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Sentences starting with sixty

Sixty days hence, when they are called to deliver the goods, they will think they've been struck by lightning. [5]
Sixty prominent "disloyalists" were to be chosen and assessed to make up a sum of ten thousand dollars. [9]
Sixty years ago verses made a local reputation, which verses, if offered today to any of our first-class magazines, would go straight into the waste-basket. [6]
Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. [5]
Sixty year, more or less! [6]
Sixty or eighty or a hundred and fifty people are bound to get in who are not angels in disguise, as young Hicks the correspondent says; but still it is a very good average; very good indeed. [5]
Sixty persons had been killed, and two hundred and forty wounded. [5]
Sixty guns meant a princess, one hundred and one meant a prince. [10]
Sixty thousand pounds--why? [11]

Sentences ending with sixty

He was thirty-four years old, and looked sixty. [5]
He and Driscoll were of the same age--a year or two past sixty. [5]
I should like to hear of some summer resort where the men are over sixteen and under sixty. [4]
Miss Trevor was only nineteen, and in her eyes I was at least sixty. [9]
When you really have had It, you will learn to say of a woman, not that she's the very finest, and that you hate breakfasting alone, but something that'll turn your hair white, or keep you looking forty when you're sixty. [11]
To save three-quarters, count sixty. [5]
The massive towers and bastions are more than thirty feet high, and have been sixty. [5]
Sixty. [5]

Short sentences using sixty

For sixty years. [5]
Distance, sixty miles. [4]

Sentences containing sixty 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]
Once, at an earlier date, he recorded that he had figured his personal living expenses down to sixty cents a week, but inasmuch as he was then, by his own confession, unable to earn the sixty cents, this particular economy was wasted. [5]

