| 单词 | sixty-eight |
| 例句 | She laughed but never smiled and in 1963, when she was sixty-eight years old, she had not shed a tear since Circe had brought her cherry jam for breakfast. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sixty-eight and a widower twice over; she was in her twenties—no one knew exactly where in her twenties, but estimates put her between twenty-one and twenty-seven years old. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Even at sixty-eight Harrison exuded strength and energy, and women generally agreed that he was more handsome now than he had been in his fifties. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I’m much older than you. I’m eight hundred and sixty-eight!” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He was sixty-eight years old but announced, “I intend to live for more than half a century, and at the end of that half-century London will be trembling lest Chicago shall surpass it....” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He chose the extreme of closing down the city’s sixty-eight parks, thirty-eight playgrounds, six swimming pools, and four golf courses rather than allowing black people to enjoy them.6 “Federal meddling,” Connor had remarked. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He came to their houses twice a month to collect one dollar and sixty-eight cents and write down on a little yellow card both the date and their eighty-four cents a week payment. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “Keep your seven dollars and sixty-eight cents.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “How can you do that? Your allowance is only twenty-five cents. Twenty-four forty-three plus twenty-five cents makes only twenty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess. I have five hundred and sixty-eight dollars in savings, so if the whole thing costs more than that, I’m going to have to get a second job.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The spectator’s benches were packed tighter than ever on day sixty-eight, when Daniel Ellsberg finally took the stand. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Helen said she was sixty-eight years old, old enough to be my mother, but Mrs. Croft insisted that Helen and I speak to each other downstairs, in the parlor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Nineteen sixty-eight is key. And we don’t need Charles’s library card to finish this phrase.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The most prominent speaker in Philadelphia was Ales Hrdlicka, then sixty-eight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A week, a mere seven days, a paltry one hundred sixty-eight hours remained till their deadline. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z By the time the convention closed, one-third of the three hundred participants—sixty-eight women and thirty-two men—had signed the Declaration of Sentiments. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Well, when she gets back, you tell her I called. Hilly Holbrook, Emerson three sixty-eight forty?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The sixty-eight alligators of our Second Armored Amphibian Battalion crossed the lines of departure. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The day of the flight, Stephen writes, “Mom’s off to meet her ninety-one-year-old birth mother. Go figure. A whole new life at the age of sixty-eight!” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Sheryl and I push sixty-eight candles into creamy icing, packing them in tight. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He was sixty-eight years old and partly lame from a decades-old carriage accident that had left one leg an inch shorter than the other. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When she was about sixty-eight years old, Brave Orchid took a day off to wait at San Francisco International Airport for the plane that was bringing her sister to the United States. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I took Gran’s initial resting heart rate, counting a total of thirty-four beats for thirty seconds, and scribbled sixty-eight in my notebook. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The owner of a heating and air-conditioning business, he had a big walrus-y mustache and sleepy eyes that made him look older than his sixty-eight years. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I said, “Because unfortunately I only have seven dollars and sixty-eight cents.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Nineteen sixty-eight. I was pondering an idea for a game at the old public library.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z This book lightly updates fifty-five of the earlier recipes and introduces sixty-eight more, their flavors updated for more modern palates and diets—it includes two dozen gluten-free options—all truly exceptional. The Best Cookbooks of 2019 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Nineteen sixty-eight marked a year in which women loosed themselves from bras and girdles. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z In fact, only seven women remained on the books — five of whom were trans — and sixty-eight men, though it used to be almost even. I managed a Washington, D.C., brothel: sex secrets from the nation’s capital 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The abbess was a formidable woman of sixty-eight with short gray hair she cut herself. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z This last T-shirt can be purchased on the Tory Burch Web site for sixty-eight dollars. The Infantilizing Ways We Talk About Women’s Ambition 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The most comprehensive recent data, from the 2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, found that sixty-eight million Americans qualified as obese, and sixty-five million more were overweight. How Much Harm Can Sugar Do? 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z DiGregorio, sixty-eight, is the author of “Tuna Grading and Evaluation,” an industry standby. The Last Robot-Proof Job in America? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Peterson, who is sixty-eight, with broad shoulders and a mustache, shuffles through the office quietly. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z After sixty-eight quartets, Mr. Yee reported, Haydn fatigue has yet to set in. For the Attacca Quartet, a Long Trip With a Fine Haydn Soundtrack 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Then came William Henry Harrison, who took to the road to prove his good health and then, in 1840, proceeded to die a month into office, of pneumonia, at sixty-eight. Billy Bragg’s Railroad Songs 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Greene died last week, at age sixty-eight, after a long battle with cancer. Stanley Greene, a War Photographer Who Stayed When Others Left 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z One was published in “The Bud Collins History of Tennis,” and dated 1896; Tolstoy turned sixty-eight that year. Why Tolstoy Took Up Tennis 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z All throughout sixty-eight pages I Scanned the book review to find What to read this pandemic summer. Letters to the Editor 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The book features sixty-eight essays by twenty-six different contributors, and it helped construct two canons at once. The Trouble with Building a Rock-Writing Canon 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Clark estimates that, over the course of his career, he’s been responsible for the arrest of sixty-eight hundred people. Who Dreams of Hunting People? 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Ward came away certain that Mavis’s voice, which she has professionally nurtured for sixty-eight years, would easily carry the record. How Mavis Staples’s New Record Got Made 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z TRY IT : : 1.185 Write as a decimal: thirteen and sixty-eight thousandths. Elementary Algebra 2020-04-22T00:00:00Z Sea temperatures rarely creep above twenty degrees Celsius, or sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit, and England’s freshwater bodies, which are often fed by underground springs, tend to be even chillier. The Subversive Joy of Cold-Water Swimming 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z At the end of hour one hundred and sixty-eight, you can watch Wilmot ceremoniously lift his headset off his head, squint, and break into a smile. Taking Virtual Reality for a Test Drive 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Not surprisingly, sixty-eight per cent of Medicare beneficiaries today have multiple chronic conditions. Why We Can’t Tell the Truth About Aging 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Early Thursday morning, Cummings died, in a Baltimore hospital, at the age of sixty-eight. Forget Trump’s “Meltdown”—Follow the Testimony 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z That was sixty-eight years ago, so I take it I am O.K. now. Amartya Sen’s Hopes and Fears for Indian Democracy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Bit by bit, the water temperature rose; by late July, it had reached as high as twenty degrees Celsius, or sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. The Subversive Joy of Cold-Water Swimming 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Now sixty-eight, Franken is short and sturdily built, with bristly gray hair, tortoiseshell glasses, and a wide, froglike mouth from which he tends to talk out of one corner. The Case of Al Franken 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Iran struck a hundred and sixty-eight tankers doing business with Iraq or its Arab allies in the Gulf. Iran’s Eye-for-an-Eye Strategy in the Gulf 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z A USA Today/Ipsos survey found that nearly sixty per cent of Republicans agreed with the President’s tweets, while a strong and clear majority of sixty-eight per cent of Americans over all condemned them. “I’m Winning”: Donald Trump’s Calculated Racism 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The world’s refugee population is at its highest on record: sixty-eight million people, one per cent of the global population, have been forcibly displaced. Ocean Vuong’s Life Sentences 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z During his confirmation hearing, Barr, who is sixty-eight, said that he had reached a point in his career where he could do what is most beneficial for the American public. William Barr Prepares to Release a Redacted Mueller Report 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Then, in the last poll, sixty-eight per cent of people said they didn’t believe either of the two main parties spoke for them. David Runciman on Brexit and the Crisis in Britain’s Labour Party 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Within three years of Scott’s first burglary, at least sixty-eight of the guns his crew stole were involved in crimes. The Life Cycle of a Stolen Gun 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The nominee, who is sixty-eight, joked with members of the committee, while the senators, acknowledging the ongoing government shutdown, promised to try to ease up on the political blood sport. William Barr and Why Democrats Shouldn’t Expect This Era to Be Anything Like Watergate 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The main Kurdish militia that the United States supports, the Syrian Democratic Forces, reported nine hundred and sixty-eight deaths in 2017 alone. Does Donald Trump Think that the War on Terror Is Over? 