fifty-nine

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• This was nine fewer than what he needed just two years ago when 426 members of the House voted.

• The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.

• Denied parole nine straight times, he insists he is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted.

• If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY Betamax and an eight-track operating system.

• Nine new Republican senators will swear their oaths of office.

• The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.

• In particular the Governor of Adinskoy offered us a guard of fifty men to the next station, if we apprehended any danger.

• Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.

• In nine days he returned, bringing us the thanks of congress, and fresh orders.

• Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.