Five Sentence Examples
I've waited at that station for five hours.
I'll see you at five, then.
A lot can happen in four or five days.
Roll a five or a seven and you're history.
Carmen was looking at someone behind the camera and Alex was looking at a girl who stood about five feet from him.
Felipa left the room five minutes before Tessa left.
Not even a path had existed here when she lived in the area five years ago.
I'm sorry you're unhappy with my questions, but I need to know why you suddenly needed a girl after going five years without any.
We crammed in five sessions with three positive achievements, a new record.
Anyway, we'll reach Ashley in four or five more days.
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I sat at the desk as he reclined on the bed, more suitable to his five foot seven frame.
She increased our supply by five dollars' worth, just in case.
In 2000, Africa had fewer than five million Internet users.
Subsequently, in conjunction with Wheatstone, he introduced another form, in which five vertical index needles, each worked by a separate multiplier, were made to point out the letters on a dial.
AdvertisementThe keyboard has five keys similar to those of a piano, and the letters and figures are obtained by the different combinations which can be formed by the raised and depressed keys.
Each receiver is provided with five electromagnets corresponding to the five keys of the keyboard, and the armatures of the electromagnets can thus repeat the various combinations for all the signals allocated to the different combinations of the keys.
The Daniell type consists of a teak trough divided into five cells by slate partitions coated with marine glue.
Then he ordered his treasurer to pay the poet five hundred pieces of gold; for, indeed, the poem which he had recited was wonderfully fine.
For political purposes these are subdivided into eight subordinate groups, consisting of three residencies and five agencies.
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He now knew there were five of us although no other information was conveyed to him.
Our work schedule encompassed five intense days, Monday through Friday.
By the way, if you took my bet, you lost five bucks.
It's only five AM in California.
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I'll count to five?
He gave me five days.
All five are sealed.
She once had said she wanted five children.
Just go four or five doors, and it'll be on your right.
Of still greater importance for the history of Napoleon are Fain's Memoires, which were published posthumously in 1908; they relate more particularly to the last five years of the empire, and give a detailed picture of the emperor at work on his correspondence among his confidential secretaries.
The care of his diocese and of his new foundation were not enough for his ardent charity, and in 1609 he published his famous introduction to a Devout Life, a work which was at once translated into the chief European languages and of which he himself published five editions.
At regular intervals a rotating arm on the distributor connects the five keys of each keyboard to line, thus passing the signals to the distant station, where they pass through the distributor and certain relays which repeat the currents corresponding to the depressed keys and actuate electromagnets in the receivers.
In the course of the summer he took the fortresses of Arad, Lippa and Vilagos; provided himself with guns and trained gunners; and one of his bands advanced to within five leagues of the capital.
The city has five gates, and from one of them, called Bala Khiaban gate (upper Khiaban), the main street (Khiaban), 25 yds.
In 1537 he was invited to Denmark by Christian III., and remained five years in that country, organizing the church (though only a presbyter, he consecrated the new Danish bishops) and schools.
In 1796 he returned to France, and next year he was sent by Lyons as a deputy to the Council of Five Hundred.
The Nahr Malk or royal river, modern Radhwaniya, leaves the Euphrates five leagues below this and joins the Tigris three leagues below Ctesiphon; while the Kutha, modern Habl-Ibrahim, leaving the Euphrates three leagues below the Malk joins the Tigris ten leagues below Ctesiphon.
In response to the imperial summons, five to six hundred bishops, all Eastern, except the Roman legates and two Africans, assembled in Chalcedon on the Sth of October 451.
As settled by him, and in part perhaps also by his successor Tiberius, it fell into the following five administrative areas.
Partly on account of his inability to share in the amusements of his fellows by reason of a deformity due to vaccine poisoning before he was five (the poison permanently arresting the growth and development of his legs), he was an eager student, and in 1814 he graduated at the College of South Carolina with the highest rank in his class and with a reputation throughout the state for scholarship and eloquence.
He was five times president of the Royal Astronomical Society, was correspondent of the French Academy and belonged to many other foreign and American societies.
Duke William was undisputed master of England at the end of five years; it took Count Roger thirty years to make himself undisputed master of Sicily.
But in Sicily we see the quite different phenomenon of three, four, five classes of men living side by side, each keeping its own nationality and speaking its own tongue.
The general assembly elects the five judges who compose the high court.
Betsy offered as the five of us brainstormed.
While Merrill Cooms knew there were five of us and had spoken to each, we'd never identified which one of us held the gift.
Want to lose a quick five bucks?
I'm not doing this for the five hundred dollars or getting in your book.
We five hirelings, as dissimilar as snowflakes, are tripping over one another in an effort to display mutual accommodation.
Quinn hasn't slept with me since month four or five.
I already sold 'em for five hundred.
I've now located and examined three different homes that list five adult occupants.
It would be our secret; how we started, how we were a party to something that never happened before in history, and probably never will again; what we did and why; just the five of us.
After that introduction, my wife listened; for more than five minutes, while Howie apparently continued to ramble.
There's an afternoon Amtrak train that makes the trip from South Station in Boston to Philly in less than five hours.
We don't start serving until five o'clock called one of a half dozen women setting out food on a steam line.
You've got four or five days before you have to look over your shoulder again.
A five minute walk found us at the waterfront and beach.
Our motel was at least five or six miles up the coast highway through town.
I learned later the facility was the largest between Los Angeles and San Francisco and contained five hundred and ten beds and a fully equipped trauma center.
I couldn't tell if the look he gave me was incredulity or concern but he grabbed my arm and led me outside where a suited man who must have topped six foot five was walking toward us.
I prayed our stalwart group of five wasn't down to only me.
Just because I dropped at your feet whenever you called for five years doesn't mean I'll do it now.
At under five and a half feet, she wasn't sure how she was supposed to find her brother among the people around her.
A naked, unconscious woman lay atop the island in the center with five men with red eyes chewing on various parts of her body, one on each leg, one on each arm, and one at her neck.
He'd lost another five pounds this month.
He couldn't remember when he'd last had a full five hours of his own, and he knew he wasn't likely to get another break for a while.
She reached the door and undid the locks with trembling hands, wondering what kind of person kept five locks on his door.
The sense grew stronger as she led them down the hall past a waiting room and nurse's station towards the quiet hallway lined by patients' rooms, each housing four to five patients.
One buffet table sagged beneath the weight of five kegs while another held food wrapped in cellophane and tinfoil.
She rushed forward, screaming when Talon's dagger fell twice, thrice, five times.
Her own necklace had the same symbols surrounding five stars.
Four of the five vamps he'd chosen as bodyguards were exchanging looks of derision behind his back, and the vamp he tried to interrogate was openly ridiculing him.
The number of beings capable of killing one was less than five, and the last thing they needed was an Original Being showing up to complicate matters.
Five minutes later, it returned, scorching her throat on the way out.
In an organization of less than five thousand, that's a lot.