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z On January 22, 2017, after trekking for sixty-eight days, the men reached the Ross Ice Shelf. Retracing the Antarctic Journey of Henry Worsley 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z About half of the sixty-eight paintings in the show remain in private collections. Berthe Morisot, “Woman Impressionist,” Emerges from the Margins 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Smith, who is sixty-eight, has a thick neck, deep under-eye bags, and a head of silvery hair. The Growth of Sinclair’s Conservative Media Empire 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Nearly sixty-eight thousand men, women, and children made their way to the U.S. At the U.S. Open, in a New Stadium, the No. 1 Player Goes Down 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z On July 19th, the bloc published sixty-eight “preparedness notices” for no deal. Why Nobody Believes That the U.K. Is Ready for a “No Deal” Brexit 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z In the nasa Space Shuttle program, one in sixty-eight flights resulted in a fatal crash. Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Ahead of the decision, sixty-eight rabbis wrote an open letter urging Labour to adopt the text. Jeremy Corbyn's Anti-Semitism Crisis 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Moonves, who is sixty-eight, has a reputation for canny hiring and project selection. Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z MacQueen, who is sixty-eight, has spent the last three decades tracking down war criminals—from Nazis to Bosnians—who have been hiding in the United States. The Painstaking Hunt for War Criminals in the United States 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Nineteen sixty-eight stands as a year that blurred the line between sports and the real world, with athletes swept up by Vietnam War protests, political tumult and racial tensions. 'Standing on the shoulders of giants.' 1968: a year in sports like no other 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Finals games, sixty-eight Bulls playoff games, seventy World Series games, and thirty-four Cubs and White Sox playoff games. How to Fight Crime with Your Television 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z With apologies to The Beatles: "Will you still need me, Will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-eight?" Not Quite Fitting the Description 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z But the election campaign has suited Corbyn—sixty-eight years old, white haired, an avowed socialist—far more than the Brexit campaign ever did. How Jeremy Corbyn Moved Past the Politics of 2016 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z She was sixty-eight years old, and she worked in Snap-on’s warehouse, packing boxes for shipment. How Trump Could Get Fired 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z “Tell them it’s going to be a million square feet, sixty-eight stories.” A Hundred Days of Trump 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z There is some reason to doubt, however, whether such loyalty will persist once the Queen’s son, now sixty-eight years old, ascends the throne. Where Prince Charles Went Wrong 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z In a Washington Post survey, nine out of ten former players said that they had played hurt, and sixty-eight per cent said that they had felt they had no choice. Playing in Pain in the N.F.L. 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z It was a recognition not altogether distinct from the one that Strom Thurmond may have reached sixty-eight years earlier: that racism, at least in its most overt forms, is bad for business. Inside the Trial of Dylann Roof 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z She addressed sixty-eight immigrants, from places as varied as Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, along with their families. A Federal Judge Has a Message for Naturalized Citizens (and Trump) 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z A hundred and sixty-eight thousand people live there, more than the population of New Haven. Fighting for the Poor Under Trump 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Thomas was a young man of forty-three when he joined the Court, and he is now sixty-eight. Clarence Thomas’s Twenty-Five Years Without Footprints 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Saladrigas, a burly, hale man of sixty-eight, is a wealthy businessman and a founding member of the Cuba Study Group, a nonprofit organization devoted to restoring relations with Cuba. A New Cuba 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z They include two on the Supreme Court, fifty-five on the courts of appeals, two hundred and sixty-eight on the district courts, and four on the Court of International Trade. The Supreme Court After Scalia 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z She concluded, that day, by telling the sixty-eight new Americans: A Federal Judge Has a Message for Naturalized Citizens (and Trump) 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Roberts, who is sixty-eight and retired from his job as a public-school guidance counsellor, lives in an immaculate, art-crowded apartment in the West Village. The Surgical Solution to Obesity? 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The health of the candidates has been an issue during the campaign, proxies for their age: Trump is seventy, Clinton sixty-eight. The State of the Presidential Debate 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Timoney, who died Tuesday night, at the age of sixty-eight, after a brief, brutal fight with cancer, actually got his fair share. Postscript: John Timoney, 1948-2016 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Alexievich is sixty-eight and lives in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Trump and Putin: A Love Story 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z According to Nielsen, the median age of Fox’s primetime viewers is sixty-eight. Leslie Jones and Twitter’s Troll Economics 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Thomas just turned sixty-eight years old, and reports of his impending retirement briefly surfaced before his wife shot them down as “bogus.” Clarence Thomas Has His Own Constitution 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In her article, Lee counted fourteen private unicorns; today, TechCrunch’s unicorn “leaderboard” lists a hundred and sixty-eight, a hundred and two of them in the United States. What Tech’s Unicorn Cult Can Learn from the Art World 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z “The Capeman” closed after only sixty-eight performances, and many Simon fans probably didn’t even bother to check to see if there were any sparkling little melodies tucked away on the accompanying album. Paul Simon’s Hot Streak 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Karroubi is sixty-eight now; his beard is as snow-white as his turban. An Iranian Opposition Leader Pushes to Be Put on Trial 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z According to the exit poll, eighty-three per cent of the voters in the Democratic primary were white, fifty-two per cent were college graduates, and sixty-eight per cent described themselves as liberal. Big Wins for Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz Set up Two Showdowns in New York 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Even after his gains on Saturday, he trails Clinton by two hundred and sixty-eight delegates—and that doesn’t count Clinton’s huge advantage in superdelegates. Can Bernie Sanders Really Win the Nomination? 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Twenty-eight samples were sequenced within three days of the sample being taken, and sixty-eight samples within a week. Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Clinton is sixty-eight, and Sanders is seventy-four, and so age is always in the atmosphere of the Democratic contest. Hillary Clinton’s Compromises 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z For every hundred families with children that are living in poverty, sixty-eight were able to access cash assistance before Bill Clinton’s welfare reform. The betrayal that should haunt Hillary Clinton: How she sold out working women & then never apologized 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Since the department opened, in 2012, it has investigated sixty-eight cases of trafficking, most involving foreign-labor exploitation and the illicit organ trade. An Activist in the Sex-Trafficking Underworld of Iraq 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The thuggish wing of the talk-radio community uses the age question to undermine Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, who will be sixty-eight in October. The Real Presidential-Age Question 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Twenty-eight samples were sequenced within three days of the sample being taken, and sixty-eight samples within a week. Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Anne Smith died of septicemia, at the age of sixty-eight, in 2009, two months before her retirement, a fact that still brings tears to Moore’s eyes. Julianne Moore, Beauty and a Beast 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z He’s trim, at sixty-eight, and he had the bent gait of an aging country-club athlete. The Fight to Save Atlantic City 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Those between twenty and thirty years old ranged from eighty-four to a hundred and sixty-eight dollars a night, and as little as forty dollars for a brief sexual encounter. An Activist in the Sex-Trafficking Underworld of Iraq 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Twenty years ago, when Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in Oklahoma City, killing a hundred and sixty-eight people, the act was quickly understood as terrorism. Terrorism in Charleston 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Olson, who was sixty-eight when Prop 8 passed, is a central figure in the conservative establishment. An inspired match: How the opposing lawyers in Bush v. Gore came together to fight for same-sex marriage 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z One hundred sixty-eight nations, including four permanent members of the U.N. How the U.S. can help Syria’s civilians 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z The pair scored thirty-nine of Duke’s sixty-eight points, and Jones earned the Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player award. Coach K’s Freshman Lead Duke Over Wisconsin 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z He has never had a full-dress biography, but when he died, at the age of sixty-eight, he left many brilliant friends who supplied warm tributes. James Merrill’s Supernatural Epic 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Phillips Station sits about sixty-eight hundred feet up in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, not far from the ski resorts near the southern shore of Lake Tahoe. California Accepts a Drought-Filled Future 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Democrats obtained two hundred and ninety-five seats in the House and sixty-eight in the Senate. How Medicare Was Made 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z One hundred and sixty-eight hours of life, unexplained and miraculous. An excerpt from "Bella's Gift" 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z At sixty-eight, Roland Griffiths, who was trained as a behaviorist and holds senior appointments in psychiatry and neuroscience at Hopkins, is one of the nation’s leading drug-addiction researchers. The Trip Treatment 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z In the past eighteen months, Ribot reported, his band made a hundred and eighty-seven dollars from sixty-eight thousand streams of his latest album, available on Spotify in Europe and the U.S. Spotify: Friend or Foe? 