Promoted to be commissioned officers, thirty-nine (39). From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
One had seen thirty-five and the other thirty-nine summers. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Hatita, the children of Sobai: in all a hundred thirty-nine. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 15: 1 Esdras The Challoner Revision] Reference
The former was then forty-seven years old, the latter thirty-nine. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
John's gospel, seventh chapter, verses thirty-seven to thirty-nine. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference
The above list of thirty-nine persons saved by our friend, contains. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference
In 1843 he graduated, ranking twenty-first in a class of thirty-nine. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Bell received 590,631 popular votes, and thirty-nine electoral votes. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Wheaton's amendment was rejected by a vote of sixty-six to thirty-nine. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Literally, thirty-nine inches from the edge of the stage, there he was. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Ragogna: Dukes of September, McCartney's Guitarist & An Australian's Tourabout : Conversations With Michael McDonald, Brian Ray, and Xavier Rudd] Reference
I counted thirty-nine nuts on a representative Thomas black walnut tree. 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
There are thirty-nine offices, and 1,300 miles of telegraphic wire in this. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Fish was now thirty-nine years old, with more than two-score and five years to live. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
The sides of my beard were beginning to turn gray, pretty early for thirty-nine years. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3] Reference
Alonzo B. Cornell, then thirty-nine years old, had already entered upon his famous career. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Bell received thirty-nine electoral votes on a popular vote of less than six hundred thousand. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
Mr. Saulsbury's amendment, the vote resulted seven in the affirmative and thirty-nine in the negative. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Out of forty white men thirty-nine, at least, will have canes, and on Sunday the fortieth will have one also. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
He is a man of wealth, has many employés, and has been in the same business in this city for thirty-nine years. From Wordnik.com. [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference
The words "probably unequaled" were stricken out without decided opposition by a vote of forty-three to thirty-nine. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
He was thirty-nine years of age, in the early ripeness of his powers, a leader at the bar, and the leader of his party. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Mr. Morrill, one of the tellers, announced the result -- "Mr. Colfax, one hundred and thirty-nine; Mr. Brooks, thirty-six.". From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
What, then, must be the feelings of the thirty-nine who have been saved at the eminent risk and peril of Mr. Ellerthorpe's life?. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference
The result was, the Free State party elected nine of the thirteen councilmen, and twenty-four of the thirty-nine representatives. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Their number is enormous -- in the males as many as thirty-nine thousand, and, in the female, thirty-five thousand on each antenna. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
A moderate whuppin 'wuz thirty-nine or forty lashes an' a real whuppin 'wuz a even hundred; most folks can't stand a real whuppin'. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
One nugget tipped the scales at thirty-nine dollars, one at twenty dollars, and one at fifty dollars, with many others of like value. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
Canada East; the surrender of one hundred Canadians, of thirty-nine pieces of cannon, of seven mortars, and of five hundred stand of arms?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Cambridge, amounting to thirty-nine volumes in folio and three in quarto, are divided between the British Museum and the public library at. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The least neglect of duty will incur (she tells him in language he cannot mistake) the penalty of thirty-nine well laid on in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
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