Liverpool, on the 19th December, aged eighty-seven. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
"How much is thirty-two and eighty-seven?" asked Nell. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in Washington] Reference
He will be eighty-seven when he is eligible for release. From Wordnik.com. [Seth Korman: The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Caught Between Multiple Masters?] Reference
At the depot eighty-seven coffins were piled up and boxed. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Of passengers we had, all told, four hundred and eighty-seven. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
And Mathusala lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
Thames eighty-seven fighting-ships and a squadron of fireships. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
Whittlesey's book contains four hundred and eighty-seven pages. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884] Reference
Division, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven; Wathals '. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
Washington, D. C., at the age of eighty-seven, with her son John. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Anson Harp, eighty-seven years old, lives out in the country on Route. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2] Reference
He died in 1095, having sat thirty-two years, and lived about eighty-seven. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Nearly fifty years ago Calcraft enumerated eighty-seven Irish dramatists in. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
One million, three hundred and eighty-seven thousand, six hundred and forty-five. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914] Reference
Halifax, which then bore North-North-West and was but eighty-seven leagues distant. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
In eighty-seven per cent of the cases, your strategy proved to be superior to our own. From Wordnik.com. [The Highest Treason] Reference
Mr. Riehl is eighty-seven years young now and is the only one of the three men living. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference
Fox replied; but his motion was lost by one hundred and eighty-seven against forty-seven. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
January 1, 1049, being then eighty-seven years old, and having been fifty-six years abbot. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Redgrave Hall, eighty-seven miles from London by the coach-road, is a large square mansion. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
It weighs eighty-seven pounds; and close by it is the martial suit of the unfortunate Essex. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the eighty-seven cents. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
Sistine Chapel; and he was eighty-seven when he raised the cupola of St. Peter's to the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864] Reference
Its span is seven hundred and two feet; height from low water, two hundred and eighty-seven feet. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference
Among the eighty-seven who have been under observation, the following results have been recorded. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
It was my chance to be chosen by a grave physician of eighty-seven years of age, who lived near to. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
She is not certain about her age, but according to her memory of events, she is about eighty-seven. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives] Reference
One woman of eighty-seven, who has not walked for four years, and blind one year, learned to read last. From Wordnik.com. [Five Lectures on Blindness] Reference
Thus in 1846 there are no fewer than eighty-seven cuts by him; in 1847, one hundred and twenty-seven; in. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
One hundred dead and eighty-seven severely scalded, most of whom subsequently died, were brought on shore. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
He is fifty-three years old, and claims to have fought in eighty-seven battles, often wounded, but never badly hurt. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference
He afterwards saw much active service, and died aged eighty-seven, supposed to have been the last survivor of the army of. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
The scale of distances may be imagined from the fact that it is eighty-seven and a half miles by sea from Algiers to Bougie. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
We had a captain who ran the ship well, ran it in eighty-seven separate forays with the aliens and brought us back each time. From Wordnik.com. [Shock Absorber] Reference
General Howard reported that he had buried one hundred of the rebel dead, and had captured twelve hundred and eighty-seven prisoners. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
In a previous chapter we learned that in one-hundred parts of mother's milk, eighty-seven parts were water and thirteen parts were solid. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
(Not one room, but eighty-seven of them.) = The most central location in NEW YORK, equally convenient for amusements, shopping or business. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
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