He lived to be eighty-four and died full of vigour in 1831. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Cape Town form eighty-four stout MS. volumes of 3600 pages. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Cattaro, landed eighty-four of his heaviest guns and bombarded. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
Then at the goodly age of eighty-four he died in the autumn of. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Josef, of a hundred and twelve guns each; one of eighty-four, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference
He died at Edinburgh in June 1828, at the great age of eighty-four. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
The weather is very warm, the thermometer eighty-four in the shade. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
The number of deaths has now reached to one hundred and eighty-four. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
There are eighty-four seats in the lower branch of the Legislature of. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Emperor William I, now a man of eighty-four, was still on the throne. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
"Old Bill Turner is eighty-four, ma'am; but he don't look it, does he?". From Wordnik.com. [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference
The height is eighty-four feet, and the weight nearly four hundred tons. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
At last he returned, with eighty-four retainers, into the neighbourhood of. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
Payday Friday, pulled your eighty-four hours, walking home with what, four?. From Wordnik.com. [Books: “Lush Life”] Reference
She had sixty-seven killed in the action and eighty-four wounded, whilst the. From Wordnik.com. [Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced] Reference
Eleven of these ladies are over eighty-four years old and Mrs. Weeks is ninety. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
Six hundred and eighty-four pounds of water were evaporated per bushel, which was. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885] Reference
James: son of W.H. Walter, met his death in the hunting-field, aged eighty-four, 5. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Its length is eighty-four feet; width, forty-five feet; and height, forty-three feet. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
At length, however, an old woman of eighty-four was found who understood the use of the wheel. From Wordnik.com. [The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts] Reference
"It must take an awful lot of powder for all the eighty-four guns, besides the shot and shell!". From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
In 1868 the official record shows that eighteen hundred and eighty-four were killed and wounded. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
Assuming that there are eight members to be elected, sixteen candidates, and eighty-four electors. From Wordnik.com. [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference
After eighty-four years it has given an Ireland more hostile to England than at any period of its history. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Confucian temples throughout China; the hall is eighty-four feet long and the teakwood pillars forty feet high. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
We're the longest running reality series, we're in eighty-four countries, (sings) and a partridge in a pear tree. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Ragogna: Wednesday Windfall: Conversations with KISS' Gene Simmons, Brian Culbertson and The Weepies] Reference
Nineteen hundred eighty-four -- the year that Frank Wells and I arrived at Disney -- has long since come and gone. From Wordnik.com. [Running The Mouse House] Reference
Colonel Tod gives a catalogue of the eighty-four mercantile tribes, whom he states to be chiefly of Rajput descent. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
It was called "The Death of Mr. Wimbush's Elephant" -- the Jumbo of the period, which had died at the age of eighty-four. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
It is the Père Varnet -- he who goes out with his sheep dog to dig clams, since he is eighty-four and too old to go to sea. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
And so the slave trade grew and grew, until, in 1874, out of every hundred people of the land about eighty-four were slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of General Gordon] Reference
This dam was completed January 10, 1910, and is the highest in the world, its height being three hundred and eighty-four feet. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
It is two hundred and fourteen feet in length; the head thirty feet long, the body one hundred feet, and the legs eighty-four. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Four more bodies were recovered Wednesday from flood wreckage, making the total of bodies found in this city stand at eighty-four. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
He is said to have died on his sandhill at the good old age of eighty-four, and to have been buried at a spot about a mile distant from it. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
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