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forty-eight

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Adj.1.forty-eightforty-eight - being eight more than forty          
cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"


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It chanced, some time ago, that I made a voyage of one hundred and forty-eight days in a windjammer around the Horn.
On Monday I am going from Southampton to Boulogne for forty-eight hours, to attend a court martial there.
Took me, too; took the colonels, the captains, the women, the children, and the dumb brutes; took Buffalo Bill, and all his scouts; took the garrison - to the last man; and in forty-eight hours the Indian encampment was hers, illustrious old Thunder-Bird and all.
 
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