This sum, which we have reason to believe was duly paid by said SALADIN at the time appointed, when reduced from golden byzants into greenbacks, and compound-interest at seven per centum for the term of six hundred and seventy-nine years calculated thereupon, will be found to amount to upwards of one hundred and seventy thousand million dollars.

The whole water of the river (except what escapes by the subsidiary channel we had crossed, and by a similar one on the north side) being previously confined to a bed of scarcely one hundred feet in breadth, descends at once in a magnificent cascade of full four hundred feet in height.

It came out, reduced by desertion as well as by almost incredible hardships, with barely seven hundred.

A hundred tuftys.

To be sure it was a gallery seat, for the terrace from which we started stood fully five hundred feet above the bottom of the valley, and we had ascended approximately seven hundred feet above that, giving us an altitude of, say, twelve hundred feet in all above the level of the river; but a gallery seat suited me.

Ever since the establishment of itinerant justices, now considerably over seven hundred years, going circuit has been an interesting and important ceremony, attended with great pomp and circumstance.

The salary, I regret to say, is not commensurate with your value, being merely twenty-four hundred a year; but as you will have part of the day to yourself you will doubtless be able to supplement that sum in other ways.

They formed a rude quadrilateral, roughly seven hundred yards from north to south, and three hundred from east to west, were from twenty-five to thirty feet high and of varying thickness.

This was open ground, a breadth of turf bordering on one of the great cirquesa rudely oval pit at a guess little less than seven hundred feet in its narrowest diameter and something like four hundred in depth, a vast black well against whose darkness the blue-white moonglare etched a strange grouping of figures, seven in all.

If he means to withdraw his beggarly two hundred and fifty pounds, of course he'll do it.

Beautiful lotsvaluable water privilegesshall I say one hundred for you?" "Oui, monsieur; I will give you von hundred dollar apiece, for de lot vid de valuarble vatare privalege; c'est ça." "Only one hundred apiece for these sixty valuable lotsonly one hundredgoinggoinggoinggone!" Monsieur Poopoo was the fortunate possessor.

Accordingly when they were some hundred Miles asunder, each of them shut himself up in his Closet at the Time appointed, and immediately cast his Eye upon his Dial-plate.

Next morning the beach was strewed with fragments of the wreck, and upward of two hundred of the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers were washed ashore.

Some hundreds of paces further south, a hot spring (50° R.), twelve feet broad, flows from the east, depositing silicious sinter at its edges.

What a useful thing to us poor, mud-stranded mortals to find out that there is another little fragment of a world, away some hundreds of millions of miles, outside of no particular wherefor I believe this astronomical detective is only on its track!

It stands on an isolated rook, rising perpendicularly two hundred feet above the sea, and connected with the cliffs of the mainland by a narrow arch of masonry.

NOT ALONE By Eunice V. Pike Many hundreds of languages in the world today have never been reduced to writing.

The trains arrive at the hospital bases, hundreds, positively hundreds of them, full of wounded.

When the draft came the inventor found, much to his surprise, that it was for thirty thousand poundsnearly one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

It was well that he had fallen; Harold, thrown forward a few feet, touched the earth upon the edge of the rocky bank that descended precipitously a hundred feet or more to the rivera few steps further, and horse and rider would have plunged over the verge of the bluff.

I compute my self, when I am in full Health, to be precisely Two Hundred Weight, falling short of it about a Pound after a Day's Fast, and exceeding it as much after a very full Meal; so that it is my continual Employment, to trim the Ballance between these two Volatile Pounds in my Constitution.

Instead of granting a general armistice and thus conciliating his distracted people, he treacherously used his new-won power to crucify publicly eight hundred of the Pharisees.

The temple-caves are seldom more than one hundred and fifty feet deep and fifty feet in width, and the roofs are supported by pillars like the interior of Gothic cathedrals, some of which are of beautiful proportions with elaborated capitals.

"These," said he, "added to the week-day servicesmakeexactly one hundred and fifty-six sermons, discourses, and homilies for the year."

Suddenly, without warning, you come squarely upon Mont St. Michel, rising solidly five hundred feet from nowhere.