He was a man of about fifty, who boasted to me that he had been a poacher from the age of fifteen, and had never been caught.
We walked on about fifty yards or more, and then came to the end.
I was standing before a rather florid man of about fifty, with close-cropped hair, a brush moustache, and a chin that seemed undecided on the score of shaving.
I lunched at the auberge, and I had for my companion a ruby-faced cattle-dealer of about fifty.
He is a gaunt, angular, sallow man of about fifty, with hollow cheeks and long black beard.
He was first owned by Mrs. Caroline Johnson, "a stingy widow, the owner of about fifty slaves, and a member of Dr.
James's master was a man of about fifty years of age--who had never been lawfully married, yet had a number of children on his place who were of great concern to him in the midst of other pressing embarrassments.
The Pasha keeps a garrison here of about fifty horsemen, with an officer who commands the town, the neighbouring Arabs, and the shipping in the harbour.
Of the oldest and best looking trees, I counted eleven or twelve; twenty-five very large ones; about fifty of middling size; and more than three hundred smaller and young ones.
The Pasha of Egypt keeps a garrison in Nakhel of about fifty soldiers, and uses it as a magazine for the provisions of his army in his expedition against the Wahabi.
Hardly had the man knocked at the opposite door when it was opened, and the broker, a large woman of about fifty years of age, appeared, holding a candle in her hand.
About fifty of these followed to the edge of the river.
The trader Croghan brought, however, about fifty warriors, with as many women and children, to the camp at Fort Cumberland.
About fifty of them at length escaped; a hundred and forty-eight were captured, and the rest killed or drowned in trying to cross the rapids.
In about two hours we really arrived at an old deserted shaft, into which we were able to go about fifty paces; then, however, it was blocked up, and any farther advance was impossible.
At the end of five miles I caught up the troop again, which consisted of about fifty head, and selected an iron-grey mare with black mane and tail, which appeared to be between a two and three-year old.
I had not ridden very far when a covey of about fifty got up before my dog, and settled again about half a mile farther on the prairie.
I took him to the arms-case in my house to let him see my weapons, about fifty first-rate implements.
Here too are the great Chaudiere, or Kettle, Falls on the main river, with a total descent of about fifty feet.
On the shady side of the same structure a dilapidated, miserable-looking white man of about fifty lay in a drunken sleep, buzzed over by a swarm of flies.
The party halted at a distance of about fifty yards, and after a short conference two of the men came on.
The average breadth of the stream at the surface, when low, isabout fifty yards, but oftener less than this, and seldom more.
A group of countrymen stood in the middle of the road, about fifty yards in front of me; and while I was deliberating whether to advance or retire, a joyous cry of 'Hurrah for the French!
There we shall find in the midst of about fifty pupils, an honest preceptor bearing the name of Stolo, or Volumnus, or Pomponius, perhaps.
They had about five hundred Catholics in their congregation, and a school of about fifty children.
Leonard, looking, saw before him a tall and handsome man of about fifty years of age, and saw also by many unmistakable signs that he was at the point of death.
Here also were the Settlement men, armed, but in an extremity of fear, for they were guarded by about fifty of the Great People, also armed.
First he let her float gently down stream and under cover of the shore for a distance of about fifty yards.
We walked from Marysville to the American River bridge one night, about fifty miles.
Perhaps one of the most interesting things I saw while traveling through the Bear River country in southern Utah, was a lava bed, about fifty or sixty feet high and I judge about two hundred feet wide at the base.
From Greenville, Crockett pressed on about fifty or sixty miles through a country interspersed withe forests and treeless prairies, until he reached Fulton.
One proved to be an old pirate, about fifty years of age.
Mrs. Owen was an excellent, motherly woman, about fifty years of age.
Immediately after came a group of about fifty generals, all belonging to the Army Council.
They seemed to be arranged in companies of about fifty, and there must have been a hundred companies.
At seven o'clock, about fifty bands of music struck up, in different parts of the great central circle.
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