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  • In all out of 310 officers and men the regiment had lost in the space of about two or three minutes five officers and sixtyfive men killed and wounded, and 120 horses—nearly a quarter of its strength.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • In all out of 310 officers and men the regiment had lost in the space of about two or three minutes five officers and sixtyfive men killed and wounded, and 120 horses—nearly a quarter of its strength.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • On the roadway which they were approaching whilst still speaking beyond the swingchains a horse, dragging a sweeper, paced on the paven ground, brushing a long swathe of mire up so that with the noise Bloom was not perfectly certain whether he had caught aright the allusion to sixtyfive guineas and John Bull.

    Ulysses 2003

  • In all out of 310 officers and men the regiment had lost in the space of about two or three minutes five officers and sixtyfive men killed and wounded, and 120 horses—nearly a quarter of its strength.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • Bloom looked at the head of a horse not worth anything like sixtyfive guineas, suddenly in evidence in the dark quite near so that it seemed new, a different grouping of bones and even flesh because palpably it was a fourwalker, a hipshaker, a blackbuttocker, a taildangler, a headhanger putting his hind foot foremost the while the lord of his creation sat on the perch, busy with his thoughts.

    Ulysses 2003

  • The third and fourth columns of the table show that there was a steady decrease during the sixtyfive years from 1890 to 1955 in the proportion of the population that was single, and a corresponding increase in the proportions married and ever married.

    The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997

  • Moreover, with a population of some 1300 women to every 1000 men, with half the Berliners over fifty years of age, and a fifth over sixtyfive, and so dependent on the earnings of the rest, there is a continuing need to attract young people to the city and to keep them there-and this means housing, jobs, security, and opportunity.

    Berlin and the Future of Germany 1968

  • Bloom looked at the head of a horse not worth anything like sixtyfive guineas, suddenly in evidence in the dark quite near so that it seemed new, a different grouping of bones and even flesh because palpably it was a fourwalker, a hipshaker, a blackbuttocker, a taildangler, a headhanger putting his hind foot foremost the while the lord of his creation sat on the perch, busy with his thoughts.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • On the roadway which they were approaching whilst still speaking beyond the swingchains a horse, dragging a sweeper, paced on the paven ground, brushing a long swathe of mire up so that with the noise Bloom was not perfectly certain whether he had caught aright the allusion to sixtyfive guineas and John Bull.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • The number of which this branch of the legislature is to consist, at the outset of the government, will be sixtyfive.

    The Federalist Papers 1788

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