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'I mun go! she whispered. 'Ah! You go, said Vessons, glad that for once duty and inclination went hand in hand. 'I'll send you, he added. 'Where d'yer live? She hesitated. 'You needna be frit to tell me, said Vessons. 'I'm six-and-sixty, and you're no more to me' he surveyed her flushing face contemplatively 'than the wold useless cat, he concluded.
There's nought in my kitchen but a wold useless cat and an o'erdruv man of six-and-sixty, a pot of victuals not yet simmering, and a gentleman as ought to know better than to bring a girl to Undern and ruin her a poor innocent little creature. 'Me again, said Hazel. She pondered on the remark and flushed. 'Maybe I'd best go, she thought.
Diestelkamp, brimful of recollections of "six-and-sixty" and as ready to amputate your leg as to crack a joke or clink a glass; gay young Adjutant von Zuelow he who one day brought in a prisoner from the foreposts a red-legged Frenchman across the pommel of his saddle; and many other good fellows, over most of whom the turf of the Spicheren, or the brown earth of the Gravelotte plain, now lies lightly.
On November 23, 1407 in that black winter when the frost lasted six-and-sixty days on end a summons from the King reached Louis of Orleans at the Hôtel Barbette, where he had been supping with Queen Isabel. It was seven or eight in the evening, and the inhabitants of the quarter were abed.
At the time of which it treats, though only six-and-sixty years ago, a very large part of what is London now had no existence. Even in the brains of the wildest speculators, there had sprung up no long rows of streets connecting Highgate with Whitechapel, no assemblages of palaces in the swampy levels, nor little cities in the open fields.
On the 8th of October, after a voyage of six-and-sixty days, the "Belle Poule" arrived in James Town harbor; and on its arrival, as on its departure from France, a great firing of guns took place.
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