These we invited after meeting to take coffee with us, about thirty persons, all serious.
Respecting this meeting Jules Paradon says:-- About thirty-five or forty were present.
The Friends examined his answers, and were well satisfied with them: the worship which he and his little flock (about thirty in number) practised was of a more spiritual character than that of the national church.
Footnote 78: This description seems rather to refer to the island of Mayotto, about thirty leagues E.
Footnote 84: From the indications in the text, this must be Jaffrabat on the coast of Guzerat, about thirty-one miles E.
At the age of about thirty-two years he married the English lady to whom he owes so much, and of his adventures in 1848 we have already twice spoken.
To the east, about thirty miles, is a high isolated hill, bearing 100 degrees.
About thirty miles to the west is a high mount with open country, and patches of woodland in the foreground.
Not a drop of water have we seen since leaving Newcastle Water, a distance of about thirty miles, except a little rain water about three miles east of it.
As far as I have been able to find out, these upper lakes are snow-buried in winter to a depth of about thirty-five or forty feet, and those most exposed to avalanches, to a depth of even a hundred feet or more.
A good bridle-path leads from Yosemite through many a grove and meadow up to the head of the cañon, a distance of about thirty miles.
The average size of the older trees is about thirty or forty feet in height, and twelve to fourteen inches in diameter.
In about thirty minutes he rejected the hairs in the manner of birds of prey and carnivorous animals.
Halton reports the history of a case of a woman of sixty-five who, about thirty-five minutes before he saw her, had been struck by lightning.
He says that this odor is most perceptible in men of about thirty-five, and can be discerned at a distance of from four to six feet.
He was a man of about thirty, short, but wonderfully muscled and extremely supple.
About thirty of our Celts attended in costume; and as there was a Highland regiment on duty, with dragoons and artillerymen, the whole made a splendid show.
Dined at the Royal Society Club--about thirty present.
His low computation of the organized rebel soldiers then in Kentucky fixed the strength at about thirty-five thousand.
There was likewise on board a guard of about thirty soldiers, from the different regiments quartered on Long Island, who were relieved by a fresh party every week.
Their navy, which consisted, at the time of your departure, of about thirty vessels, is now reduced to eight, and the number of privateers fitted out in New England amounting to an hundred and upwards is now less than forty.
Early in the winter the British took the Chesapeake frigate of about thirty guns, and 300 hands.
This lake is about thirty-five miles in length, and from four to ten in width; but its waters are of little depth, and in the dry season its dimensions are much lessened.
The houses of the Mundurucus, to the number of about thirty, are scattered along the banks for a distance of six or seven miles.
The length of the Jaburu channel is about thirty-five miles, allowing for the numerous abrupt bends which occur between the middle and the northern end of its course.
It is about midway up a gentle pine-covered slope, above which on the lower side its crater, thirty feet in diameter, rises to a height of about thirty-five feet.
Having named this river the Yule, we returned to the depot party by a somewhat shorter cut, making it in about thirty miles, which we accomplished by sundown.
She has abundance of wit and spirit; about thirty-three years old; handsome and airy, and seldom spared anybody that gave her the least provocation; by which she had many enemies and few friends.
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