Our ships of peace patrol
thirty and one hundred seventy-five.
Food of no sort had passed her lips in more than
thirty hours, and her last meal had been a scanty breakfast of dry bread.
Then he went out, into a series of picturesque enterprises, until he had built up a four-square fortune; and recently, in 1907, he came back to be the head of the telephone business, and to complete the work of organization that he started
thirty years before.
The day after that in which the scene we have just described had taken place on the road between Bellegarde and Beaucaire, a man of about
thirty or two and
thirty, dressed in a bright blue frock coat, nankeen trousers, and a white waistcoat, having the appearance and accent of an Englishman, presented himself before the mayor of Marseilles.
At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit before the court which was commenced nearly twenty years ago, in which from
thirty to forty counsel have been known to appear at one time, in which costs have been incurred to the amount of seventy thousand pounds, which is A FRIENDLY SUIT, and which is
Let the reader picture to himself, crowning a limestone hillock, an oblong mass of masonry fifteen feet in height,
thirty wide, forty long, with a gate, an external railing and a platform; on this platform sixteen enormous pillars of rough hewn stone,
thirty feet in height, arranged in a colonnade round three of the four sides of the mass which support them, bound together at their summits by heavy beams, whence hung chains at intervals; on all these chains, skeletons; in the vicinity, on the plain, a stone cross and two gibbets of secondary importance, which seemed to have sprung up as shoots around the central gallows; above all this, in the sky, a perpetual flock of crows; that was Montfauçon.
There Burton, who was completely worn out, lay ill for several months, during which time Speke made a push to the northward of more than three hundred miles, going as far as Lake Okeracua, which he came in sight of on the 3d of August; but he could descry only the opening of it at latitude two degrees
thirty minutes.
I've got you, and
thirty millions couldn't buy you, nor three thousand millions, nor
thirty cents-"
The second that we shall mention is the tyranny of the Cypselidse, at Corinth, which continued seventy-seven years and six months; for Cypselus was tyrant there
thirty years, Periander forty-four, and Psammetichus, the son of Georgias, three years; the reason for which was, that Cypselus was a popular man, and governed without guards.
Actually, as I said, I am but just gone
thirty, and I may reasonably regard life, as the saying is, all before me.
God's own mad lover should do anything for the kiss, but not for
thirty thousand dollars a year.
Thirty years later, only the thick walls were standing, with the dull red brick showing here and there through a matted growth of clinging vines.