| 单词 | seventy-eight |
| 例句 | “Statistically speaking, a black woman living in the United States is most likely to die at the age of seventy-eight from heart disease.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In this way she gained seventy-eight cents in coins previously designated for the church collection plate. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z It looked pretty grim for us, with a score of seventy-eight to eighty-one. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z That June Danny and I were among the seventy-eight students who were graduated from Hirsch College, to the accompaniment of numerous speeches, applause, honorary degrees, and family congratulations. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Two hours before the train reached Chicago, during a brief stop, McKim received a cable notifying him that his mother, Sarah McKim, had died unexpectedly in her home, at seventy-eight. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I am still number seventy-eight on the permanent hire list,” he said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z At seventy-eight, he was giving as an adult and taking as a child. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He had estimated our food supply exactly: seventy-eight days’ worth at the outside. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all here, filling the whole school. Three hundred seventy-eight miles of it, according to Michael Amorosa—and he’s never wrong.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z By midafternoon, seventy-eight thousand people had crammed into the track, more than ten thousand in the infield alone. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five. Got that?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The city sprawls across seventy-eight square miles, stretching from the shallow, salty estuary at the edge of San Francisco Bay to the undulating green-and-gold hills where bobcats and coyotes roam. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I wanted one now, only this time I was seventy-eight to be exact, and in no condition to dig up the soil. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Over these months they will get to know each other intimately, writing seventy-eight letters back and forth. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Did you know seventy-eight percent of the winners of the talent show have also gone on to win Insomnia Con?” she said, pausing the laptop to adjust her headband. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The first is the British novelist Paul Bailey, who is seventy-eight, and who published his first novel, “At the Jerusalem,” at the age of thirty. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The Oxford scholars David Constantine and Tom Kuhn have undertaken the translation of Brecht’s entire oeuvre, beginning with this volume of seventy-eight love poems, written between 1918 and 1955. Books to Watch Out For: November 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The movie’s compact seventy-eight minutes should help to make clear that Mankiewicz was both a director with an incisive visual sensibility and also an essentially political filmmaker—perhaps the exemplary Hollywood liberal. Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Rare "Escape" 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z They would not allow themselves, but Helen was eighty, Sylvia seventy-eight. Allegra Goodman: “Apple Cake.” 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z He was seventy-eight, and at his home, in Venice, California. Farewell to the Tambourine Man 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Regardless, at the age of seventy-eight, Sinatra was still ahead of the curve. Always Lonely: A Visual Celebration of Sinatra 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z His death, at age seventy-eight, is more than painful; it is disconcerting and disorienting. The Coruscating Moral Vision of André Glucksmann 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z If it were, this album would not be seventy-eight minutes long, full of songs that take one step forward and two steps back, their author torn between where he’s come from and where he’s headed. Kendrick Lamar’s Capacious New Record 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Three hundred seventy-eight days later, the Huskies have a chance to right that wrong, when they take on the Sun Devils at 7:30 p.m. Live: Updates: No. 5 Huskies host 1-5 ASU looking to stay undefeated 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z Overall, it receives between sixty-three and seventy-eight inches of rain every year. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z By 1812, seventy-eight new textile mills had been built in rural New England towns. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Nineteen seventy-eight would turn out to be a crucial year for San Francisco’s identity. 1978: the year that changed San Francisco forever 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z In comparison, the country taxed oil at seventy-eight percent. The Fight for the Reindeer 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z On November 9th, he died, at the age of seventy-eight. Noel Ignatiev’s Long Fight Against “Whiteness” 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z “Eight hundred seventy-eight more and then I’ll tie Coach Smith,” kidded Stackhouse about his college coach at North Carolina, Dean Smith, one of college basketball’s winningest coaches with 879 career wins. Stackhouse wins opener, Vandy ends 20-game skid 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Post did not live to see that shame; he died at the age of seventy-eight, in 1928. When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z South Florida—the densely populated area comprising Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties—has four hundred and seventy-eight licensed facilities for drug treatment. My Years in the Florida Shuffle of Drug Addiction 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z On an overcast afternoon last weekend, outside the University of Iowa, more than a thousand people gathered to greet Sanders, who happened to be turning seventy-eight that day. Bernie Sanders’s Enduring Appeal to the Youth Vote in Iowa 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z While support for capital punishment has fallen from seventy-eight per cent, in 1996, to fifty-four per cent, last year, according to the Pew Research Center, the division in public opinion remains highly partisan. Witnessing a Federal Execution 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z By 1964, seventy-eight per cent of Americans trusted the federal government to do the right thing “always” or “most of the time,’ the Washington Post reported. Why Do Americans Feel That There’s No One to Help Us? 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Take this one, from page seventy-eight of the report’s second volume: What to Expect from the Mueller Hearings 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z They bought eleven acres of land near a town called Evergreen, Colorado, at an elevation of seventy-eight hundred feet. The Persuasive Power of the Wolf Lady 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z In an election decided essentially by seventy-eight thousand votes in three states, just about anything makes a difference. What the Democrats’ Turn Leftward Means for the Party’s Chances in 2020 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The government’s list of identified militants grew to three hundred, up from seventy-eight names in 2013. In Kashmir, Indian Democracy Loses Ground to Millennial Militancy 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z “The Tourist” went on to earn two hundred and seventy-eight million dollars worldwide, but Donnersmarck wasn’t eager to repeat the experience. An Artist’s Life, Refracted in Film 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Since 2017, Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Tom Wolf, has received more than seventy-eight thousand dollars in campaign contributions from the industry. A Pipeline, a Protest, and the Battle for Pennsylvania’s Political Soul 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Barry, who is seventy-eight, with a Clark Gable mustache and a bouncy tuft of silver hair, furrowed his brow, noting that a couple of men drew their firearms before they were meant to. Choreographing Barroom Brawls with B. H. Barry 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z David Koch, who is seventy-eight and the wealthiest resident of Manhattan, is more socially prominent than his older brother. The Meaning of a Koch Brother’s Retirement 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Deford stopped this past weekend, dying at age seventy-eight, in Florida. Postscript: Frank Deford 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The actor, forty-nine, wore dungarees and a work shirt; the fighter, seventy-eight, wore a blazer with a jaunty pocket square. Liev Schreiber Finds the Heart of Chuck Wepner 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The yearly cost to taxpayers of a prisoner in a maximum-security federal prison is seventy-eight thousand dollars. President Trump’s Guantánamo Delusion 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Mother Dolores Hart, who is seventy-eight and the Academy’s only nun, was also shifted to emeritus status. Shakeup at the Oscars 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z The Raiders defeated their next two opponents by a total of seventy-eight points, and secured a berth in the state-championship game. Can Technology Make Football Safer? 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z The federal government did pay to extend unemployment benefits for as long as seventy-eight weeks after the financial crisis, but that program expired at the end of 2013. Why Trump’s Maternity-Leave Plan Won’t Work 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The sale brought in just over seventy-eight million dollars, well beyond the low estimate of fifty-nine million, and within respectable range of the high estimate of eighty-one million. The Daredevil of the Auction World 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Two years ago, a lawyer in Indiana sent me a check for seventy-eight thousand dollars. A Voyage to the End of the World 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z He told her that his weight had dropped from a hundred and seventy-eight pounds to a hundred and five. The Torturing of Mentally Ill Prisoners 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z He was seventy-eight years old, he reminded me, and he felt that if he did not share his findings with the public now, he might not be around long enough to do so. The Voyeur’s Motel 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z They had also received significant returns on their own investments in Carlyle funds: Rubenstein collected fifty-seven million dollars, D’Aniello seventy-eight million. The Tax Break for Patriotic Billionaires 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Then comes Georgia, with seventy-eight delegates; Tennessee, with fifty-eight; Alabama, with fifty; Virginia, with forty-nine; Oklahoma, with forty-three; and Arkansas, with forty. A Huge Week for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z In 2013, Lauder made a promised gift to the Met of seventy-eight Cubist works, along with funds to establish a research center for modern art. The Met Gets with It 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Last year, the studios released only a hundred and seventy-eight films in total, and they had to carefully and expensively market each one—to people who stayed home anyway. A New Hope for Hollywood? 