How To Use Twenty-four In A Sentence
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He divided twenty-four of the plants into six initial groups of four, in order of size as estimated by eye.
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A number of the predominately male workforce have twenty-four years service with the company.
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Franchise won't letcha close; it's twenty-four-seven.
One Minute to Midnight
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Twenty-four hours after leaving Waller's, I was sipping a single malt by my own fireside in Hampshire.
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It causes the core body temperature to increase to a peak and descend to a trough once every twenty-four hours.
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Some indeed were revelling in the formulae of algebraical infinity and of twenty-four-dimensional space, like a child in the elementary class dealing with the four rules of arithmetic.
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In this city the Markets were held open twenty-four hours a day to better serve the people who worked wildly different shifts throughout the levels of the city.
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Twenty-four hours later, as the train slows outside Mogaung, I hop off, run down a dirt road, and leap into the first trishaw I see.
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The St. Katharinenthal novice Kathrin Brümsin was taught the text to all twenty-four verses of the sequence Verbum dei by Saint John the Evangelist in a dream-vision.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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[171] An occasional ear of corn in a thrave, -- that is, twenty-four sheaves.
Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
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-- Members have been asked to surprise Secretary for Meetings Di Stefano which they instruct to attend a assembly during slightest twenty-four hours in allege of which meeting.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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Twenty-four male and 29 female first-year psychology students participated to earn credit for their course.
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He was kayaking in a twenty-four foot craft for seventy-four days attempting the first solo crossing of the Atlantic.
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An Admonition of Warning to England comprises twenty-four rhyming couplets in alternating lines of iambic hexameter and heptameter.
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The principal veins are from twelve to twenty-four inches wide, and carry besides gold, sulphurets, pyrite, galenite, &c.
North Carolina and its Resources.
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Day after day we're treated to an over-long British news sequence covering the ‘events’ of the preceding twenty-four hours on the campaign trail, and nit-picking over the meaning of the latest polls.
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I believe that the two most important instillations during the twenty-four hours of the number necessary to maintain this myosis are on retiring and if possible in the very early morning, some time between two and four o'clock.
Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
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Now, if you look at the map, Mr. Tighe, you'll see that the isobar for this region shows a barometer pressure of 29.50, a terrific drop of four points in twenty-four hours.
The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men
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The two middle feathers of the tail have no webs, except a very small one at the base and at the extreme tip, forming wire-like cirrhi, which spread out in an elegant double curve, and vary from twenty-four to thirty-four inches long.
The Malay Archipelago
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Franchise won't letcha close; it's twenty-four-seven.
One Minute to Midnight
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It was proved by Oppolzer [1286] that if the comet of 1843 had entered our system from stellar space with parabolic velocity it would, by the action of a medium such as Encke postulated (varying in density inversely as the square of the distance from the sun), have been brought down, by its first perihelion passage, to elliptic movement in a period of twenty-four years, with such rapid diminution that its next return would be in about ten.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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At last he consented that I should stay with him till just before daybreak, which is in that, as in most climates, the coolest time generally of the twenty-four hours.
Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas
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The vessels forming the flotilla consisted of praams, ship-rigged, and brigs carrying one or two eighteen or twenty-four pounders, and the largest a thirty-two pounder (with sixty or ninety men), all of them flat-bottomed.
A Sailor of King George
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I used to try and cram the whole twenty-four letter alphabet into one little symbol.
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A set of twenty-four carved and gilded chairs appear on the inventory of the house for 1736.
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He then taught Kathrin the twenty-four verses of his sequence Verbum dei deo natum, the same one that Luggi of Stein had sung in praise of the saint. 71 Kathrin's dream shows just how crucial knowledge of the appropriate liturgy was for the nuns.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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By Sunday evening he hadn't given the far side of the river more than a casual glance for over twenty-four hours.
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One and a half cords of wood burned down to a twenty-four foot path of coals glowing at a brisk 1,000 degrees when Willey first stepped on it.
