He had three hundred pounds to find on the twenty-fourth of the month, and twenty thousand pounds to find in February
eighteen hundred and fifty.
"Eighteen hundred and four," I replied, mentally resolving to give the old man no more opportunities of talking, until my examination of the register was over.
I reached the beginning of the year eighteen hundred and four without encountering the marriage, and then travelled back through December eighteen hundred and three--through November and October-- through
I suppose the clergyman who officiated here in the year eighteen hundred and three is no longer alive?"
In eighteen hundred and fifty-eight the household was enlivened by the arrival of Sir Thomas Lundie.
He brought his second wife to England toward the close of eighteen hundred and sixty six.
At the opening of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven the relations between Anne and Blanche were relations of sisterly sympathy and sisterly love.
It was a strange way of killing: not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope through
eighteen years!'
First, the perplexing mystery of the place was, Who belonged to the
eighteen denominations?
If Paul had received more than eighteen shillings a week he would not have lived in an attic.
'On eighteen shillings a week,' went on Jeanne, satirically, 'you would support a wife, yes?
The lanes and alleys, which I could not enter, but only view them as I passed, are from twelve to eighteen inches.
The outward court is a square of forty feet, and includes two other courts: in the inmost are the royal apartments, which I was very desirous to see, but found it extremely difficult; for the great gates, from one square into another, were but eighteen inches high, and seven inches wide.
The viceroy of Tigre had inquired of me a few days before how many men one India ship carried, and being told that the complement of some was a thousand men, he compared that answer with the report then spread over all the country, that there were
eighteen Portuguese vessels on the coast of Adel, and concluded that they were manned by an army of
eighteen thousand men; then considering what had been achieved by four hundred, under the command of Don Christopher de Gama, he thought Abyssinia already ravaged, or subjected to the King of Portugal.
The next morning they resumed their wayfaring, hungry and jaded, and had a dogged march of
eighteen miles among the same kind of hills.