More example sentences with the word sixty in them

You can run your car sixty miles an hour in exciting passages, everything will work into it. [4]
He did a young man's share of the work; and did his share of conversing and entertaining from the general stand-point of any age--not from the arrogant, overawing summit-height of sixty years. [5]
Lady Margery.--So please you madam, my limbs are feeble wh ye weighte and drouth of five and sixty winters, and it behoveth yt I be tender unto them. [5]
Now, then, do you know what the margins would foot up, to buy it at sixty days? [5]
You look around you and you see a nation of sixty millions-- apparently; but secreted in their hands and brains, and invisible to your eyes, is the true population of this Republic, and it numbers forty billions! [5]
It is sixty years, then, since that time; and as they were, on an average, about twenty years old, those who survive must have reached fourscore years. [6]
It is sixty years since I was here before. [5]
He was sixty years old when I saw him. [5]
Five and sixty years are gone since Mr. Calvin Brinsmade took his bride there. [9]
However, the elder woman was sturdy and determined, and sixty years of age; while Melissa feared nothing, and thought herself sufficiently protected when she had arranged her kerchief so as to hide her face from curious eyes. [10]
In twenty-one years, with all my time at my free disposal I have written and completed only eleven books, whereas with half the labor that a journalist does I could have written sixty in that time. [5]
It is in width, from Fort Adams on the left bank of the Mississippi to the bank of Rapides Parish, a distance of about sixty miles. [5]
Yet, in 1895, when he was sixty years old, he decided to rebuild his fortunes by making a reading tour around the world. [5]
By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead. [5]
At the mess-house we found all the officers assembled, together with sixty sepoys, who had remained faithful. [5]
And then there was that damsel of sixty winter of age still excursioning around in her frosty bloom--How old are you, Sandy? [5]
The next longest was from here to Sidon--say about sixty or seventy miles. [5]
The nearest garrison was at Kerbat, sixty miles away, where five hundred men were stationed. [11]
Forestalling a possible vote on the morrow to recall and reconsider, there remained some sixty members whose loyalty was unquestioned, but whose reputation for discretion was not of the best. [9]
At sixty, the vessel still floats, and you are in the cabin. [6]
The hat and veil, said Madame, with a simper, were sixty dollars. [9]
She had rode two hundred miles from the south-west, and was making for Fort Micah, sixty miles farther north. [11]
He took a tract of land sixty miles in circumference and set to work to make this park and build this palace and a road to it from Paris. [5]
This morning I took from the post office a letter from Dubois enclosing the names of sixty subscribers, and on carrying it to Francis I found he had received one hundred and forty more from other quarters by the same day's mail. [7]
The rise is tolerably uniform down to Natchez (three hundred and sixty miles above the mouth)--about fifty feet. [5]
We were compelled to jump over upwards of eighteen hundred donkeys, and only one person in the party was unseated less than sixty times by the camels. [5]
It only destroyed three thousand and seventy lives last year by collisions, and twenty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty by running over heedless and unnecessary people at crossings. [5]
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]
And he would think it was a great one, too, and he would say, "With three thousand I whipped sixty thousand and founded the Empire--and there is no monument; this other soldier must have whipped a billion with a dozen and saved the world. [5]
Not only did they so decide at that time, but they stuck to it during sixty years, through thick and thin, as long as there was one of the Revolutionary heroes upon the stage of political action. [7]
The Temple of the Sun is nearly three hundred feet long and one hundred and sixty feet wide. [5]
For sixty years, the foreign tourist has steamed up and down the river between St. Louis and New Orleans, and then gone home and written his book, believing he had seen all of the river that was worth seeing or that had anything to see. [5]
She actually did the fifty-seven in sixty seconds. [5]
I knew that the faces of each were about the width of a very large dwelling-house front, (fifty or sixty feet,) and that they were twice as high as an ordinary three-story dwelling, but still they looked small. [5]
Till she reached the age of sixty and seven years, she never rode in a litter, but ever made her journeyings on horseback. [10]
I have heard that sixty Bavarian kreuzers are equal to one hundred Austrian; but this waiter explains to me that my gulden is only good for ninety kreuzers. [4]
Within sixty days that quaint and bizarre anomaly, the Royal Grant, would cease to be a living fact, and take its place among the curiosities of the past. [5]
It is strange that I should remember a formality like that so long; it must be nearly sixty years. [5]
That was more than sixty years ago, but that triumphant note rings as clear in my memory to-day as it rang in my ear that long-vanished summer morning. [5]
Thus, through more than sixty of the best years of the republic, did that policy steadily work to its great and beneficent end. [7]
Here is the tally-sheet of a gang of sixty Thugs for a whole season--gang under two noted chiefs, "Chotee and Sheik Nungoo from Gwalior": "Left Poora, in Jhansee, and on arrival at Sarora murdered a traveler. [5]
He is a tall, strongly built man of about sixty, with iron grey hair and beard. [9]
He was a tall thin man of over sixty, with a head of that oval form which gives the impression of refinement and intellect. [10]
Sometimes they would take fifty or sixty eggs out of one hole. [5]
After sixty the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. [6]
The number of spectators had gradually swelled from fifty to sixty and to eighty thousand; and no less than thirty-six chariots were waiting behind the carceres ready to start. [10]
So we moved south with a westward slant, 17 hours by rail to the capital of the colony of Victoria, Melbourne--that juvenile city of sixty years, and half a million inhabitants. [5]
I am near sixty, dear friend... [2]
If you were sixty years old, perhaps if you were fifty, it might be admissible to send it. [6]
He was nearly sixty years old, and time had not lessened his loathing for the platform. [5]
Among a hundred, sixty would bear the Spanish yoke, even do violence to conscience, if only their liberties and rights were guaranteed. [10]
As many as sixty thousand people arrive here every single day, that want to run straight to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and hug them and weep on them. [5]