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A wooden door was now put up, and the baking was left to itself for about twenty-four hours, at the end of which time the lead would have become transformed into a yellowish powder, known as massicot.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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The Snow Leopard is a KGB operation which will culminate in the next twenty-four hours.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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The total cellular activity in one human body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with twenty-four zeros after it.
Archive 2009-06-01
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In the twenty-four-inch space at the right end of the hot dog there was a brown-yellow plain with just a few thorny trees a-thirsting on it and a pride of lions resting in the stingy shade beneath one of those trees, and far in the distance, too far for the warm lions to bother with, a herd of wildebeests was kicking up dust, and even further in the distance Mt. Kilimanjaro jumped up like God's own sugar-tit, and in a modest encampment at the foot of the peak, E. Hemingway was cleaning his Weatherby 375 magnum (not trusting the native boys to handle such an instrument) and slurping his gin.
Another Roadside Attraction
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Instead of the third woe being detailed, the grand consummation is summarily noticed, the thanksgiving of the twenty-four elders in heaven for the establishment of Christ's kingdom on earth, attended with the destruction of the destroyers of the earth.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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About the tenth day, the discharge, which up to that time had been only sanious and serous, showed a slight admixture of slimy pus; and this increased till (a few days before I left) it amounted to about three drachms in twenty-four hours.
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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Two hundred and twenty-four families in the ward live below the sidewalk, many of them _below high-water mark_.
American Woman's Home
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A note in one of Leonardo's manuscripts speaks of twenty-four Roman subjects, probably small decorative groups in _camaieu_, painted on the vaulting of these rooms, and gives the exact cost of the blue, gold, and enamel employed, but all trace of these decorations has vanished.
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497
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A poll showed that eighty-four per cent of African-Americans between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four saw Malcolm as "a hero for black Americans today.
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He was dressed in the purple-bordered toga praetexta and preceded by twenty-four lictors shivering in crimson tunics and brass-bossed black leather belts, with the ominous axes inserted in their bundles of rods.
Fortune's Favorites
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The woman who raised me was an aunt, if your definition of being raised is being kept in a basement twenty-four-seven for eighteen years, where I got fed every day.
Blood Trinity
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The baboons became infected with the virus and four of the baboons developed lymphadenopathy and three of the animals exhibited CD4 T-cell loss within nineteen to twenty-four months after inoculation.
'The AIDS Heresy': Another Exchange
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Twenty-four male and 29 female first-year psychology students participated to earn credit for their course.
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Fri. Jul twenty-four Blue Midnight Quartet Riverhead Concert 7pm see on top of Mandolin, banjo, fibre bass & guitar personification! swing, j azz & a lot of Buddys strange music.
Archive 2009-12-01
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At home it had been so clear that for six dressing jackets there would be needed twenty-four yards of nainsook at sixteen pence the yard, which was a matter of thirty shillings besides the cutting-out and making, and these thirty shillings had been saved.
Anna Karenina
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Twenty-four hours later, after what he termed "chirpy Blackburn fans" responded in kind, he decided to quit the social networking site, although the decision is thought to owe more to abuse his outspoken wife, Emma, has received in recent weeks.
Blackburn justify Steve Kean's optimism with defeat of Bolton
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By the age of twenty-four she was free to seek work outside the home, finding temporary positions as amanuensis and governess.
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He's been sweating it out in the genny house the last twenty-four hours.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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Further, it was known that they had quarrelled just previous to pulling out; for the Lizzie, a wheezy ten-ton sternwheeler, twenty-four hours behind, beat Leclère in by three days.
BÂTARD
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It bears the coat of the Vyells (gules, a fesse raguly argent) with no less than twenty-four quarterings: for an Odo of the name had fought on the winning side at Hastings, and his descendants, settling in the West, had held estates there and been people of importance ever since.
