His head was placed on the nine and ninetieth post. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
Most of this can be found in Seneca's ninetieth Moral. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Glasgow, on the 27th April 1852, in his ninetieth year. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
He died in June, 1825, in the ninetieth year of his age. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
A woman celebrated her ninetieth birthday by sky-diving. From Wordnik.com. [90 Year Old Woman Goes Sky-Diving | Impact Lab] Reference
An early celebration for our Mother's ninetieth birthday. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
Yes, that was right; we had our ninetieth birthday coming up. From Wordnik.com. [Time For The Stars]
My father, Morris Solomon, recently had his ninetieth birthday. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Solomon: Words and War] Reference
In 1859, a few months shy of his ninetieth birthday, Humboldt died. From Wordnik.com. [Von Humboldt, Alexander] Reference
In full-front view he did not look like a man in his ninetieth year. From Wordnik.com. [In and Around Berlin] Reference
Silas; Madame Walravens fulfilled her ninetieth year before she died. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
She had Castletown for her life, and died in 1752, in her ninetieth year. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
She died on May 13, 1955, just two months short of her ninetieth birthday. From Wordnik.com. [Puah Rakovsky.] Reference
There is an incline at the ninetieth mile ...; the train is dragged uphill. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference
Al Dempster passed away in June of 2001, a month shy of his ninetieth birthday. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
He died in 1917, March 10, and was in his ninetieth year or more from what he told me. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Suppose you are the two hundred and ninetieth city planner in the history of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Economics and Modernity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
A grand ninetieth birthday dinner is to take place next, paid for by a television company. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:] Reference
In this manner did he live from the fortieth or forty-second to the ninetieth year of his age. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
I quickly handed her hostess gift #2, along with a jumbled sort of pre-happy-ninetieth-birthday wish. From Wordnik.com. [EllynAnne Geisel: Memories of Julia Child] Reference
I regarded it as a somewhat remarkable note as its writer was then approaching her ninetieth birthday. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
This occurred during the early afternoon of December 9, 1972, during, approximately, my ninetieth mission. From Wordnik.com. [Acosta, Hector M.] Reference
Mr. McMullen, in his ninetieth year says -- I started from Maine by the steam cars, taking them at Augusta. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
Busby died in 1695, in his ninetieth year, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where his effigy is still to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Only when he visualized the diminutive woman in a paper hat on her ninetieth birthday did he feel a degree of sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Went Underground]
But she got mad at him as if he should have pretended to be surprised to hear her say it for the ninetieth time since summer. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Son]
The Institute of Medicine of Chicago made her a Citizen Fellow in 1956 and reelected her to their board after her ninetieth birthday. From Wordnik.com. [Esther Loeb Kohn.] Reference
If, as she did, you live into your ninetieth year, your truth-telling is an enterprise likely to leave a trail of wounded in its wake. From Wordnik.com. [Conservative Rebel] Reference
The first "modern" cover, with words subordinated to a large image, did not appear until November, 1947, the ninetieth-anniversary issue. From Wordnik.com. [Introducing a Redesign] Reference
The ANC, which has been part of the continental struggles, is also celebrating its ninetieth (90th) anniversary when the AU is established. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"In their ninth year they had met, nine years after, they had spoken; she died on the ninth day of the month and the ninetieth year of the century.". From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
Never had Portland looked more beautiful than when the sunrise-gun boomed across the waters, announcing the ninetieth anniversary of our independence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
He lived many years after his disuse of opium, in the active discharge of the duties of his profession, and died at last in the ninetieth year of his age. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
I hope one day, when life as an "idea" permits, and that I have figured will be somewhere around my ninetieth year, to take up books that absorb the brains of the intelligent. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
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