Their stock consisted of one thousand two hundred and sixty-nine oxen, one thousand five hundred and fifty-seven cows, five thousand and seven young cattle, four hundred and ninety-three horses, eight thousand six hundred and ninety sheep, and four thousand one hundred and
ninety-seven hogs.
Since water freezes at thirty-two above, sixty-five below meant
ninety-seven degrees below freezing-point.
These bold travelers, Michel Ardan, President Barbicane, and Captain Nicholl, ought to make the passage in
ninety-seven hours, thirteen minutes, and twenty seconds.
What has been said of the merchants, that a very large majority, even ninety-seven in a hundred, are sure to fail, is equally true of the farmers.
Are you one of the ninety-seven who fail, or the three who succeed?
Lee's family numbered one hundred and
ninety-seven. Mr.
A thrill permeated Mr Pickering's entire one hundred and
ninety-seven pounds, trickling down his spine like hot water and coming out at the soles of his feet.
It is about
ninety-seven miles in length, and seventy- eight in breadth, rising gradually into three pyramidal summits or cones; the highest, Mouna Roa, being eighteen thousand feet above the level of the sea, so as to domineer over the whole archipelago, and to be a landmark over a wide extent of ocean.
His Lordship married, in seventeen
ninety-seven, Lady Jemima Bilberry, who was the second daughter by the third marriage--no!
The last of the fish had been whipped out, and Harvey leaped from the string-piece six feet to a ratline, as the shortest way to hand Disko the tally, shouting, "Two
ninety-seven, and an empty hold!"
Matthew Bagnet, and by you accepted, for the sum of
ninety-seven pounds four shillings and ninepence, will become due to-morrow, when you will please be prepared to take up the same on presentation.
Then there were
ninety-seven very fine emeralds, and one hundred and seventy rubies, some of which, however, were small.
ninety-seven - being seven more than ninety