Lady Good-for-Nothing
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The near-vertical sides are fissured, and twenty-four caves and rock shelters are known.
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Its engine grinds in the background, twenty-four hours a day.
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Twenty-four lymph nodes were dissected from the axillary dissection, the largest measuring 2.0 x 1.0 cm.
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Aziz didn't need to ask to know that the gold was not leaf, but real gold, most likely twenty-four karats.
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Raising the sub was no mean feat of underwater engineering - it weighed twenty-four thousand tons underwater and lay in 350 feet of water.
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After having been on his feet twenty-four hours, in the exhausting work of mountain-climbing, Sir George began the reascent at the head of the relief party of six guides, to recover the corpse of his brother.
A Tramp Abroad
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Still more curious was the form of viol known as the barytone, which, in addition to an outfit of six catgut strings upon the finger board, was furnished with twenty-four wire strings, stretched close under the sounding board, where they sounded by sympathetic vibration.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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In 1935 he became literary editor of the Listener, a post he held for twenty-four years.
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He dabbled in the long jump until the age of twenty-four and then decided to switch to the sprints.
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Less than twenty-four hours later, he was up in the burn unit with a raging case of SJ.
BREACH OF DUTY
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SWF, twenty-four, sks friendship first then maybe LTR w attractive fun-loving, honest man twenty-one to twenty-eight.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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Skin clothing is then the only thing that is of any use; but at this time of year, when the sun is above the horizon for the whole twenty-four hours, one can go for a long time without being more heavily clad than a lumberman working in the woods.
The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey
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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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She suffered terrible verbal as well as physical abuse for almost twenty-four years.
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Fifteenth and sixteenth verses gives them a fifty day's Sabbath; twenty-fourth verse says: "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying in the seventh month in the first day of the month, shall ye have a _Sabbath_, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign, from the Beginning to the Entering into the Gates of the Holy City, According to the Commandment
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Its mycelian filaments, if one may so describe them, have been produced scarcely for twenty-four or forty-eight hours when they are seen to transform themselves, those especially which are in free contact with the air, into very refringent corpuscles, capable of gradually isolating themselves into true germs of slight organization.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
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Twenty-four hour electrocardiographic monitoring is indicated when there is an increased probability of identifying an arrhythmic cause for syncope.
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Protesters are holding a twenty-four hour vigil outside the socialist party headquarters.
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He has also added a running paraphrase to each of the poem's twenty-four sections, making explicit much that the author's telegraphic style has compressed.
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Suppofe a common globe was turned round once in twenty-four hours — imagine an animal as much inferiour to it in fize as we are to the earth, placed as as I conceived the human fpeftatOf placed to view the earth — would the apprehenfion of this Being in - duce you to call a fingle revolution in twenty-four hours, whirling?
Thirty letters on various subjects ..
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A December gale had torn at the coast for a full twenty-four hours, and was now starting to abate.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Te Deums; six psalms; twenty anthems; three German operas; one English opera; thirty-nine Italian operas; two Italian serenatas, two English serenatas; one Italian intermezzo, "Terpsichore"; four odes; twenty-four chamber duets; ninety-four cantatas; seven French songs; thirty-three concertos; nineteen English songs; sixteen Italian airs; twenty-four sonatas.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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A Royal Navy frigate or minesweeper could be on station as well with twenty-four hours' notification.
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Now at twenty-four, his arms are all “sleaved out”—every inch covered in tattoos.
Tattoos on the Heart
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Or Jim McQuiggin, in Ireland, nursing his completely helpless, bedfast wife, twenty-four hours a day, year after year.
They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2
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Her daughter then caught a fever that carried her off within twenty-four hours.
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Twenty-four hours later you make an anonymous phone call.
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Finally, it was time to go—Parker and I had had a memorable experience, a kind of dreamlike twenty-four hours—being with the president and first lady is very special.
Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!)
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They have extended the deadline by twenty-four hours.
