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Sentences starting with fifty

Fifty thousand people who have lost friends, or who have had friends crippled, receive that Fourth of July, when it comes, as a day of mourning for the losses they have sustained in their families. [5]
Fifty years ago we passed through, in all essentials, what France has been passing through during the past two or three years, in the matter of periodical frights, horrors, and shudderings. [5]
Fifty things occurred to her, and fifty were set aside. [11]
Fifty guns shook the town, the great O'Reilly limped ashore through the smoke, and Louisiana was lost to France. [9]
Fifty years ago, the tobacco-chewing region covered the Union. [5]
Fifty yards down the gulch they had found him--that is, they had found a crushed and lifeless mass which represented him. [5]
Fifty miles of such travel to see a little water run down-hill! [4]
Fifty proofs of steel engravings and lithographs were scattered around, too. [5]
Fifty years later stage-wagons ran, with some regularity, between London and Liverpool; and before the close of the seventeenth century the stagecoach, a wonderful invention, which had been used in and about London since 1650, was placed on three principal roads of the kingdom. [4]
Fifty of her seamen had been killed, and a hundred and fifty were wounded by the time she reached the starboard side of the Aquitaine. [11]

Sentences ending with fifty

At thirty the youth has sobered into manhood, but the strong men of forty rise in almost unbroken rank between him and the approaches of old age as they show in the men of fifty. [6]
I think you will find less than fifty. [7]
The other class were the active agents, and were termed strikers, and amounted to about six hundred and fifty. [5]
The Southerner shot up fifty. [9]
He was along toward fifty. [5]
This very day three things had smitten Jean Jacques, and, if three, why not four or five, or fifty! [11]
I wrote as though I was fifty. [11]
In my youth the monarchs of England had ceased to touch for the evil, but there was no occasion for this diffidence: they could have cured it forty-nine times in fifty. [5]
So him and the dervish laid into it, and they loaded every camel till he couldn't carry no more; then they said good-bye, and each of them started off with his fifty. [5]
For, after all, the captain was but twenty-one and I nineteen, and the distinguished unknown at least fifty. [9]

Short sentences using fifty

Ten, twenty, fifty seconds passed. [11]
Lemme have fifty pounds, Richard. [9]
It was fifty pounds altogether. [11]
Why, fifty pounds, perhaps. [11]
Can I have fifty? [7]
Fifty years--what are fifty years! [11]
It cuts off fifty mile. [11]
No'm, not for fifty dollars. [9]
Fifty, then, are certain. [10]
About fifty, or along there. [8]

Sentences containing fifty two or more times

Why, he'll read your wrinkles as easy as a book, and not only tell you fifty or sixty things that's going to happen to you, but fifty or sixty thousand that ain't. [5]
But even if you find fifty, make sure of the other fifty, that is, make sure of all you can, at all events. [7]
Only fifty cents, they say--only fifty cents most of you miss from your envelopes. [9]
Over there on the Ariadne are a hundred and fifty wounded at least, and fifty have been killed. [11]
In Australia and Tasmania they gave a convict fifty for almost any little offense; and sometimes a brutal officer would add fifty, and then another fifty, and so on, as long as the sufferer could endure the torture and live. [5]
If it will take them fifty miles, very well; let it be fifty. [5]
Keep the ball rolling, gentlemen, keep it rolling!--fifty!--thanks, noble Roman!--going at fifty, fifty, fifty!--seventy!--ninety!--splendid!--a hundred!--pile it up, pile it up!--hundred and twenty--forty!--just in time!--hundred and fifty!--Two hundred!--superb! [5]
Behold America, the refuge of the oppressed from everywhere (who can pay fifty dollars' admission)--any one except a Chinaman--standing up for human rights everywhere, even helping China let people in free when she wants to collect fifty dollars upon them. [5]
Quicker than thought, quicker than the lightning's flash, fifty monkish habits disappeared, and fifty knights in splendid armor stood revealed! [5]
For this work, pay one dollar and fifty cents per "thousand" for composition, and one dollar and fifty cents per "token" for press-work, in greenbacks. [5]

