When you have drunk up the sea, Floated ships in cups of tea, Plucked the sun from where it shines, Then I'll write you ninety lines.
Though you give meninety quills, Built me ninety paper-mills, Showed me ninety inky Rhines, I could not write ninety lines.
Though you frowned with ninety frowns, Bribed me with twice ninety towns, Offered me the starry signs, I could not write ninety lines.
Ninety songs the birds will sing, Ninety beads the child will string; But his life the poet tines, If he aims at ninety lines.
Ninety times a long farewell, All my love I could not tell, Though 'twas multiplied by nines, Ninety times these ninety lines.
Since, then, you have used me so, To the Holy Land I'll go; And at all the holy shrines I shall pray for ninety lines.
I have an impression that it is ninety feet, but as that would mean a drop of nine thousand feet, or almost two miles, during the trip, I must be wrong somewhere.
I then add to the calcined chalk about one-third of its weight of sulphur, and heat the mixture for from forty-five to ninety minutes, or thereabout.
The mixture is then heated for about ninety minutes to an extreme white heat.
The indictment charged this innocent little man with embezzling the trifling sum of ninety thousand dollars of money belonging to sundry widows and orphans of the good city of Memphis, county of Shelby, State of Tennessee.
IT is very difficult for us now to go back in imagination to the time, between eighty and ninety years ago, when the whole of Europe was in danger of being crushed under the tyranny and rapacious cruelty of Napoleon Buonaparte.
A document relating to the former of these men tells us that in those days the price of a repostero de estambre measuring sixteen palms square, with a coat-of-arms worked in the centre, and a decorative border, was ninety reales.
In September of 1785, the most expensive cloths cost only ninety reals the vara; that is to say, about thirty-one livres and ten sols the ell.
According to Dante's scheme of the world, Purgatory is the true opposite of Jerusalem; and Seville is ninety degrees from Jerusalem.
In 1326, out of a population of ninety thousand, from eight to ten thousand children were being taught to read; and from five to six hundred were being taught grammar and logic in four high schools.
Another barrow which stood near the Abbey of Newbattle, East-Lothian, was of a conical form, measuring thirty feet in height, and ninety feet in circumference at the base.
In the present year, 1850, a large hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins was discovered in the Isle of Skye: upwards of ninety fell into the hands of one individual, and a much greater number were dispersed.
The former proportions of the church were ninety feet long, including a chancel of twenty-seven feet, while its greatest breadth was only twenty-eight feet.
The number of the Copper Indians may be one hundred and ninety souls, viz.
Their loads weighed from sixty to ninety pounds each, exclusive of their bedding and provisions, which at starting must have been at least as much more.
The officers carried such a portion of their own things as their strength would permit; the weight carried by each man was about ninety pounds, and with this we advanced at the rate of about a mile an hour, including rests.
The weight of a full grown barren-ground deer, exclusive of the offal, varies from ninety to one hundred and thirty pounds.
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
The conclusion attributed to the nameless lady of the legend would be reached to-day, under the like circumstances, by ninetyper cent of Polynesians: and here I probably understate by one-tenth.
Now smoked the oven, and now, with the cutting lip of a shell, A butcher of ninetywinters jointed the bodies well.
A depression, too, is chosen for the purpose, and their depth is about ninety feet on the average: many are much deeper.
They date events from the year when the Foremeads were purchased and added to the patrimony, as if that transaction, which took place ninety years before, was of such importance that it must necessarily be still known to all the world.
Only eight hundred were received, which was quite a disappointment to the drovers, as at least ninety per cent of the tender filled every qualification.
My last trade before the panic struck was an individual account, my innate weakness for an abundance of saddle horses asserting itself in buying ninety head and sending them home with my men.
George Edwards was to have the younger cattle, and he and Mr. Hunter received the same, after which the latter hurried west, fully ninety miles, to settle for those bought for delivery on the Clear Fork.
My saddle horses were all in fine condition, and were cut into remudas of ninety head each, two new wagons were fitted up, and all was ready to move.
Over ninety per cent of the cattle moved under the President's order were missing at the round-up the following spring.
It was fully ninety miles to the Edwards ranch; and when about two thirds the distance was covered, a messenger met us and reported the home cattle under herd and ready to start.
Ninety dollars for eight weeks' travel is surely giving passengers a cheap journey.
Ninety miles above Tokyo is located Nikko, held in the same degree of reverence by Japanese as the Hindus do Benares and Mohammedans Mecca.
The Bostonians can call into the fieldninety thousand men.
Their loss was six thousand four hundred; that of the Athenians, not including the Platæans, only one hundred and ninety two.
Congress meets each year in regular session on the anniversary of Dominican independence, February 27, and its session is limited to ninety days, which may, however, be extended sixty days more.
Ninety per cent of the population are law-abiding citizens who would like nothing better than to be let alone and permitted to pursue their vocations in peace.
In the French-speaking republic about ninetyper cent of the inhabitants are pure blacks, the remainder being mulattoes.
The envelope of the balloon was one hundred and fifty feet long and forty feet in diameter and contained about ninety thousand cubic feet of coal-gas.
These new boats are eight hundred and ninety feet in length, as against the Lusitania's seven hundred and ninety.
At that time the number of passengers amounted to four hundred and fifty, which would, with the remainder of the load, amount to upwards of ninety tons.
Over a line of road with grades at that time considered impossible, thirty cars were put into use at the same time, the contract for the equipment calling for its completion inninety days.
She was about ninety years of age; the estate was relieved of L1,500 per annum.
The roof of the choir is of oak and very fine, and as much as ninety feet high.
Yet, in fact, the Chamber of Peers isninety feet long and half as broad, and high, and the Chamber of Commons is still larger.
They had as fair prospects as did Rome, but ninety of the hundred are forgotten; the other ten are remembered but as inferior nations.
But suppose, Tom, that the onward rush of this ship should bring us close beside three little ships, two with no decks and the larger one only ninety feet in length, we would look down upon them with a kind of pity, would we not?
Having plenty of tools, and something like sixty men, great progress had been made in the work, a schooner of about ninety tons being then so far completed, as to be nearly ready to be put in the water.
Would that be much to do in England for a woman who has kept herself out of a workhouse more than ninety rough long years?
In one large ward, sitting by the fire in arm-chairs of distinction, like the President and Vice of the good company, were two old women, upwards of ninety years of age.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ninety" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dozen; eleven; fortnight; fourscore; octogenarian; score; teens