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The book has a twenty-four-page inset of pictures of Walcott, his family, friends, and associates, his sketches, and his productions.
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Nothing much, a bit of carelessness, yet enough to bring the professional wrath of Doctor Bicknell about his ears and to perturb the working of the staff and nurses for twenty-four hours to come.
SEMPER IDEM
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A demon, who is called Mephistopheles, appears, and a compact is made whereby for a stated term (later on fixed at twenty-four years) he agrees to be
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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In conjunction with the twenty-fourth problem, this shows that, even at the time, he had at least a vague idea of metamathematics.
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We've flirted at balls, and she was as coy as a twenty-four year-old!
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The twenty-four pieces gathered here reflect voracious curiosity, wanderlust, and encyclopedic knowledge of peoples, places, rituals, and religions.
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Many thanks, Philip, but before I adonize my outward man I should wish to satisfy my inward cravings; and, to tell you the truth, I'm so hungry from not having broken my fast for nearly twenty-four hours, that if you could order something to eat while you are looking out the clothes, I should feel in no small degree grateful.
The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago
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The canoe or "mun" is a large sheet of bark cut from the gum-tree, carefully lowered to the ground, and then heated with fire until it becomes soft and pliable, and can be moulded into form, it is then supported by wooden props, to keep it in shape, until it becomes hard and set, which is in about twenty-four hours, though it is frequently used sooner.
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the M
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By Sunday evening he hadn't given the far side of the river more than a casual glance for over twenty-four hours.
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Also, if you get the munchies, the Shore Shack next door is open twenty-four-seven.
Shore Thing
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Between 1981 and 1983 the government created twenty-four so-called enterprise zones in economically depressed areas.
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She took hold of the needle of the teleseme, but the words on the dial were confused; she quickly moved the needle round over the whole twenty-four points, but none of them suited the case.
Duffels
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The Chartreuse de Champmol was founded for twenty-four monks and a prior, which was twice the usual number in a typical Carthusian foundation.
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A December gale had torn at the coast for a full twenty-four hours, and was now starting to abate.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Twenty-four of the Antwerp forts were still holding out today in face of a continuous bombardment.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is about twenty-four miles to the south of Jerusalem, is the residence of a kaimakam, and has a population of 20,000, of whom 2000 are Jews of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Just like the maquiladora plants, the amative establishments that served their employees operated on a twenty-four-hour work schedule.
The Mocking Program
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I am a twenty-four year old Female-to-Male transman.
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He is duly accredited by his ordination, he must be at least twenty-four years of age, he is entitled to letters dimissory on removing from one diocese to another, and he is liable to discipline for holding and teaching false doctrine.
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In 1726, Joseph Bonnier's careful and frugal father died, leaving his twenty-four-year-old son with a fortune worth ten billion francs and a governmental position which paid, possibly unofficially, one hundred thousand écu, or five or six hundred thousand livres (an ecu, just before the Revolution, being equivalent to about $25 in 2006).
Archive 2008-05-01
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Get the Rand or Flank of Beef cut about a foot in length; bone it, and then mix two Ounces of Salt peter, with a good handful of common Salt: after which, carbonade the outward Skin of the Beef, and rub the whole well with the Salts, letting it lie for twenty-four hours in Salt before you collar it; but observing to turn it twice a day, at least, whilst it is in Salt.
The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm
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He was just twenty-four when on his first visit to Niagara he decided to devote himself to landscape painting.
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HE has gone away to Homel for twenty-four hours on business matters, and I want to pass all the evening and ALL the night in your place.
Yama: the pit
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Twenty-four hours after treatment, leaves were ground with a mortar and the expressed leaf extract was analyzed for proteinase inhibitor concentrations by radial immunodiffusion as described previously.
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The typical full-term infant can be described as asleep for about seventeen hours out of the twenty-four.
