renumbering

Updated: April 30, 2025

Then he lit a cigarette and smoked it in ruminant manner; eventually he took out a notebook and wrote down various phrases, numbering and renumbering them till they stood in the following order: " Squire Hawker disliked his first wife. He married his second wife for her money. Long Adam says the estate is really his. Long Adam hangs round the island temple, which looks like a prison.

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton - The Man Who Knew Too Much

So they all agreed to his plan of renumbering the days of the year, and a new reckoning of time was made upon the rule that most of you know by heart in the old rhyme: Thirty days hath September, April, June and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February which alone Hath twenty-eight and this, in fine, One year in four hath twenty-nine.

Elbridge Streeter Brooks - The true story of Christopher Columbus, called the Great Admiral

The coffee consisted of acorns and four pounds of burned barley boiled in one hundred gallons of water. There was no sugar or milk. My curiosity led me later to get this and other recipes from the fat French cook. All that day and for several following, official and guards were busy numbering and renumbering us and assigning us to our companies.

George Pearson - The Escape of a Princess Pat: Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months': imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's: Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany: into Holland