How To Use Twenty-five In A Sentence
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Now the number of yawls has increased to twenty-five and the yawl racing competition has become a major tourist attraction on Achill island.
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By contrast, to reach our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, you'd need only twenty-five Milky Ways.
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The Indians of America carry all their products, such as maize, sugar, coffee, etc., in bags made of this leaf, which they know how to arrange so well, that they transport an "arroba," or twenty-five pounds any distance without a single grain escaping, and without any appliance other than a liana or creeper to tie it up with.
Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
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The tax granted by the datary for the contracting of marriage out of the permitted seasons, is twenty carlins; and in the permitted periods, if the contracting parties are the second or third degree of kindred, it is commonly twenty-five ducats, and four for expediting the bulls; and in the fourth degree, seven tournois, one ducat, six carlins.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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He did aid an '' bet, as the loryers call it, in thet, an 'thet proves him 'bout as mean as a white man ever gits ter be; an', 'sides thet, he did _sell_ har fur twenty dollars -- a' ooman thet even th '' judge '-- an' he _ar_ a _judge_ uv sech things -- was willin 'ter pay twenty-five hun'red fur; he _did_ sell har fur _twenty dollars_; an' thet proves him a fool!
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Jepson claims the service will charge a twenty-five cent connection fee for each call, and seven to fourteen cents per minute.
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She viewed herself as she was sure Jake would: a twenty-five-year-old woman, grossly tall, apparently too clumsy to hold a book, and with a demimondaine petticoat contradicting a dress sewn for a much younger woman.
Hearts
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Twenty-five remaining African and Latin American countries recognize Taiwan diplomatically instead of China.
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a strange unity, that is to say, everything that Western man for twenty-five centuries was able to see or feel as common to what are at times radically heterogene - ous experiences, which he designates by the same word.
LOVE
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Father's a railroad president and many times millionnaire, but the son's starving in 'Frisco, editing an anarchist sheet for twenty-five a month.
Chapter 36
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For they barter even for pieces of porringus, and of broken glass cups, so that I saw sixteen skeins of cotton given for three Portuguese centis, that is a blanca of Castile, and there was more than twenty-five pounds of spun cotton in them.
The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
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I've sat in countless staff meetings where doctors who see fifty patients a day are held up as examples to the rest of us sluggards who see twenty-five to thirty.
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Twenty-five have suffered symptoms, but only 13 have developed "AIDS-defining" illnesses such as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
Aids Or Chronic Fatigue?
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For the transcriber, the collection is a treasure trove of little discoveries -- the antiquated use of "farinaceous" instead of today's "pasta"; the remarkable preponderance of oyster dishes; the revelation that steaks cost twenty-five cents, not twenty-five dollars.
The New York Public Library: All Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections
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The arrobe of Castile contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the
Les Miserables
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Many punk bands extended this antagonism to all established rock musicians over the age of twenty-five.
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To be elected to the House a person must be twenty-five years old and must have been a United States citizen for seven years.
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Although seven hundred years have passed since Marco Polo made his illustrious twenty-five-year journey across Asia, his daring adventure continues to inspire globetrotters.
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Sailors were assigned to messes, each of around ten to twenty-five men, and equipped with a stowable table, cutlery, plates and a bread bin.
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When he was positively obliged to dine at his own cost, he sent his tiger to fetch a couple of dishes from a cookshop, never spending more than twenty-five sous.
Albert Savarus
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The norm for the duration of commercial leases has for many years been twenty-five years.
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Jacob Dolan, sheriff in and for Garrison County for four years, beginning with 1873, remembered the summer of 1875 to his dying day, as the year when he tore his blue soldier coat, and for twenty-five years, after the fight in which the coat was torn, Dolan never put it on for a funeral or a state occasion, that he did not smooth out the seam that Nellie Logan McHurdie made in mending the rent place, and recall the exigencies of the public service which made it necessary to tear one's clothes to keep the peace.
A Certain Rich Man
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The biggest pike caught during the winter leagues was a whopper of twenty-five pounds, caught on a deadbait on March 2.