She halted and quickly piled five small stones in an arrow pointing back the way they'd come, then wiped her muddied hands on her jeans.
Maria was a wee bird of a woman—probably a teenager, Hispanic, and even shorter than Cynthia, who barely topped five feet.
The second floor contained six quarters, five rooms for guests and the rear left corner occupied by Fred O'Connor.
Probably a five buck parking ticket he didn't pay fifty years ago and he thinks they're still trying to hunt him down.
Thirty five miles later he found the address, a private home on the side street of a quiet neighborhood.
A DNA test would start around five hundred bucks.
Fred and the Bird Song Five were spotted by first locating the largest stash of trash.
The trunk was one of five that circled them, all large square affairs—foot lockers for summer camp.
It took five trips by the time the auction was finished and the last of the purchased junk was dumped at Bird Song.
When Dean shook his head and wondered aloud why Westlake, who obviously wasn't poor, would mess around with five and ten-dollar items, Fred explained.
In addition to the five we bought, there were five or six—maybe seven more.
They were only here four or five years in the late fifties, Charlie said.
Printed brochures, gratis from Myrtle Somebody whose brother-in-law was a printer, were placed about town by tiny Tonya, an eight-year-old Latina waif hired by Fred for five bucks.
You have five days.
The five remaining death-dealers he brought with him were quickly extracting souls.
She tried on every piece of clothing today and took five baths to test the different soaps.
He gave her five minutes then started up the stairs.
He found the five who reported the demon interactions with ease.
All five of the death dealers were borderline about abandoning Gabriel.
He walked down the line to the nearest of the five the demons had approached with offers and paused before the Immortal with icy blue eyes.
None of the five fought him or made excuses.
He studied the five symbols on the paper in his hand.
How could she possibly win in the next five?
Yeah. We found five tears.
They're letting in about five souls a minute.
He was rumored to go through five to ten blood monkeys a day and was said to have single-handedly wiped out whole villages.
I've gained five pounds.
In only about five or ten minutes, the mare was groaning and lying on her side, pushing hard.
Destiny was sitting no more than five feet away now.
She took it and handed him a five dollar bill.
Five. I dragged them out here as soon as we found this.
You now have a thirty five percent chance of succeeding.
In about five minutes, the big man there is going to wake up.
Good. We're bringing all the souls to this one and sending everyone but five guards to the Ancient Tamer.
Of the twenty symbols, I've figured out five.
All five of the death dealers on guard had drawn near the lake.
Not that it mattered, but she'd need five inch heels to catch the gaze of someone as sexy as Gabriel.
If Tamer didn't find the tidbit of history from the time-before-time about forced soul extraction, the plan was never going to have more than a five percent chance of working, even with Wynn.
You have five minutes to change.
Darkyn waited for her in the circle that stretched about five meters across.
There were three then five voices with a sixth calling the police and the seventh hugging the sobbing kid.
She marched to her bathroom and yanked out the five pill bottles, reading the labels.
One of my most expensive shirts with the pants that went out of season five years ago.
It's been calm for the past few hundred years, but I don't think any of us have forgotten that five hundred year period where we were at each other's throats.
She knelt beside the fish and unwrapped them with a grimace, cheered to find the section of rope nearly five feet long.
Five cups of coffee later and a full Irish breakfast --without the blood pudding --settling in her stomach, she still couldn't shake the throb.
The five turned, and Rhyn winked at her.
Kris was for all of five minutes.
Five sets of predatory eyes fell to her, as if realizing there was a lame lamb in their midst.
Dessert was a slice of five different kinds of pies, and she dug into everything, eating fast.
Sensing some sort of lurid story, all five of them waited for her to speak.
Kris produced a key chain from his pocket and unlocked the five locks before pulling the heavy door open.
The smallest statue was Rhyn as a child of five or six, standing on Antarctica.
She suspected Kris might override his promise to let her go in five weeks, if Ully couldn.t figure it out.
It.s a three-hour trek, so you can expect them between five and six.
You still have five weeks.
The kid on the bed was closer to twelve than five, and near her height.
Kris waited until five Immortals were present in the hall before he retreated to his conference room.
It felt like five hundred years in Hell.
The Brains set up the Planetary Council-- the alien version of the United Nations-- several generations before to mediate between the warring planets within the Five Galaxies.
If it's four and I go five and interrupt someone's conference or walk into a room full of tarantulas, I'm going to go crazy.
Probably fighting over who stole whose cat when they were five.
All five rose and straightened, offering her deep bows.
Talal paused in an open doorway leading to a large, green field behind the dwelling occupied by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of warriors organized into sparring groups of four and five.
Every ship and weapon in the Five Galaxies is made from it.
Given his experience and lauding as one of the most capable strategic battle planners in the Five Galaxies-- the only reason he hadn't been driven out by the Yirkin despite his tiny army-- he found himself learning a tidbit here and there.
It took nothing else to send all five of them scurrying away.
The Five Galaxies have just exploded with war.
He'd fought forces five times the size of his and won.
What's important is that you're here, and here-- in the Five Galaxies-- is where you'll stay?
The second floor contained six, five rooms for guests, the sixth occupied by Fred O'Connor.
Claire scooped up the five dollar gold pieces and dropped them in her bag.
It was five years ago with a lithe red head named Ellen for a Vermont weekend.
The '97 and '99 are worth about four or five hundred each and the '79 should bring a thousand or more.
Claire's five dollar pieces are all worn—worth a couple of hundred at best.
I voted for Franklin Delano Roosevelt five or six times.
He rubbed his five o'clock shadow and rose.
Both of them are at that level of not worrying about missing any meals but they're not big spenders—maybe five to ten mil bracket, give or take—no real debts.
The five of us sat together at the restaurant this evening and after Edith and I went to the ladies room, we came back to find Claire livid and Mr. Shipton laughing.
He then reached into his pocket for his snap-top purse and extracted five worn twenty-dollar bills.
It was five above at my place this morning.
Then five minutes later, some guy calls asking for her, by name!
They're starting on the ice climbers but they're only taking about five minutes with each of 'em. I think Penny is in there now.
A tiny red haired woman, under five feet, Dean guessed, emerged from the vehicle that bore Colorado license plates.
Just before five o'clock he went to the kitchen to begin preparing spaghetti for Fred and himself, and Martha, whom they had invited to again stay for supper.
I'm home five minutes and I'm getting you in trouble already.
He conferred with the other five, then left the chamber for a few moments, returning with a goblet and a knife.
Jackson was right; she could barely get through five or six measures before the tears started to flow.
It had been five days since Elisabeth.
Elisabeth conducted a lecture on day five, so Jackson did his best to entertain Sarah.
What am I, five years old?
A second easel stood with five photographs of a male adolescent.
Five more grabbed Sarah, and two held Connor.
Twenty five, I hear.
How long had it been since he had been jilted - five years?
She managed to get to the house without falling more than five times.
