| 单词 | seventy-nine |
| 例句 | Tutu was seventy-nine years old, a barrel-chested man with bright eyes and an irrepressible laugh. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z You see the cruelty required to produce eggs that can be sold for seventy-nine cents a dozen. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z At seventy-nine, Nels was blind in his left eye and could distinguish only shades of light and darkness through its transient, shadowy pupil. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The cheapest cloth we could find cost seventy-nine cents a yard, and you needed more than two yards for a dress. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The thermometer by Miss Celia’s kitchen window sinks down from seventy-nine to sixty to fifty-five in less than an hour. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The school with the little crowns won round two with seventy-nine points. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I sank seventy-nine out of a hundred after breakfast, and he told me I could do better. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He was seventy-nine and trapped inside a decaying body. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z On the day he rode his first winner, Tommy Luther weighed seventy-nine pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Please, Bryson, can I borrow”—he looked at the price—“four dollars and seventy-nine cents? I’m broke.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When I talked to McKusick several years before his death in 2008, he was seventy-nine and still conducting research and training young scientists. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I looked in my pocketbook and counted out a dollar bill and seventy-nine cents in dimes and nickels and pennies. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z So it says everything important about André Brink, who died on February 6th at the age of seventy-nine, that he ultimately chose to live and write as the restless conscience of his people. A Traitor to His Tribe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Bogdanovich, now seventy-nine, a master director who has survived his own reversals and tragedies, recalls his Welles period with a certain bittersweet nostalgia. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z At the B. B. King Blues Club & Grill, the Killer, now seventy-nine, played his hits and some new songs, accompanied by Kenny Lovelace, who’s been playing with him for fifty years. My Favorite Cultural Moments of 2014 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z The budget of the new “Avengers” film is estimated between two hundred and twenty and two hundred and seventy-nine million dollars. Advice for Robert Downey, Jr. 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Sixty-five and light rainfall there when it’s seventy-nine and sunny here? Travels with My Weather App 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z And in Los Angeles it’s seventy-nine degrees and sunny. Travels with My Weather App 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z At seventy-nine, she has lived with cancer for thirteen years and has exhausted all available treatment options. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The budget of the new “Avengers” film is estimated between two hundred and twenty and two hundred and seventy-nine million dollars. Advice for Robert Downey, Jr. 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z In 2016, the federal government spent ninety-one billion dollars subsidizing college attendance; for as little as seventy-nine billion dollars, tuition could be eliminated at all public colleges. Student Debt Is Transforming the American Family 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z But I don’t want to say, just because someone is seventy-nine, they can’t or shouldn’t run for President. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the 2020 Presidential Race and Trump’s Crisis at the Border 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Fire-roasted meats are a highlight; the “DINOSAUR,” a generous, tender chunk of beef on a hulking bone with a delightfully sticky crust, which costs seventy-nine dollars, easily feeds two. A Tel Aviv Restaurant Brings Bacchanalia and Technique to Hell’s Kitchen 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Senator Bernie Sanders is oldest at seventy-nine and based on what we know right now is in good health. The Mayor Pete I know on health and healthcare 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Four hundred seventy-nine passengers were airlifted from the vessel, officials said, and the rest remained aboard until the vessel reached port. ‘It was too much’: Virginia couple stranded in cruise ship off Norwegian coast returns home 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Last year, Jason won, two hundred and seventy-nine to two hundred and thirty-nine. Birding Brothers of the Bronx 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z According to the Jupiter police, the price of an hour-long massage at Orchids of Asia was seventy-nine dollars; fifty-nine dollars would get you thirty minutes. The Real Ugliness of the Robert Kraft Story 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Finally, in 1983, it happened: the great old man expired, at the age of seventy-nine. Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Elliott has lost money in only two of its forty-one years of existence, and one dollar invested in the fund at its inception would now be worth a hundred and seventy-nine dollars. Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Rightwing extremist terrorism was more often deadly than Islamist extremism: nearly a third of incidents involved fatalities, for a total of seventy-nine deaths, whereas just 8% of Islamist incidents caused fatalities. Alt-America: the time for talking about white terrorism is now 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z A hundred thousand government employees have been fired, and a hundred and seventy-nine television stations, newspapers, and other media outlets have been closed. Turkey’s Vote Makes Erdoğan Effectively a Dictator 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Are there still more ways in which seventy-nine excites the especially mathematical mind? A Mathematician Confronts March Madness 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z He died at the age of seventy-nine, having served since 1986, which made him the senior Associate Justice. The Supreme Court After Scalia 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Guantánamo, which has held as many as seven hundred and seventy-nine prisoners, now houses just seventy-six. Why Obama Has Failed to Close Guantánamo 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z A study by the Pew Research Center last fall found that seventy-nine per cent of those who lean Republican believe that their side is losing politically. Losers for Trump! 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Of six hundred and twenty-eight Indian names on the list, only seventy-nine had declared their assets to the Indian government. The Great Swiss Bank Heist 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z “It’s also a ‘golden number,’ since the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of gold—the element’s so-called atomic number—is, you guessed it, seventy-nine.” A Mathematician Confronts March Madness 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z All of the hut’s seventy-nine beds were expected to be filled, and, with some serious drinking already going on in the dining room, this was beginning to strike me as problematic. Alone in the Alps 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z At seventy-nine, Scalia was the Court’s long-serving Justice, a father of nine , and an outsized personality who thrilled conservatives and infuriated liberals like nobody else in Washington. The Death of Antonin Scalia 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z In the CBS News/Times poll, seventy-nine per cent of Americans said they believe another terrorist attack is very likely or somewhat likely in the next few months, the highest figure since 9/11. It’s Time to Worry About Donald Trump 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z But after the first half, in which the Warriors scored seventy-nine points—just eleven points fewer than this season’s Philadelphia 76ers average over an entire game—Miller was ready to concede. Reggie Miller Sizes Up Steph Curry 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The number seventy-nine is also significant, in a more widely appreciable basketball sense, as it relates to the four top seeds in the tournament. A Mathematician Confronts March Madness 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z So if you do that math, we’re talking about seventy-nine to eighty thousand fewer African-Americans.” What