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There may be communities now such as St. Marys was twenty-five years ago, but one goes far to find them.
The Rapids
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The state of old maidism was reached at a very early age in those early days; Higginson wrote of an "antient maid" of twenty-five years.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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Besides salary and per diem, each Secret Service employee received a whopping twenty-five dollars for each boodler he captured.
The Hacker Crackdown
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The Khojas today represent an integral part of the Nizari communities scattered in more than twenty-five countries.
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I would ask you, Messer Cicero and Messer Seneca, whose dog-eared volumes I see scattered upon the floor, of what use is it for me to know better than any master of the Mint or a Jew of the Pont-aux-Change that a gold crown piece is worth thirty-five unzain at twenty-five sous eight deniers parisis each, if I have not a single miserable black liard to risk upon the double-six?
IV. Fate. Book VII
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If the last twenty-five years had taught him anything it was that outward appearances were wholly untrustworthy.
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The most abundant source at present known is the Freiberg blende, 100,000 parts of which only yield from twenty-five to forty parts of indium.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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Although Andrew is twenty-five, he has a mental age of six.
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The starting salary was about twenty-five thousand dollars a year plus bonus.
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China's iron manufacturing industry produced one hundred twenty-five thousand tons a year—an amount not equaled the West until the twentieth century.
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The normal practice is to appoint a Cabinet of fifteen to twenty-five members.
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Gradually, though, I realized, that Luz, the school's elegant, middle-aged director, and modish, twenty-five-year-old Luis could talk on or join us for comida (the big afternoon meal) because they weren't rushing off somewhere.
Eight surprises from a senior year abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico
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He was a smooth-faced, blue-eyed youngster of twenty-five, slender and natty in his captain's uniform.
Koolau the Leper
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Thereafter the conviction rate steadily increased, reaching twenty-five percent or more early in the twentieth century.
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As the flexile hose has to be stiffly distended to bear an aqueous gravity of twenty-five to fifty pounds to the square inch, the force of the current can be estimated.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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The normal practice is to appoint a Cabinet of fifteen to twenty-five members.
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In Abids Taj they used to get a dosa for twenty-five paise and a movie ticket in Dreamland used to cost 10 annas.
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DURBAN, South Africa - Twenty-five crew members were rescued by helicopter from a Taiwanese fishing vessel that ran aground near the South African port of Durban, officials said.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Twenty-five years on, the Kinana Sugar Company boasts of being the world's largest integrated producer of white sugar.
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Twenty-five years ago, at Vassar, where we met, she was a pretty, plumpish hippie girl.
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Up the long hill to East Grinstead, keeping a steady, reverent twenty-five miles an hour, the traffic building up behind.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Twenty-five students were admitted to the National Honor Society in a ceremony yesterday.
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Twenty-five federal disaster areas, thousands of unlivable homes, 11,000 applications for federal aid, and counting.
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Twenty-five miles of beaches were officially closed to the public.
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Twenty-five students had enrolled in the course.
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Twenty-five pounds and eight shillings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sure whin Twenty-five comes, we'll have our own agin: the right will overcome the might -- the bottomless pit will be locked -- ay, double: boulted, if St. Pettier gets the kays, for he's the very boy that will accommodate the heretics wid a warm corner; an 'yit, faith, there's: many o' thim that myself 'ud put in a good word for, affcher all.
The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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Later, in front of my entire unit, he told me to lie down on a box and then he whipped me twenty-five times.
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It produces in one year two hundred piculs of wax, fifty piculs of tortoise-shell, ten piculs of best camphor, and as much inferior; ten piculs of birds'-nests, at ten dollars the catty; 1st camphor, twenty-five; rattans, one dollar per picul; tortoise-shell, one dollar the catty; wax, twenty the picul.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
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French group, but in South America twenty-five years ago a piaster was a piaster.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
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A guillotine was consequently developed that could behead twenty-five persons at a time.
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The 1906 Burke Act exacerbated land loss on the reservation by removing the twenty-five-year restriction on sales of Indian allotments.
