| 单词 | seventy-two |
| 例句 | He laughs and whines and I laugh, too, keeping the speedometer on seventy-two. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “What does he have to do, exactly, to get the seventy-two virgins?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It may even be that those factors play a very subtle and complex role in increasing the odds of something happening to him in the next seventy-two hours. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Without saying much, the manager paid him six hundred yuan, or about seventy-two dollars. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The sound of my nickname feels like seventy-two jillion vampire bats screeching right into my ear. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Colonel Aureliano Buendía had the seventy-two gold bricks included in the inventory of surrender and closed the ceremony without allowing any speeches. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But all she said was “Uhn,” as though seventy-two, thirty-two, any age at all, meant nothing whatsoever to her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked Farley if she was there, and he said he thought so, so I went up the seventy-two stairs. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Somebody seventy-two light-years away was no doubt feverishly punching demands on the language computer for Karhidish, if no ton a philosophy-storage computer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Forms for seventy-two tiers of seating had been built, enough to accommodate 110,000 people. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z His defeat of the system, after seventy-two hours, had much to do with the fact that he wouldn’t eat anything from the food trays that were brought to him three times a day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And seventy-two—count ’em—seventy-two pages on the training of a princess. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Women’s suffrage—which had seemed like a radical idea when it was first proposed seventy-two years earlier in central New York—had finally become the law of the land. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Feast of Fortuna would happen in the evening, exactly seventy-two hours from now. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Those who could add up while yelling themselves hoarse knew that Gryffindor now had four hundred and seventy-two points — exactly the same as Slytherin. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “But that means...that means I’ve been awake for seventy-two hours,” squeaked Mini. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z FBI director J. Edgar Hoover assigned seventy-two FBI agents to investigate the suspects Elizabeth had identified. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was seventy-two when he died, trim, strong, easygoing, seemingly infallible, and though he was my stepfather, I always thought of him as Daddy. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I thought your papers are wrong, and you’re seventy-two, seventy-three in Chinese years.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She returned the borrowed beds and stools and kept the seventy-two chamberpots in Melquíades’ room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But I needed to be moved within forty-eight hours, seventy-two at the most. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He remembered something about the rate supposing to be seventy-two, so Derek was low, but it was still working all right. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Cruisers have been rolling by with more frequency in the last seventy-two hours than ever before. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It accused him of supporting terrorism, of being anti-American, of believing it was okay to kill innocent people because he wanted access to seventy-two virgins. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “At everyone? He guessed everyone to be seventy-two?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z But the officer continued examining the room with the lantern and showed no sign of interest until he discovered the seventy-two chamberpots piled up in the cupboards. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Parole board officials maintained that their ruling was based on the grounds of Hale’s advanced age—he was seventy-two—and his record as a good prisoner. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “That’s what I am trying to tell you. I was just giving an example. He might have said ‘ten’ or ‘thirty’ or—‘seventy-two.’ Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Though charges were dropped against him within seventy-two hours, the DEA refused to return his Learjet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z With an exasperating parsimony he took down the chests, opened them, and placed on the table, one by one, seventy-two gold bricks. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. Except he’s been missing now for seventy-two hours, and it’ll start to look funny if we don’t act worried pretty soon.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I am driving and going seventy-two and praying not to get a ticket and playing Metaphysical I Spy. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z But that’s also how C. diff starts—your stomach hurts because a few bad bacteria have managed to take hold in your small intestine, and then your gut ruptures and seventy-two hours later you’re dead. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He leaned in and whispered, “The spirit of the Great Hunter loves the number seventy-two.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z As I ran up the seventy-two stairs, I thought, And anyway, he was an incredibly old guy who slowed me down and didn't know anything useful. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z After the rescue team dispersed, I sat in the snow for a long while by myself, staring at my boots, endeavoring to get a grip on what had happened over the preceding seventy-two hours. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In my seventy-two years on earth I had never met an Innuit and never imagined that I would. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Cruisers have been rolling by with more frequency in the last seventy-two hours than ever before. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Ninety-six seemed to be the limit; seventy-two a good average. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry said, “I believe you are the worst of the lot. Mr. Finch is seventy-two years young and you’re a hundred years old when it comes to something like this.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “I’ll never understand that woman. I’m seventy-two years old and I’m going to die not understanding one thing about her.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He was seventy-two last month, but Jean Louise always thought of him as hovering somewhere in his middle fifties—she could not remember him being any younger, and he seemed to grow no older. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Between us, we have a total of seventy-two names, other than the names you see here. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “For me, it was like instant love,” O’Daniel, now seventy-two, told me when I reached him by phone at his home, in Flagstaff, Arizona. The Moving Revelations of Gay Home Movies 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Holmes aims to write an eerily specific seventy-two hundred and twenty-two words per day. The Life of an Instagram Poet 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z He withdrew small amounts of blood from his surgically constipated charges, once at the end of fifty-five hours, again at seventy-two hours, and finally at ninety-six hours. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z Jay, who is seventy-two, was a professor at Pace University for thirty-nine years and has written and edited several key books on queer history and theory. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z She is now seventy-two but no less forceful a performer. Keep Folk Music Weird 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z The manuscript of the torture report was due to the printer at nine the next morning, a start-to-finish turnaround of less than seventy-two hours. Turning the Torture Report Into a Book 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z On that occasion, they ate an average of seventy-two calories more—even though they rated their levels of hunger exactly the same on all four occasions. Your brain is making you fat! 2014-01-01T19:00:00Z I went on to say that, seventy-two years later, defeating Trump made that immediate election the most important of my life. What We Can All Do at This Moment Is Vote 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z This is the sixty-fifth of seventy-two readings that I will do this year in support of my “Failure.” On the Road with “Little Failure,” Part III 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Instead, Riviere used the duration of Kardashian’s first marriage—seventy-two days—as a constraint to determine how many poems the book would contain. Post-Internet Poetry Comes of Age 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z It ends with the tragedy of Grenfell Tower, a high-rise in West London in which seventy-two people lost their lives, in 2017, when the building’s cladding went up in flames. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z One of these events, however, is not the loss of a child—for which corporations must offer only seventy-two hours of personal time. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z In seventy-two photographs shot across the span of a decade, van Agtmael’s book delivers new ways of seeing American violence and fortitude, at a moment when the country’s divisions feel otherwise inscrutable. Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z I remember thinking to myself that he seemed unlikely ever to die; he was seventy-two but so exuberantly full of life that he seemed ageless. The Problem with Poetry Students, and Other Lessons from Derek Walcott 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Mechanized sleigh bells twinkle throughout the piece’s seventy-two minutes. Song of the Summer: “Femenine,” by Julius Eastman 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The French director, now seventy-two, is one of the greatest filmmakers alive. Dancing with Claire Denis 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z I am seventy-two years old, so I grew up before the changes in the language of the liturgy of the Church of England. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z When she returned to New York, seventy-two days after she set off, Bly was welcomed with ten celebratory gunshots from Battery Park and another ten from Fort Greene Park. Nellie Bly's Lessons in Writing What You Want To 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z He is plainly aware of the eyeballs fixed on him—the seventy-two thousand people crammed into Wembley, the global television audience of nearly two billion. A Truly Perfect Thirty Seconds of Queen 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z And I’m seventy-two and it’s, of course, it’s still a journey. Ellen Bass Reads Frank X. Gaspar 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Is India facing the most dire threat to its democracy in its seventy-two years of existence? India’s Citizenship Emergency 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Last year, seventy-two million people watched Countdown to Christmas. How Hallmark Took Over Cable Television 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Schiff is aware that there will be endless second-guessing of his work, as the House barrels toward impeachment in an investigation that, as we spoke, had begun just seventy-two days earlier. “I Do Hate What He Is Doing”: Adam Schiff on Trump, Impeachment, and What’s Next 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Pukatire was unsure precisely when he was born, but he thought he was “around seventy-two.” Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Walt Whitman, who never married, made it to seventy-two, and offered a lyric case for aging. Why We Can’t Tell the Truth About Aging 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z I meet her during her first seventy-two hours at the shelter, when she is brought to my clinic for an initial refugee-health screening. What a Pediatrician Can Do for a Child Seeking Asylum—and What She Can’t 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The bill passed the State Assembly by a vote of seventy-two to zero. California’s Endorsement-Deal Law and the Unintended Consequences of the N.C.A.A. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Her district, which includes Miami, is seventy-two per cent Latino, and more than a third of its residents are Cuban. The Fight for the Latino Vote in Florida 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z All the—at the time there were two thousand nine hundred seventy-two fatalities. Transcript: Rob Spencer 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z People today use seventy-two per cent of the earth’s ice-free land for food, animal feed, fiber, timber, and energy. Deforestation, Agriculture, and Diet Are Fuelling the Climate Crisis 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The government acknowledged seventy-two cases of torture in the past three years. Michelle Bachelet, Nicolás Maduro, and the U.N. Report on Human Rights in Venezuela 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Herman Melville died in New York, in 1891, at the age of seventy-two. Herman Melville at Home 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z They were now seventy-two and sixty-one, but they remained defiant. Kicked Off the Land 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z But Gurda, who is seventy-two and has spent nearly all of his years in Milwaukee, thinks that the socialism practiced there deserves another look. The Many, Tangled American Definitions of Socialism 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z White South Africans own seventy-two per cent of the land held by individuals in the country. Who Owns South Africa? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Don’t try to negotiate with the oligarchs, he said; instead, appeal directly to the seventy-two per cent of the population that voted for you. Can the Actor Who Ruled Ukraine on TV Do It in Real Life? 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z On the Republican side, incumbent President Donald J. Trump at seventy-two has no major health issues either, according to government doctors. The Mayor Pete I know on health and healthcare 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z A hundred and seventy-two passengers and crew survived the disaster; three hundred and four died in the sinking of the M.V. The Sinking of the M.V. Sewol and the Confusion of Disasters 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z But these figures apply to players of all ages, and Trump is now seventy-two years old. The Serial Golf Cheat in the White House 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z On Thursday evening, Lyft’s bankers priced the shares at seventy-two dollars each, valuing the firm at about twenty-four billion dollars. The Lyft I.P.O. and the Lessons of Tech-Stock Bubbles 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z But Preckwinkle, who turned seventy-two this month, has been in office for nearly thirty years, and has built alliances with unsavory politicians. Chicago Prepares to Elect Its First Black Female Mayor 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Last year, according to a preliminary estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than seventy-two thousand people died from overdoses—almost two hundred people a day. The Jail Health-Care Crisis 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “Maybe my seventy-two years were showing but I had never imagined any woman would appear before a grand jury exposing her breasts to public view through a see-through blouse.” Roger Stone’s and Jerome Corsi’s Time in the Barrel 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Maduro called it a U.S.-backed coup attempt and, in retaliation, ordered the expulsion of American diplomats within seventy-two hours. We Interrupt This Crisis: Trump, Venezuela, and the Crazy Politics of the Shutdown 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z In the study, Holick examined the cases of seventy-two children who the authorities believed had been abused. The Child-Abuse Contrarian 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z What matters is that, with a nuclear explosion pending, Ethan has seventy-two hours to get those balls back. “Mission: Impossible—Fallout” Maintains the Good Spirits of Its Predecessor 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z He is in some ways an unlikely undercover operative; at seventy-two, he has suffered three strokes and has aching hips. The Man Who Captures Criminals for the D.E.A. by Playing Them 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Corsi is seventy-two, and spent most of his life as a marginal academic and a nomadic businessman. Roger Stone’s and Jerome Corsi’s Time in the Barrel 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Among them: the eighteenth-century English artist Mary Delany, who began making her famed botanical collages at the age of seventy-two, after she noticed a geranium petal falling onto a dark table. The Artist Who Makes Paper Bloom 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Holick, who is now seventy-two, gives talks around the world on the importance of Vitamin D. He was billed as a “legend” at the most recent annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. The Child-Abuse Contrarian 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z He had vowed to visit every one of New York’s subway stations—there are four hundred and seventy-two—and to ride every bus route, in an effort that was part good-will tour, part reconnaissance mission. Can Andy Byford Save the Subways? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z “What cable news does best now begins, and will continue for the next seventy-two hours: the slow and luxurious licking of tears from the faces of the bereaved,” wrote Stephen King. The question haunting Las Vegas: what was the gunman's motive? 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Two-thirds of Corbyn’s leadership team resigned after the Brexit vote, and of the two hundred and twelve Labour members in Parliament, a hundred and seventy-two joined a no-confidence vote against the leader. How Jeremy Corbyn Moved Past the Politics of 2016 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The system got the answer right seventy-two per cent of the time. A.I. Versus M.D. 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Another chamber, seventy-two feet long, has the look of an assembly room, with a platform of stone at one end that may perhaps have served as a pulpit from which the sacred books were read. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z Then, in 2008, the financial crisis arrived, and, in just over a year, M.B.I.A.’s stock price plummeted from seventy-two dollars a share to three dollars. Financiers Fight Over the American Dream 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z A Roper poll reported that fifty-seven per cent said the debate influenced their vote; six per cent said it determined their vote, and, of those, seventy-two per cent decided to vote for Kennedy. Clinton, Trump, and the Fate of Debate 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z More than two feet of rain fell in seventy-two hours across a wide band of the state north and west of New Orleans, causing local tributaries to reach flood stages never before recorded. Louisiana, Its Floods, and the Presidential Question 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z Donald Johanson, who is now seventy-two, has said that before he found Lucy all of the hominid fossils older than three million years could “fit in the palm of your hand.” The Big Fight Over Fossils 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Rosenberg never managed to win his own release; he died in prison at the age of seventy-two, after being confined for forty-seven years. Education of a Jailhouse Lawyer 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Not only did we want the Warriors to surpass seventy-two wins, we wanted them to never lose again. Steph Curry and the Warriors’ Astonishing Season 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z So far, there have been four hundred and seventy-two confirmed cases of travel-associated infection in the continental United States. A Stronger Link Between Zika and Birth Defects 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z But more than one in four of the voters were independents, and they went to Sanders by seventy-two per cent to twenty-eight per cent. Big Wins for Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz Set up Two Showdowns in New York 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Clinton has an estimated seven hundred and seventy-two delegates; Sanders has an estimated five hundred and fifty-one. Mega-Tuesday: Can Anyone Stop Trump? Can Sanders Surprise Again? 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z However, you will be able to remember more of the number if you parse it differently; fifteen, ninety-three, sixty-five, seventy-two. The most unbelievably simple trick to improve your memory 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The purchase of unmanned drones, plus previously announced plans to buy seventy-two Joint Strike Fighters and 12 Growler electronic warfare aircraft, were also outlined in the paper. Australia to boost defence spending - BBC News 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Monday, for example, a survey from Georgia showed Clinton leading Bernie Sanders by fifty-two percentage points, seventy-two to twenty. A Huge Week for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Huang injected them with olfactory ensheathing cells taken from aborted fetuses, and claimed that some people were walking again within seventy-two hours. Can an Unorthodox Operation Cure Paraplegia? 