I wasn't here five minutes before you mentioned Josh.
I want four or five children, maybe more.
Alex is a veterinarian, and Katie lives less than five miles away.
Home was in Arkansas now, over five hundred miles away, and he planned to sleep there tonight.
The only system error is … five sensors were tripped when the field was disengaged, she murmured with a frown.
Brady approached the five soldiers in urban gray tactical suits crowded around the small box with a hole still smoking from a hit by a wayward laser bullet.
To his relief, he counted all five of his team members.
Brady turned to his team of five, which were gathered around the downed man.
He counted to five before she broke.
It'll only drop a man half my size for five minutes.
Lana peered around them to see the five or more armed men about twenty meters away.
If the flares going up short distance away were any sign, the five men were part of a larger force between them and their destination.
The destruction disappeared by mile marker five, only a few hundred meters from the turnoff to her condo community.
Five men, from our unique pool of soldiers, Brady said, exchanging a look of understanding with the Undersecretary.
Five bonfires had sprung up, each one with a massive spit turning a large deer in its center.
We got here about five weeks ago from Georgia.
There were five within two days of the underground city.
They'd found five already within the area they're patrolling.
Four, maybe five. He can test for it by cutting himself.
You'd be pushing it with five.
Why would I need to take five of us?
I just had a five minute talk with you. But you weren't here.
You've got to the count of five to have you both out of my sight.
I nodded and grabbed five plates out of the cabinet and put them on the table.
Years from now, when he was comfortably ensconced in his Ouray, Colorado bed and breakfast, he'd often look back on this day as the turning point in his life, but for now it was only the start of yet another five work days.
Today she was absent, home nursing child number five, down with a spring fever, or just plain Spring Fever.
She was no more than five foot one, he guessed, but she moved with the grace of a much taller woman.
It was a small house, no more than four or five rooms.
Dean took Thursday for five bucks, in absentia.
Paperwork kept Dean chained to his desk until after lunch and he spent the afternoon pacing the courthouse corridor until plea-bargained to freedom shortly before five.
Ms. Nightingale murmured a room number and motioned down a hall crowded with bodies like the day after Gettysburg while white-coated figures strolled among the moaning, clip boards in hand With wide-eyed Fred following behind, Dean ran the gauntlet until he found the room, a small office packed with five men and a lot of smoke, three of them in Philadelphia Police uniforms.
Five minutes later Dean was hurrying back to his campsite.
That's less than five months away.
If you can lie on your back for five minutes, he won't be disappointed.
On the next five questions, you're supposed to tell us how Alex would respond.
She'd spend the rest of her life knowing she caved in to desire only five days away from her goal.
Besides, the wedding was only five days away.
The clinic doesn't open for another hour and a half, and I can dress in five minutes.
His lean build gave the impression that he was tall, but he was only five feet nine inches.
The five of them raced across the pasture, toward the buffalo pen.
He'd mated with Claire five months ago.
With four days at most remaining in her ability to control the Black God, she suspected she'd be dead in five.
One of five Original Beings, he'd landed on earth when the Originals escaped from their immortal exile.
I just took on five Others.
Killing five Others is no joke.
He killed five Others yesterday.
Darian two, Jenn five hundred.
The demon is too strong for a boy under the age of five summers.
At five years into her rule and mere days from war, was she already toppling down the path of madness?
It had been too long since he recited them; five summers had passed since he was freed from the underground.
It had not been awake for five years, since…since she had killed her father.
None of them made any move to invite him to their practice, so he moved away, toward the closest group of five.
Five hefty men, each well-armed and carrying weapons ranging from swords to maces, surrounded Sami.
Instead, the five attackers closed in, weapons sheathed.
Josh died in a car accident about five years ago.
She had always said she wanted five children.
I know I said I wanted five children, but that was two adopted children and a set of twins ago.
I had no idea how much energy five children would require.
Destiny will be five in October and Jonathan will be thirteen in November.
There were five boys in their band – two of them a rebellious age of fifteen.
I live about five miles from you.
Senor Medena wants us all down in the den in five minutes.
Why don't we use one candle for every five years?
As five O'clock approached, she was beginning to wish she hadn't told Keaton that she would go with him.
The little blue car pulled up in her drive at exactly five and she didn't have her swimming suit on.
The trip to town was uneventful and it was nearly five before Megan returned.
She said there was a woman who came to see her three days every five, with eyes like the first leaves of spring.
There are only five of us Original Beings meant to exist.
In five minutes, the hot blonde from down the street would jog by.
Of the five Original Beings, he only knew where one was.
Rule five, keep your cell on.
After another five minutes of sweet-talking, Jessi was ready to give up.
She was beginning to think it was five years since she'd seen a naked man, judging by her body's hungry response to the sight of his exposed upper body.
Five minutes later, he shook his head.
It was five 'til eight.
I'll be back in five.
Definitely five years since any man touched her.
She needed five minutes to herself to cool down.
Her first date in five years was with someone who looked like Gerry.
Pretend it hasn't been five years since you've gotten laid, Jessi, and relax.
She was five minutes from throwing herself at his feet.
It was almost five; they'd been at the store for seven hours!
She wasn't going to make their five thirty dinner date.
Their leader eyed a family of five walking across the aisle towards their car.
No. There are five of us who are pretty much … untouchable.
It was four thirty, and she was slated to leave at five.
See you in five.
Jessi sucked in a deep breath, held it for a count of five then released it.
Your first date in five years, he said.
There were five in the foyer, men whose eyes glowed red like Xander's.
Albert married Elizabeth, daughter of Meinhard IV., count of Gdrz and Tirol, who bore him six sons and five daughters.
Of the seven Verrine orations only two were actually delivered; the remaining five were compiled from the depositions of witnesses, and published after the flight of Verres.
In December 1691 he was appointed receiver of the tithes which were originally paid to the bishop of Utrecht, and five years later was nominated to the professorship of eloquence and history.
The list of his works occupies five pages in Saxe's Onomasticon.
The site was five acres, and the building is described in the letters patent " as a fitting and noble college mansion in honour of the most glorious Virgin Mary and St Bernard in Northgates Street outside the Northgate of Oxford."
In February 1700 Dampier called at Juan Fernandez and while there Captain Straddling of the "Cinque Porte" galley quarrelled with his men, forty-two of whom deserted but were afterwards taken on board by Dampier; five seamen, however, remained on shore.
Ercole, who was the eldest of five children early left orphans, began his education at the Piarist college at Urbino.
The church of the Holy Trinity, the oldest part of which dates from about 1 200, is a Gothic building with five aisles and a square tower.
Many species of Thysanoptera are known to be habitually parthenogenetic. The eggs are laid on the food-plant, those females possessed of an ovipositor cutting through the epidermis and placing their eggs singly within the plant-tissues; a single female may take five or six weeks to deposit all her eggs.
The next five stations are on the coast or on islands.
If then the risk under trees exceeds that in the open in Hungary and the United States, at least five or six times as many people must remain in the open as seek shelter under trees.
