About seventy persons, mostly gentlemen of my acquaintance, were present.
Near Dayton, about seventy-five miles from its mouth, the Miami receives on the east side the Mad river; from this place boats carrying three and four thousand barrels, may run into the Ohio during high water.
By 1868 Huggins had satisfactorily examined the spectra of about seventy nebulæ, of which one-third displayed a gaseous character.
This was on October 13, and recurrences were traced down through the subsequent centuries, always with a day's delay in about seventy years.
The number received from domestic offices for delivery in the city is about one hundred and twenty-six thousand daily; in addition to about seventy-two thousand per day, which are to be forwarded to other offices.
They are said to be less than 250 in number, those of the first and second class comprising about seventy-five members each.
According to the Census of 1870, there were twenty-three Chinese inhabitants of New York, but the actual number of Celestials in the city at present is believed to be about seventy-five.
Mr. Astor is the second son of John Jacob Astor, and is about seventy-three years old.
The weight of the car was concentrated on about seventy feet of the total length of 200 feet.
It is expected to start of itself from the water and to fly at a low height like a flying fish at a speed of about seventy-five miles per hour.
A tall old man of about seventy, or perhaps eighty years, had paid us a visit.
I ordered a general advance in open order, about four yards apart; thus twenty men covered a line of about seventy-six paces.
In the evening the steamer returned with the true Shillook king, accompanied by two of his wives, four daughters, and a retinue of about seventy people.
It is placed in the heart of Valeria, and its present extent is not less than twelve Hungarian miles (about seventy English) in length, and two in breadth.
The building is about seventy-two feet three inches in length and the same in breadth.
It is about seventy-five feet wide and not less than fifty deep, even in its present state, filled up no doubt considerably, and in many parts cultivated.
For instance, it is applied to persons rendering acts of worship about seventy times, whereas it is applied to servants not more than half that number of times.
To designate the worshippers both of the true God, and of false gods, about seventy times.
They have now upon the domain about seventy-five members.
As the movement began to ripen into action, the friends fell off, and the circle narrowed down from about seventy to twenty persons.
This society grew from fifteen, the number at organization, to about seventy-five, many leading business men becoming members.
It was on such a mission one day that the writer watched from under cover of some bushes, the passing of about seventy-five Indians all on horseback and traveling single file.
Fouts, about seventy years of age, still lives on the homestead he selected in that early day and is a respected, prominent man in that locality.
The river, where the portage strikes it, is about seventy-five feet wide, and shallow, the deepest parts not exceeding eighteen inches.
Let it suffice that another day is nearly gone, and it has lessened the distance which separated us, about seventy miles.
There appeared to me to be about seventy-five or one hundred and fifty men that were organized.
Attended a meeting of Van Maasdyk's in the poorer district of Brussels; about seventy to eighty persons present, consisting of converted Romanists, seeking Protestants, and two awakened Jews.
The Countess is about seventy-six years of age; she is the president of the Bible Society, and the spiritual mother of all that is good in the neighborhood.
Wheeling had not been more than twelve years in existence, yet it contained, at this time, about seventy houses, built of wood.
From Lincolnton to Chester, in the state of South Carolina, the distance is about seventy miles.
York consisted ofabout seventy houses, an episcopalian church, and a gaol.
But the most important part of his office is, to treat his friends at the expence of about Seventy Pounds.
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