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The firm said that Clinton’s score was holding steady, at seventy-two/twenty-two. Cassidy’s Count: Bernie Sanders Is Gaining in Iowa, and It Matters 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z By contrast, two hundred and sixteen unarmed civilians, seventy-two of whom were black, were killed by police this year. Tamir Rice and America’s Tragedy 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z He is seventy-two, and this is almost surely his last high-ranking job as a public official. John Kerry’s Middle East Mission 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z He was seventy-two; he had a right to die. Tap’s Tangled History 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The money—seventy-two thousand dollars—was more than two years’ salary. A Chinatown Bank Accused of Fraud 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z For the entire first season of “The Real Housewives,” Frankel was paid seventy-two hundred and fifty dollars. Bethenny Frankel and the Making of a Celebrity Brand 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z “If the free market were allowed here, there would be nothing left for the Cubans in seventy-two hours,” he said. How to Get Rich in the New Cuba 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z President Obama said that he authorized the raid because the captors had threatened to kill Somers within seventy-two hours; the South African, however, had been ransomed and was about to be freed. The Secret Effort to Save the ISIS Hostages 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Three hundred and seventy-two people were killed, including every man on the Mount Hood and twenty-three on the Mindanao, among them the guy from Brooklyn. My Grandfather’s Driver’s License 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Hawkins, who is seventy-two, grew up in Queens. Watching Alex Rodriguez Hit No. 3,000 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z “I said, ‘You can pay me seventy-two hundred and fifty dollars, but you’re not taking any of my business!’ Bethenny Frankel and the Making of a Celebrity Brand 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The month-long tournament was responsible for more than three billion interactions on Facebook and six hundred and seventy-two million on Twitter. Sponsoring FIFA Corruption 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Whoops, here’s another who died at seventy-two, his family said, of cancer-related causes. The Most Heartbreaking Moments in Tom Brokaw's Cancer Memoir 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z By law, Border Patrol is required to turn over unaccompanied minors to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement within seventy-two hours. Kidnapped at the Border 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z For the first seventy-two groups and clusters that they looked at, they saw no slowdown at all. Dark Matter May Not Be Completely Dark, New Study Concludes 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Maduro’s first response was to ask the National Assembly for special powers that would allow him to address the imperialist threat; the Assembly’s Chavista majority granted his request in less than seventy-two hours. Obama Vs. Chavismo 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z In December, in the Sunni village of Barwana, Shiite militia members forced seventy-two unarmed Sunni men from their homes, marched them to a field, and shot them. The Test in Tikrit 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z She has also begun to understand that Chris, who is thirty years younger, and whom she has known all his life, desires her, and that she enjoys, at seventy-two, being so desired. Edith Pearlman: Fabulist, Realist 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z The plea bargain required him to report to a probation officer within seventy-two hours of release. Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z The demand at the time was a ransom of two hundred million dollars, one hundred million per hostage, to be paid within seventy-two hours. Japan at a Crossroads 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z He ended up playing in seventy-two of the team’s seventy-four offensive snaps. Julian Edelman and The Super Bowl's Concussion Crisis 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The only two sons left are Crown Prince Muqrin, who is sixty-nine, and his older brother Prince Ahmed, who is seventy-two. Postscript: King Abdullah, 1924-2015 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Ingrid, the story’s protagonist, is seventy-two, well off, and has been twice widowed. Edith Pearlman: Fabulist, Realist 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z LaCombe, who is seventy-two, continues to practice at a large community hospital and to teach medical students. Ode on a Stethoscope 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z What’s more, “Eighty-two percent of the treatment group patients indicated that they would continue to use the technique, and seventy-two percent indicated that they would recommend the technique to family and friends.” The Amateur Maneuver 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z A beautiful late April day, seventy-two years after slavery ended in the United States. We still lie about slavery: Here’s the truth about how the American economy and power were built on forced migration and torture 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z That was two hundred and forty times a day, seventy-two hundred airings in total. “A Logo for America” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z The “Happy” music video, currently sporting over two hundred and seventy-two million YouTube views, flips through shots of people dancing around the world. What Can Pharrell's 'Happy' Tell Us About God? 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z And that is why the sewer pipes are thirty-nine million, seventy-two thousand feet. Green Blog: Thoughts on Water From Young New Yorkers 2012-06-07T19:20:39Z Is it not a remarkable effort for an old gentleman of seventy-two? Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z His first attempt was made at Taif, a small town about seventy-two miles to the east of Makkah, renowned for its grapes, figs, pomegranates and the roses of its enchanting gardens. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z At the age of seventy-two he partially retired, spending his summers at a house which he had taken at Windsor, but he continued to practise in London during the winter for some years longer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z We sent off to see if he could help us, but it seemed that he had no less than seventy-two camels on board bound for Annesley Bay. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z Well, there's no reason why you shouldn't live to seventy-two, and if you do you'll make one hundred pounds out of me. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z The decision to build was made by the Council in spite of a petition against such action, signed by one hundred and seventy-two voters. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z This would make Saul about seventy-two at the time of his death. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z The matter is distributed into exercises, the number of which is fixed at seventy-two, because our Lady is supposed to have lived seventy-two years on earth. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The loss of the enemy in this short but spirited combat was two hundred and fifty killed and wounded and one hundred prisoners, while that of the Americans was only seventy-two. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z When Judge Taney rendered this decision the Constitution was only seventy-two years old—twelve years younger than himself. Baltimore and The Nineteenth of April, 1861 A Study of the War 2012-04-04T02:01:00.923Z One of the print-makers, however, relented at the spectacle of an old man, seventy-two years of age, brought to the block. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Thus, at seventy-two, died Jeanne Recamier, virgin heartbreaker, whose very name was for half a century the synonym for absolute beauty and flawless purity. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z He died at the age of seventy-two, like a saint as he had lived, having given himself to God since his seventeenth year. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The boiler was thirty inches in diameter, and contained seventy-two copper flues, one and one-half inches in diameter and seven feet long. Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives Baldwin Locomotive Works 2012-04-03T02:00:35.800Z The searching party had been out seventy-two hours, during which they had only rested eight. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z When Louis XIV. died in 1715, after his reign of seventy-two years, he left the finances of France in a condition of inconceivable disorder. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z 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 The greatest of these was the Hanseatic League, which came to comprise one hundred and seventy-two cities, and the history of whose operations runs through more than three centuries. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z The bidding was very languid, however, and to my utter amazement, the picture was knocked down to me for seventy-two francs. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z The whole annotation says that the average speed of the piece should admit of seventy-two quarter notes being played in a minute. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Old Martin down in the village married only the other day, and he was seventy-two. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z Death, attended by convulsive rigors, generally closes the scene within seventy-two hours from the moment of seizure. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The very meanest male in Paradise is promised eighty thousand beautiful youths as servants, and seventy-two wives of the daughters of Paradise. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z The rescue party had been out for seventy-two hours. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Dr. Cheyne, who weighed thirty-two stone, reduced himself one-third, and enjoyed good health till the age of seventy-two. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z He was then seventy-two years old, while she was fifty-nine. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z The stage of invasion in scarlatina is but twenty-four hours; in measles, seventy-two. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z There were lost seventy-two buildings, fourteen Spaniards, and many more Indians and negroes, of whom the number is not known. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 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, Volume XXX, 1640 2012-03-06T03:00:26.127Z The temperature fell to seventy-two degrees below freezing; the sea ice over which they travelled became of almost incredible roughness; while fearful blizzards sprang up. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The rescue party had been out seventy-two hours; of this time only eight hours were spent in halting. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z He died in August, 1891, when he was seventy-two years old. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z Now, at seventy-two, he was again to debate great questions, and once more save the nation from disruption and civil war,—for a time; he hoped, for all time. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z He studied various groups of high school students, the groups containing from ninety-two to four hundred and seventy-two students each. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z The fleet consisted of thirty ships of the line and frigates; seventy-two brigs and cutters, and four hundred transports. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z At seventy-two he was still a fop and still a gallant. