These and many practical details had resulted in an expansion of the fifteen proposals of the Virginia plan to twenty-three.

He first despatched Cineas to Tarentum with three thousand men; next he collected from Tarentum many horse-transports, decked vessels, and boats of all sorts, and embarked upon them twenty elephants, twenty-three thousand cavalry, twenty-two thousand infantry, and five hundred slingers.

He puts as many plums in his pudding as my grandmother used to do; and, then his emerging from Hell's horrors into light, and treading on pure flats of this earthfor twenty-three books together!

One by one he read out twenty-three names, the very first being that of the man who had made the speech which I have reported.

If you will not give me your promiseI do not ask for any hostages or security, just your promise as loyal, honourable menI shall arrest you all here and now, and deport you all just as those twenty-three have been arrested and will be deported.

Whilst inspecting one of the books recently we came to a hymn of thirteen verses, and thought that wasn't so badwas partly long enough for anybody; but we grew suddenly pale on directly afterwards finding one nearly twice the sizeone with twenty-three mortal verses in it.

Those best known and most frequently quoted are "On His Deceased Wife," "To the Nightingale," "On Reaching the Age of Twenty-three," "The Massacre in Piedmont," and the two "On His Blindness.

It was twenty-three long centuries ago that a Greek soldier of fortune, who had the honor to be also a disciple of Socrates, was leading ten thousand mercenaries back to their native land after their famous failure to set the Younger Cyrus on the throne of Persia.

Buduica herself, heading an army of about twenty-three myriads of men, rode on a chariot and assigned the rest to their several stations.

23-28, Luke vi. 1-5 (the plucking of the ears on the Sabbath day), there are fifty-one points (words or parts of words) common to all three Evangelists, twenty-three are common only to Mark and Luke, ten to Mark and Matthew, and eight to Matthew and Luke.

His wife outlived him twenty-three years, and died May 3, 1720, at the age of seventy-seven.

Joel gave the shoulder to one, but the second dived through Kingdon, and the runner came to earth on the twenty-three-yard line, with Joel tugging at him in the hope of advancing the pigskin another foot.

As late as the census of 1869 seven villages were reported with 104 boys and one girl, twenty-three villages with 284 boys and twenty-three girls and many others in similar proportions.

"As I look back on it, I make a lot more sense out of it" (she might have been, by her accent, fifty instead of twenty-three), "and I can see that he wasn't nearly as bad as I thought him.

Thus it appears that those persons who continued servants during the whole period between the jubilees, were by law released from their labor, TWENTY-THREE YEARS AND SIXTY-FOUR DAYS, OUT OF FIFTY YEARS, and those who remained a less time, in nearly the same proportion.

snarled Two-twenty-three.

" In 1815, he then being twenty-three, he first met the successful prima donna Isabella Colbran, who was then thirty years old and had been singing for fourteen years on the stage.

"My darling, it's nearly twenty-three years ago that she died.

"Ah! how happy would it have been for me, had I spent in retirement these twenty-three years that I have possessed my kingdom."See

Twenty-three thousand and one, twenty-three thousand and two, twenty-three thousand and three; little girl skipping rope.

*** There are still twenty-three wars in progress, declares a Sunday contemporary.

In consideration of their great importunity, twenty-three of us agreed to go along with them well armed, with a fixed resolution to sell our lives dear if necessity required.

Bartlett was younger than I, entering service when scarcely beyond boyhood, losing a leg at Ball's Bluff, and when only twenty-three Colonel of the 49th Massachusetts.

"You are twenty-three years old, Zara, and you were married at sixteen," he said at last.

This remark sufficed to unsettle the hero's evidently very tottering reason, and he roamed wildly about until the queen recognized her error, and sent twenty-three knights in search of him.