A senator must be twenty-five years of age, and must have been a citizen of the state for five years and a resident of the district for one year preceding his election.
The Supreme Court of Appeals, consisting of five judges, elected for terms of twelve years, holds three terms annually, one at Wheeling, one at Charleston and one at Charles Town.
A state board of education, consisting of the state superintendent and five other persons appointed by him, constitutes a state board of examiners (for special primary, high school and professional certificates) and prescribes the course of study.
In October he appears dining in the hall there as a guest, and at Christmas 1442 he received a royal livery, five yards of violet cloth, as provost of Eton.
On the 21st of December 1443 he was sworn to the statutes by Bishop Bekynton and the earl of Suffolk, the king's commissioners, and himself administered the oath to the other members of the foundation, then only five fellows and eleven scholars over fifteen years of age.
In fact, five scholars and perhaps one commoner left Winchester for Eton in 1443, probably in July, just before the election.
For the five years see iii.
At the same time a settlement of the land revenue on leases for five years was begun, and the police and military systems of the country were placed upon a new footing.
Hastings was named in the act as governor-general for a term of five years.
His original term of five years would have expired in 1778; but it was annually prolonged by special act of parliament until his voluntary resignation.
Five miles from Norfolk and with Norfolk as its headquarters was held from the 26th of April to the 30th of November 1907 the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, celebrating the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown, Virginia.
In 1815, while living at Saint Clairsville, Ohio, he organized an antislavery association, known as the "Union Humane Society," which within a few months had a membership of more than five hundred men.
The five fixed webs are attached to the table which is secured to the bottom of the box by the screws p. The three movable webs are attached to the projections XX on the frame aa.
But in French story Helyas is not the son of Parzival, but of the king and queen of Lillefort, and the story of his birth, of himself, his five brothers and one sister is, with variations, that of "the seven swans" persecuted by the wicked grandmother, which figures in the pages of Grimm and Hans Andersen.
In accordance with his former action on all questions of religious toleration he opposed the shameful Five Mile Act of 1665.
He pressed on the Exclusion Bill with all his power, and, when that and the inquiry into the payments for secret service and the trial of the five peers, for which too he had been eager, were brought to an end by a sudden prorogation, he is reported to have declared aloud that he would have the heads of those who were the king's advisers to this course.
Edgar Mortara, when between five and six years of age, fell ill.
The strongly fortified castle which he erected at the same time had the unfortunate result of making the infant town an object of contention in the Thirty Years' War, during which it was five times taken and retaken.
At four or five months they are lovely, as generally they retain their baby whiteness, which contrasts well with their almost black ears, deep-brown markings, and blue eyes."
In 1198 he was able to procure a five years' truce with the Mahommedans, owing to the struggle between Saladin's brothers and his sons for the inheritance of his territories.
After ravaging the land, his own land, like a wild beast, he entered the city on the 8th of January 1570, and for the next five weeks, systematically and deliberately; day after day, massacred batches of every class of the population.
For some five or six centuries before1908-1909the junction with the Euphrates was at Korna, some 30 m.
It has five wide arches, the central one having a span of 35 ft., and is well preserved.
It was one of the five seaports which remained Byzantine until the time of Pippin.
Aisne is divided into five arrondissements - St Quentin and Vervins in the north, Laon in the centre, and Soissons and CIA, teau-Thierry in the south - and contains 37 cantons and 841 communes.
Not reckoning scattered notices, we depend principally upon five later compositions, Diodorus, book xvii.
His determinations of pitch by a weighted wire are not trustworthy; Ellis thinks they are not safe within four or five vibrations per second, but gives a mean pitch for this organ, when altered, of a' 395.2.
One of his five sons was Nicholas Vansittart, Baron Bexley.
It includes five books; of which the first and second treat of physiology, pathology and hygiene, the third and fourth deal with the methods of treating disease, and the fifth describes the composition and preparation of remedies.
It has then met at Lambeth, and after sitting for five days for deliberation upon the fixed subjects and appointment of committees, has adjourned, to meet again at the end of a fortnight and sit for five days more, to receive reports, adopt resolutions and to put forth the encyclical letter.
By her he had five sons and five daughters.
In 1868 Denver became the capital, but feeling in the southern counties was then so strong against Denver that provision was made for a popular vote on the situation of the capital five years after Colorado should become a state.
Under the persecution, a large number were killed, and between four and five millions of Protestants left the country.
The Presbyterianism now visible in England is of Scottish origin and Scottish type, and beyond the fact of embracing a few congregations which date from, or before, the Act of Uniformity and the Five Mile Act, has little in common with the Presbyterianism which was for a brief period by law established.
June 1642, attended by five ministers and by ruling elders from the regimental sessions.
There were five presbyteries holding monthly meetings and annual visitations of all the congregations within their bounds, and coming together in general synod four times a year.
There were then in Ireland about a hundred congregations, seventy-five with settled ministers, under five presbyteries.
His Morgenstunden appeared in 1785, and he died as the result of a cold contracted while carrying to his publishers in 1786 the manuscript of a vindication of his friend Lessing, who had predeceased him by five years.
In 1906 the president announced that permission had been given by the German emperor for 30 Argentine officers to enter the German army each year and to serve eighteen months, and also for five officers to attend the Berlin Military Academy.
At the head of the Argentine hierarchy are one archbishop and five suffragan bishops, who have five seminaries for the education of the priesthood.
A very considerable percentage of Argentina's population of five to six millions is hopelessly poor and unprogressive, and cannot be expected to bear its share of the burden.
The products of the quarries of France for the five years 1901-1905 averaged 9,311,000 per annum in value, of which building material brought in over two-thirds.
Each candidate must make, at least five days before the elections, a declaration setting forth in what constituency he intends to stand.
From the receveur is demanded a security equal to five times his total income.
The French coast is divided into five naval arrondissements, which have their headquarters at th.e five naval ports, of which Cherbourg, Brest, and Toulon.
The inscript usually begins his service at the age of twenty and passes through a period of obligatory service lasting seven years, and generally comprising five years of active service and two years furlough.
They give an education similar to that offered in the lyces for boys with certain modificationsin a curriculum of five or six years.
Although Servia was protected from the consequences of defeat by the intervention of Austria, Prince Alexander's success sealed the union with Eastern Rumelia, and after long negotiations he was nominated governor-general of that province for five years by the sultan (April 5, 1886).
It was one of the five Wendish towns whose alliance extorted from King Eric of Norway a favourable commercial treaty in 1284-1285; and in the 14th century it was second only to Lubeck in the Hanseatic League.
As the name implies, the ports originally constituting the body were only five in number - Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich; but to these were afterwards added the "ancient towns" of Winchelsea and Rye with the same privileges, and a good many other places, both corporate and non-corporate, which, with the title of limb or member, held a subordinate position.
