still if it weren't for that nasty Mrs. Jones: she put him into a pair of damp sheets." Post-Prandial Philosophy He was eighty-seven then; he must be ninety-seven now. Dr. Dumany's Wife But Lucy's got her heart set on a little matter, and we've decided to spend eighty-seven cents, as you might say riotously, and get it. A Certain Rich Man An uncommon continuance of adverse winds, protracted his voyage across the Atlantic to the extraordinary length of eighty-seven days. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States On the under side of the seat were inscribed the signatures and dates of accession to that throne of all the factors who had reigned at the Post during the past eighty-seven years. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure His teeth were small, white and even, and at the time of his death, when eighty-seven years old, he had only lost one. The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua He was profuse in his rewards; on the 12th, 21st, 127th of the line, and the 17th light, he conferred eighty-seven decorations and promotions; these were Gudin's regiments. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 Including shipmasters, pilots and crews the fleet carried eighty-seven men and three ship-boys, besides the personal servants of the Admiral, a physician, a surgeon, an interpreter and a few adventurers. Days of the Discoverers Yet he lived on: he had not the good sense to die; and he reached the patriarchal age of eighty-seven. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 As to the gun-boats alluded to, which were built by contract in the last war, they were so bad, that eighty-seven out of a hundred-and-twenty had been sold by public advertisement for almost nothing. The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth As the demand for his wares increased, Thomas set up other volumes from Newbery’s stock, until by seventeen hundred and eighty-seven he had reproduced practically every item for his increasing trade. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book Bessie said that the whale from which it was taken was eighty-seven feet long and weighed two hundred tons. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3 In 1906 it was in force in sixty-four of the eighty-seven Russian provinces. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 Death claimed him—and much good it got of him—in 1761, at the age of eighty-seven: there are few beaux who lived so long. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 It's a merry Christmas, this Twenty-fifth of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,—a very merry Christmas; times have scarcely changed at all in the last thirty years. Trifles for the Christmas Holidays He boasted that he had fought eighty-seven duels, in which he had killed seventy-five men, and it was considered certain death to meet him. When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth Worth's loss was one hundred and sixteen killed and six hundred and seventy-one wounded, a total of seven hundred and eighty-seven. General Scott About thirteen parts solids and eighty-seven parts water. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada 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 It's a merry Christmas, this Twenty-fifth of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,—a very merry Christmas. Trifles for the Christmas Holidays Among these waifs there is one who assails my heart,—a grandmother of eighty-seven, shaken, tossed about by all these blows, being by turns hoisted into and let down from the rolling cages. Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 In the midst of the Matabele war, just as the weary, half-starved horses which had carried his men eighty-seven miles drew near the stronghold of Wedza, Baden-Powell was exhilarated by a meeting with a lion. The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' Whilst writing the final words of this chapter the news reaches me of the death of Mr. Mills, at the fine old age of eighty-seven. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland The latter agrees with the Masoretic text: the former gives one hundred and sixty-seven instead of one hundred and eighty-seven. Companion to the Bible "Did I understand you to say—five hundred and eighty-seven pounds?" A Lost Leader The income, according to a return made to me from the finance department, is in round numbers, eight hundred and eighty-seven thousand dollars, and the expenditure eight hundred and thirty thousand. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Towards the end of the month Lovewell set out again, this time with eighty-seven men. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope On a computation formed from an examination of the schooner's then latitude and longitude, it appeared that the French fleet were, the night before, about eighty-seven leagues distant. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 Covers were laid for a hundred and eighty-seven guests. Fifth Avenue Its walls were eighty-seven feet thick and three hundred and fifty feet high, and each side of the square was fifteen miles in length. