She was seventy-nine, but looked more like ninety. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
One hundred seventy-nine people have now been found dead. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2009] Reference
Châteaubriand was seventy-nine; Madame Récamier seventy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
So it turned out: In House of four hundred and seventy-nine Members. From Wordnik.com. [Punch Among the Planets] Reference
I am an old woman, going on seventy-nine, and I cannot be here long. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
One hundred seventy-nine Brits lost their lives during the conflict. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2009] Reference
L. Pierce, was declared elected Mayor by only seventy-nine plurality. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885] Reference
Twenty-one percent of you say yes; seventy-nine percent of you say no. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2007] Reference
One hundred seventy-nine Britons lost their lives during the conflict. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2009] Reference
The twelve remained prisoners until seventeen hundred and seventy-nine. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
The net proceeds of this fair were about seventy-nine thousand dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
"People fox-trot at seventy-nine nowadays," suggested Ann mischievously. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
I know you is seventy-nine 'cause I'm seventy-four and you're older'n me. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7] Reference
Freytag lived to a ripe old age, dying in 1895 at the age of seventy-nine. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
At this place the wall appears to be about seventy-nine feet wide, or thick. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Mr. Thomas Leigh, who has just closed a good life at the age of seventy-nine. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
He made them eighty-one at first; and then, recounting, made them seventy-nine. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Five thousand six hundred and seventy-nine hydrants in the city. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2007] Reference
One hundred and seventy-nine Britons have been killed during the six-year war in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2009] Reference
Right now at more than seventy-nine, she is spry and jaunty and witty and good humored. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Two thousand seventy-nine of our troops have now been killed in Iraq since the war began. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2005] Reference
The Glasses have a little son, and now the population, including ourselves, is seventy-nine. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
One hundred seventy-nine people were killed in last week's attacks, including six Americans. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2008] Reference
The instrument was adopted by a vote of eighty-nine to seventy-nine and the convention closed. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
The present height is one hundred and fifty feet, with a diameter of three hundred and seventy-nine feet. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
In 1712 the pueblo of Pojuaque (north of Santa Fé) contained but seventy-nine inhabitants, -- all Tehuas. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
In 1869 it is estimated that it will reach 38,000,000, or an increase of 868 per cent in seventy-nine years. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
He was fourteen years younger than his wife; and when he died, on the 28th May, he was seventy-nine years old. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
She was sixteen years old, was five feet five inches in height and weighed one hundred and seventy-nine pounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
At Pleasant Hill we lost three guns and four hundred and twenty-six prisoners, one hundred and seventy-nine from. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
It lies in thirty-two degrees and five minutes north latitude, and in longitude seventy-nine degrees five minutes. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
"You stole one hundred and seventy-nine dollars from Mr. Macloud and one hundred and eight from me," said Croyden. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
The building on the south side is two hundred and seventy-nine feet long, twenty-eight feet wide, and eighteen feet high. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Sober, at the age of seventy-nine, at his home in Lewisburg, Pa., in December 1921, and to inform his family of its action. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922] Reference
I've read the ten commandments through seventy-nine times, and was trying to work up to a hundred, when, you interrupted me. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
We brought off three hundred prisoners, but lost three guns and one hundred and seventy-nine prisoners from Churchill's command. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
The terror of those days, the scurvy, soon appeared, and by the spring nearly half of the seventy-nine men lay in the little cemetery. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
He made very few suppositions, and devoted all his art to convicting me of a contradiction between page seventeen and page seventy-nine. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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