Ninety

Examples

• Hence I was led to dry the stems and branches of ninety-four plants with ripe fruit, and to place them on sea-water. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By 1872 two hundred and ninety-nine Fourdrinier machines were running in the United States alone. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When I take a gentleman to my house, no matter whether he is nineteen, twenty-nine, or ninety, I take him there in a spirit of confidence. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• When they volunteered the government had only called for ninety days' enlistments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But I'll wager that at ninety she would be near as upright as me, and near as broad across the shoulders. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We wanted a hundred and ten pounds: your mother has ninety-two, and I have none to spare in the bank; and she thinks that you have some savings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Siemens had in operation a road about one thousand six hundred feet in length, on which it is estimated ninety-five thousand passengers were conveyed in seven weeks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I had ninety pounds a year (exclusive of my house-rent and sundry collateral matters) from my aunt. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In going ninety miles it does not get over more than fifty miles of ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The call was for 75,000 volunteers for ninety days' service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In another moment the deck reared at an angle of ninety degrees and we hung in our leather with feet dangling a thousand yards above the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It is a fact which will be long remembered as remarkable down there, that she was never drowned, but died triumphantly in bed, at ninety-two. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is cut in the solid rock, and is nine feet square and ninety feet deep. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Ninety per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Along in the late nineties a keen interest in bicycle racing led to the introduction of what is known as the motor-paced tandem. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There was little or no interest in motor vehicles of any description in that period of the early nineties, consequently the Pennington efforts were fruitless. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The DeDion motor was used in some of the racing motor tandems which appeared in this country in the late nineties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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