The period at which these events are said to have occurred was some sixtyor eighty years ago, according to the imperfect chronology of my informant.
When a young mare is tried for the first time, her owner rides her for some fifty or sixty miles at full speed, always finishing by swimming her through a river.
They are about sixty feet in height, and have both legs and feet like man, but in addition the lower part of the body is modified into the tail of a Fish, which, in common with the whole of the body, is covered with gilded scales.
It was of brick, sir, with eight Corinthian columns across the front, having a spacious paneled hall sixty feet long.
He admitted having been born in Boston some sixty years before, and was a printer by trade; further than this, he had not revealed himself, drunk or sober.
There was something uncanny in the thought that they were spinning along, sixty feet below the sea-level, cut off from all the living world.
Passing through this, they were dismayed to find themselves on the edge of a steep bank about sixty feet high, with the track running at the bottom of it, and, beyond, a wide space of open valley rising again to a hill opposite.
The spot where they were perched was fully sixty feet above the road, and the slope below was next door to perpendicular.
From this time on the warfare lasted with occasional intermissions for more than sixty years.
This strip of land varies in width from forty to sixty miles.
Though a tendency to subdivision has set in and will doubtless continue, estancias of sixty thousand acres are not uncommon; and the average holding is said to be even now about six square miles.
The upper city runs along the edge of a steep bluff, sixty or eighty feet above the lower town, which is a single line of street, even more dirty than it is picturesque, occupying the narrow strip between the harbour and the cliff.
At a spot called the Soldier's Leap, the train runs on a shelf in the rock through a gorge over which the converging crags almost touch one another and shut out the light, the torrent roaring sixty feet below.
Behind these mountains again, and some fifty or sixty miles distant, three gigantic mountains stand up and close the prospect.
The most interesting group of ruins stands in a beautiful situation some sixty feet above the shore, on the uppermost of four broad terraces, supported by walls.
This is the part of South America which has drawn most immigrants during the last sixty years, southern Brazil leading the way, Argentina and Uruguay following.
Nevertheless, taking the eleven South American states as a whole, their condition is better than it was sixty years ago.
The École Forestière, courteously shown to visitors, was founded sixty years ago and is conducted on almost a military system.
What remains for recreation and charity after defraying household expenses and cost of a housekeeper out of sixty pounds a year?
This curé's stipend, including perquisites amounted to just sixty pounds yearly, in addition to which he had a good house, large garden and paddock.
Our sixty or seventy thousand miles of railroad traverse our country in all directions, reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and spreading like a net-work from the lakes to the gulf.
A war upon pre-emption and homestead claimants was begun, and the representation to the department that a claimant had abandoned his claim was sure to pass the title to one hundred and sixty acres to the company.
Anyhow, some of you will take no further hand, and there are sixty more besides yourselves that will see a jail this night.
The obelisk issixty feet in height, and elaborately ornamented with hieroglyphics.
Thither we accordingly went, and the less reluctantly as we ascertained by the way that this also had been converted into a spinning establishment, where fifty or sixty persons were constantly employed.
She has evidently been handsome, but must now be more than sixty years of age.
But when Eyollas mustered the people, he found no more than five hundred and sixty men who were yet alive, out of two thousand five hundred, the others being dead and having been starved for hunger.
And Domingo de Irala had withdrawn from that country, having lost sixty men from sickness and fatigue.
He arrived at Bonas Aeieres (where the two other ships had been left) in the year 1539, with one hundred and sixty men.
Not ten minutes later, fifty or sixty elk walked down to the Yellowstone to drink, crossing the road within a minute of the tourists' passage.
Every four hours it plays for fifteen minutes, shooting its water to a height of sixty feet.
He is the author of some three hundred and sixty original plays, twenty-three of which are in prose.
Bancroft on "Chimney Construction," which contains a tabulated description of nearlysixty shafts, Proc.
These cannot have reached their final form till about fifty or sixty years afterwards.
No one shall be considered as elected who has not obtained at least sixty votes.
