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The Angevins were much more French than any of these neighbors; and their domain being smaller, they generally held by the King. They were his hereditary grand seneschals, carving before him on great occasions; and Geoffrey Grise gonnelle, who succeeded Foulques le Bon in 958, was on the side of the crown in all the war with Richard the Fearless of Normandy.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II

"17,958 yards the first second!" cried M'Nicholl, rapidly flourishing his pencil. "But the Cambridge Observatory having declared that 12,000 yards the first second were sufficient, our Projectile started with no greater velocity!" "Well?" asked M'Nicholl. "Well, such a velocity will never do!" "We can never reach the neutral point!" "Thunder and lightning" "Fire and Fury!"

Jules Verne - All Around the Moon

Lossing, the American historian, solemnly records the "fact" that "less than 600 American troops of all ranks ever landed at Queenston," and that "of these only 300 were overpowered" some of the United States histories of the colonial wars need drastic revision yet 958 American soldiers were taken prisoners by the British; "captured by a force," so officially wrote Colonel Van Rensselaer, after the battle, "amounting to only about one-third of the united number of the American troops."

Walter R. Nursey - The Story of Isaac Brock: Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812

The following statistics, taken from the last census, show that our Transatlantic brethren have made great progress in moral and intellectual interests. At the period when the enumeration was made there were 80,958 public schools, with 91,966 teachers, and 2,890,507 scholars; 119 colleges, with 11,903 students; 44 schools of theology; 36 schools of medicine; and 16 schools of law.

Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird - The Englishwoman in America

The seven-thirty notes had disappeared from the financial statement, and the bonds authorized by the Act of March 3, 1865, amounted to $958,455,700. The rate of interest on the bonds still stood at six per cent, except on the old debt of 1858 and 1860, and upon $194,567,300 of the ten-forties issued under the Act of March 3, 1864.

James Gillespie Blaine - Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 : From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860