9036 examples of nine in sentences

The year after Preble's recall, another New-England man, William Eaton, led an army of nine Americans from Egypt to Derne, the easternmost province of Tripoli,a march of five hundred miles over the Desert.

"Certainly," says Pascal Paoli Peek, a non-commissioned officer of marines, one of the nine, "certainly it was one of the most extraordinary expeditions ever set on foot."

There were eight nine-pounders mounted on a bastion looking seaward, but useless against a land-attack.

After several fruitless attempts to buy over the rebel Arabs, the Bey, on the 13th of May, made a sudden attack upon the quarter of the town held by Hamet's forces, and drove all before him as far as the Governor's house; but a few volleys from the nine-pounders sent him and his troops back at full speed.

As to the question of expense: the whole cost of the expedition, up to the evacuation of Derne, was thirty-nine thousand dollars.

A prize-crew of nine Turks was sent on board; the captain, two men, and a boy left in her to do the work; she was ordered to Algiers; and the pirate sailed away.

A communication would doubtless have been made from the Home Office to some one at Folking, and as that would be sent out by the foot-postman it would not be received before nine in the morning.

In the studio there were some eighteen or twenty young men, and among these there were some four or five from whom I could learn; and there were also there some eight or nine young English girls.

I continued the struggle for nine months.

Nor is there in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases in a thousand any doubt that the hand, that spends at least a pound a day in restaurants and cabs, will succeed in gathering the muslin flower if he so wills it, and by doing so he will delight every one.

Nor is there in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases in a thousand any doubt that the hand, that spends at least a pound a day in restaurants and cabs, will succeed in gathering the muslin flower if he so wills it, and by doing so he will delight every one.

THE FACE IN THE WINDOW BY WILLIAM DUDLEY PELLEY From The Red Book At nine o'clock this morning Sheriff Crumpett entered our New England town post-office for his mail.

Sometime between nine o'clock and midnightshe had no way of telling accuratelyCora McBride stumbled into the Lyons clearing.

Nine new gospel songs; the beautiful in gospel song.

Nine new gospel songs.

Phyllis White (W); 3May68; R434972. Nine times nine, by H. H. Holmes, pseud.

Phyllis White (W); 3May68; R434972. Nine times nine, by H. H. Holmes, pseud.

Contemporary drama, nine plays.

Contemporary drama, nine plays.

There are those who believe that every great catastrophe throws its shadow before it, but Charlton was never more hopeful than when he lifted his dripping oars from the water at half-past nine o'clock, and said: "What a grand ride we've had!

"[50] To perpetuate the memory of this philosophic deduction he caused to be constructed at Tezcuco a stone tower nine stories in height, the ruins of which were visible long after the Spanish occupation.

To this tower he gave the name Chililitli, a term of uncertain meaning, but which we find was applied in Tenochtitlan to a building sacred to the Nine Winds.

To explain the introduction of this number, I should add that a certain school of Nahuatl priests taught that the heaven above and the earth below were each divided into nine concentric arcs, each leading farther and farther away from the conditions of the present life.

Hence, there were nine heavens, abodes of the gods, and nine lower regions, abodes of the souls of the dead.

Hence, there were nine heavens, abodes of the gods, and nine lower regions, abodes of the souls of the dead.

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