The first family is that of the true or American opossums- Didelphyidae, in which there are five pairs of upper incisors, while the feet are of the presumed primitive arboreal type, the hind foot having the four outer toes subequal and separate, with the first opposable to them all.
Fore feet with five sub-equal toes, with compressed, slightly curved pointed claws.
Fore-feet with five toes, all having strong pointed, compressed claws, the second, third and fourth nearly equal, the fifth somewhat and the first considerably shorter.
As a sub-order, the Paucituberculata are characterized by the presence of four pairs of upper and three of lower incisor teeth; the enlargement and forward inclination of the first pair of lower incisors, and the presence of four or five sharp cusps on the cheek-teeth, coupled with the absence of "syndactylism" in the hind limbs.
The tail is rudimentary, the first hind-toe opposable, the first pair of upper incisors very large, but the second and third either absent or small and placed partially behind the larger pair; and only five pairs of cheek-teeth in each jaw.
Fore-feet with five distinct toes, each furnished with a long, strong and slightly curved nail, the first and fifth considerably shorter than the other three.
Hind-feet short and broad, with five welldeveloped toes; the first large, nailless and opposable; the second and third slender and united by a common integument as far as.
Fore-feet with five well-developed toes, carrying small, flat, scale-like nails, not reaching the extremity of the digits.
When a combination of signals has been received and the armatures have taken up their respective positions corresponding to the transmitting keyboard, certain mechanism in the receiver translates the position of the five armatures into a mechanical movement which lifts the paper tape against a type-wheel and prints the corresponding letter.
As it uses the Baudot telegraph alphabet it has an advantage in theory over the Wheatstone using the Morse alphabet in regard to the speed that can be obtained on a long telegraph line in the ratio of eight to five, and this theoretical advantage is more or less realized in practice.
The speed of a cable is given in words per minute, the conventional number of five letters per word being understood, though in actual practice, owing to the extensive use of special codes, the number of letters per word is really between eight and nine; and this forms a considerable factor in lowering the earning capacity of a cable.
After about five years great improvements were made in the working of the telegraphs and the industry began to make progress.
Over this primary is wound a secondary circuit of five to ten turns which has one end connected to the earth through a variable inductance coil and the other end to an antenna.
It contains an Evangelical and five Roman Catholic churches, among them that of St Michael, a fine Gothic edifice.
The cultivated area may be divided into five agrarian regions or zones, named after the variety of tree culture which flourishes in them.
On the 17th of April 1898 a species of Employers Liability Act compelled employers of more than five workmen in certain industries to insure their employees against accidents.
To encourage the poorer classes of the people to become landholders, it was decided that the lots offered for sale should be small, and that the purchaser should be allowed to pay by five or ten yearly instalments.
The senate consists of princes of the blood who have attained their majority, and of an unlimited number of senators above forty years of age, who are qualified under any one of twenty-one specified categoriesby having either held high office, or attained celebrity in science, literature, &c. In 1908 there were 318 senators exclusive of five members of the royal family.
By this law, every man liable and accepted for service served for eight or nine years on the Active Army and its Reserve (of which three to five were spent with the colors), four or, five in the Mobile Militia, and the rest of the service period of nineteen years in the Territorial Militia.
In July 1906 the 5% gross (4% net), and 4% net rente were successfully converted into 33/4% stock (to be reduced to 33/4% after five years), to a total amount of 324,017,393.
The demands for reimbursement at par represented a sum of only 187,588 and the market value of the stock was hardly affected; while the saving to the Treasury was to be 800,000 per annum for the first five years and about double the amount afterwards.
The former qualifications for electorship in local government elections have been modified, and it is now sufficient to pay five lire annually in, direct taxes, five lire of certain communal taxes, or a certain rental (which varies according to the population of a commune), instead of being obliged to pay, as previously, at least five lire annually of direct taxes to the state.
Five times king and emperor as he was, Frederick, placed under the ban of the church, led henceforth a doomed existence.
The conditions which have the five been described, of despotism, mercenary warfare and bourgeois prosperity, determined the character of this epoch, which was also the period when the great achievements of the Renaissance were prepared.
At the end of this century and a half, five principal powers divided the peninsula; and their confederated action during the next forty-five years (1447-1492) secured for Italy a season of peace and brilliant pro,sperity.
These five powers were the kingdom of Naples, the duchy of Milan, the republic of Florence, the republic of Venice and the papacy.
The subsequent events of Italian history will be rendered most intelligible if at this point we trace the development of these five constituents of Italian greatness separately.
Durazzo, the last male scion of the Angevine house in Lower Italy, murdered Joan in 1382, and held the kingdom for five years.
Ranking as one of the five Italian powers, she was also destined to defend Western Christendom against the encroachments of the Turk in Europe.
On all sides it was felt that the Italian alliance must be tightened; and one of the last, best acts of Nicholas V.s pontificate was the appeal in 1453 to the five great powers in federation.
Apprehending the importance of Italian federation, Lorenzo, by his personal tact and prudent leadership of the republic, secured peace and a common intelligence between the five powers.
The Neapolitan Democrats chose five of their leading men to be directors.
Then came the news of the Five Days of Milan, which produced the wildest excitement in Turin; unless First war the army were sent to assist the struggling Lombards of Italy at once the dynasty was in jeopardy.
On the 12th of July 1871, Articles 268, 269 and 270 of the Italian Penal Code were so modified as to make ecclesiastics liable to imprisonment for periods varying from six months to five years, and to fines from 1000 to 3000 lire, for spoken or written attacks against the laws of the state, or for the fomentation of disorder.
The annuity payable to the pope has, for instance, been made subject to quinquennial prescription, so that in the event of tardy recognition of the law the Vatican could at no time claim payment of more than five years annuity with interest.
Depretis made some opposition, hut finally acquiesced, and the treaty of triple alliance was signed on the 20th of May 1882, five days after the promulgation of the Franco-Italian commercial treaty in Paris.
Five days later he pronounced the marriage between Henry and Anne - which had been secretly celebrated about the 25th of January 1533 - to be valid.
For this reason the altar, as representative of the universe, is built in five layers, representing earth, air and heaven, and the intermediate regions; and in the centre of the altar-site, below the first layer, on a circular gold plate (the sun), a small golden man (purusha) is laid down with his face looking upwards.
The main part of it consists of a band of five chief islands, so closely adjoining and overlapping each other that they have long been known collectively as "the great Andaman."
The medusae, on the other hand, have the tentacles in four tufts of (in the buds) five each, and thus resemble the medusae of the family Margelidae.
From Hartlepool Hilda moved to Whitby, where in 657 she founded the famous double monastery which in the time of the first abbess included among its members five future bishops, Bosa, 'Etta, Oftfor, John and Wilfrid II.
They consist of five, or at least three, priests nominated by the bishop in and with the advice of the diocesan synod.
The Sutta Pitaka consists of five Nikayas, four principal and one supplementary.
