Eighty

Examples

• It cannot have been upward of three hundred and seventy or eighty days. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• This was Brother Alexander--dead two hundred and eighty years. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I am now somewhere between seventy and eighty years of age--never mind exactly where! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I went there and found over eighty cells of the well-known Grove nitric-acid battery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Five Years Later Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Moreover, a special type of wire had been put up for the single circuit of two hundred and eighty miles between New York and Washington. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He'll be eighty-two next birthday. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• At seventy five I expect to wear loud waistcoats with fancy buttons; also gaiter tops; at eighty I expect to learn how to play bridge whist and talk foolishly to the ladies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is eighty feet high and is fronted like some fantastic pagan temple. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Yes, he was his heir, and the old boy is nearly eighty--cram full of gout, too. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• On the 19th of March he was at Columbia, Tennessee, eighty-five miles from Pittsburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Before he set out, Fred got the eighty pounds from his mother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I said we had eighty thousand convicts employed on the railways in America--all of them under sentence of death for murder in the first degree. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It consisted of one small dynamo of a capacity of two hundred and eighty lights of 10 c. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Various reasons conspired to cause the departure from Menlo Park midway in the eighties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The late Jacob Hess, a famous New York Republican politician, was a member of the commission appointed to put the wires underground in New York City, in the eighties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was only in the eighties of the nineteenth century that this body of inquiry began to yield results to impress the vulgar mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• During the seventies and eighties a stormy controversy raged throughout the civilized world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the early eighties one of Mr. Baldwin’s 1875 models found its way to Europe into the hands of one Ohdner, a Swede. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Edison’s, in truth, was the master mind, the forming spirit of all the advances made in the seventies and eighties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Typist: Rudy