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The last was a most efficient corps, all females of respectable character, armed with sword, musket, and dagger. Their chief, Kenau Hasselaer, was a widow of distinguished family and unblemished reputation, about forty-seven years of age, who, at the head of her amazons, participated in many of the most fiercely contested actions of the siege, both within and without the walls.
"Yes," exclaimed Michel Ardan, more moved than he wished to appear; and the three bold companions were united in a last embrace. "God preserve us!" said the religious Barbicane. Michel Ardan and Nicholl stretched themselves on the couches placed in the center of the disc. "Forty-seven minutes past ten!" murmured the captain. "Twenty seconds more!"
It was only in 1851 that a detachment of the sisterhood came to England, and settled themselves in Great Windmill Street, where, whatever be their motives, it must be admitted they contribute in no slight degree to the alleviation of that vast mass of misery which seems an inseparable element of large cities. They had, at the time of our visit, forty-seven old persons under their care.
There had been no scenes, no quarrels, no jealousies, no recriminations merely a gentle, yet deliberate, withdrawal of personalities. He had worshipped her at twenty-two, and now, at forty-seven, there were moments when she realized with a stab of pain that she bored him; but beyond this she had felt no cause for unhappiness, and until the last year no cause even for apprehension.
A blank silence followed this gay inquiry. Then Turnbull said in a colourless voice: "As I was forty-seven last birthday, I probably came into the world too soon for the experience." "Very good, very good," said the friendly person. "Dry Scotch humour. Dry Scotch humour. Well now. I understand that you two people want to fight a duel. I suppose you aren't much up in the modern world.
On this footing of forty-seven townships entitled to participate and thirty entitled to vote the Latin confederacy continued henceforward unalterably fixed.
He was the only emperor who received tribute from the Britons, according to the following verse of Virgil: "Purpurea intexti tollunt aulaea Britanni." The second after him, who came into Britain, was the emperor Claudius, who reigned forty-seven years after the birth of Christ. He carried with him war and devastation; and, though not without loss of men, he at length conquered Britain.
"Ned has definitely announced his intention of marrying his Goldfield girl," pursued Jim. "Yes, I knew that. Kill your mother!" "It'll just about kill her. And the latest is Ted falling in love with Bob Carleton!" "Carleton! Not the lumber man? But he's fifty!" "He's forty-five, forty-seven perhaps." "But he's married, Jim!" "Divorced, Aunt Sanna."
I lived in the lean-to the first year; then I built the cabin and sent for my books. I never knew what happiness was before, nor health. Look at me now and dare to tell me that I look forty-seven." "I wouldn't give a day over forty," Daylight confessed. "Yet the day I came here I looked nearer sixty, and that was fifteen years ago."
"That sick butterfly upstairs is tougher than I am. Forty-seven days of fever, and nothing but bread and water! Think of that, my Nanna! Think of it! You or I would be consumed, one would not even see our shadows on the floor! But he lives." "If he eats the white beans he has finished living," remarked Nanna.
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