I remember to have been told, thirty years ago, that a traveler might go far and wide in search of the picturesque without finding a spot more romantic in its loveliness than Trenton Falls.
Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well-known and successful work without being guilty of any undue family conceit.
The State of New York, which, thirty years ago, was famous chiefly for its cereal produce, is now fed from these States.
The Governor must be a citizen of the United States, must be thirty years of age, and have lived for the last four years in the State.
Perhaps it is only fair to explain that we are writing of a by gone age--some twenty or thirty years ago.
Was it not wonderful that for more than thirty years, over a generation, the choicest portion of them had remained in one family, untouched, as if, separated for some great use!
I shall show you that when she recovered her health, her mind was changed, she was not what she had been.
Quite a settlement of board and log shanties had gone up, with a blacksmith shop, a small machine shop, and a temporary store for supplying the wants of the workmen.
Thirty years have I lived upon that promising word, which has been pronounced by so many great personages, and which your mouth has, in its turn, just pronounced.
He is of my own age, and I have known him these five-and-thirty years.
When the child is thirty years old, the father, being sixty, is only twice as old as his child.
Of French she was ignorant, but she knew the piano well enough to accompany the old-fashioned songs she had sung for thirty years.
He had practised at Blackstable for five-and-thirty years.
I was complete nine-and-thirty years old; I make account to live, at least, as many more.
I have never, in my thirty years of experience, known one single scientific man who went thoroughly into this matter and did not end by accepting the Spiritual solution.
This man, who in some aspects was more than a man, was before the public for nearly thirty years.
At the same time I can say that after an experience of thirty years of such communications I have never known a blasphemous, an obscene or an unkind sentence come through.
When silent time, wi' lightly foot, Had trod on thirty years, I sought again my native land Wi' mony hopes and fears.
It was what he had said on the like occasions for the last thirty years; but Mrs. Calcott was as wise as ever in other folks' matters.
I was bred a farmer, and it was a folly in me to come to town, and put myself, at thirty years of age, an apprentice to learn a new trade.
I also became the favourite of his sister, a lady rather plain than pretty, thirty years old, but full of intelligence.
Naturally I fell in love with her, but as I was her senior by thirty years, and had begun my addresses in a tone of fatherly affection, a feeling of shame prevented my disclosing to her the real state of my heart.
He was a man of thirty years of age who had recently lost his mother and his wife, who had both died of the same fever.
I have scanned the faces here in the hall to-night, and there are some that have not changed beyond recognition in thirty years.
Miss Lucretia Penniman, author of the "Hymn to Coniston," in the reflected glory of whose fame Brampton had shone for thirty years!
Thirty years, I may say, we have kept burning the vestal fire in your worship, hoping for this hour.
It was the picture of a young girl, dressed in the fashion of thirty years ago--I meanthirty years ago then.
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