| 单词 | forty-seven |
| 例句 | Indeed, Wendelin the Weird enjoyed being burned so much that she allowed herself to be caught no less than forty-seven times in various disguises. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z She had forty-seven dollars left, and some change. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagine facing a field of forty-seven instead of twenty-three. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In Topeka, Kansas, the mercury would pass the 100 mark forty-seven times that summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He was of average height, a sturdily built man of forty-seven, but how he maintained his weight was a puzzle. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z My grandmother was only forty-seven when her son passed away. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Number forty-seven I have to read twice, for its irony. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Forty-seven snubs by forty-seven hooks; forty-seven receding by forty-seven prognathous chins. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I have forty-seven in my State Quarters Map because Illinois and Florida and Iowa fell out and are under my bed somewhere I think. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Slightly above six feet two, Jefferson towered over both Madison and Hamilton, and at forty-seven he was sufficiently their senior to enjoy the kind of respect accorded an older brother. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The two low work-tables faced one another; between them crawled the conveyor with its load of separate parts; forty-seven blonde heads were confronted by forty-seven brown ones. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked at toys for a quarter, shoes for two dollars, rifles for forty-seven dollars, and even plans for a whole house for one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-four dollars. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The watch on the wrist of the first soldier says forty-seven minutes after eight. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It turns out forty-six out of forty-seven texts are June and the forty-seventh is Nora asking if either of them know where she left her white Chuck Taylors. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Tune had come, time that he measured but didn’t care about; time had come into his life and moved out and left him different In measured time forty-seven days had passed since the crash. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Captain Bligh of the celebrated mutinous Bounty and his fellow castaways survived forty-seven days. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I had forty-seven rupees tied up in my sari, but I could not waste them on a rickshaw, and anyhow I would not know where to go. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z When Lill was eight, she submitted a bid of forty-seven cents to paint a long, high fence in the back yard. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Fourteen were killed and forty-seven injured in Barbados. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He’s got three missed calls from Zahra, one ominous voicemail from his mother, and forty-seven unread messages in his group text with June and Nora. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But forty-seven minutes have passed since his proclamation, so maybe he's changed gears. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Rush was forty-seven years old and so highly respected that he was often called in by colleagues when they were baffled by a case. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Rather than trample on the innocent feline, Annette attempted to do a little leap over said animal, while balancing about forty-seven cans of cat food in her arms. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He had graduated from the Ilium School of Optometry— third in his class of forty-seven. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But whereas I thought the big news today was Grandpa’s eloping, the first thing Papa said was something about the average life span in America being forty-seven years. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Glancing at his computer screen, he noted forty-seven unread e-mails urgently demanding his attention. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z All I had were the forty-seven rupees tied into my sari. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z And then he leaned over toward Milo and whispered softly, “By the eight million two hundred and forty-seven thousand three hundred and twelve threads in my robe, I’ll say there are. Look here.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z According to current estimates, within that short interval, North America lost thirty-four out of its forty-seven genera of large mammals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z So far, he'd earned forty-seven dollars and eleven cents, which was more money than he'd ever had in his whole life. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z We spend the next forty-seven minutes designing our grand escape. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “O-o-okay. So she gave you a hard time forty-seven times. But it’s the Cape Playhouse. It’s renowned.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “Let me see now, Malian. Why, that brings your total to forty-seven. Congratulations, Malian. I’m sure you’ll be selling those three remaining boxes today.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Two days later, on April 20, Adolf Hitler turned forty-seven. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He had felt wind in his shelter, felt the rain that came with wind and had heard thunder many times in the past forty-seven days but not this, not this noise. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Baba told me stories of his travels to India and Russia, the people he had met, like the armless, legless couple in Bombay who’d been married forty-seven years and raised eleven children. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There were more of them than he would have guessed—forty-seven in the Gatehouse Tower and another eighteen in the Drunkard’s Tower. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The page numbered forty-seven in the top corner began like this: I met my new roommate today. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Dad, still awkward at social events without Mom, asks me forty-seven times between the church and the banquet hall if I’m okay. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z It felt good to have a thing with Dad, when I could have him to myself for forty-seven minutes, and he could act like he enjoyed my company for the span of one episode. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z To be the superintendent of a school district like Hardcastle, with its forty-seven buildings and more than thirty thousand students, was a huge responsibility. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z But even in that short amount of time, I did count the phrase “You know better than that, Ryan Dean” forty-seven times. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When we could be father and son full-time, instead of forty-seven minutes a day. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The Bureau’s Garden City representative, and the agent responsible for a sizable portion of western Kansas, is a lean and handsome fourth- generation Kansan of forty-seven named Alvin Adams Dewey. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z His real name has forty-seven syllables, and we have things to do. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “You can see why, when I first got out of that truck, forty-seven years ago, I fell in love with this place,” he said. The Last Robot-Proof Job in America? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Writing his iconic novel A Farewell to Arms in the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway famously tried out forty-seven different endings. Woody Allen’s romanticized rain (and Hemingway, and Toni Morrison and James Joyce) 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z A recent study found that forty-seven per cent of black men between the ages of twenty and twenty-four in Chicago were neither in school nor in the job market. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Kristi is thirty-five, without a college education; Barb is forty-seven and never finished high school. “Janesville” and the Dangers of American Optimism 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Pedigree", from his 2005 debut To a Fault, illustrates well the strong sense of place and history that has been a feature of Laird's work: "Me, I've forty-seven cousins. Nick Laird: a life in writing 2013-01-04T22:55:01Z At forty-seven, she seems to care less about how things look than about the way they work and what they say. Nothing To Hide: Wendy Whelan Retires 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Vogel was forty-seven; strangely, although the work for which he would be most enduringly remembered was still to come, the rest of his career was a sort of decrescendo. The Limits of American Cinephilia 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z “Wife” maxes out the Kindle search feature at a hundred instances in the first hundred and forty-seven pages—that’s just thirty-seven per cent of the book. Marriage Is an Abduction 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Malamud, forty-seven, was married with children, not remotely a Lothario in the Kepesh mold. The Erotic Truths of “Scary Old Sex” 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Its climactic event is the revenge killing of a court official by the Asano clan’s forty-seven samurai of the title. Amber Heard and the Artistic Problem with Contractual Nudity 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Brando was just forty-seven when production on the film commenced and he was still quite fit. The cutthroat casting of "The Godfather": life imitates mob movie 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z The word is also used by Pound in “The Cantos,” a one-hundred-and-sixteen-piece poem that took Pound forty-seven years to finish, though “finish” still feels like too definitive a term. Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Her death at forty-seven, of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, had been a shocking tragedy. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Played with a malevolent flatness by Jude Law, Lenny may have come into power at only forty-seven, but he has no interest in Vatican novelties, flashy promotional campaigns, or building the papacy’s social-media channels. A Man Without Qualities: HBO’s “The Young Pope” 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Fifteen nations signed it in 1928, and another forty-seven followed over the next years. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z One hundred and forty-seven Republicans voted to reject legitimate electoral votes, only hours after Trump's followers had overrun the Capitol and ransacked it. Put the popcorn away, folks: Kevin McCarthy is speaker of the House, and that's no joke 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z One hundred forty-seven people across the United States contracted the virus, some directly from that infected person, others from travelers who brought the disease home with them. The Anti-Vaccine Movement’s New Frontier 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z One hundred and forty-seven Republicans voted against certifying the electoral votes, even after the riot by Trump's supporters, after chaos had come to the Capitol and people had died. No country for insurrectionists: Will the Republican traitors finally face the music? 