Now mind you, sixty thousand a day is a pretty heavy contract for those old people. [5]
My heart is sixty though my body is not twenty. [11]
Although there were sixty of us, this was actually done in the case of each individual. [10]
New York was sixty miles away and he did not often care to make the journey. [5]
The legislature sat sixty days, and passed private tollroad franchises all the time. [5]
Look at the sixty big cannon on Fort Augusta! [11]
She was between sixty and seventy years old; her face, framed, as it were, into a picture by the lace veil, was exquisitely symmetrical in its form, intellectual, kind and benevolent in its expression. [10]
Here she was shut up in the top of a tower which was sixty feet high. [5]
You have a seventy-mile drive before you to-morrow, and sixty the next day. [11]
The last bound sent me spinning through the air in a leap of fifty or sixty feet, from one side of the gully to the other, and I struck the rocks, luckily, with the whole of my left side. [5]
With our deadly scientific war-material; with our hosts of trained--" "Save your breath--we haven't sixty faithful left! [5]
We brought sixty scarcely perceptible donkeys in the freight cars, for we had much ground to go over. [5]
At length he said: 'I know a good priest, Father Corraine, who has a cabin sixty miles or more from here, and I'll guide you to him, if so be you can trust a half-breed and a gambler, and one men call an outlaw. [11]
The Government's Official report, showing that our railways killed twelve hundred persons last year and injured sixty thousand convinces me that under present conditions one Providence is not enough to properly and efficiently take care of our railroad business. [5]
Under the old regime it required sixty priests to engineer it--the Government does it with five, now, and the others are discharged from service. [5]
When fifty is reached, somehow sixty does not look so old as it once used to, and seventy is still afar off. [6]
Her cotton receipts reached five hundred thousand bales last year--an increase of sixty thousand over the year before. [5]
He seemed a quiet, kindly, easy-mannered, dignified, self-possessed old gentleman of fifty-five or sixty, and had a gentle craft in his eye that probably belonged there. [5]
With ten days' provisions Captain Josiah Mitchell performed this memorable voyage of forty-three days and eight hours in an open boat, sailing four thousand miles in reality and thirty-three hundred and sixty by direct courses, and brought every man safe to land. [5]
I do not pretend that I receive six hundred or even sixty letters a day, but I do receive a good many, and have told the public of the fact from time to time, under the pressure of their constantly increasing exertions. [6]
He received his preparatory education from Dr. Joseph Huntington, a classical scholar and the pastor of the church in Coventry, entered Yale College at the age of sixteen, and graduated with high honors in a class of sixty, in September, 1773. [4]
To reach his point he still has sixty to go, another river (the Rapidan) to cross, and will be hindered by the enemy. [7]
Some sixty thousand persons were present, and but for the fact that the streets were almost impassable, it is fair to presume that the house would have been full. [5]
We had to pay sixty dollars. [8]
The old woman, panting for breath, was obliged to beg her to consider her sixty years and moderate her pace. [10]
We counted sixty panes of glass in one window, and each pane was adorned with one of these master achievements of genius and patience. [5]
Why, he's not over sixty years old now. [11]
They contain fifty or sixty million dollars' worth' of diamonds, and there is an abundance of enterprising thieves around. [5]
They got over one hundred and sixty away from us. [9]
Fifty-two miles further on, near the head of Echo Canyon, we met sixty United States soldiers from Camp Floyd. [5]
In ye heat of ye talk it befel yt one did breake wind, yielding an exceding mightie and distresfull stink, whereat all did laugh full sore, and then-- Ye Queene.--Verily in mine eight and sixty yeres have I not heard the fellow to this fart. [5]
In sixty millions of people, all of whom are, or have been, in reach of the common school, it must be confessed that their audience is small. [4]
At six o'clock of a warm, mid-June morning, while loading wood, sixty miles below Memphis, the Pennsylvania's boilers had exploded with fearful results. [5]
They had long occupied Buda (Pesth), and had been in possession of the stronghold of Alba Regalis for some sixty years. [4]
The countess was now over sixty, was quite gray, and wore a cap with a frill that surrounded her face. [2]
We had a notion to get out and join the sixty soldiers, but upon reflecting that there were four hundred of the Indians, we concluded to go on and join the Indians. [5]
Twenty-four hours had not passed from that moment when a collision did occur, just out of the city, where I feared it, by which at least eleven persons were killed, and from forty to sixty more were maimed and crippled! [6]
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp. [6]
Before dinner--within the next sixty minutes? [11]
It was called Neville's Grange, the Major's grandfather having so named it when he came out from England some sixty years before. [9]
The centurion was nearly sixty years of age, and his frame, originally a powerful one, was now broken by every sort of dissipation, and could no longer resist the effects of the strain and excitement of this night. [10]
We bore away nearly horizontally for about four hundred feet, then ascended directly toward the summit for about sixty feet, then doubled back to the ridge which descends toward Zermatt. [5]
Then we have Muscatine, ten thousand; Winona, ten thousand; Moline, ten thousand; Rock Island, twelve thousand; La Crosse, twelve thousand; Burlington, twenty-five thousand; Dubuque, twenty-five thousand; Davenport, thirty thousand; St. Paul, fifty-eight thousand, Minneapolis, sixty thousand and upward. [5]
We had traveled much more than twenty thousand miles, by land and sea, in many trying climates, without a single hurt, without a serious case of sickness and without a death among five and sixty passengers. [5]
It such a moment as this a thought occurred to me, and I said: "Aunt Rachel, how is it that you've lived sixty years and never had any trouble? [5]
She was of mighty frame and stature; she was sixty years old, but her eye was undimmed and her strength unabated. [5]
Of Mr. Cyrus Meeker, whose mustaches, at the age of five and sixty, are waxed as tight as ever, and whose little legs to-day are as nimble as of yore. [9]
It seems to me that I was around here in the neighborhood of the Public Library about fifty or sixty years ago. [5]

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