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lxxv

ADJECTIVE
  1. being five more than seventy

How To Use lxxv In A Sentence

  • This mounteine in many places is founde thre hundred lxxv. miles broade: and of length equalle with the whole countrie. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • It may have been derived from an allegorization of the tyrant Diocletian or Dadianus, who is sometimes called a dragon (ho bythios drakon) in the older text, but despite the researches of Vetter (Reinbot von Durne, pp. lxxv-cix) the origin of the dragon story remains very obscure. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • It contains only fol. lxxxvi., with six leaves of preliminary matter; the pagination is a little irregular, xxi. and xxii. are wanting but xxiii. is given three times, and lxxvii. is repeated for lxxviii.; the The Ship of Fools, Volume 1
  • I could with but slight difficulty find my way back to Jon IV, or Jon X, or Jon CLXXVI, Dei gratia capitulum, but Messrs. D & M do not even accord me that exiguous courtesy. Quakers in Spain
  • David had promised to use his power for God's glory, to cut off the horns of the wicked, and to exalt the horns of the righteous (Ps.lxxv. 10); in recompence for it God here promises to make his horn to bud, for to those that have power, and use it well, more shall be given. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • I could with but slight difficulty find my way back to Jon IV, or Jon X, or Jon CLXXVI, Dei gratia capitulum, but Messrs. D & M do not even accord me that exiguous courtesy. Quakers in Spain
  • [FN#203] The story contains excellent material, but the writer or the copier has "scamped" it in two crucial points, the meeting of the bereaved Sultan and his wife (Night ccclxxvii.) and the finale where we miss the pathetic conclusions of the Mac. and Arabian nights. English
  • Can it be that, like the calamander, or Coromandel-wood, which is rapidly approaching extinction, sandal-wood was extirpated from the island by injudicious cutting, unaccompanied by any precautions for the reproduction of the tree?] [Footnote 2: _Nan-shè_, b.lxxviii. p. 13.] [Footnote 3: _Suh-Hung keën-luh_, b.xlii. p. 52.] Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • Review_, LXXV, p. 439, in the critique reprinted (without its curious anglified version of _The Cotter's Saturday Night_) in Stevenson's Early Reviews of English Poets
  • For a long time a Latin fragment, chapters lxxviii-lxxxvii, of this pseudograph had been known. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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