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Another time the Dey confessed with dignified naïveté to Consul Cole: "The Algerines are a company of rogues and I am their Captain!" Several Voyages, 111 ff. See his descendant Adm. Spratt's Travels and Researches in Crete, i. 384-7. Playfair, 64 ff. Voyages, ii. 887. Several Voyages, 57-8. Morgan, Pref. v., vi. Playfair, 94.
Throughout a somewhat protracted illness, lasting from February 20 to April 22, 1879, the temperature many times registered between 108 degrees and 111 degrees F. About a year later she was again troubled with the stump, and this time the temperature reached as high as 114 degrees.
Laws, who had not been surpassed by any musician before him, was much beloved by the king, who called him the father of music. * Anderson, vol. ii. p. 111. Anderson, vol. ii. p. 111. * British Empire in America, vol. i. p. 372. Purnet.
It was in commemoration of the chains broken by him at the battle of Toloza that Sancho added the chains of gold to the arms of Navarre, which are still to be seen on the field of gules. F, page 111. Cousin-german of St. Lewis, &c. Blanche, the mother of St. Lewis, was the daughter of Alphonso the Noble of Castile.
The length of her keel that rested on the grass, we are told, was about 111 feet, which is not far short of the length of the keel of one of our forty-two gun frigates. As these warships were long in proportion to their breadth, like our modern steamers, this speaks to a size approaching 400 tons burden. As we have said, the Dragon was a gorgeous vessel.
There are 580 tenement-houses in New York which contain, by actual count, 10,933 families, or about 85 persons each; 193 others, which accommodate 111 persons each; 71 others, which cover 140 each; and, finally, 29 these must be the most profitable! which have a total population of no less than 5,449 souls, or 187 to each house!
There is an old record of 32 stones having been removed from a man of eighty-one, a native of Dantzic, 16 of which were as large as a pigeon's egg. Kelly speaks of 228 calculi in the bladder of a man of seventy-three, 12 being removed before death. The largest weighed 111 grains. Goodrich took 96 small stones from the bladder of a lad.
He seized the opportunity of the music ceasing to get away from the subject. "Miriam dear," he asked, raising his voice; "is that 109 or 111? I can never tell." "That is always 111, Daddy," said Miriam. "It's the other one is 109." And then evidently feeling that she had been pert: "Would you like me to play you 109, Daddy?" "I should love it, my dear."
In Virginia, beginning with 1871, the colored children enrolled for successive years numbered as follows: 38,554; 46,736; 49,169; 54,945; 62,178, 65,043; 61,772; and 35,768. In South Carolina the enrollment from 1870 was, 15,894: 38,635; 46,535; 56,249; 63,415; 70,802; 55,952; 62,120; and 64,095. In Mississippi, beginning with 1875, the enrollment was 89,813; 90,178; 104,777; and 111,796.
When he came in he found Miriam playing, and playing very beautifully one of those later sonatas of Beethoven, he could never remember whether it was Of. 109 or Of. 111, but he knew that he liked it very much; it was solemn and sombre with phases of indescribable sweetness while Clementina, Daphne and Mademoiselle Lafarge went on with their war knitting and Phoebe and Mr.
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