Another writer says: "There is a superstition that a child born at eight months is not as liable to live as if born at seven months; indeed, many suppose that an eight months' child never survives.
He says: "Mr. Astor lived to the good old age of four score and four years and eight months.
He died peacefully, on the last day of that month and year, at the age of sixty-six years, eight months, and eight days.
He went to Paris and Rome, remaining in those cities for a period of eight months, and endeavoring to share the enthusiasm for the great works around him which the artist world manifested.
Eight months in the year military exertions are impossible; during four months only can any thing be done.
Finally, however, on the 15th of March, he made an eight months' truce.
Legislation, enlightened by anatomical physiology, knows that a child lives before being delivered from its uterine prison, therefore the destruction of an embryo of eight months is regarded as murder.
The calculation amounts to seventy-one years, eight months, and twenty-four days.
Besides, it often happens that a child born at nine months is smaller than the foetus of eight months, although it continues in the womb.
The child brought forth at eight months is more formed, and consequently more vigorous, and likely to live than that which is born at the seventh.
Many children are born at seven or eight months, and some not till after the ninth; but in general the deliveries which precede the term of nine months are more frequent than the others.
But at the end of eight months he was attacked with a fever, which appears to have left a frenzy upon his mind, for his disposition was totally reversed.
Mr. Burke's book was upwards of eight monthsin hand, and is extended to a volume of three hundred and sixty-six pages.
Eight months I have been imprisoned, and I know not for what, except that the order says that I am a Foreigner.
Eight months of roughing it on the Road had worked many changes in my temperament, ways of calculating, and general appearance.
In my other writings I have told pretty minutely what I learned about tramp life during the eight months' trip as well as on later excursions.
To the school life and the ensuing eight months' sojourn In Hoboland credit is also due for the disappearance of my pilfering inclination.
Eight months," the man counted dreamily with his fingers.
Eight months after my love died, and my youth died with him, I was my cousin's wife.
With a beard of eight months' growth, and a dress made for love-making in August, I must have presented a somewhat curious appearance.
Eight months after I saw him again at Turin, he was then amorous of a banker's wife, who was able to untie his tongue.
Eight months after, I met at Barcelona Madame Bellucci, a Venetian dancer, with whom I had had a small intrigue.
In eight months he was relieved of his post, and General Weyler, Marquis de Teneriffe, who had a reputation for severity, succeeded him in command.
If, after so advancing during six or eight months, he loses half or more of his crop by natural causes, he stands a poor chance of recovering his advances of that year.
In the following wet season, out of the clump germinate a number of young shoots, which, in the course of six or eight months, will have reached their normal height, and will be fit for cutting when required.
Hiero, dying in 467, was succeeded by his brother Thrasybulus, who, after a short reign of eight months, was expelled for his cruelty by the Syracusans and the confederate cities.
After a short reign of eight months he was carried off by a sudden disorder; and the army proclaimed Fl.
Besides the death of Floyd, but one other incident occurred in the twenty-eight months to affect the integrity of the corps.
A book of this size would not contain a bare catalogue of the deeds and discoveries of those twenty-eight months; nor could any number of volumes do full justice to their importance.
Eight months in the back-country among the leeches, at a temperature of 84 degrees moist, is very bad for the nerves.
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