He is a man in the fifties.

The promotion of this movement by the Quakers was well on its way by 1815 and was not materially checked until the fifties when the operations of the drastic fugitive slave law interfered, and even then the movement had gained such momentum and the execution of that mischievous measure had produced in the North so much reaction like that expressed in the personal liberty laws, that it could not be stopped.

When the increase of fugitives was rendered impossible during the fifties when the Fugitive Slave Law was being enforced, there was still a steady growth due to the manumission of slaves by sympathetic and benevolent masters in the South.

In the forties and fifties, therefore, there came to the United States a number of labor agents whose aim was to set forth the inviting aspect of the situation in the West Indies so as to induce free Negroes to try their fortunes there.

In the stirring years of the early fifties Douglass led a busy life.

The excavation of all these buildings and many others took place in the forties and fifties of last century, and were due to the energy of Mr. John Clayton, the learned and zealous antiquary, in the possession of whose family the estate still remains.

Uncle David and his fifties wouldn't be back among them for two years or more.

[Illustration: SACRAMENTO CITY IN THE EARLY FIFTIES]

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.

The church is extraordinary for the number of its side chapels and its amazing mixture of styles, but the interior has an air of much dignity and even beauty, which was greatly added to by a restoration which took place during the fifties of the last century.

The Charleston Mercury attributed the advance of slave prices in the fifties mainly to the demand of the railroads for labor.

At Richmond in the middle 'fifties this was commonly yielding the slaves from two to five dollars a month for their own uses; and these establishments, along with all other slave employers, suspended work for more than a week at the Christmas season.

in the possession of Mrs. A.S. Erwin, Athens, Ga.] The rest of the 'forties and the first half of the 'fifties were a period of comparative quiet; but in 1855 there were rumors in Dorchester and Talbot Counties, Maryland, and the autumn of 1856 brought widespread disturbances which the Southern whites did not fail to associate with the rise of the Republican Party.

Rural Southern lynch law in that period, however, was in large part a special product of the sparseness of population and the resulting weakness of legal machinery, for as Olmsted justly remarked in the middle 'fifties, the whole South was virtually still in a frontier condition.

The book had contained the report of some forgotten architect, back in the fifties of the last century, and the diagram in his report showed the water and sewage conduitin use!

He was a man in his middle-fifties, of average height and weight, with a full head of wavy blond hair.

I.A Broken Idyll Early in the fifties there was living in Moscow, in very straitened circumstances, almost in poverty, the numerous family of the Princes Osinin.

The old maid (The 'fifties) Decorations by E. C. Caswell.

AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION, NEW YORK America of the fifties.

America of the fifties.

BREMER, FREDRIKA. America of the fifties: letters of Fredrika Bremer, selected and edited by Adolph B. Benson.

Fire; the fifties, by Ruth Comfort Mitchell.

City of the golden fifties.

The feminine fifties.

" Who was she, this woman whose beauty dazzled the eyes and whose witchery turned the heads of men in the forties and fifties of last century?