Of the seven treatises contained in the Abhidhamma Pitaka five, and one-third of the sixth, had by 1910 been published by the Pali Text Society; and one, the Dhamma Sangani, had been translated by Mrs Rhys Davids.
His principal work is a series of commentaries on five of the lyrical anthologies included in the miscellaneous Nikaya.
The period of study is eighteen months in Denmark or Norway, and two in Austria, Finland, Germany, Portugal, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland, three in Belgium, France, Greece and Italy, four to six in Holland, and five in Spain.
These five institutions are under the control of a single board of trustees; the work of the preparatory schools is thus correlated with that of the colleges.
He defined them as possessing radial instead of bilateral symmetry, and as apparently destitute of nervous system and sense organs, as having the circulatory system rudimentary or absent, and the respiratory organs on or coextensive with the surface of the body; he included under this title and definition five classes, - Echinodermata, Acalepha, Entozoa, Polypi and Infusoria.
In the progress of the last three decades, since the publication of De Barys great work, five or six main lines of advance can be distinguished.
Physical geography he viewed as a summary of nature, the basis not only of history but also of " all the other possible geographies," of which he enumerates five, viz.
A second large Dutch fleet sailed in 1598; and, so eager was the republic to extend her commerce over the world that another fleet, consisting of five ships of Rotterdam, was sent in the same year by way of Magellan's Strait, under Jacob Mahu as admiral, with William Adams as pilot.
Five years later he accepted an offer from the government to command an expedition into the interior of Africa, the plan being to cross from the Gambia to the Niger and descend the latter river to the sea.
The sovereigns saw that wealth was beginning to flow in to the new tribunals by means of fines and confiscations; and they obliged Torquemada to take as assessors five persons who would represent them in all matters affecting the royal prerogatives.
In 1905 the city's factory products were valued at $40,435,531, an increase of 16.4% in five years.
Normally the four toes have two, three, four and five phalanges respectively, but in Cypselus the number is reduced to three in the front toes.
The ischiadic portion consists generally of five or six nerves, which leave the pelvis as one thick system through the ilio-ischiadic foramen.
All the existing Ratitae (with the exception of the ostriches of Africa and South America, belonging to the genera Struthio and Rhea, and comprising at most but five species) are found in Austrogaea and nowhere else.
The Viscount Stafford was one of the "five Popish lords" committed to the Tower in 1678 as a result of the slanders of Titus Oates and he died by the axe in 1680 upon testimony which, as the diarist Evelyn protested, "should not be taken against the life of a dog."
Ain is divided into five arrondissements - those of Bourg and Trevoux in the west, and those of Gex, Nantua and Belley in the east; containing in all 36 cantons and 455 communes.
The body of the church, which has five aisles, is principally Perpendicular.
But all five leaders were romanized nobles, with Roman names and Roman citizenship, and their risings were directed rather against the Roman government than the Roman empire.
It follows that, if, say, five knots of the line run out in 28 seconds, the ship has gone 5X 47± ft.
The parts of the flower are most frequently arranged in fives, or multiples of fives; for instance, a common arrangement is as follows, - five sepals, succeeded by five petals, ten stamens in two sets of five, and five or fewer carpels; an arrangement in fours is less frequent, while the arrangement in threes, so common in monocotyledons, is rare in dicotyledons.
The plan of the Propylaea consists of a large square hall, from which five steps lead up to a wall pierced by five gateways of graduated sizes, the central one giving passage to a road suitable for beasts or possibly for vehicles.
This work is divided into five books.
Besides these five books, Fordun wrote part of another book, and collected materials for bringing down the history to a later period.
The work of Boetius is in five books and is a very complete exposition of the subject.
This famous work consists of five books.
The work also includes the five treatises, four of them Christian, of which mention has been made above.
The judicial functions are discharged by four grades of officials - the local magistrates, the courts of common pleas, the quarterly courts (five in number) and the supreme court.
Among these is the Heng-shan, one of the Wu-yo or five sacred mountains of China, upon which the celebrated tablet of Yu was placed.
On the question of the date a comparison of genealogies of Maori chiefs shows that, up to the beginning of the 10th century, about eighteen generations or probably not much more than five centuries had passed since the first Maori arrivals.
In the 16th century the city was the strongest Spanish fortress in the New World, excepting Cartagena, and gold and silver were brought hither by ship from Peru and were carried across the Isthmus to Chagres, but as Spain's fleets even in the Pacific were more and more often attacked in the 17th century, Panama became less important, though it was still the chief Spanish port on the Pacific. In 1671 the city was destroyed by Henry Morgan, the buccaneer; it was rebuilt in 1673 by Alfonzo Mercado de Villacorta about five miles west of the old site and nearer the roadstead.
There are four malpighian tubes, and all five tarsal segments are usually recognizable.
They may be distinguished from the Malacodermata by the presence of only five or six abdominal sterna, while six malpighian tubes are present in some of the families.
This is a somewhat heterogeneous group, most of whose members are characterized by clubbed feelers and simple, unbroadened tarsal segments - usually five on each foot - but in some familie andenera the males have less than the normal number on the feet of one pair.
The larvae have soft-skinned bodies sometimes protected by rows of spiny tubercles, the legs being fairly developed in some families and greatly segments to the foot, but there are really five, the fourth being greatly reduced.
The Alcmaeonids fled and Peisistratus remained in power for about five years, during which Solon's death occurred.
In the college itself the voting - secret and by ballot throughout - is by majority; and since this majority consists, under the actual system, of very conservative elements (the landowners and urban delegates having 8ths of the votes), the progressive elements - however much they might preponderate in the country - would have no chance of representation at all save for the curious provision that one member at least in each government must be chosen from each of the five classes represented in the college.
To check this courts were multiplied (there were five, six or more instances), which only multiplied the evil.
At that time the so-called transcontinental railways, connecting the Pacific coast of the United States with the central portions of the country, and thus with the group of railways reaching the Atlantic seaboard, consisted of five railways within the borders of the United States, and one in Canada.
Thus it will be observed that the five great cities of the Pacific coast-Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., Portland, Ore., and San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cal.-were already well supplied with railways; but the growth of the fertile region lying west of the transcontinental divide was most attractive to American railway builders; and railways serving this district, almost all of them in trouble ten years before, were showing great increases in earnings.
In Australia the increase in railway mileage in the five years ending December 31st, 1907 was about 7%-a small proportion as compared with America, Asia or Africa.
For its enforcement, it created an Interstate Commerce Commission of five members, with powers of investigation, and with authority to issue remedial orders upon complaint and after hearing.
Such injunction might not issue except after hearing, of which five days' notice must be given.
It created a Commerce Court (composed of five judges nominated by the president of the United States from the Federal circuit judges), transferred to it jurisdiction in cases instituted to enforce or set aside orders of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, and made the United States instead of the Commission a party in all such actions.