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Twenty-five to 35 covers you from kind of postcollege to getting married to maybe having the first child.
Questions For ... Marka Hansen
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As I heard "The Voice that breathed o'er Eden" and saw the bride of twenty-five advance up the aisle to meet the bridegroom of forty-five awaiting her deeply flushed, in a distorted white waistcoat -- I had mercilessly alluded to his white waistcoat as an error of judgment -- I gave myself up for lost; _and I was lost_.
The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy
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If the last twenty-five years had taught him anything it was that outward appearances were wholly untrustworthy.
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Paris children held hostage An masked man armed with a revolver is holding twenty-five children hostage in a nursery school in Paris.
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Twenty-five percent was thus the upper limit beyond which oxygen could not rise.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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Twenty-five years later, both these men were at this dinner party, which gives you an idea of the tininess of this world.
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Now, with my own lips, I have played notes from Subterranean flutes twenty-five thousand years old standard diatonic to heptatonic, including a flatted la and a neutral third for mi, i.e., a blue note.
Deeper
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A principal reason [for the decline in cases] is the change in Chief Justices: during his term, William Rehnquist penned the majority opinion in twenty-five cases.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Irrelevancy of the Fourth Amendment in the Roberts Court”
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At last, after some twenty-five minutes, a stunning fish was beached: a fresh-run female steelhead of some fourteen or fifteen pounds.
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Twenty-five years after it opened along the left bank of the Seine, just across from the Tuilleries Gardens and the furthermost reaches of the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay has opened again after a period of expansion, refurbishment and thoughtful rehanging of its collection.
New Visions Arrive at the Orsay
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`Twenty-five meters of chalk and compacted conglomerate between the roof of the structure and the floor of the English Channel.
CORMORANT
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While still a few steps from the officer she unfolded the kerchief and took out of it a white twenty-five-ruble assignat and hastily handed it to him.
War and Peace
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An average wagon train included twenty-five to thirty-five wagons pulled by oxen. They traveled about twenty-four kilometers a day.
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They didn't see it was a struggle they must lose in the end, and so for twenty-five years the scrappy, unorganised warfare had smouldered on, with every now and then a real dust-up to stoke the growing hatred and mistrust on both sides.
Isabelle
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He had seats for forty thousand, who paid a minimum admission of twenty-five cents but more for reserved space.
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Before the war one hardly ever heard of that class, mother used to say, it was so humble and unpresuming – but in the last twenty-five or thirty years it has overrun everything and most of the land about here has passed into its possession.
The Miller of Old Church
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The Washington Free Press, a Seattle-based progressive bimonthly newspaper, has had stories in Project Censored's top twenty-five in three out of the past five years.
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Canon McHugh, presented each of us with a half-crown, the equivalent of twenty-five pence in today's currency, which at that time was indeed a princely sum.
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Again modernism is tartily in line with many media shibboleths, one of which, the new and the disposable, comes in the guise of renewal after a twenty-five year or so or less depending on the object life span.
The Guardian World News
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Still only twenty-five, she has been compared to the greatest dancer of all time.
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A freshly painted sign over the counter put closing time at nine-thirty; the clock next to it read nine-twenty-five.
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Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have laws that entitle exonerated inmates to government compensation, according to The Innocence Project, which represents inmates fighting to have their convictions overturned.
Beatrice Daily Sun News Articles
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Anson's earning twenty-five a day at carpentering, Liverpool getting twenty logging for the saw-mill, and Big Bill's getting forty a day as chief sawyer.
LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
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Japan's twenty-five years in Manchuria is an engrossing story of business achievement.
The Manchurian Crisis
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Twenty-five years ago, I learned about business travel by spending a lot of time in San Francisco.
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A week later the Japanese reached a point just twenty-five miles from Kweilin and, after a reorganization period of five weeks, resumed the offensive, slicing easily through the leftovers of the Chinese army.
The Last Empress
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The train consisted of twenty-five wagons, under Lew Simpson, then an assistant wagon-master, next Billy, the "extra," a night herder, a cavallard driver, whose duty was driving the loose and lame cattle, and the bullwhacker for each team.
Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
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Twenty-five years ago Paul Keating, the country's treasurer (finance minister), declared that if Australia failed to reform it would become a banana republic.
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Of course, as is widely known, the last twenty-five years have witnessed a renewed interest in collectivist analyses of liberal society ” though the term ˜collectivist™ is abjured in favor of ˜communitarian™.
Liberalism
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The twenty-five or so remaining Crimson Knights donned their plate mail and readied their weapons.
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Twenty-five years later they met again in Glasgow where, after more ‘foregathering’, they attempted to chuck stones into the outstretched hat of the statue of James Oswald MP in George Square, luckily without being arrested.
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Winnepeseogee and the Pemigewasset Rivers, and then it turns and runs twenty-five or thirty miles in a northeasterly direction to its mouth; and this deflexion in the current caused the dispute.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884
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On the pages of the first quire, Thomas listed the smallest of the books, the octavos, duodecimos, and 32 mos; on the second, he listed the larger books, folios and quartos, and the family's manuscripts; and on the third quire, the contents of twenty-five volumes of bound tracts.
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The "Buyapart," valued at twenty-five cents, is a piece of cloth four inches square, covered thickly over with the small shells called cowries, sewed on.
Journal of an African Cruiser
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Jack put the twenty-five-horse outboard hard into reverse and my father and I each held a boathook, straining to see the rocks below the breakers.
Rebecca Chace: Shipwreck: Robinson Crusoe and Me
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From ten match reports in 1882 there were twenty-five in 1886 for Association football.
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Kate fiddled with her seatbelt for a minute, trying to work out exactly how the thin piece of blue material was supposed to save her life if the plane began to plummet twenty-five thousand feet towards the ground.
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Twenty-five years ago, roads had been put in anticipating growth.
New D.C. regional business group stirs unease as it pushes for area cooperation
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Nice is said to yield the king half a million of livres, about twenty-five thousand pounds sterling, arising from a small donative made by every town and village: for the lands pay no tax, or imposition, but the tithes to the church.
Travels through France and Italy
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Twenty-five students had enrolled in the course.
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First, some twenty-five years ago in the former Soviet Union interest in Peirce and Karl Popper had led logicians and computer scientists like Victor Finn and Dmitri Pospelov to try to find ways in which computer programs could generate Peircean hypotheses (Popperian “conjectures”) in semeiotic contexts (non-numerical or qualitative contexts).
Nobody Knows Nothing
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An ideal caseload is about twenty-five to fifty offenders; some probation officers in California today have a caseload of 3,000 offenders.
The Prison-Industrial Complex
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Twenty-five years later they met again in Glasgow where, after more ‘foregathering’, they attempted to chuck stones into the outstretched hat of the statue of James Oswald MP in George Square, luckily without being arrested.
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For instance, after twenty-five years, people in the Mattole River watershed have put in countless volunteer hours and rehabbed an elegant small river.
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The day of the fire the thermometer reached a record ninety-seven degrees in Helena; it surely topped that in the narrow confines of the gulch about twenty-five miles to the north.
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Martine says: ‘Twenty-five years have passed and we always said that in this very unsettled world, the spirit of Krashny is one of solidarity.’
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The project cost him just five thousand rupees; the bricks sold for twenty-five thousand.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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As far as I know, it sunk into the mire of the school field, and is still there twenty-five years later, an interesting divot on the outfield of the cricket pitch for future archaeologists to find.
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Until instantaneous photography was introduced, a little more than twenty-five years ago (by the discovery of the means of increasing the sensitiveness of a photographic plate), and gradually became familiar to everyone in the exhibitions known as the "biograph" or
More Science From an Easy Chair
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Eleven students were inherited from the College of California, which had disincorporated and turned its property over to the University, twenty-five entered the freshman class, and one or two enrolled as special students, a total of about thirty-eight.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
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Allow twenty-five minutes to get through Passport Control and Customs.
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As a pedagogue, he contributed with a compendium of twenty-five singing solfeggi and some technical exercises for violin.