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z One newspaper described her as “a sharp-featured woman, about forty-seven years old, with a sallow complexion and black hair.” Perspective | The amazing true story of the woman who gave Pasadena, Md., its name 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z “Free to the first who claims; locker one hundred forty-seven; combination fifteen, twenty-five, thirty-five,” read the passage in the syllabus. Professor put clues to a cash prize in his syllabus; no one noticed 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z One hundred and forty-seven dollar signs fill the opening lines of the computer program. 'I need my girlfriend off TikTok': How hackers game abuse-reporting systems 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z One hundred and forty-seven congressional Republicans ended the Trump presidency exactly where they began: standing with a morally and ethically empty man to further their political and personal ambitions. Opinion | Where the honest assessment begins for the GOP 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Warren was a registered Republican as late as 1996, when she was forty-seven and held an endowed position at Harvard. Can Elizabeth Warren Unify Democrats? 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Personally, I can’t even think of forty-seven botanicals, and, unless the company is selling directly to neurasthenic beagles, I can’t conceive of any customer who will sniff out every aroma. The Intoxicating History of Gin 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z The next year, Walmart signed on, and Strivr technology is now used in all the company’s forty-seven hundred U.S. stores, and by thirty Fortune 500 companies. Taking Virtual Reality for a Test Drive 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z By contrast with the other two committees that have participated in the private hearings—Oversight, which has forty members, and Foreign Affairs, which has forty-seven—the Intelligence Committee has just twenty-two members. The Public Stage of the House Impeachment Inquiry 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Pointing to a construction-supply business across the street, he told me that its owner, who was now in jail, had been found to own forty-seven airplanes. Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Reihill showed O’Brien the bedroom in which both Eliots died, forty-seven years apart. Edna O’Brien Is Still Writing About Women on the Run 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z It will allocate forty-seven million dollars designed to help the country build shelters, hire more staff to handle claims, and open more asylum offices. Does Asylum Have a Future at the Southern U.S. Border? 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z In 1971, Ellsberg leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post forty-seven volumes of classified documents about the Vietnam War which came to be called the Pentagon Papers. Review: Edward Snowden and the Rise of Whistle-Blower Culture in “Permanent Record” 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z And the new secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has opened an investigation into the forty-seven hundred absentee-ballot applications that were reported missing. Stacey Abrams’s Fight for a Fair Vote 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, Bradbrook, who is forty-seven, took the stage just after 5 P.M., wearing a turquoise top, flared jeans, and a large earring fashioned from a sparrow’s wing. Does Extinction Rebellion Have the Solution to the Climate Crisis? 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z In an Associated Press/NORC poll that was released last week, forty-seven per cent of respondents said that they approved of the President’s handling of the economy, and fifty-one per cent said they disapproved. Three Key Questions About Trump and the Economy 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Last year, YouTube paid forty-seven ambassadors to produce socially conscious videos and attend workshops. The Fight for the Future of YouTube 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Other companies, too, have impressive stockpiles: Taylor, a hundred and forty-seven works; Cunningham and Brown, about a hundred each. Can Modern Dance Be Preserved? 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Sanders, who first ran for Vermont governor forty-seven years ago, has found a following among a new generation that is not steeped in Cold War ideology. The Many, Tangled American Definitions of Socialism 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z She didn’t release her first feature film until a decade ago, when she was forty-seven, and “The Souvenir” is only her fourth movie. Joanna Hogg’s Self-Portrait of a Lady 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z When he was forty-seven, his division chief—a fanciful man who once dreamed of being an artist—decided to build a public toilet in the shape of a European clock tower. “Lulu” 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z I was forty-seven, middle-aged, at the time of life when, for men living on their own, the incidence of suicide rises. Everywhere and Nowhere: A Journey Through Suicide 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Most Biblical translations are teamwork; the so-called King James Version of the Bible was produced by forty-seven English churchmen. How to Read the Good Books 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z More alarming for the White House, among independents, forty-seven per cent placed the blame primarily on Trump, and just twenty-six per cent blame the Democrats most. Trump’s Great Diversion Can’t Last Much Longer 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z In the next six years, the number of employees at Mid-Continent more than doubled, from two hundred and forty-seven to five hundred and seven. The Small-Town Cost of Donald Trump’s Trade Wars 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z He is forty-seven; she is more than twenty years younger. “Time for the Eyes to Adjust” 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, Seattle’s city council passed a tax on large corporations aimed at raising an estimated forty-seven million dollars a year for affordable-housing initiatives. If Jeff Bezos Makes Washington the Second Headquarters of Amazon 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z He’d received the diagnosis five years before, when he was forty-seven. Alejandro Escovedo’s Return to the Border 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The forty-seven year old billionaire spent two and a half hours on a podcast late Thursday discussing everything from artificial intelligence and its impact on humankind to flame throwers and social media. Tesla's Musk smokes marijuana on comedy podcast 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z When they reached their target altitude—forty-seven thousand feet—the release latch was activated and the spaceship fell away. Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z With women making up forty-seven per cent of the American workforce, the retention of female talent is a significant competitive advantage. How the BBC Women Are Working Toward Equal Pay 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Of the four hundred and twenty-eight current members of the House of Representatives, three hundred and forty-seven have backgrounds in law or business. The Fall of Wisconsin and the Rise of Randy Bryce 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z One track contains forty-seven stacked and layered vocal lines. Paisley Park, Prince’s Lonely Palace 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z CONIFA’s forty-seven members include Tibet, Western Armenia, Northern Cyprus, and Darfur, representing nearly three hundred and thirty million people worldwide. The World Cup for Forgotten Nations 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Stride, who is forty-seven, wore her hair in a ponytail and had curly bangs; Mayson, who is forty-six, had long, sparkly nails. The Addicts Next Door 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Another month passed, and one afternoon a commercial airplane crashed in North Carolina, killing all forty-seven passengers and crew members. “Show Don’t Tell” 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z In 2016, the Canadian Coast Guard counted forty-seven ships making a full or partial transit of the Northwest Passage. The Complicated Relationship Between Cruise Ships and the Arctic Inuit 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z As late as 1950, she told a reporter that it would not surprise her if they walked through the door at any moment—her husband now eighty-two, her son forty-seven. The Lost City of Z 2005-09-12T04:00:00Z He calls the other forty-seven members of his caucus so frequently that he has memorized all their numbers. Can Chuck Schumer Check Donald Trump? 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Tall and, at forty-seven, very lean, he wore a gray turtleneck, skinny jeans, and an olive-green coat. The Writer Who Uncovered the Nazis’ Drug Use 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Bertucci drowned at the age of forty-seven, and when the authorities recovered his body from Georgia’s Ogeechee River, after several days of searching, they found a bag of teeth on him. A Prehistoric Killer, Buried in Muck 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z He bought a Dodge Charger and drove for the first time in forty-seven years. How Albert Woodfox Survived Solitary 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Another study looked at just the first six months of 1986 and found that a hundred and forty-seven stories in the country’s eight major newspapers were based on leaks. Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistleblower 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z At forty-seven, Harder has the bland good looks of the dad in a television commercial. Gawker’s Demise and the Trump-Era Threat to the First Amendment 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z “Pretty amazing when you consider that trauma is the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of forty-seven.” Can Hypothermia Save Gunshot Victims? 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z According to one report, only eleven of the two hundred and forty-seven Republican House members agreed with Ryan’s decision. Paul Ryan’s Struggle with Trump—and Trump’s Voters 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Also, Nixon was forty-seven and Kennedy forty-three; they seemed young and vigorous, of a new generation. Trump and Clinton Get Ready for a Ninety-Minute Campaign 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The project took a year and a half, ran to seven thousand pages, and filled forty-seven volumes. Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistleblower 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Trump and Clinton and their key advisers, who like to emphasize their stamina, were kids when Nixon, then forty-seven, debated Kennedy, forty-three. The State of the Presidential Debate 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The other forty-seven pages were a detailed, but redacted, account of the investigation from start to finish. FBI Report Raises Questions About Clinton's Record-Keeping 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z But then Sanders got up and said it: “This election is about ending the forty-year decline of our middle class, the reality that forty-seven million men, women, and children live in poverty.” A Tale of Two Conventions 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z In Spain, that figure has shrunk from eighty to forty-seven per cent in the past nine years. The United Kingdom: An Oxymoron 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z But he didn’t leak all forty-seven volumes of the Pentagon Papers. Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistleblower 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Rosenberg never managed to win his own release; he died in prison at the age of seventy-two, after being confined for forty-seven years. Education of a Jailhouse Lawyer 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Since 2008, Clark Atlanta has accumulated forty-seven wins, two hundred and thirty-six losses, and one draw. The Mission of a Black Baseball Team 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The drop, from forty-nine cents to forty-seven cents, took place following the expiration of a rate surcharge that was enacted in 2014 to help the U.S. The Nineteenth-Century Idea that Could Keep the U.S. Postal Service Alive 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z On the Democratic side, where two hundred and forty-seven delegates were up for grabs, Clinton made a net gain of about thirty delegates and extended her lead among pledged delegates to two hundred and forty-five. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s New York Wins: A Preview of the General Election? 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z One hundred forty-seven FBI agents have been deployed to run down leads, according to a lawmaker briefed by FBI Director James B. Comey. How Clinton’s email scandal took root 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Ultimately, only forty-seven hundred State Department documents were handed over, in August of 2002. Obama’s Bittersweet Visit to Argentina 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, his campaign published a blog post citing a new poll from Quinnipiac University, which shows him beating Hillary Clinton by forty-seven per cent to thirty-nine per cent in a head-to-head contest. Jeb Bush Endorses Ted Cruz, but Donald Trump Marches On 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z But the fifth of the electorate that made up its mind in the final few days broke slightly to Clinton; she got fifty per cent of their votes, compared to Sanders’s forty-seven per cent. How Hillary Clinton Triumphed on Tuesday 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Obama has transferred a hundred and forty-seven prisoners. What Obama Can Do About Guantánamo 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Asked about capitalism, forty-six per cent of the respondents said that they viewed it favorably, and forty-seven per cent said that they viewed it unfavorably. Bernie Sanders and the New Populism 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Yet, week after week, oil prices kept climbing, peaking at a record hundred and forty-seven dollars a barrel. Behind the Stock-Market Freakout 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z In Arizona, his assaults on illegal immigrants apparently proved very popular, and he received forty-seven per cent of the vote, defeating Cruz, whose home state is next door, by twenty-two percentage points. Jeb Bush Endorses Ted Cruz, but Donald Trump Marches On 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z According to the Iowa Poll, his favorable rating among likely voters in the Republican caucus is just fifty per cent, and his unfavorable rating is forty-seven per cent. Cassidy’s Count: Polls Point to Victories for Trump and Clinton in Iowa 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z By 1987, Lovaas claimed to be able to restore forty-seven per cent of his patients to total normalcy—this at a time when many experts thought that a cure was impossible. What Is Autism? 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Vermont is a progressive state from top to bottom: in 2008, two hundred and forty-seven of its two hundred and fifty-one cities and towns cast a majority of ballots for Barack Obama. Bernie Sanders, Guns, and the Idea of Vermont 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The drama began on January 2nd, when executioners in a dozen Saudi cities carried out death sentences—by beheading or firing squad—on forty-seven men. Iran and Saudi Arabia: The Showdown Between Islam’s Rival Powers 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, forty-seven Republican senators wrote the Supreme Leader of Iran and declared that the President didn’t speak for the country. Can the G.O.P. Deal with Inequality? 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Paul has a daughter from his first marriage, while Ginger, nearly a decade younger, at forty-seven, has no children or career of her own. Mary Gaitskill, Master of Desire 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Today, at forty-one, she is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, with forty-seven affiliates across the country, representing fifteen thousand members. Gloria Steinem’s Life on the Feminist Frontier 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Revisiting the fracas forty-seven years later, I’m not so sure. Buckley, Vidal, and the “Queer” Question 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Half a millennium after Wan Hu’s minions lit the forty-seven rockets that probably incinerated the Ming Dynasty official, China became the third nation to launch people into orbit using its own vehicle. China Makes Its Move to the Moon [Excerpt] 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z As a preliminary test of this hypothesis, they turned to the World Values Survey—a large-scale project spanning 62,000 individuals across forty-seven countries. The Psychological Cost of Being a Maverick 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The other dissenter, Curtis, was, at forty-seven, one of the youngest members of the Court. What Does Marriage Equality Have to Do with Dred Scott? 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Mayweather typically fights at welterweight, which has a limit of a hundred and forty-seven pounds, near the middle of the sport’s seventeen weight classes. Floyd Mayweather’s Longest Fight 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Altogether, there are five pumping stations, ninety-two miles of tunnels, and a hundred and forty-seven miles of open aqueducts, buried conduits, and siphons. The Disappearing Colorado River 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Chisholm, a Democrat, who is fifty-two, and Walker, who is forty-seven, both grew up in the state and both attended Marquette University, in Milwaukee. How to Stop Mass Incarceration 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z But this is more than just an extraordinary chronological coincidence, for with an average age of forty-seven, none of them can possibly be described as yet being old. A Point of View: Is it better to have leaders who are too old or too young? - BBC News 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z I am an HR Manager in a legal research firm with forty-seven employees. Legal Pot And Your Job 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z By the end of the day, a hundred and forty-seven people were said to be dead, including the four gunmen, who were from Shabab, the Somalian militant Islamist group. Terrorism Rises in Northern Africa 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z He was talking about the letter “to the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran” that had been signed by forty-seven Republican senators, including Tom Cotton, of Arkansas, who led the effort. Senator Tom Cotton’s Influence on the Republican Party 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z After all, if the ten offending Democrats jumped off a bridge in 1984, would the forty-seven Republican senators in 2015 follow them into the abyss? If Nancy Pelosi Jumped Off An Iranian Bridge, Would Senate Republicans Do It Too? 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z This time, she upbraided the forty-seven Republican signatories to a newly released open letter, addressed to Iranian leaders, that questions President Obama’s authority to reach an agreement to restrict Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Hillary Clinton and Her E-Mails: It Was All About Convenience 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The new Senate Republican majority’s fourth attempt at cloture failed on Monday, forty-seven to forty-six. Threats to Homeland Security 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z The C.D.C. counts a hundred and forty-seven victims in the cantaloupe case. Why Did the Chicken Make You Sick? 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z This idea makes intuitive sense, and, indeed, Nielsen reports that, while people over sixty-five watch about forty-seven hours of television a week, most teens watch only about nineteen. The Stars of YouTube and Vine | The New Yorker 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z By 2013, Maryland casinos were earning seven hundred and forty-seven million dollars, while neighboring Pennsylvania experienced its first decline. America’s Casino-Saturation Problem 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z That’s where the projection of fifty-three Republican seats and forty-seven Democratic seats comes from. Cassidy’s Count: G.O.P. Headed for Victory in the Senate 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Most of that forty-seven per cent does not live in Madison. Scott Walker and Mary Burke Battle for Wisconsin 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Yahoo’s revenue from display ads—one of its biggest and oldest businesses, along with search ads—was four hundred and forty-seven million in the quarter, down five per cent from a year ago. Marissa Mayer’s Boring Plans for Yahoo 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z In 1967, it displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians again, occupying territory that it still largely controls, forty-seven years later. Collective Punishment in Gaza 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Nine out of forty-eight men on lorcainide died, compared with one out of forty-seven on placebo. Trial sans Error: How Pharma-Funded Research Cherry-Picks Positive Results [Excerpt] 2013-02-13T17:15:00.297Z So, to sum up, I have forty-five seats classed as likely or certain Democratic, and two seats as leaning Democratic, for a total of forty-seven. Cassidy’s Count: G.O.P. Headed for Victory in the Senate 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z On September 8, 1329, he held another assembly at Carcassonne, attended by forty-seven experts, which in its two days’ session acted upon forty cases. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Washington had only 47 points after three quarters and was stuck there for a while in the fourth as fans chanted "forty-seven!" Knicks crush Wizards 103-65, tie for 7th 2012-04-14T02:07:21Z Gainsborough was forty-seven years of age when he came to settle definitely in London; his genius had reached the highest point of its development. Gainsborough 2012-04-11T02:00:34.933Z Ogden acted with promptness and efficiency, and by the use of several hundred dollars’ worth of commodities ransomed forty-seven women and children. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z They weighed each about forty-seven thousand pounds, distributed as follows: eighteen thousand on drivers, fourteen thousand on the pair of wheels in front of the fire-box, and fifteen thousand on the truck. Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives Baldwin Locomotive Works 2012-04-03T02:00:35.800Z In 1622, the Indians made a dreadful massacre at Jamestown, destroying three hundred and forty-seven of the English settlers. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z This is the last remaining column of the Basilica of Constantine, and is forty-seven feet high without its base and capital. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Of the forty-seven bodies thirty-six were of matured women and five of men. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z He projected a Milton Gallery of forty-seven large pictures, which, however, was not a financial success, therefore in 1780 Fuseli complained that the public would feed him with honour, but leave him to starve. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z But this can hardly be dignified by the name of catalogue, as it contained only forty-seven stars, and it omits several of the brighter stars, notably Sirius! Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z On the way, out of forty-seven houses I passed, only one had an occupant. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z Port he drank in prodigious quantities: in his childhood it saved his life, and it probably enabled a weakly constitution to hold out for forty-seven years. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z None of them were, or are, over forty-seven years old. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z It was wrapped forty-seven times, but not so expeditiously as has been her wont. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z At suit of Margam's, of Paul's Churchyard, for forty-seven, six, eight, debt and costs. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Then she said: "I could let you have forty-seven dollars." The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z He was then only forty-seven years of age, but looked much younger, and therefore quite unlike the typical Lord Chancellor robed in venerable dignity. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z In consequence of their forty-seven years of service the church became known as "Old Tennent." Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z He was now forty-seven, and had indeed reached a high position. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z This was made by forty-seven scholars, occupying about three years, and was issued in 1611. Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers 2012-03-01T03:00:24.783Z Spancioc whom you would fain have beheaded when you murdered the forty-seven boyars, and who escaped from your clutches! Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z He remained there for one hour and forty-seven minutes by the clock. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z After I finished my reconnoissance yesterday, before starting back, I allowed the men to fire at the mark, and they kept up a pretty brisk fire until they had fired forty-seven shots. Four Years A Scout and Spy 2012-02-23T03:00:37.640Z The vote on the repeal stood: Yeas, four; nays, forty-seven. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z And yet the Government charges that the fraudulent claim was two thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars and forty-seven cents. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z It was burned in the Bruchium Library forty-seven years before Christ. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z His parents were of Dutch-Scotch descent and gave him the iron constitution that enables him to-day, at the age of forty-seven, to tire out the most robust of his assistants. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z We all engaged in shooting, following one after the other in quick succession, until we had fired, in all, forty-seven shots. Four Years A Scout and Spy 2012-02-23T03:00:37.640Z Clay was now forty-seven, the polished orator, the consummate leader, one of the great trio whom all visitors to Washington wished to look upon: Clay, Webster, and Calhoun. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z The order set out is on page forty-seven. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z In the book of Jeremiah the Prophet, from chapter thirty-seven to chapter forty-seven, the reader will find a graphic record of the events that preceded, accompanied, and followed the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Diodorus, on the authority of the sacred records, speaks of forty-seven graves. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Of the two hundred and thirty men who had made up the two companies of the Legion, only forty-seven could stand in the ranks and answer to their names. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z He was only forty-seven, distinguished and beloved, with a wife and seven children dependent upon him. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z Of the remaining forty-seven, seven sent in no report. Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils Their Effect on General Intelligence 2012-01-28T03:00:25.603Z I cannot remember my forty-seven years, and run about too much. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Later coins give forty-six provinces, and Ptolemy forty-seven. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z For those forty-seven there was herculean work to do. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z A few days after this another mutiny broke out, and forty-seven men, refusing to serve any longer under Captain Sharp, landed near the island of Plate, with five Indian slaves to serve as guides. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z At the Siege of Calais there were forty-seven ships from this little place! Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z It is now just forty-seven years, since I first read it, at Exeter. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z The subject he selected for his public discussion was the human voice, and he constructed a universal alphabet consisting of forty-seven letters, of which, however, very little is known. Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z When brought to justice all the forty-seven commit hara-kiri. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z How would Pitt appear to us had he died when he was still forty-seven? Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z To-day, thanks to the sentimental credulity of a number of estimable but credulous females, we have raked in forty-seven pounds ten. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z An auto-da-f� was celebrated in the same town on the 20th of May, 1563; seventeen persons were burnt in person, and four in effigy; forty-seven others were subjected 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 This monotessaron contains the gospel story in forty-seven sections, with no section headings, and no indications whatever of times, places, or sources of the various portions of the text. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z The life and the death of the forty-seven Ronins may account for the fixed determination wherewith the troops met their death before the walls of Port Arthur. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z But at forty-seven the elder Pitt could only claim that he had been Paymaster of the Forces, and had cowed but not persuaded the House of Commons by his oratory. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z You can do a lot with forty-seven pounds ten, Philip. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z As you know, forty-seven publicans in this parish signed a petition, praying Parliament to close you upon the whole of Sunday. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z The fastest individual passages down to 1891 were made by the Etruria, westwards in six days one hour and forty-seven minutes; and by the Umbria, eastwards in six days three hours and seventeen minutes. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z In response to the special invitations, two hundred forty-seven ten-minute addresses were promised and one hundred two actually read. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z He was now forty-seven, in the full ripeness of character and intellect. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z They were reported to have been badly treated; so badly in fact that forty-seven died on the voyage or immediately on landing. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z Of these, forty-seven were shot in the streets of the town, and twenty-one were captured, whilst thirteen were shot in the bushes behind Cañacao. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z In one district, forty-seven thousand Indians were divided among fifty-six grantees. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z The license was granted and with forty-seven scouts, among whom was Surgeon Moore and Lieut. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z For an uninterrupted period of forty-seven years, Doctor Holmes has lived in Boston, and for the last dozen years he has occupied his present residence on Beacon street. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Schorn, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts at Munich, on the 7th October, aged forty-seven. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Will any one say that it might have been made to make forty-seven; or that at some future time such may be the case? Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z He was born in 1752, in Worship Street, which spot was called Windmill Hill, and first started with or rather followed his father as an itinerant trader, forty-seven years ago. The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times 2011-10-23T02:00:21.883Z But they testify that they had taken an oyster in that region, the flesh of which weighed forty-seven pounds. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z The Egyptians, who knew not God, mourned seventy days for Jacob; Joseph, his son, only forty-seven days. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z Mr. Roosevelt is the youngest President we have had, being three years younger than Ulysses S. Grant, who was forty-seven years old when inaugurated. A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z We find a record of forty-seven members as belonging to the Church when Mr. Williams commenced his labours, and fifty-one were admitted during his ministry, which continued until March, 1840. Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. 2011-10-13T02:00:37.230Z The authorized English version of the holy scriptures, known as James' Bible, is the product of forty-seven celebrated Biblical scholars, after three years' labor. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z She had a tomb made for the remains in sight of her palace windows in Santa Clara, and she watched over it in silence for forty-seven years, taking little interest in any other thing. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z At this date the President found, by careful comparison, that during the past forty-seven years, the average attendance had been greater than that of any other school for girls in the State. Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College 2011-10-08T02:00:24.723Z Case I. is that of a gentleman, aged forty-seven, the subject of lumbo-abdominal neuralgia: no history of nervous disease in the family; his mother, however, was of a "nervous" temperament. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z These Tory ministers advance forty-seven thousand pounds of the public money to the duke, knowing that he is insolvent and cannot pay the interest. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z That woman's died forty-seven times in her life, and been laid out and buried ten. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z The inner hall forty-seven feet long and twenty-three feet broad, is occasionally occupied for public entertainments. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z Our guns are the worst in the world in forty-seven vessels, mounting 350 muzzleloaders, where the French and all foreign Navies use only breechloaders. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z In the celebrated case of Dr. Arnold, the first attack did not occur till he was forty-seven years of age; it at once assumed full intensity, and proved fatal in two hours and a half. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z In the House of Lords sit twenty-eight Roman Catholic peers, and in both countries there are forty-seven Catholic baronets. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z At four o’clock, when a hundred and forty-seven bodies had been exhumed on the Washington street side, fifty-three had been carried from the alley-way in the rear. Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876 2011-09-13T02:00:36.647Z At this college Mr. Warton continued, with trifling intervals, forty-seven years. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z The magnitude of this difficulty only appears the greater when we turn from the forty-seven socialistic experiments which have failed to the seventy-two which have thriven. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z He was one of the forty-seven London clergymen who disapproved of the trial of Charles I. He was married four times, and died in July 1654. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z In the forty-seven years which followed this mileage was augmented to 30,795. The History of the Post Office in British North America 2011-08-31T02:01:37.743Z He was several years younger than his sister—which is to say, in the neighborhood of forty-seven. The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z Broken by infirmities and the hardships of prison life, Gar��o expired that very day in the Limoeiro, at the age of forty-seven. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z When all he had saved from the gift of fifty pounds, his salary, and Broughton’s present, were added together, he had but forty-seven pounds. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z The number of the Milton paintings was forty-seven, many of them very large; they were executed at intervals within nine years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z The charge on a single letter to Quebec was forty-seven cents instead of ninety-two cents, which would be due if sent by the packet route. The History of the Post Office in British North America 2011-08-31T02:01:37.743Z He was of a noble Normandy family, and when he comes upon the scene, on the banks of the Niagara, he was forty-seven years old. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z At the end of forty-seven days we took leave of these very friendly natives. The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career 2011-08-02T02:00:24.457Z “Well, I’m glad I’m nice,” teased her cousin, “but run along, child, for I have about forty-seven letters to get off by this mail.” Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z These six rooms occupy one side of the building, and contain altogether one hundred and forty-seven specimens of ancient art. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z Usually the count numbered from forty-three to forty-seven—never an even number; but Nettie said she had heard one demand “the castigation of poor William” more than seventy times before stopping. Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z In this way then, far more than forty-seven ancient witnesses have come back to testify to the men of this generation that the commonly received reading of S. Luke ii. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z They remained forty-seven days, and collected many pearls. The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career 2011-08-02T02:00:24.457Z Only forty-seven out of the fifty-four names are known. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z That is, you have been in this country forty-seven years, and can’t talk English yet. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z God bless your honour, and if you want to send an answer, my number is forty-seven in Bond Street—your honour, I am known by the name of secret Tom. The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z “In the Catholic Epistles the scribe has frequently contented himself with a column of forty-seven lines114.” A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z We stayed with them forty-seven days, and obtained from them 119 marcs of pearls for very little merchandise in exchange. The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career 2011-08-02T02:00:24.457Z Despite the woman's forty-seven years she was youthful in appearance. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z After forty-seven years of divided rule, the kingly power was again in a single hand, and there seemed to be a chance for peace and progress. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z The British vessel was said to be the privateer Rosebud, with a crew of one hundred men, of whom forty-seven were killed and wounded; we are not told the Pomona's loss. Privateers and Privateering 2011-06-21T02:00:26.477Z From 1417, when after a siege of forty-seven days it succumbed to Henry V., king of England, till 1450, when it was retaken by the French, Falaise was in the hands of the English. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The 3d proved even a still more favorable day, the distance made reaching to forty-seven leagues. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z "I believe the law of average works out to about forty-seven years," he said. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z The poet David, ap Gwillim, styled the Welsh Ovid, loved a lady of the name of Morvid, in whose praise his prolific muse produced no fewer than a hundred and forty-seven poems. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z That’s easy to calculate,” I replied, as I slipped on my clothing, “twenty and forty-seven—sixty-seven dollars exactly.” Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z Particular divisions of the pilgrimage direct visiting forty-seven Lingas, all of pre-eminent sanctity; but there are hundreds of inferior note still worshipped, and thousands whose fame and fashion have died away. Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India 2011-05-31T02:00:29.133Z These, however, were pygmies beside the gigantic trout landed by Dr. Seward Webb in 1899, which tipped the scales at forty-seven pounds. Among the Canadian Alps 2011-05-30T02:00:16.600Z The Bill was rejected by a majority of forty-seven. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z The college was to hold a master, twelve fellows, and forty-seven scholars, and the countess framed all the rules for them herself. Great Englishwomen An Historical Reading Book for Schools 2011-05-23T02:00:09.167Z The space on the floor where I usually kept my money, where the night before I had placed a long blue envelope containing forty-seven dollars—was empty. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z He died at forty-seven, but he had already ceased living at forty. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z For forty-seven years she had done a big washing every week, and laundried more collars than a Canada thistle has seed-pods. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z But, for a man of forty-seven, he's too dinged shy. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z Abdullah was one of forty-seven drivers and passengers who stayed out for about an hour before being arrested. Saudi Women to Get Behind the Wheel in Defiance of Driving Ban 2011-05-11T02:31:29Z “Yes; your forty-seven dollars, and the sixty from the Catacomb Party for the Home.” Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z Texas is not too hot; forty-seven thousand free white persons, males, over the age of fifteen, daily perform their rural vocations amidst her unsheltered air. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z The long reign of Queen Elizabeth—forty-seven years—afforded great opportunity for the encouragement of art. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z Conservation legislation necessarily involves harmonious action by forty-seven sovereigns, the Nation and the States, each acting within its jurisdiction. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z Isa tried to count the drops: but, when she had counted four millions, three hundred and seventy-eight thousand, two hundred and forty-seven, she got tired of counting, and left off. The Story of Lewis Carroll Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland 2011-04-30T02:00:12.447Z “No,” I replied, “only forty-seven dollars as yet, but I hope to make it before the close of school.” Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z So it seems that the total number of actual slave-owners, including their entire crew of cringing lickspittles, against whom we have to contend, is but three hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty-five. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z There are not twenty-two letters as in the Phœnician alphabet, nor twenty-six as in ours—there are forty-seven! St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z But the overworked body at forty-seven years of age could no longer bear the strain. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z The hundred and forty-seven young men required feeding, and the seminary was poor. Pope Pius the Tenth 2011-04-26T02:00:21.967Z It is divided up, as it were, into forty-seven seigniories, in each of which a Standing Committee is the court-baron and its chairman lord-proprietor. Congressional Government A Study in American Politics 2011-04-15T02:00:18.863Z My father, Fran�ois Louis Gounod, was born in 1758, and was therefore slightly over forty-seven years of age at the time of his marriage. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z The action of the forty-seven Ronin was morally approved by public sentiment, but they had to commit suicide because they were offenders in the eyes of the law. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z For forty-seven years "his dear Sarah" made life a joy to him. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z When our rollaway bed and the army cot were in use, we could accommodate a grand total of forty-seven people. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z The work is parceled out, most of it to the forty-seven Standing Committees which constitute the regular organization of the House, some of it to select committees appointed for special and temporary purposes. Congressional Government A Study in American Politics 2011-04-15T02:00:18.863Z The number of its pages is seven hundred and forty-seven. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z Even at two dollars per acre, your rancho, being forty-seven thousand acres—if sold at that low figure—would bring you ninety-four thousand dollars.” The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Mr. Galt has ever since resided in Toronto, and has thus had his home in our Provincial capital for more than forty-seven years. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z The American Consul, Mr. Cushman, told me he had crossed the Atlantic forty-seven times. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z He was now in the prime of his manhood, forty-seven years of age. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z Frank says he is not more than forty-seven years of age, but sorrow has placed a heavy mark upon him. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected except for the following: On page 111, the book mentions "among the forty-eight prefectures of the Japanese empire", but there were forty-seven prefectures since 1888. Working Women of Japan 2011-03-09T03:00:49.197Z In 1689, when he was forty-seven, he was chosen member of parliament, and represented Cambridge University in the House of Commons for thirteen months. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z Two days later, when he had carried five more eggs to his hoard that now numbered forty-seven, Bud found only two eggs left. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z In one of the blockhouses this morning our Warwickshire men captured forty-seven prisoners, who, when they were surrounded, took refuge in tunnelled galleries running to the right of the main fort, called Schuler Farm. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z We are livin' now at an elegant hotel, where we sit down forty-seven of us every day, at the sound of a big bell at one o'clock. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z All the numbers made, chanced to be very low, none of them reaching over thirty-eight—until I had finished “tossing the bones,” when I was told that the aggregate recorded in my favour was forty-seven. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z In fact, he died in the June after he was forty-seven. Stories of Great Men 2011-02-21T03:00:07.643Z Captain Bambrick was forty-seven years of age, and had served his country more than thirty years. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z His father, who is forty-seven, is in the war. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z Inserted are a Washington manuscript, signed, fifteen portraits of Washington, forty-seven other portraits, and eleven views, many of the engravings being proofs. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z The money was paid down; and after all had finished tossing, number forty-seven was declared the winner. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z Two hundred and forty-seven years before Christ, so the chronicle runs, one of the greatest generals, and one of the most interesting characters of antiquity, was born at Carthage. Stories of Great Men 2011-02-21T03:00:07.643Z The height of the choir-vault is perhaps a hundred and twenty odd feet, as against one hundred and forty-seven at Amiens, and accordingly it does not suffer in comparison. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z He estimates the loss of the guerrillas as one hundred and fifty killed, three hundred wounded and forty-seven prisoners. The Courier of the Ozarks 2011-02-09T03:00:43.267Z His balancing poles of ash wood varied in length and were of three sections, and weighed from thirty-seven to forty-seven pounds. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z “No, mother,” said Lucy; “Sarah had forty-eight, and I forty-seven.” The Boys' And Girls' Library 2011-02-06T03:01:02.953Z On my ordination in 1865, I entered on clerical life in the Diocese of Cloyne, County of Cork; in which diocese I have remained ever since for the long period of close on forty-seven years. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z I pretend the problem is "forty-seven and ten." Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z The reserve cities are forty-seven in number and include the larger cities of the country. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z Even if the average white brain weighed only fifty ounces, a defect of six per cent. would reduce it only to forty-seven ounces, which is still above the average of the Blacks. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z Of the forty-seven men who had been with the company since it crossed the Rapidan only ten were left for duty—thirty-five had been killed or wounded, and two had been captured unwounded. Vermont riflemen in the war for the union, 1861 to 1865 A history of Company F, First United States sharp shooters 2011-01-28T03:00:21.780Z There were not many men left to go away, only forty-seven, but there were ten more at Lindley, and many others in various hospitals in the country. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z It is like "Forty-seven and nine, forty-seven and nine, forty-seven and nine." Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z Every bank not situated in any one of the three central reserve cities or the forty-seven reserve cities is a country bank. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z Once more he had to stop, unable to grasp the truth; Akme Mining, nine and a half; Suburban Electric, forty-seven; Fuel, sixty-three; it was all impossible. The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z “Yes, she does, just the same as she used to forty-seven hundred years ago.” Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z You've got to lay a statement of your financial condition before the government whether your income is ninety-seven cents a minute or forty-seven thousand dollars an hour. Half-Hours with the Idiot 2011-01-22T03:00:18.853Z 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 In one of the canoes were forty-seven persons, all of whom were armed with pikes, stones, and darts, and assumed the appearance of a hostile intention. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods 2011-01-12T03:00:35.190Z Of the fifty-five men thirty were college men, twenty-six had degrees, forty-seven were afterwards prominent in public life; of the remaining eight, at least four died soon after the close of the convention. The Short Constitution 2011-01-05T03:01:00.017Z And yet the writer of the above lines has lived in Fremont for forty-seven years. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z During the reign of Edward III. it sent—assisted, no doubt, by the surrounding country—no less than forty-seven ships manned by seven hundred and seventy men, to the siege of Calais. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z Jackson's loss was thirty-two white men and twenty-three friendly Indians killed, ninety-nine white men and forty-seven friendly Indians wounded. Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. 2010-12-20T17:12:28.183Z In Greece, it is Epimenides, the poet, who, while searching for a lost sheep, wanders into a cave where he slumbers forty-seven years. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Not long since, the brig "Lucy Anne," of Boston, was captured on the coast of Africa, with five hundred and forty-seven slaves on board. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z The combined fleet, with this addition, amounted to some two hundred and forty-seven vessels, of which nearly two-thirds were galleys. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies In a reign of forty-seven years he made fifty-three military expeditions, most of which he led himself; eight years he fought the Avars; and thirty-three the Saxons. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII Two hundred is a conservative estimate of the German losses, for our men buried forty-seven of them on the field, and there were more corpses in the tall grass facing the position out of reach. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. Islands situated in Lower Klamath Lake and the marsh and swamp lands unsuitable for agricultural purposes in townships thirty-nine, forty, and forty-one south, Oregon, and in townships forty-seven and forty-eight north, California. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open On these conditions Duchambon surrendered, and on June 17, after a siege of forty-seven days, the English became masters of Louisbourg. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical He died on June 17, 1719, at the age of forty-seven. The Story of Our Hymns We had, between us, forty-seven cents and three street-car tickets, good in the opposite town. The Jonathan Papers He had served more than six years and expended one hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars in the glorious cause he had nobly, ardently, successfully espoused. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution For my father, who was then scarcely forty-seven years of age, appeared old to me,—far older, for example, than I now believe myself to look, at almost the same age. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. He died in 1673, at the age of seventy-four, after having led for forty-seven years a life which cannot be designated as peaceful. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. The enemy losses were very heavy; only forty-seven men were picked up by our boats, of whom many afterwards died of their wounds. The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War The Tanab is, by the way, a lineal measure of forty-seven yards, and a Tanabi is a piece of land forty-seven yards square. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar It has a population of about forty-seven thousand, and is the third largest city in Cuba, and the most populous inland town. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers Forty-seven and two G's," and he hastily turned over the leaves of his little book, muttering continually, "and two G's, forty-six, forty-seven, with two B's, two F's. Tony Butler The loss was forty-three officers and four hundred and fifty-two men, and only forty-seven were missing. Reply of the Philadelphia Brigade Association to the Foolish and Absurd Narrative of Lieutenant Frank A. Haskell The Conquest was hit by four or five twelve-inch shells, and lost forty-seven of her crew killed and wounded. The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War Just look at 'em!' and in an instant the same exclamation was echoed from forty-seven mouths. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them However, we reached the sands on the banks of the Ganges, on the Oude side of the river opposite Cawnpore, just as the sun was setting, having covered the forty-seven miles under thirty hours. Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude Three days passed with his friend at Yokohama were, Hearn declares, the most pleasurable in a pilgrimage of forty-seven years. Lafcadio Hearn The song contains forty-seven stanzas in all, with the characteristic refrain of the waulking-songs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" At another place, forty-seven acres moved entirely across the Canal at the rate of fourteen feet a day, and rose at one point to a height of thirty feet. Bert Wilson at Panama We have forty-seven miles to go in the next two days. An Artilleryman's Diary Young was full forty-seven—mature in years, in acquirements, in experience, and in reputation—when he began to publish the “News that it is well.” Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes September 5, we made a record hike, going forty-seven kilometres before making camp after daylight. Battery E in France 149th Field Artillery, Rainbow (42nd) Division The period of gestation varies slightly with the individual, but the average may be approximately stated as one hundred and forty-seven days, or about five months. Practical Angora Goat Raising The locks each had four gates, seven feet thick and from forty-seven to seventy-nine feet high. Bert Wilson at Panama It is now forty-seven Years since its first Appearance upon the Stage, where it has kept its Station, to this very Day, without ever lying one Winter dormant. A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope He had thirty-seven years, and they weighed on him as the forty-seven when their time came would not do. Man and Maid His father had used it constantly for forty-seven years, till his thumb had worn a groove in its maple-wood handle. Edelweiss A Story One hundred and forty-seven cannon were posted, on the night of December 10th, so as to command the town and cover the crossing of the river. The Greater Republic A History of the United States St. Clair resigned his commission, and was succeeded in his western command by General Wayne, the mad Anthony of the revolution, still in the vigor of his days, being forty-seven years of age. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools This was a small house, but the Lady Margaret’s endowment provided for a master, twelve fellows and forty-seven scholars. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" Do you know that it’s exactly forty-seven minutes since you’ve let fall a word? A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance She is now a stout spinster of forty-seven, thick and square of figure, and, as she takes her kapje off, you may note the grey threads showing thick in her dull brown hair. Tales of South Africa Of the 1,300 streams, forty-seven are considerable rivers. The Greater Republic A History of the United States When we know that forty-seven shillings would be a sufficient price for a case of dynamite, to invoice a case at forty shillings higher shows that some people must have grand pickings. Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal The eighth session opened on Thursday, July 7th, and continued forty-seven days to August 22d. The Story of Chautauqua By the account taken of the Christians murdered that morning, they were found to be three hundred and forty-seven, most of them falling by their own instruments, and working tools. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts The bright girl of seventeen has changed to the middle-aged woman of forty-seven, yet that early love and its memories have remained ever constant within her, and will go with her to her grave. Tales of South Africa On the 31st, while enroute, they were attacked at Malate by 3,000 Spaniards, whom they repulsed, but sustained a loss of nine men killed and forty-seven wounded, nine of them seriously. The Greater Republic A History of the United States This surprising fact was first brought to the notice of Europeans during the Chicago World’s Fair, when forty-seven foreign Commissioners were taken to the immense Dalrymple farm in North Dakota. The Romance of the Reaper The Executive Council—corresponding to the BKP Central Committee—is composed of ninety-nine members and forty-seven alternate members. Area Handbook for Bulgaria No than a hundred and forty-seven were summoned before the council at Brussels. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 They carried away forty-seven thousand francs' worth for the night's work. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier On the second day of December, fifteen hundred and forty-seven, Cortez died, in the sixty-third year of his age. Hernando Cortez Makers of History It was the last-named who organized the All England Eleven, and he was not chosen to represent the players until he had reached the age of forty-seven. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Yale, and the house of representatives, with forty-seven members by myself as secretary of state. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant THE canoe traveller can ascend the St. Lawrence River to Lake Ontario, avoiding the rapids and shoals by making use of seven canals of a total length of forty-seven miles. Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5. He could not bear to look at the long rows of empty seats, seats that might have been occupied by living men, two hundred and forty-seven silent, omnipresent accusers. The Star Lord His first step in real business was when he established a news route of forty-seven subscribers for the New Bedford Standard. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Five minutes later the car was quivering with its increasing speed and McCarthy, looking at the gauge, saw that it registered forty-seven miles, and was still sliding forward. Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant Under the operation of the national banking act, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis have been designated as central reserve, and forty-seven other cities as reserve cities. Banking The high-water mark was reached in the period from 1765 to 1785, when on an average forty-seven acts were passed every year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" The export of tea in 1890 rose to the considerable amount of forty-seven million pounds, which aggregate we have evidence to show has been since increased annually. The Pearl of India Such was my stock-in-trade, to begin life anew, at the age of forty-seven. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II On Sunday the 27th September, we received an addition of forty-seven new members, they having been recruited at Cleveland by Colonel Barnett and others. Our Battery The Journal of Company B, 1st O.V.A. One of the last acts recorded of the crown prince, Belshazzar, is the payment of a tithe, forty-seven shekels in amount, due from his sister to the temple of the sun-god at Sippara. The Christian View of the Old Testament He was then forty-seven years of age, and up to that time had remained one of the most determined old bachelors that ever existed. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 When you are on it, Cancer is just over your head, and betwixt him and Capricorn is the high road of the Zodiac, forty-seven degrees wide, famous for Phaeton’s misadventure. Wanderings in South America That drama lasted in actual time for forty-seven years longer; and for more than the first thirty of them fresh and ever fresh acts and scenes carried it on. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Only forty-seven miles south of Flagstaff are Montezuma's Castle and Well. Through Our Unknown Southwest Rankin deserves particular mention for entering the rebel column and cutting off forty-seven men in the following manner: History of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry A general sent against him by Vouti, the emperor, who boasted of having gained forty-seven victories, was completely defeated, and all the results of his campaign were lost. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Before 1708, the Company had granted the freedom to ten kings, three princes, twenty-seven bishops, twenty-six dukes, forty-seven earls, and sixteen lord mayors. Old and New London Volume I The other animals, forty-seven of them followed, and when a few feet from the shore had to swim. In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 The expedition to Bruges returned safely with the forty-seven Belgian wounded. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium Her last triumph was forty-seven years ago,—nay, even that victory was really achieved twenty years before at the adoption of the constitution. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence Once she played it over forty-seven times before her nervous and irritable master would let her off. Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso In the hall is preserved an old oak folding case, containing the forty-seven rules of the institution, now almost defaced, and probably of the reign of Henry VIII. Old and New London Volume I In one hour three hundred and forty-seven white men, women and children had been massacred. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women Besides, there were forty-seven Belgian wounded in Bruges, and three of our ambulance cars were going back to fetch them. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium Gentlemen, this is all that has been done for seventy-two years; the last triumph of American Freedom over American Slavery was forty-seven years ago! The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence Walker, the Secretary of War, is some forty-seven or eight years of age, tall, thin, and a little bent; not by age, but by study and bad health. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital The parliamentary majority, however, fell from sixty-two to forty-seven, and the popular majority from fifty to twenty thousand. The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time Of the Cherokee and Creek scouts, twenty-three had been killed, forty-seven wounded. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women Forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven— I knew there were forty-eight of them. Miss Cayley's Adventures Forty-two feet," came the reply, "now it's forty-seven. The Thirst Quenchers It is now forty-seven years since its first appearance on the stage, where it has kept its station, to this very day, without ever lying one winter dormant. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The amount was two hundred and forty-seven pounds ten shillings. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography But few constructions are visible around the arena, elliptic in shape and measuring fifty-four m�tres on its long axis and forty-seven on the short one. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 Especially to be mentioned in this connection are the colossi of Thebes, which are forty-seven feet high, each hewn from a single block of granite. History of Human Society Our list presents forty-seven sure votes besides the doubtful, but not many pledges. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II I married a woman and lived with her forty-seven years, rain or shine. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 She had thought of trying for the doctor, for she was only forty-seven, and hope lives in the female heart much longer than any such trifling term. Claim Number One In about twenty minutes the eggs were taken out, roasted quite hard; and in forty-seven minutes, the steak was not only dressed, but almost dry.” A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) He has abstained from tea and coffee—poisonous things, as he calls them—forty-seven years. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery Despite the protests of the Opposition, the Bill passed its third reading in the House of Assembly on March 9, 1849, by a vote of forty-seven to eighteen. The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion We have come around forty-seven degrees of longitude west from Washington, and something like nine degrees north unite with France or Spain on the south to known exploration by land. The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman A portion of it, after the lapse of forty-seven years, remains in my recollection as distinctly as it did the day after I learned it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 He was now forty-seven years of age and had entered the revolution as a Colonel in the Continental Army. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 The members of the Ambulance obtain this outfit for the surprisingly small sum of forty-seven dollars, each paying for his own equipment. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone Someone did reach that ship—reached it from a distance—reached it in the same way they reached that poor devil I left at room nine forty-seven. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 “Y’see,” he observed, pausing at the entry he had been looking for, “Sally paid us a hundred an’ forty-seven dollars an’ seventy-five cents. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country It was about forty-seven inches long by eight and a half inches in diameter. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons There was a postman from Bradford, who was forty-seven years old and had thirteen children. With Manchesters in the East The suffragists are organized in forty-seven; the only State without an organization is New Mexico. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V It was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and measures fifty-four by forty-seven feet, being almost as broad as it is long, consisting of three aisles, and making no pretensions, he says, to antiquity. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel To-day there were thirty-two in one race and forty-seven in another, and some of the worst casualties were caused by one horse falling and others tumbling over him. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' "But say, on the level now—I'm there forty-seven ways on that Shakespeare thing, ain't I?" Kid Scanlan There was also a great serpent forty-seven feet long, cut in stone, devouring a lion as broad as an ox. The Mayas, the Sources of Their History Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries ‘The average attendance is about forty-seven, an’ it used to be between five an’ six hundred, an’ we are all taxed to death to keep it goin’. 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry One hundred and forty-seven men, armed with forty-five fowling-pieces, four rifles and a few pistols and machetes, constituted the rebellious band which, under Se�or Cespedes' leadership, had ventured to raise the standard of independence. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba The mountain which they had supposed to be the Mount Hood of Vancouver, now bore S. 85° E., about forty-seven miles distant. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers But the English, alarmed by the ravages which the Indians were committing in this region, sent a force consisting of forty-seven Englishmen and eighty Indians to scour the country. King Philip Makers of History He died at forty-seven, too early to accomplish any work of solid utility, but not too early to spread his reputation through Europe, for an extraordinary proficiency in the languages of India. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 The German statement had him in the outskirts of Alexandria, only forty-seven miles from the capital, and reported that the Rumanians were retreating eastward from the lower Alt. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources The Dardanelles, from end to end, have a length of forty-seven miles. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources At the end of one hour the fluid, which weighed 18.77 pounds, or two and one-half gallons, had its temperature raised forty-seven degrees, being now 107°. Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery Yet he managed, unaided, a school of forty-seven pupils, and got excellent reports. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland To the first there were forty-seven amendments, which, being printed and distributed, the commission reported, and the amendments were put to the vote. Pius IX. And His Time In all six hundred and forty-seven pieces we carried to where they now rest. The Web of the Golden Spider I have been making a collection of birds' eggs for about two months, and I have forty-seven different kinds. Harper's Young People, July 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The horns were forty-seven inches in length, but were broken at the tips; the original length was fifty-one inches; the circumference at the base was twenty inches. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' The remainder of his life was passed in his pleasant home at Brimfield, Massachusetts, where he died June 1, 1811, at the age of forty-seven. Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Aberdeen has forty-seven priests, of whom seven are members of the Benedictine Order. Pius IX. And His Time What arguments in regard to a nation of forty-seven millions of people can be bolstered up by instancing the imperfect acquaintance of a Japanese pastry-cook with the English language? The Empire of the East On one occasion he summoned forty-seven shepherds to come and report to him in Babylon. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters Ralph could not repress a grand, satisfied expression of exultation as No. 999 glided gracefully into the depot at Bridgeport, over forty-seven minutes ahead of time. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer He settled in Boston in the year 1807, and for the space of forty-seven years devoted himself to the practice of his profession. The History of Dartmouth College The term occurs forty-seven times in the New Testament, and it is translated thirty-eight times by the words turn and return. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880 The population of the Empire according to the last census was about forty-seven millions, and, like that of Great Britain, it is annually increasing. The Empire of the East He had lived through a thousand and forty-seven memorable 37 years. Wild Life on the Rockies "You will not scruple, I suppose, to pay forty-seven dollars!" Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Bidding farewell to the natives at Cape Alexander on June 15, 1855, Cape York was passed, the land ice of Melville Bay followed, and the northern coast of Danish Greenland reached in forty-seven days. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History But after reaching the age of forty-seven, he died of fever in the year 1541. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto As regards secondary education, it is compulsory for one school to be established in each of the forty-seven prefectures into which Japan is divided. The Empire of the East The old lady took out her purse, and drew therefrom forty-seven cents. Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves And Billy Louise could not afford to pay toll to a rustler out of her forty-seven head of cattle. The Ranch at the Wolverine For forty-seven years, in a country where women had scarcely any power, this marvelous woman ruled one-fourth of the human race. Birdseye Views of Far Lands Soon after this notable production, which was written with the ripe folly of forty-seven, Young took orders, and was presently appointed chaplain to the King. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete The ethnologist may still puzzle himself as to the origin of these forty-seven millions of people and feel annoyed because he cannot classify them to his own satisfaction. The Empire of the East Let us,—however much inclined to hold with Raleigh, Shuckford, and Hales,—agree with Dr. Kitto that the ark was five hundred and forty-seven feet in length, by ninety-one feet in breadth. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed His first flight, on Saturday the 8th of August, lasted one minute and forty-seven seconds. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force The laugh, however, was not entirely his, for, upon mustering them, he discovered that forty-seven had escaped. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier New England has five hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred and thirty-two families, and four hundred and forty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dwellings. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject That was in 1216, and forty-seven years later, when Simon de Montfort took the baron's army by the ridge to Rochester, Reigate could do no more than watch the army march by. Highways and Byways in Surrey They are forty-seven feet high, and measure about eighteen feet three inches across the shoulders. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Of course we instantly stopped our engines and launched a boat; but we only found and saved three men out of the boat’s total complement of forty-seven. Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War Of the forty-seven pieces, thirty-five appear for the first time in English verse. Hymns of the Greek Church Translated with Introduction and Notes After this date her exports of cotton gradually enlarged, until, in 1853, they reached over one hundred and forty-seven millions of pounds. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Across the stream a score were secured and forty-seven corpses taken out. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Multiply the one by seventeen and the other by forty-seven, and you will get all nines in each case. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems At Yale there are about sixty-eight titles not at Harvard; and at the Clark Library, about forty-seven titles not at the Huntington. The Library of William Congreve Thereupon, forty-seven of his principal vassals pledged themselves to wreak vengeance, and, after nearly two years of planning and watching, they finally succeeded in achieving their purpose. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Under the influence of the royal declaration forty-seven nobles, being a portion only of the Liberal minority, went over to the Commons, and Talleyrand followed at the head of twenty-five prelates. Lectures on the French Revolution There are forty-seven chapters and a bloody fight in every one of them, save in the dozen set apart for an interval of refreshment and romance in the middle. Punch or the London Charivari, October 10, 1920 In this department there are forty-seven juges de paix, twenty of whom, as I learn from an enquiry, were mayors at the time of their appointment. The Cult of Incompetence Four hundred and forty-seven days I have had to wait upon God before the sum reached the above amount. The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller The day was ultimately carried by the advocates of stern justice, and the forty-seven ronins were ordered to commit suicide. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era India's population groups forty-seven nationalities, divided into 2,378 recognized castes and tribes. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Kutab was a viceroy when he began this splendid column, two hundred and thirty-eight feet high, with a base diameter of forty-seven feet three inches. The Critic in the Orient Then he could borrow enough to pay for the sewing table—minus forty-seven cents. Jerry's Charge Account The year embodied in the Pyramid was 365 days, five hours, forty-eight minutes, forty-seven and seven-tenths seconds. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 With the Heian epoch is connected the wide use of the phonetic script known as kana, which may be described as a syllabary of forty-seven symbols formed from abbreviated Chinese ideographs. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era M’sieur Maugham may be regarded as beau, but he is not an elderly waiter of forty-seven, therefore we may not call him a gar�on.’ When Winter Comes to Main Street Philip perished at the age of forty-seven, after a most successful reign of twenty-three years. Ancient States and Empires His entire wealth at the moment was forty-seven cents, hardly enough to buy either a usual or unusual item. Jerry's Charge Account She came back just a little before the wedding to see him in quite a new light—a lover, for he at sixty-five and Mrs. Waters at forty-seven had fallen in love. The Third Miss Symons Pawnees, a warlike people, number two thousand four hundred and forty-seven, an increase for the past year of eighty-three. The Indian Question (1874) On this day, the 21st, Dr. Hill returned from the lead mine, a distance of forty-seven miles. Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819 There for the remaining forty-seven years of his life he worked and loved and stormed. Stories of Authors, British and American It remained unknown for a long time and was published for the first time forty-seven years after the Diet. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church She sent as many as forty-seven ships, the largest number of any, manned by 770 seamen. The Cornwall Coast Wherefore he ever lived in honour, and was rewarded with the supreme magistracy of the Signoria in his native city; but finally, having reached the age of forty-seven, he died. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna The total casualties of the Alabama are not known, estimated at forty-seven—a striking contrast to the three of the Kearsarge. The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama Come in on the nine forty-seven from the Junction. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Indeed, he had now attained the age of forty-seven. The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX. Quebec is about forty-seven, and this is a long way farther north. Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark He had a large family growing up, and he was now again, at the age of forty-seven, without any definite prospects in life. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities One of Filippo's best dinners satisfied the last cravings of their appetites; but for a week they felt the strain of their forty-seven hours in the dory and on the buoy. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good At that time Shakespeare was forty-five or forty-seven years of age, and lived for five or seven years thereafter in utter intellectual idleness, in Stratford. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History This was from the monitor 'Tecumseh,' at forty-seven minutes past six o'clock. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 “It’s twenty-five hundred and forty-seven miles, according to the last river measurements; but Lewis and Clark call it twenty-eight hundred and forty-eight miles.” The Young Alaskans on the Missouri At forty-seven, that second youth, the Indian summer of the emotions, which lingers like autumnal sunshine in the lives of most men and of a few women, was again enkindling his heart. Virginia But I cannot see for the life of me how a forty-seven dollar quartered oak dresser is going to make any more of a man of him, especially when he goes in debt for it. The High Calling |
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