We are slipping from our seventy-ninth to our eightieth year. From Wordnik.com. [Mega-Projects and Their Futures] Reference
I am now living on borrowed time, being in my seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured] Reference
Mubarak celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday this year. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I thought so indeed for a man in his seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of the Late William Beckford]
September 16, 1877, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents] Reference
At the time of his death he was in his seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
He lived to his seventy-ninth year, and died May 20, 1713. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference
He died on the 15th of December, in his seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
Suffolk, July 26th, 1881, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. From Wordnik.com. [George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends] Reference
Castle, on the 10th of March following, in his seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
On the seventy-ninth ballot I got, in addition, two opposition votes. From Wordnik.com. [The Plum Tree] Reference
While in London, Mrs. Garnett celebrated her seventy-ninth natal day. From Wordnik.com. [Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction Compiled and edited by Hallie Q. Brown 250 p., ill.] Reference
On his seventy-ninth day in office President Obama … didn't do much. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference
A.D. 1855, and of the Independence of the United States the seventy-ninth. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 5, part 3: Franklin Pierce] Reference
July, 1881, he was found dead in his home at Oulton, in his seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [Old Familiar Faces] Reference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 28th of February, 1903 in his seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William Farrar Smith, Major General, United States Volunteer in the Civil War] Reference
At the seventy-ninth tree on the left-hand side, the insolvent butcher hanged himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
He died at his residence in Avondale, September 16, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents] Reference
He was in his seventy-ninth year when he retired, but in exceptional vigor of body and mind. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference
He died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 28th of February, 1903 in his seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Services of William Farrar Smith Major General US]
Although born prematurely, he died late, for we are told that he attained his seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother] Reference
He died in 1820, in his seventy-ninth year, having been blind for some years previous to his death. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
Rokujo (the seventy-ninth sovereign) was not given time to learn the meaning of the title "Emperor.". From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
He died in his seventy-ninth year, and Racine pronounced a high eulogy upon him, before the academy. From Wordnik.com. [Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business] Reference
That noble lady had come into this house at the age of eight, and had died in her seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [The Home and the World] Reference
Gibbon's great History, and found, between the seventy-eighth and seventy-ninth pages, something remarkable this time. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Love] Reference
Perhaps a man is not startled at the first cat he sees, but jumps into the air with surprise at the seventy-ninth cat. From Wordnik.com. [Alarms and Discursions] Reference
On the seventy-ninth day a needle six inches long was expelled from the swelling in the groin, and the patient recovered. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Bench of his State, came from the Ogdensburg district, and George W. Patterson, in his seventy-ninth year, from the Chautauqua district. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference
"Mr. Robert Bowes is in his seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914] Reference
"Here they were joined by a party of men from the seventy-ninth regiment, from Black River. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference
“Here they were joined by a party of men from the seventy-ninth regiment, from Black River. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson]
Esperanto in his seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education] Reference
He had completed his seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)] Reference
She was nearly in her seventy-ninth year. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cat] Reference
He died in the seventy-ninth year of his age. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
In his seventy-ninth year (A. From Wordnik.com. [The Alhambra] Reference
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