| 单词 | ninety-eight |
| 例句 | I was ninety-eight years old and I’m still going. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unbeknownst to America, ninety-eight captives were kept on Wake. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “It’s not like he could just stroll off! He was, like, ninety-eight percent dead!” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The digital thermometer on the dashboard reads ninety-eight degrees. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I couldn’t do that for the first ninety-eight birthdays. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can count backward from one hundred in a duck voice,” Esme volunteered through her sniffles, and then began to demonstrate, quacking: “One hundred, ninety-nine, ninety-eight. . .” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Graduation was ninety-eight humid degrees, the sort of day when even the rare breeze feels like the fond approach of a hairy, panting animal. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z At the age of thirty-six, weighing in at four hundred and ninety-eight pounds, Lucy died. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “This was my evening dress for quite some time,” Marian recalled, “and in some ways it made me happier than the one that would have cost fourteen ninety-eight.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z She weighed ninety-eight pounds; rings—a wedding band and one set with a diamond modest to the point of meekness—wobbled on one of her bony hands. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z By his calculations, he wouldn’t be able to retire before he turned ninety-eight. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Why I trust someone who’s just told me he’s full of it ninety-eight percent of the time I don’t know. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Her mother stopped crying for a second to say, “One ninety-eight? An hour?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z And then, just as she reached a hundred and ninety-eight, Joseph Ryan appeared at her elbow, like a waiter. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Well, partially. It is an act. I am an act. Totally full of it. About ninety-eight percent of the time anyway. My intentions are rarely honorable. It’s not terrible to be called out for once.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “There are seven billion living people, and about ninety-eight billion dead people.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “So every ninety-eight years, people move out of their houses and turn them into museums?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The boat is maybe ten times the size of ours, with room enough for ninety-eight people to walk and stretch. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the admissions test, Milton had scored a ninety-eight. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Once you got that old, you might as well be ninety-eight or a hundred and eight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z All through the morning, many more small boats arrive to deliver their passengers and by late afternoon, ninety-eight people are onboard, each having paid for their escape in five or ten ounces of pure gold. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, I’m ninety-eight percent sure the queen would’ve knighted that guy had he not died so young, may his soul rest in peace.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z "That woman was a food-taster. That young girl's tongue has been trained to detect over ninety-eight types of poisons to be found in our kingdom." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z When you look like ninety-eight per cent of a hotel’s clientele, people don’t go out of their way to imagine that you might be an imposter. A Novelist’s Stint Impersonating the Ultra-Rich in China 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z By the year 2000 there were only ninety-eight fish left, and the tribes decided to act. Saving salmon means taking down hydroelectric power dams—and it's not easy 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z In the Puerto Rico Police Department, ninety-eight police officers were arrested for domestic violence between 2007 and 2010; three of them had shot and killed their wives. What if Your Abusive Husband Is a Cop? 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z When O’Rourke stopped to read a placard, Sharry stepped forward and thrust his thumb at a statistic: “All these people, and we let ninety-eight per cent in,” he said, with some wonder. How Beto O’Rourke and Julián Castro Respond to Trump’s War on Immigrants 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z This count tallied a hundred and thirty “total individuals,” ninety-eight of whom were unsheltered and considered particularly vulnerable. What Pete Buttigieg Has and Hasn’t Done About Homelessness in South Bend 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Since Billiot was a child, the island has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to half a square mile—a loss in area of more than ninety-eight per cent. Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z “I was ninety-eight per cent convinced at that point,” he said. The Day the Dinosaurs Died 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z At least ninety-eight women were elected to the House on Tuesday night—eighty-four Democrats and fourteen Republicans—which means that more women will be serving in Congress than ever before. How Women Candidates Won Big in the Midterms 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z This summer, the Washington Post’s Fact Checker looked at all the statements in one rally and determined that seventy-six per cent of the ninety-eight factual assertions Trump made were untrue, misleading, or baseless. The Increasingly Menacing Message of Donald Trump’s Rallies 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Two years before, Hurricane Matthew had killed twenty-five people and damaged ninety-eight thousand homes across North Carolina. The Trump Administration Gets a Second Chance to Do Hurricane Recovery Right 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Two years earlier, Lumberton had become the symbol of the devastation that Hurricane Matthew had wreaked on North Carolina, killing twenty-five people and damaging ninety-eight thousand homes across the state. Two Years After a Devastating Hurricane, a North Carolina Town Is Again at the Center of the Flood 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Whitener has been clocked at ninety-eight miles per hour. The Men Who Have Taken Wiffle Ball to a Crazy, Competitive Place 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z By the end of Season 2, ninety-eight per cent of Norwegian teens between fifteen and nineteen knew about the show—more than knew about “Game of Thrones.” “SKAM,” the Radical Teen Drama That Unfolds One Post at a Time 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z At least ninety-eight victims were no older than 25. Amid the bloodshed, Baltimore group seeks to break the cycle 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Journalist Nan Robertson of the New York Times once called the diminutive Ms. Angelo, with her Southern drawl, “ninety-eight pounds of pepper out of North Carolina.” Bonnie Angelo, political journalist who wrote about moms of U.S. presidents, dies at 93 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z At ninety-eight, Billy Graham is still upholding the Billy Graham rule. Virtue and Vice: Mike Pence’s Dining Policy 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Officially, at least five thousand and ninety-eight migrants died in the Mediterranean last year, but Libya’s coastline is more than a thousand miles long, and nobody knows how many boats sink without ever being seen. The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The main structure presents a large rectangle, ninety-eight by a hundred and twenty feet, made of rudely cut blocks of stone, joined with an earthen mortar. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z In sixty per cent of Afghanistan’s three hundred and ninety-eight districts, state control doesn’t exist beyond a lonely government building and a market. Afghanistan’s Theorist-in-Chief 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Of the more than eight hundred executions in the United States since 2000, ninety-eight per cent were carried out this way. The End of the Open Market for Lethal-Injection Drugs 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z There are a hundred and ninety-eight thousand glaciers in the world, and, while many of them have been studied extensively, the nine thousand in India remain mostly unexamined. The View from a Himalayan Glacier 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z He is scheduled for release on February 21, 2033, when he will be ninety-eight. The Imam’s Curse 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Charlene is ninety-eight, but her memory is sharp, and I had hoped that it would yield associations with Whistler’s portrait. Why Is “Whistler’s Mother” So Iconic? 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z In late July of this year, more than ninety-eight thousand people attended the hundred and nineteenth iteration of Cheyenne Frontier Days. Dusty Tuckness: Not Clowning Around 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The Senate passed bipartisan legislation—ninety-eight votes to one—giving it the power to review the terms before sanctions on Iran can be lifted. The Nuclear Deal’s Adversaries Back Home 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z In 1995, a local mother was stabbed ninety-eight times by her adolescent neighbor. Boston’s Final Reckoning with the Death Penalty 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z "And Glenn McGrath dismissed for two, just ninety-eight runs short of his century" Cricket legend Benaud dies aged 84 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z It will limit future enrichment and reduce the current stockpile by ninety-eight per cent. Iran: It’s a Deal, Almost 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In addition, more than ninety-eight per cent of text messages are opened; they are four times more likely to be read by the recipient than e-mails. R U There? 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z All two hundred and ninety-eight people on board were killed. What the Web Said Yesterday 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z By that, he meant ninety-eight—and, when he was informed by others in the Agency that there were at least a hundred and twelve, “possibly more,” he insisted that they keep using the number ninety-eight. Inhumane Scenes From the C.I.A.’s Prisons 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Of all the crimes committed against journalists in Mexico, ninety-eight per cent have gone unpunished. Could Mexico’s Missing Students Spark a Revolution? 