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A straight, alluring stretch twenty-five, thirty-five, forty-five, fifty, fifty-five, sixty, sixty-two, sixty-three the far rim of the valley, another line of hills black under the stars fifty again and down to twenty-five, to twenty and horn blowing as she sped into the mouth of the first cañon.
A comparison of the votes on the tariff measures of 1816 and 1824 exhibits this sectional tendency. In 1816, a protective tariff in the House gained sixty-three Northern votes to fourteen against it. Eight years later there were eighty-eight votes for a higher tariff and nineteen opposed to it.
By a rough calculation, however, the group extended east and west sixty-three miles, and north and south about fifty, the Reef being a very little west and a very little south of its centre. Of this surface it was thought something like three-fourths was dry land, or naked rock.
But here, in this Opera Nova so furthered, are sixty-three little snatches of Luigi Pulci's, eight lines to the stave, about the idlest of make-believe love affairs, full of such Petrarchisms as "Gl' occhi tuoi belli son li crudel dardi," or "Tu m' ai trafitto il cor! donde io moro, Se tu, iddea, non mi dai aiutoro."
The youthful Shirley, Braddock's secretary, received a bullet in his brain and died instantly. Out of eighty-six officers sixty-three were down. Washington alone seemed to bear a charmed life. Two horses were killed under him and four bullets pierced his clothing. Braddock galloped back and forth, cursing and shouting to his men, and showing undaunted courage.
Shirley, was killed by his side; and out of eighty-six officers, sixty-three were killed or wounded, and seven hundred and fourteen men killed out of eleven hundred. These eleven hundred had been picked men from the whole army; the rest had been left behind with Colonel Dunbar, who was to follow with the heavier part of the stores, provisions, and baggage.
About sixty-three years before Christ, Pompey took Petra; and, from that period, the sovereigns of Idumea were tributary to the Romans. This city, however, still retained its commerce, and was in a flourishing condition, as we are informed by Strabo, on the authority of his friend Athenedorus, who visited it about thirty-six years after it.
But it is easy enough to see how fast a day of vacation will go by if you, Stephen, or you, Clara, have these several resources or determinations. Here is the ground-plan of it, as I might steal it from Fanchon's journals: "TUESDAY. Second day of vacation. Fair. Wind west. Thermometer sixty-three degrees, before breakfast. Be careful about this. "Wiped while Sarah washed.
But while you are walking on, thinking of the art which cut and raised these enormous blocks, you turn the southern corner and come upon three stones, the united length of which is one hundred and eighty-seven feet two of them being sixty-two and the other sixty-three feet in length!
But, then, the town was twenty-one leagues away sixty-three long miles! No sooner had the prince said this, and taken just three steps, than he found himself at the door of the "Bear Inn" at Gluckstein! "This is the most extraordinary dream," said he to himself; for he was far too clever, of course, to believe in seven-league boots.
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