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He's working maybe twenty-five hours a week.
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For twenty-five cents I have seen a man at the circus do something more wonderful, -- make a very living bay horse dance a redowa round the amphitheatre on his (it occurs to me that _hind-legs_ is indelicate) posterior extremities to the wayward music of an out-of-town (_Scotice_, out-o'-toon) band.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
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Damian Flint does everything he possibly can to make me blow twenty-five fuses at once!
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Leavy suggests that this division of the twenty-five subject electro was to meet the shrinkage of the paper in the sheet.
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A sejeant [sic] and six men only engage a Spanish subaltern with twenty-five dragoons, unbroken, kill six of their men, and bring in the rest prisoners, with every horse of the party.
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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Louis Braille was born in 1809 at the village of Coupvray, twenty-five miles east of Paris, to a saddler and his wife, who named all their children after kings and queens of France.
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Vic had mounted two superquiet four-cycle engines on the twenty-five-foot Interceptor, three hundred horses no louder than a snoring kitten.
OFF THE CHART
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They range in price from several dollars to around twenty-five bucks.
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Still only twenty-five, she has been compared to the greatest dancer of all time.
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Canals for navigation and irrigation have been constructed through the Campine, and it is said that its barren sands, improved at an expense of one hundred dollars per acre, yield, from the second year, a return of twenty-five dollars to the acre.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 05 (historical)
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Twenty-five by one hundred fifty miles, and yet called a principality!
Graustark
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The gold denomination of the Roman Empire was the aureus, which was worth twenty-five silver denarii.
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Kohl, hailed by friend and foe for his part in unifying Germany and building a united Europe, was accused of using secret slush funds to keep his iron grip on the party he led for twenty-five years.
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The military authorities have set aside, as a site for an aerostation camp, some twenty-five acres of the park near Rocquencourt.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France
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A spry and quick-witted woman that, although in her mid-fifties, still didn't act a day over twenty-five, she had been, and always would be, the person that I truly looked up to the most.
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A large obstacle in the form of a twenty-five foot wall was overcome by an easy ramp-chimney with a chockstone at the top which was bypassed using a foot-jam in a small crack.
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I'd like to see him haul forty gyros and twenty-five sides of hummus through town and up six-stories.
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Twenty-five per cent of house burglaries are sneak-ins and almost half are offences, where the burglar lifts keys from the house to steal the car.
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Being a Classics teacher is not the social death it was twenty-five years ago.
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The police estimated the goods to be worth more in the region of twenty-five thousand dollars.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Today's polyester is not twenty-five years 'ago polyester.
The Joy of Style
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Twenty-five large paper copies (22.6 x 14 cm, demy octavo) of Ballads and Sonnets were printed on Whatman's rag paper.
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At his death in 1999 Edey bequeathed his collection of twenty-five clocks, fourteen watches, and an extensive horological library to the Frick Collection in New York City.
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Then, with just five minutes of the half remaining, Keith Regan broke forward from the left side of midfield and let fly with a scorcher of a shot from twenty-five yards that gave David Feehan no chance at all in the Fahy goal.
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At twenty-five, she was offered the editorship of Tatler, a London society rag teeming with duchesses in disastrous yellow satin and dampeyed earls on horseback.
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Initially these had been one hundred and seventy-five men and twenty-five horses laying claim to an empire of fourteen million.
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Current guidelines recommend screening sexually active women who are age twenty-five and under every year for chlamydia, which is very common and may cause serious health problems if not treated.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
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In this part of the Murman Coast, the northern tree line ran east-to-west some twenty-five miles south of the beach.
Countdown
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Ticket price averaged five hundred dollars with scalpers getting as high as twenty-five hundred dollars for a seat.
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Guess I'll give you twenty-five dollars a week, anyhow, for one week sartain; and then, if we suit each other, we can raise the pile bimeby.
She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.
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He was a good twenty-five centis taller than his commander, strongly built without looking like a weight-lifter -- and the nasty-looking scar that cut across his right cheek down across his mouth and into his chin seemed more a distinction than a disfigurement.