Social Scientists Learned from Katrina 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The Massachusetts Senate easily passed a reinstatement bill, and the House of Representatives narrowly passed its own version, eighty-one votes to seventy-nine. Boston’s Final Reckoning with the Death Penalty 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z In the course of Mario Vargas Llosa’s seventy-nine years, Peru has alternated between dictatorship and democracy with the sort of regularity that other countries experience through mere shiftings from one political party to another. Mario Vargas Llosa’s Mad Peru 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z He died at the age of seventy-nine, in 2002, having spent much of the previous year in prison for a Plowshares action. Nuns and Nuclear Security 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z “But the number seventy-nine is significant for many other reasons.” A Mathematician Confronts March Madness 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z One hundred and seventy-nine years later, a group of both the black and white descendants of the Haydels made their way to the Whitney’s opening in December. Building the First Slavery Museum in America 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z “I’m seventy-nine, and I got my license when I was sixteen and I’ve never had an accident.” Learning to Drive 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The core of the prosecution’s case was excerpts from seventy-nine phone calls that had been culled from more than eighteen hundred conversations and assembled in white binders for the jury. How to Catch a Terrorist 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z In another study published in 2008, researchers who studied a group of 200 employees at one company found that seventy-nine percent of employees felt mental and interpersonal performance was better on days they exercised. Why More Entrepreneurs Need To Make Health and Wellness A Priority 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Mathematically, seventy-nine is a prime number, divisible only by one and itself. A Mathematician Confronts March Madness 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The inquiry also met the families of some of the one hundred and seventy-nine British troops who were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2009. Hague hopes for Iraq Inquiry release 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z For example his Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand – built in the aftermath of a 6.3 magnitude earthquake – soars seventy-nine feet above the rubble, accommodating a congregation of seven hundred people. Why Is Starchitect Shigeru Ban Building Refugee Shelters In Aspen? 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Of five hundred and forty-three seats, the B.J.P. won a stunning two hundred and seventy-nine; with its coalition allies, it controls a dominating three hundred and forty seats. Narendra Modi's Stunning Victory in the Indian Elections 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z One hundred and seventy-nine new jobs are to be created at a County Tyrone food plant. 179 jobs boost for Tyrone meat firm 2013-05-13T09:39:26Z One hundred and seventy-nine British troops lost their lives in Iraq during the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the six years in which they were stationed there afterwards. Families of slain British soldiers win right to sue government 2012-10-19T15:28:54Z Only two penitents were required to visit Rome, but seventy-nine were ordered to serve in the crusades for terms varying from one to eight years. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Titian was now seventy-nine years of age, honored and loved by many countries. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z He became virtually the leader in the whole matter, and seventy-nine underwriters agreed to pay one hundred pounds each to start it fairly. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z From the time of his birth until his death he had lived in the region of Cedar and Black Rivers, seventy-nine years. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z To give some idea of this—Smith returned from one of his expeditions with two hundred pounds of deer's flesh, and four hundred and seventy-nine bushels of corn. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z Her funeral is registered on the records of St. Paul's church, Halifax, as being on September 16, 1794, at the age of seventy-nine. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z The earth and the planets were circling about the sun in their harmonious orbits while astronomical theories saw in them only a complicated whirl of seventy-nine crystalline shells. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z At seventy-two he accepted the office of secretary to the republic of Florence, and at seventy-nine he died, leaving five sons of his old age. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z I stood beneath the great dome, one hundred and seventy-nine feet in height, and as I gazed upward I felt both possessed and released. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z She had no horse, and as to the eighty rattlesnakes, seventy-nine were myths, existing only in the mind of a prolific feature story writer for the Sunday edition of the great dailies. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z She became a widow at an early age, and died at Burlington, in 1816, aged seventy-nine years. Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z He lived to the age of seventy-nine, but died in a most emaciated state, and, as might be imagined, toothless. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z In this house she lived happily with her husband, and was at once the Lady Bountiful and the matchmaker-in-ordinary for the whole countryside; here she died, aged seventy-nine. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z I was told, while I was in Washington, that the American statistics were—they showed seventy-nine divorces to every hundred thousand of your population. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z The aviators of one squadron accomplished seventy-nine bombarding and observation flights in the first twenty days of November during a total of ninety-two hours of flight—not counting practice flights. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z Another scholar, aged twelve, repeated in a very perfect manner a lengthy piece containing seventy-nine verses, entitled "The Little Pilgrim." The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z When the war ended we had seventy-nine destroyers in European waters, while Great Britain had about 400. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z During the two hundred and seventy-nine years of its existence, the solemn and general autos-da-f� were celebrated of which Munter speaks, and several others which were performed in the hall of the tribunal. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z The journal and map arrived safely, but for some reason neither was then printed; indeed, they remained almost unknown to the world for a hundred and seventy-nine years, being at last published in 1852. Stories of the Badger State 2011-11-27T03:00:12.687Z The Fram lay in seventy-nine degrees, eleven minutes, north latitude, two minutes farther south than was the case a week before. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z The weight of a dog," says Mr. Percival, "being ascertained to be seventy-nine pounds, a puncture was made with the lancet into the jugular vein, from which the blood was collected. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z About seventy-two dollars—seventy-nine with this in my pocket. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z The paper money had fallen to seventy-nine per cent. below par and it had become clearly impossible to continue payments on the foreign debt. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z A palace of seven walls, seventy-nine halls, and ten thousand men on guard! The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z In this brief session, also, no less than seventy-nine new acts of parliament were added to the already ponderous and indigestible statute-book. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z And so, on September 30, 1826, the first American season of Italian opera was brought to a close, after lasting ten months,—seventy-nine performances in all. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z He was seventy-nine years old the week before his death. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z For rounds two and three Indian Department powder was used; the fine-glazed kind sent the shell eighty-two yards, the coarser grain carried it but seventy-nine yards. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z In the Pneumatics of Hero, which compilation of inventions appeared in 225 B. C., seventy-nine illustrations are given and described of simple machines, between sixty and seventy of which are hydraulic devices. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z One hundred seventy-nine Democrats and 33 Republicans supported the amendment to set the level at $173 million. Renewable Energy Funds Boosted as House Passes Energy Funding Bill 2011-07-15T22:26:31Z BD, siding with B eighty-five times, with D seventy-nine, in the portions published by Adler; but with D alone eleven times, with B alone but three. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z As soon as we had dismounted seventy-nine warriors arrived in good order, attracted by the unusual occurrence, to make us a visit. Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 2011-06-13T02:00:22.167Z Of these seventy-nine were foreign born, eighty-seven were natives of the South, and four hundred and three—a vast majority of the whole, first breathed the vital air in the free North. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z During the sixty-five years of these Missions about seventy-nine thousand converts were made. American Indians 2011-04-21T02:00:55.200Z And Christmas was not a necessity, though I had always thought it one, and had never missed keeping it for seventy-nine years. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z Fourteen hundred and seventy-nine owned from 100 to 200. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z We have now one hundred and eighty resident members; one hundred and one males, seventy-nine females; fifty-six males and thirty-seven females over the age of twenty-one years. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z 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 Inside the walls it measures three hundred and seventy-nine by two hundred and seventeen feet, the central dome rising one hundred and seventy-three feet from the floor. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z That summer he had succeeded in hatching seventy-nine chicks. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z At the present time there are between nine and ten million Negroes and two hundred and eighty-four thousand and seventy-nine Indians. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z You remember his gifts to the poor—six and sevenpence each, because he was seventy-nine years old, and all that. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z I weigh a hundred and seventy-nine and a half, stripped, just now—go up, though, after training awhile. The Adventures of a Freshman 2011-01-18T03:00:12.083Z His wife was then living at the age of seventy-nine. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z There were in all thirty-five batteries, with a total of one hundred and seventy-nine guns, all bearing upon the town. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z Two days later the legislature was summoned, and seventy-nine deputies responded. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z Now that he weighed a hundred and ten pounds and I had bench-pressed my way up to a hundred and seventy-nine, I could be aguajero, but he just ran his finger across his neck. Junot Díaz: “The Pura Principle.” 2010-03-15T04:00:00Z One hundred and seventy-nine of these men walked out. The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories The locks each had four gates, seven feet thick and from forty-seven to seventy-nine feet high. Bert Wilson at Panama The breadth of this current varies from 160 to 450 geographical miles, and its velocity is from twenty-five to seventy-nine miles per day, the mean rate being about thirty miles. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology I was proudly informed that the price had been three twenty-seven, reduced from eight seventy-nine, and that they had entered every shop in Division Street before they had unearthed it. A Top-Floor Idyl The front is two hundred and seventy-nine feet long, and above the cornice, from one end to the other, it is ornamented with sculpture. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. How could he imagine that he had got back on Saturday the 21st when it was really Friday the 20th, seventy-nine days after his departure? Round the World in Eighty Days On one of those visits, he asked her to marry him--he being seventy-nine, she seventy-one--and bear his illustrious name. Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) When he wrote, it was held but twice a year, as I had wrote in my book, and has not been called a quarter court these seventy-nine years. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts But the Donatists, who were two hundred and seventy-nine in number, entered it in a body, thinking to make all the effect that they could by the show of a great procession. Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation Is Gaskho Bey actually afraid that old Ali, a veteran of seventy-nine, will be able to arise from his tomb and hurl away that heavy marble slab with his dead hands? The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Seventy-nine pounds of cheese for the Manchesters; does any one know what seventy-nine pounds of cheese looks like? On the right of the British line I've wiped the noses of seventy-nine single horses and eleven double teams sence one o'clock, and my vitals is all a perfect jell. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories There are seventy-nine towns of exceeding 4,000 population in Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi. Atlanta A Twentieth-Century City It defines seventy-nine linguistic stocks in North America and sixty-one in South America. A Record of Study in Aboriginal American Languages On the first day of July in Sixteen hundred seventy-nine, there Rose the sun with special glory. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. That makes five million and twenty-three games against your five million and seventy-nine.' Orientations In 1782 there were only seventy-nine, but in the succeeding eight years they increased rapidly. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Emerson died on the 27th of April, 1882, at the age of seventy-nine. Home Life of Great Authors Altogether the detachment numbered seventy-nine officers and men, and two scouts named Wheatley and Fisher. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women He died in 1879 aged seventy-nine years; and within a few months, his brother Robert, who was as much of an eccentric and miser in his way, passed away in his seventieth year. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times He is seventy-nine! but may well last to a hundred!—Yours ever, R. L. S. 28 In San Francisco. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) "There are seventy-nine thousand dollars' worth of bonds missing." The Missing Tin Box or, The Stolen Railroad Bonds He counted Daniel a young man, four years his junior, barely seventy-nine; a man who should be in his prime. In the Heart of a Fool As for Standing Bear, he died, well satisfied and much honored, in 1908, aged seventy-nine, and was buried there near the Niobrara, in ancient Ponca country, where his ancestors slept. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women He declared that the most important work before Canada was the settlement of two hundred and seventy-nine million acres of land lying west of the Lakes. George Brown But chemical analysis shows its composition to be oxygen and nitrogen, in the proportion of twenty-one parts of the former, and about seventy-nine of the latter. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) "They are worth seventy-nine thousand dollars, and that, coupled with some bad investments made through Allen, will send me to the wall." The Missing Tin Box or, The Stolen Railroad Bonds Here, then, we are consuming that unnecessarily—if animal food is unnecessary—which would sustain seventy-nine millions of human beings in life, health, and happiness. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery This extraordinary man, then seventy-nine years of age, wrote, on the passage, three essays, which are estimated among the most useful and able of any which emanated from his pen. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series Scurvy and the rigours of the first winter carried off thirty-five colonists out of a total of seventy-nine. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Out of this sum we paid our twenty nurses three dollars a day, for seventy-nine days—their cost of living, and their transportation when needed. A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work The Selkirk Papers in the Dominion Archives consist of seventy-nine portfolios containing transcripts of correspondence, legal evidence, and other proceedings relating to the Earl of Selkirk's colonizing enterprises. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba On April 8 seventy-nine Republican Representatives met at the Parker House, Boston, in response to an invitation from the Republican members of the House Committee on Woman Suffrage. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The new riding house, the finest in existence, and also underground, but lighted by an arched glass roof, is three hundred and seventy-nine by one hundred and six feet, and fifty feet high. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel But three of the seventy-nine treatises on this fruit are contemporary, and all but one, a handbook on training, are records from vanished minds. Manual of American Grape-Growing Three dollars a day for each nurse, for seventy-nine days, till you are home on Thanksgiving morning. A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work He was then seventy-nine years of age, and few men had occupied a more conspicuous place in State and Nation. Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War There are seventy-nine higher educational institutions other than colleges, such as academies, normal and business schools, theological seminaries, etc. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV This is a semicircular breakwater eleven hundred and seventy-nine feet long, protecting the harbor. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel But in a short time the British troops by a vigorous attack drove them out, capturing five officers and seventy-nine of other ranks. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources And about seventy-nine other methods, which need not be mentioned, for the simple reason that they were all equally useless. Among the Brigands It was, of course, opposed by the government, but was supported, nevertheless, by sixty votes to seventy-nine. Pius IX. And His Time Probably when the convention assembled the majority were opposed to the Constitution; but its adoption was carried at last by a vote of eighty-nine to seventy-nine. James Madison The bridge is five hundred and seventy-nine feet long, and stands one hundred feet above high-water mark; it cost $600,000. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel During the first three months of the year they had taken prisoner a total of seventy-nine officers and 4,600 of other ranks. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources There are three hundred and seventy-nine steps to climb to the top; do you want to try them? Round the Wonderful World In the debate on the first chapter sixteen Fathers took part; on the second, twenty; on the third, twenty-two; on the fourth, twelve; in all, seventy-nine spoke. Pius IX. And His Time This, however, was not to be, and the munificent donor died at his house in Hackney on December 12th, 1611, at the age of seventy-nine years. Memorials of Old London Volume I It showed six hundred and seventy-nine annual rings. Wild Life on the Rockies 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 This wonderful prophet and seer was seventy-nine years old when the separation began in Philadelphia. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I At this place the wall appears to be about seventy-nine feet wide, or thick. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life "Ten thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine pounds, five shillings and fourpence," repeated Mr. Vanderkiste. The Chestermarke Instinct There she awaited her last hour, far from the world’s observation, and ere long expired in tranquillity at the age of seventy-nine, the same year as Cardinal de Retz and Madame de Longueville. Political Women, Vol. 2 In Bohemia, e.g., the diet consisted of 241 members: of these five were ex officio members; the feudal proprietors had seventy; the towns and chambers of commerce together had eighty-seven; the rural districts seventy-nine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" She was sixteen years old, was five feet five inches in height and weighed one hundred and seventy-nine pounds. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession The summit, which is reached by three hundred and seventy-nine steps, gives a superb view of the surrounding country, with its many fine Moslem tombs. The Critic in the Orient Hastily he switched his hand to another pocket for the one dollar and seventy-nine cents due his mother. Jerry's Charge Account The whole plan of the city consists of one thousand and seventy-nine acres, and there are two good roads from it to Piscataqua and Woodbridge. The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew King of the Beggars; containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man "Take this up to seventy-nine, and say that the lady is below and insists on his being called at once." The Faith Doctor A Story of New York "This park has eight hundred and seventy-nine acres." Sunny Boy in the Big City Three hundred and seventy-seven, three hundred and seventy-eight, three hundred and seventy-nine. Turandot, Princess of China A Chinoiserie in Three Acts Of these, Catholic Ireland contributes seventy-nine, England two, and Scotland one. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 A comparison of dates shows that Dr Wright was fifty-four years old at the time of his appointment in 1613, and the Foundress was then seventy-nine. The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester One of the most interesting groups of trade schools are those for the promotion of the textile industry in its various aspects, there existing at the present time no less than seventy-nine such institutions. The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany Louisa Henrietta Schmalz, the most famous German Cantatrice of the last century, and who for more than thirty years was the Queen of the German Lyrical Stage, has just died in Berlin, aged seventy-nine years. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 With seventy-nine per cent. of her territory under foreign control, China can hardly believe in the disinterested motives of the fighting nations. Peking Dust An examination of the colours in the series which depicts the life of Louis XIV, reveals a use of but seventy-nine colours. The Tapestry Book All the above was effected in the year one thousand six hundred and seventy-nine. 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 On June 4 the House of Representatives, by a vote of seventy-nine yeas to forty-nine nays, declared that a state of war existed between the United States and Great Britain. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science The Second enters in measure forty-one, and the Conclusion in measure seventy-nine. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The proof of this was that only seventy-nine tones were discoverable when the Gobelins factory in recent years examined this hanging for the purposes of reproducing it. The Tapestry Book The Recollect fathers were charged with the spiritual administration of this province until the year one thousand six hundred and seventy-nine. 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 Right now at more than seventy-nine, she is spry and jaunty and witty and good humored. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 I am seventy-nine years of age; I am bad on my feet, and daren’t go after him.’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Living to the age of seventy-nine, Mrs. Ferrar “at her dying day had no infirmity and scarce any sign of old age upon her.” Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I. with an account of the Harmonies Two hundred and seventy-nine Donatist, and two hundred and eighty-six Catholic, bishops were present. A Source Book for Ancient Church History The present height is one hundred and fifty feet, with a diameter of three hundred and seventy-nine feet. Travels in the Far East Army of the Ohio, Major-General Schofield commanding—infantry, eleven thousand one hundred and eighty-three; artillery, six hundred and seventy-nine; cavalry, one thousand six hundred and ninety-seven. History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service He pretends, in his narrative, that this impression measures eleven hands in length, a very different account from that of an historian of the ninth century, who declared it to be seventy-nine cubits long! Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World All were rejected, and the Bill, as Mr. Calhoun presented it, was passed on the 4th day of June by a vote of seventy-nine for it and thirty-nine against it. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 On the 4th of June, a bill declaring that war existed between Great Britain and the United States passed the House of Representatives by a majority of seventy-nine to forty-nine. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 I am told that in South Melbourne the thermometer once made an official record of one hundred and eleven degrees in the shade and one hundred and seventy-nine degrees in the sun. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent The casualties of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, on the long and arduous campaign against Atlanta, was one hundred and seventy-nine men in killed, wounded and missing. History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service "Let us begin by singing hymn number seventy-nine: 'Pull for the shore, sailor; pull for the shore!'" Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Colonel Boone was seventy-nine years of age when Congress conferred upon him a grant of eight hundred and fifty acres of land. Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky At Pleasant Hill we lost three guns and four hundred and twenty-six prisoners, one hundred and seventy-nine from Churchill's, and two hundred and forty-seven from Scurry's brigade at the time it was so nearly overwhelmed. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War He was fourteen years younger than his wife; and when he died, on the 28th May, he was seventy-nine years old. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands There were three hundred and seventy-nine men mustered out with the regiment; besides this number there were many absent at hospitals and on detail who could not be present at the muster-out. History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service The twelve remained prisoners until seventeen hundred and seventy-nine. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States I am an old woman, going on seventy-nine, and I cannot be here long. And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses We brought off three hundred prisoners, but lost three guns and one hundred and seventy-nine prisoners from Churchill's command. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Kansas, for example, has about twenty-six per cent of persons of foreign parentage, while Nebraska has about forty-two, Iowa forty-three, South Dakota sixty, Wisconsin seventy-three, Minnesota seventy-five, and North Dakota seventy-nine. The Frontier in American History The move from the caves to the new town was made in one hundred and seventy-nine, the year that Schroeder's wife died. Space Prison Our mourning for her is not over, or we should be putting it on again for Mr. Thomas Leigh, who has just closed a good life at the age of seventy-nine. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record In the year 1813 they took over three hundred prizes, while the frigates took but seventy-nine. Union and Democracy That is the way my father stood at eighty-two, seeing my mother depart at seventy-nine. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony He made them eighty-one at first; and then, recounting, made them seventy-nine. Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray I've read the ten commandments through seventy-nine times, and was trying to work up to a hundred, when, you interrupted me. The Lady of the Ice A Novel The net proceeds of this fair were about seventy-nine thousand dollars. Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Nearly two thousand men energised—body, soul, and spirit—in that hall that Christmas-tide, and an aggregate of fifteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine hours’ work was accomplished by them. Post Haste The terror of those days, the scurvy, soon appeared, and by the spring nearly half of the seventy-nine men lay in the little cemetery. French Pathfinders in North America We are approaching to fourscore personages in this establishment; and if the belt has been stolen, the probability is that seventy-nine are innocent and only one guilty. Glyn Severn's Schooldays Hadn't I been torturing my brain for seventy-nine hours, sleeping as well as waking, with that one unanswered and apparently unanswerable question? The Lady of the Ice A Novel I am seventy-nine years of age; I am bad on my feet, and dar’n’t go after him.” The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" Among the buildings destroyed were two hundred and twenty-five city halls, three hundred and seventy-nine schools, three hundred and thirty-one churches, and more than three hundred other public buildings of various kinds and sizes. A Journey Through France in War Time I counted the drafts aloud and had a long task, for they numbered seventy-nine. Dross Now, you see, to find the one guilty we must spare the seventy-nine innocent. Glyn Severn's Schooldays The instrument was adopted by a vote of eighty-nine to seventy-nine and the convention closed. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail To be sure, the liberal measure of seventy-nine lashes was laid on the back of any subordinate showing signs of mutiny, but that did not prevent many such attempts. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward But M. Gussew, of the Imperial Observatory at Wilna, describes to us, "a mountain mass in the form of a meniscus lens, rising in the middle to a height of seventy-nine English miles." Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity For the last five hundred and seventy-nine seconds you have been blasting at one-quarter space speed. Stand by for Mars! The maximum January temperature is seventy-four degrees, while that of July is seventy-nine degrees, and invalid guests at this house wear the same weight clothing in summer that they do in winter. A Truthful Woman in Southern California The Feast of Names was celebrated last August by two stalwart crusaders at the weather station at Buchanan Bay on desolate Ellesmere Island, latitude seventy-nine, less than seven hundred miles from the North Pole. Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 This important bill, which implied banishment as well as exclusion, passed the lower house by a majority of seventy-nine. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. Charlie Davis, now seventy-nine years old, was a small boy when the slaves were freed. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Scott died at sixty-one, Macaulay at fifty-nine, Tennyson at eighty-three, Carlyle at eighty-six, Emerson at seventy-nine, Amiel at sixty. The Last Harvest The founder of the Theatines was a hot-blooded Neapolitan still, in spite of his seventy-nine years, hale and hearty. The Age of the Reformation In this document there are one hundred and thirty-two letters, giving seventy-nine consonants to fifty-three vowels. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Of the Europeans, the loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners was five hundred and seventy-nine. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire Alarm having become general, there was a simultaneous run for gold throughout the country, with the result that in a very short time seventy-nine banks stopped payment, of which no fewer than fifty-nine became bankrupt. Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men The contents of the two large halls, ante-chamber, and five chambers were valued at three hundred and seventy-nine florins and forty-five kreutzers. Dr. Dumany's Wife The Bristol lost one hundred and eleven men, and the Experiment seventy-nine. 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 He found their community increased to about seventy-nine, all exhibiting the same unsophisticated and amiable characteristics as we have before described. Great Sea Stories In the mansion of Gask, on the 27th of October 1845, she gently sunk into her rest, at the advanced age of seventy-nine years. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century The body of the book, consisting of seventy-nine lessons, is divided into three parts. Latin for Beginners Passing of Michael Bendel, Sr.—This old member of our society and resident of Madison has just been called away, December 23rd, at the age of seventy-nine years. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Three hundred and seventy-nine of the letters in the package were of this kind; one thousand were copies, whose original had been returned. 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. In seventeen hundred and seventy-nine Mrs. Adams reported in her letters to her husband that potatoes were ten dollars a bushel, and writing-paper brought the same price per pound. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book "How would you like to break stones," said I, "for seventy-nine years?" Berry And Co. In May 1952, Project Blue Book received seventy-nine UFO reports compared to ninety-nine in April. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects He was seventy-nine years of age when, in spite of the havoc then wrought by the smallpox throughout the country, he went as far as Montreal, there to administer the sacrament of confirmation. The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval On one of those visits, he asked her to marry him—he being seventy-nine, she seventy-one—and bear his illustrious name. Women of Modern France A malignant epidemic of scurvy broke out, and of seventy-nine persons thirty-five died from the disease and more than twenty were at the point of death. The Makers of Canada: Champlain His father died at Bath on the 26th of April, 1802, at the age of seventy-nine. The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain It is rather surprising that there should have been no conviction for felony in the County of Essex from 1692, when the witches were tried, until 1771,—a period of seventy-nine years. The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts This wound healed by first intention and seventy-nine days from the date of the injury the mare was driven to town, two and one-half miles distant, and showed but little lameness. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 When the bank was opened, the first of November it was found to contain seventy-nine dollars and eleven cents! The Nest in the Honeysuckles, and other Stories But the triangular group contains twenty-one atoms as against ten, and three ovoids, each containing three bodies with eleven atoms, raise the number of atoms in a funnel to seventy-nine. Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements He died in 1854, having reached the age of seventy-nine years, of which at least fifty were as melancholy and fruitless as could well be imagined. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant The nine million seven hundred and eighty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine bicycles that can not fly yet are negligible. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy Would he remain a king in the presence of Breede, even in the lesser presence of Bulger, or of old Metzeger from whom he purposed to borrow seventeen dollars and seventy-nine cents? Bunker Bean I called the roll of the company, as was my duty, and found seventy-nine men out of one hundred and three present,—there was a good deal of sickness then in the army. Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South Of the eleven children of Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, four lived to be more than seventy years of age,—seventy-three, seventy-five, seventy-seven and seventy-nine,—and three others were fifty, fifty-six, and sixty-three. Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity This favorable opportunity occurs about once in seventy-nine years. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work There are nine million seven hundred and eighty nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine bicycles that have not flown three yards and seven inches. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy At that time it appears that the population of all the settlements, whether in New Holland or Van Diemen's Land, amounted only to twenty thousand three hundred and seventy-nine souls. Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America To me, a large portion of this treasure has already been granted, even seventy-nine years. The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol. I. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters A diamond of very large size and purity, weighing seven hundred and seventy-nine carats, was brought from Ispahan by a Greek. The Empire of Russia The school-teacher had averaged seventy-nine cents a day and I had averaged eighty-nine. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls Between the latter part of the twelfth century and 1500 A.D. at least seventy-nine universities were established in western Europe. Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities A fourth helix was constructed of very thick copper wire, being one-fifth of an inch in diameter; the length of wire used was seventy-nine feet, independent of the straight terminal portions. Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 In the fulness of their prosperity they restricted the number of their dependent towns, or places baussenques, to seventy-nine, because these numbers in combination were thought to be of good omen to their house. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series One hundred and seventy-nine places, especially for children, were reported to the Committee for Aid to Children. The Grey Book Diodorus saw in Egypt a list of four hundred and seventy-nine kings. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology The vote in the House of Representatives was seventy-nine to forty-nine, while in the Senate it was nineteen to thirteen. The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 And each time the record was like that of the previous seventy-nine years, one of disappointment and failure. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration, to supply his natural warmth in that time. The Chemical History of a Candle But the only blacksmith who acted in that capacity was a man named Joe Paisley, who died in 1811 aged seventy-nine years. From John O'Groats to Land's End And yet this blow, falling upon him when he was seventy-nine years old, found him no less resolute than ever. The Authoritative Life of General William Booth Out of the three hundred and seventy-one, two hundred and seventy-nine women and seven men were singing the Marching Song of the Militant Women. The Tree of Heaven As early as August the roll showed an acquisition of seventy-nine neophytes. The Old Franciscan Missions Of California One hundred and forty ministers—twenty of whom are ecclesiastics, seventy-nine Augustinians, nine Dominicans, and forty-two Franciscans—are divided among the provinces to instruct the natives and administer the holy sacraments. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century I see that in eighteen seventy-nine he bought lumber lands from Hayes Donelson. Andrew the Glad And so it came to pass that The General made his third journey to South Africa, in 1908, when seventy-nine years of age. The Authoritative Life of General William Booth Grannie was seventy-nine, and Maurice, the youngest of that generation, was forty-nine, and he looked sixty. The Tree of Heaven Emerson died, seventy-nine years old, on the 27th of April, 1882. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. An investment which had been valueless for years now began to produce some interest which was a great comfort, for Miss La Sarthe was now seventy-nine and Miss Roberta seventy-six. Halcyone 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 So it turned out: In House of four hundred and seventy-nine Members Bill was read a second time by majority of twenty-three. Punch Among the Planets To San Francisco, overland, by railroad to Roseburg, thence by stage to Redding, and rail to San Francisco, seventy-nine hours. Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands He was consecrated in Madrid in the year one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 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 Next morning the old man, close upon seventy-nine years of age, was struck with his last illness; and died on March 3rd. The Life of John Ruskin With seventy-nine churches organized, and with upwards of three thousand church members in the State, work could scarcely be said to be "as good as thrown away." Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler The cost was five hundred and seventy-nine thousand dollars, and the addition to the value of the property was not less than four million dollars. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment It is known that the air is composed principally of twenty-one parts of oxygen and seventy-nine parts of azote. The Moon-Voyage Scot enumerates seventy-nine, the above amongst them, and he does not by any means exhaust the number. Elizabethan Demonology Only five years before the town contained but seventy-nine buildings—thirty-one frame, twenty-six adobe, and the rest shanties. Joe's Luck Always Wide Awake You remember his gifts to the poor—six shillings sevenpence each because he was seventy-nine years old and all that. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Given in this galley "Espíritu Santo," belonging to his Majesty, on the twenty-ninth of March, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine. 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 He had dictated answers to seventy-nine letters of complaint from unknown people concerning the supply of free seats for the first night. The Regent It appeared likewise by this muster, that one hundred and seventy-nine people subsisted themselves independent of the public stores, and resided in this town. 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. Beneath Resina lies Herculaneum, a city destroyed seventy-nine years after the birth of our Saviour. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy The House divided: when there were seventy-nine for the motion, and against it twenty. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II Given on the seventh of March, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine. 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 The first is a Memorial, signed by seventy-nine males and ninety-two females, of the Plantation. Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or, the Pretended Riot Explained They have seventy-nine openings, of which seventeen only are being worked. Pictures of Sweden They were imprisoned in Lares, Arecibo, and Aguadilla, and, while awaiting their trial, an epidemic, brought on by the unsanitary conditions of the prisons in which they were packed, speedily carried off seventy-nine of them. The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation He died in Baltimore, December 24, 1873, at the age of seventy-nine years. The History of University Education in Maryland I, the above-named notary, attest the same, which is drawn in the said galley in the said port, on the twenty-third day of the month of March, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine. 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 Of the seventy-nine males, sixty-two are Proprietors, and forty-four write their own names. Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or, the Pretended Riot Explained True to his professions," wrote Thompson on June 3, "he this day appeared with seventy-nine of his people, men, women, and children, including some who had joined him since his conversion, and redeemed his promise. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia Lefevre of Etaples, who was the most of all in sympathy with Calvin, was seventy-nine years old, and had made up his mind to pass his last days in peace. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 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 Given at Manila, January fifteen, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine. 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 It was in Arles in 1909, the fiftieth birthday of Mir�io, that Mistral, then seventy-nine years old, may be said to have reached the summit of his romantic fame. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays An enumeration, made near the close of the year, showed a total of three hundred and seventy-nine souls, including those absent in the Rancocus, and excluding the Kannakas. The Crater "It is seventy-nine Miles from Tientsin to Peking," was the reply, "and the roads ought to be good." Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron The thirty principal temples are scattered along the rocky mountain side within a distance of two miles, and seventy-nine others are in the immediate neighborhood. Modern India Given at Manila, February twenty-eight, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine. 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 She left me this house and lot,—I'm her second cousin on the mother's side,—but all her money in the Savin's Bank, six hundred and seventy-nine dollars and a half, to Eber Nicholson. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 He had lived seventy-nine years among scenes of great interest, and had known men of remarkable genius. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 "I was readin' of a lady that got married at seventy-nine, ma'am." Only an Irish Boy Andy Burke's Fortunes A serious accident befell the aged inventor, now seventy-nine years old, in July, 1869. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II Given at the said village of Tapacan, on the twentieth day of the month of March, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine. 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 Now air consists principally of twenty-one parts of oxygen and seventy-nine of nitrogen. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon Petersen describes a woman of seventy-nine, who on March 26th was seized with uterine pains lasting a few days and terminating with hemorrhagic discharge. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine If it isn’t eighty below, it’s because it’s seventy-nine.” Love of Life and Other Stories He is seventy-nine! but may well last to a hundred! Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 Given in Cavite on the fourteenth of April, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine. 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 Pierson's motion was lost—one hundred and thirty-two to one hundred and seventy-nine. The Cost At the age of seventy-nine he was comparatively strong and well, and had always been a hard worker. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine If Moses had retired at seventy-nine, we'd never have heard of him. The University of Hard Knocks And behold, to our great sorrow and lamentation, two hundred and seventy-nine of our brethren were slain. The Book of Mormon This year of seventy-nine, I sent an expedition to pacify the river of Mindanao. 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 He had had a brother who was a priest, and who had been rector of the Academy of Poitiers for three and thirty years, and had died at seventy-nine. Les Misérables He lived sixty years in this manner and then he became abstemious; he died at seventy-nine. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine The Irish and the Liberals coalesced, and the Government was placed in a minority of seventy-nine, and Lord Salisbury immediately resigned. The Grand Old Man He was now forty-seven years old, while Miss Crewe was seventy-nine. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Eighteen seventy-nine: it was the year her father lost his money. Life and Death of Harriett Frean During the year 1840 there were four thousand one hundred and seventy-nine additions to the church in the five islands; and since then conversions have been multiplied and converts have increased. Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission What he puts by way of query on page 402 has become downright certainty seventy-nine pages further on. Among My Books Second Series She was seventy-nine, but looked more like ninety. Three Years in Tristan da Cunha It lies in thirty-two degrees and five minutes north latitude, and in longitude seventy-nine degrees five minutes. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 She always thought of seventy-nine as one continuous November. Life and Death of Harriett Frean They were just seventy-nine thousand two hundred and twenty-seven. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 He lived to the year 1825, when he died at Charleston at the age of seventy-nine. Revolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical Papers The Glasses have a little son, and now the population, including ourselves, is seventy-nine. Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Among his debts were seventy-nine pounds due to his tailor, Mr. William Filby, from whom he had received a new suit but a few days before his death. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography The number of traders aggregated about seventy-nine men, and their train consisted of thirty-eight wagons drawn by mules and horses, the former preponderating. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Twenty-one per cent of the air, by volume, is oxygen and the remaining seventy-nine per cent is the inactive gas, nitrogen. Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon Open the book at pages seventy-eight and seventy-nine. Blind Love This afternoon we had old Caroline Swain who is seventy-nine and her sister Mary Glass who is ten years younger. Three Years in Tristan da Cunha I went to Warren, and to avert the impending difficulty, was obliged to give my note for the tax, the amount of which was forty-three dollars and seventy-nine cents. An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 Four thousand three hundred and seventy-nine livres, twelve sous, eight deniers, to your tradesman. The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman The story is related by Remond, surnamed "The Greek," and must be taken with a grain of salt as Ninon was at that time seventy-nine years of age. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century The Ottoman force consisted of seventy-nine vessels, armed with twenty-two hundred and forty guns. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09 European Statesmen The House divided: when there were seventy-nine for the motion, and against it, twenty. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) Once, on one of those dreary visits, he asked his friend to marry him,--he being then seventy-nine and she seventy-one,--and bear his illustrious name. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women In this engagement she lost seventy-nine killed and wounded, while the Constitution lost but thirteen. Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established When pituitary was added to their food for four days, the number of eggs rose to three hundred and fifty-two, an increase of seventy-nine. The Glands Regulating Personality Scott had lost, in that day's work, more than a thousand men in killed and wounded, seventy-nine of whom were officers. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 Besides these, the inquisitors condemned seventy-nine to perpetual imprisonment. