The compositor was Mr. Manning, a decent sensible man, who had composed about one half of his Dictionary, when in Mr. Strahan's printing-house; and a great part of his Lives of the Poets, when in that of Mr. Nichols; and who (in his seventy-seventh year), when in Mr. Baldwin's printing-house, composed a part of the first edition of this work concerning him.

Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington, this 25th day of February, A.D. 1853, and of the Independence Of the United States the seventy-seventh.

The opera-dancer was as essential to Archducal existence as the seventy-seventh quartering on the Hapsburg arms.

At the close of the instrument it will also be advisable to substitute "seventy-eighth" for "seventy-seventh" year of the Independence of the United States.

And he went down to Jericho with Mattathias and Judas his sons, in the one hundred and seventy-seventh year, in the eleventh month, that is the month Sebat.

I remember it distinctly for it was the seventy-seventh birthday of my father, to whom I wished to write a congratulatory letter.

Her portrait of Goethe, in his seventy-seventh year, is in the Museum at Weimar.

During the severe winter of 1788, the Abbé, already in his seventy-seventh year, denied himself a fire in his apartment, and refused to purchase fuel for this purpose, lest he should exceed the moderate sum which necessarily limited the annual expenditure of his establishment.