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Irons will read TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats poems on Radio 4, seventy-eight years after their first broadcast on Christmas Day. BBC Radio Christmas highlights 2015 revealed - BBC News 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Du Bois was seventy-eight, and assured the assembled: You do not stand alone. After Charleston 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Two thousand and seventy-eight people responded to the survey earlier this year. Climate Change Low Among Our Keystone Pipeline Concerns 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Sister Carol, who’s sixty-seven, and Sister Ardeth, who’s seventy-eight, were both outraged and amused that their work on behalf of world peace had once landed them on a terrorist watch list. Nuns and Nuclear Security 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z “That compares to about seventy-eight thousand dollars we use to house hardened criminals in the Florence, Colorado, super-max prison.” Does Ashton Carter Want to Close Gitmo? 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Three hundred seventy-eight Ukrainian servicemen, as well as two journalists and an unknown number of civilians, remain in the hands of armed forces. UN: Human Rights Abuses Rampant in Embattled Eastern Ukraine Soulé, who is now seventy-eight, did not take kindly to these statements, which he perceived as an attempt not simply to expand the conservation mission but to transform it. Bridging the Conservation Divide 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Barry, who died Sunday at the age of seventy-eight, did not play by the customary rules of modern political rhetoric. Postscript: Marion Barry (1936-2014) 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z After three terms in Washington, Senator Roberts, who is seventy-eight years old, is widely considered out of touch with his electors. Can a Kansas One Per Center Save the Democrats? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The average American life span was now seventy-eight and a half, and health care was consuming 17.9 percent of America’s GDP per year. Knocking on Heaven s Door : The Big Business of Lifesaving [Excerpt] 2013-09-16T13:17:24.310Z Two hundred and seventy-eight Kenyan men ran the Olympic qualifying time for the marathon last year. Japhet Koech: from Kenya's Rift Valley to the Edinburgh marathon 2013-05-22T09:08:39Z Murillo painted for the new Church of St. George eight pictures for the side walls, and three for the altars, for which he received over seventy-eight thousand reals. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z He himself was wizened, white of hair, and seventy-eight years old. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z One drop placed on the tongue of a cat caused immediate prostration, and death in seventy-eight seconds. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z Three-fourths, about seventy-eight per centum, of the cases of tubal pregnancy result in what is technically called "tubal abortion" instead of rupture. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The cold was seventy-eight degrees below the freezing point. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z On Sunday, June 8, 1845, the family and servants gathered about the great man, who was dying at the age of seventy-eight, having fought against wounds and disease all his life. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z He said, there was the living, three hundred and fifty a year, and old Mr. Trubshaw seventy-eight. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Probably the Lynn "character" of the past most of us would best like to meet, not for very long perhaps, was Miss Mary Breeze, who died, aged seventy-eight, in 1789. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z The entire pay for that quarter, three trips and expedition, was seven hundred and ninety-five dollars and seventy-eight cents. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z For two hundred and seventy-eight years after the death of Copernicus the church insisted that his system was false, and that the old Bible astronomy was true. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z His collection includes seventy-eight genuine poems, eight doubtful and fifty-four spurious. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Mr. Justice Manisty, aged seventy-eight, is the oldest English judge; and Mr. Justice Charles, aged forty-nine, is the youngest. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Mr. Mablethorpe is seventy-eight years of age, and is still in possession of a fair proportion of his faculties. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Here is a jacket on page 3008, and that jacket shows that out of seventy-eight half trips, expedition was lost on twenty-three and made on fifty-five. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z In 1851 they were three million two hundred and seventy-eight thousand. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z There is another long run over the Caledonian Railway—about seventy-eight miles—without a stop, the apparatus being worked seven times in that distance until Carstairs is reached. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z And little more than a fortnight previously, on January 20, his old colleague, Professor Reay, departed this life, at the age of seventy-eight. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z The second important occurrence of the last few days is the treatment of the Chaldean Patriarch, an aged man of seventy-eight. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z One is said to have been caught off Scarborough many years ago which weighed seventy-eight pounds and measured five feet eight inches in length. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z We continued beating up northward, and between sunrise and twelve o'clock meridian of the 28th, we had made twelve miles northing, reducing our distance from Beshika Bay to seventy-eight sea miles. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z He found exactly three hundred and seventy-eight dollars which he rightly decided was not enough to finance an expedition to the gold country. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z I do seventy-eight per cent of all the work in the woolen mills. Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane 2011-10-17T02:00:15.157Z In the same year, they paid repeal rent, amounting to the enormous sum of seventy-eight thousand five hundred pounds sterling; amounting in all, to one hundred and six thousand five hundred pounds British money. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Within one year after Santa Clara's arrival, the number of beds was raised from thirty-two to seventy-eight. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z Golconda was reached on the evening of the following day—four hundred and seventy-eight miles from San Francisco. 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 We bid farewell to him in 1795 when he was seventy-eight, but still strong and active and able to walk ten miles in three and a half hours. The Strange Story Book 2011-09-15T02:00:13.747Z If Simon were sitting in some sunny spot, who knows if his seventy-eight years would be oppressing him so? Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z Before 3 o’clock seventy-eight bodies were strewn about in the Morgue, and a long line of men and women were constantly passing in and out of the building. Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876 2011-09-13T02:00:36.647Z “I only weigh a hundred and seventy-eight and three quarters, too,” he said dolorously. The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z E. L. was a man, about seventy-eight years of age; had been admitted on the incurable establishment, January 3, 1767. Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-23T02:00:29.227Z E. L. was a man about seventy-eight years of age; had been admitted on the incurable establishment January 3, 1767. Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-14T02:00:24.997Z At the age of seventy-eight Mr. Ballou was still as fluent and distinct a speaker as at the age of forty. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z Wind in the south-west; weather wondrous fine; Thermometer 'twixt seventy-eight and nine. City Ballads 2011-08-04T02:00:21.027Z “There will be no luxuries, and few conveniences,” he wrote from Middlebrook, which was the headquarters for the winter of seventy-eight. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z He is variously said to have written seventy-five, seventy-eight and ninety-two tragedies. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z There are thus but one hundred and seventy-eight generations between us and him. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z An act in this play makes seventy-eight pages. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z He was seventy-eight years old, and had reigned fifty-three years, wretchedly enough—but of this fact he was not aware. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z "We are not less than five hundred and seventy-eight leagues west of Ferro, Se�or Almirante," commenced one of the two; "a fearful distance to venture into the bosom of an unknown ocean!" Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z We set out from this place at about six o’clock in the morning and arrived at Ausaymas at about five in the afternoon, leaving in the vicinity seventy-eight used-up animals. Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 2011-06-13T02:00:22.167Z This would take but one hundred and seventy-eight father-to-son steps to bring us to the original family home in the Garden of Eden. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Taking Ohlsen, the most rational of the sufferers, in a fur bag, and as lightly equipped as was possible, the rescuers moved out in a temperature seventy-eight degrees below freezing. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z Fremont’s majority over Buchanan, in the State of New-York, was between seventy-eight and seventy-nine thousand, and that he ran ahead of the Fillmore ticket to the number of nearly one hundred and fifty-one thousand. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z There, besides the twenty-two rangers always in his service he would select seventy-eight chosen men from the best Styrian hunters. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z In 1991, before the expansion, thirty-two teams participated in what was a strict knockout tournament; last year, seventy-eight teams took part in the broader Champions League, the largest number in the competition’s history. Goal: Milestone Beckons for Two Champions League Coaches 2011-05-03T04:26:12Z Isa tried to count the drops: but, when she had counted four millions, three hundred and seventy-eight thousand, two hundred and forty-seven, she got tired of counting, and left off. The Story of Lewis Carroll Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland 2011-04-30T02:00:12.447Z The Union loss in killed and wounded was eight thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight; the enemy's loss ten thousand one hundred and twenty-five. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z At the age of seventy-eight he married, and twelve years afterwards died, in 1844. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z He died in 1845, at the age of seventy-eight, one of the most striking figures in American history. American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z In the year 1839, the mean strength of the French army was three hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred and seventy-eight men; the number condemned for desertion was six hundred and six. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z It was a “gale of the ‘twister’ type, reaching a velocity of seventy-eight and a half miles an hour,” The New York Times recorded. City Room: For a Hot-and-Cold March, 1921 Has 2011 Beat 2011-03-29T21:50:45Z Dr. Houghton, geologist of the State of Michigan, stated in his report that the elevation of Lake Michigan above tide-water is five hundred and seventy-eight feet. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z Set on seventy-eight stitches, twenty-six on each needle, six stitches in each pattern. The New Guide to Knitting & Crochet 2011-03-17T02:00:11.807Z The names of seventy-eight persons were called and as many of these as were present were sworn in. The Reconstruction of Georgia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1901 2011-03-14T03:01:05.213Z He died on the 15th of July 1472 at the age of about seventy-eight, leaving no children. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Fifty-eight and twenty—that's seventy-eight thousand and thirty-one roubles in two years. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z We have before stated that the elevation of that lake above tide-water is five hundred and seventy-eight feet. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z Swift was seventy-eight years of age at the time of his death, having outlived all his contemporaries of the Queen Anne cluster of wits, with the exception of Bolingbroke, Ambrose Philips, and Cibber. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z The evening report has just come in from the mine,—one hundred and seventy-eight pounds of pure silver in the last twenty-four hours! Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z He died at Washington in February, 1895, at the age of seventy-eight—no very great age, but then he had done the work of ten men, and that wears human life rapidly away. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z "Well, if Ferdinand comes back he can be a director here with me; and he is already useful to others by spending seventy-eight thousand and thirty-one roubles—and certainly to himself!" More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z "Thirty-two thousand four hundred and seventy-eight pounds," said the Jew, reading from a small note-book which he had just taken from his waistcoat pocket. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z One hundred seventy-eight clients, representing 38 percent of the firm’s assets, are invested in the gold share classes, the report said. John Paulson Said to Have Made $5 Billion in 2010 as Funds Rose 2011-01-28T21:27:01Z Mrs. Ellis was then seventy-eight years old—now deceased 'Midst driving winds and blinding snows, Impending dangers round her close; No shelter from the blast and sleet, No earthly help to guide her feet. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z In the same way there stood in the neighbourhood of Cuzco a great temple with seventy-eight chapels in it, where the images of all the gods worshipped in Peru were assembled. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z In 1848, we acquired, by conquest and by treaty, the vast territory of California and New Mexico, containing five hundred and twenty-six thousand and seventy-eight square miles. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z Now the most reverend Pope passed in that same guard-house of Diomedes eighty-five days after the first ninety-three, that is, in all one hundred and seventy-eight days. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII He brought a piece of paper with a long list of items on it, and at the foot a total of seventy-eight marks! The Undying Past Brewster had been a distinguished occupant of the post—distinguished not as a principal, for he received the appointment only at the age of 194 seventy-eight, but as a scientist. Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine In 1688 Ray enumerated seventy-eight varieties in cultivation in the neighbourhood of London, and now it is calculated that about 2000 kinds can be distinguished. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" Yet, he had lived seventy-eight years in this anxious and disappointing world, in opulence, in peace, and in public estimation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 But, save for his vigorous hates, he was a prosaic fellow, given to self-gratulation, who never knew romance, and married his housemaid at the age of seventy-eight. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster This should be the year one hundred and seventy-eight in our calendar! An Atheist Manifesto By evidence manufactured by such outrageous methods, one thousand three hundred and forty-six persons were tried and convicted, of whom seventy-eight were shot, and the others punished with more or less severity. Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future He is seventy-eight, old, feeble, and easily worked upon. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir Constituents wrote to their representatives in Washington, instructing them to vote the ransom, without delay, from the surplus fund, which was now one hundred and seventy-eight million dollars. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories Shortly after, we arrived at a place where there are no less than nine locks, with an ascent of seventy-eight feet. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact For this purpose, it employed two principal inspectors, twenty-five sub-inspectors, and two hundred and seventy-eight physicians. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them He lived on in Bohemia until he was seventy-eight, and then he died at Dux, retaining to the end what Janin terms "his marvelous instinct for vice and corruption." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII In the centre is a pipe seventy-eight feet in perpendicular depth, and from eight to ten feet in diameter, but gradually widening, as it rises into the basin. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The distance from Colombo to Kandy is seventy-eight miles. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 There was a fine view of the famous Cohoes Falls of the Mohawk river, seventy-eight feet in height, and about four hundred feet wide. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact She was nearly seventy-eight years old, and the last of that generation. Edelweiss A Story November 15, 1896, at midnight, the current was transmitted by a pole line, consisting of three continuous cables of uninsulated copper, whose total length was seventy-eight miles. The Greater Republic A History of the United States There were seventy-eight ships and transports casting loose for sea, and eleven or twelve thousand men, soldiers, sailors, and refugees, hurrying to embark; many, especially of the latter, with their families and personal effects. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools In her time she appeared in seventy-eight ballets or operas, always to the delight of the public. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" They soon arrived at a place where there were no less than nine locks, with an ascent of seventy-eight feet. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact "Well, sir, I have just this moment found out that we might have gone round the world in seventy-eight days only." Round the World in Eighty Days The total loss was ten officers and seventy-eight men. The Young Colonists A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars “I’ll no mak’ mysel’ any age; but let us—no’ to be particular to a year or so—put me down at seventy-six or seventy-eight.” Seven Frozen Sailors Of a hundred manufacturers seventy-eight were winnowed out. The Romance of the Reaper Here we saw the famous Cohoes Falls of the Mohawk river, seventy-eight feet in height and about four hundred feet wide. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Though mortally ill and old in years—he was seventy-eight—Count Zeppelin held conferences in his sick chamber, passing on to his assistants the big idea of airship transportation. Zeppelin The Story of a Great Achievement Beyond the gates is an artificial mound, seventy-eight feet above the moat; and on this stood an ancient circular tower. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) They say this engineer is seventy-eight years old, but I don't believe it. Seeds of Pine Some of the white troops went to Camp Moore, seventy-eight miles distant, by the railroad, but the negro soldiers refused to go. Elsie at Viamede They soon arrived at a place where there were no less than nine locks, with an ascent of seventy-eight feet. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact And to the music from the brazen throats of their own trumpets chiming with their fierce battle shout, those seventy-eight Massachusetts horsemen hurled themselves upon the heavy masses of the foe. The Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry in the Closing Scenes of the War for the Maintenance of the Union, from Richmond to Appomatox The British loss was reported as five hundred and seventy-eight killed and wounded, including fifty-eight officers. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. Of the seventy-eight eruptions described above, it will be noticed that not more than nineteen have been of extreme violence, while the majority have been of a slight and comparatively harmless character. Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions In one of the houses, the large house they had passed in coming here, lay an old man, seventy-eight years of age, dying from a rifle-shot. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance There was a fine view of the famous Cohoes Falls of the Mohawk river, seventy-eight feet in height, and about four hundred feet wide. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact The general enlistment ordered by the War Department was pushed most actively and with great results, till more than one hundred and seventy-eight thousand, by the records, were enlisted into the army. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War He is now seventy-eight years old,—a cheerful, kindly, essentially lovable old man. Home Life of Great Authors This night the warriors ferried the Ohio, above the camp, by means of seventy-eight rafts. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women He prospered in business, and likewise grew very large in body, until, in January, 1718, he was killed, aged seventy-eight, by a fall from his horse. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters In the electoral college he had one hundred and seventy-eight votes to Adams's eighty-three. Andrew Jackson But to-day no less than seventy-eight blocks of stone were landed, of which forty were built, which completed the fourteenth and part of the fifteenth courses. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) The slaughter took a total of seventy-eight persons including the commander. The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 He lived on till 1660, when he died at the good old age of seventy-eight. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations It is strange to hear M. de Talleyrand talk at seventy-eight. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II This was in 1721, seventy-eight years before Jenner discovered a more excellent way of grappling with the small pox. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) He was then seventy-eight years of age, suffering severely from the gout and the gravel. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series A dollar 'n' a half will come to—lemme see—to seventy-eight dollars a year! Robert Coverdale's Struggle Or, On The Wave Of Success He was seventy-eight years old, and in view of his long service to the School, his request could scarcely be denied. A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 Tintoretto was seventy-eight when it was allotted to him, and it was the last great effort of his mind and hand. The Venetian School of Painting At the close of Mrs. Ellington's administration in August, 1917, seventy-eight papers in the State were handling news items each week. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Fate has allowed you seventy-eight years of mortal life. The Chinese Fairy Book The "Tarot" pack consists variously of seventy-two, seventy-seven, or seventy-eight cards, including the "Tarots," which give them their distinctive name. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly In its arsenal were found four hundred and fifty-one brass guns, and four hundred and seventy-eight iron guns. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 Of these seventy-eight are now connected with the society, 112 native Bible women employed as visitors in homes, and 367 boarding and day schools with more than 14,000 pupils are maintained. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV There was no "company" and would not be unless a minimum of seventy-eight men were recruited, and at the end of fifteen days the appointment would expire by limitation. Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War These numbered seventy-eight companies, each of 256 officers and men on a war footing. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources Men of seventy-eight have been married before and since. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index The Glasgow missions count fifty-nine, with seventy-eight churches, chapels and stations. Pius IX. And His Time About twelve thousand soldiers and refugees embarked in seventy-eight vessels. From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services The merciful end came at last, and at the age of seventy-eight he was released from the Inquisition. Pioneers of Science One day the thermometer fell to seventy-eight; we Americans shivered and craved a fire, so much did we feel the change of temperature. An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China At seventy-eight years of age, he was still straight, active, agile, fascinating. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index When you get real old, seventy-eight or eighty, then you want a deal of cosseting; but sixty-eight is young in one sense of the word. Good Luck It took one hundred and seventy-eight years for it to make five inches of diameter growth. Wild Life on the Rockies From the last grade they reach the freedom of being bound out; of seventy-eight thus bound during the past year but seven were returned. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The September option opened that day at seventy-eight and one-quarter, rose to seventy-nine, fell to seventy-six and seven-eighths, rose to seventy-eight and then dropped back to seventy-six. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast With telescopic aid the number is largely increased—Galileo observed thirty-six with his instrument and Hooke, in 1664, counted seventy-eight. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' "You look seventy-eight at the very least," said most of the women. Good Luck At the age of seventy-eight he performed miracles, so sure were his eye and hand; and he taught his art to a daughter of his own, who works very well. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi He fell to the depth of thirteen fathoms, or seventy-eight feet. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot Even with the proportion of oats and beans actually used—seventy-six to seventy-eight oats to sixty beans—it was found advisable to increase the 'Rauffutter' ration to replace the missing oat-husks. Cavalry in Future Wars It is a large stone edifice of block coral, one hundred and forty-four feet long and seventy-eight wide, and was one of the first objects we saw after passing Diamond Head. Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California Ally, my dear," she said, "I'm as weary as if I were seventy-eight instead of sixty-eight. Good Luck The total number of ships enumerated by Drayton as joining in the rendezvous at Southampton is one hundred and seventy-eight, the foreign hired vessels included. The Battaile of Agincourt Such were all the results of a fall of seventy-eight feet. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot Take, for instance, Massachusetts, where there are but very few persons from the slave States, if any, and there is only one in seven hundred and seventy-eight that cannot read and write. Slavery: What it was, what it has done, what it intends to do Speech of Hon. Cydnor B. Tompkins, of Ohio Nothing better was conceived than a revival of the Southern dynasty, which had ceased to be an active factor seventy-eight years previously. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era He was replaced on the Bench at the Restoration, at the age of seventy-eight, but retired in 1663. State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) I have received two hundred and seven orphans within the last sixteen months, and have now seventy-eight waiting for admission, without having vacancies for any. The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller Forty-two men with their families, numbering in all seventy-eight souls, set out on foot for Rotterdam. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader As a fact, its first building was reared only a hundred and seventy-eight years ago; and this modernity explains thoroughfares of remarkable breadth that cross each other at right angles. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan In the first five days we covered one hundred and seventy-eight miles, the two longest marches being, respectively, forty-two and forty-five miles. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet At seventy-eight she believes that she is nearer to those she loves by going forward yet a little farther. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Remember he was seventy-eight when he made the turret clock for the Old State House in Boston. Christopher and the Clockmakers Three hundred and seventy-seven, three hundred and seventy-eight, three hundred and seventy-nine. Turandot, Princess of China A Chinoiserie in Three Acts Meanwhile, the French right wing under D'Erlon, advanced to attack the British left, which had been assailed for an hour and a half by the fire of a battery with seventy-eight guns. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) A refreshing breeze stirred an atmosphere of seventy-eight degrees, and not a particle of dust arose on street or house-top as the rain which fell on the preceding night made all things clean. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 Feeling his way to my side he gravely informed me: “There’s seventy-eight or nine rafts an’ a few 328 canoes. A Virginia Scout Friendly relations between the Nawab and the Madras Government were thereupon resumed, and when Nawab Walajah died, at the age of seventy-eight, he was eulogised in an official note in the Fort St. George Gazette. The Story of Madras The old man, who was seventy-eight, could not climb as the others had done, and the soldiers had taken him and were leading him away. The Huguenots in France Out of the seventy-eight eruptions mentioned above, a comparatively small number have been of extreme violence, while many of them have been of a slight and harmless character. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror It lost also its Chief Lapidary and seventy-eight other company employees who had been in the station dome at the time. The Star Hyacinths He passed away seventy-eight years later, full of years and honours, having won the highest prizes that it was in the power of his native province to bestow. Wilmot and Tilley Eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, I think it was. Chimney-Pot Papers He was seventy-eight years old, and had been a galley-slave for thirty years. The Huguenots in France Our school opened about the first of September, with seventy-eight pupils, and it soon increased to 130. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings He was seventy-eight years of age, and fifty-seven in the religious life, fifty-two of which he employed in the Filipinas Islands, establishing this province on a solid basis of religion. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 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 Its area is large, being about seventy-eight feet long, twenty-four high and fifty-one broad. A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers None supposed him over fifty; but he said he had a son fifty-two years old, and was himself seventy-eight. Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 But the population rather decreased, for a return made January 1, 1775, showed the entire population to be but seventy-eight, consisting of twenty-three men, fourteen women, twenty-one boys and twenty-girls. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America He formed a plot of flight to freedom in which two hundred of his fellows joined, though only seventy-eight succeeded in making their escape. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Mr. Child died in 1874 at the age of eighty, and Mrs. Child followed him in 1880, at the age of seventy-eight. Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies An old man of seventy-eight he was, with many a sorrow to look back upon. Blue Ridge Country You couldn't keep me away from that game if you put a protective tariff of seventy-eight per cent ad valorem, whatever that means, on the front gate. At Good Old Siwash Such a one was Jacques Preloker, founder of the "new Israel," a Russian-Jew philosopher who discovered the divine sermon on the Mount eighteen hundred and seventy-eight years after it had been delivered. Modern Saints and Seers But the New Bedford fleet increased rapidly year by year, reaching the climax in 1852, when two hundred and seventy-eight sailed. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 But most of his command had dropped behind in that exhausting ride of seventy-eight miles272 within twenty-eight hours, only some four hundred of them being still with him. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Joshua Milne, the author of the celebrated treatise on "Annuities and Assurances," we see by the English papers died recently near London at the advanced age of seventy-eight. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 At Farragut's approach Lovell, seeing that further resistance was useless, abandoned New Orleans to its fate and withdrew to Camp Moore, distant seventy-eight miles, on the line of the Jackson railway. History of the Nineteenth Army Corps In the three vessels of the Little Fleet that opposed us were altogether two hundred and seventy-eight men, of whom more than two hundred were native Spaniards, the rest being Indians or Mulattoes. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 The foundations of these great towers lie in solid rock seventy-eight feet below the high-tide line on the New York side, and only a little less on the Brooklyn side. Chatterbox, 1906 It has an area of about seventy-eight hundred square miles, varying but a few miles from that of the State of Massachusetts. Down the Rhine Young America in Germany It measures ninety-one yards in length and thirty in breadth, and is seventy-eight feet high. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta I do seventy-eight per cent. of all the work in the woollen mills. The Melting-Pot Joe is seen running at about seventy-eight miles an hour, pursued by twenty-three Indians. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 “I am sure no one could recognise it; I look seventy-eight at the very least.” About Peggy Saville "I have two other sons there; I would go myself, it I wasn't seventy-eight and upwards." Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac It has seventy-eight tunnels, the longest being the Gallera tunnel, which pierces Mount Meiggs at the altitude of fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-five feet. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania During the action the first blew up; her commander, and the whole crew, excepting seventy-eight, perishing. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 Here cockles were procured weighing ten pounds, much smaller than some previously seen, the shell of which alone weighed seventy-eight pounds! Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold The motion was carried by seventy-eight voices against twenty-nine. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I By August, 1877, when Bell's patent was sixteen months' old, Casson's History tells us there were seven hundred and seventy-eight telephones in use and the Bell Telephone Association was formed. Ted and the Telephone A few hundred of these hardy people live along the Greenland coast from Cape York up to latitude seventy-eight degrees, cut off by the surrounding ice-cap from the rest of the world. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The number of white representatives was forty-six, and of colored seventy-eight. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 My nursery, seventy-eight miles away on my fifty acres, I had to leave as gas was rationed and I was forced to sell, so remaining there are about one hundred trees which I shall watch. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 About the same time M. Esslin, an ex-President of the Chamber, who had been imprisoned at the age of seventy-eight in the Syngros gaol, was released by death. Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 The State of Maine, considered by many almost frigid in proprieties, has in one year four hundred and seventy-eight divorces. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony In the first five days we covered one hundred and seventy-eight miles, the two longest marches being respectively forty-two and forty-five miles; but afterwards we did not cover quite such great distances. In the Forbidden Land He died, unmarried, at Spanish Town, on September 28, 1872, at the advanced age of seventy-eight. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 There was a rattlesnake den near us and once we killed seventy-eight in one day. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History During the last two years there have been circulated, 1884 copies of the Scriptures in connexion with the Institution, and since the beginning of the work, March 5, 1834, five thousand and seventy-eight copies. A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself. Second Part Stella died in January, 1728, and Swift not until 1745, having passed the last five of the seventy-eight years of his life with an impaired intellect and keepers to watch him. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American When she walked, it was with a lightness wonderful in a woman of seventy-eight. The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story So far from this being true it would be no exaggeration to say that it extended over the whole of his seventy-eight years of life. Immortal Memories There are three sets of these, each with three cylinders, the diameter being sixty inches for the high pressure, and seventy-eight inches for the low, with a stroke of three feet three inches. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships There are nearly two thousand fires in the year in the metropolis, and the heroic little army which keeps these in check numbers only three hundred and seventy-eight men. Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade Dr. Johnson's best work, "The Lives of the Poets," was written when he was seventy-eight. Pushing to the Front There when all collected the entire number amounted to two hundred and seventy-eight though a certain proportion of these were grown men, priests, wherrymen and beggars, who had joined the rabble in search of plunder. The Armourer's Prentices He was the father of seven children, all of whom are dead, except his son David Weston, his successor in the chieftainship, who still lives at Flandreau, South Dakota, at the age of seventy-eight years. Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas Although seventy-eight years have passed since the total abolition of slavery, however, the condition of the laborers of Jamaica remains practically the same as it was then. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 He died in Padua, at the age of seventy-eight, on the sixteenth of February, 1770, and lies buried in the Church of St. Catherine. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians "Eighteen seventy-eight, I think, dear," said Agnes, with more kindness than confidence. The Corner House Girls at School The temperature is seventy-eight point two degrees Fahrenheit, humidity 23 per cent, barometer steady at twenty-nine point nine. The Status Civilization These bankers engaged to make the money payments and take six per cent. stock of the United States at seventy-eight and one half cents on the dollar. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII He, with nine other cavaliers, held the bridge of Orbigo against all comers for thirty-six days, and in that time they overthrew seventy-eight knights of Spain and France. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 It wasn't a quarter of a minute when he said to a man who stood waiting, 'Nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars, sir. Three People When day broke seventy-eight bitten dromedaries were counted. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People From Falmouth, letters might be at Sydney, New South Wales, in seventy-five, and at Canton-China in seventy-eight days, by employing sailing packets only, to cross the Pacific from the Isthmus of America. A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World The position was attacked, at seven in the morning, by a hundred men of the 32nd Pioneers; supported by seventy-eight men of my regiment. Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti In April 1948 General Paul had his Manpower Control Group review the officer strength of seventy-eight black units stationed in the United States. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 Now just think of counting such a pile of money as that in about the time it would take me to count seventy-eight cents? Three People At a recent Brussels musical congress, she took first prize among no less than seventy-eight competitors. Woman's Work in Music This population is made up of people who speak seventy-eight different languages, of which twenty languages are spoken by not less than 1,000,000 persons each. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) It contained seventy-eight items, thirty-four of them passed. The Plum Tree The group uncovered a shortage of seventy-two officers in the seventy-eight units, but it went considerably beyond identifying simple shortages. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 When Goethe was seventy-eight and Mendelssohn eighteen, they spent another month together; and a regular program of instruction was laid out. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians In reply from London came the news that seventy-eight thousand guns and bayonets were on their way to America. Ten American Girls From History The book is abundantly illustrated, having twelve excellent plates in lithograph and photogravure, and two hundred and seventy-eight in the tone process and photoengraving. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Bonnet, the hardware dealer, in spite of his seventy-eight years, comes and goes at a lively pace—coughing, grumbling, mumbling—always in a hurry, though he never has anything special to attend to. With Those Who Wait General Paul was able to fill the existing vacancies in the seventy-eight continental units by recalling black officers from inactive duty, but the number eligible for recall or available from other sources was limited. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 In November of 1698 the Governor passed from this life in Castle St. Louis at the good old age of seventy-eight. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom He had reached the ripe age of seventy-eight years but was still in complete possession of all his splendid faculties. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Year before last the number was one thousand four hundred and seventy-eight millions. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money And yet neither of them lived less than seventy-eight years. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 The native preaching force in the mission was then sixty-two, of whom eighteen were in Koordistan, under the care of Mr. Shedd; and there were seventy-eight regular preaching places. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. A more precise statement places it at about two hundred and seventy-eight days. Plain Facts for Old and Young She lived for seventy-eight years after this first Thanksgiving, and of those who came over in the Mayflower she was the last to die. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know On October 17, 1917, he was once more made Premier of France, though he was now seventy-eight years old. Winning a Cause World War Stories The whole poem is before us, with its fourteen thousand two hundred and seventy-eight lines, the English answering line for line and word for word to the original Italian. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 The number of pupils was increased to seventy-eight, and the school ceased any longer to need aid. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. His age was seventy-eight years and twenty-one days. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends As shown by the last Governmental report, McLean County contains four thousand eight hundred and seventy-three farms, aggregating seven hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred and seventy-eight acres. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective She lived for seventy-eight years after this first Thanksgiving; of those who came over in the Mayflower she was the last to die. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs For on Algon, while the day had been divided by the humans into twenty-four hours, the same as on Earth, each hour was almost seventy-eight minutes long. Man of Many Minds “The lottery schemes are what is known as the ternary combination of seventy-eight numbers, being one to seventy-eight, inclusive; or in other words, ‘three number’ schemes. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Three hundred and seventy-eight were necessary for a choice. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The total cost for cutting, raking, binding and shocking is seventy-eight cents and a fraction per acre. Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap Height, five feet ten and three-quarters inches; weight, one hundred and seventy-eight pounds. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain During the past seven years a larger number of applications for patents were filed and patents granted than during the entire seventy-eight preceding years, reaching back to the enactment of the first patent law. Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. To-day seventy-eight numbers may be placed in the wheel and fourteen of them drawn out. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Bahá’ís have established residence in seventy-eight countries, fifty-six of which are sovereign states. Messages to America The numbers of the house of lords, in the first parliament of this reign, were seventy-eight temporal peers. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. Of these, there are more than half a hundred—seventy-eight, to be exact—most of which have come to light since 1860, and all of them, it would seem, copies of documents still older. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry During that year, there were printed seventy-eight thousand copies of fourteen works, amounting to nearly five millions of pages, all in modern Greek. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. The man is almost seventy-eight years of age, but he looks twenty years younger. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City At any rate, next day Gordon was plotting a rag on an enormous scale with Archie Fletcher; and in a House game assisted in the severe routing of Rogers' house by seventy-eight points to nil. The Loom of Youth You were seventy-eight, then, and you were still hunting, and fishing, and flying your own plane. Time and Time Again The commander went forward to the bridge and pilot-house, and consulting the log slate, found that the last entry gave seventy-eight knots from the station. Stand By The Union I'm going on seventy-eight now, you know, and the children get pretty noisy sometimes; and I thought, maybe, if it wouldn't be too much trouble—" "Hem! Choice Readings for the Home Circle You can take any three numbers of the seventy-eight, and bet, or “policy” on them. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City In spite of these discordant counsels, the Jacobite prospects in Ireland brightened when a fleet of seventy-eight ships sailed from Brest. Lectures on Modern history This is called the Tray Run Viaduct, and it is 640 feet long; the masonry is seventy-eight feet high, and the iron-work above that is eighty feet. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 To begin with, Templeton Thorpe, at the age of seventy-eight, is lying at the edge of his grave. From the Housetops Jimmy's grandparents were, then, understandably aged seventy-eight and eighty-one. The Fourth R In the space of six months 154 negroes and twenty whites were arrested, twenty negroes were hanged, thirteen were burned at the stake, and seventy-eight were p. 47transported. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City On the 20th of May, the total of the army in Jersey, excluding cavalry and artillery, amounted to only eight thousand three hundred and seventy-eight men, of whom upwards of two thousand were sick. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States And yet not a single Canadian Indian has claimed that he won the World War—not even Pegahmagabow, who shot three hundred and seventy-eight Germans. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure The above Latin lines are the first four of the original seventy-eight. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Not long after his death, which took place when he was seventy-eight, Borrow’s Oulton home was pulled down. Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 To the fighting peoples and their colonies in normal times we send nearly seventy-eight per cent of our exports, and from them we derive seventy per cent of our exports. The War After the War It took M. de la V�rendrye's canoemen a month to coast from the Straits of Mackinaw to Kaministiquia, which they reached on the 26th of August, seventy-eight days after they had left Montreal. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark He distinguished himself signally as a sniper and bears the extraordinary record of having killed three hundred and seventy-eight of the enemy. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure He died at the age of seventy-eight, on March 22, 1637. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 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 Each package contains all the numbers, from one up to seventy-eight, without a repetition of any one of them. Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. Our valet, Rohfritsch, led the way; counting the steps as he mounted, and finding them to be about three hundred and seventy-eight in number. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three The residence of Lepidus was the handsomest in Rome seventy-eight years before Christ. The Wonders of Pompeii In 1884 there were seventy-eight individuals living; associated with them were nineteen Lipan Apache, who had lived in their company for many years, though in a separate camp. Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 The Count de Frontenac had not the good fortune of crowning his brilliant career by a treaty with the savages; he died on November 28th, 1698, at the age of seventy-eight years. The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval The following are the numbers which were this day drawn from the seventy-eight placed in the wheel, viz.:— Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. They say he is about seventy-eight years old, and manifestly suffers the infirmities of that great age. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government The Guides by a seventy-eight mile circuit now found themselves south-east, instead of north, of the objective, and the enemy were consequently taken from a totally unexpected quarter. The Story of the Guides How many porticoes there were, cannot be seen; but at one of the principal gates there are still five, measuring, from out to in, seventy-eight feet, ten inches, the vault diminishing inwards. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 The Sulpicians, finding themselves cramped in their old abode, began in 1684 the construction of a new seigniorial and chapter house, of one hundred and seventy-eight feet frontage by eighty-four feet deep. The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval He was born in Amsterdam, in Holland, and for a great while had lived an humble life amongst our Brothers, and he was seventy-eight years and four months old. The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes Americans, and the other seventy-eight were made up of English, Irish and Scotch residing in Canada at the outbreak of the war. Private Peat We reached Southampton, a distance of seventy-eight miles, in three hours; and what most surprised me was, being seriously told on our arrival, that we had been unusually long on our way. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Of the total number condemned, six hundred and seventy-eight were actually hanged, while the remainder either died in prison, were transported, or pardoned. Elizabeth Fry Between the reflected flash on the sky and the sound of the report one could count seventy-eight seconds, which Captain Lambton tells me gives a distance of about fifteen and a half miles. Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege I gave Moore, who is gone to Rome, my Life in MS., in seventy-eight folio sheets, brought down to 1816. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals Perhaps the most successful of these religious communities is that of the "True Inspirationists," known as the Amana Community, in Iowa, seventy-eight miles west of Iowa City, on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 He laughs at Statius, who congratulated himself that he employed only two days in composing the epithalamium upon Stella, containing two hundred and seventy-eight hexameters. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Sidney Smith says: 'It is impossible to feel affection beyond seventy-eight degrees or below twenty degrees of Fahrenheit.... The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 He died August 19th, 1493, seventy-eight years of age, and after a reign of fifty-three years. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power It is one hundred and thirty feet in length by seventy-eight in breadth and sixty-five in height, being thus of somewhat greater dimensions than the celebrated Town Hall of Birmingham. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 I am, thank God, in excellent health for one aged seventy-eight. Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War A pretty busy week for a person of seventy-eight years. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 35, July 8, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls So under the "Rent, forty pounds," she wrote, "Housekeeping, including gas, seventy-eight pounds." Married Life The True Romance "Five hundred and seventy-eight," he said, "and still he's got the front to swear I owe him near two more hundred." The Torch and Other Tales The number arrested was one hundred and seventy-eight, thirty-six executed, and seventy-one transported! History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens And at last, three years ago, it came to us—$133.19 to each Indian, seventy-eight years after the removal from Georgia had taken place. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers I shall be seventy-eight when he is eighty. One Man in His Time The water varies in depth from fifty-four to seventy-eight feet. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East I broke my record for the course, making a medal score of seventy-eight. John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life The factory maund is equal to about seventy-eight pounds. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Doctor Edwin C. Bolles has been for fifteen years on the Faculty of Tufts College, Massachusetts, and still continues active service at the age of seventy-eight. Memories and Anecdotes The Reform Committee consisted of seventy-eight members; sixty-four were arrested. A Woman's Part in a Revolution The number of convicts was seven hundred and seventy-eight, of whom five hundred and fifty-eight were men. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) We now moored the ship in seventy-eight fathom, with the stream-anchor. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time By a vote of eighty-four to seventy-eight they resolved to go into Grand Committee on the subject. The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 He died there on September 16, 1635, at the age of seventy-eight. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 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 Expelled from power when seventy-eight years of age, M. Thiers retired to a little sunny, dusty entresol on the Page 398 Boulevard Malesherbes, where the noise and glare greatly disturbed him. France in the Nineteenth Century What a thrilling place it was with its seventy-eight children and its three rooms. The Light in the Clearing The remains of Federal soldiers and sailors who fell in the war for the Union have been buried in seventy-eight cemeteries exclusive of those interred elsewhere, a far greater number. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Nine hundred and seventy-eight estates were placed under sequestration. The Liberation of Italy I gave to Moore, who is gone to Rome, my life in MS.,—in seventy-eight folio sheets, brought down to 1816 . . . also a journal kept in 1814. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time If it had been said in old Independence Hall seventy-eight years ago, the very doorkeeper would have throttled the man, and thrust him into the street.... The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him In a similar manner, it may be found that the number of shocks corresponding to the impression of violet is six hundred and seventy-eight millions of millions. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 Notwithstanding her seventy-eight years she was up every morning soon as it was day and came and took her position in the fauteuil that was awaiting her in the chimney nook opposite her old friend. The Downfall They deliberated upon the matter and then replied that they would deliver up twenty-eight prisoners for seventy-eight pounds of powder, and forty staves of lead. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam We may see the zeal and enthusiasm of the Byron party,—copying seventy-eight folio sheets, as of old Christians copied the Gospels. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time But the swiftness of the Angara, and its numerous rapids, seventy-eight in all, stood in the way of the project. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Forty years ago, one little association in London: to-day Great Britain dotted all over with them; one hundred and ninety in England and Wales; one hundred and seventy-eight in Scotland, and twenty in Ireland. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884 The elder Madame Delaherche was already there, for she was always on foot at daybreak, notwithstanding she was seventy-eight years old. The Downfall The first Congress, which met in Bombay in December, 1885, consisted of seventy-eight persons, who came from twenty-five places. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore In the autumn, Major-General Mitchell required forty tons of corn-fodder and seventy-eight thousand pounds of corn in the ear, for army-forage. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Of this total, sixty-four killed and one hundred and seventy-eight wounded, or three fourths, fell to three ships. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 For the third time they started the count, and finally came as near as seventy-eight and seventy-nine; but the act of counting and recounting had a curious effect on their senses. The Motor Maids in Fair Japan This has an aperture of five inches, a power of thirty diameters, and a field of view of seventy-eight minutes of arc. Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Before the Conquest it contained about three thousand inhabitants; but the number was greatly diminished, for out of seven hundred and twenty-one houses formerly inhabited, four hundred and seventy-eight were now lying waste. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune One thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight were transferred from one law court to another for the purpose of thorough examination, while 178 had not yet been tried. Korea's Fight for Freedom The allied army was twelve thousand strong; Cornwallis had about seventy-eight hundred men. The Conqueror Elliott's Brigade in the day's fight lost two hundred and seventy-eight officers and men. History of Kershaw's Brigade If they force me to it I will obtain legislation against marriages above the age of seventy-eight. Back to Methuselah The German Constitution is a written document in seventy-eight chapters, not fifty years old, and on which, compared with the British Constitution, the ink is not yet dry. William of Germany The Squatter Sovereign, in its issue of July 1st, made the following announcement: The steamer, Star of the West, having on board seventy-eight Chicago Abolitionists, was overhauled at Lexington, Mo., and the company disarmed. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler She lived to be seventy-eight, but she never recovered her reason. The Conqueror Two hundred and seventy-eight men were buried in the debris—Eighteenth Regiment, eighty-two; Twenty-second, one hundred and seventy, and Pegram's Battery, twenty-two men. History of Kershaw's Brigade I won my place in public life by demonstrating that the true expectation of human life is seventy-eight point six. Back to Methuselah S.—The unconscionable old rogue! at seventy-eight how many more could he expect? The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 486, April 23, 1831 The first thing to be noted is, that whereas Sophia said her say in about fifty pages, the masculine reply covers seventy-eight in smaller print. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 And, though I have never written my own son three letters in my life, I suppose the desire of self-expression is stirring in me now these seventy-eight years later. The "Goldfish" Le Cousin Pons had two parts in feuilleton, and thirty-one chapters, which in book form became no parts and seventy-eight chapters. Poor Relations You draw a pension for three hundred years when we owe you only seventy-eight; and you call us ungrateful! Back to Methuselah There are five congregations in Glasgow, having a membership of six hundred and seventy-eight persons. A Trip Abroad More recently other provinces have been admitted into the Dominion without reference to this arrangement, and now seventy-eight senators altogether may sit in parliament. Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 My house payroll is, therefore, six hundred and fifty dollars a month, or seventy-eight hundred a year. The "Goldfish" Given at Borney, May twenty-three, one thousand five hundred and seventy-eight. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 1576-1582 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 In other words, he has effected an enormous national economy by living so long; and you, by living only seventy-eight years, are profiting at his expense. Back to Methuselah On the 17th there were in Boston Harbor seventy-eight ships and transports casting loose for sea, and twelve thousand soldiers, sailors and refugees, hurrying to embark. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters There died between the 1st of January and 31st of December, both inclusive, two settlers, seven soldiers, seventy-eight male convicts, twenty-six female convicts, and twenty-nine children. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. Considering his great age of seventy-eight years, the Pope has still a noble presence and most amiable manners. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy In August of seventy-eight a galleon and a large galley with five hundred men, and other necessary supplies for Maluco, passed Borney. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 1576-1582 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 If I have to die when I am seventy-eight, I don't see why another man should be privileged to live to be two hundred and seventy-eight. Back to Methuselah “Step down and out” you’ve had your day, Your young successor’s at the gate, Let him be crowned without delay, The royal stranger seventy-eight. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland When seventy-eight years of age, he wheedled Madame Jumel, an eccentric and wealthy widow, into a marriage. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 No less than three times in the course of the evening do I hear him go through that remarkable tale of the doctor at Norwich, of the age of seventy-eight, and the four fine children. Nancy He even sent him on a tour through the South, and Royal Gift passed a whole winter in Charleston, South Carolina, with a resulting profit of six hundred and seventy-eight dollars to his owner. The True George Washington [10th Ed.] I saw the heat veils rising from the valley floor, at that point one hundred and seventy-eight feet below sea level. Tales of lonely trails It has held a meeting on the first Monday afternoon of each month for seventy-eight years, and the records are preserved intact. Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" Woe is me, at seventy-eight, and with scarce a hand and foot to my back! Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II Into it Charles entered with seventy-eight hundred horse, many Swiss foot, and many artillerymen and bombardiers. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 The Emperor Constantine's mother, St. Helena, was, at seventy-eight years of age, the first royal pilgrim to the holy places. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 During his holiday at Weimar he called upon Wieland, then seventy-eight years old, who, probably prompted by Mrs. Schopenhauer, tried to dissuade him from the vocation which he had chosen. Essays of Schopenhauer Thus, on the 4th of July, 1860, after the toils and struggles of life, protracted to a period of seventy-eight years, and a few weeks; my beloved, and venerated mother "fell asleep." Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York General Pleasanton with a small force and a horse battery began it, marching seventy-eight miles in twenty-four hours; but Stuart marched ninety in the same time. Ailsa Paige The labourer whose decease was reported to the Board upon their assembling was born some seventy-eight or seventy-nine years ago. Hodge and His Masters We made the distance two hundred and seventy-eight foot. Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio The propagation of the human species, indeed, flourished marvellously, no less than seventy-eight children having been born in the course of that single year. The Crater Interviewer's Comment Allowing for a year's difference between the two youngest children, and allowing that the boy was born immediately before the War, the girl could not be younger than seventy-eight. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 They contained the doctrines of the Church of England, but were abolished by Archbishop WELLS, who substituted seventy-eight of his own. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 Out of 22,027 thirteen-year-old boys in the public schools of seventy-eight American cities, only 12,699, or a little more than half, were living in the places of their birth. The Trade Union Woman Born in Arkansas and lived in Arkansas seventy-eight years. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Done at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania the ninth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, and in the third year of the independence of America. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins From what she told me, I must be about seventy-eight years old. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 He lived to be eighty and she lived to be seventy-eight years old. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 The next evening Mount Warning was seen from the deck although we were at least seventy-eight miles from it. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 He is a dear old man of some seventy-eight summers, though somewhat of the laudator temporis acti school; but what good-nature and sense of humour there is in the good, honest face! A Cotswold Village Of this gross two hundred million pounds, we export one hundred and twenty-two millions, leaving about seventy-eight millions for home consumption. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 There's no honour in a mother: that sow you are eating was the mother six times of thirteen at each litter; and I think that's about seventy-eight. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII But there are now thirteen States of the Union, entitled to seventy-eight Representatives, in which none have been elected. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 5, part 4: James Buchanan See what a place you fill at seventy-eight. A Tale of Two Cities He was now an old man of seventy-eight, trembling on the verge of the grave, but his spirit was as brave as ever. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance His first balloon was a small parallelopiped in very thin taffeta, containing less than seventy-eight cubic inches of air. Wonderful Balloon Ascents It is to contain, among a variety of brilliant matter, seventy-eight words in large capitals, and six original quotations in inverted commas. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people I am free to confess that the loss of these seventy-eight inventions has left a sore spot in me that has never healed. Edison, His Life and Inventions Henry was now a veteran of seventy-eight, with only three years remaining to his credit in the bank of Time, while Bell was twenty-eight. The History of the Telephone And when he fell in poverty he was seventy-eight year of age. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville The ship was not going at full speed, as has been printed, because full speed would be from seventy-eight to eighty revolutions, and we were making only seventy-five. Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters The patient was a sea-captain of seventy-eight, and had been exposed to the winds all his life. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Specifications had been drawn, and I had signed and sworn to the application for patents for these seventy-eight inventions, and naturally I supposed they had been filed in the regular way. Edison, His Life and Inventions Between her and her hand-press on the mountain clearing and him ordering his wine in the hotel was a difference of seven dollars and seventy-eight cents. Burning Daylight Take, for instance, the seventy-eight gun ship, the Hindostan, launched a few years ago. Men of Invention and Industry But the ship had not yet been speeded to her capacity she was capable of turning over about seventy-eight revolutions. Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters From the Indian Medical Record we learn that Lieutenant Nicholas Lavin of the Grand Armee died several years ago at the age of one hundred and twenty-five, leaving a daughter of seventy-eight. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine He was especially fond of red, and the author carefully keeps a cardinal silk handkerchief that he was carrying when stricken with apoplexy at the age of seventy-eight. At the Foot of the Rainbow The average duration of their lives was about seventy-eight. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography In the following year, when he was seventy-eight, he met with a severe accident. Men of Invention and Industry Burlingham had announced that there were three hundred and seventy-eight dollars in the japanned tin box he kept shut up in his bag. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Poulet mentions the case of a man of seventy-eight, in whose bladder a metallic sound was broken off. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine She had been given a check for seventy-eight dollars, and from this, she explained, my allowance would be paid in weekly instalments. The Story of a Pioneer There when all collected the entire number amounted to two hundred and seventy-eight, though a certain proportion of these were grown men, priests, wherrymen and beggars, who had joined the rabble in search of plunder. The Armourer's Prentices His widow died at the advanced age of seventy-eight years on the 24th of November, 1837, being the thirtieth anniversary of her husband's death. Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 The Liberal seats gained by the Tories were seventy-eight, while the Tory seats gained by Liberals were only thirty-eight, thus making a Tory majority of eighty. The Grand Old Man Dr. T. L. Wilson of Bellwood, Pa., relates the case of an old lady of seventy-eight whom he found with the blood gushing from the nostrils. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine The guns, which moved freely on the deck, weighed from 100 to 250 tons, and were distributed, to some vessels one, to others two, and to others three; altogether thirty-six vessels possessed seventy-eight guns. Freeland A Social Anticipation Only three men living in Berlin have more total descendants--and I am but seventy-eight years of age. City of Endless Night "At the market rate when I left town, seventy-eight." The Fortune Hunter One hundred and seventy-eight prizes were awarded in the show of January, 1900, and some magnificent cats were shown. Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Triumphant America," says George Horace Lorimer, "certainly does not mean each and every one of our seventy-eight millions. The Call of the Twentieth Century An Address to Young Men It was not until after our arrival at Tampico that I had the mortification to discover that the interesting creature, the charming recluse, is seventy-eight, and has just buried her seventh husband! Life in Mexico The lines of railway at that time, 1834, amounted to seventy-eight miles. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 The stock consisted of seventy-eight cows, five horses, four pair of team oxen, besides large numbers of sheep, pigs, and poultry. The Roof of France Marten lived to the advanced age of seventy-eight, and died by a stroke of apoplexy, which seized him while he was at dinner, in the twentieth year of his confinement. The Banks of Wye Florus says that not more than thirty got out, while Velleius makes the number to have been sixty-four, and Plutarch seventy-eight. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 He bought the mill of Santo Domingo for one hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars, and began to build the edifice, employing foreign workmen at exorbitant prices. Life in Mexico He died in the year 37 at the age of seventy-eight. Outline of Universal History The lottery schemes are what is known as the ternary combination of seventy-eight numbers, being one to seventy eight, inclusive; or, in other words, 'three number' schemes. The Secrets of the Great City The marquis, now seventy-eight, had been for two generations the Maecenas of letters in Southern Italy. Milton "Four hundred and seventy-eight thousand: Bank of England notes and United States bonds." The Face and the Mask The officer appointed to gauge the casks that were landed from the schooner ascertained that one of them measured only seventy-eight gallons. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale There were days when the only thing he ate was the cabbage stalks that he picked up in the marketplaces; other days, on the contrary, he treated himself to seventy-eight céntimo banquets in the chop-houses. The Quest To- day seventy-eight numbers may be placed in the wheel and fourteen of them drawn out. The Secrets of the Great City In fact, I have just seen a newspaper estimate which gives the former seventy-one thousand, and the latter seventy-eight thousand. Life on the Mississippi, Part 12. The united age of this crown- diamantine couple amount to one hundred and seventy-eight years! Manners and Social Usages This bar lies in thirty-two degrees and forty minutes north latitude, and seventy-eight degrees and forty-five minutes west longitude from London. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 All our noble consistory, for want of a categorical resolution, were seized with such a horrid thirst, that above seventy-eight hogsheads of nectar were swilled down at that sitting. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 The prisoners were nine hundred and forty- six in number, of whom seventy-eight were wounded. Revolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical Papers The settlement has built twenty fine school-houses, ten churches, and kept up one of the finest systems of road improvements, covering one hundred and seventy-eight miles, in this country. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation On this the assessment was actually equal to seventy-eight per cent. on the gross produce of the land.—Speech of Mr. Bright in the House of Commons. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished Open the book at pages seventy-eight and seventy-nine. Blind Love Pantagruel sent them by Gymnast in the pinnace seventy-eight thousand fine pretty little gold half-crowns, of those that are marked with a lantern. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Omega stood at eighty asked, and seventy-eight bid, and the ship of the stock gamblers was again sailing on an even keel. Blindfolded He continued shepherding up to the age of seventy-eight. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs The company had only been formed for the war on April 19th, and had received that same day forty-nine new grenadiers and twenty-nine at Milan, which made seventy-eight recruits in two months. Battle Studies As witness our hands this eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto By the conjecture of seventy-eight standards which we told, we guessed their number to be two and forty thousand, at a modest computation. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 I heard shouts of seventy-five, seventy-eight, eighty and eighty-five. Blindfolded The number killed was estimated at something over one hundred, but the Indians afterward reported their loss at seventy-eight killed and forty-two wounded. Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk Cneius Domitius, the first plebeian censor, holds a lustrum; the number of the citizens found to be two hundred and seventy-eight thousand two hundred and twenty-two. The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 |
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