One old man of seventy-nine could only walk to the yard in which the others were gathered by the help of his wife's arm.

Scott had lost, in that day's work, more than a thousand men in killed and wounded, seventy-nine of whom were officers.

In the libraries of Europe today there exist seventy-nine manuscripts of the De inventione, eighty-three of the Ad Herennium, forty of the De oratore, fourteen of the Brutus, and twenty of the Orator.

In this engagement she lost seventy-nine killed and wounded, while the Constitution lost but thirteen.

As to the schooner being provisioned for a month, the bill of the provisions on board, purchased in Washington, was produced on the trial, and they were found to amount to three bushels of meal, two hundred and six pounds of pork, and fifteen gallons of molasses, which, with a barrel of bread, purchased in Alexandria, would make rather a short month's supply for seventy-nine persons!

Ten minutes later the innings was over, with Barnes not out sixteen, for seventy-nine.

The Ottoman force consisted of seventy-nine vessels, armed with twenty-two hundred and forty guns.

The story is related by Remond, surnamed "The Greek," and must be taken with a grain of salt as Ninon was at that time seventy-nine years of age.

The crew was composed of seventy-nine persons, comprising Chinese, Malays, Cingalese, Bengalese, Hindostanese, and Europeans.

" "I was readin' of a lady that got married at seventy-nine, ma'am.

He had lived seventy-nine years among scenes of great interest, and had known men of remarkable genius.

Chingossamo (Big Sail), of Cheboigan, having migrated to the Manitouline Islands with thirteen families, about seventy-nine souls, an election was this day held, at this office, by the Indians, to supply the place of ruling chief.

He actually went arter one situation, and, if it hadn't ha' been for seventy-nine other men, he said he believed he'd ha' had a good chance of getting it.

Seventy-nine dollars marked down from one hundred.

I know you is seventy-nine 'cause I'm seventy-four

An enumeration, made near the close of the year, showed a total of three hundred and seventy-nine souls, including those absent in the Rancocus, and excluding the Kannakas.

"Can you read the number?" "Five thousand two hundred and seventy-nine.

Nothing is too "modern" for this wonderful "old" lady of seventy-nine; and, whenever I am in town, we always go together to the most "advanced" play in the newest of new theatres.

I'm seventy-nine years old.

The labourer whose decease was reported to the Board upon their assembling was born some seventy-eight or seventy-nine years ago.

Hamilton started with thirty-six British regulars, under two lieutenants, forty-five Detroit volunteers (chiefly French), who had been carefully drilled for over a year, under Captain Lamothe; seventy-nine Detroit militia, under a major and two captains; and seventeen members of the Indian Department (including three captains and four lieutenants) who acted with the Indians.

It was finally agreed that the garrison, seventy-nine men in all, [Footnote: Letter to Henry.

Lefevre of Etaples, who was the most of all in sympathy with Calvin, was seventy-nine years old, and had made up his mind to pass his last days in peace.

They were imprisoned in Lares, Arecibo, and Aguadilla, and, while awaiting their trial, an epidemic, brought on by the unsanitary conditions of the prisons in which they were packed, speedily carried off seventy-nine of them.

The first is a Memorial, signed by seventy-nine males and ninety-two females, of the Plantation.