For the next
sixty-nine evenings he would be dining in cheviot and worsted at dubious table d'hotes , at whirlwind lunch counters, on sandwiches and beer in his hall-bedroom.
Just think--it'll be a hundred and
sixty-nine years to-morrow since I was here!
Their stock consisted of one thousand two hundred and
sixty-nine oxen, one thousand five hundred and fifty-seven cows, five thousand and seven young cattle, four hundred and ninety-three horses, eight thousand six hundred and ninety sheep, and four thousand one hundred and ninety-seven hogs.
In combined length these three stones stretch nearly two hundred feet; they are thirteen feet square; two of them are sixty-four feet long each, and the third is
sixty-nine. They are built into the massive wall some twenty feet above the ground.
Here he had been blowing and bragging about his grand meat-feast twice a year, and his fresh meat twice a month, and his salt meat twice a week, and his white bread every Sunday the year round -- all for a family of three; the entire cost for the year not above 69.2.6 (
sixty-nine cents, two mills and six milrays), and all of a sudden here comes along a man who slashes out nearly four dollars on a single blow-out; and not only that, but acts as if it made him tired to handle such small sums.
When she was an old woman of
sixty-nine she shot "Bloody" Halcliffe down in the midst of his armed escort and got away unscathed.
I wish there were only three hundred and
sixty-nine."
Why was it that Methuselah lived nine hundred years, and `Old Parr'one hundred and
sixty-nine, and yet that poor Lucy, with four men's blood in her poor veins, could not live even one day?
"Question (number five hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine): If I understand you, these forms of practice indisputably occasion delay?
of the Republic, and now
sixty-nine years old, came to see them on Sundays only, because on that day no government business went on.
He had taken two hundred and
sixty-nine steps--afterward he knew that he should never forget that number--when something bumped gently against him from behind.