Fifty or thereabouts is only the childhood, as it were, of old age; the graybeard youngster must be weaned from his late suppers now.

One hundred and thirty-two of these he fitted for college; fifty became ministers, and six foreign missionaries.

Of the three thousand members, says a Wesleyan missionary, "not fifty are whitesa larger number are colored; but the greater part black."

In ten short years she would be fifty years old, and fifty was half a century: old enough to be somebody's grandmother.

These old fifties are great travellers off the wind; and more than once I fancied the Leander was going to lay across my bows, as she did athwart those of the Frenchman, at the Nile.

"My lord," quoth he, "fifty and three is a goodly number; must they all die to-morrow?" "To-morrow?

No doubt a man of fifty may hold that fifty is the age of sound taste and sense; and a youth of twenty-three may maintain that he is as good a judge of human doings now as he will ever be.

'Good,' says I. 'Now, Charlie, you cut wood, haul water, and keep things goin' out there and your fifty is waitin' for you on Tuesday.

At length Joe had stripped off the hide and dragged it trailing to the shore, declaring that it weighed a hundred pounds, though probably fifty would have been nearer the truth.

Close to fifty per cent of the audiences are people attracted from surrounding cities.

In the interim, two vessels, laden with provisions and carrying two hundred men, one hundred fifty of whom were soldiers commanded by Cristoval Serrano, arrived from Santo Domingo.

Our fighting men numbered only about one hundred and ten, and fifty of them were raw recruits.

A battle ensued, in which upwards of fifty of the enemy were killedour loss was one killed, and eight wounded.