Rising from her knees, she gazed steadily at the loosened diamond lying in her hand; then, wrapping it in cotton, she placed it in a little wooden box from a jeweller of fifty years ago.
The poet who celebrates the victors should be fifty years old at least, and himself a man who has done great deeds.
But we are considering not how our choristers, who are from thirty to fifty years of age, and may be over fifty, are not to use the Muses, but how they are to use them.
The guardians are to continue in office twenty years only, and to commence holding office at fifty years, or if elected at sixty they are not to remain after seventy.
Like them he must be fifty years of age: and let him go unbidden to the doors of the wise and rich, that he may learn from them, and they from him.
By that enlargement of the word, the matron with the garnered wisdom and experience of fifty yearsbecomes at one jump the political equal of her callow kid of twenty-one.
Fifty years ago in the sands of Iwo Jima, Jack Lucas taught and learned the lessons of citizenship.
It is of little account for any of us to talk of essential human needs, of attaining security, if we run the risk of another World War in ten or twenty or fifty years.
Fifty years ago, a farsighted America led in creating the institutions that secured victory in the Cold War and built a growing world economy.
Our first treaty with one of these powers, the Emperor of Morocco, was formed in 1786, and was limited to fifty years.
Fifty years ago we were a country devoted largely to our own internal affairs.
We have some land that has not grown a crop in fifty years, and we have other land that still produces a very fair crop if properly rotated.
This Socialist law is very disappointing; we find the Government again having recourse to the same means for checking and guiding opinion which Metternich had used fifty years before.
One more victory had been added to the Prussian flags, and then a profound peace fell upon Europe; fifty years were to go by before a Prussian army again marched out to meet a foreign foe.
Mr. Alison read the service, and she was buried beside her old friend of fifty years--poor Mrs. Macdonald.
Nay, the rate of mortality in those three great capitals of the manufacturing districts is now considerably less than it was, fifty years ago, over England and Wales, taken together, open country and all.
Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of moving a sneer.
We know of no country which, at the end of fifty years of peace and tolerably good government, has been less prosperous than at the beginning of that period.
He had a surprise in pickle for the old chap who had served the Forsytes four-and-fifty years-a treat that was entirely his doing.
He looked at his watch, old and thin like himself; he had owned it fifty years.
I shall keep it if it is fifty years," she sighed, as she nestled closer to him.
He saw, even then, and that's fifty years ago, the value of the Nahala water-rights which nobody else valued then.
With no pretence of make-up or cunning concealment of time's inroads, the woman who sat under the hau tree might have been permitted as much as fifty years by a judge competent anywhere over the world save in Hawaii.
Fifty Years of British Idealism 48 Reflections on the republication of Bradley's Ethical Studies III.
No, alas, Fifty years later, when he died, I sat me in the selfsame chair, Thinking of him.
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