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Example sentences for "about fifty"

  • He was a man of about fifty, who boasted to me that he had been a poacher from the age of fifteen, and had never been caught.

  • We walked on about fifty yards or more, and then came to the end.

  • I was standing before a rather florid man of about fifty, with close-cropped hair, a brush moustache, and a chin that seemed undecided on the score of shaving.

  • I lunched at the auberge, and I had for my companion a ruby-faced cattle-dealer of about fifty.

  • He is a gaunt, angular, sallow man of about fifty, with hollow cheeks and long black beard.

  • He was first owned by Mrs. Caroline Johnson, "a stingy widow, the owner of about fifty slaves, and a member of Dr.

  • James's master was a man of about fifty years of age--who had never been lawfully married, yet had a number of children on his place who were of great concern to him in the midst of other pressing embarrassments.

  • Beszeyra is a village of about fifty houses.

  • The Pasha keeps a garrison here of about fifty horsemen, with an officer who commands the town, the neighbouring Arabs, and the shipping in the harbour.

  • Of the oldest and best looking trees, I counted eleven or twelve; twenty-five very large ones; about fifty of middling size; and more than three hundred smaller and young ones.

  • The Pasha of Egypt keeps a garrison in Nakhel of about fifty soldiers, and uses it as a magazine for the provisions of his army in his expedition against the Wahabi.

  • Hardly had the man knocked at the opposite door when it was opened, and the broker, a large woman of about fifty years of age, appeared, holding a candle in her hand.

  • About fifty of these followed to the edge of the river.

  • The trader Croghan brought, however, about fifty warriors, with as many women and children, to the camp at Fort Cumberland.

  • About fifty of them at length escaped; a hundred and forty-eight were captured, and the rest killed or drowned in trying to cross the rapids.

  • In about two hours we really arrived at an old deserted shaft, into which we were able to go about fifty paces; then, however, it was blocked up, and any farther advance was impossible.

  • At the end of five miles I caught up the troop again, which consisted of about fifty head, and selected an iron-grey mare with black mane and tail, which appeared to be between a two and three-year old.

  • I had not ridden very far when a covey of about fifty got up before my dog, and settled again about half a mile farther on the prairie.

  • I took him to the arms-case in my house to let him see my weapons, about fifty first-rate implements.

  • Here too are the great Chaudiere, or Kettle, Falls on the main river, with a total descent of about fifty feet.

  • The distance to it in a straight line is about fifty miles.

  • On the shady side of the same structure a dilapidated, miserable-looking white man of about fifty lay in a drunken sleep, buzzed over by a swarm of flies.

  • The party halted at a distance of about fifty yards, and after a short conference two of the men came on.

  • The average breadth of the stream at the surface, when low, is about fifty yards, but oftener less than this, and seldom more.

  • A group of countrymen stood in the middle of the road, about fifty yards in front of me; and while I was deliberating whether to advance or retire, a joyous cry of 'Hurrah for the French!

  • There we shall find in the midst of about fifty pupils, an honest preceptor bearing the name of Stolo, or Volumnus, or Pomponius, perhaps.

  • They had about five hundred Catholics in their congregation, and a school of about fifty children.

  • Leonard, looking, saw before him a tall and handsome man of about fifty years of age, and saw also by many unmistakable signs that he was at the point of death.

  • Here also were the Settlement men, armed, but in an extremity of fear, for they were guarded by about fifty of the Great People, also armed.

  • First he let her float gently down stream and under cover of the shore for a distance of about fifty yards.

  • We walked from Marysville to the American River bridge one night, about fifty miles.

  • Perhaps one of the most interesting things I saw while traveling through the Bear River country in southern Utah, was a lava bed, about fifty or sixty feet high and I judge about two hundred feet wide at the base.

  • From Greenville, Crockett pressed on about fifty or sixty miles through a country interspersed withe forests and treeless prairies, until he reached Fulton.

  • One proved to be an old pirate, about fifty years of age.

  • Mrs. Owen was an excellent, motherly woman, about fifty years of age.

  • Immediately after came a group of about fifty generals, all belonging to the Army Council.

  • They seemed to be arranged in companies of about fifty, and there must have been a hundred companies.

  • At seven o'clock, about fifty bands of music struck up, in different parts of the great central circle.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about eight times the; about eighteen; about eighty; about half the length; about her; about noon; about one; about seventy; about six; about sixteen; about that; about the same size; about then; about this; about three; about twelve; apostolic authority; conclusive evidence; felt about; husky voice; know each; mutually beneficial; rapid development; sharp sword; this belief; throwing light