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The past twenty-four hours had been spent -- misspent -- in contact with Washington and Los Angeles.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Hinting at the timepiece's capacity for deadly accuracy, he adds: ‘It was twenty-four minutes past midnight.’
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One of the important documents of the intraparty debate on renovation vs. orthodoxy that finally split the PCV was a short book on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia by a former guerrilla leader, Teodoro Petkoff, who was denounced in Pravda just before the PCV split and later by Leonid Brezhnev, in his speech to the Twenty-fourth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, for "nationalist tendencies [with] an anti-soviet character.
Carnival in Caracas
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Of course, there was harm done in that twenty-four hour unicycling marathon that took him to the world record.
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Some hotels programme their canned music in twenty-four hour cycles, varying by location and the hour.
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And then, about thirty million years ago, when the land that was to form the twin pillars was being laid down, mesohippus developed, twenty-four inches high at the shoulders and with all the basic characteristics of his ancestors, except that he had only three toes on each of his feet.
Centennial
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The cardsharper lays down the twenty-four cards shown in the illustration, and invites the innocent wayfarer to try his luck or skill by seeing which of them can first score thirty-one, or drive his opponent beyond, in the following manner: --
The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
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The earth turns through one complete revolution approximately every twenty-four hours.
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According to one 1991 report, fifty-seven such programs were running in twenty-four of the hundred largest cable markets.
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Except for the twenty-four hours of biliousness, slippery guts and hasty exits that follow, it's all good.
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A set of twenty-four carved and gilded chairs appear on the inventory of the house for 1736.
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Twenty-four hours after transfection, the cells were harvested and the plasmid DNA recovered.
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For the next twenty-four hours, we waited, while he lay unconscious in the crisis center with tubes in his nose, wired up to an encephalogram machine, a respirator chugging.
On Becoming A Statistic
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The typical profile for a call jacker is if they don't use a stolen unit for twenty-four hours that means they've switched numbers.
Forgetfulness
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Du Bois dedicated the book to Nina Gomer, his wife of twenty-four years.
DARKWATER
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Twenty-four points for the hours of the day, thirty pieces for the days of the month, twelve points in each half-section for the months in the year.
Juxtaposition
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Men were sometimes on the beat twenty-one out of twenty-four hours during the transition between day and night duty.
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Ukraine has twenty-four administrative units - oblasts - almost all named for their capitals.
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Nay, the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhetoric for the God-given right of an eight-hour day, and at the time be working their own business against seventeen hours out of the twenty-four.
THE SCAB
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That equates to whirly conditions are approaching inside of twenty-four hours.
Tourists in Cancun, Cozumel prepare for Hurricane Ida; but direct ...
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Of these courses only four returned after the captivity (Ezr 2: 34-39), which were again subdivided into twenty-four -- retaining the ancient name and order of each.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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At twenty-four he had been a deacon, at twenty - seven a priest, at thirty a rector, and at thirty-five a prebendary; and as his rectory was rich and his prebendal stall well paid, the Rev. Augustus Horne was called by all, and called himself, a happy man.
Tales of all countries
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When the inventory of the works of art in the Pasquier collection was produced, Colin and Remy each received a louis d' or - the equivalent of twenty-four livres - for their two sessions.
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This time, the fix wasn’t as simple: it required putting twenty-four small air pistons called actuators around the edge on the back of the mirror and pushing and pulling the mirror in tiny adjustments, maybe 10 pounds of pressure each, until it was shaped correctly.
A Grand and Bold Thing
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Twenty-four days were to be eliminated from the school year, equating to a 12.6 percent pay cut.
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The Egyptians probably measured their day in twenty-four hours of unequal length.
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Over twenty-four minutes, the laborious repetition seems similar to the use of a single phrase, repeated on end, in an attempt to reach a state of heightened awareness.
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Standing at the cracked red foot of Mount Seleya, wrapped in the finest thermolytic garments the twenty-fourth century has to offer, I still sweat so profusely that the moisture clouds my vision.