The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel
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Their dominions were bounded by the Adriatic and the Tigris; and the whole interval of twenty-five days’ navigation, which separated the extreme cold of Scythia from the torrid zone of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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For more than twenty-five years, his work as an ethnolinguist has focused on the preservation of Hopi language and culture.
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If the last twenty-five years had taught him anything it was that outward appearances were wholly untrustworthy.
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A proprietor had noted in 1910 that he had applications for jobs at twenty-five shillings a week from competent reporters of forty and fifty years of age with families.
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Twenty-five policemen suffered minor injuries during the protest.
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Twenty-five years ago he was enthroned as the guru of the avant-garde; today he is isolated, some would say megalomaniac.
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Chap. 525. shall be wpon such terms aud conditions and for such a period, not exceeding twenty-five years, as said commission may deem best.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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Born Mario Pinaldi, a second-generation Lothario, at twenty-five he was a well-respected hairdresser in a trendy salon in town.
THE MANANA MAN
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However, it is the principle of equal treatment under law without regard to race that for one hundred and twenty-five years constituted the unvarying goal of antislavery crusaders and civil rights advocates.
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How do we evaluate this work in light of the questions of authorship, appropriation, and identity which have motivated much of the most progressive art of the last twenty-five years.
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The twenty-five years 'bishopric is chronologically impossible, as it would make Peter, at the interview with Paul at Antioch, to have been then for some years bishop of Rome!
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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He had seats for forty thousand, who paid a minimum admission of twenty-five cents but more for reserved space.
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We kick the ball down there, squib it, keep it inside and we'll probably take five seconds off of the clock and they'll have it at the twenty-five, thirty yard line, making them make about a forty-five yard play to get in field goal range.
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Yet twenty-five smackers; come on now, that's cheaper than a decent haircut in most places.
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For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
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Twenty-six or - seven -- you're over twenty-five right now, I'll bet you on it, shillings to ha'pennies, and you'll make thirty when you get your full weight," Dag Daughtry told him.
CHAPTER 1
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The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.
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She goes through certain labors which are thought to be strengthening, and these last twenty-five days.
Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
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An Australian nurse from Melbourne, aged twenty-five, on a year-long sabbatical travelling around the world, if anyone cared to ask.
CHAMELEON
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Broadway, and the dolly with the "shash" and "pairesol" which she had seen the day before under its glass case was hers for twenty-five dollars, and the plainer bit of china, who was to be dollie's mother and perform the parental duty of "panking her when she was naughty," was also purchased, and the dishes and the table and stove and bedstead, with ruffled sheets and pillow-cases and blue satin spread and the washboard and clothes bars and tiny wringer, with divers others toys, were bought with a disregard of expense which made Miss McDonald a wonder to those who waited on her.
Miss McDonald
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In twenty-five years, I have learned a basketful of lessons from my clients.
Denise Vivaldo: Tips To Success I Have Learned From My Clients
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She says more in twenty-five words than many writers do in a thousand.
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Primetime television is to be consolidated into one twenty-five-year-long compendium spreading across a hundred and eighteen channels in forty countries, a media type smarmed earlier.
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The French had found the abattis strong and almost undamaged twenty-five yards in front of the redoubt.
Washington
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We’d putter by the city dump at twenty, twenty-five kilos an hour and some of the dek khaya, the garbage children whose families lived in shanties on the dump, would race alongside us, urging me to go faster, asking Anek if they could ride too.
The Worst Years of Your Life
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Cruz, where we anchored at half-past nine on Sunday morning in twenty-five fathoms water, and moored along shore in the same depth, with the cupola tower of the church of St. Francis bearing west half north one mile, the east part of the road east by north, the castle on the south point south-west, and the west part of the Grand Canary south-south-east.
A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
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His twenty-five-foot boat was moored within sight of West Church.
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The past six months had been spent ghostwriting the autobiography of a twenty-five-year-old pop star.
LOST SUMMER
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At the nearby Lady Tennyson small amounts of copper ore averaging twenty-five to thirty percent were also raised.