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z It was the hottest May for seventy-two years, and the driest for twenty-five years. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z At a great banquet tendered him at Lynchburg, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, then seventy-two, gave this toast: "Honor and gratitude to those who have filled the measure of their country's honor." Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z Even his iron constitution had been weakened by the trials and privations of seventy-two years of strenuous life. The Aventures of Buffalo Bill 2012-02-13T03:00:13.357Z Mahidasht is said to be one of the finest and most fertile plains in Persia, seventy-two miles long by fifteen broad, and is irrigated throughout by a small stream swarming with turtles. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z This meant seven families, and it is true that three generations, seventy-two persons, live, cook, sleep, and pursue their avocations under that patriarchal roof. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z The charge is a fraudulent presentation for the third quarter of 1879, of seven thousand and sixty-four dollars and seventy-two cents. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z Suppose Congress were again a lusty and vigorous creature with the blood of youth in its veins, how long would Henry Cabot Lodge, aged seventy-two, remain leader of the Senate? Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Of the hundred houses, seventy-two had been sold when I was there last winter. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z The first entry in it was made on the 30th of May 1768, and it extended over seventy-two years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z The width of the north branch is two hundred yards; that of the south is three hundred and seventy-two. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z I find by this report that a mail averaging twenty pounds carried in a baggage-car from Connellsville to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, is paid for at the rate of forty-two dollars and seventy-two cents a mile. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z Calderon is said to have written the trifling number of seventy-two, and Lope de Vega, whose fingers must have been tipped with pens, some four hundred. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z He gave Phaseolus 6, which I furnished him, and the next forenoon his pulse was seventy-two and remained so. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z Paris was raided on the night of April 12 and twenty-six were persons killed and seventy-two wounded. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z His chief work, "The Pilgrim's Progress," has been translated into seventy-two distinct languages and dialects, and thus has had a wider circulation and been more read than any book next to the Scriptures. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z On the route from Kearney to Kent the charge is that Peck and Vaile presented false claims on the third quarter of 1879 for five hundred and fifty dollars and seventy-two cents. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z He also beheaded seventy-two spirited Moros, who defended themselves against him, whose heads he placed on pikes, in various places along the beach, in order to terrorize the others. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 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 2012-02-03T03:00:18.817Z Role, rōl, n. an ancient unit of quantity, seventy-two sheets of parchment. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Osiris ruled happily over Egypt; but Typhon conspired against him with seventy-two associates; they inclosed Osiris in a chest and threw it into the Nile, and the stream carried it down to the sea. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z "I was away a good deal longer than the seventy-two hours the law permits." Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z And yet the Government charges that we made a claim of five hundred and fifty dollars and seventy-two cents. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z They were flanked by seven large round towers, sixty feet in diameter, and seventy-two feet higher than the walls. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z According to Stowe, seventy-two thousand persons were executed there, in one reign, that of Henry VIII. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Some say it is seventy-two, others put it at a hundred and seventy-two. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z She pretended to be embroidering, but in reality as she drew her stitches she was counting the hours as they passed: seventy-two hours; forty-eight hours. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z Diversity of creed divides the human race into about seventy-two sects. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z An Obelisk of seventy-two Feet in Height, besides the Basis, stands up in the Middle of the two Fountains. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-07T03:00:17.127Z They had eighty benevolent societies, and during that year they had expended fourteen thousand one hundred and seventy-two dollars for the relief of the sick and the helpless. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z That brings you up to a hundred and seventy-two. Dick Randall The Young Athlete 2012-01-04T03:00:45.467Z He was born here; lived here for seventy-two years. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z For seventy-two years I have reflected day and night, I have learned nothing anywhere, and the enigma remains unexplained. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z On one occasion a mathematical problem of great difficulty having been proposed to the class, Napoleon, in order to solve it, secluded himself in his room for seventy-two hours; and he solved the problem. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The reading of the factum of his trial, by the secretary, lasted four hours; the fiscal accused him of having advanced seventy heretical propositions, and seventy-two witnesses were examined. 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 officers present at my course of instruction were of the number of seventy-two; of this number sixty-nine have sent in reports favorable to my method. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z He brought you eighty pounds; you gave me eight, and kept seventy-two. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z Drink wine, since it is that which will put an end to the disquiet of thy heart; it will deliver thee from thy meditations upon the seventy-two sects of the globe. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z I got seventy-two, and it was a review. The Girl Scouts Rally Rosanna Wins 2011-11-29T03:00:16.213Z Following this is a list of four thousand six hundred and seventy-two prisoners, captured by the Spaniards, who had simply dropped out of sight, and whose fate had never been determined. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z Our lady was the first to make the descent: the height was seventy-two feet; she went on to the ravelin to await the others. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z They were conveyed to the President by a committee of seventy-two persons. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Around the third axle, which is one inch and one-third thick, is a larger toothed wheel projecting one foot from the axle in all directions, which has seventy-two teeth. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Six hundred seventy-two school aides, parent coordinators and other employees who were among the city’s lowest paid lost their jobs on Oct. SchoolBook: Support Workers' Union Sues City Over Layoffs 2011-11-15T18:58:05Z He is willing to send me a check for the seventy-two dollars, if by paying it back into the fund I do not compromise myself.” 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z On the 17th of August, 1850, being seventy-two years of age, he expired in the arms of his beloved daughter. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z In contrast to the 152 birds occurring in the triangle A�C�D�, only seventy-two are seen in the triangle A�B�D�. A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 2011-11-02T02:00:14.587Z The income from pulque alone,—the favorite drink of the masses,—was one hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars, while other imposts swelled the gross income in proportion. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z It should be borne in mind that, according to the Younger Edda, it was Zoroaster who first thought of building the Tower of Babel, and that in this undertaking he was assisted by seventy-two master-masons. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland 2011-10-31T02:00:30.820Z The delectable and very pious Henning has managed to lose seventy-two dollars which the boys had already subscribed for the cage.” 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z It has as a frontispiece a portrait of the author at the age of seventy-two, and is preceded by a sketch of his life. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z The present number of communicants is seventy-two; Sabbath-school children, one hundred and fifty-nine—teachers, forty. Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. 2011-10-13T02:00:37.230Z The first is called Great Falls, at Hiram, where the water plunges down a ledge of rugged rocks seventy-two feet. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z The chief manager in this enterprise was Zoroaster, and seventy-two master-masons and joiners served under him. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland 2011-10-31T02:00:30.820Z You said that the delectable and pious Henning had managed to lose seventy-two dollars of the boys' money. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z When the result became known two years later, the population of the island was found to be two hundred and seventy-two thousand five hundred and one inhabitants. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z During the congestion which followed the arrival of the relief trains there were men who spent seventy-two hours with scarcely any rest or sleep. Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster 2011-10-02T02:00:12.020Z The calculation was easy; sixteen ounces in a pound; sixteen multiplied by forty-two makes six hundred and seventy-two. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z The battle of Arcola lasted seventy-two hours, and for forty-eight hours was in favour of the Austrians. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z 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 Don Ferdinand Percher fell slightly below the record of his colleague, Don Juan Costa, for he could boast of only seventy-two deaths to his credit. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z It was the first year that the competition was extended to an affair of seventy-two holes, stretching over two days. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z Here, too, he founded a famous library, for which the standard work on astronomy and astrology was compiled in seventy-two books. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z I am sunburnt, and, as he writes Cambac�r�s the same day, tired out, having been sixty out of the previous seventy-two hours in the saddle. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z How far the old man of seventy-two years of age was compelled by torture to retract is still a matter of controversy. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z The magnitude of this difficulty only appears the greater when we turn from the forty-seven socialistic experiments which have failed to the seventy-two which have thriven. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Sometimes it took three to four coaches to transport it; there often would be fourteen lock-bags and seventy-two canvas sacks. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Last week she made, with what I did, seventy-two, and put them all in a box. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z “Well, and a hundred and twenty-eight and a hundred and forty-four—” “Two hundred and seventy-two.” The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z To their intense joy and amusement, the gross receipts amounted to six hundred and seventy-two dollars. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z It then contained, “by exact enumeration,” seventy-two families, or close upon four hundred souls. Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England 2011-08-08T02:00:19.693Z I had pictured him saying something like—'Your grandmother's name was Georgina; she died at the age of seventy-two, after an illness lasting three days; she was a good horsewoman and disliked Mr. Gladstone'. Spiritualism and the New Psychology An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge 2011-08-01T02:00:14.257Z Out of the seventy-two hundred who united with Grace Church and its missions in the thirty years mentioned above all but twenty-nine have been married. Health, Healing, and Faith 2011-07-31T02:00:09.737Z It weighed seventy-two tons, and was thirty-two feet long. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Eight times nine does not permit itself to be seventy-three or sixty-four, but exactly and forever seventy-two. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Within two years of his election he issued seventy-two bulls for the reform of the religious orders alone. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z If you live to seventy-two, which I hope you may, your life is passed in the following manner: an hour a day is three years. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z One of the other messenger dogs, it is said, carried orders almost continuously for seventy-two hours, hardly stopping to eat or drink; for no war dog would eat or drink anything given him by strangers. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z An elective council was to consist of seventy-two persons "of most note for their wisdom, virtue and ability." The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z The summaries which Andreas wrote of his seventy-two chapters are still reprinted in Mill's and other large editions of the Greek Testament. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z She went away with a sense of repletion and seventy-two cents. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z The interval between the flash and the roll has seldom been observed greater than seventy-two seconds. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z Nicholas Storck, a weaver, their leader, has chosen twelve apostles and seventy-two disciples, in imitation of our Lord. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z The Austrian soldiers had, until the year 1756, seventy-two manual movements to learn, not for smiting the enemy, but Satan. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z The boat was lifted up and down for seventy-two locks. Little Erik of Sweden 2011-06-07T02:00:12.210Z She had her own exertions to rely upon—and seventy-two cents: the one as woefully inadequate as the other. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z He is seventy-two and has no family as you know. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z The Length of Our Lord's Stay in the Tomb Quite an effort is made in some quarters to show that Jesus remained in the tomb seventy-two hours, three full days and nights. A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version 2011-05-31T02:00:30.837Z Hence, it is scarcely imaginable that the whole number of the nation could be less than two millions; an increase from seventy-two, which is quite impossible. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z The city had suffered no injury, but the state of the camps showed what the troops had suffered during the siege of seventy-two days. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z Your tempo was less than seventy-two to the minute; Gerald's delicate heart caught time and the brain lacked blood. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z The town from which we hail, Salisbury, the capital of Rowan county, North Carolina, contains about twenty-three hundred inhabitants, including three hundred and seventy-two slaves, fifty-one slaveholders, and forty-three non-slaveholding slave-hirers. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z But a correspondent now sends us the following item describing a salmon which weighed seventy-two pounds. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z But the day of the seventy-two salvos fell in the best time of the year, late spring, early summer, the beginning of June, soon after Whitsuntide. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z A widow, with a brother seventy-two years old, poor, but clean, chiefly dependent on a daughter in service. Notes on Old Edinburgh 2011-05-03T02:00:17.180Z He had come into the field with seventy-two thousand men, independent of Grouchy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z Eighteen hundred and seventy-two was a bountiful crop year and we could get all the peaches and many other things we needed very cheap. Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago 2011-04-28T02:00:13.453Z It measured fifty-two inches from its nose to the tip of its tail, was twelve inches broad, and weighed seventy-two pounds. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z The main building, of six stories, is seventy-two feet in height, and five hundred and fifty feet in length. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Chapter seventy-two: of that which is becoming in a monk; and which leads to eternal felicity, ... Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z On his return, Set and his seventy-two fellow conspirators imprisoned him by craft in a chest, which was thrown into the Nile. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Not long ago in New York a similar law was proposed, allowing women and children to work seventy-two hours a week in canneries, but the bill was defeated. Anti-Suffrage Essays 2011-03-28T02:00:24.710Z The boat was seventy-two feet long, with seventeen feet breadth of beam and eight feet depth of hold, and carried an engine of one hundred horse-power. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z "Will you please, sir, come up to seventy-two?" The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z He was an old man near seventy-two years of age. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z The adjourned convention met at Windsor in June with seventy-two delegates from fifty towns. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, by E. A. IRELAND,In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. The Nation's Peril Twelve Years' Experience in the South 2011-03-17T02:00:12.580Z Cast on seventy-two stitches, and knit twenty rounds; purling two, and knitting two; then knit six rounds plain. The New Guide to Knitting & Crochet 2011-03-17T02:00:11.807Z After the veto, it stood sixty-eight yeas and seventy-two nays. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z He died at the age of seventy-two, rich and powerful, courted by the kings of the age. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z I am seventy-two years old: how much time is left me to delight in you? Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z She had come to England, a girl of twenty-two; she went back an elderly woman, seventy-two. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z He was seventy-two now, and there was little in his half century of practice that he hadn't dealt with. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z I have always held that any man who is worth his pay works for something more than his pay, and certainly for the next seventy-two hours pay was the last thing in our minds. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z Thus it keeps receding about one degree in seventy-two years, and about a whole sign in 2,160 years. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z One air squadron alone helped a group of heavies to silence seventy-two batteries. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z This project is five and seventy-two hundredth miles in length and the total estimated cost is $145,051.50. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z Thomas Moore died at the ripe age of seventy-two. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z One of one hundred large paper copies printed, with seventy-two additional illustrations of ancient signboards, and other reminiscences of Old London. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z Western Oregon also varies in its different parts; the rainfall of seventy-two inches at Astoria sinking by pretty regular stages southward to thirty-two inches at Jacksonville. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z The old master lived to be seventy-two, he did; but then he lived like a wax image packed in cotton wool. Vestigia Vol. II. 2011-02-04T03:00:22.950Z The stage was to be thirty-six feet wide, the theatre seventy-two feet deep and eighty across, from one wall to the other. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z All generalizations are made carefully and used cautiously with a full realization that a limited area—the upper Mississippi Valley—has been used and a period of only seventy-two years surveyed. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z The great Louis reigned seventy-two years—prodigal years, but a period of military and artistic conquest—the golden age of French literature. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Passing to the later Leipzig period, seventy-two surviving Cantatas are attributed to the years 1735-50. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z The book on plants is composed of no fewer than two hundred and thirty chapters, while that on birds contains seventy-two chapters. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z There were, contrary to one of the new laws, seventy-two place-holders and pensioners in the House. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z When a king quitted this mortal sphere, the temples were closed for seventy-two days, and there were no sacrifices, solemnities, or feasts. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z Some authorities speak of seventy-two or eighty thousand victims, while more moderate calculations reduce the number to twenty thousand, which is surely terrible enough. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z All these seventy-two figures are seated, because convention demanded this if the personage represented was dead. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z When the Eiffel tower was erected, in which the engineers were obliged to give special attention to the elasticity of the materials used, there were inscribed on this lofty structure the names of seventy-two savants. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z These monarchs, which were seventy-two in number, are said to have governed each a distinct species of rational beings, prior to the existence of Adam. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z I remember the numbers—the consecutive numbers—seventy-two of them—seven hundred and twenty pounds. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z The force which volunteered for this service consisted of seventy-two men. Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. 2010-12-20T17:12:28.183Z It's taken you forty-five years to live to eighteen, and if you're to live to forty-five again it will have taken you—how long?—seventy-two years. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The average number in an adult man is about seventy-two in a minute. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers The very meanest in Paradise is promised eighty thousand of these servants, besides seventy-two Ḥooreeyehs, &c. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments But the Duplessis portrait, which was painted from life in Paris in 1778, when he was seventy-two, reveals more than any of them. The True Benjamin Franklin The cave dwellers' chief barracks was seventy-two feet underground. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. The Synopsis was illustrated by Petiver with a set of seventy-two folio plates, having twelve figures in each. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History The rate of the heart-beat may be naturally above or below seventy-two. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers Embracing Saint Matthew Island, Hall Island, and Pinnacle Islet, approximately in latitude sixty degrees and thirty minutes north, longitude one hundred and seventy-two degrees and thirty minutes west, in Behring Sea, Alaska. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Clearly, these wanderers found solace in the beliefs held by some of the condemned seventy-two. The Great Mogul It is seventy-two feet long and seventeen feet thick. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise In 1546 Michelangelo, then seventy-two years of age, was entrusted with the continuance of the work, and he made radical changes, chiefly in the design of the dome. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" It is 231 feet in length and 20 inches in breadth, and is divided into seventy-two compartments, the subject of each scene being indicated by a Latin inscription. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis In all, seventy-two large vessels and over 10,000 men were lost.—Bibliography: The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli That I would be in my grave in seventy-two hours. Whispering Wires "An' here all zose seventy-two son carry gift to Osiris—" "King of the underworld—so they do, we would recognize that gang anywhere." The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Mrs. Alexander died in 1895 at the age of seventy-two years. The Story of Our Hymns I have baptized believers ranging from nine to seventy-two years of age. Autobiography of Z. S. Hastings In the short period of seventy-two hours he restored tranquillity—formed a new government and commenced a new era in the history of that impulsive nation. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution All arrests shall be terminated, or turned into formal imprisonments, within seventy-two hours, immediately after the delivery of the arrested person to the judge or court of competent jurisdiction. The History of Cuba, vol. 4 But she wasn't satisfied—collectively and individually she declared she amounted to as much as I did, and pointed at our seventy-two sons. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise The next day the official communique reported that Foch had very generously allowed them seventy-two hours in which to accept or reject the iron-clad terms of an armistice. History of Ambulance Company Number 139 After we had gathered all our bills together, I found my money exhausted and myself indebted five hundred and seventy-two dollars to my partner. Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... But when I was seventy-two years old, cataract overtook me. Glories of Spain The order directing the imprisonment shall be affirmed or reversed, upon the proper hearing of the prisoner, within seventy-two hours next following the committal. The History of Cuba, vol. 4 "Here you will see hees seventy-two son—" "Sure enough—our old friends." The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise "Bishops succeed to the Apostles in the same manner as Priests to the seventy-two Disciples." The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries But in America it costs on the average only seventy-two cents. The Future of Road-making in America A tribute on the Jews supplied the annual expense; and the races on foot, on horseback, or in chariots, were ennobled by a tilt and tournament of seventy-two of the Roman youth. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Mrs. Perkins was really seventy-two and looked her age; but she fondly hoped to deceive the public. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck This waiter is three hundred feet high and seventy-two feet wide. Last Words The temple which they surrounded was about ninety-two feet long by seventy-two feet wide; the outer walls were about seven feet high and as many thick. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Then, with white, cast sixteen stitches on the same needle, and knit seventy-two stitches; cast on sixteen stitches, and knit three rows of eighty-eight stitches. My Knitting Book He died in 1640, at the age of seventy-two, or perhaps of eighty, at Rome. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Stock in demand at seventy-two hundred dollars a share, and all held by Vans. H. R. He doesn't know that his length over all is three hundred feet, and that his beam is seventy-two feet. Last Words "The numbers of the rooms occupied by the two men are sixty-eight and seventy-two," I explained. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England I shall use my privilege of seventy-two—rising seventy-three—and shall keep in my comfortable den: I will not go out. Maria Edgeworth My constitution was never strong; and, with my sedentary habits, I should never have reached the age of seventy-two, if I had not early learned to control my appetites. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation "She often comes here!" she heard the pretty little thing in charge of seventy-two glove-boxes say proudly to a client. H. R. They described its rule and estimated its population, one author, with how much belief I know not, detailing the names of seventy-two of its princes with 7,405,926 devils serving them. The Book of This and That In 1882 he, being then seventy-two years of age, married a Miss Pauline Greenwood, who had been one of his pupils in Philadelphia. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday From 1815 to 1898 our population increased from eight to seventy-two millions, while that of the United Kingdom increased only from some twenty to forty-one millions and that of France from twenty-nine to thirty-nine millions. American World Policies The crowning structure is a long and narrow building, measuring seventy-two feet in front, and but twelve feet deep. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. She lived till the age of seventy-two, dying in 1876, and never ceased to put forth novels which showed no distinct falling off in fertility or imagination, or in command of literary style. A Short History of French Literature Each Menu they suppose transmits his authority to his sons and grandsons during a period of seventy-two divine ages, and such a period they call a manwantara. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science An account is still extant of seventy-two bodies of human beings being seen here at one time, suspended and dead upon the trees. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia This was in the year of Christ 814, and he lived seventy-two years, and many signs appeared-56- before his death, as we read in the chronicles of the doings of France. Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani We have seventy-two tents in all, and a number in reserve if required. My Diary in Serbia: April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915 The Confederates obtained seventy-two cannon, 13,000 small arms, and an immense amount of military stores. The Greater Republic A History of the United States Out of seventy-two described by Cooke, twenty-four are recorded as acrid. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous In the year of grace One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, the house in which Sheridan died in 1816—viz. Round the World in Eighty Days But there were one hundred and seventy-two who reported promptly that they did actually lead Eight Weeks Clubs, and about 2800 girls were enrolled in these clubs. The American Country Girl He says that as French is not mentioned among the seventy-two languages which sprang from the Tower of Babel, it must be derived from Greek. Lectures on The Science of Language This section was forty feet in height and seventy-two feet in diameter. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar He died in 1837, at the age of seventy-two, after a long and eminently useful life, bequeathing large sums for various public purposes and charitable objects in the island. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time After the seventy-two primitive letters or sounds had been learned, the next step was the art of combining them, so as not only to produce single words, but very often whole sentences. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. The French reaper led off and finished in seventy-two minutes. The Romance of the Reaper He was able to maintain his strenuous habits of study till he reached the advanced age of seventy-two, when he was forced, by paralysis of the optic nerve, to give up work almost entirely. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Not out, seventy-two; very good!—but do look at that girl in bright yellow! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 16, 1887 Mr. Wesley was an old man when this happened, just seventy-two; it was in June, and his birthday was on the 17th. The Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls During those seventy-two golden hours the melodious tinkling of The Eye's cash register was as constant as that of Santa's sleigh bells. The Holes and John Smith Traders from all parts of the provinces thronged the ports of Italy, and one merchant of Hierapolis in Phrygia has left a record of his seventy-two voyages there. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. That was written seventy-two years ago, and when was it truer than to-day? Religious Perplexities He was seventy-two years of age; roughly dressed, with a long white beard, and thin from fasting and hard living. Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation The current chain numbered four hundred and seventy-two links. Here Lies When the Northern Navigation Co. brought in the boilers for their boats, they hauled them a hundred miles over the trail from Edmonton, and it took seventy-two horses on each boiler. Seeds of Pine The length of the canal is one hundred miles, its width at the surface of the water is three hundred and twenty-eight feet, at the bottom seventy-two feet, and its depth twenty-six feet. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant A Conversation We talk'd with open heart, and tongue Affectionate and true, A pair of friends, though I was young, And Matthew seventy-two. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes In this fight he lost seventy-two men, six from each of his twelve ships, and it was only by hard fighting that the others were able to get on board their ships and sail away. Tales of Troy and Greece Each saint will have eighty thousand servants and seventy-two girls. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 It is said that a pocket knife, which we buy for fifty cents, has involved in its manufacture the services of seventy-two different persons, doing different things. Rural Health and Welfare A paste made of fifty-one parts of finely shaved stearine, melted in seventy-two parts of previously warmed oil of turpentine, will restore the polish to furniture. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. The spotting cruiser had orbited around the planet for more than seventy-two hours before the crew had been deposited, and had almost definitely established the contrary. The Unprotected Species The dimensions of the temple upon the ground are eight hundred and sixty-eight feet by six hundred and seventy-two in width, far exceeding any other shrine or building in the island of Ceylon. The Pearl of India But few men died of those that were landed; and, if I recollect right, our total loss was seventy-two men. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment His disciples, who were to expound his precepts, were seventy-two in number, twelve of whom were his ordinary companions, the depositories of his thoughts, and the witnesses of all his actions. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning I have grouped these cases in four classes: First, seventy-two cases in which I find, on careful study, reasonably good evidence for the diagnosis of functional or nervous disorder. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 The plantations have an appearance of high cultivation; a tolerable idea may be formed of their value when you know that last year Demerara numbered seventy-two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine slaves. Wanderings in South America Thus they lived together— "A pair of friends, though one was young, And Matthew seventy-two." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 The same evening, or the following morning, the enemy reached the station of Mainporee, a distance of seventy-two miles. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment It is estimated that an acre of apples in good bearing removes annually about forty-nine pounds of nitrogen, thirty-eight pounds of phosphoric acid, and seventy-two pounds of potash. The Apple In addition to the Ritual of the Whispered Charm, there was the Illumination of Bel, an encyclop�dia of astrology in seventy-two volumes which the suburban library of Borsippa contained. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal Extremely austere and earnest, they were divided into seventy-two heads, and enjoined severe and constant devotional exercises, self-mortification, fasting, prayer, and regular attendance at matins, vespers, and all the services of the Church. Old and New London Volume I Each Saint will have eighty thousand servants and seventy-two girls. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Of the seventy-two members who labored in the Convention and signed the Constitution there were twenty-one Whigs and fifty-one Democrats. History of the Constitutions of Iowa Fifteen years ago I bought a small farm having on it a small family orchard of seventy-two apple trees. The Apple Two years later, at the same place, a cowboy found a leather bag containing seventy-two Mexican dollars, which small amount of money had been overlooked by the robbers. Geronimo's Story of His Life Nevertheless, Sir Isaac, unaccustomed to opposition, overruled all these objections, and the society flourished in this Fleet Street "close" seventy-two years. Old and New London Volume I Gentlemen, this is all that has been done for seventy-two years; the last triumph of American Freedom over American Slavery was forty-seven years ago! The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence He had not the Appleyard habit of living to be seventy-two, it appeared, and succumbed to pneumonia, following fatigue and exposure. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon Then in six years of full bearing it will have exhausted the soil to the amount of seventy-two dollars per acre. The Apple The translators, it is said, were placed in houses on the island of Pharos, at the mouth of the Nile, where they completed their work in seventy-two days. The Church Handy Dictionary Baron D'Ohson, a distinguished oriental scholar of Sweden, died at Stockholm early in January, at the age of seventy-two. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 The jeweler consented to this arrangement, and received the reduced price of seventy-two thousand dollars, to be paid in equal installments for five years, from the private purse of the queen. Maria Antoinette Makers of History This was one of seventy-two that passed in June, 1623 giving good evidence of the private activity afoot for, and in, the Colony at this time. The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 In most of these ships were seventy-two men-at-arms, who served thirteen weeks at their own cost and charge. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations His works, according to Diogenes La�rtius, numbered seventy-two, and were characterized by a purity of style which compares favourably with that of Plato. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" It is a small square 16mo., bound, in beautiful condition, measuring about 4� inches by 3, and containing seventy-two pages. Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Bathurst is in length seventy-two miles, and in breadth sixty-eight, in shape somewhat approaching to an irregular square. Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants “Now, my lord, at page nineteen hundred and seventy-two your lordship will find that when the credibility of a witness is attacked—” Judge: “That will be near the end of the book.” The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit In 1371 the country round Pola was so afflicted that of seventy-two towns only eleven preserved their names, the rest disappearing without leaving any trace. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia During the debate on the address he was the central figure in a fierce struggle, and some one with a turn for statistics said that his name was mentioned three hundred and seventy-two times. George Brown So engrossed had Dixon been in the final stages of his work that for the last seventy-two hours he had literally lived there in his laboratory. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 There are seventy-two maps, and the publisher bears the honoured name of Walker, though the map is not specially intended for the use of pedestrians. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 A murky, stifling night for a man of seventy-two! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) In 1869, a year before Dickens' death, there were published in London alone three hundred and seventy-two magazines and serials, seventy-two quarterlies, and two hundred and ninety-eight newspapers etc. Dickens' London No patient could be left till the crisis was passed, and many are their records of seventy-two hours without change or sleep or scarcely sitting down. A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work Venice is built on seventy-two islands besides the Grand Canal which takes the place of our avenues and streets. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife Then, painted for war and armed for the combat, the party moved rapidly away, in numbers nearly nine hundred strong, of whom six hundred thirty-seven were Indians, one hundred forty-six Canadians, and seventy-two regular troops. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 The present mode of life is supposed to be perpetuated in Paradise, where every true believer is to have "seventy-two wives, and eighty thousand slaves," all Houris specially created for him. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It He died in 1837, at the age of seventy-two, after a long and eminently useful life, bequeathing large sums of money for various public purposes in his native isle. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Where he had started with his seventy-two friends, there were now three hundred well-armed men in the woods around him. The Shepherd of the North Luckily for them after they had been adrift for seventy-two hours, and travelled several hundred miles they were rescued by the British steamer Trent. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons According to both these writers, the total number of killed and wounded in Clive's force was seventy-two. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 This new fangled thing now introduced, seventy-two oligarchs, will introduce trouble. The Fathers of Confederation A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion And these came forth from seventy-two caves and honored Sun Wu Kung as their head. 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 Little is known concerning this vessel except that it was reported to have been seventy-two feet long, twelve feet high, and eight feet broad, and to have been propelled by a paddlewheel instead of oars. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons She had, however, put too great a strain on her vital forces and died July 2, at the age of seventy-two. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V The conference, after adopting the seventy-two resolutions embodying the basis of the union, agreed that the several governments should submit them to the respective legislatures at the ensuing session. The Fathers of Confederation A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion Then the Master again murmured a secret incantation into his ear, by means of which he gained the power to transform himself seventy-two times. The Chinese Fairy Book "I've raised all but seventy-two thousand of the necessary amount," said Cummings slowly. The Million-Dollar Suitcase Six more were then rapidly approaching completion and the German naval law passed some time before provided for the building of seventy-two submarines by the end of 1917. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons At the earnest request of Mrs. Stanton, who had now reached the age of seventy-six, she was permitted to retire from the presidency, and Miss Anthony, aged seventy-two, was elected in her place. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Another enclosure of seventy-two acres at Point Keyham is used for repairing ships, and a canal seventy feet wide runs through the yards to facilitate the movement of materials. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The table was decorated with lovely ferns, and no less than seventy-two vases of sunflowers! The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' But Worth answered for him, hotly, "If Cummings hasn't seventy-two thousand dollars I commissioned him to raise for me, I don't care what he's got." The Million-Dollar Suitcase But out of seventy-two Australian soldiers, fifty-four, or three-quarters, passed, and several had real beauty. Another Sheaf Mrs. Henry gave extracts from the letters of seventy-two prominent women in various parts of the South—all uncompromising suffragists. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV This kitchen is about thirty-four feet square within the walls and seventy-two feet high. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel “Jed The Red fights at one hundred and ninety-six,” he said, “‘The Pilgrim’ at one hundred and seventy-two.” Once to Every Man She always said it was "seventy-two," or "sixty-three," or "eighty-one," at a desperate venture, and was always wrong. Red, White, Blue Socks, Part First Being the First Book The factor for a depth of three feet on the weir is six, making for the same area the length of weir seventy-two feet, and for four feet depth the factor is four. Rural Hygiene She had delivered seventy-two lectures, formed about forty organizations and obtained many hundreds of names to pledges of help. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV That bald man in the corner is seventy-two; painting is his amusement, and he loves models. Olive in Italy He was dead—but had been for less than seventy-two hours! Lords of the Stratosphere In seventy-two hours he has wrecked the morale of Manhattan. The Mind Master At seventy-two she finds herself in the enjoyment of many things that go to make a happy life. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History This boy noticed him particularly because he scanned the hotel register before writing his own name, and insisted upon having one of two special suites; number seventy-two or seventy-six. The Crevice Six hundred and seventy-two planes, the entire First Air Division of the United States Army, were deployed in line at hundred-yard intervals, covering a front of nearly forty miles. The Great Drought Planes like ours must be made almost overnight—and have you forgotten that Kress was gone for three weeks, and yet had been dead but seventy-two hours when he landed on our roof? Lords of the Stratosphere The Algerian machine did its work in seventy-two minutes, the English in sixty-six, and the American in twenty-two minutes! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 And he said he was losing too much time on the turns; so the next round he took the bend at seventy-two miles an hour. The Flying Mercury Doubtless the Protestant party read its own meanings into these texts, when once the pictures were painted and paid for with seventy-two good guldens. Holbein When the beds are twenty-six feet long, and four wide, they will hold twenty-four blanching-pots, with three plants under each, making seventy-two plants in a bed. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families And they all shook hands with him and came away, leaving the Christmas-tree, with all its seventy-two candles, still making the pearly room a dream of fairy beauty. Oswald Bastable and Others “One hundred and seventy-two pounds,” said Brother Joyful. Heart Talks Reckoning these periods of work and rest as days and nights, seventy-two hours had elapsed when the supply of food was exhausted, and they realized that the final struggle was at hand. Down the Slope The same lender had lent seventy-two sheep to two other men, in Sivan, b.c. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters But there is something at Providence less to be expected even than seventy-two manufactories of jewelry: it is the largest manufactory of solid silver-ware in the world! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 When its seventy-two candles were lighted the pearly room shone and glimmered like a fairy palace in a dream. Oswald Bastable and Others After about seventy-two hours, put your ear to the cocoon, and if all is quiet within, it is completed and the worm is shut up within it. Makers of Many Things There were seventy-two votes, and only four against the amendment. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III They are allowed to run from forty-eight to seventy-two hours. Our Italy In another town—Providence—there are seventy-two manufactories of common jewelry. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 In fact, there is an almost infinite variety of combinations of dimensions which will contain substantially seventy-two cubic inches. All About Coffee The provincial council was to consist of seventy-two members. William Penn One lady, Mrs. Sargent, seventy-two years old, said she thanked the Lord that He had let her live until she could vote. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Irving, who was then seventy-two years old, was making a brief visit to the Capital and called to see me. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century In it are seventy-two cranes and elevators and fifty million pounds of wool can be stored at one time. Birdseye Views of Far Lands I do not know that there was any law against it; but rest was felt to be a necessity after a week of seventy-two hours’ labour. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France The council was in effect a body of seventy-two governors; the assembly, which more directly represented the people, could consider no laws save those sent down to them by the council. William Penn Now there are 6,246 schools, seventy-two academies, six normal schools, two colleges, Boston University and the "Harvard Annex" all open to girls. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Then Michael Angelo, though seventy-two years old, was persuaded to be the architect. Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly A range of twenty degrees is about all that the spirits in the thermometer ever show, for the minimum is seventy-two and the maximum ninety-two degrees. Birdseye Views of Far Lands He looked it over and pointing to the regular time made, said: “We can discount that exactly seventy-two minutes.” Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail It was now Friday—three days—seventy-two hours later. Seven Miles to Arden She carried a suit for herself and seventy-two other women who applied to be made voters and were refused. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The writing being rather small each column contains from seventy to seventy-two lines. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life In 1914 Russia and Siberia possessed thirty-five million head of horses, fifty-two million head of cattle, seventy-two million sheep, and fifteen million head of hogs. Birdseye Views of Far Lands But he had waded out a little too far, and had reached the place where the bottom suddenly shelves off from fifteen inches to seventy-two. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals The mouth of the cavern is pierced in the side of the cliff looking towards the south, in the form of an arch, eighty feet wide and seventy-two in height. The Mines and its Wonders In 1421 a storm caused the Meuse to overflow, and in one night buried in its waters seventy-two villages and one hundred thousand inhabitants. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) I have been receiving seventy-two pounds per annum, but since, if I come to you, I may bring my dog with me, I shall be content with a much lower wage. Anthony Lyveden The dam was seventy-two feet above water, two to one inside slope, one and a half to one outside slope and twenty feet wide on top. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin In the centre of the castle rose a tower ninety feet high, standing on a massive stone basement seventy-two feet in height, the whole forming a structure absolutely without precedent in Japan. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era To the Catholics, in particular, who claimed thirty-eight of the seventy-two agencies, on the ground of prior religious influence, there had been assigned but eight. The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American He should remember what our Savior said to the seventy-two disciples, who, returning with joy from their first mission, cried out to Him: “Lord, even the devils are subject to us in Thy name.” The Faith of Our Fathers From it, as a centre, seventeen other women visit and work in seventy-two different villages and instruct 1,005 pupils. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ Strong of purpose, clear-headed and masterful, Louis the Fourteenth ruled as King of France for seventy-two years—the most powerful monarch in Christendom. Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Here there is a very fine and well-preserved temple, seventy-two square feet in extent, of which Mr. Wallace says that it is "covered with sculptures of Hindu mythology that surpass any that exist in India." A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore Slender of waist and hip, stalwart of shoulder, some seventy-two inches of sinewy height, he was the figure of the typical cattleman. Penny of Top Hill Trail Of the twelve Apostles, the seventy-two disciples, and early followers of our Lord only eight have left us any of their sacred writings. The Faith of Our Fathers They received formerly seventy-two pesos apiece per year. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 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, Volume XXVI, 1636 In 1730 seventy-two warehouses located in thirty counties were ordered erected and maintained for the purpose of inspection and storage by the General Assembly. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" Piers told me afterwards that for the first twenty miles never once did the speedometer's needle fall below seventy-two. Jonah and Co. After some cogitation, we agreed that there must be seventy-one sheep and a hundred and one lambs, or a hundred and seventy-two all told. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine Whenever any religious dispute arose among the people it was decided by the High Priest and the Sanhedrim, which was a council consisting of seventy-two civil and ecclesiastical judges. The Faith of Our Fathers Further in the distance, through a dim exhalation, across the mists of eternities, I beheld vaguely the seventy-two pre-Adamite kings, with their seventy-two peoples, vanished forever. Humorous Ghost Stories In a report of the treatment of typhoid fever by seventy-two physicians of Connecticut, thirty-eight declared that they did not use alcohol in any stage of this disease. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say It alone fills a green-house seventy-two feet long and thirty broad. Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children A young Highlander serving with the English army was afterwards heard to declare that he saw seventy-two unfortunate victims dragged from their hiding in the heather to hillocks and shot down by volleys of musketry. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 It was surprised by the troops; and seventy-two persons made prisoners, of whom the men were sent to the galleys for life, and the women imprisoned in the Tour de Constance. The Huguenots in France This visit covered only two hundred and seventy-two days, but he preached three hundred times, and in over forty cities. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God He might have been seventy-two instead of twenty-two coming February. The Fighting Edge The elaboration of the entire work is marvellous; it abounds with fanciful figures, seventy-two in number, disposed among the ornaments, or acting as supporters to the general composition. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture His locks were gray and thin, for he was seventy-two years old, and his fur cap would not be becoming amid the splendors of Versailles. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin |
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