"85" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... toute ma vie la verdure morte qui la tapissait, son sol boueux et sale, sa petite table peinte en vert et ses bancs de bois tout ruisselants d'eau.... A travers la neige dont elle tait charge, le jour passait peine; la [85] neige fondait lentement et tombait sur ma tte ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... of the twelfth century who comes the nearest to looking upon the task of the historian as a modern writer would is WILLIAM OF NEWBURGH (R. Hewlett, Rolls Series, Chronicles of Stephen, etc., i, and ii, 1884-85). His purpose is not merely to record what happened, with a rather clear conception of the duty of the historian to be accurate and to use the best sources, but to make a selection of the facts, using the more important and ...
— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams
... 85. Numeration. — N. numeration; numbering &c. v.; pagination; tale, recension[obs3], enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation[obs3]; calculation, calculus; algorithm, algorism[obs3], rhabdology[obs3], dactylonomy[obs3]; measurement &c. 466; statistics. arithmetic, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus • Peter Mark Roget
... as a beautiful village, its streets outlined by rows of tall cottonwoods that still survive. There were 85 city lots of one acre each, about the same number of vineyard lots, two and a half acres each, and of farm lots ...
— Mormon Settlement in Arizona • James H. McClintock
... thinker than he commonly realises—perhaps because he is still, for the most part, of the solitary individualism of the hermit of the Thebaid, of Diogenes in his tub. Assuredly, they are less removed in essential psychology than their derived fraternities, their [Page: 85] respective novices and scholars, have often thought. It is thus no mere play of language which hands on from the one to the other the "travail de Benedictin," though even here the phrase is inadequate savouring too much of the school, into which each cloister of every sort ...
— Civics: as Applied Sociology • Patrick Geddes
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