More example sentences with the word fifty in them

One man, whom your correspondent spoke to, said that he had had one hundred and fifty head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs. [5]
Yet I tell you that, heavy as your losses may seem, Spargapises, Tomyris and fifty thousand Massagetae can never outweigh the spirit of one king of Persia, least of all of a Cyrus. [10]
As it is, you have fallen into an annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds a year; but I think I may congratulate you even upon that. [12]
It was fifty years old, and was growing slowly--very slowly, in fact, but still it was growing. [5]
More than fifty years of his sixty-five were spent at sea. [5]
In the Palace yard a thousand men stood at attention, and at their head was Cushnan Di with fifty hillsmen. [11]
But it was written by Parson Halleck, a great minister and a sort of Pope in this region for fifty years. [4]
Charles Augustus Murray, writing some forty-five or fifty years ago, said--'The streets are narrow, ill paved and ill lighted. [5]
I said it would cost us millions of dollars, and make all the other strikes we've had here look like fifty cents. [9]
Imagine a man worth a hundred millions who finds himself suddenly penniless and fifty million in debt in his old age. [5]
And the whole world for fifty years has been repeating: "Sublime! [2]
But a true word, fresh from the lips of a true man, is worth paying for, at the rate of eight dollars a day, or even of fifty dollars a lecture. [6]
It was a woman, between forty and fifty years of age, who rose slowly to her feet as the Avocat entered, and, without preliminary, put into his hands a document. [11]
After supper a woman got in, who lived about fifty miles further on, and we three had to take turns at sitting outside with the driver and conductor. [5]
When he was within fifty yards of the house, four Arabs intercepted him. [11]
I say it with shame, that I have learned fifty times, yes, a hundred times more about New Zealand in these two hours at this table than I ever knew before in all the eighteen years put together. [5]
These gallant gentlemen, with one hundred and fifty souls, had been wrecked on the Bermudas in the Sea Venture in the preceding July. [4]
But what I wish to say is, that notwithstanding certain unfavorable things in the condition of the English laborer and mechanic, his chance is better in the main than it was fifty years ago. [4]
The creditors were willing to accept fifty per cent. [5]
Our Venetian, Busino, who went to Oxford in the coach with the ambassador in 1617, was six days in going one hundred and fifty miles, as the coach often stuck in the mud, and once broke down. [4]
Two only escaped, who fled to the desert, and were followed one hundred and fifty miles before they were overtaken and slaughtered. [5]
Perhaps some time, when we have learned, we will let in a few of you, to look in at the door, fifty dollars a ticket, for some charity. [4]
People don't know what Cirri are, at least not one out of fifty readers. [6]
The privately printed West Point edition, the first printing of the text authorized by Mark Twain, of which but fifty copies were printed. [5]
The green plumes were worn by forty or fifty Austrian generals, the group opposite them were chiefly Knights of Malta and knights of a German order. [5]
Before his house were ranged forty or fifty great platters of fine bread. [4]
In the hold were more than one hundred and fifty English prisoners. [9]
These mighty defences were crowned and strengthened by two hundred and fifty high towers, and even these would have been insufficient, if Babylon had not been protected on one side by impassable morasses. [10]
Before September forty-one were buried, says Wingfield; fifty, says Smith in one statement, and forty-six in another; Percy gives a list of twenty-four who died in August and September. [4]
These men, however, were both over fifty years old. [11]
Therefore, five gentlemen were appointed to prepare the document, and the fifty others went sadly smiling about the ship--practicing. [5]
Here I am, well on the way to fifty, after twenty-five years of hard work, looking forward to the potential poor-house as confidently as I did in youth. [8]
Even fifty men, well intrenched, could hold the position until the main body of Ali Wad Hei's infantry came on. [11]
Well, one day we were lying in the open sea, about two hundred and fifty miles from Port Darwin. [11]
For fifty miles we travelled under it, towards the Gap, our eyes drawn to it by a resistless fascination. [9]
And why may we not for fifty times as long? [7]
Every work that we have had published has been extemporaneously written; and out of fifty lectures and sermons that we have delivered the last year, forty-four have been extemporaneous. [5]
The first thing we did on that glad evening that landed us at St. Joseph was to hunt up the stage-office, and pay a hundred and fifty dollars apiece for tickets per overland coach to Carson City, Nevada. [5]