Star Trek
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In the mean time the wind had been driving the ice so fast off the land as to form for us a clear communication with the open water before seen to the eastward; and thus we were at length liberated from our confinement, after a close and tedious "besetment" of twenty-four days.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
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Twenty-four more cars of the type were immediately ordered for delivery in 1934, at a cost of ￡2,356 each.
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In the second hymn, we hear a choir of twenty-four elders, perhaps representing the twelve patriarchs and the twelve apostles.
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Here it would be the twenty-fourth part of a dinar or miskal; something under 5d.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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But at last rose up Stephen the Eater and spake: "Meat and drink and lodging is free without price to every comer to Wethermel, and most oft, as here it is, our good will goes with it; yet meseemeth that since these friends of ours come belike from the outlands and countries where is more tidings than mostly befalleth here, it might please them to make us their debtors by saying us some lay, or telling us some tale; for we be not bustled to drink the voidee cup now, these nights of Midsummer, when night and day hold each other's hands throughout the twenty-four hours.
The Sundering Flood
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In 1783 Revere made twenty-four spoons engraved with the Swan crest - six large spoons, twelve large teaspoons, and six tablespoons.
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She wanted to institutionalize her son, but was talked out of it by her mother, who, according to Sabrina, had a lot to say but “never changes a Pamper—I got the kid twenty-four-seven!”
Knowing Jesse
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That's twenty-four leagues North-east to here.
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He described a life she recognized; a life spent on the move, twenty-four-hour jet lag, a blur of cities, restaurants, offices, hotels.
CHAMELEON
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The doctor administered a shot of HCG, a drug that induces ovulation within twenty-four hours, and we returned on the following two mornings for intrauterine insemination, or IUI, procedures.
Times Two
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To reduce the size of the spleen, the Greek athletes used certain beverages, the composition of which was not generally known; the Romans had a similar belief and habit Pliny speaks of a plant called equisetum, a decoction of which taken for three days after a fast of twenty-four hours would effect absorption of the spleen.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Its mycelian filaments, if one may so describe them, have been produced scarcely for twenty-four or forty-eight hours when they are seen to transform themselves, those especially which are in free contact with the air, into very refringent corpuscles, capable of gradually isolating themselves into true germs of slight organization.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
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The Quarter was about to curl up and take a catnap—except for Bourbon Street, party jamboree and flesh-fest central, twenty-four/seven, and as wide awake as a lap-dancing tweaker go-juiced to the eyebrows.
Etched in Bone
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A set of twenty-four carved and gilded chairs appear on the inventory of the house for 1736.
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The present day ceremony at the site sees the top tier occupied by the governor and Lord Bishop (originally the Viking king and hid high priest), the second tier has the deemsters and members of the legislative council, the third is occupied by the twenty-four members of the House of Keys and on the fourth vicars and captains of the parishes.
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Twenty-four hours may be adequate in a laboratory, but not on an assembly line.
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Twenty-four percent of the ship's total crew survived, a percentage point lower than the poor steerage passengers, most of whom had been locked in the belowdecks.
Passeridae
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Her hold contained sixteen twenty-four carronades, while her magazine was stocked with abundance of ammunition, and her kelson lined, fore and aft, with round shot and grape.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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Now, Weelkes's 1597 set of madrigals comprises twenty-four pieces in four groups of six, with the first six madrigals for three voices, and the next groups for four, five and six voices.
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In a man-of-war, and in some merchantmen, this alternation of watches is kept up throughout the twenty-four hours; but our ship, like most merchantmen, had all hands from twelve oclock till dark, except in bad weather, when we had watch and watch.
Chapter III. Ship’s Duties-Tropics
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I've used Berrini's Op. 29 Etudes for years, but I never knew he made his own four-hand arrangements of Bach's twenty-four preludes and fugues.
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The 2004 Athens Olympics was Denmark's twenty-fourth participation of the Summer Olympics.