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria When one has bought at twenty-nine and a half and can sell within the week for eighty-seven, the temptation is something tremendous. Empire Builders Again, less than eighty-seven days' cost of this war would, at the same price, pay for all in Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Kentucky and Missouri.... A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History And for the whole we paid the regular price of eighty-seven centavos—twenty-five each for the animals, and twelve centavos for the man—something less than the twenty pesos demanded the day before at Tehuacan. In Indian Mexico (1908) He counted eighty-seven men under arms, thirty of whom were armed with Lapierre's Mausers. The Gun-Brand The whole number of guns, of whatever description, found in the fort was one hundred and eighty-seven; a large portion of these, however, were for land defence. 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. The story includes the experience of the officers and crew of the Young America, eighty-seven in number, though, of course, only a few of them can appear as prominent actors. Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat They elected Simon Bradstreet, the last Charter Governor, now eighty-seven years of age, to be their President, and Wait Winthrop, grandson of the first Governor, to command the Militia. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 "Let us all join in singing hymn one hundred and eighty-seven," he said. Jerusalem "It's exactly eighty-one hours since I left London; I've got eighty-seven to get back in." Round the World in Seven Days "Mr. Metzeger, I want to borrow five dollars—" The old man perceptibly stiffened and bent his head lower. "—five dollars and eighty-seven cents until Saturday at ten minutes past twelve." Bunker Bean This announcement created a decided sensation among the eighty-seven boys gathered in the waist, for the subject had been full of interest to them. Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat They surrounded it with walls which, according to Rollin, were eighty-seven feet in thickness, three hundred and fifty feet in height and four hundred and eighty furlongs in circumference. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens Eighty-seven gentlemen were there hiding behind eighty-seven newspapers. The Silly Syclopedia Now, at the age of eighty-seven, my wife and I feel sure we can own our comfortable little home in about ten years and live a few weeks to enjoy it. Best Short Stories At precisely ten minutes past twelve on the following Saturday he laid upon old Metzeger's desk the exact sum of five dollars and eighty-seven cents. Bunker Bean There were fifty, if not eighty-seven young men who wished to be captain, and sit at the head of the table in the after cabin. Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat The size of the enclosure was eighty-seven feet square: the soil very rich and deep. An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island But two hundred and eighty-seven steamboats also tied up to the levee that year, and the end of the flatboat days was in sight. American Merchant Ships and Sailors "A hundred and eighty-seven years," she decided after reflection. Ethel Morton at Rose House The fight resulted in the total defeat of the Marāthās, who lost nearly two thousand men, and eighty-seven pieces of cannon. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official "Yes, sir; we call it the Academy Ship, and we have eighty-seven young gentlemen on board," replied Mr. Lowington. Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat This amounts to six hundred and eighty-seven pesos and four tomins. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 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 Frederick Douglass and others began the work with enthusiasm, and in the end one hundred and eighty-seven thousand Negroes enlisted in the Northern armies, of whom seventy thousand were killed and wounded. The Negro So that man took seventeen thousand, six hundred and eighty-seven little cones and made them into one big one for the elephant. Uncle Wiggily's Travels He was then sixty-four years of age, his father having been eighty-seven years old when he died. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official The boys began to arrive about the first of March, and by the first of April all of them, eighty-seven in number, were on board. Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat Oh, I'm so hungry that I could eat fourteen thousand, seven hundred and eighty-seven rabbits, and part of another one. Uncle Wiggily's Adventures At the end of the year 1809 eighty-seven additional mills had been put up, making about 80,000 spindles in operation. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future In 1912 one-quarter of the wheat produced in France and eighty-seven per cent. of the beet crop employed in the national industry of sugar-making, were raised in these departments of the north. Out To Win The Story of America in France On his road the same father visited a little village, called Baibai, and baptized there ninety persons, of whom eighty-seven were 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 Whole number of votes, eighty-seven; necessary to a choice, forty-four. Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat For Henry's reign alone he read and transcribed six hundred and eighty-seven pages in his small, close handwriting. The Life of Froude The heart of the Father had been bored out, and the hollow converted into a drive, admitting a horse and rider for eighty-seven feet, and allowing them room to turn and go back. The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl This section shall take effect from and after the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven. England's Case Against Home Rule The length of its year is six hundred and eighty-seven of our days, and the length of its day is twenty-four hours and thirty-seven minutes. Life in a Thousand Worlds In a tomb a single vase was found containing eighty-seven hundred small objects of gold. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 Somebody must have declared it to be a forgery," Owen whispered to Harding, and a moment after it became Harding's property for eighty-seven pounds—"The exact sum I paid for it years ago. Sister Teresa Brought out, they tell me, in 'eighty-five: but the Yankees bought up all the stock, and it didn't get back into this country until 'eighty-seven, the last Jubilee year. Hocken and Hunken It was a pile of stone-work, raised pyramidically, upon an oblong base, or square, two hundred and sixty-seven feet long, and eighty-seven wide. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Quadrupeds that take the place of our horses are used for drayage, although nothing except the two-wheeled class of vehicles was ever used until some eighty-seven years ago. Life in a Thousand Worlds Meanwhile my collection must stand for the nucleus of the English folk-tale, and we can at any rate judge of its general spirit and tendencies from the eighty-seven tales now before the reader. More English Fairy Tales Well, if I can possibly afford it—" "Of course you can afford it; I paid eighty-seven pounds for it years ago; it won't go to more than a hundred. Sister Teresa One gramme of clean mastic is dissolved in eighty-seven grammes of absolute alcohol, and the transparent solution is allowed to drop into a beaker containing clear water briskly stirred. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 In the service of this family he saved a competence for his old age, and he lived to eighty-seven, a most happy, serene old man, delighting chiefly in his garden and his only child. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs George Pearson was Treasurer of the town and one of the Selectmen, and also Treasurer and Deacon of the Orthodox parish for twenty-five years, living to the advanced age of eighty-seven years. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 3, December, 1884 Two years afterward the mother passed out; in Eighteen Hundred Ninety, Eliza Polidori died, aged eighty-seven; and in Eighteen Hundred Ninety-three, her sister Charlotte joined her, aged eighty-four. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Our historians, our booky men, were on Tuesday glib to inform us that the Siege had now extended to eighty-seven days—the exact duration of the Siege of Lucknow. The Siege of Kimberley This was the condition and disposition of the Sangleys in temporal matters, when the Dominican religious came to these islands in May, eighty-seven. 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 She was eighty-seven years old and didn't have to wear glasses to see. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 She is not certain about her age, but according to her memory of events, she is about eighty-seven. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives He doesn't know how we do things in the year eighteen eighty-seven. Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences It is thirty miles wide from east to west and twenty from north to south, and in coasting it we had sailed eighty-seven and a quarter geographical miles. The Journey to the Polar Sea 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 In July of 1904 the eighty-seven mortal years of George Frederick Watts came to an end. Watts (1817-1904) At the ripe old age of eighty-seven, he still has a keen memory and is able to do a hard day's work. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives From the papers which were washed ashore it appeared that she was from New York, bound for Havre, with a large cargo and eighty-seven passengers, principally returning emigrants. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 He was taken to the Maison Dubois, where he lived eight years longer, dying at the venerable age of eighty-seven, though far from being a venerable person. Promenades of an Impressionist David Hunter, whose devout and intelligent character procured for him great respect, died at Blantyre in 1834, at the age of eighty-seven. The Personal Life of David Livingstone Moreover, General Hamilton, now eighty-seven, and in perfect possession of all his faculties, has told me that he frequently accompanied his grandmother, Hamilton's widow, to call on Madame Jumel. The Conqueror When the river broke we cleaned up one hundred and eighty-seven dollars' worth of lovely, yellow dust, and seven hundred and thirty-five dollars in beautiful yellow bills from the post. Pardners It consisted of Loring's Division, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven; Wathals' Division, one thousand and thirty-six; French's Division, one thousand five hundred and nineteen. History of Kershaw's Brigade In length the eggs vary from 0·55 to 0·66, and in breadth from 0·43 to 0·52; but the average of eighty-seven eggs is 0·62 by 0·48. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Her married life lasted thirty-seven years, and she survived her husband nearly thirty more, dying in 1858 at the age of eighty-seven. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 He was a defaulter for eighty-seven thousand dollars. The Abominations of Modern Society I gasped, for I knew we had only eighty-seven cents left, but gran'ther shot me a command to silence out of the corner of his eyes, and announced that he bet on the sorrel gelding. Hillsboro People She herself had been launched into Society there, and the flowers at the ball had cost eighty-seven pounds; but, being reckoned peculiar, she had made few friends among her own sex. A Diversity of Creatures Six such Bishops, multiplied by eighty-seven, and working with five hundred and twenty-two questions, would fetch everything to the ground in six months. Sydney Smith Captain William Alexander resided on the public road leading to Concord, six miles east of Charlotte, where he died on the 19th of December, 1836, aged about eighty-seven years. Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Before the news Of your dear spouse Had reached us at New Haven, My dear wife dy'd, Who was my bride In anno eighty-seven. A Collection of College Words and Customs She lived to the great age of eighty-seven, and left an estate of fifty thousand dollars, the fruit of her own industry and prudence. Famous Americans of Recent Times As the English pound is worth about four dollars and eighty-seven cents, this little room contains a vast treasure—worth upwards of a hundred million dollars. A Trip Abroad If eighty-seven questions are assumed to be necessary by one bishop, eight hundred may be considered as the minimum of interrogation by another. Sydney Smith John Campbell, Earl of Greenwich, famous for his long chin, his gaiety, and his eighty-seven years, was writing to his mistress. The Man Who Laughs At the present moment it is subjected to a pressure of eighty-seven pounds to the square inch. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot The principal were, the firearms and one parcel of my seeds, which I had managed to keep dry, containing eighty-seven species. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 This structure, capable of seating eighty-seven thousand people, stands near the bounds of the Forum. A Trip Abroad So far, then, all is clear, and as we know from later and indisputable evidence that Titian died in 1576, it follows that he only attained the age of eighty-seven and not ninety-nine. Giorgione Madame Marshal Noailles, mother of the present marshal, who is at least eighty-seven, but is all alive, runs about Paris and writes all day, sent to inquire after him. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 "A dollar and eighty-seven cents' worth of chicken stew running loose on the landscape." The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit Or, over the Top with the Winnebagos Two thousand dollars a share meant that he, owner of four hundred and eighty-seven shares, would have to pay in cash nine hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars. The Second Generation By 1753 her ships in the slave traffic numbered eighty-seven, totaling about eight thousand tons burthen and rated to carry some twenty-five thousand slaves. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime The number of chantries in the different cathedrals varied very greatly, Lichfield had eighty-seven, St. Paul's thirty-seven, York only three. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Her mother was still living with her—eighty-seven years of age, and had never been ill in her life. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine "Just look at that silk though—now that's cheap, you must acknowledge—only eighty-seven and a half cents; if I only had a dress of that I should be fixed." The Garies and Their Friends Another tower, called the Alai-Minar, about 500 feet distant, remains unfinished, and rises only eighty-seven feet from the ground. Modern India The HINCHINBROOK's complement consisted of two hundred men; eighty-seven took to their beds in one night, and of the whole crew not more than ten survived. The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson It carried thirty-four thousand mariners, seven thousand three hundred and forty soldiers, seven hundred Russians, and five thousand and eighty-seven Mardaites, whose fathers had been transplanted from the mountains of Libanus. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 They immediately fell into a deep slumber, which was miraculously prolonged without injuring the powers of life, during a period of one hundred and eighty-seven years. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 He died in Cologne in 1280, at the advanced age of eighty-seven. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 Now, the bell goes, and the locomotive hisses and shrieks, and the train comes gliding in, and the two hundred and eighty-seven come scuffling out. Reprinted Pieces "If you are so surprised, gentlemen, at my looks at sixty-three, what would you have thought had you seen my father at eighty-seven." The Life of General Francis Marion And wit it well, that, after the authors of astronomy, 700 furlongs of earth answer to a degree of the firmament, and those be eighty-seven miles and four furlongs. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Wilfrid, the apostle of Sussex, accepted from his royal convert the gift of the peninsula of Selsey, near Chichester, with the persons and property of its inhabitants, who then amounted to eighty-seven families. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 He lived for one hundred and eighty years in one village and died at the age of one hundred and eighty-seven, or, as another authority has it, one hundred and eighty-five. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine By the time the contractor had set eighty-seven pages of type he saw that he would lose money if he set any more. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations Can we raise wheat at a legitimate profit with a tariff of four dollars a ton for moving it two hundred miles to tide-water, with wheat at eighty-seven cents? The Octopus : A story of California Sixteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven officers and men set sail from Tampa on June 14 and began to disembark eight days later at Daiquiri, sixteen miles to the east of Santiago. The United States Since the Civil War Easton, Pete and I paddled up to the creek’s mouth, therefore, and spent the day fishing, and landed eighty-seven trout, ranging from a quarter pound to four pounds in weight. The Long Labrador Trail Almost beyond belief, it is said that he approached his wife eighty-seven times during the night, spilling much sperm on the sleeping-bed. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine She was only ill four days, and expired without pain or suffering at eighty-seven. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. The thermometer stood at eighty-seven degrees and there was a rustle of incessantly moving palm-leaf fans as, row by row, their yellow sides twinkled in the light of eight oil lamps. The Gentleman from Indiana In the Senate only five members voted against its passage, but thirty-three absented themselves; and in the House forty-seven opposed, while eighty-seven were absent. The United States Since the Civil War The church is two hundred and eighty-seven feet in length, and at the greatest breadth one hundred and fifty-seven feet. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Yes, it was as M'sieu said, eighty-seven—that is, counting himself. The Forest The span of the centre arch is ninety-six feet; that of the collateral ones, eighty-seven; and that of the two others near the abutments, sixty-eight. Paris as It Was and as It Is No; I have crossed eighty-seven times, so I'm used to it. Marjorie's New Friend In addition to these, I got in all, one hundred and eighty-seven of the size of peas, besides a large handful of the seed pearl. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale He was born at Talavera in 1537, and, in spite of certain misfortunes which befell him on account of his works, lived to the age of eighty-seven years. Books Fatal to Their Authors At the junction of the Ohio the Mississippi's depth is eighty-seven feet; the depth increases gradually, reaching one hundred and twenty-nine just above the mouth. Life on the Mississippi, Part 1. The Union Commander was massing eighty-seven thousand men behind his flaming batteries. The Man in Gray A talent was seven hundred and fifty ounces of silver, which at the rate of five shillings to the ounce is a hundred and eighty-seven pounds ten shillings sterling. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision I ventured to inquire the explanation, and was informed that these gentlemen, forming a party of eighty-seven, are a convention from a town of the name if Birdsburg, in the State of Missouri. My Man Jeeves Together they contain eighty-seven apartments, assuming the parts in ruins to have corresponded with the parts preserved. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines We ascended into the lantern, which is eighty-seven feet high. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. She knew from many previous countings that there were exactly eighty-seven and a half of those birds. Georgina of the Rainbows It is a long story, drifting through eighty-seven stanzas, but it is only a final chapter or canto of the second book of The Faery Queen. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived 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 As Mike had then made a hundred and eighty-seven, it was assumed by the field, that directly he had topped his second century, the closure would be applied and their ordeal finished. Mike One of the stories of the old Wiltshire days I picked up was from an old woman, aged eighty-seven, in the Wilton workhouse. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs In the cottage opposite the one I was staying in, its owner, an old woman who had lived in it all her life, had recently died, aged eighty-seven. Birds in Town and Village There were in all eighty-seven wagons loaded with wine, corn, flour, and provisions for the use of the army. The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain He says nothing had been neglected in order to render the Roman army the strongest possible, and from what he was told by some it numbered eighty-seven thousand two hundred men. Battle Studies But what could I do—oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents?” The Gift of the Magi He lived the rest of his eighty-seven years as a widower, and joined the pathetic line of musicians who have gone deaf. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 Some authorities affirm that there were eighty-seven thousand two hundred soldiers in the Roman camp when the battle of Cannae was fought. The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 Before the news Of your poor spouse Had reached our New Haven, My dear wife died, Who was my bride, In anno eighty-seven. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 283, November 17, 1827 We issued, during the same month, fifteen thousand five hundred and sixty-three, leaving us on hand, on the 1st of June, six thousand four hundred and eighty-seven. The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put It takes him six hundred eighty-seven days to make the trip around the sun. De La Salle Fifth Reader He paid every freeman who belonged to the club his stipulated bribe, and on the polling day they tendered eighty-seven votes in his favor, the entire constituency being something under one hundred and fifty. The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 Mr. Plank receipted his bill and Mrs. Hamilton paid him a hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. The Store Boy "Our forces at the battle of Antietam," said General McClellan, when before the committee of investigation afterward, "were, total in action, eighty-seven thousand one hundred and sixty-four." A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee Now, to assign his birth to that year would make him only eighty-seven years old when he died; but Dr. Lettsom, in "a letter on prisons," in the Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Michael Angelo labored till eighty-seven, and Titian till over ninety; but they were artists who worked from the love of art, restless without new creations. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10 European Leaders As Mike had then made a hundred and eighty-seven, it was assumed by the field, that directly he had topped his second century, the closure would be applied and their ordeal finished. Mike and Psmith It had seventeen thousand palaces, thirty theatres, nine thousand baths, and eleven amphitheatres,--one of which could seat eighty-seven thousand spectators. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity The wooden theatre of Scaurus contained eighty thousand seats; that of Marcellus twenty thousand; the Colosseum would seat eighty-seven thousand persons, and give standing space for twenty-two thousand more. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements Including the time spent last year and this year, this bear represented eighty-seven days of actual hunting. American Big Game in Its Haunts The laughter never ceased, old folks became playful children once more in presence of the ninety and the eighty-seven years of the bridegroom and the bride. Fruitfulness He was a well-made little man, and he lived to a great age, dying some time in the seventies, at the age of eighty-seven. Hawthorne and His Circle Raphael painted two hundred and eighty-seven pictures in his thirty-seven years of life. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People The wooden theatre of Scaurus contained eighty thousand seats; that of Marcellus would seat twenty thousand; the Colosseum would seat eighty-seven thousand, and give standing space for twenty-two thousand more. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. He died in 1872, eighty-seven years of age, having baptized twelve thousand persons and preached fifteen thousand sermons. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 And Marianne at eighty-seven years of age also held herself very upright in her light bridal gown, still strong and still showing some of the healthy beauty of other days. Fruitfulness The edifice was 574 feet in its greatest diameter, and was capable of seating eighty-seven thousand spectators. General History for Colleges and High Schools Missouri lay west of Illinois, which had just been admitted into the Union as a Free State; the Northern members, therefore, rallied, and passed the Talmadge amendment by a vote of eighty-seven to seventy-six. Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 On the morning of the 19th they had eighty-seven miles to cover, and by 8.30 P.M. on the 21st they had reached the ship. The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition Thomas Casey died at Brighton, in January of this year, aged eighty-seven, and Mary Ingersoll on the first of June, aged eighty-five, the last of the family. Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian If they have colluded, why should Vanderbilt run to Southampton for the postage when Collins can get three hundred and eighty-seven thousand dollars for running to the same place? Great Fortunes from Railroads Germany had two hundred and thirty-four and France one hundred and eighty-seven. Practical Argumentation |
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