"Fifty-three" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fifty-three years for one, it was quite time," said the gentleman. (He was dressed in powder and a pigtail, quite ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... and Epstein's MS. give the distance between Arles and Marseilles as three days' journey. The actual distance is about fifty-three English miles. Probably the Roman roads ...
— The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela • Benjamin of Tudela
... Rhetoric is scarcely anything else than a detail of figures; the number of which, being made to include almost every possible form of expression, is, according to these authors, not less than two hundred and forty. Of their names, John Holmes gives, in his index, two hundred and fifty-three; and he has not all that might be quoted, though he has more than there are of the forms named, or the figures themselves. To find a learned name for every particular mode of expression, is not necessarily conducive to the right use of language. It is easy to see the inutility of ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... was 1,882 inches long. Beginning with the birth of the Saviour, these inches stand for years. This gallery suddenly ends, excepting that it is continued in a narrow passage, the narrowest in the whole building, for fifty-three inches. Then comes the King's Chamber, which before you enter, you pass under a portcullis in the form of an olive leaf. In this chamber all is equal, quiet, and central. Now, what I believe this pillar of witness in Egypt teaches (see Isa. xix. 19) is, that in 1882 the whole ...
— The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 • Joseph Wild
... and was forced to change his bed." There were present several women of the first rank; as Madame de la Vali'ere, whom you remember Duchesse de Vaujour, and who is still miraculously pretty, though fifty-three; a very handsome Madame de Forcalquier, and others—nor was this conversation at all particular to ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
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