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Alexander was lame, _pedibus contractus_, from his birth, we are told that after twenty-four years of pain and discomfort -- _vigintiquatuor annis penaliter laborabat_ -- he made a pilgrimage to Canterbury, and there "the sainted Thomas, the divine clemency aiding him, on the second day of the month of May did straightway restore his legs and feet, _bases et plantas_, to the same Alexander.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
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If it gets too damp you can always put the dehumidifier in to run for twenty-four hours.
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They have extended the deadline by twenty-four hours.
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The kitchen maintains a twenty-four hour service and can be contacted via Reception.
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By 1916 she was back again, twenty-four years old and calling herself ` Jeannette.
ISAAC CAMPION
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I have frequently seen coals sell even in Rio de Janeiro, which is but about one third of the distance from us, at eighteen to twenty-four dollars per ton.
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post
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Many thanks, Philip, but before I adonise my outward man I should wish to satisfy my inward cravings; and, to tell you the truth, I'm so hungry from not having broken my fast for nearly twenty-four hours, that if you could order something to eat while you are looking out the clothes, I should feel in no small degree grateful.
The Privateersman
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Twenty-four friends joined the cooking party, during which they donned aprons and tested their skills at kitchen prep work for a four-course Chinese dinner.
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For twenty-four years he had suffered from cephalalgia and pains and partial exophthalmos of the left eye.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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In 1792 the twenty-four most powerful such traders drew up what they called the Buttonwood Agreement, which laid the foundation for a structured market in securities known as scrip.
City of Glory
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In the fitful sleep that icy, twenty-four hour sunlight allows, I dreamt of hot forests and beach barbecues.
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Its charge of langrage swept the French ship from her larboard bow to her starboard quarter, and struck down in an instant twenty-four men.
Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes
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Twenty-four hours later, I was assembling the £50 Newborn flatpack, which arrived complete with fake fleece lining and a guide to whelping.
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Before twenty-four hours had passed, the last cherished fragment of Mr. William Henshaw's possessions had been carefully carried down the imposing steps of the Beacon Hill boarding-house under the disapproving eyes of its bugle-adorned mistress, who found herself now with a month's advance rent and two vacant "parlors" on her hands.
Miss Billy -- Married
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`So either you're depressed or you've aged very badly in the twenty-four hours since I last saw you, in which case I recommend Botox.
JUST BETWEEN US
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The Scot was tough, Stone told himself - could hang in there for at least twenty-four hours of grilling.
CORMORANT
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A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid; which is only what they call a tidal islet, and except in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or at the most by wading.
Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
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The twenty-four houses jealously guarded monopolies of tariffed goods among themselves, enriching themselves from customs duties as well as forays into entrepreneurship.
:Acquired Taste
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Incisions are made into the alburnum of the seringueiras; below the wound small pots are attached, which twenty-four hours suffice to fill with a milky sap.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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It smelled like bacon and hash browns, breakfast twenty-four-seven.
Dark Oracle
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After this age the diameter of the cigarette increases year by year; and when a lady has reached the mature age of twenty-four, no one sees anything remarkable in her smoking a modest little chibouque as she sits on the lower divan of the harem.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
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The adobo marinade may be used to marinate raw meat for up to twenty-four hours before grilling or roasting.
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When a quarter of wheat was sold for three shillings, or three shillings and four-pence, and a quarter of barley for twenty pence or twenty-four pence, and a quarter of oats for fifteen pence, brewers in cities could afford to sell two gallons of ale for a penny, and out of cities three gallons for a penny.
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SWF, twenty-four, sks friendship first then maybe LTR w attractive fun-loving, honest man twenty-one to twenty-eight.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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Protesters are holding a twenty-four hour vigil outside the socialist party headquarters.
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She was twenty-four years old and pretty, with wide blue eyes, a retrousse nose and a gently curving mouth; she wore her bright blonde hair -- the envy of her friends -- in a complicated knot on top of her head, and her person was small, so that she looked extremely fragile.