The men of the white people capable of bearing arms are all men between the ages of sixteen and sixty years; and of the natives, only those which are capable of being made serviceable in the war.
With a cheer the little body, who numbered fourteen officers and one hundred and sixty men, advanced.
Of the fourteen officers, seven were killed and two wounded; of the one hundred and sixty men, eighteen killed and fifteen wounded; a striking testimony to the valor with which the officers had led the way.
Already fifty or sixty houses were in a blaze, although it was not five minutes from the beginning of the fire.
The fourth column, eight hundred and sixty strong, was made up of detachments of European regiments, the Sirmoor battalion of Ghoorkas, and the Guides.
The administration of the poor-law is vested in a board of guardians of sixty members for the parish of Birmingham.
Fries, assuming leadership, organized an armed band of about sixty men, who marched about the country intimidating the assessors and encouraging the people to resist.
For two years the movement spread rapidly throughout the north of England, and in 1654 more than sixty ministers went to Norwich, London, Bristol, the Midlands, Wales and other parts.
Sixty years later the Parliamentary cannon planted on Whitcliff, just opposite, brought the active history of Ludlow Castle to an end.
But the old castle is almost lost in the palace of today, upon which the late Duke of Northumberland is said to have expended the enormous sum of three hundred and sixty thousand pounds sterling.
Sherborne Abbey we had missed in our former wanderings, though once very near it, and we felt that we must make amends though it cost us a detour of sixty miles.
The water of the cove has a depth of sixty feet near the center and in old days offered shelter to smugglers' smacks.
The stones are ruder and less symmetrical than those of Stonehenge, but their individual bulk averages greater--mighty fragments of rock weighing from fifty to sixty tons each.
The sun had sunk low when we came down from the castle walls and started for York, sixty miles away.
Among the multifarious activities of the late Duke of Devonshire, was the building of the railroad that leads to Barrow-in-Furness and the development of that town into an important port of sixty thousand inhabitants.
There is little left save the stupendous keep, a circular tower about one hundred feet high and perhaps sixty feet in diameter.
Jane Bosdeau (1594) 'every Wednesday and Friday met a Rendezvous of aboue Sixty Witches at Puy de dome'.
Jane Bosdeau (1594) went twice a week regularly to 'a Rendezvous of above Sixty Witches at Puy de dome'.
A detailed account of witches and their proceedings in Berne, which had been infested by them for more than sixty years.
Just in the same way, sixty years ago, it was thought ludicrously impossible to deprive a man of his right to whip his slave.
During this period there have been more than sixty combats in the air, in which not one British aeroplane has been lost.
Sixty members of Parliament have promised to speak at the meetings.
The story is that the Normandy was stopped by a German submarinesixty miles southwest of Tuskar Rock, off the southeast coast of Ireland, Friday night.
The reconnoissance carried an advanced position with a loss of sixty killed and wounded, and withdrew unmolested to report.
On they came, the silence unbroken save for their shouts, until they reached a point withinsixty or seventy yards of the French position.
You have forty francs' worth of boxes and tickets to sell, and sixty francs' worth of books to convert into cash.
After he had paid, there remained but three hundred and sixty francs out of the two thousand which he had brought with him from Angouleme, and he had been but one week in Paris!
There is the worth of sixty thousand francs here in the furniture; but I could not bear to think of my Coralie in want.
Since her mother sold her three years ago for sixty thousand francs, she has tried to find happiness, and found nothing but annoyance.
Coralie is eighteen years old, and in a few days' time she may be making sixtythousand francs a year by her beauty.
Matifat, a wealthy druggist of the Rue des Lombards, had imagined that a little Boulevard actress would have no very expensive tastes, but in eleven months Florine had cost him sixty thousand francs.
My expenses every month will not exceed sixty francs, everything included, until the winter begins --at least I hope not.
Lucien studied the gait and carriage of the young men on the Terrasse, and took a lesson in fine manners while he meditated on his three hundred and sixty francs.
I have a hundred romances in manuscript, and I have not a hundred and sixty thousand francs in my cash box, alas!
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