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z In Somalia, ninety-eight per cent of girls continue to undergo it. Postscript: Efua Dorkenoo, 1949-2014 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Finally, eight days after the shooting down, in Ukraine, of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the remains of some of the two hundred and ninety-eight victims are being returned to their families. The E.U. Gets Tough With Russia—Or Does It? 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z And when ninety-eight percent of our exporters are small businesses, new trade partnerships with Europe and the Asia-Pacific will help them create more jobs. Text: Full Text of Obama’s State of the Union Address 2014-01-29T02:16:39Z In 2003, there were more than ninety-eight thousand applicants to the first-year class that enrolled about forty-eight thousand students nationwide. Law school is a sham 2013-04-06T16:00:00Z Keating says, in his “History of Ireland,” that she reigned ninety-eight years. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z If successful, the lens drops back into the posterior chamber of the eye, and the patient “sees,” but alas, the vision obtained is, in ninety-eight cases out of a hundred, only temporary! Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z Poor old man of ninety-eight years, he could but tremble for the ark! The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z To this large force Jervis could only oppose fifteen vessels of the line, only two of which carried 100 guns, three of ninety-eight guns, one of ninety, and the remainder, with one exception, seventy-four each. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z No. 2 contains ninety-eight farmers killed in their houses in the day time. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z In one that we observed in the Philadelphia Hospital no eruption whatever was observed in thirty-seven out of ninety-eight cases. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The father lived to see his son President of the United States, and the mother was ninety-eight when she died. 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 "My grandmother—she stuck it out to ninety-eight, and I hope you'll do the same." Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Washington wrote to Congress: "No less than two thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight men are now in camp unfit for duty, because they are barefoot and otherwise naked." Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z “Demand--four thousand one seventy-seven ninety-eight,” pronounced the official, waving a document. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z Now, Mr. Hatch," resumed the scientist, quite casually, "I understand you graduated from Harvard in ninety-eight. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z That makes ninety-eight dollars and thirty-three and one-third cents, leaving the contractor one dollar and sixty-six and two-third cents. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z For three hundred and ninety-eight years the priests and their church have had sole, exclusive, and continuous occupation of Nata, the oldest town in America. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z He stopped three months at Teneriffe, and two at the Cape de Verde, where ninety-eight of his people died, and fifty were invalided. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z All the bad symptoms gradually disappeared, breathing became natural, heart gained strength, pulse increased to seventy, temperature to ninety-eight and appetite became better, asking frequently for food. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z In plate ninety-eight this Savior is represented with a hole in the top of one foot, just above the toes, where the nail was inserted in the act of crucifixion. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z Rerdell and Boone and Moore agree exactly that the contractor gave up ninety-eight and one-third per cent, to others and took one and two-thirds himself. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z My expressed interest in the teakettle, led at once to the particular department store where I saw rows of them shining in the ticketed inaccessibility of seven dollars and ninety-eight cents. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z In the last two thousand years he changed more than in the two hundred and ninety-eight thousand preceding, and in one hundred he has changed more, perhaps, than in the preceding two thousand. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Here was fifty Reading bought at ninety-three and sold at ninety-eight; and here one hundred bales of May cotton sold at eighteen, fifty-six, and bought in at seventeen, fifty-two. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z "Before meals he weighs two eighty-eight; after meals two ninety-eight." Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z Out of a hundred parts, ninety-eight would be organic, and two would be ash, consisting of oxide of iron, sulphate of lime, phosphate of lime, and magnesia. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z "My grandfather, you know, lived till he was ninety-eight." Mr. Punch on the Warpath Humours of the Army, The Navy and The Reserve Forces 2011-11-28T03:00:24.727Z I, too, will count a thousand, but not until we get to nine hundred and ninety-eight will I show any signs of softening toward the chevalier. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z If you chew your food sufficiently, it will all be ninety-eight and six-tenths degree food when it gets to your stomach, and that is the way your stomach wants it. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z A niece of Franklin's, known for her wit and consideration for others, arrived at her last hour at the age of ninety-eight. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z For example, the double measure is fourteen fathoms long and seven broad, which two numbers multiplied together make ninety-eight square fathoms. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z His oath was that he would slay a hundred men of Salámán; he slew ninety-eight, when an ambush of his enemies succeeded in taking him prisoner. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z The sand forms not less than ninety-eight per cent. of the earth, and, as it is almost without water, it would be a drifting desert but for the artificial propagation of forest trees upon it. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Locke and Justinian, Mill, Adam Smith, and Vattel divided honors with the Federalist, the Resolutions of ninety-eight, and the Debates of the Constitutional Convention. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z The average number of steps to the minute is ninety-two in men and ninety-eight in women. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z The magnificent ocean-steamer the Australasian was bound for England, on her homeward voyage from Melbourne, carrying Her Majesty's mails and ninety-eight first-class passengers. The New Paul and Virginia Positivism on an Island 2011-10-08T02:00:25.133Z That leaves one hundred an' forty-five dollars an' ninety-eight cents. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z It is ninety-eight miles from Boston, one hundred and twenty miles from New York, and twenty-six miles from Hartford. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z Her actual losses of life were but four hundred and ninety-eight, and those injured four hundred and fifteen. Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster 2011-10-02T02:00:12.020Z Six pounds of Sugar, one quart water; cook a good thread, or about 222�; remove from the fire and add one pint of Cologne Spirits, or ninety-eight per cent. Frye's Practical Candy Maker Comprising Practical Receipts for the Manufacture of Fine "Hand-Made" Candies 2011-08-15T02:00:27.403Z I found out that his figure was ninety-eight dollars for the week. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z Yesterday it was Doc Pinkinson who brought in the ninety-eight—and signed all the tags; and between libations they talked about Ambrose Phipps, who was practising brassy shots off the grass beside the eighteenth green. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z The word repent does not occur once, but the word believe occurs ninety-eight times. Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study 2011-07-09T02:00:14.273Z "I'm afraid you were buying shopworn and second-hand articles," I retorted; "or you may have gone to some bargain counter where they make a specialty of ninety-eight and forty-nine cent goods." The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z This gives an account of the explosion of ninety-eight barrels of gunpowder, whereby 200 mutineers were slain, and the woodcut is intended to show the effects of the explosion. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z I’m going to a new place where they won’t question my credit on a measly sum like ninety-eight dollars.’ The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z She died but a short time ago, at the age of ninety-eight, at Stamford, Connecticut. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z Are you sure that the Torta boys are the ones who have a right to that ninety-eight dollars? The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z The other ninety-eight suitors all sought in various ways for the Blue Rose. The Blue Rose Fairy Book 2011-05-03T02:00:18.777Z Mr. H—— H——, when he was alive, used to live a good deal in Dublin, and he was once a great while out of the country on account of the “ninety-eight” business. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z Her Grace the Duchess of Albemarle and Empress of China survived her husband, the pretended Emperor, for many years, and died in 1734, at the vast age of ninety-eight. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z The bodies of eight officers and ninety-eight men were interred. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Then show me what you’ve got to stack up against this ninety-eight dollars.” The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z They only retained three hundred and ninety-eight of them to defray the expenses of justice; and then their servants demanded their fees. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z January 14, 1848, at the age of almost ninety-eight, Caroline Herschel died, and was buried from the same garrison church where nearly a century before she had been christened. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z Then take the case of my friend Billups—some sharp of a tailor got out a judgment against Billups for ninety-eight dollars for a bill he couldn’t pay on the fifteenth of December. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z Ten steel plates, coloured, engraved title and ninety-eight other woodcut illustrations. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z I ask you, Treplin, as a man with a trained if not an efficient mind, is Bill Sheedy a proper man to possess the title to ninety-eight dollars?” The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z They counted again and again; but it was of no use: there were only nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight birds in the pile. The Joyous Story of Toto 2011-02-16T03:00:35.520Z The highest ordinary summer thermometer is ninety-two to ninety-eight degrees. Beautiful Gardens in America 2011-01-11T03:00:36.140Z The grand total, "all other deposits" for all classes of banks reporting in New York, is over a hundred and ninety-eight millions. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Joe had ninety-eight dollars in cash, and an uneasy feeling that it would not be nearly enough. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z Hyperion replies: My friend, one percent of Iran's exports are carpets, and another one percent of Iran's exports are pistachios, and the other ninety-eight percent are oil. 2010-02-09T18:07:00Z Water is the chief component of this fluid, there being about ninety-eight parts of water to two parts of solid matter. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers Had he been ninety-eight or even eighty-eight, I should have had no difficulty in understanding his case. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician The wounded and killed of the Americans amounted in all to ninety-eight. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Mr. H—— R——, when he was alive, used to live a good deal in Dublin, and he was once a great while out of the country on account of the "ninety-eight" business. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry She has bought the car for three dollars and ninety-eight cents. Last Words “Nesborough made a hundred and ninety-eight, and we have six wickets down for fifty.” The Missioner But Polly only weighs ninety-eight pounds, and I two hundred, so that I couldn't have managed to feel brave fighting her. A Man in the Open At ninety-eight, Sidney Cooper was exhibiting pictures at the Royal Academy. Rambles in Womanland It looks exactly like the one Dad bought me some time ago for nine ninety-eight. Penny Nichols Finds a Clue The platform was struck at ninety-eight feet, just as the old diggers found it. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day One hundred and ninety-eight hoped-for companions failed to appear. Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 I took in one hundred converts at the same time, and I can lay my hand on ninety-eight out of the hundred. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians Done in duplicate, at Paris, the tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. The Greater Republic A History of the United States "It's on page ninety-eight," said Jack, "and it produces more sets o' stamps than any other country of its size in the world." Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 In the next boring, the platform was struck as before at ninety-eight feet; passing through this, the auger fell about eighteen inches, and came in contact with, as supposed, the side of a cask. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day My grandfather lived to be ninety-eight, and his father to be over a hundred. Leerie The area is a quadrangle of three hundred and ninety-eight feet by two hundred and ninety-one, and is divided into five naves by four rows of pillars, all of about sixty feet elevation. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. Of the total of 193 centuries, the first class had eighty and the equestrians eighteen: together ninety-eight, or a majority of the voting units. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. The present law provides for ninety-eight clerks in the agency, ranging in grade from the messenger to the superintendent. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. Seventy-eight flights were made between Lake Constance and Berlin and two between Berlin and Stockholm, eighty trips on schedule in ninety-eight days. Zeppelin The Story of a Great Achievement He had, he said, a father, who suffered for his country in ninety-eight; and he had himself maintained the family traditions by being twice imprisoned in Carrickfergus jail, and narrowly escaping transportation for life. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly I made them last summer when it was ninety-eight in the shade. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days Lately I counted these marble gods, and found that there were two hundred and ninety-eight. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) H—— R——, when he was alive, used to live a good deal in Dublin, and he was once a great while out of the country on account of the “ninety-eight” business. The Irish Fairy Book He died at Padua at the age of ninety-eight. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" He had an I. Q. of ninety-eight point five-seven, less than four hundredths off the mode. The Dictator The number of lines provided with an interlinear translation on this fragment is only two, which increases the actual number of lines to ninety-eight. Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms Nevertheless, if the story of Eden and the doctrines of modern orthodoxy be true, it is now and will ultimately become the eternal abode of about ninety-eight per cent of the entire human race. From Bondage to Liberty in Religion A Spiritual Autobiography She had come out from Swansea in ninety-eight days, and was an object of interest for a while. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Four hundred and ninety-eight dead and wounded confederates were buried or sent to the hospitals. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War Amazingly, even now, there were one or two who stood up in an attempt to stem the tide; but they were ignored, and a ninety-eight per cent favorable vote was cast. Where I Wasn't Going This issue was intended as a Centennial edition, and it includes Two Rivulets; there are two hundred and ninety-eight poems. Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today Elliott, in his fruit-book, divides peaches into three classes: the first is for general cultivation; under this class he describes thirty-one varieties, with ninety-eight synonyms. Soil Culture On the 6th of October, we received orders to report to our first division of the Ninth Army Corps at Blue Springs, in the valley of the Holston, distant about ninety-eight miles from Loudon. Campaign of Battery D, First Rhode Island light artillery. Accuracy in predicting the amount of water entering the vast underground reservoirs now had reached ninety-eight point three per cent. The Thirst Quenchers In this way as many as one hundred and ninety-eight trucks are sometimes sent off in a single day. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations When the Cat came, the Parrot put before her four hundred and ninety-eight cakes, in a heap, and kept back for himself only two. The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India Living to ninety-eight, He buried generations of the poor, A countless host, and thought no more of it Than digging potatoes. Collected Poems Volume Two Consequently, the present governor, the Marquís de Torre Campo, reported that the district of Masbate had had an increase of three hundred and ninety-eight whole tributes through the apostolic zeal of those ministers. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. In 1869, a year before Dickens' death, there were published in London alone three hundred and seventy-two magazines and serials, seventy-two quarterlies, and two hundred and ninety-eight newspapers etc. Dickens' London Zeno lived to the extreme age of ninety-eight, when, as he was leaving, his school one day, he fell and broke his finger. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." The Cat ate up the four hundred and ninety-eight cakes in about three minutes, and then asked for more. The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India With the exception of the three amendments made necessary by the Civil War, the Federal Constitution has not been amended for ninety-eight years, and there is strong opposition to any changes in that instrument. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Every time I see a thermometer, a watch, and a egg my temperature aviates to about a hundred and ninety-eight in the shade—and if they's nobody lookin' I bust 'em! Kid Scanlan I lost in flesh until I weighed only ninety-eight pounds. Treatise on the Diseases of Women Meg counted to ninety-eight before she heard Jud cry, “All right!” Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm The lady eventually married a county Mayo gentleman of large fortune named Palmer, and lived to the age of ninety-eight, forming a connecting link between two very distant periods. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 The records showed ninety-eight suffrage meetings altogether to have been held during the year. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV In the first two days of their advance the Italians made 3,375 prisoners, among them ninety-eight officers. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources On a foundation of ninety-eight stitches, net seven with the darkest color. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet Often enough he gets the bonds in London at ninety-eight, only to find that the ninety-nine bid in New York has been withdrawn. Elements of Foreign Exchange A Foreign Exchange Primer Out of seven hundred and ninety-eight who answered to roll-call in the morning, we had with us less than three hundred at the close of the fight. War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 There is also a bibliography on the subject of Railroads, embracing ninety-eight titles, and a carefully prepared alphabetical index. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses Upon the death of Alexander in 343, at the age of ninety-eight, the two parties came into collision in regard to the question of his successor. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture The young men of that time called themselves the generation of ninety-eight. Rosinante to the Road Again While writing of important acts of the legislature of 1785, he is careful to give other information in a letter to Jefferson, which is not uninteresting as written ninety-eight years ago, and written by him. James Madison My diary notes that there were nine hundred and ninety-eight rebel dead gathered and buried from in front of the lines of our division. War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 He's a bit brighter than average, perhaps—ninety-eight six in his studies, including elementary astrophysics. When I Grow Up Pitching odorous timothy in a poem and actually putting it into a mow with the temperature at ninety-eight in the shade are widely separated in fact as they should be in fiction. A Son of the Middle Border Caroline Herschel discovered eight comets, and lived on to the age of ninety-eight. Pioneers of Science Mrs. Bigelow said that Geneva precinct stood ninety-eight for the amendment and ninety-eight against. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III So that with nine hundred and ninety-eight dead it can be safely estimated that their losses exceeded four thousand killed and wounded in that area. War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 Once again the war-cloud grew black, and wheat rose to ninety-eight. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast This made his earnings for the day ninety-eight cents, besides the dollars promised by the detective. Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves We had two ships of one hundred guns, three of ninety-eight, one of ninety, eight seventy-fours, and a sixty-four. By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson To take a ship through these locks the operator sets in motion twice ninety-eight gigantic electric motors and it is all done without an audible word being spoken. Birdseye Views of Far Lands Senhor Augusto Severo, a Brazilian, made a spindle-shaped airship, ninety-eight feet long, driven by two airscrews, placed one at each end of a framework which formed the longitudinal axis of the airship. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Here's a contract for fifty thousand bushels of wheat bought in Chicago at ninety-eight cents, and wheat closed yesterday at seventy-one! Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast Then six hundred and ninety-eight years after the birth of Christ the deluge of Mohammedan conquest burst over Morocco, and hordes of Arabs, burning with a fanatical missionary spirit, swept over the land. In the Tail of the Peacock Well, you start at the first tee and play ninety-eight strokes. It, and Other Stories Among them were three dukes, twenty-three peers, a Field Marshal, six newspaper proprietors, eleven editors, seven of the wealthiest men in England, and ninety-eight prominent Members of Parliament. The Message "Ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine, a hundred," he said aloud. Once on a Time Lieutenant Wright, Company I, with a detail of ninety-eight men, was called to the banks of Stony Creek over the raft to-night, to protect the employees of the Philadelphia Gas Company. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin The squadron consisted of a ship of ninety-eight guns, four seventy-fours, and a frigate. A Sailor of King George The thermometer now registers at least ninety-eight in the shade, but then of course we don't have to stay in the shade, and that's some consolation. Sundry Accounts I would never think of buying a waist for one dollar and ninety-eight cents. The Cheerful Smugglers Shem, or Job, was ninety-eight years old when he entered the ark, and he lived thirty years after Abraham, with whom therefore he shook hands, as well as with Methuselah, who shook hands with Adam. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 In the year 502 of the city, the Roman burgesses in Italy numbered two hundred and ninety-eight thousand men capable of bearing arms. Ancient States and Empires The ninety-eight gun-ship, which led the squadron, heeled so much over before she could shorten sail that she appeared to be turning the turtle. A Sailor of King George I have ninety-eight men who have agreed to be projected into the fourth dimension to seek out the entities that are attacking us and attack them in turn. Hellhounds of the Cosmos It does not make any difference whether the waist costs one dollar and ninety-eight cents or twelve dollars and sixty-three cents. The Cheerful Smugglers From the 12th of April to the 30th there were ninety-eight or ninety-nine shocks of earthquake. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Now, add three hundred and ninety-eight miles to twenty-five hundred and forty-seven miles. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri I always tremble like a leaf—I weigh only a hundred and ninety-eight now, and these things affect me. The Indifference of Juliet Here, in this one body were the bodies, the brains, the power, the spirit, of those other ninety-eight men. Hellhounds of the Cosmos On the 9th of November there was general satisfaction owing to the safe arrival, under a flag of truce, of ninety-eight wounded from Dundee. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 I shall carry him his change in the morning—four dollars and ninety-eight cents. Luke Walton Done in duplicate at Paris, the tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses It is of irregular, quadrangular form, one hundred and ninety-eight feet in length, and one hundred and sixty-five feet in depth, and encloses a court. Shepp's Photographs of the World He knew that the last of the ninety-eight men had stepped across the disk, that all were here in this giant body. Hellhounds of the Cosmos Many a night, after supper, he tells us about the Klondike in the old days, about the stampedes of ninety-eight and ninety-nine, and the dance-halls and hardships and gamblers and claim-jumpers. The Prairie Mother He drew from his pocket four dollars and ninety-eight cents, and laid it on the table behind which his patron had taken a seat. Luke Walton And I also—I saved five dollars and fourteen cents by using my wash-stand for a writing-table instead of buying that bargain desk for four dollars and ninety-eight 65 cents. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls It had a glass tray under it and a dozen painted glasses and a fine glass pitcher—all fer two ninety-eight.” Polly's Business Venture I may be sending ninety-eight brave men to instant death. Hellhounds of the Cosmos Then they have to help old R�hu, the grandfather, who has nothing but his fees for attendance at the Acad�mie; and at his age, ninety-eight, you may imagine the care and indulgence necessary. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 It was an awful long prayer, and the church was hot, the tenor was no iceberg himself, and shoemakers' wax melts at ninety-eight degrees Fahrenheit. Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 As the Josephine drew about ten feet of water, the charge was one hundred and ninety-eight francs. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim He studied the virtues of the plants, and died, according to some, at the age of a hundred and fifty-four years; according to others at the age of two hundred and ninety-eight. The Story Of The Duchess Of Cicogne And Of Monsieur De Boulingrin 1920 Hours had passed since the ninety-eight men—ninety-nine, counting Henry Woods—had stepped into the brittle column of light to be shunted back through unguessed time to a different plane of existence. Hellhounds of the Cosmos The Second Canto, in the first six editions, numbers eighty-eight stanzas; in the Seventh Edition the Second Canto numbers ninety-eight stanzas. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 On the lone heather wild, in the dark silent glen, The peasant still shows you the graves Of the heroes who fell in the year ninety-eight And died ere they'd live as your slaves. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy I got two dollars ninety-eight cents a day. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 "Not a bit! his pulse is at ninety-eight!" Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Perhaps I held up a card with a hundred and four dots above, and below one with ninety-eight. Psychology and Social Sanity Naturally the man of ninety-eight years could not recover, and, though Orazio was borne off to the hospital and cared for as well as possible, he also died. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture The funds fell from ninety-eight to fifty-one, and petitions for a change of ministers were sent to the king from almost every city of note in the kingdom. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges This beginning has been followed by ninety-six volumes in sets of six volumes or more, and two others, the whole of the ninety-eight books being for young people. The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton The Chesapeake had forty-seven killed and ninety-eight wounded, and the Shannon lost in killed twenty-four, while fifty-nine had been wounded. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Eve, his widow, died in New York, in 1836, at the great age of ninety-eight. Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) Turner’s gift to the British nation included ninety-eight finished paintings and two hundred and seventy pictures in various stages of progress. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture And a new charter was accordingly granted to twenty-one peers, ninety-eight knights, and a great number of doctors, esquires, gentlemen, and merchants. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Our corncrake—I don't know what the usual standard may be—does ninety-eight to the minute. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 Malone, and subsequently referred to by Mr. Harmsworth as “the principal organisers and leaders of the disturbances” in that country, appeared the name of “Mahmoud Pasha Suliman, aged ninety-eight years.” Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12 The largest item is interest; one billion, seven hundred and one million, two hundred and fifty-six thousand, one hundred and ninety-eight dollars, forty-two cents. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana There are ninety-eight parishes in the inner portion, and eleven in the outer; but the London which lay beyond the corporate rule had no social or political bounds placed to its extension. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 This company was composed of ninety-eight natives, one captain, and three lieutenants, and their proceedings in connection with the making of the new road were watched with much interest. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Today," said Pentuer, "the yearly income of his holiness for all products of his land is worth only ninety-eight thousand talents. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt It was said that a priest had been killed there in "ninety-eight." Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer On Earth, where the surface gravity was ninety-eight per cent of a Standard Gee, St. Simon weighed close to two hundred pounds. Anchorite The time spent in this voyage was ninety-eight days, and the distance travelled was upward of one thousand miles. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania I ’ve plugged just ninety-eight this week, and it ’s too bad not to make an even hundred. Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet In the party were ninety-eight soldiers and twenty boatmen. Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 It consisted of ninety-eight persons travelling with thirty wagons. Impressions of South Africa Successful resistance was out of the question; for he was surrounded by five British vessels, one of which carried ninety-eight guns, while the smallest mounted thirty-two, or twelve more than the "Baltimore." The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 Even if they constitute ninety-eight per cent of the people, they only mail one-tenth of one per cent of the letters. The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak The place selected was the north side of the rocky ridge connecting the citadel with the city, which ridge towers one hundred and ninety-eight feet above the cañon of the Cremera. Pagan and Christian Rome On one of my visits, a list was presented to me of ninety-eight inhabitants, where a year and a half before there was not one. Byeways in Palestine Come, then, and behold him, my superb master, who at ninety-eight has still this strength so wonderful.' Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag The three held the office in succession for ninety-eight years. The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn To put it very roughly, probably ninety-eight per cent of us are so born, thanks to heredity, that the possibility of our becoming insane, even under the severest stress, is almost infinitesimal. Preventable Diseases Blood heat, the temperature which the blood is always found to maintain, or ninety-eight degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School I was in the old St. George, a regular old ninety-eight; she sailed just like a hay-stack, one mile ahead and three to leeward. Peter Simple “But, behold the signs of his cruelty!” said Saint David, pointing out to Saint George the other nine hundred and ninety-eight iron beds in the hall. The Seven Champions of Christendom You’ve heard talk of the Boyne—a fine ship she was, of ninety-eight guns. James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat Solid particles from the breath, saliva, food between the teeth, and other débris form a deposit on the teeth and decompose in a constant temperature of ninety-eight degrees Fahrenheit. Civics and Health Entered according to Act of Parliament, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, by W. W. Smith, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture and Statistics at Ottawa. The Story of a Dark Plot or Tyranny on the Frontier Q. Then through that council, as sort of subscribers to its purpose and acts and for carrying out its objects, there were ninety-eight thousand names?—A. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 The native pointed with pride to two doddering ancients hobbling painfully down the village street, and informed the stranger: "Them fellers is the Dusenbury twins—ninety-eight year old!" Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers She was armed with eighteen twenty-four pounders, and carried a crew of ninety-eight, all told. A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story At eight o'clock, ninety-eight human beings appeared in it; six on the stage, the rest occupying the first few rows of seats. The Galaxy Primes The camp, with a number of bullocks, and a large quantity of military stores and ninety-eight cannon, fell into the hands of the victors. At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War This shocking record embraces a period of eight years, from 1868 to 1876, inclusive, and covers ninety-eight pages of fine type, giving an average of about one victim to each line. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 Then at last, one morning when Winnifred's temperature had fallen to ninety-eight point three, the Marchioness spoke. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels As far as he was concerned, the other two millions nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight did not exist. The Triflers The first was to Murcia, in which he purchased the liberty of ninety-eight slaves: the second to Algiers, in which he redeemed eighty-seven, but remained himself a hostage for the full payment of the money. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March They are about ninety-eight per cent water, and contain nothing of the meat or bones except some of their flavor, and a little gelatin. A Handbook of Health The Bill passed its third reading by ninety-eight votes. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies "One hundred and ninety-eight louis, besides the reserve fund," said the banker. The Queen's Necklace Of the two hundred and forty-three representatives on the roll, only ninety-eight had served in the preceding Congress. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 But he lived to be ninety-eight, and I can truly say that those last years with him at the old farm, going about or driving round together, were the happiest of my life. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's They practically all consist of from ninety to ninety-eight per cent of water, the food elements that may be added to them being in such trifling amounts as to be practically of no value. A Handbook of Health We therefore had covered the distance of ninety-eight miles in two hours and fifteen minutes actual travelling time, or at an average speed of nearly forty-four miles an hour. On the Fringe of the Great Fight Here ninety-eight guns and an immense store and magazine were lost to Prussia. With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War The daily transactions of the Clearing House varies from ninety-eight to one hundred millions. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Ninety-five—ninety-eight—a hundred and three—a hundred and ten—eighteen—twenty-four—thirty-two—forty-one. A Honeymoon in Space That would make me about ninety-eight years old now. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 The number of the islands of the globe to which the Message of Bahá’u’lláh has been carried since its inception now totals ninety-eight. Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 The weapon, because of the adoption of the improved model in 1898, has come to be known as the "ninety-eight gun." Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights The idea that Caroline was not going to live long after the marriage of her brother was "greatly exaggerated"—she lived to be ninety-eight, a century lacking two years! Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Returns were received from only ninety-nine towns, showing an annual average expenditure of one dollar and ninety-eight cents for each pupil. Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions I think I’m between ninety-seven and ninety-eight years old. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 They are known as "stool pigeon" men, and it probably would be no exaggeration to say that they comprise ninety-five or ninety-eight per cent. of the entire active detective force. The Substitute Prisoner The thirty-two schools contained five hundred and ninety-eight pupils, of whom one hundred and twenty-five were girls. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. For ninety-eight days he was driven by the east trade-wind without once sighting land save two desert islands, while his crew endured extremities of hunger, thirst and scurvy. The Age of the Reformation Yet instead of finding ourselves captured, we had taken ninety-eight prisoners, and destroyed a heavily-laden train! Three Years' War She died at the age of ninety-eight two or three years ago. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 In 1831 before the Northern Abolitionists began their crusade of violence there were one hundred four abolition societies in America—ninety-eight of them in the South and only six in the entire North. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Two yards of silk at a dollar and a half, and an eighth of a yard of velvet one dollar—making just five dollars and ninety-eight cents. Choice Readings for the Home Circle There would appear to be always some mistakes made; one case was found to have ninety-eight short. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government I have noticed for two years that I have about ninety-eight per cent. of perfect apples, not a blotch nor a worm. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, by The Copp, Clark Company, Limited, Toronto, Ontario, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture. Public School Domestic Science I know, because my Hattie had one her aunt gave her last Christmas; that one cost a dollar and ninety-eight cents, and it didn't begin to compare with this. The Portion of Labor There were eleven yards of muslin at eighteen; that's a dollar and ninety-eight cents. Choice Readings for the Home Circle The National Board of Fire Underwriters has proved by careful investigation that a properly installed and maintained system of lightning rods will give a house ninety-eight per cent protection. If You're Going to Live in the Country I could have got it at ninety-eight cents at a bargain, but that wa'n't good enough for her. The Debtor A Novel And now look at this one hundred and ninety-eight pounds of egotism sitting here smiling on the likeness of the lady who has just dropped bug-dust in his coffee. The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories Three hundred and ninety-eight people went down in the Cimbria alone. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside One hundred degrees F. for the first few weeks, later ninety-eight F. After six months ninety-five F.; during the second year from eighty-five to ninety degrees F. What should you use in giving the bath? Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada On a branch of Finly Creek a stream disappears in a sink, appearing again three-quarters of a mile southeast through an opening sixty feet high by ninety-eight feet wide. Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills "Worth every cent of nine ninety-eight at a bargain sale before the Swede got busy with it—and he let you have it at a sacrifice for fifty-five dollars!" The Big-Town Round-Up Eli, who was then ninety-eight years old, and nearly blind, sat by the wayside, trembling for the safety of the ark, and waiting for messengers to bring news of the battle. Mother Stories from the Old Testament A Book of the Best Stories from the Old Testament that Mothers can tell their Children To imprison actually ninety-eight of these messengers on the moment of their return? Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil If you wish you can add two parts of carbonate of sodium to each ninety-eight parts of water. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada His lordship's flag had been shifted to the St. George, a second rate of ninety-eight guns; the San Josef, which he left at Torbay, being unfit for the intended service in the north seas. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 If the painting of Schriner made in the price of that mule, a difference of fourteen thousand, nine hundred, ninety-eight dollars and seventy cents why is not word painting worth something? Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures We had made only ninety-eight miles in four days. The River and I Entered into this sixteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by the undersigned Commissioners, acting under instructions from their respective commanding generals and with the approbation of their respective governments. The Colored Regulars in the United States Army In the autumn of 'ninety-eight, arriving home with salt as usual from St. Jago, I found a stranger lodging in the house. Poison Island In 1707, only ninety-eight years ago, the Great Mogul ruled over a country equal in extent, and little inferior in population, to France, Spain, Germany, and England. An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged Sumter lived to the great age of ninety-eight, and was the last surviving general officer of the Revolution. American Men of Action While Delaware was a slave State, only the merest remnant of the institution existed there—seventeen hundred and ninety-eight slaves all told. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History Entered into this fifteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by the undersigned Commissioners, acting under instructions from their respecting commanding generals. The Colored Regulars in the United States Army She got well under the general treatment, gaining thirteen pounds on a weight of ninety-eight pounds, her height being five feet and one inch. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria During the next day we measured ninety-eight men, photographed twelve subjects, and made moulds for all our five busts—an unparalleled day's labor. In Indian Mexico (1908) By these little additions the left-hand funnel boasts one hundred and twelve atoms as against ninety-eight. Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements Indeed the state of society in a great part of Ireland—shortly after the rebellion of ninety-eight—was then such as a modern conservative would blush for. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two You did not feel like a dollar and a half toward it, but you did feel exactly like ninety-eight cents. Humanly Speaking In ninety-eight days he had made one thousand miles, much of it in extremest peril. Among the Forces I had rather stand forty-five on my scale than ninety-eight on yours! Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy The annual desertions in white regiments of cavalry vary from ninety-eight to a hundred and eighteen; while in Negro regiments of cavalry the desertions only average from six to nine per annum. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens "Ah," suggested his opponent in disgust, "try her once with 'three ninety-eight'!" Best Short Stories Of these, two thousand and ninety-eight were unfit for duty. In the Days of Poor Richard Do see that love of a thing for ninety-eight cents. The First Soprano "Try her with 'Three ninety-eight,'" suggested his partner. More Toasts "The balance is four thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars," said Miss Smith. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel Further transactions in Manila up to the year one thousand five hundred and ninety-eight. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 1604-1605 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century The Audiencia was again established in Manila in the year one thousand five hundred and ninety-eight, for King Filipo was prudently conferring authority on that province. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century I am not prepared to endorse the cynical saying of Voltaire: "Regimen is superior to medicine—especially as from time immemorial out of every hundred physicians ninety-eight are charlatans." Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration "Then, your Majesty, I will take the cross and ninety-eight rubles." More Toasts At present this association, known as the Cape Cod Strawberry Growers' Association, numbers ninety-eight men. Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Southeastern Massachusetts "We had two hundred and ninety-eight miles to do at noon," said Experience. The Wings of the Morning Of the two hundred and twelve millions of dollars of the precious metals annually produced, ninety-eight millions are furnished by gold. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 "Oh," he said, "there are several causes—there are exactly nine million and ninety-eight." My Friend Prospero Gottlieb," he said to one of the men, "take him to terrace ninety-eight. The Goose Girl "It's ninety-eight in here; that's enough to kill a sound child." The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Done at the city of Washington this 30th day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and twenty-second. A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents The Count de Rayneval looked for them, and could find but ninety-eight; and even of those, the greater part were not in priests' orders! The Roman Question And another, who seemed to be a headliner in the world of science, said it was between twenty million and four hundred million, with a probability of its being ninety-eight million. Ma Pettengill Terrace ninety-eight was given over to small grapes; thus, many bunches had to be picked to fill the basket. The Goose Girl We had good sleighing after that and got our bark and salts to market and earned ninety-eight dollars. The Light in the Clearing Done at the city of Washington, this 2d day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents The temperature should be about ninety-eight degrees, and the time of immersion from twenty minutes to half an hour. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 In January, ninety-eight, Metropolis began to pay, and Rickman's hopes were justified. The Divine Fire These are the dates that span the ninety-eight years of the life of a woman whose deeds were great in the service of the world, but of whom the world itself knows all too little. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs The cell, which was sixty-two feet and a half broad within, was divided into two unequal chambers, of which the western was forty-three feet ten inches long, and the eastern ninety-eight feet seven inches. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits And after obtaining his extra chief's certificate from the London Board of Trade, with a grade of ninety-eight per cent., he was not inclined to rest on his gauges. Shandygaff Interviewer's Comment William Dunwoody had some of his dates and occurrences mixed up as would be natural for a man ninety-eight years old. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 It consisted on the whole of about twenty-five sail of the line, two of them of a hundred guns, and five of ninety-eight; thirty-six frigates, and fifteen or sixteen sloops and other armed vessels. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Since his brother and mother both died at ninety-eight and his paternal grandfather at one hundred-ten years of age, he has a good chance to realize this ambition. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives Smith was one hundred ninety-eight and Miri was one hundred ninety-four, but both looked to be only in their mid-thirties. Scorched Earth Of those discharged—two hundred and fifty-six in number—eighty-six were of a nervous temperament, ninety-eight sanguine and seventy-two bilious. Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink Mrs. Garrick survived her celebrated husband, and lived to the ripe age of ninety-eight, retaining to the very last much of that grace and charm of expression which had won the actor's heart. The Drama Threading its sinuous intricacies consumed thirty-eight days and then followed a terrible voyage of ninety-eight days across a truly pathless sea. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century He is ninety-eight years of age and his wish in life now, is to live to be a hundred. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives More than ninety-eight per cent. of the poultry and eggs of the country are produced on the general farm. The Dollar Hen I was in the old St George, a regular old ninety-eight; she sailed just like a hay-stack, one mile ahead and three to leeward. Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 That pin is only one dollar and ninety-eight cents and the bracelet two dollars and forty-eight cents. The Man in Lonely Land This was then ninety-eight feet above the level of the flowing river. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment Think, I shall be only ninety-eight hours on the road! The Moon-Voyage At ninety-eight the body is too well seasoned to admit disease. The Lilac Girl The young men were led before the midshipmen's pay officer, with whom each deposited the sum of two hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-eight cents. Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis The vaults are two hundred and seventy-three feet long, one hundred and ninety-eight feet wide, and about thirty feet high. A Trip Abroad The building is of a square form, with a portico 507 feet long, supported by ninety-eight columns of the finest marble. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy But whatever may be thought of the respective merits of Miss More's nineteen volumes and Sir Walter's ninety-eight, there is no doubt that Barley Wood was as much infested with visitors as ever was Abbotsford. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays The Young Irelanders reincarnated the men of "ninety-eight." The Glories of Ireland The thermometer then stood at eighty-five degrees at midnight, and ninety-eight or one hundred at noon. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation The ship stopped at Alexandria, and I went around in the city, seeing nothing of equal interest to Pompey's Pillar, a monument standing ninety-eight feet and nine inches high. A Trip Abroad The thousands of false impressions recorded during the seven hundred and ninety-eight days of my depression seemed at once to correct themselves. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography "Containing between ten and eleven thousand pins and beads, and a hundred and ninety-eight pieces of coloured cloth!" Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890 Among the extraordinary characters that turned up in the fatal "ninety-eight," there were few more extraordinary than Lieutenant H——, then denominated the "walking gallows;"—and such he certainly was, literally and practically. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 559, July 28, 1832 The druggist thrust out a bottle already wrapped in a printed cover, and the price, as became a cut-rate pharmacy, proved to be ninety-eight cents. The Wrong Twin "This last year, the total was," said he, still monotonously, "ninety-eight hundred odd—if the bills I haven't got yet ain't more than five thousand." The Second Generation During the seven hundred and ninety-eight days of depression I drew countless incorrect deductions. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Our nomenclature is perfectly barbarous, and that of other civilised nations is not better than ours, and frequently worse, as the French "quatre-vingt dix-huit," or "four score, ten and eight," instead of ninety-eight. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Out of ninety-eight arrested all but nineteen were fined in sums of from one to ten dollars. The Trade Union Woman He lost his answers about the age of ninety-eight. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 One which I shot at Monte Video weighed ninety-eight pounds: its length from the end of the snout to the stump-like tail, was three feet two inches; and its girth three feet eight. The Voyage of the Beagle My memory during depression may be likened to a photographic film, seven hundred and ninety-eight days long. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Or, in ninety-eight of them having gone into Regimental Bands in three years? The Uncommercial Traveller And it was covered with rats—three hundred and ninety-eight of them, I believe, two for each cat. The Phoenix and the Carpet There were ninety-eight fathoms of shell-money, which is pretty close to five hundred in itself. The Red One He sailed for ninety-eight days without seeing land. The Story of Mankind Bisset mentions an account of an old woman who acquired twelve molar teeth at the age of ninety-eight. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine After some preliminary hostilities, the said Duke sailed to the coast of Holland with a fleet of ninety-eight vessels of war, and four fire-ships. A Child's History of England And he took a good pike—for Phaudhrig was great— And he fought, and he died in the year ninety-eight. The Purcell Papers — Volume 2 Of these, two hundred and seventy were on the Embankment proper, and ninety-eight in and about Covent Garden Market, while the recesses of Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridges were full of human misery. In Darkest England and the Way Out And he put four hundred and ninety-eight of the cakes before the cat, keeping only two for himself. How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell He was exhibited in many countries, and finally settled at Durham, England, where he died in 1837 at the almost incredible age of ninety-eight, and is buried by the side of the Falstaffian Stephen Kemble. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Before he entered it, a medical gentleman ascertained that his pulse was vibrating ninety-eight times a minute. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Let me say here clearly, and say it briefly, though subject to discussion which I have not time for here, ninety-eight out of one hundred of the rich men of America are honest. Acres of Diamonds: our every-day opportunities When it was learned that the traders had taken all of the ninety-eight thousand dollars "on account", there was very bitter feeling. Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains He ate all the four hundred and ninety-eight cakes, and then he looked round and said:— "I'm hungry; haven't you anything to eat?" How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Fontenelle was as gay-spirited at ninety-eight as in his fortieth year, and the philosopher Newton worked away at his tasks at the age of eighty-three with the same ardor that animated his middle age. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine I strolled up old Bonanza, where I staked in ninety-eight, A-purpose to revisit the old claim. Ballads of a Cheechako "A dollar and ninety-eight cents," she mused aloud. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories If I live to be ninety-eight years old, and am pensioned by Congress, the explanation which I shall give to the country at large is that it is due to that Turkish Bath. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870 The American Sugar Refining Company had purchased refineries in Philadelphia which enabled it to control, with its other plants, ninety-eight per cent. of the refining business in the country. The United States Since the Civil War It was neither so warm nor so durable as the brown coat, and cost her the rather sickening sensation of breaking into a hundred-dollar bill for twelve dollars and ninety-eight cents. Star-Dust Out of five hundred voters, four hundred and ninety-eight were for the impeachment; the other two voted for it, but conditionally. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 He collected the sum of one million, three hundred and ninety-eight thousand, six hundred and forty-two dollars and sixty-eight cents. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men A thousand things advance, nine hundred and ninety-eight fall back, this is progress. Amiel's Journal The thermometer in the shade ranged from ninety-six to ninety-eight degrees, and I gave over my work and retired with the little ones to the coolest part of the house. Life in the Backwoods It was ninety-eight in the shade, too hot to run much. Ptomaine Street Many of their people have lived to past eighty; one sister died at ninety-eight. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation But we cannot compete with the experiences of Maurice Thompson who, shooting ninety-eight arrows, landed sixteen ducks on the wing. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow He did go on, for ninety-eight days, until he reached the Ladrone Islands. Early European History "I'll have it up to ninety-eight by the middle of next month," said I. "And there I think we'd better stop." The Deluge Mike knew that Morris had made ninety-eight, and he supposed that Morris knew that he was very near his century; yet he seemed to be absolutely undisturbed. Mike The people have been long-lived; only a few weeks before I visited Alfred, died at the Church Family Lucy Langdon Nowell, aged ninety-eight. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation "He is nearly two hundred years old—a hundred and ninety-eight, I think," she replied. A Crystal Age Until July, 1620, there were two hundred and ninety-eight known members of this church in Leyden with nearly three hundred more associated with them. The Women Who Came in the Mayflower I had no difficulty in pushing it to ninety-seven, and I was not alarmed when I found myself loaded up with it, quoted at ninety-eight for the preferred and thirty for the common. The Deluge In the previous game he had scored ninety-eight, and there was a lob bowler in the Claythorpe ranks whom he was particularly anxious to meet again. Mike The vaulted roof is supported by twenty-six slender brick pillars, ninety-eight feet from the pavement; around the interior are fifty chapels, originally founded by the chief citizens for their families. Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir Letters from Egypt assured us that cholera had broken out at Meccah and Jeddah, killing in both places ninety-eight per diem. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 While affairs in the Filipinas were in this condition, ships from Nueva Espana arrived at Manila, in the month of May, one thousand five hundred and ninety-eight. History of the Philippine Islands At ninety-eight he pleads to be retired with a pension; at ninety-nine he dies. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 So happiness is two parts circumstance, ninety-eight parts mental attitude. It Can Be Done Poems of Inspiration Eight thousand six hundred and ninety-five pounds were sent by the Saltzburgers, and the whole amount yielded eight hundred and ninety-eight pounds of raw silk. Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Although he could not make a speech, could hardly address a jury, he had sixty-eight cases the first year of his practice, one hundred and fifteen the second, one hundred and ninety-eight the third. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 American Founders From the port of El Pinal, frozen with cold, the twenty-third of December, ninety-eight. History of the Philippine Islands Nevertheless, the original bill passed the Commons by a majority of ninety-eight. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10 European Leaders Edison says that genius is two parts inspiration, ninety-eight parts perspiration. It Can Be Done Poems of Inspiration In the previous game he had scored ninety-eight, and there was a lob bowler in the Claythorpe ranks whom he was particularly anxious to meet again. Mike and Psmith Zeno lived to the extreme old age of ninety-eight, although his constitution was not strong. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations "Why, Cohen's Emporium, on Main street, has the same thing in the window marked thirteen ninety-eight—regular fourteen dollars." The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale Or, camping and tramping for fun and health The first ninety-eight lines cover the fundamental considerations which the poet must have in mind before he starts to compose. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism H. Davy ascertained the nutritive matter of the carrot to amount to ninety-eight parts in one thousand; of which ninety-five are sugar and three are starch. The Book of Household Management The third reading of the bill passed the House of Commons on May 15th, by a majority of ninety-eight. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 Hence, on January 6, 1481, there were burned six unhappy persons; sixteen on March 26th; many on April 21st; and by November 4th, two hundred ninety-eight in all. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation In the clerical force of the government departments, some of which had never seen women before in their sacred precincts, over one hundred and ninety-eight thousand are now working. Mobilizing Woman-Power You now commence to go down the Yukon, and after a trip of ninety-eight miles, you are in the White River. Klondyke Nuggets A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest He had been given his colours in the previous year for making exactly a hundred in sixty-one minutes against the Authentics when the rest of the team had contributed ninety-eight. A Prefect's Uncle There were two hundred and ninety-four pierced pearls and ninety-eight pierced amethysts. The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure Isocrates lived to the advanced age of ninety-eight, and then died, it is said, by voluntary starvation, in grief for the fatal battle of Chæronea. Mosaics of Grecian History If there doesn't happen to be a boat on this side of the river we may have to wait some time for that breakfast you've been promising me the last ninety-eight miles. Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island The thermometer in the shade ranged after midday from ninety-six to ninety-eight degrees. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" They tell me that you are ninety-eight years old, and that this is the seventy-first time that you will renew your covenant with the eternal Father. The Hallam Succession This he did by walking behind the bowler's arm when Mike had scored ninety-eight, causing him thereby to be clean bowled by a long-hop. Psmith in the City Since I’ve belonged to the Sisterhood I’ve earned four hundred and fifty-seven plenary indulgences, seven hundred sixty thousand five hundred and ninety-eight years of indulgence. The Social Cancer During the hot season in Hyderabad the thermometer reaches ninety-eight degrees Fahrenheit in the shade, and the temperature of the water in the Indus is the temperature of the blood. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan Blood heat: The temperature which the blood is always found to maintain, or ninety-eight degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer. American Woman's Home The heat while walking was quite as exhausting as ninety-eight degrees in the shade at New York. Schwatka's Search Mike, still in the brilliant vein, clumped a half-volley past point to the boundary, and with highly scientific late cuts and glides brought his score to ninety-eight. Psmith in the City Here they are; fine well-matured fruit, gathered in due season; three hundred and ninety-eight of them. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Of the six hundred and seventy horsemen who made the charge, only one hundred and ninety-eight returned. The True Citizen, How to Become One At the same time the wind ran riot once more—two hundred and ninety-eight miles in three hours. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 There are mines in the neighbourhood fifteen hundred and ninety-eight English feet in depth, yet neither in them nor at the surface could the least tremor be detected. Wonders of Creation When the Smiths, father and son, came on to the ground the total was ninety-eight. Psmith in the City Here, again, Stella was a surprise to him, for now her demeanour, and at a little distance her appearance also, were just such as mark ninety-eight out of every hundred clergyman's daughters in the country. Stella Fregelius The sand forms not less than ninety-eight per cent of the earth, and, as it is almost without water, it would be a drifting desert but for the artificial propagation of forest trees upon it. The Earth as Modified by Human Action The other ninety-eight suitors all sought in various ways for the blue rose. The Art of the Story-Teller "Day before yesterday she weighed two hundred and ninety-eight pounds." Her Weight in Gold "No, Mr. White, you can get a two-unit milking machine now that will milk twenty to twenty-five cows in one hour and give a ninety-eight per cent. efficiency." Hidden Treasure Mrs. Carr referred to a blank book lying on the table in which the post-office accounts were kept, and answered: "Three hundred and ninety-eight dollars and fifty cents." Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune The company set forth from their camp on the 18th, and on each hand-cart was now placed a ninety-eight pound sack of flour, as the wagons could not carry the entire load. The Great Salt Lake Trail To-day is Friday—bargain day—I wonder if the landlord would take four ninety-eight. Writing for Vaudeville Well, my grandmother, she was an anncient woman; some said she was ninety- seven, and more called it ninety-eight, but she didn't rightly know herself, bein' she had lost the family Bible. Hildegarde's Neighbors As he drew nearer I could hear him counting to himself, thus: "Ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three, ninety-four, ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred, one hundred and one, one hundred and two—one hundred and two!" The Broad Highway Heavy pack delayed the ship for three days, and it was not until January 16 that she reached a point off Cape Evans, where he landed ten tons of coal and ninety-eight cases of oil. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition On this file and brush I found spores of those deadly anaerobes—dead, killed by heat and an antiseptic, perhaps a one-per-cent. solution of carbolic acid at blood heat, ninety-eight degrees—dead, but nevertheless there. The Treasure-Train You might load that poor soul with crown jewels and she would make them look as if she had bought them at a department store for ninety-eight cents. The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors Nineteen ninety-eight was the warmest year ever recorded. State of the Union Address Passing by several other landings and germs of towns, we come to Wacouta, ninety-eight miles above; which is a successful lumber depot. Minnesota and Dacotah When we reached them we had come ninety-eight miles from the Circus. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, But was it really a hundred and two, or ninety-eight? The Heart of Rachael I was dreadfully disappointed when I learned that you had visited the shops in ninety-eight. Half a Rogue He recalled the distance—seven hundred—no, six hundred and ninety-eight miles from Omaha. The U. P. Trail About ninety-eight per cent. of the soil consists of eight elements united in various compounds or combinations; and only ten elements are essential for the growth and full development of corn or other plants. The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, The thermometer in the shade ranged from ninety-six to ninety-eight degrees, and I gave over my work and retired with the ones to the coolest part of the house. Roughing It in the Bush Yes, five hundred thousand at ninety-eight—and we're at a dollar nine now. The Pit From one of the golden gullies a party took up the incredible quantity of one hundred and ninety-eight pounds weight in six weeks. A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 By the time I am seventy and she is ninety-eight I think she will begin to be almost fond of me. The Rosary Iron, calcium, potassium, sodium, and magnesium, in this order, complete the eight abundant elements, which aggregate about ninety-eight per cent. of the solid crust of the earth. The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, Finch! the temperature is to be ninety-eight, and the position partially recumbent.—Oscar! Poor Miss Finch Look at my father: he never had a bath in his life; and he lived to be ninety-eight, the healthiest man in Bulgaria. Arms and the Man That he amassed winnings of ninety-eight cents one night did not reassure her. Merton of the Movies "Ninety-sevvun, ninety-eight," she counted aloud, her little pointed face gravely intent. Rebecca Mary Perfectly good piazza that cost ninety-eight dollars and sixty cents to build; I know, because I see the bill when the Howeses had it done. Cy Whittaker's Place That accounts for two per cent. of the happiness, but it was not right to imply that it accounted for the other ninety-eight also. In Defence of Harriet Shelley Professor Robertson found several thousand callers, representing ninety-eight distinct species, on this one aster during four October days. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors "But the other ninety-eight weren't in the house last night, and she was." The Gold Bag I didn't want a hundred and ninety-eight pounds falling on me from the rear. Sixes and Sevens But if you had bought him at his own valuation, after half an hour's waiting in the darkish, echoing round-house, you would have saved exactly nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents. The Day's Work - Volume 1 "One ninety-eight," announced Buck, blowing the sand from the tally sheet. Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up In a month's collecting at Wonosaleni and Djapannan I accumulated ninety-eight species of birds, but a most miserable lot of insects. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 The question having been debated on both sides, they proceeded to vote, as usual, and of the citizens present only ninety-eight were against the enterprise. History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy As the teams provided could not haul enough flour to last the company to Utah, a sack weighing ninety-eight pounds was added to the load of each cart. The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 George, who felt older than this by some ninety-eight years, groaned in spirit. A Damsel in Distress The Negroes, ninety-eight in number, were called together and told that the whip would no longer be used, and that they would be allowed a certain sum for every bale of cotton produced. Clotel; or, the President's Daughter This dear little canary, this little yellow-boy, is worth ninety-eight francs! Eugenie Grandet "I hope not, papa; I had ninety-eight in the botany examination, passed with honors in Greek, and we beat the Buckeye Club to nothing in the return match yesterday." The Brick Moon and Other Stories On a spring morning, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, the public conveyance then running between Chalons-sur-Marne and Paris sat down one of its outside passengers at the first post-station beyond Meaux. After Dark Noah had not married until he was four hundred and ninety-eight years old. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 Holkar lost ninety-eight guns, and his capital was seized and sacked by the victors, about four months after the former battle. Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan Banish them from your mind until your temperature is down to ninety-eight. Soul of a Bishop And that sort of a remark is only what might be expected from any person upward of seven feet tall and weighing about ninety-eight pounds with his heavy underwear on. Cobb's Anatomy "Four thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight louis," said Peppino; "You have paid two louis in advance." The Count of Monte Cristo |
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