"88" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... addition, annexation, adjection[obs3]; junction &c. 43; superposition, superaddition, superjunction[obs3], superfetation; accession, reinforcement; increase &c. 35; increment, supplement; accompaniment &c. 88; interposition &c. 228; insertion &c. 300. V. add, annex, affix, superadd[obs3], subjoin, superpose; clap on, saddle on; tack to, append, tag; ingraft[obs3]; saddle with; sprinkle; introduce &c. (interpose) 228; insert &c. 300. become added, accrue; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... Captain Hotard, of the relief-boat Estelle Brousseaux, had found, drifting in the open Gulf (latitude 26 degrees 43 minutes; longitude 88 degrees 17 minutes),—the corpse of a fair-haired woman, clinging to a table. The body was disfigured beyond recognition: even the slender bones of the hands had been stripped by the nibs of the sea-birds-except one finger, the third of the left, which seemed to have been ...
— Chita: A Memory of Last Island • Lafcadio Hearn
... day, thrice fairer night! Night to best days, in which a sun doth rise Of which that golden eye which clears the skies Is but a sparkling ray, a shadow-light! And blessed ye, in silly pastors' sight, simple. Mild creatures, in whose warm[88] crib now lies That heaven-sent youngling, holy-maid-born wight, Midst, end, beginning of our prophecies! Blest cottage that hath flowers in winter spread! Though withered—blessed grass, that hath the grace To deck and be a carpet to that place! Thus sang, ...
— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald
... Horatio, and consisted of 80 convicts transported from Madras, of whom 73 males and 1 female were for life, and 6 male convicts on short sentences. On the 25th of the same month another batch was received, also convicts from Bencoolen. These consisted of 122 convicts transported from Bengal, of whom 88 males and 1 female were for life, and 33 for short terms. When these Indian convicts were landed at Singapore they were placed at first in an open shed, or godown (from the Malay word "godong," a shed), which stood on the site where the ...
— Prisoners Their Own Warders - A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits - Settlements Established 1825 • J. F. A. McNair
... began to reflect, "It is said that excess in anything is not good. Sita[FN88] was very lovely, but the demon Ravana carried her away; and Bali king of Mahabahpur gave much alms, but at length he became poor.[FN89] My daughter is too fair to remain a maiden; to which of ...
— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton
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