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You can have all, the eggs you want anytime you want 'em. I ain't so poverty-stricken that we can't have eggs even if they are sixty-six cents a dozen." She got a cloth and began to wipe up the unsightly mass at her feet. "I paid sixty-seven cents for those," Lucy said. "Sixty-seven cents! How long have the Howes been gettin' sixty-seven cents for their eggs, I'd like to know?"
Two hundred and sixty-seven dollars seemed to him an immense sum, and so it was, to a poor minister with a family of three children and a salary of only six hundred dollars. Where to obtain so large a sum neither Grant nor his mother could possibly imagine. Even if there were anyone to borrow it from, there seemed no chance to pay back so considerable a sum.
'How much will you give me? hastily began the squire. 'Rather an original situation! he unexpectedly added, with humour. 'Seventy-five roubles an acre. This is my highest offer. To-morrow I should only give sixty-seven. 'En avant! from the ball-room. 'Never! cried the squire, 'I should prefer to sell to the peasants. 'And get fifty, or at the outside sixty.
Pantagrueline Prognostication, Rabelais, W. F. Smith's translation, 1893, Vol. II, p. 460. Even physicians of the most distinguished reputation practised judicial astrology. He gives in it some sixty-seven nativities, remarkable for the events they foretell, with an exposition.
If I was a minister, I'd be more keerful." "Well, Deacon Gridley, I don't want to argue with you. I came to see if you hadn't collected some money for father. Mr. Tudor has sent in his bill, and he wants to be paid." "How much is it?" "Sixty-seven dollars and thirty-four cents." "You don't tell me!" said the deacon, scandalized. "You folks must be terrible extravagant."
But it was from the priesthood that the real, serious opposition was to be expected. And the priests of the sixty-seven gods of Oom were up in arms.
The enemy lost two hundred and sixty-seven killed, wounded, and missing; the Americans, two hundred and thirteen. The night attack, however, strengthened the Americans. The enemy, overrating Jackson's force, became too cautious to advance at once, but waited until the entire army should be landed. The Americans gained time to build defenses.
However, this much he could declare upon oath; the baroness's brother, her only heir, had preserved nothing not so much as a pin's worth of his sister's effects: although he had been in a great hurry to receive the proceeds, which amounted to the pleasant sum of one hundred and sixty-seven thousand five hundred and thirty francs, all expenses deducted.
For the direction of it was exactly opposite to that of the earth, which made an angle with the meridian at that time of sixty-seven gr., that is, its course was from west southwest to east northeast, wherefore the meteor seemed to move the contrary way.
The moderator of the Smyrna town meeting held his breath for just a moment so as to accentuate the hush in which the voters listened for his words, and then announced the result of the vote for first selectman of Smyrna: "Whole number cast, one hundred thutty-two; necessary for a choice, sixty-seven; of which Colonel Gideon Ward has thutty-one."