Thus all the way up the diminishing shaft for fifty feet; then it begins to take the appearance of being closely wrapped, spool-fashion, with gray cord, or of having been turned in a lathe. [5]
Much the best way to work him to supply that thousand dollars is to split it into parts and contribute, say a hundred dollars a year, or fifty, or whatever the sum maybe. [5]
Suddenly, when he was within fifty paces, a cry escaped me,--I should have known that smiling, sallow, weakly handsome face anywhere in the world. [9]
When the horseman was within a hundred and fifty yards of him, the moon shone out suddenly and revealed each of them to the other. [6]
What distance that was to Cottonwoods he did not know; he calculated, however, that it was in the neighborhood of fifty miles. [13]
A message it was to Camp Pousette-- One that the half-breeds think on yet: "Dubois' gang are in Rocky Glen, Take a hundred and fifty men; Go by the next express," it said, "Bring them up here, alive or dead! [11]
But what I was thinking of was this--it struck me just as I was going out of the door: Didn't you tell me Lindau knew forty or fifty, different languages? [8]
Albeit the sun was not yet set, it was presently so dark that lights had been brought in and fifty tapers in the silver candlesticks added to the heat. [10]
Finally an assessment was levied to run a tunnel two hundred and fifty feet on the Daley, and Townsend went up on the hill to look into matters. [5]
And when he was done he handed me the paper, and I saw at a glance that during the year my income, in the way of profits, had been one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and forty cents. [5]
His bodily health was destroyed, his mind had lost its buoyancy, and he was now fifty years old. [10]
After breakfast he was conducted, with regal ceremony, attended by his great officers and his guard of fifty Gentlemen Pensioners bearing gilt battle-axes, to the throne-room, where he proceeded to transact business of state. [5]
Monsieur le Vicomte was between forty and fifty at his marriage, and from what I have heard of him he had many of the virtues and many of the faults of his order. [9]
He said he was ashamed of his ignorance, but that he had never been confronted with the question before during the fifty years and more that he had spent in Australia, and so he had never happened to get interested in the matter. [5]
Hearing that there was a basket of corn at Powhatan's, fifty miles away, they would have exchanged all their property for it. [4]
All that was wanted now was ten thousand dollars in cash to enable him to close the great bargain and make his hundred and fifty thousand. [11]
As business freshened, wages climbed gradually up to two hundred and fifty dollars--the association figure--and became firmly fixed there; and still without benefiting a member of that body, for no member was hired. [5]
Some old forgotten volcanic eruption sent its broad river of fire down the mountain side here, and it poured down in a great torrent from an overhanging bluff some fifty feet high to the ground below. [5]
The "city" of Virginia roosted royally midway up the steep side of Mount Davidson, seven thousand two hundred feet above the level of the sea, and in the clear Nevada atmosphere was visible from a distance of fifty miles! [5]
At fifty, your vessel is stanch, and you are on deck with the rest, in all weathers. [6]
He probably thought very well of the book, an opinion shared by Bliss, but it is unlikely that either of them realized that it was to become a permanent classic, and the best selling book of travel for at least fifty years. [5]
His feelings were very quick, and before she had spoken fifty words the underglow of his eyes was flooded by something which might have been mistaken for tears. [11]
It is a very intelligent tree and will detect the presence of hidden water at a distance of fifty feet, and send out slender long root-fibres to prospect it. [5]
This is a very dangerous confession, for fifty years make everything hopelessly old-fashioned, without giving it the charm of real antiquity. [6]
She was growing used to celebrity, and could already sit calm and seemingly unconscious, under the fire of fifty lorgnettes in a theatre, or even overhear the low voice "That's she! [5]
Her eyes sought us fifty times that day, but they passed on and there was never any ray of recognition in them. [5]
He had been up nor'west a hundred and fifty miles, and he had come down-stream alone with his raft- which in the usual course should take two men to guide it--through slides, over rapids, and in strong currents. [11]
We made him up a purse of fifty pounds,-- for the crew got to like him,--and left him at Port Darwin, sailing away again in a few days to another pearl-field farther east. [11]
If one take up a Northern or Southern literary periodical of forty or fifty years ago, he will find it filled with wordy, windy, flowery 'eloquence,' romanticism, sentimentality--all imitated from Sir Walter, and sufficiently badly done, too--innocent travesties of his style and methods, in fact. [5]
