February 22nd, 1843, his age was given as seventy-six. From Wordnik.com. [Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913] Reference
Dere was three hundred and seventy-six acres in dat place. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Princeton in two years, standing fifth in a class of seventy-six. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
This was the verdict of a Philadelphia editor seventy-six years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886] Reference
"There are seventy-six cities and towns which enjoy some local government.". From Wordnik.com. [Citizenship A Manual for Voters] Reference
There are twenty-two tableaus; seventy-six scenes and in all eighteen acts. From Wordnik.com. [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference
There was a good deal more of it, for the "Reply" ran to seventy-six pages. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
"Shades of the summer of seventy-six!" was his rather inappropriate exclamation. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
(Sesostris), presents an offering to seventy-six Kings drawn up in line before him. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
There are seventy-six lines (incomplete) beginning with the colloquy of Gunnar and Hogni. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
All the officers and two hundred and seventy-six men were taken, with many killed and wounded. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Next comes beef, in all forms, ninety dollars and seventy-six cents; there goes another tenth. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
In the death of Putnam, at the age of seventy-six years, we have lost the last of these leaders. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
These are the families of Juda, of which the whole number was seventy-six thousand five hundred. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
"I never saw anybody so upset about losing a miserable seventy-six bucks," was his final comment. From Wordnik.com. [The Stutterer] Reference
That will make me seventy-six years old this year -- the twenty-eighth day of this coming September. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4] Reference
"Nine dollars and seventy-six cents!" he said, when he had counted the proceeds of his investigation. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
Ox-tallow consists of seventy-six parts of stearine and twenty-four of oleine, out of one hundred parts. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
This year no less than seventy-six slave-ships have sailed, without reckoning the smugglers in that line. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
At an elevation of two feet from the earth its circumference was found by Brydone to be seventy-six feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
Fernandina with seventy-six recruits, and the eagerness of the captains to secure them was a sight to see. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Two years later, of one hundred and seventy-six gunboats constructed, only twenty-four were in actual service. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
The dimensions of the chapel are forty-seven feet from east to west, and seventy-six feet from north to south. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
That was in the summer of 1859, and in the following November Irving died, at the ripe old age of seventy-six. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
England, on the fifth of February, at the advanced age of seventy-six -- having been born at Sheffield in 1775. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
We got seventy-six dollars in all, however, and this was a large amount for us in those hard, self-denying days. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879] Reference
It contains seventy-six characters (numbered as seventy-seven by mistake), but neither of the two "additional ones.". From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
At seventy-six he still went out to hunt the stag; he held Councils of State long after his health was really broken. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
Mr. Van Camp is about seventy years old, and Major John H. Gilbert, who still resides in Palmyra, is about seventy-six. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
During these five years the taxable property of the Commonwealth has increased in value more than seventy-six millions. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
A few days later, a wagon-train was attacked and one hundred and seventy-six men were killed, of whom sixteen were Rangers. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
A couple of sketches and "A Drop of Gin," an important poem of seventy-six lines somewhat in the manner of the latter portion of. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
The Island itself, though only seventy-six miles from the Equator, enjoys a delightful climate, and is remarkable for salubrity. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
Twenty minutes and seventy-six large breakfast fish later they sighted the island -- a little smudge on the horizon, dead ahead. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
No less than seventy-six thousand men had been lost or left to preserve the communications, since they left the Valencian plains. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Mr. Clegg stated that he was in correspondence with seventy-six natives and other African traders, twenty-two of them being chiefs. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
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