"Eighty-five" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... plain, and all the country, and Sodom and her sisters are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Fearful it was when God destroyed at once twenty-three thousand for fornication, and an exterminating angel in one night killed one hundred and eighty-five thousand of the Assyrians, and the first-born of all the families of Egypt, and for the sin of David in numbering the people, three score and ten thousand of the people died, and God sent ten tribes into captivity and eternal oblivion and indistinction from a common people for their idolatry. ...
— The World's Great Sermons, Vol. 2 (of 10) • Grenville Kleiser
... says he, 'and you have it. Eighty-five year last Jenooary. You are under thirty, I reckon? Thought so! Well, I was gettin' on for sixty year old when you was ...
— Geoffrey Strong • Laura E. Richards
... yielded eighty-five," remarked the queen, who had affected to listen to the whole account with the greatest interest. "I am well pleased, Phraortes. Tell me of the cattle and sheep—and of the slaves; whether ...
— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford
... "Eighty-five grandmothers! Why, what the devil does that boy want of a yacht? How much money does he intend to ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... Ibrahim and eighty-five men started for Obbo in charge of about 400 cows and 1,000 goats. Shortly after their departure, a violent thunder-storm, attended with a deluge of rain, swept over the country, and flooded the Latooka river and the various ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker
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