2866 examples of eighties in sentences

In the eighties the great concern of the government was to make a harmonious whole out of two very widely differing partsthe long-settled French Canadians and the newly arrived United Empire Loyalists.

Carleton's is the only personality which links together all four decadesthe would-be American sixties, the French-Canadian seventies, the Anglo-French-Canadian eighties, and the bi-constitutional ninetiesthough, as mentioned already, Murray ruled Canada for the first seven years, 1759-66.

"As early as the eighties in the last century, Friedrich Engels proved that the ruin of England's industrial monopoly had begun.

Before the era of the great bacteriologic discoveries of the eighties and nineties, the concordance of esoteric racial and personal markings was a great help in diagnosis to the physician.

After some slight difficulty I ascertained that my representative is a Mr. Burdett Coutts, who was, in the romantic eighties, Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett.

But no one who has read the history of the Reform Bill of 1832 or of the Chartist movement or who remembers the passions stirred up by the Franchise agitation and the Home Rule struggle of the eighties will swallow that explanation without mentally choking.

In the early eighties after a study of the flow due to the tidal differences, a tidal lock near the Pacific was provided.

We came to California in the eighties, and in '93, if my memory serves me, Uncle Jap discovered bituminous rock in a corner of his ranch.

There are, in the cross streets, plenty of doctors between the Seventies and Eighties.

" Way back in the "eighties" when I'm just a kid, I crossed up with a breed gal I'd met One winter at Circle; she cleaned me that year And skipped out with all she could get.

Jones, the electrician, had just finished reading the adventures of a young British gunner in these very waters somewhere back in the eighties.

While in Nome he had made the acquaintance of a former British seaman, who had cruised Arctic waters in the late eighties, when Japan was disputing the rights of Great Britain and the United States to close the seal fisheries.

In the early 'eighties, when they developed their great mass following, the mass of the workers were just learning to organize to resist the fierce exploitation of a ruthless capitalism.

The man of the early 'eighties of the last century began the actual construction.

But in Chicago, the disheveled, terrifying Chicago of the roaring eighties, to all intents and purposes alone, clinging precariously to a school-teacher's job which she had no special equipment for, she put up only the weakest resistance to David March's determination that she should be his wife.

The chief listened throughout the message with his eyes empty of us, conjuring a vision of the Rui who so far back had won his heart; and when Choti had concluded, Ori-a-Ori lifted his glass, and said, "Rui e Maru!" coupling me in his affection with the dim figure of his sweet guest of the late eighties.

These are the new conditions, and the middle-aged and elderly gentlemen who are dealing with the crisis on the supposition that their vast experience of Labour questions in the 'seventies and 'eighties furnishes valuable guidance in this present issue are merely bringing the gunpowder of misapprehension to the revolutionary fort.

I don't know if the reader remembers it that, favourite melody of the early eighties: "Sweet dreamland faces, passing to and fro, (pum, pum) Bring back to Mem'ry days of long ago-o-o-oh," was the essence of it, very slow and tender and with an accompaniment of pum, pum.

I don't know the correct age of my grandmother but she was up in the eighties when she died.

In the development of Islamic spirit to pan-Islamic unity it would find new strength; and towards this end in the early eighties, while he was yet comparatively young, with intelligence unclouded and courage sufficient, Abdul Hamid patiently set himself.

Hunting big game in the eighties.

Hunting big game in the eighties; the letters of Elliott Roosevelt, sportsman.

England in the eighteen-eighties: toward a social basis for freedom.

The greater part is written either in fourteeners or in decasyllabic couplets with occasional alexandrines, in both of which the author displays an ease and mastery which, to say the least, were uncommon in the dramatic work of the early eighties; while the passages of blank verse introduced at important dramatic points, notably in Paris' defence and in Diana's speech, are the best of their kind between Surrey and Marlowe.

He came in the early eighties direct from India, where he had been Private Secretary to the Viceroy.

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