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation One old man of seventy-nine could only walk to the yard in which the others were gathered by the help of his wife's arm. Towards the Goal After a reign of twenty-three years, Tiberius died, either in a fainting fit or from violence, at the age of seventy-nine. Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. It remained in force one hundred and seventy-nine years. A Brief History of the United States Still, as they made two hundred first innings, they ought to be able to knock off seventy-nine. The Head of Kay's The largest shop I visited was one in which there were seventy-nine people employed. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor In 1813 they captured four hundred prizes, while the national cruisers took but seventy-nine. Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 So that out of seventy-nine, who composed our party, thirty-five died, and more than twenty were on the point of death. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 I'm only seventy-nine and you was seventy-five last May, though you didn't want us to know it was your birthday. Drusilla with a Million Yet seventy-nine seemed an absurdly small score to try and dismiss a team for, and in view of the fact that that team contained a batsman like Fenn, it seemed smaller still. The Head of Kay's Of the seventy-nine persons, composing the whole number of the colony, thirty-five died, and twenty others were brought to the verge of the grave. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 Nearly forty Republican members refused to vote for it, and the test vote was seventy-nine to forty-nine in the House, and nineteen to thirteen in the Senate. Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 Only seventy-nine out of ten thousand dropped out. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers A broad land this seventy-nine miles—how many meadows and corn-fields, hedges and woods, in that distance?—wide enough to seclude any house, to hide it, like an acorn in the grass. The Life of the Fields It was far more likely that he would make that seventy-nine off his own bat in a dozen overs. The Head of Kay's At first he took seventy-nine from the gate in one field to the oak tree in the next; afterwards fifty-four. Not that it Matters The United States Commissioner of Labor reports that ninety per cent of the railways, eighty-eight per cent of the trades, and seventy-nine per cent of the manufacturers of the country discriminate already against drinkers. Problems of Conduct So that altogether of the 173 leaves carefully observed, seventy-nine were affected by the water in some degree, though commonly to a very slight degree; and ninety-four were not affected in the least degree. Insectivorous Plants Such solace and solitude seventy-nine miles thick cannot be painted; the trees cannot be placed far enough away in perspective. The Life of the Fields Arrived this morning, seventy-nine days from bar to bar, all hands well, including your special messenger. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley The opera was given twenty-three times in a season of seventy-nine nights, and the receipts ranged from $1843 on the opening night and $1834 on the closing, down to $356 on the twenty-ninth night. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music "I lay awake for two hours last night thinking of that boy in jail, and his poor old father, seventy-nine years of age, and such a fine old man, so thoroughly respected." The Imperialist What business had I to live to the brink of seventy-nine? The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Then I used to feel that it really was seventy-nine miles to London, and not an hour or two only by rail, really all those miles. The Life of the Fields Seemed trifle hurt, although it is seventy-nine days since I thrashed him. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley "And I shall then be seventy-nine; not so vast a difference," interrupted Edith. Darkness and Daylight Those were her personal charms, for her face was regular and agreeable rather than beautiful and those charms she retained with little diminution to her death at the age of seventy-nine. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 He asked for five hundred and seventy-nine francs. The Clique of Gold At the pole the night lengthened into one of a hundred and seventy-nine hours. Robur the Conqueror Of the seventy-nine, thirty-five died before spring, and many more were brought to the verge of death. Pioneers of France in the New World When he returned from France in 1785 he was seventy-nine, but he was still writing as admirably as ever when he died at eighty-four. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters This gallery leads to a sepulchral chamber not less than seventy-nine feet long. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples Their defence was useless; seventy-nine were slain, and the remaining eleven were taken prisoners. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Home from Canton she sped in seventy-seven days and then in seventy-nine—records which were never surpassed. The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors That was in seventy-nine, when she sighted the French and Spanish fleet off Scilly, and she retreated because she feared a landing. The Trumpet-Major Three hundred and forty-two standards, seventy-nine regiments, their baggage, ammunition, and treasure-chests, fell into the hands of the victorious Duke. Burlesques The crypt is some seventy-nine feet long, its greatest width is about nineteen feet, and its height varies from about eight to nine feet. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples "All the same we must execute her for the sake of the round number; eighty sounds better than seventy-nine!" Zanoni On the first division a hundred and seventy-four voted with Sacheverell, a hundred and seventy-nine against him. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 "Out of six hundred and eighty-six communes, one hundred and seven have divided per capitum, five hundred and seventy-nine by families, and one hundred and nineteen have remained intact." The French Revolution - Volume 3 There were but seven hundred and seventy-nine last night. Two Men of Sandy Bar; a drama When she died at the advanced age of seventy-nine, the longed-for transition was only the quiet passing from fevered dreams to peaceful sleep. The Women of the French Salons He was seventy-nine years old according to his own reckoning; according to the calculation of his old friend M. Bertin, senior, he was eighty years of age. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Why, Clara Caverly, the highest priced thing of this sort that was ever before sold in New York only came to seventy-nine dollars. Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief The youngest of them was seventy-nine, and the ages of the rest ranged between ninety-five and a hundred and nine. Yet Again To the general astonishment, when the second reading was moved in the Upper House, the opposition proposed an adjournment, and carried it by eighty-seven votes to seventy-nine. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 They contain seventy-nine out of the eighty-five departments. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 "That was in 1801, when James Boyd was building ships for Kamehameha at Hilo," Pool cast back through the calendar; "which makes you seventy-nine, or eight years older than I. You are very old." On the Makaloa Mat This passed the House of Commons by a majority of seventy-nine votes. Royalty Restored "That is the reason that, having left Moscow on the 15th of July, as the date of that letter shows, I only reached Irkutsk on the 2d of October, after traveling seventy-nine days." Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar Remember, the manor and tithes are rated at the clear annual value of seventy-nine pounds five shillings and fivepence halfpenny, besides the value of the wood. Kenilworth Several remedies are mentioned as derived from man; others from the elephant, lion, camel, crocodile, and some seventy-nine are prepared from the hyaena. The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 "I've known him since seventy-nine, and he's kept about eight years old right along." Lin McLean Thirty-five pounds also was granted to transport twenty families with seventy-nine head of cattle to the township of Amherst. The Chignecto Isthmus and its first settlers The Virginian was grave in bearing and of infrequent speech; but he kept a song going—a matter of some seventy-nine verses. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains He effaced it imperceptibly, giving the boys the other seventy-nine at judicious intervals. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains |
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