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Those at Avebury vary in height from about fourteen to sixteen feet, and in the Deccan is a tumulus surrounded by fifty-six blocks of granite of an even greater size. This extremely heavy block rests on supports rising more than thirty-nine feet from the ground. Stone as well as wood can be much more easily cut in one direction than in any other.
The major reported that the rifle volunteers had been re-enforced to fifty-six men by the efforts of Butters the jailer. The commander of the squadron promptly issued his orders to his officers to have his men ready to move at four o'clock Sunday morning.
It would, perhaps, be his last harvest at Clinton Magna, where he had worked, man and boy, for fifty-six years come Michaelmas. His last harvest!
On the contrary, as the scheme developed, and the influence on the younger man became apparent, the final result was an alienation between father and son, which was only partially healed so late as 1784, just before the former returned from Europe for the last time. When Franklin came home he was fifty-six years old.
The "Rajah," eight hundred and thirty feet, and at a breadth of fifty-six, shoots silent and sheer over an uplifted lip of rock in the bed of the stream, casting a dark shadow behind him when faced by the sun; the "Roarer" makes noise enough in its headlong rush to vibrate the strong, stone-built travelers' bungalow on the heights above; the "Rocket" is straight in descent, and, as a commentator has already remarked, as much like a rocket as anything else; and "La Dame Blanche," a triptych of rhythmical flow, spreads a dainty, silky, sheen of white, whispering, glistening, softly falling water over a slightly shelving width of rock, touched here and there with prismatic color and strong light.
"Sheet one fifty-six," he said shortly. "No one fifty-six. That will do." He turned to a boy. "Find out for me if Mr. Wintermuth is in his office." The boy, whose name was Jimmy, sped off, soliloquizing as he went: "Gee, there must be somethin' up to get O'C. as hot as that!" Arrived at the opposite end of the big room, he reconnoitered for a view of the President's office.
Since that time the relative decrease and increase have continued; and in 1866 the Dutch Indies produced only fifty-six thousand tons, and Ceylon thirty-six thousand tons. At last my kitchen was always full of them.
It was Louis XIV.'s misfortune to be king for seventy-two years, and to reign fifty-six as sovereign master. The young king, from the first, regulated his life and his time: "I laid it down as a law to myself," he says in his Instructions au Dauphin, "to work regularly twice a day. I cannot tell you what fruit I reaped immediately after this resolution.
About half-past one the fleet withdrew, seeing their efforts were entirely unavailing. The enemy ceased firing as soon as we withdrew. I immediately signalled the Admiral and went aboard his ship. The navy lost in this engagement eighteen killed and fifty-six wounded.
They were shaped like a caterpillar and composed of fifty-six rings; the stomach could only be distinguished from the back by a sort of excrescence which grew on the latter; each ring or division of the body was furnished with two pairs of legs, one pair pointing downwards from the stomach, the other pair projecting from the back; these legs were composed of bristles, and by sticking them into the timber they were able to maintain their hold and to walk along.
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