Fifty

Examples

• I am sufficiently well off to keep a hundred and fifty ton steam yacht, which is at present lying at Southampton, ready to start when I wish. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Upward of three thousand such machines were then at work throughout the world; and one hundred and fifty million pairs of boots were then being made annually thereon. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Fifty thousand men are said to have been killed and ten thousand prisoners taken. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Upon this machine 10,010 button holes have been made in nine hours and fifty minutes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half miles an hour. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• They came down the last two hundred yards, moving carefully from tree to tree in the shadows and now, through the last pines of the steep hillside, the bridge was only fifty yards away. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Get a quarter or half a pound of dark green ink, which is put up in collapsible tubes costing from fifty cents to $2 per pound, according to quality. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• At that time he was in the prime of life, being less than fifty years of age, and possessed an admirable physique, promising long life. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Law bless you, you ain't far from fifty yourself. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• For aught I knew, there might have been fifty of you at least to victual. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A man to-day buys a ready-made shirt for fifty cents, which fifty years ago would have cost him $2. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Well, I guess, Mr Roylands, half a dozen Englishmen are worth fifty Greeks! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She was a lady of about fifty, I should think, youthfully dressed, and of a very fine complexion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• With the flies a falling into the gallipots by fifties! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• My aunt is full of copy-book axioms, but they were all meant to apply to conduct in the early fifties. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• On the second day, the number of Hindoos travelling in my direction had increased to fifties and hundreds. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

Editor: Patrick