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To illustrate: A part of an argument on the affirmative side of the proposition, "Resolved, That students in American colleges should be excused from final examinations in all subjects in which they have attained a daily grade of at least eighty-five per cent.," might be reduced to the following brief form: I. This rule would be of great intellectual benefit to college students, for
Eighty-five boroughs all of which were in the hands of private owners would lose their members if a Union were passed, and all these, accordingly, it was resolved to compensate, and no less than a million and a quarter of money was actually advanced for that purpose, while for owners less easily reached by this means peerages, baronetcies, steps in the peerage, and similar inducements, were understood to be forthcoming as an equivalent.
The pearling season in the Paumotus was over, and all hands were returning to Tahiti. The six of us cabin passengers were pearl buyers. It had been a prosperous season. Not one of us had cause for complaint, nor one of the eighty-five deck passengers either. All had done well, and all were looking forward to a rest-off and a good time in Papeete. Of course, the Petite Jeanne was overloaded.
The ascent was from Newbury, and it can have been no mean feat to fill, under ordinary circumstances, a balloon carrying two passengers and a considerable weight of ballast at the small gas-holder which served the town eighty-five years ago.
"Oh, these modern doctors!" she cried. "I never heard of such ideas!" I could not help smiling. "My dear Mrs. Tuis, what do you imagine you know about the prevalence of gonorrhea? Consider just one fact that I heard a college professor state publicly that in his opinion eighty-five per cent. of the men students at his university were infected with some venereal disease.
"Eighty-five pounds of pig-iron gone straight to heaven!" gasped the Silver King. "Guess that beats all records!" "America must wake up!" frowned Ri. Meanwhile the Baron, after bowing in turn towards all points of the compass, turned confidentially to his friend. "Vill not ze men that carried it ?" "I've told 'em you'd give 'em a couple of sovereigns apiece."
In his life of Vice-Admiral Lord Lyons, Sir S. Eardley Wilmot tells us that the British ships which attacked the Sebastopol forts in October 1854 'could only afford to expend seventy rounds per gun. At the close of the nineteenth century, the regulated allowance for guns mounted on the broadside was eighty-five rounds each.
The Noes were a hundred and eighty-five, the Ayes only a hundred and seventy-five. The indefatigable and implacable Wharton was on both occasions tellers for the minority.
I recall his telling me once that after two younger brothers-in-letters had called upon him in the odor of an habitual beeriness and smokiness, he opened the window; and the very last time I saw him he remembered at eighty-five the offence he had found on his first visit to New York, when a metropolitan poet had asked him to lunch in a basement restaurant.
I have some money eighty-five florins at my lodgings; let me but go and bring it." "And betray us all!" screamed Wife Gougeon. "No, Monsieur Abbé. When you go from here it will not be to sing." "Monsieur will doubtless sign an order for us to draw this sum," said the Admiral most suavely. "Immediately on my release," gasped the Abbé. "It is more just that we should have the money first."
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