Politics 101
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In a part of the world where people's physical traits are often the basis for nicknames - even unflattering ones like "fatty" or "shorty" - "veinticuatro" "twenty-four" in English is not an insult but rather a term of endearment, and Hernandez, now 37, said his uniqueness has made him a popular guy.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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The lowered fluid intake diminishes the polyuria and from a twenty-four hour excretion of three to five litres the output falls to normal.
Frederick G. Banting - Nobel Lecture
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SWF, twenty-four, sks friendship first then maybe LTR w attractive fun-loving, honest man twenty-one to twenty-eight.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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The Militia Act of 1792, signed by George (The Communist) Washington, mandated (unfunded) that nearly every “free able-bodied white male citizen” between 18 and 45 “provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch with a box therein to contain not less than twenty-four cartridges, …”
Think Progress » Romney Struggles To Distance RomneyCare From ObamaCare: Ours Was ‘Bipartisan’
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When he finished twenty-four sit-ups, finding his abdomen already slightly sore, he stopped and lay still, trying to relax.
STONE CITY
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Twenty-four hours after a set of robotically performed electro-pop, the Old Town venue went up in smoke.
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This attack lasted eight or nine months, but in 1848 there was a recurrence accompanied by a slight trismus which lasted over eighteen months, and again in 1860 he was subjected to periods of sleep lasting over twenty-four hours at a time.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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I never had trouble talking to guys on the phone before, except for that first time, and now, at the ripe old age of twenty-four, I couldn't think of anything to say.
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Always keep pets and children off lawns that have been sprayed with weedkillers until the spray has dried and preferably for twenty-four hours afterwards.
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For this the scribes devised a set of ideograms and phonetic symbols based on a signary of twenty-four characters, with which in theory there was nothing that could not be written.
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His manacles were a constant, a twenty-four-hour-a-day weight his body grudgingly accepted in spite of the rawness and swelling caused by the dig of unforgiving metal.
Honorbound
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The summit is piled with granite, and out of the rock was hewn 'a warden's or president's chair, seats for the jurors, and a high corner stone for the crier of the court, and a table, 'says Polwhele; and here the' hardy mountain council '-- twenty-four burgesses from each of the stannary towns -- assembled.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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Now look here… we haven't known each other for twenty-four hours, and you want me to be your princess bride?
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On October 6, 1976, at approximately 2 a.m., Adolph Lyons, a twenty-four-year-old African-American man, was stopped by four Los Angeles police officers for driving with a burned-out tail-light.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
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Fifteenth and sixteenth verses give them a fifty day's Sabbath; twenty-fourth verse says: "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying in the seventh month in the first day of the month, shall ye have a _Sabbath_, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign 1847 edition
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In fact, I, along with my twenty-four year old son, experience what is known as ultradian rapid-cycling.
Brain Blogger
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The obvious cure for these fallacies is enhanced education in relatively new fields such as economics, biology, and probability and statistics ... no matter how valuable a subject may be, there are only twenty-four hours in a day, and a decision to teach one subject is also a decision not to teach another one.
The Case for Teaching Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Any press availabilities the Morrison campaign had scheduled before the story appeared would be postponed for twenty-four hours in the hope that interest in it had already peaked by then.
O: A Presidential Novel
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There is also the legacy of an enormous quantity of piano music, including two and three-part inventions and thirteen volumes (each containing twenty-four preludes and fugues) of The tempered piano.
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This article discusses twenty-four inventions for self-boring barrel spigots that I found in the U.S. Patent and Trade Office patent database.
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A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid; which is only what they call a tidal islet; and except in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or at the most by wading.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
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The law of South Carolina permits the master to _compel_ his slaves to work fifteen hours in the twenty-four, in summer, and fourteen in the winter -- which would be in winter, from daybreak in the morning until _four hours_ after sunset!
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
