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This promise, on the whole, he fulfilled in the service of Hsüan Chuang during the fourteen years of the long journey. Now faithful, now restive and undisciplined, he was always the one to triumph in the end over the eighty-one fantastical tribulations which beset them as they journeyed. Sha Ho-shang One of the principal of Sun's fellow-servants of the Master was Sha Ho-shang.
Returning to Athens, he gave lessons, in the Academy, to those whom his fame drew thither; and died, as we have received it, in the act of writing, at eighty-one years. But the biography of Plato is interior.
Kellner was nearly eighty-one years old, and it was fifty-eight years ago that he began work here. The cubes there were made and placed in position thirty years ago; the guns have been there for twenty-eight years so long, in fact, that recollection of them has passed from the minds of the men who made them.
But the most curious French evidence respecting the siege is the Lettre d'un Habitant de Louisbourg contenant une Relation exacte & circonstanciee de la Prise de l'Isle-Royale par les Anglois. A Quebec, chez Guillaume le Sincere, a l'Image de la Verite, 1745. This little work, of eighty-one printed pages, is extremely rare.
"I never heard of the South Sea Bubble of which you speak," said Louis. "That is not strange, as it was an affair of one hundred and eighty-one years ago," replied Lord Tremlyn. "I have not time now to describe it in full. The floating debt of England at that time was £10,000,000; and the Earl of Oxford concocted a scheme to pay it off, and formed a company of merchants for that purpose.
Aulus Atilius, having delivered to his successor twenty-five decked ships, sailed from Piraeus for Rome. Livius, with eighty-one beaked ships, besides many others of inferior rates, some of which were open and furnished with beaks, others without beaks, fit for advice-boats, crossed over to Delos. At this time, the consul Acilius was engaged in the siege of Naupactum.
And there are " he consulted the papers in his hand "roughly two hundred and twenty colonists here on Baron IV. Is that right?" "That's right." "Seventy-four men, eighty-one women, and fifty-nine children, to be exact?" "I'd have to look it up. Margaret Singman had twins the other night." "Well, don't be ridiculous," snapped the captain.
So this is how it came about that we two, garbed as decent planters and mounted upon the sleekest cobs the regiment afforded, took the road for Winnsborough together on a certain summer-fine morning in January in the year of battles, seventeen hundred and eighty-one.
This spirit of unrest touches every one." "Still, I'm lookin' at things broadly, sir. She's eighty-one." "Better serve it," said Soames, "and see what she says. Oh! and Mr. Timothy? Is everything in order in case of " "I've got the inventory of his estate all ready; had the furniture and pictures valued so that we know what reserves to put on. I shall be sorry when he goes, though. Dear me!
In 1866, when war broke out between Prussia and Austria, this grand old man of eighty-one volunteered for active service, and begged to be attached to the headquarters' staff.
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