Tuesday I saw two--that's for joy--and fifty Jersey prisoners of the French comes back on Jersey that day. [11]
The plantation contains two thousand six hundred acres; six hundred and fifty are in cane; and there is a fruitful orange grove of five thousand trees. [5]
The population numbers two hundred and fifty, and more than half the citizens live in caves in the rock. [5]
You tilt the tube skyward and bring planets and comets and corona flames a hundred and fifty thousand miles high into the field. [5]
Well, I have tried before perhaps fifty audiences, some larger and some smaller than this, to find one such Democrat, and never yet have I found one who said I did not place him right in that. [7]
There is a tradition (attributed to John Phenix [It has been purloined by fifty different scribblers who were too poor to invent a fancy but not ashamed to steal one.--M. [5]
That is a town of fifty thousand inhabitants. [9]
The rise is tolerably uniform down to Natchez (three hundred and sixty miles above the mouth)--about fifty feet. [5]
I came here to-day to maintain it, and I'll come here again fifty times with the same object and always with the same success. [12]
I have engaged to write for the new literary paper--the "Californian" --same pay I used to receive on the "Golden Era"--one article a week, fifty dollars a month. [5]
If I were to write fifty articles they would all be about pilots and piloting--therefore let's get the word Piloting into the heading. [5]
Then we turned to the right up the range; we went, I daresay, one hundred and fifty yards from the creek, and there we sat down with the men. [5]
Then he said to the men: "So you have taken a contract to run a tunnel into this hill two hundred and fifty feet to strike this ledge? [5]
They have restored to the Coliseum the gilding, the rich upholstery and the uniform magnificence which old Coliseum frequenters tell us Rome was so proud of fifty years ago. [5]
If Kutuzov decided to remain at Krems, Napoleon's army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he would find himself in the position of Mack at Ulm. [2]
They only wanted to raise fifty thousand dollars to carry on the contract--that expended they would have city bonds. [5]
The fisherman offered to make his quarter fifty cents. [6]
And they wanted to issue bonds; also paper money, redeemable in yams and cabbages in fifty years. [5]
It was beautiful to hear that clock tick; and sometimes when one of these peddlers had been along and scoured her up and got her in good shape, she would start in and strike a hundred and fifty before she got tuckered out. [5]
I have tried to get this statement off at par here, but with no success; so I have been obliged to negotiate it at fifty percent discount. [5]
They had come to fight, even if the boat had been defended by fifty Egyptian soldiers instead of carrying a score or so of sailors and artisans. [10]
What you want to do is to go and swear this document in and pay tax on the two hundred and fifty dollars. [5]
It doesn't appear to disturb the duke and his guests at their dice; and here, my lord, are fifty florins which, I think, will do for the beginning. [10]
It is interesting to contrast the funeral ceremonies of the Princess Victoria with those of her noted ancestor Kamehameha the Conqueror, who died fifty years ago--in 1819, the year before the first missionaries came. [5]
The chute seemed to come to an end every fifty yards, but always opened out in time. [5]
I was getting to be near fifty years old, and it happened to me, as it not rarely does to people at about that time of life, that my hair began to fall out. [6]
For a long time wages had been two hundred and fifty dollars a month; but curiously enough, as steamboats multiplied and business increased, the wages began to fall little by little. [5]
At such a time it is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to "call," and you rake in the chips. [5]
For a long time after one of the great Virginia mines had been incorporated, about fifty feet of the original location were still in the hands of a man who had never signed the incorporation papers. [5]
If it went through, he would, for an investment of ten thousand dollars, have a hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and that would solve an everlasting problem for him. [11]
He wrote fifty three letters to the Alta-California, six to the New York Tribune, and at least two to the New York Herald more than sixty, all told, of an average, length of three to four thousand words each. [5]
It took six thousand years to produce her; her like will not be seen in the earth again in fifty thousand. [5]
More than a thousand times an hour, between a hundred and fifty and two hundred thousand times a week, he has to lift the bars of the cage in which his breathing organs are confined, to save himself from asphyxia. [6]

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