There were several rows and clusters of shabby frame-houses, and a supply of mud sufficient to insure the town against a famine in that article for a hundred years; for the overflow had but lately subsided.
He governs, administrates, negotiates, works eighteen hours a day, with the clearest and best organized head; he has governed more in three years than kings in a hundred years.
The Pygmies were so small, and there were so many sandy deserts and such high mountains between them and the rest of mankind, that nobody could get a peep at them oftener than once in a hundred years.
Nearly a hundred years passed on, and all that time, there was peace in Britain.
One thing's certain; Jim and I would never have had the chance of seeing as many different kinds of people in a hundred years if it hadn't been for the gold.
But for it we shouldn't have had such a chance in a hundred years.
I don't know how it was, but everything seemed quiet and pleasant and homelike, as if a chap might live a hundred years, if it was all like this, and keep growing better and happier every day.
Julian marched over the same ground which had been trod above seven hundred years before by the footsteps of the younger Cyrus, and which is described by one of the companions of his expedition, the sage and heroic Xenophon.
The mutual provocations of a religious war, which had already continued above two hundred years, exasperated the animosity of the contending parties.
The number of the days of men at the most are a hundred years, as a drop of water of the sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the sand, so are a few years compared to eternity.
Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old?
When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born.
There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
Neither did he consider his own body, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the dead womb of Sara.
But this extraordinary longevity is not observed by the original writers, nor does there exist another example of a hero near a hundred years of age.
Footnote 52: After the conclusion of Cantacuzene and Gregoras, there follows a dark interval of a hundred years.
The royal prerogative of coining money, which had been exercised near three hundred years by the senate, was first resumed by Martin the Fifth, [77] and his image and superscription introduce the series of the papal medals.
If these bishops, whether innocent or guilty, were annihilated in the sleep of death, they would not probably be awakened by the clamor which, after the a hundred years, was raised over their grave.
The sudden death of a Pyncheon, about a hundred years ago, with circumstances very similar to what have been related of the Colonel's exit, was held as giving additional probability to the received opinion on this topic.
Efforts, it is true, were made by the Pyncheons, not only then, but at various periods for nearly a hundred years afterwards, to obtain what they stubbornly persisted in deeming their right.
When the customer was gone, Hepzibah talked rather vaguely, and at great length, about a certain Alice Pyncheon, who had been exceedingly beautiful and accomplished in her lifetime, a hundred years ago.
But his family had been Christian for a hundred years.
In a hundred years, Mahomet, as we saw, had his Arabians at Grenada and at Delhi; Dante's Italians seem to be yet very much where they were.
It was a thick wood of large oak trees which must certainly have been a hundred years old.
I walked on tiptoe towards the door, but it seemed to me that I had taken a hundred years to cross the room.
To be told that any man has attained a hundred years, gives hope and comfort to him who stands trembling on the brink of his own climacterick.
I believe there cannot be recovered, in the whole Earse language, five hundred lines of which there is any evidence to prove them a hundred years old.
The church and hotel are six hundred years old; the hotel was a villa belonging to Joanna II.
So to-day keeps firm hold of the traditions of a hundred years ago, and ultramontanism wisely defends the last citadel where the Middle Age superstition makes a stand,--the popular veneration for the clergy.
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