Barker, seventy-one, is short and stocky, with an intensity that can veer into dry humor or curmudgeonly impatience. From Wordnik.com. [Origins] Reference
Fahrenheit into dry air at seventy-one Fahrenheit. From Wordnik.com. [Hail to the Chief] Reference
Up to that time seventy-one bodies had been recovered. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
To Wm.Mt. Pleasant, one hundred and seventy-one dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
Of these, no less than seventy-one belong to or trade with. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The scheme is to elect seventy-one or more men from the loyal. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
Now, at seventy-one, he had all the endurance and energy of youth. From Wordnik.com. [Las Casas 'The Apostle of the Indies'] Reference
He slept Saturday night after seventy-one hours of continuous labor. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
One hundred and seventy-one days passed without any reference to it. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
In 1831 he was appointed to an important command, being then seventy-one. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
This place, distant seventy-one miles from Pitsani, was passed at 5.30 P.M. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
She removed her wedding band for the first and last time in seventy-one years. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Living] Reference
Out of the one thousand and seventy-one ships built in 1860, the 'nation' of South. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The first ballot resulted in seventy-one votes for Des Moines and twenty-three for. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
The old man was at that time an inhabitant of Benevente, and seventy-one years of age. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
There were seventy-one debtors and thirty-nine felons confined on the occasion of our visit. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas] Reference
Stanhope, overborne with the burden of his seventy-one years, had peacefully breathed his last. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
Their mother had died at twenty-three, the father at seventy-one — a good age to have attained. From Wordnik.com. [Coping Stones] Reference
At the time of our arrival it was seventy-one, of whom only ten had ever been away from the island. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Now at seventy-one, a famous man, he returned to make his speech upon entering his office as Rector. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
'I have consulted the almanac,' he confided to Paul; 'it is two hundred and seventy-one days to my next drink.'. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
At the beginning of this year, there were four towns in which the disease was known; now there are seventy-one. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911] Reference
Between the mouth of De Chelly and the junction of Monument canyon, 13 miles above, there are seventy-one ruins. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference
The necessary preliminary condition is the election of seventy-one members of Congress from the twenty-six States. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
He was now seventy-one years of age, and had, as his letters show, begun already to feel lack of power and health. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
Once I got as high as seventy-one degrees, and farther it was not possible to go for ice which lay as firm as land. 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
He was a devout man and very trusty; a Laic and Resignate that was born at Ralt, and he was nearly seventy-one years old. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes] Reference
Three months afterward, we had three hundred and eighty-two million; and now we have three hundred and seventy-one million. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Libella was of the same worth as the As -- Sembella was half a Libella, equal to seventy-one hundredths of a cent -- and the. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
The population of the state of New York in 1880 was five millions, eighty-two thousand, eight hundred and seventy-one (5,082,871). From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
In all, on that Sunday night it was known that sixty-four of the men of Eyemouth had perished, and seventy-one were still missing. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
This would give an average receipt, upon the seventy-one weeks of my stay, of one pound three shillings and three-halfpence a week. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
With pike and sword this veteran of seventy-one years of age was ever at the post of the greatest danger, repelling the assaults of. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
Kandahar, the capital of Central Afghanistan, is about two hundred miles S.W. of Kabul, and three hundred and seventy-one miles E. of. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute] Reference
In May, 1870, they let the Orchard, and, aged seventy-seven and seventy-one respectively, set out on their last long flight into the world. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
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