Between A and B, A and C, and A and D, there may be a string of stations, p, q, r, s, &c., all receiving goods from a, b, c and d, and it would manifestly be inconvenient and wasteful of time and trouble if the trains serving those intermediate stations were made up with, say, six wagons from a to p next the engine, five from b to p at the middle, and four from c to p near the end.
To obtain the tractive force the weight on the coupled wheels must be about five times this amount - that is..
Many different couplers of the Janney type are patented and made by different firms, but the tendency is to equip new cars with one of only four or five standard makes.
They pointed out that while during the first five years the act was in force there were 315 applications for orders, during the second five years there were only 142 applications, and that proposals for new lines had become less numerous owing to the various difficulties in carrying them to a successful completion and to the difficulty of raising the necessary capital even when part of it was provided with the aid of the state and of the local authorities.
In Italy these railways are called " economic railways," and are divided into five types.
After five months' voyage the ship reached Mozambique, where the captain resolved to winter, and Xavier was prostrated with a severe attack of fever.
He spent five months in Goa, and then turned his attention to the "Fishery Coast," where he had heard that the Paravas, a tribe engaged in the pearl fishery, had relapsed into heathenism after having professed Christianity.
The arrested prophetic movement of Jeremiah and Deutero-Isaiah reappears in John the Baptist and Jesus after an interval of more than five centuries.
In the same year he became viceroy of Naples, a post of some difficulty and danger, which for five years he occupied with ability and success.
The work was completed in August 1843, the five years' labour having been broken by the composition of reviews of Lockhart's Life of Scott (1838), Kenyon's Poems (1839), Chateaubriand (1839), Bancroft's United States (1841), Mariotti's Italy (1842), and Madame Calderon's Life in Mexico (1843), and by the preparation of an abridgment of his Ferdinand and Isabella in anticipation of its threatened abridgment by another hand.
Every five years they selected by lot one of -the tribesmen as a messenger to the god.
The bell is one of five which the emperor Yung-lo ordered to be cast.
In one courtyard of this temple are deposited the celebrated ten stone drums which bear poetical inscriptions commemorative of the hunting expeditions of King Suan (827-781 B.C.), in whose reign they are believed, though erroneously, to have been cut; and in another stands a series of stone tablets on which are inscribed the names of all those who have obtained the highest literary degree of Tsin-shi for the last five centuries.
But this difficulty was soon removed by the pupil's diligence; the very exigencies of his situation were of service to him in calling forth all his powers, and he studied the language with such success that at the close of his five years' exile he declares that he " spontaneously thought " in French rather than in English, and that it had become more familiar to " ear, tongue and pen."
The five years and a half which intervened between his return from this tour, in June 1765, and the death of his father, in November 1770, seem to have formed the portion of his life which " he passed with the least enjoyment and remembered with the least satisfaction."
The new edition in five volumes (1814) contained some previously unpublished matter, and in particular the fragment on the revolutions of Switzerland.
Ore was first discovered here in 1864, but it was five years before the mines became productive.
It is served by the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railway systems, both transcontinental; and is connected by electric lines (and ferry) with San Francisco, and by five electric lines with Oakland.
More than five centuries later (1320) Dante became the guest of Guido Novello di Polenta, lord of Ravenna, and here he died on the 14th September of the following year.
He left five sons and two daughters.
He voluntarily left Liegnitz in 1529, and lived at Strasburg for five years amongst the Reformed clergy there.
This is true not only of the major planets Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune; it is also true of the host of more than five hundred minor planets.
Four out of his five papers on applied mathematics were sent up absolutely blank.
The four phases are passed in thirty days in a favourable season, and consequently there are ordinarily four or five generations from April to September (Celli).
Manson recommends five to ten grains once or twice a week; Ross recommends the same quantity every day before breakfast.
In the following July the Confederation created a "war directory" of five, of which Meagher was a member, and he and William Smith O'Brien travelled through Ireland for the purpose of starting a revolution.
Profane cursing and swearing is made punishable by the Profane Oaths Act 1745, which directs the offender to be brought before a justice of the peace, and fined five shillings, two shillings or one shilling, according as he is a gentleman, below the rank of gentleman, or a common labourer, soldier, &c.
It propagated and spread with extraordinary rapidity, so that by Dominic's death in 1221, only five or six years after the first practical steps towards the execution of the idea, there were over 500 friars and 60 friaries, divided into 8 provinces embracing the whole of western Europe.
In that year William Longsword, eldest of the five sons of Count William III., came to the kingdom of Jerusalem, on the invitation of Baldwin IV.
However, Baasha at length seized Ramah about five miles north of Jerusalem, and the very existence of Judah was threatened.
Only the second is specifically said to be from Jerusalem (the remaining are of Judaeans), and the last has been plausibly connected with the murder of Gedaliah, an interval of five years being assumed.
Whether led by this Mattathias or not, certain Jews fled into the wilderness and found a leader in Judas Maccabaeus his reputed son, the first of the five Asmonean (Hasmonean) brethren.
The country was divided into five districts with five synods; and Josephus asserts that the people welcomed the change from the monarchy.
But the fact that he summoned five vassal-kings of the empire to a conference at Tiberias suggests rather a policy of self-aggrandisement.
When the place was stormed the garrison consisted of two old women and five children who had concealed themselves in caves.
The chapter of Merseburg contains five prelates, viz.
There are five churches in Tonga - the Free Wesleyans, embracing the great majority of the inhabitants, Wesleyans, Roman Catholics, and Seventh Day Adventists.
By this means she detected in 1783 three remarkable nebulae, and during the eleven years 1786-1797 eight comets, five of them with unquestioned priority.
Minor offences (1rX17gµeVillaTa) and civil causes are tried by courts of first instance in each of the five departments.
They are appointed, promoted, transferred or removed by order of the council of justice, a body composed of the five highest judicial dignitaries, sitting at Canea.
The elections held under the new system proved a failure, the Christians refusing to go to the polls, and for the next five years Crete was governed absolutely by a succession of Mahommedan Valis.
On the 14th of September, under an agreement dated the 14th of August, they invited King George of Greece, in the event of the high commissionership becoming vacant, to propose a candidate for that post, to be nominated by the powers for a period of five years, and on the 25th of September Prince George left the island.
He early made his mark as a church leader, and took an active part in petitioning against the " five acts " and later against the introduction of a service-book and canons drawn up on the model of the English prayer-book.
The local judicial authorities are the county board of supervisors of five members and the justices of the peace.
In North Carolina five of the seven life-zones into which North America has been divided are represented, but more of its area belongs to the upper-austral than to any other zone.
The governor and the lieutenant-governor must at the time of their election be at least thirty years of age, and must have been citizens of the United States for five years and residents of the state for two years.
The county officials are the sheriff, a coroner, a treasurer, a register of deeds, a surveyor and five commissioners, elected for two years.
He left five sons, the eldest of whom was his successor in Saxony, Frederick Christian; and five daughters, one of whom was the wife of Louis, the dauphin of France, and mother of Louis XVI.
