hundred-and-thirty

Updated: May 8, 2025

Here highly coloured gentlemen had slept the sleep of the just, under the table, whilst the ladies waited in vain for them in the drawing-room, here Colonel Berknowles had drunk a glass of mulled wine on that black morning over a hundred-and-thirty years ago when he went out with Councillor Kinsella and shot him through the lungs by the Round House on the Arranakilty Road.

H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole - The Ghost Girl

In no other way at least can I explain the extraordinary fact that tenant rights at Gweedore have been sold, according to Lord Cowper's Blue-book of 1886, during the period of the greatest alleged distress and congestion in this district, at prices representing from forty to a hundred-and-thirty years' purchase of the landlord's rent! In this Blue-book the Rev.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)