He returned an old man, though he was barely forty, speaking four or five languages, and poorer than when he had left it.

Though his face had lines in it and his complexion was far from brilliant he looked scarcely forty years of age, and his short, rough, sandy hair had not yet begun to turn grey.

The prospect opens as you advance in height; and from the top you command a very extensive view on all sides, and, in some directions, upwards of forty miles distant, over a rich and variegated country.

"Forty-five," said I. "No, indeed, I am not forty-five," answered she; "nor forty naither.

" The memorial and erratic clock of Our Square was just striking seven of the following morning, meaning approximately eight-forty, when my astonished eyes again beheld Martin Dyke seated on my bench, beautifully though inappropriately clad in full evening dress with a pink rose in his coat lapel, and gazing at Number 37 with a wild, ecstatic glare.

From Les Eparges around the nose of the salient at St. Mihiel to the Moselle River the line was roughly forty miles long and situated on commanding ground greatly strengthened by artificial defenses.

With each new block a new century of numbers begins, although there are seldom more than forty real numbers in a block.

"Listenthis is the description of that man, as given to the police by the landlady and her servants: 'Age, presumably between forty and forty-five years, medium height.

Little more than forty years ago this country was an absolute waste.

It is said that on that day, with the help of God and Big Ferre, who, with his own hand, as is certified, laid low more than forty, the greater part of the English who had come to this business never went back from it.