There were in 1908 five deep mines worked by English companies and one by a French company.
It would appear, then, that the orchid flower differs from the more general monocotyledonous type in the irregularity of the perianth, in the suppression of five out of six stamens, and in the union of the one stamen and the stigmas.
The aspect of the vegetation is very peculiar, and is commonly determined by the predominance of some four or five species, the rest being either local or sparingly scattered over the area.
In this locality was Winchester House, a seat of the bishops of Winchester for five centuries from 1107.
The Gibeonites demanded the latter, and five sons of Merab (the text by a mistake reads Michal) and two sons of Saul's concubine were sacrificed.
Not until five years had elapsed was Absalom fully reconciled with his father.
During the short administration of Sir Robert Peel in 1834 and 1835, Aberdeen had filled the office of secretary for the colonies, and in September 1841 he took office again under Peel, on this occasion as foreign secretary; the five years during which he held this position were the most fruitful and successful of his public life.
Both are used for worship by Roman Catholics, by whom the chapel was acquired in 1874 and opened five years later after careful restoration.
In Chaetozone setosa the anterior nephridia occupy five segments.
The brain con sists not only of a group of six capsules corre sponding to the archi cerebrum of the Oligo chaeta, but of a further mass of cells surrounding S S and existing below the alimentary canal, which can be analysed into five or six more separate ganglia.
In the Gnathobdellidae the prevailing number of annuli to a segment is five; but here again the number is often increased, and Trocheta has no less than eleven.
In Clepsine (Glossiphonia) there are only three cells, and in Nephelis five to eight cells.
The government of the church is chiefly according to the congregational principle, and the women have an equal voice with the men; but annual meetings, attended by the bishops, teachers and other delegates from the several congregations are held, and at these sessions the larger questions involving church polity are considered and decided by a committee of five bishops.
At Limington he came into conflict with law and order as represented by the sheriff, Sir Amias Paulet, who is said by Cavendish to have placed Wolsey in the stocks; Wolsey retaliated long afterwards by confining Paulet to his chambers in the Temple for five or six years.
For his son, before he was eighteen years old, he procured a deanery, four archdeaconries, five prebends and a chancellorship, and he sought to thrust him into the bishopric of Durham.
During his confinement by Tiberius a like omen had been interpreted as portending his speedy release, with the warning that should he behold the same sight again he would die within five days.
Eleanor bore to her second husband five sons and three daughters; John, the youngest of their children, was born in 1166.
He married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Charles Morrison of Cassiobury, Hertfordshire, through whom that estate passed into his family, and by whom besides four daughters he had five sons, the eldest Arthur being created earl of Essex at the Restoration.
The Logic, an eminently practical work, written from the point of view of Locke, is in five parts, dealing with (1) the nature of the human mind, its faculties and operations; (2) ideas and their kinds; (3) the true and the false, and the various degrees of knowledge; (4) reasoning and argumentation; (5) method and the ordering of our thoughts.
Five years later, however, fearing lest his brother might stand in the way of his heir, the infant prince Stephen, Coloman imprisoned Almos and his son Bela in a monastery and had them blinded.
The Romans held it nearly five hundred years, and on the dissolution of their power it passed under the sway of the Franks.
At Marienburg the grand master maintained a magnificent court; round him were the five great dignitaries of the Order, the Grand Commander, the Marshal, the Hospitaller, the Treasurer (Tressler) and the Keeper of the Wardrobe (Trapier) to see to the clothing of the Order.
Dumfries, Annan, Kirkcudbright, Lochmaben and Sanquharthe "Five Carlins" of Burns's Election Ballads - combine to return one member to Parliament.
Dumfries markets for cattle and sheep, held weekly, and for horses, held five times annually, have always ranked with the best, and there is also a weekly market for pork during the five months beginning with November.
Five well-contrasted types of scenery in Derbyshire are clearly traceable to as many varieties of rock; the bleak dry uplands of the north and east, with deep-cut ravines and swift clear streams, are due to the great mass of Mountain Limestone; round the limestone boundary are the valleys with soft outlines in the Pendleside Shales; these are succeeded by the rugged moorlands, covered with heather and peat, which are due to the Millstone Grit series; eastward lies the Derbyshire Coalfield with its gently moulded grasscovered hills; southward is the more level tract of red Triassic rocks.
Derby under Guthrum was one of the five Danish burghs, but in 917 was recovered by i thelfla d.
The early divisions of the county were known as wapentakes, five being mentioned in Domesday, while 13th-century documents mention seven wapentakes, corresponding with the six present hundreds, except that Repton and Gresley were then reckoned as separate divisions.
The city council is composed of a common council (five members from each ward, elected for two years) and of a board of aldermen (three members from each ward to be elected for four years).
In both cases the socalled fruit is composed of the receptacle or upper end of the flower-stalk (the so-called calyx tube) greatly dilated, and enclosing within its cellular flesh the five cartilaginous carpels which constitute the "core" and are really the true fruit.
From the upper rim of the receptacle are given off the five sepals, the five petals, and the very numerous stamens.
The next author who writes professedly on agriculture is Thomas Tusser, whose Five Hundred Points of Husbandry, published in 1562, enjoyed such lasting repute that in 1723 Lord Molesworth recommended that it should be taught in schools.
If you intend to preserve seed, then the second crop must be let stand till it come to a full and dead ripeness, and you shall have at the least five bushels per acre.
Being once sown, it will last five years; the land, when ploughed, will yield, three or four years together, rich crops of wheat, and after that a crop of oats, with which clover seed is to be sown again.
From Table I., showing the acreages at intervals of five years, it will be learnt that the loss fell chiefly upon the wheat crop, which at the close of the period Table - Areas of Cereal Crops in the United Kingdom - Acres.
The declining prices that have operated against the growers of wheat should be studied in conjunction with Table III., which shows, at intervals of five years, the imports of TABLE III.
In the five subsequent years the proportion was fundamentally altered, so that with a greatly increased importation of grain, that of meal and flour was in the proportion of about one-ninth.
Comparing 1905 with 1875 the increase in permanent grass land amounted to over five million acres, or about 21%.
In the British Isles wheat is, as a rule, sown in the autumn on a heavier soil, and has four or five months in which to distribute its roots, and so it gets possession of a wide range of soil and subsoil before barley is sown in the spring.
The rotations extending to five, six, seven or more years are, in most cases, only adaptations of the principle to variations of soil, altitude, aspect, climate, markets and other local conditions.
Sheep, which numbered 32,J71,018 in 1878, declined continuously to 27,448,220 in 1882-a loss of over five million head in five years.
Ireland, she possessed six times as many sheep. The cattle population of England alone slightly exceeded that of Ireland, but cattle are more at home on the broad plains of England than amongst the hills and mountains of Wales and Scotland, which are suitable for sheep. Hence, whilst in England sheep were not three times as numerous as cattle, in Wales they were nearly five times, and in Scotland nearly six times as many.