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The Comitato says that it will release three hundred and sixty-eight lanterns and organize an urban flash mob with three hundred and sixty-eight activists wearing white sheets. The Anniversary of the Lampedusa Tragedy 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z He bought a house in nineteen-motherfuckin’-sixty-eight, and the motherfuckin’ people moved in last year and called the cops on my father. The one problem with Spike Lee’s gentrification argument 2014-02-27T17:02:00Z As a result American losses rose dramatically, hitting thirty-three in October and rising to sixty-eight in November. When Republicans hated the troops 2014-02-23T17:00:00Z An unexploded bomb detonated in Germany Friday, resulting in one more World War II casualty, sixty-eight years after fighting ended. WWII Claims Another Life 68 Years Later 2014-01-04T04:35:24Z At midday, the temperature was perhaps sixty-eight degrees. Joyce Carol Oates: “Mastiff.” 2013-06-24T04:00:00Z Titian was now sixty-eight years of age,—growing old, but never slacking in energy or industry. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z In the whole United States there were then sixty-eight priests and about 100,000 Catholics. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Two batteries were at length completed and a third nearly finished—all mounted with heavy cannon, one being a sixty-eight pounder—before the sortie was made. The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:38.213Z There exist at present," he remarks, "sixty-eight laws in France, all intended to suppress, curtail, weaken, emasculate, and even to strangle newspapers; but not one single law to foster them in their dire misfortune. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z The fragment, or rather fragments, only extend to sixty-eight lines, and the conclusion of the poem is wanting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z He immediately entered upon the duties of his office, which he held till his death, which occurred September 26, 1796, at the age of sixty-eight. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z The organ often weighs twelve or sixteen ounces, not rarely twenty to twenty-five, and, as an instance of the extreme limit that may be reached, K�ttner reports sixty-eight ounces in one case. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Hamdy Bey, director and organizer of the Imperial Museum, had died on February 24, 1910, at about sixty-eight years of age. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z The great plague of 1665, that destroyed in London alone sixty-eight thousand persons, was followed in the very next year by the great fire of London, which consumed thirteen thousand two hundred houses. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Perpetual Patronage and Right of Presentation to be disposed of, subject to the life of an incumbent, now sixty-eight years old. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The cold at one time was sixty-eight and a half degrees below zero. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z The professor took another observation, and announced that they had now but sixty-eight miles more to cover to reach the Top of the World. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z Macy's sold an unlaundered shirt, linen bosom and cuffs with white cotton back and at a fixed price of sixty-eight cents, which seemed to have a vast appeal to Mr. Sage. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z In the last four years we have collected four hundred and sixty-eight million dollars of the internal revenue taxes. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Is it possible that David collected nearly eight thousand tons of gold—that he by economy got together about sixty thousand tons of silver, making a total of gold and silver of sixty-eight thousand tons? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z An act also passed about this time, containing sixty-eight clauses, respecting the better regulating the militia in these times of danger. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z It was but a few hours after the professor had made the announcement that they had but sixty-eight miles more to cover that the party under Barwell Dawson came to another lead. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z Captain Green adds that he is sixty-eight years of age, and in good health. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z An offering then like the Orianas could not fail of being acceptable to the vanity of Elizabeth, who, even at the age of sixty-eight, was extremely susceptible of flattery—especially when directed towards her person. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 98, September 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-05T03:00:41.160Z In 1837 the colored population in Philadelphia numbered eighteen thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z On the paper was penciled the name "Delancy" followed by the words, "Second floor rear at end of fire escape, sixty-eight A Seventh Avenue." Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z Now, on a sudden, Hood scores a hundred and sixty-eight points in a single break. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z The most distant of them is on the island of Wané Rusari, at the foot of Stanley Falls, one thousand and sixty-eight miles from Leopoldville. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z He censured sixty-eight propositions of the Catechism, although he had formerly praised the work. 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 privateer carried sixty-eight men and the packet thirty-two. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z The Stock Exchange of Johannesburg sprang into existence in 1887, and before the end of that year some sixty-eight mining companies were on its list, with an aggregate nominal capital of £3,000,000. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z "One hundred and sixty-eight, I believe," said Stowe, after a mental twist. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Besides these, there were sixty-eight axes, that Stanley, with great forethought, purchased, thinking the time might come when he would need them as much as his guns. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z It endured as an autonomous state for some sixty-eight years, its final absorption in the Moslem empire being brought about by the last dukes espousing the cause of Charlemagne or his Moorish allies. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Out of sixty-eight men on board the privateer no less than forty-one were either killed or wounded. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z It is reasonably expected that Bombay will be reached in forty-eight days, Madras in fifty-five, Calcutta in fifty-nine, Penang in fifty-seven, Singapore in sixty, Batavia in sixty-two, Canton in sixty-eight, and Mauritius in fifty-four days.' The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z One hundred and sixty-eight flights of stairs a week, and fifty-two times one hundred and sixty-eight is how much? What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The Victoria Nyanza he computed to contain twenty-one thousand five hundred square miles, and to be nine thousand one hundred and sixty-eight feet above the sea level. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z The new members were divided nearly equally between the two historical parties—the Liberals getting sixty-eight and the Conservatives fifty-four. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z We see a programme of toasts, to the number of thirty-four, which of course involves sixty-eight speeches. Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z That these men had sixty-eight ounces of corn bread apiece, or that they could have eaten it if they had been furnished that quantity, is not for a moment to be considered. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z Basil died in 1025 at the age of sixty-eight, just as he was preparing to send forth an expedition to rescue Sicily from the hands of the Saracens. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z He had with him sixty-eight men, recruited at Zanzibar, of whom forty-five had accompanied him on his former journey down the Congo. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z The eldest was William H. Harrison, who was sixty-eight years of age when inaugurated. A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z In 1851, Lazarus reported that sixty-eight Jews had been baptized since he entered upon his labours in the two cities. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z I think sixty-eight was just about long enough. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z They say," he continued, "that I am sixty-eight years old. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:45.883Z The revenue of the church of Glasgow at the Reformation included one hundred and sixty-eight salmon arising from the franchise or fishing in that river. Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, 2011-10-13T02:00:41.150Z Within the city limits the Genesee undergoes a sudden descent of two hundred and sixty-eight feet, falling in three separate cataracts within a distance of two miles. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z The Lusitania has accommodation for three thousand passengers, officers, and crew, and is driven by mighty turbine engines of sixty-eight thousand horse power. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z July 8th.—Death of Edmund Burke, aged sixty-eight. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z We'd lost twenty-one dollars and sixty-eight cents, and the only comfort in that was that 'twas seventy-six cents less than the two weeks previous. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z This Act shall come into operation on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery 2011-09-18T02:00:28.007Z These enterprising men started in 1852 with a cash capital of sixty-eight dollars, and a knowledge of blacksmithing which they had acquired at their father's forge on the Ohio. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z As printed by the legislature of Lower Canada, the documents produced filled two hundred and sixty-eight quarto pages. The History of the Post Office in British North America 2011-08-31T02:01:37.743Z Then he did the best thing that he could do for his country: he died on October 15, 912, aged sixty-eight, after a reign of twenty-four unhappy years. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z He is sixty-eight, but I am sure he looks ten years younger—at least he did so; at present he might be ninety. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z The total result of the two pairs of prints is to afford sixty-eight successes and one failure. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z The next night he announces that a colonel of a French regiment of infantry was struck down while talking in the trenches to a subaltern—“a sixty-eight pound shot shattered him frightfully.” George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z If you will refer to the letter sent you before 232 the holidays, you will find that it was signed by sixty-eight freshmen. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z We were not put down by persecution; we continued the Oracle a hundred and four weeks, then the Movement, sixty-eight weeks, and the Reasoner will soon have completed ten volumes. The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z Pope Innocent XI., in 1687, condemned sixty-eight propositions extracted from this author as heretical, scandalous and blasphemous. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z I have seen the sunlight for sixty-eight years. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z He left ten missions where there had been but seven, two hundred and sixty-eight soldiers instead of sixty or seventy, and four presidios instead of two, two of them being at strategic points. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z A meeting of the sixty-eight freshmen who resent your unfairness was called yesterday. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z He was probably sixty-eight years old when he died. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Innocent XI., in 1687, condemned sixty-eight propositions extracted from this author as respectively heretical, scandalous and blasphemous. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The τίτλοι in St. Matthew amount to sixty-eight, in St. Mark to forty-eight, in St. Luke to eighty-three, in St. John to eighteen. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z He died the same year, after a reign of forty-eight years, at the age of sixty-eight. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z With sixty-eight incensed freshmen at her back, Doctor Matthews would not only listen but investigate. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z The main purpose of this volume is to reproduce and make available for study, the larger and more interesting nebulæ and clusters on the programme, sixty-eight in number. Photographs of Nebul? and Clusters Made with the Crossley Reflector 2011-06-21T02:00:27.500Z I have in mind particularly a patient who did not begin seriously to suffer from the disease until she was sixty-eight. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z A railroad sixty-eight miles in length was constructed from Tower to Two Harbors, a point twenty-seven miles north of Duluth. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z Look at me: sixty-eight I am, and a bit over, and not an ache or a pain from top to toe. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z It was a tight squeeze, but every one of the sixty-eight girls managed to crowd into the room. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z Mr. Huntington was sixty-eight, which is old enough to enjoy a friendship of any age. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z It was in 1309 that Clement moved his Court thither, and for sixty-eight years, until 1377, Avignon continued to be the Papal residence. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Stanley accepted the mission, visited Zanzibar, where he enlisted sixty-eight Zanzibari, mostly his old soldiers, and by sea reached Banana Point, on the west coast, August 14, 1879. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z For the last sixty-eight years, slaveholders have been the sole and constant representatives of the South, and what have they accomplished? The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z The family consisted of the mother, aged about thirty-eight, the grandmother, who was sixty-eight, and two girls of twenty and eighteen. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z You see I’m getting old now, sixty-eight; And this I say, that life is far too short For man to use his conquests and his wisdoms. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z Of one hundred and twenty soldiers composing the squadron, sixty-eight lay huddled together in a damp dark hole, ill of the scarlet fever. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z At sixty-eight he was still a hale and vigorous man. Pope Pius the Tenth 2011-04-26T02:00:21.967Z There were two hundred and sixty-eight schools, attended by eleven thousand pupils. History of Prince Edward Island 2011-04-16T02:00:17.027Z Now the greatest descent is one hundred and sixty-eight feet, the diminution being the result of retrocession in the line of the dip—from north-east to south-west—in the bed-rock. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z It was a very bold departure from the then established methods of fighting, and most honourable in a man of sixty-eight, who had been trained in the old school. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z He was really ten years younger than his wife, though she considered sixty-eight the right age for a woman to attain to, and never to her last day allowed that she had passed that limit. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Upon its passage, the vote in the House of Representatives was eighty-seven for, and sixty-eight against, the measure. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z Other anxieties came to the man of sixty-eight, besides the long delay. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z That of Lake Erie, as shown by the surveys of the Erie Canal, is five hundred and sixty-eight feet, the difference of level between the two being ten feet. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z She was a respectable-looking woman, about sixty-eight years of age; and her features bore an expression of cheerfulness and contentment that was pleasant to behold. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z In the last attack sixty-eight cows died, and so rapidly that men had to be up all night burying them by lantern-light in one great grave in the park.... Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z After the veto, it stood sixty-eight yeas and seventy-two nays. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z Three enormous pieces of brass ordnance, pierced for a sixty-eight pound shot, and covered with Turkish inscriptions, were the chief symbols of the former strength of this eastern Gibraltar. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The elevation of Lake Erie is five hundred and sixty-eight feet. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z In August 1862 she began to prey on the merchantmen of the Northern States, and by June 1864 she had captured and destroyed about sixty-eight of their ships. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z There were sixty-eight delegates present, of whom fifty were from Chicago. 30,000 Locked Out. The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago. 2011-02-16T03:00:39.173Z There are sixty-eight stalls, of the sixteenth century, carved in wood. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z After two months and a half of illness, Champlain, at the age of sixty-eight, was dead. Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour 2011-02-10T03:00:53.020Z Hence the bottom of it is three hundred and sixty-eight feet below the sea-level. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z There were at the time sixty-eight municipalities in Ireland, all in the hands of the Protestant ascendency. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z But I want to tell you that in four and a half years the postal savings system of the United States has become custodian of sixty-eight million dollars, in cash, of the people's savings. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z At 11:15 a sixty-eight pounder shell came through the bulwarks of the Kearsarge, exploding on the quarter deck and badly wounding three of the crew of the after pivot gun. Cruise and Captures of the Alabama 2011-01-30T03:00:18.733Z The principal advantages secured to the tenant are as follows: At the end of sixty-eight and one-half years, a tenant becomes owner in fee of his holding. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z One hundred sixty-eight innocent victims in Oklahoma City. Right-wingers dodge responsibility 2011-01-13T01:30:00Z All told, Wellington had sixty-eight thousand men; ten miles on his right, at Hal, lay eighteen thousand more; ten miles on his left, twelve from his headquarters at Waterloo, was Bl�cher. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z The city of Chicago alone possesses seventeen hundred and sixty-eight lawyers, all thriving. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z He’s sixty-eight years old and he’s just been in a fistfight. 2010-01-11T05:00:00Z The infantry, of which there are sixty-eight regiments of from two to four battalions each, provides the bulk of the army. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli In 1800, two hundred and sixty-eight inhabitants of Illinois, chiefly French, petitioned Congress to repeal the anti-slavery provision of the Ordinance, stating that many of the inhabitants were crossing the Mississippi with their slaves. The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 The Knights were seen no more in Malta, though up to the arrival of the French they had been sovereign in the islands for two hundred and sixty-eight years. The Story of Malta This, however, does not apply to tools for turning cast iron, as the latter will work more efficiently with a lip angle of about sixty-eight degrees. Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. Of these hymns, one hundred and sixty-eight were also by Watts, indicating the hold which that great hymnist retained on the English-speaking world. The Story of Our Hymns Mr. Benton is now about sixty-eight years of age, and for half a century he has been an active participant in affairs. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 The in-lots are six poles in front, and eleven and a half back; containing each sixty-eight perches, nearly half an acre. The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 In 1894 it was five millions, three hundred and sixty-eight thousand, four hundred dollars, a loss of nearly one-half in five years. Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future Ye gods and little fishes, I passed my Algebra—sixty-eight! Nancy of Paradise Cottage On the damp walls of this monastery, perched ten thousand two hundred and sixty-eight feet above the ocean, we found several old paintings, among them a copy of the Visitation by Rubens. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 "What do you mean—down to sixty-eight degrees?" Worrying Won't Win He had sixty-eight royal forests, full of stags and deer; but he permitted no one but himself and the people of his court to hunt in them. Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands He left the telephone and gathered together sixty-eight clippings, which he put in an envelope. H. R. "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 Thirty languages and a hundred and six dialects are found in the Central Provinces alone, and twenty-eight languages and sixty-eight dialects in Berar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Of these stories sixty-eight have been preserved in a more or less complete form. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Even this fabulous amount of wealth produced on the farms was increased by one hundred and sixty-eight millions of dollars in 1910. The Call of the World or, Every Man's Supreme Opportunity At the end of three days H. R. diabolically announced that only sixty-eight had been selected. H. R. He died unmarried on the 6th of February 1899, at the age of sixty-eight. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Here they were cooped up in the town, one hundred and sixty-eight of them; and within easy distance were the unnumbered thousands of the Indians. The Spanish Pioneers The disease which caused his death was contracted in the army, and on July 27, 1893, he died at the age of sixty-eight years, honored and loved by all who knew him. The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion She had now one hundred and sixty-eight hours in which to make the passage to Bombay. Round the World in Eighty Days Each club consisted of twenty-one rinks of eight players, making the number of players on each side one hundred and sixty-eight, so that three hundred and thirty-six Curlers were engaged in the match. The Canadian Curler's Manual It is calculated that, from this height, the eye could reach sixty-eight leagues, or about 170 of our miles, without being intercepted by the convexity of the earth. Narrative of a Journey to the Summit of Mont Blanc The total amount of American railways is about one hundred and sixty-eight millions sterling; European railways, two hundred millions; and those of India and our colonies, fifty millions. Here and There in London The adoption of these by the convention gained for the Constitution the support of Hancock and Samuel Adams; and the question on ratification was carried by one hundred eighty-seven against one hundred sixty-eight. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 I am very bad now; but what shall I be at sixty-eight? The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) Orme's life of him says, that the catalogue of his works contains nearly a hundred and sixty-eight distinct publications. Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. There are said to be sixty-eight roads to heaven, but this road to Dawson is not one of them. Seeds of Pine At the hospice on the St. Bernard pass they once had a faithful dog which had been successful in thus rescuing sixty-eight persons from freezing to death upon the mountains. With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul Why should the "adamantine lips" of sixty-eight pounders salute those little babies? Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The C. E. L. has sixty-eight people in Congress for the current term. Voyage To Eternity "An ounce of flies was once weighed, and afterwards counted; and it was found to comprise no less than six thousand two hundred and sixty-eight." Toilers of the Sea I had some three hundred and sixty-eight answers. The History and Records of the Elephant Club He did not save sixty-eight people all at one time, but saved one at a time, and sometimes worked for days and weeks without finding a single traveler whom he could help. With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul With sixty-eight pictures in colour and in black-and-white by Harrison Fisher. Titanic 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 He died at the age of sixty-eight at Dayton, Ohio, December 21, 1824. The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University The most elaborate experiments are by Prof. Richet with a hypnotized subject who succeeded in 419 naming twelve cards out of sixty-eight. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Did the dog save all the sixty-eight people at one time? With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul There he stood, a man of sixty-eight, without pretense of having fallen in love, but kind and just, and almost ministerial in his respectability. The Life of Nancy Its commencement, however, does not, as is sometimes stated, coincide with the very day of the flight, but precedes it by sixty-eight days. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Out of the sixty-eight she summoned, they allowed but thirty-eight to appear. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages When we returned to the hall, we met General Morgan, Colonel Cluke, Calvin Morgan, Captain Gibson, and some twenty-six others—our party numbered sixty-eight in all. History of Morgan's Cavalry Among the prisoners are two paymasters, with one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars in government funds. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital The lady had been robbed of three hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars worth of gems, and there was apparently no clew even to the thief. Mrs. Raffles Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman No reports from sixty-eight gauges on this last scan," Walt reported, "most of them in Idaho. The Thirst Quenchers He and Dryden had frequent bickerings; he insisted on receiving 10,000 verses for two hundred and sixty-eight pounds, and poor Dryden threw in the finest Ode in the language towards the number. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Among the sixty-eight prisoners of war confined in the penitentiary, there were four whose nerves gave way and they took the oath of allegiance to the United States in other words, they deserted. History of Morgan's Cavalry The climate is necessarily rigorous, the thermometer in winter being often twenty-nine degrees below zero, whilst sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit is about the highest range ever attained in summer. Happy Days for Boys and Girls A couple of vigorous, half-grown birds have been fed, and in twelve hours devoured ravenously, sixty-eight earth worms, weighing thirty-four pennyweight, or forty-one per cent more than their own weight. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897 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 A man, apparently about sixty-eight, who gave the name of Bumpkin, appeared as the prosecutor in a case under the following extraordinary circumstances. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit For one hundred and sixty-eight years they carried on the contest with Venice, being most powerful during the tenth century, when Otho I. sought their alliance. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia Out of one hundred and sixty-eight hours in the week he claims twenty-four, and gives man the balance, one hundred and forty-four, to do his servile work. A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 As one great Land Act has followed another, the length of time for the payment of the farm has been increased, until now the amortization period is about sixty-eight years. A Stake in the Land According to the paper they numbered sixty-eight all told, and were worth from a hundred dollars to five thousand dollars apiece. Dave Porter and His Double Or, The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune Champlain, beyond sixty-eight years of age, lay prostrate in the fort. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France About three hundred yards from the north front of the house stands a column, sixty-eight feet high, bearing on the top a colossal statue of Sir Edward Coke, by Rosa. Select Poems of Thomas Gray They cost me about one dollar and sixty-eight cents each, laid down at my door in New York. Carmen Ariza When using this compilation of facts concerning sixty-eight different societies I have habitually trusted to the compilers. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) When all was finished Henry was transported with joy and called the genius of the mountain who appeared immediately and counted four hundred and sixty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-nine new loaves of bread. Old French Fairy Tales Cartier's Indian village of sixty-eight years before had disappeared—undoubtedly swept from existence by the relentless Iroquois. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Leo X. had tried to attract him there without success, but now at sixty-eight he found himself as far on the road as Urbino. The Venetian School of Painting Rumsey: In a raid my brother went on there were sixty-eight machines that left; the French heavy machines, the English heavy machines, and then the English sort of half-fighting machine and half-bombing machine. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons There are sixty-eight women doctors registered as in actual practice in the State. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV She is said to have reigned as empress-regent65 sixty-eight years, and to have died at the age of one hundred. Japan The ruins disclose a noble temple, the tower rising one hundred and sixty-eight feet. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel He was sixty-eight years old when he undertook to build the house now the shrine visited yearly by thousands. Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. So, out of sixty-eight they lost eight, but we also got eight Germans and dropped six tons of this stuff, which is twenty times as strong as the melinite. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons “One sixty-five––sixty-eight––seventy, and a trifle over,” he finished. Once to Every Man You will find the book lying on the table in the library, and the photograph in question is on page sixty-eight. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue It was some sixty-eight million miles from the earth to Mars, this voyage. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 His age has been variously stated at sixty-seven, sixty-eight, and seventy. A Walk from London to Fulham The Publisher guarantees to complete the work in sixty-eight parts. 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 After a couple of days' debate the resolution was put to the vote and defeated March 3, 1916, by sixty-eight to fourteen. The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War Considerably astonished, Dan descended to the library, found the book, and turned to page sixty-eight. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue Company I had gone to the front with one hundred and one stalwart officers and men, and but sixty-eight came back with the company. War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 Massachusetts gave sixty-eight thousand; Connecticut gave thirty-two thousand; Pennsylvania twenty-six thousand, and New York eighteen thousand; while that miserable little South Carolina gave only six thousand. Rodney The Partisan He was sixty-eight years old, and, if Procopius may be believed, could not even write his own name, at least in Latin. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I At the time of the Piedmontese invasion, there were in the city of Rome, one hundred and sixty-eight colleges or public schools. Pius IX. And His Time We have already mentioned that the Karteria was armed with sixty-eight pounders. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 Origen was born in the year one hundred and eighty-five of the Christian dispensation, and lived sixty-eight years. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 8, August, 1880 Never yet since the world was made could two overcome sixty-eight. Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief Her name was Patience Reed, she was sixty-eight years of age, and was the grandmother of six orphan children. Good Luck The kingdom of the Two Sicilies came next, being represented by sixty-eight bishops. Pius IX. And His Time But some coffee is grown in the other parts of the island, in sixty-four of the sixty-eight municipalities. All About Coffee On July 18 the Portland arrived in Seattle, on Puget Sound, having on board sixty-eight miners, who brought ashore bullion worth a million dollars. Introduction to the Science of Sociology He died at the age of sixty-eight, leaving his sister no inheritance, but bequeathing to the world the empire of the human mind, discovered and achieved by a workman. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History In one sense sixty-eight is old, in another sense it's young. Good Luck At sixty-eight, life held little for him except an easy descent into the grave after a career in which he had played only too little. The Readjustment Wherefore he well deserved to be esteemed and held in very great honour by the convent of his Order, in which he died at the age of sixty-eight, in the year 1537. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo It is called the Wolfdietrichberg-rolle, and is four hundred and sixty-eight feet long, carrying us two hundred and forty feet lower down into the mountain. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France In Bavaria, also Catholic, sixty-eight to the million; or, if homicides are struck out, there will be thirty. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge You slack down at sixty-eight; you don't have such a draw on your system, the fire inside you don't seem to require such poking up and feeding. Good Luck Tebbutt's comet passed the sun, June 16, at a distance of sixty-eight millions of miles, and became visible in Europe six days later. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Finally, having reached the age of sixty-eight, he died in Rome. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo In New England the annual deaths are forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty-eight; in the five slave States thirty-two thousand two hundred and sixteen. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject But Consols were still as low as sixty-eight; prices had not yet fallen to the normal level, and money was everywhere scarce. The Message When you get real old, seventy-eight or eighty, then you want a deal of cosseting; but sixty-eight is young in one sense of the word. Good Luck This city lying on the S coast of Nova Scotia has communication with Pictou, sixty-eight miles to the NE on the gulf of St. Lawrence, by a good cart road finished in 1792. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. Four million six hundred and sixty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds of oil. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Nelson’s flag ship “Victory” used no larger powder charge than eight pounds, and its heaviest shot was only sixty-eight pounds. Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 It is a fitting appellation for this grizzled warrior of sixty-eight years. The Vanishing Race Ally, my dear," she said, "I'm as weary as if I were seventy-eight instead of sixty-eight. Good Luck At Yale there are about sixty-eight titles not at Harvard; and at the Clark Library, about forty-seven titles not at the Huntington. The Library of William Congreve Over seven hundred Russian dead were buried by the Japanese, and into the latter's hands fell sixty-eight cannon of all calibres with ten machine-guns. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era The coldness of river water in the summer months, which is about sixty-eight degrees, or that of Matlock, which is about sixty-eight, or of Buxton, which is eighty-two, are much to be preferred. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life To gather up the sixty-eight years of this man's life means that we round out a problem of infinite dimensions. The Vanishing Race I were sixty-eight last November, and no one can call that old. Good Luck Henry VI. created thirty-six knights on his coronation; Edward IV. thirty-two; and Charles II. sixty-eight. Coronation Anecdotes They provide sixty-eight of the hundred Viceroys; we provide only seventeen. Upstarts One earl, twenty-two barons and bannerets and sixty-eight knights fell into the hands of the victors, whose total loss of 4000 men included, it is said, only two knights. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" I was getting out a bottle of the sixty-eight port for New Year's night, and happening to put my hand behind, there he was! Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts The height of each side is five hundred and sixty-eight feet, while the angle of the sides is fifty-one degrees fifty minutes. The Critic in the Orient That was at lunch time, and Notts had made a hundred and sixty-eight for one wicket; Mallinson was not out, a hundred and three. The Wonder He could not stalk about the field like a sharp-shooter; his was a great sixty-eight pounder, and it was not much of a swivel. Spare Hours He weighed two hundred and ten pounds when he stopped eating; when he resumed he tipped the scales at one hundred and sixty-eight pounds, a loss of forty-two pounds of flesh. The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure The temperature inside an atmosphere suit is a steady sixty-eight degrees. The Risk Profession And it was conclusively shown that, in a very great majority of cases, life beyond sixty-eight was all vanity and vexation of spirit. The Fixed Period One school is in operation on the reservation, with an attendance of sixty-eight scholars, besides an industrial home for orphans, supported by the Indians themselves. The Indian Question (1874) That mug was sixty-eight years old, and that silk cord had been on it since 1842. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine The number of men was three hundred and sixty-eight. Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c. My body had adjusted to the sixty-eight degrees inside the suit, finally, and now was very annoyed to find the temperature shooting up to ninety again. The Risk Profession If he will look back to his family records he will find that they very generally died before sixty-eight. The Fixed Period He was sixty-eight years of age, but still in harness and able to do his work. Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark In reading over the first sixty-eight Psalms, I found the following instances—Ps. xxvii. Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc It contains one hundred and sixty-eight thousand square miles—a territory equal in extent to the six New England States, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware united. Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark More immediately, I'd like getting out of this heat and back into the cool sixty-eight degrees of— And then it hit me. The Risk Profession There was once taken fifty-two sturgeon at a draught, at another draught sixty-eight. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia Some of those at Igloolik were of larger dimensions, one being eleven feet in length, and weighing two hundred and sixty-eight pounds, and two or three others above two hundred pounds. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage Bernini, in spite of his sixty-eight years, came to Paris, accompanied by his son, where he was treated like a prince, and drew up a scheme of classic grandeur. The Story of Paris It was the year 1773, when Franklin was sixty-eight years of age, that this dark and evil day came. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin The energy of the old leader—he was now sixty-eight years old—was only steeled by the greatness of the danger; his forethought and his mental resources were but increased. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History As many as sixty-eight were enacted in fifty-seven years. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church After dinner we left the Leonidas, having spent more than three months in Captain Anderson's company, and slept sixty-eight nights on board his ship. Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883 Cast on 50 stitches, measuring 11 inches, and knit back and forth until the muffler is sixty-eight inches in length. Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet Dismissed in disgrace at the age of sixty-eight! True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin The Dutch squadron consisted of one seventy-four, one sixty-eight, one sixty-four, and five fifty-fours. Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I We left La Rochelle with real regret, passed the fortified town of Rochefort without a stop, and, in something over two hours, reeled off some sixty-eight kilometres of sandy, marshy roadway to Saintes. The Automobilist Abroad We noticed particularly the Mahmudie, 130 guns, and two vessels of sixty-eight guns. Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883 On one night last February, one hundred and twenty-four destitute homeless men begged for shelter in the cells; of this number sixty-eight were native born Americans. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 The eleven survivors grasped each other’s hands with feeling too deep for words; they the only ones left of the sixty-eight who, in full health and strength, had left the 29 shores of Candia. Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages It was no less than sixty-eight feet long, five wide, and three feet six inches high. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century He died at the age of sixty-eight, and he was buried in his own tomb in S. Marco at Florence. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi So he resolutely turned his prow into an unknown sea, and after sixty-eight days sighted land. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. On a certain evening in Milwaukee four hundred sixty-eight persons were seen to enter a single saloon, most of whom were young men and boys. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 The fame of Bernini extended to other lands, and he was invited to France, where he went when sixty-eight years old, accompanied by one of his sons and a numerous retinue. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Their war-vessels contained from forty to fifty armed men, and one of them, measured at Ulaga, was no less than sixty-eight feet long. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century It lies on the south shore of a basin sixty-eight miles in circumference, into which, through a narrow opening, the Bay of Biscay rolls its illimitable waters. Faces and Places Lobengula had sixty-eight wives, which may account for some of his eccentricities. An African Adventure Many women of sixty-eight had worn far better, but looks need care, spurred by vanity, and she had a profound contempt for both. Black Oxen Young gentlemen," said Mr. Mapps, taking position in this great hall, "Amsterdam contains a population of two hundred and sixty-eight thousand. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim He says he knows just how old I am, and he says that I'm sixty-eight. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Forty-four of the sixty-eight vessels that arrived home in 1858 made losing voyages, causing a direct loss of a million of dollars. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 He was sixty-eight years old, suffering from disease, yet in his service last winter he did not miss one legislative session nor a day meeting of his committee. Historical Essays A wonderful exhibition of this power was recently observed at Rochester, N. Y. In a telephonic exhibition in this city, the musicians were located in Buffalo, sixty-eight miles distant. New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces Why, my dear friend, I am bound to ascribe my health and vigor at the age of over sixty-eight to my profession, and only for that do I persist in it. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Here it is—three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 It remained in the Staffa Palace in Perugia three hundred and sixty-eight years, and in 1871 was sold to the Emperor of Russia for seventy thousand dollars. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Her heavy sixty-eight pivot-gun was, however, worked with such rapidity and skill that the enemy were frequently compelled to abandon their guns, and many of their men and horses were killed. The Three Commanders Your father is sixty-eight, my child, he has only just time enough left to see you settled and happy. Renée Mauperin While the Macedonian had thirty-six killed and sixty-eight wounded, the United States had only five killed and seven hors de combat. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 In 1914, when the war began, Prussian militarism controlled Germany, with a population of sixty-eight millions; and Germany had one ally, Austria-Hungary, of whose thirty million people a majority were directly antagonistic to Berlin. The Spirit of Lafayette Martin Gay was a son of the Rev. Ebenezer Gay, pastor of the First Church in Hingham for the remarkably long period of sixty-eight years, nine months, and seventeen days. Fifty years with the Revere Copper Co. A Paper Read at the Stockholders' Meeting held on Monday 24 March 1890 Let us, however, before we descend from the noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man: it has happened within sixty-eight years. The History of Tasmania, Volume I What fatal ambition overmasters a graybeard of sixty-eight?... The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Some idea of the enormous amount of business in grain done in Chicago may be formed from the fact that in one year, 1868, sixty-eight million bushels of grain were shipped from its wharves. A Boy's Voyage Round the World It has a legislative body, composed of two chambers, the upper of which consists of the nobility and members appointed by the Grand Duke, and the lower of sixty-eight deputies, chosen indirectly by the people. Down the Rhine Young America in Germany The fleet then proceeded to China, through the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar, and at the end of one year and sixty-eight days, after covering 45,000 miles, dropped anchor in Hampton Roads. History of the United States, Volume 6 Cory and Kelly, sixty-eight ounces of blood was removed from the sinus, by aspiration. Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society Boston suffered one hundred and sixty-eight business failures in six months. History of the United States, Volume 3 And the long sixty-eight, Made for matters of weight, The world has no arguments sounder. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 The Duke of Lennox alone took sixty-eight petitions with him to the Court; while ministers, nobles, and gentry poured into Edinburgh to organize a national resistance. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 His next financial venture, begun when he was sixty-eight, might well have tested the strength of a much younger man. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 The actual flying time since leaving the Rockaway Naval Air Station was fifty-seven hours and sixteen minutes, and the average rate of flight was at a speed of sixty-eight nautical miles an hour. Opportunities in Aviation He now had about 8,500 men fit for duty, and sixty-eight guns. History of the United States, Volume 3 Columbus had reached the age of sixty-eight years when he embarked upon his fourth voyage. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold The following day, waifs from the wreck being continually helped ashore by those already landed, the number amounted to sixty-eight men, including eighteen sailors, and these all found temporary refuge at Captain Small's farm. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands She was sixty-eight feet and a half long, five feet broad, and three feet and a half deep. The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas Wallie pondered it and said finally: "You will agree in writing to dig without remuneration until you get water if you do not strike it at sixty-eight feet?" The Dude Wrangler A distance of eight hundred and fifty-seven miles was accomplished in sixty-eight days, with the thermometer at fifty degrees below zero. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole For full sixty-eight days the voyagers sailed on, their view during the whole of that period being bounded by sky and sea. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold Lord Ellenborough resigned his seat in a few months, and died just a year after the trials; but sixty-eight years may have had more to do with it than his defeat. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I One that he measured was sixty-eight and a half feet long, five feet broad, and three feet and a half deep. The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas When they reached sixty-eight feet and there was still no sign of moisture Wallie told Reed that he was willing to abrogate the contract. The Dude Wrangler After sixty-eight days of quick and straight sailing, with no sight of land, they fell in with the Philippine Islands, and on 3rd November with the famous Spice Islands. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole You start off at that speed, a hundred and sixty-eight thousand miles per second, and you travel for two hundred and four thousand miles. The Worlds of If And what during these sixty-eight years has befallen the enormous reptile, whose visit to Cape Ann called our friends to examine for themselves his claim to be the real Sea Serpent? The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 Greek, eighty-four myriads of myriads and four thousand three hundred sixty-eight myriads and two thousand and one hundred fifty-five. The Hindu-Arabic Numerals By then they had dwindled until they numbered only sixty-eight; the Young Ones gray and rapidly growing old. Space Prison The idea of reaching the North Pole began to take shape, and in order to raise funds the enthusiastic explorer delivered no less than one hundred and sixty-eight lectures in ninety-six days. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole Of the circulatory system the total was sixty-eight of which twenty-two were heart trouble and thirty-one hemorrhoids brought on by exposure. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 A male and female hare were put together by lord Ribblesdale for one year, when the offspring amounted to sixty-eight. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 Sixty-four out of sixty-eight votes were cast for William H. Crawford, who thus became by all precedents the "regular" candidate of the Republican party. Union and Democracy During the nine days' sail from San Francisco to Unalaska, a distance of two thousand three hundred and sixty-eight miles, I studied well the passengers. A Woman who went to Alaska The first of these unfortunates was of the parish of Barking, aged sixty-eight, a painter and a cripple. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs The thermometer in this happy valley stops at fifty-eight degrees in winter, and averages from sixty-eight to seventy-two degrees in summer. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Out of the hundred and twelve cartridges with which they had started the fight, there remained sixty-eight. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life I am astonished to find myself sixty-eight—very near the Psalmist's threescore and ten. Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston The fragments of the year 17 b. c., fitted together, make74 a block three metres high, containing one hundred and sixty-eight minutely inscribed lines. Pagan and Christian Rome Cousin William it was, not gone to the war because of sixty-eight years and a rich inheritance of gout. The Long Roll The provinces of Jummoo and Kashmir, immediately north of it, comprise together about a third of the aggregate of sixty-eight thousand square miles. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 He left his plow in the furrow, unhitched his horses and galloped sixty-eight miles that day to Cambridge! George Washington We measured one which lay ashore at Tolaga; she was sixty-eight and a half feet long, five feet broad, and three and a half feet deep. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships It seems that parts of this rich piece of furniture must have been inlaid with agate incrustations, of which one hundred and sixty-eight pieces were discovered in the same room. Pagan and Christian Rome Indeed the other sixty-eight boys seemed to be marvellously united in sentiment about it, for, without an exception, they responded to that dinner-bell with a promptitude quite equal to that secured by military discipline! Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure Thus peculiarly was bible-reading and family worship established on the pirates’ island in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables If planted in June, pods may be plucked for use in six weeks, and the crop will be ready for harvesting in sixty-eight days. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. At this time—the early days of ironclads—the heaviest shot that could be thrown by any gun was a sixty-eight pounder. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships I am told there are now in Christendom but sixty-eight cardinals, whereof there are six cardinal bishops, fifty-one cardinal priests, and eleven cardinal deacons. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I In 1779, Cowper joined with Mr Newton, the curate of the parish, in publishing the Olney Hymns, of which he wrote sixty-eight. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Towards the end of that winter Aunt Lison, who was now sixty-eight, had a severe attack of bronchitis. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories She afterwards went abroad, and died in Paris in 1788, aged sixty-eight, after a life of gaiety and dissipation. The Kensington District The Fascination of London This fact accounts for the disappearance of the thrifty Iroquois village, with its palisade and cornfields, which Cartier had found on the spot, sixty-eight years earlier. French Pathfinders in North America The total, excluding fourteen from the United States dependencies and twenty-five from Canada, was sixty-eight in 1910. The University of Michigan She was commanded, I found, by Captain Henry Trollope, and carried fifty-six guns, twenty-eight long eighteen-pounders on the upper deck, and twenty-eight carronades, sixty-eight pounders, on the lower deck. Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor Full complement, sixty-eight; making in all one hundred and thirty-eight souls. Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign They and the rest of the baggage were carried in loads, none exceeding sixty-eight pounds in weight. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley And just abreast the narrowest part of this here channel there’s a battery, called the San Fernando Battery, mounting twelve sixty-eight pounders. The Log of a Privateersman "Her dear husband was quite the gentleman, both in clothes and appearance, and he was not old—not a day over sixty-eight—when he died," etc. etc. Seen and Unseen The main bulk of the nest was made up of sixty-eight large leaves, besides a mass of decayed leaf fragments. The Bird Study Book Mr. W. G. Hamilton died, unmarried, in July, 1796, æt. sixty-eight. Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Dammit, sir, if it wasn't for them bombers—" "Up to an hour ago," said the major-general, "we had lost sixty-eight planes trying to get those bombers. Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43 Through many trials and persecutions, through periods of alternate prosperity and adversity, it has bravely maintained its existence up to the present day, and now numbers nearly sixty-eight thousand members. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania It would have been amusing if it had not been rather pitiful to think of the poor "young" man of sixty-eight trying so hard to reach such a termagant! Seen and Unseen I married Jane sixty-eight an' a half years ago, an' a half year in a man's life is something, I'll bet you. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story In the third week the day temperature should be sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit measured by a thermometer hanging three feet from the floor. The Mother and Her Child Mr. E. Van Ingen, a New York merchant now in London, boasts that he has crossed the Atlantic one hundred and sixty-eight times. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 It is estimated that the Mississippi carries to the ocean each year enough soil to cover a square mile of surface to a depth of two hundred and sixty-eight feet. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition For every pipe of mead allow one hundred and sixty-eight pounds of honey. The American Practical Brewer and Tanner He is about sixty-eight years of age, his hair gray, and worn long in the neck, with a good deal of curl to it. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland On March 29th the Ohio River stood at sixty-eight feet, the highest ever known, and was rising. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Euthymius died on Saturday the 28th day of January, being ninety-five years old, of which he had spent sixty-eight in the deserts. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Lin insisted on counting the receipts several times while the audience was assembling and when they reached sixty-eight cents, she concluded it was too much money to entrust to any one connected with the show. Watch Yourself Go By As a note to this, we would mention that the day before he lost a Newfoundland dog, that weighed sixty-eight pounds. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Its total height is one hundred and fifty-two feet, breadth one hundred and thirty-seven feet, depth sixty-eight feet. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Andy was sixty-eight then and for full forty years had done his winter stint and his Big ‘W’ Work in the hills. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Among his greater works are ninety-three masses, a very large number of motettes, forty-five hymns for the whole year, sixty-eight offertories, and a large number of litanies, magnificats and madrigals. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Chester A. Arthur was nominated on the first ballot for Vice- President, receiving four hundred and sixty-eight votes. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis At sixty-eight he died, honored by two hemispheres. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail The United States, lost five men killed and seven wounded; the Macedonian lost thirty-six killed and sixty-eight wounded. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country This admirable man continued to serve his little parish for nearly sixty-eight years. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money There are sixty-eight Privy Councillors; eight of them are Catholics. Home Rule Second Edition There were sixteen churches, with a membership of four hundred and fifty, of whom sixty-eight were admitted on profession of faith in 1864, and one hundred and twenty were women. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. The famous veteran was then sixty-eight and for several years had been living in retirement. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers In General Butler's department, there were, in the beginning of April, sixty-eight thousand eight hundred and forty-seven negroes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 On the 27th day of March of this year, which was Easter Sunday, the temperature dropped sixty-eight degrees in twenty-four hours. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 6 and 7, 1921 This is a rare direction, and is found only nine times in eight plays, as against sixty-eight 'Flourishes' and fifty-one 'Trumpets.' Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries Bulmer, despite his sixty-eight years, was an acute man of business. The Stowaway Girl Attention, ships three and four of Squadron F—you will proceed to chart six—sectors sixty-eight through seventy-five. Stand by for Mars! Quick and prosperous was the voyage, the sea being almost free from storms, and after sixty-eight days in which land had not been seen a green shore came in view. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III I got one boy in Virginia seventy-three years old and one boy sixty-eight years old. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 It remains to be added, that this "prince of worthy fellows" died in July 1807, at the age of sixty-eight. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century We thus obtain, as a moderate estimate of the total length of the animal, sixty-eight to seventy feet. Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections There were thirty-two tepees, accommodating one hundred and sixty-eight people, forty of whom were males over sixteen years of age and the rest women and children. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World On the 1st of January, 1688, these freebooters, two hundred and eighty-five in number, with sixty-eight horses, crossed in boats from their island refuge to the main-land and began their march. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III Outside the temperature was below freezing; inside the patrol car it was a comfortable sixty-eight degrees. Code Three It was some sixty-eight million miles from the Earth to Mars. Brigands of the Moon Its height up to the gable is sixty-eight feet, and its length 2,300 feet. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two On the afternoon of the third day the weather had moderated to such an extent that it was sixty-eight, so I stayed while Aubrey went down to the Waldorf for the bill and our bag. At Home with the Jardines Within a month afterwards Scott's army marched into the city of Puebla, on the table-land, sixty-eight miles from the capital. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III The amount of bread at the present time given away in London under this disposition, supplemented by some smaller bequests, is sixty-eight half-quartern loaves a week. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 Johnston had been sent to Dalton, Georgia, and placed in command of sixty-eight thousand picked Confederate soldiers with which to attack and drive Sherman out of the lower South. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis This purchase added territory of fifty-nine thousand two hundred and sixty-eight square miles to the United States. Stories of Later American History We had notified the agent that we would not return until it was sixty-eight Fahrenheit in the bedrooms. At Home with the Jardines William the Conqueror, so we are told, had no less than sixty-eight forests peopled with deer, and guarded against intrusion of common man by a cruel interdict. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Under circumstances approaching similarity,—so far as North Atlantic fogs and weather resemble West India climate,—Howe was sixty-eight, Rodney sixty-three, at the moment of testing. Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy Joseph Adams, the son of Henry Adams mentioned in the above inscription, died on the sixth of December, 1694, aged sixty-eight years. Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States What reason can be given for not taking bribes also from Burdwan, from Bissunpore, in short, from all the sixty-eight collections which comprise the revenues of Bengal, and for selecting only three? The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) The Commons were Conservative, or supporters of Premier Borden, and the Government Navy Bill passed the Commons by one hundred and one to sixty-eight. The Canadian Commonwealth They had their way in the end, and disaster to sixty-eight millions of Germans was the consequence. Before the War Billings, of the New York Public Libraries, came as their agent, and of dollars, five and a quarter millions went at one stroke for sixty-eight branch libraries, promised for New York City. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie On the 14th of December, 1799, after a brief illness, he departed this life, at Mount Vernon, aged sixty-eight years. Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States How came he, I say, to be so wicked a servant, that, out of sixty-eight divisions, he chose only three to supply the exigencies of the Company? The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) It numbered sixty-eight books, and consisted of two principal divisions, whose limits cannot now be ascertained. On the Sublime All these batteries had together above two hundred and twenty guns—eighteen, twenty-four, and thirty-two pounders; besides two, at least sixty-eight pounders, and upwards of twenty feet long. The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth It was decided these should be farmed out to the lowest bidder, and, on the spot, a citizen secured the contract at sixty-eight cents on the hundred. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum William Blake’s masterpiece, the illustrations to the Book of Job, were executed when he was sixty-eight, a few years before his death. Masques & Phases He died, April 13, 1870, at the age of sixty-eight, while visiting his friend Prince Youssoupoff at St. Petersburg, of the brain malady which had long been making fatal inroads on his health. Great Violinists And Pianists So massive were the walls that it was several hours before even the sixty-eight pounders of the Naval Brigade succeeded in effecting a breach. The Queen's Cup The total number of its dead is estimated at sixty-eight thousand five hundred and ninety-six. 116On account of the plague Parliament was summoned to meet at Oxford in October 1665. Andrew Marvell It ran eight pages and had sixty-eight questions which were booby- trapped in a couple of places to give us a cross check on the reliability of the reporter as an observer. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects In only eight of the twenty lessons completely reported the teacher asked less than ninety questions in the period of forty-five minutes, the average being sixty-eight. Principles of Teaching |
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