t'irty-six

Updated: May 12, 2025

"Now, if you're smart at arit'metic, you'll see dat six time six am t'irty-six, and two double guns das forty-forty dead men's more'n enuff besides de knives." Moses had barely finished these deadly preparations when Van der Kemp returned as quietly as he had gone. His face was still fierce and haggard, and his manner hurried though quite decided. "I have seen him," he said, in a low voice.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Blown to Bits: The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago

Tuff wore diamonds as big as his knuckles. Tuff's scarf was red. Tuff's waistcoat was yellow, and every color known to the spectroscope was employed to make up Tuff's copious trousers. "Well," said Tuff, "I'm on deck." "Thank you, Major. How are things looking?" "Dey couldn't be better. I got t'irty-six tenement houses wid at leas' two hundered woters to de house.

Lemuel Ely Quigg - Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York: A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular: Phases of Metropolitan Life

"Now, if you're smart at arit'metic, you'll see dat six time six am t'irty-six, and two double guns das forty forty dead men's more 'n enuff besides de knives." Moses had barely finished these deadly preparations when Van der Kemp returned as quietly as he had gone. His face was still fierce and haggard, and his manner hurried though quite decided. "I have seen him," he said, in a low voice.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Blown to Bits: or, The Lonely Man of Rakata