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One in twenty-five Britons carries the faulty gene that causes cystic fibrosis.
Times, Sunday Times
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Twenty-five years ago, this bay was the end of the hippie trail from Germany.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three young nuns, all sisters-in-law of his sons, superintended the staff of twenty-five teachers on the payroll, and they took his surname as theirs under vows.
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Of twenty-five families surveyed, only five responded affirmatively.
American Grace
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The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.
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Twenty-five years ago very few people were commuting to Galway from South Mayo on a daily basis to work.
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Allow twenty-five minutes to get through Passport Control and Customs.
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Twenty-five percent of total worldwide emissions come from fossil fuel combustion.
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As they move around as the Sun spins, sunspots near the solar equator return to their starting point in about twenty-five days.
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For me, it's simple: my students who are varsity athletes must allocate twenty-five hours a week of intensive physical effort to their sport -- and this is at a Division Three school where athletics are formally a second-tier activity; Division One universities should be dubbed "semi-professional athletic training facilities," for those students who are the beneficiaries of that oxymoron, the "athletic scholarship.
Van Gosse: A Modest Proposal (to Help Fix American Education)
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Any more raffle tickets? Twenty-five pence each or five for a pound.
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-- The Rigi is a group of mountains about twenty-five miles in circumference, lying between lakes Lucerne,
Shepp's Photographs of the World
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Nearing fifty, he still had the body of the trained olympic decathlete he had been almost twenty-five years before.
DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
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He felt disinclined to argue while the calendar was there to remind him that he was down to his last twenty-five days.
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There was no wind, and the flames rose straight up, scorching the cocoanut-leaves, but unharming other houses within twenty-five feet.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
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References: deux mille sept = 2007; le notaire (m) = notary; twenty-five = while we own the farmhouse, we are joined by 24 vine (or wine?) investors who are counting on the grapes to deliver!
French Word-A-Day:
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You see I am the only man for twenty-five villages, apart from a feldsher who calls me "your honour," does not venture to smoke in my presence, and cannot take a step without me.
Letters of Anton Chekhov
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For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
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It was a massive stone building, a good twenty-five stories, columns marking the sides of the entrance where four massive wooden doors stood, marked by bellhops and valet parking signs.
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Taz had cropped hennaed hair, creamy white skin and a nose ring, and couldn't have been a day over twenty-five.
FALLEN WOMEN
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Among these twenty-five riddle-stories is The Heads That Got Switched, which describes how a washerman, Dhavala, falls in love with Madanasundari, the beautiful daughter of another washerman, and marries her.
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‘That means there will be at least two hundred and twenty-five rubles’ worth left on each desyatin.
Master and Man
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We found the Thomas River to be a dry bed - an arroyo - in a basin depressed twenty-five to thirty meters below the level of the sandplain.
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Twenty-five hundred years ago, a disenchanted prince and seeker of truth sat quietly under a bodhi tree.
Aditi Nerurkar, M.D., M.P.H.: Medication vs. Meditation: Which Should You Choose?
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Grievous bodily harm, about twenty-five years ago.
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The flight that carries the traveler from the high-rises of I Honolulu to the Garden Island is short; less than twenty-five minutes.
GALILEE
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Their armoury is the prettiest plaything I ever yet saw, neatly kept, and capable of furnishing twenty-five thousand men with arms.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
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Twenty-five skeletally mature crossbred merino wethers were used with the approval of our local Animal Care and Ethics Committee.
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Each of the twenty-five contributors has felt the need to testify for the sake of posterity and as a human chronicle.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Apart from this I had had twenty-five copies made of the scores of both these operas by means of the so-called autographic transfer process, although only from the writing of the copyists.
My Life — Volume 1
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Guzman, twenty-five, was placed under arrest at his parents' home Friday.
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At last, after some twenty-five minutes, a stunning fish was beached: a fresh-run female steelhead of some fourteen or fifteen pounds.
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Effects Over the last twenty-five years the choral vocabulary has been considerably expanded to explore many sound effects never conventionally used before.
