71 examples of sixtieth in sentences

[of November] without the smallest circumstance of irregularity.' Thus ended one of the greatest acts in the drama of the British Empire, the English-speaking peoples, or the world; and thus, for the second time, Carleton, now in his sixtieth year, apparently ended his own long service in America.

Alexander, when he sighed for more worlds to conquer, had in reality made himself lord of less than a quarter of Asia and of about one-sixtieth part of Europe.

But that life, long, honorable, and useful, had already been prolonged considerably beyond the sixtieth year, and there were but too many circumstances, besides the recent fine, which tended to hasten as well as to embitter its close.

Could you look into a large open room, which we call a verandah, you would see Mr. Judson bent over his table covered with Burman books, with his teacher at his side, a venerable-looking man in his sixtieth year, with a cloth wrapped round his middle and a handkerchief on his head.

Their drop, or sixtieth part of a fluid drachm, is called a minim.

The time is coming when the imp of parsimony will no longer be mistaken for the spirit of economy; when a woman possessed of ordinary human frailty will no longer be required to guide, direct, develop, train, help, love, and be patient with sixty little ones, just beginning to tread the difficult paths of learning, and each receiving just one sixtieth of what he craves.

" Lady Mary was now in her sixtieth year, and asked for nothing better than peace and comfort.

Seven atmospheres of sleep seemed resting upon him; and, to consummate the case, our worthy guard, after singing "Love amongst the Roses," for the fiftieth or sixtieth time, without any invitation from Cyclops or myself, and without applause for his poor labors, had moodily resigned himself to slumbernot so deep doubtless as the coachman's, but deep enough for mischief; and having, probably, no similar excuse.

In man the sixtieth part is a very venerable age.

To take no other instances, there can be no doubt that the celebrated English poets of the early part of this century, Scott, Wordsworth, Southey, became intellectually dull and incapable towards the end of their days, nay, soon after passing their sixtieth year; and that their imbecility can be traced to the fact that, at that period of life, they were all led on?

Although she had passed her sixtieth year, she, too, still retained a youthful air as she went about, silent and active, in her eternal black gown and white cap that gave her the look of a nun, with her small, white, calm face, and lusterless eyes, the light in which seemed to have been extinguished.

In his sixtieth year he had a mind to write the history of his melancholy; but he desisted, not knowing whether it would not too much disturb him.

" It took him fourteen yearssurely a sufficient time!to recover from this disappointment; for he is in his forty-first year, when, in his Sixtieth Sonnet, he represents himself as having been then one year enamored of Elizabeth: "So since the winged god his planet cleare Began in me to move, one yeare is spent; The which doth longer unto me appears Than all those fourty which my life outwent.

This last year is not counted, because most of the events in it are recorded in the sixtieth book.

[Footnote 3: A fathom, 10-1/3 feet, is the sixtieth part of a stade, 620 feet.

At about the sixtieth day she will begin to be uneasy and restless.

It extends to the station of Douchak at the six hundred and sixtieth verst, which we reach at six o'clock in the morning.

The Currency Law.%In the midst of the panic the Sixtieth Congress met and in the course of its session enacted (for six years) a currency law.

On the surface of the earth, at the equator, each side of this polygon would be one-sixtieth of a geographical mile, or 101.46 feet.

On the arrival of the Court in Paris the seals were taken from the Chancellor, and delivered into the keeping of Guillaume du Vair, who was at that period in his sixtieth year, on the pretext that so important a charge must be oppressive to M. de Sillery at his advanced age; a subterfuge which could not have failed to excite the discontent of the people had they not distrusted his cupidity as much as Marie was wearied of his services.

Queen Stultitia, the sixtieth of that name to rule, received them friendlily.

Presented to A. L. Kroeber in celebration of his sixtieth birthday.

They could hardly be expected to do otherwise when a pound of tobacco would often bring in England more than a bushel of wheat, while it cost only a sixtieth part as much to send it thither.

SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CLASS OF 1832THE WOMAN'S BIBLE XXVIII.

In his Sixtieth Year] The third of the posthumous pieces, however, The Jewess of Toledo, may perhaps be said to mark the climax of Grillparzer's productive activity.

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