County, having reached the patriarchal age of eighty-six. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country] Reference
This good man died at the age of eighty-six, and the letter of. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
I'se gwine on eighty-six and dem big boys raise dey hats to me. 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
If I lived to see August tenth, I will be eighty-six years old. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference
At sunset a salute of eighty-six guns was fired by Battery B, of. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886] Reference
Mr. Parnell will have eighty-six followers in the new Parliament. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
Foreign ministers we have had eighty-six and they but fifty-four. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
But eighty-six years are a heavy load on the shoulders even of a giant. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Clinic; all had their eyes examined; eighty-six were fitted with glasses. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Trade School] Reference
In 1994 it re-released "The Lion King" in time to eighty-six Fox's "Pagemaster.". From Wordnik.com. [Taking Dead Aim At Disney] Reference
In 1872 the price of steel was one hundred and eighty-six dollars per gross ton. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
The dear old Squire, now eighty-six, sat beside the brave little wife at the trial. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Each company consisted of three ensigns, and contained one hundred and eighty-six men. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
One hundred and eighty-six thousand of them have been in the army of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
"And that spark travels at the rate of one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles a second.". From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room] Reference
Colonel Dortch died in Princeton, Arkansas, Dallas County, about eighty-six miles from here. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Electrical energy travels at the rate of one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles a second. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize] Reference
But eighty-six miles in twenty-four hours, in weather like this, is a good deal for any horse. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
The late Sir Robert Wigram, Bart., had twenty-four children: he died at the age of eighty-six. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
Louis Thirteenth was the son of Henri Fourth, and that there are eighty-six departments in France. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In 1870 there passed through the canal four hundred and eighty-six ships, whose gross tonnage was 654,914. From Wordnik.com. [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference
"Feathers," said Mr. Edison, "have a vibration period of three hundred and eighty-six million per second.". From Wordnik.com. [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference
The height of the Carolyn Bridge is two hundred and five feet and the span one hundred and eighty-six feet. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Covent-garden, and died at the age of eighty-six, a few years ago, appears to have been very much esteemed. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
And I assure you that the annual premium of two hundred and eighty-six dollars was a terrible burden on me. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
"Light travels one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles a second," stated Mark, who remembered his physics. From Wordnik.com. [Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record] Reference
It is no exaggeration to say that with a compact following of eighty-six he is virtually "master of the situation.". From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference
On our way to the river we came to a village whose sole street was adorned with one hundred and eighty-six human skulls. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
The point of junction is ten hundred and eighty-six miles west of the Missouri River and six hundred and ninety miles east of. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History] Reference
When the road reached Monument, three hundred and eighty-six miles from Kansas City, dissensions arose among the stockholders. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History] Reference
Our medals number eighty-six in all, most of which were struck by order of Congress in honor of citizens of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
Seven of the eighty-six medals do not owe their origin to a congressional vote: two which were struck in the United Netherlands. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
He died in Missouri in 1820, at the age of eighty-six, and was buried in a coffin which he had made for himself some years before. From Wordnik.com. [The story of Kentucky] Reference
Mr. Rye, eighty-six years old, hale and hearty, who still chops down large trees and makes them into firewood for his own use, says. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
Then he went on to tell how the forests of South America had two hundred and eighty-six trees that can be found in no book of botany. From Wordnik.com. [Fundamentals of Prosperity What They Are and Whence They Come] Reference
Again, in New York State alone, we find that eighty-six babies out of every thousand die before they reach the end of their first year. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
He became a great lawyer and filled many offices of high public trust, and is now (1895) living in vigorous health, eighty-six years old. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
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