Six Sentence Examples

Dinner will be ready at six O'clock.

Six, but who's counting?

Howie, now able to usually remain with a vehicle, stayed with the car to a suburban ranch style house only six miles from the kidnapping.

In six minutes he was up and awake, looking confused.

Jane, our GPS, as Betsy named her, didn't let us down and we found our friend's cabin at the end of a dusty road, hungry for dinner after a six hour drive.

I can't shut down the experiment until six PM tomorrow night.

Police called it the work of one person, attributed to at least six earlier deaths.

Six days passed on the ship.

We have still six hundred quarters left, he inquired.

He was also listed as a person of interest in the deaths of at least six young women in the Missouri-Kentucky area.

I do know the body wasn't found for six weeks.

I guess I shouldn't be snoopy either, but we've had a lot of guests in the last six months and I've never felt this uncomfortable about any of the others.

The boy just turned six.

Next I was shown a photograph of a chubby cheeked man about forty, with short hair and a six o'clock shadow.

We caught up to accident in six or seven minutes.

It's a good six hours away and that's only as long as she's been gone.

It.s a three-hour trek, so you can expect them between five and six.

They don't have dogs, and it only has six legs!

She awoke six more times willing the nightmare to be over.

She didn't see one woman under six feet tall or any man who didn't tower over six feet.

The cell where she sat measured six by six with a grey bench.

The former Royal Dockyard was made over to the War Office in 1872 and converted into stores, wharves for the loading of troopships, &c. The Royal Artillery Barracks, facing Woolwich Common, originally erected in 1775, has been greatly extended at different times, and consists of six ranges of Brick building, including a church in the Italian Gothic style erected in 1863, a theatre, and a library in connexion with the officers' mess-room.

But on the road, the highroad along which the troops marched, there was no such freshness even at night or when the road passed through the forest; the dew was imperceptible on the sandy dust churned up more than six inches deep.

She flew directly to Boston on Friday and I met her at Logan Airport at six.

I've found four unsolved abductions over a six year period that look very close to his work.

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.

He served his time and after six months of monitoring, he's on his own.

Most were easy to open plastic containers but six cans of baked beans were without an opener.

He'd dropped twenty in the past six.

There were more than he expected, and he counted six.

He drew a deep breath, refreshed by the idea of slaughtering six bad guys at one time.

His eyes were dark and warm like Bianca's, his frame just over six feet and still lanky, though he showed signs of starting to fill out.

Her first impression was confirmed—the men in the room were UFC material, all well over six feet and solid.

Just under six feet tall, wide-shouldered and lean, Darkyn's youthful appearance was framed by short, dark hair.

The ten-year-old girl had resided at Bird Song with David Dean, his wife Cynthia, and Dean's seventy-seven-year-old stepfather, Fred O'Connor, for the past six months.

He guessed her to be nearly six feet tall.

Not some guy who sells you a six dollar wine in a half-full glass.

David, six weeks ago I thought I might be pregnant!

Monday was transition day at Bird Song, with the arrival of six new guests to fill three vacated rooms, with only the four Dawkins, Brandon Westlake, and Pumpkin Green staying on.

Dean explained, as succinctly as possible, their concern for this child who'd spent six months in their care.

He could lie and tell them he was a police officer or sheriff and maybe squeeze some tidbit of information about recently released mom Patsy, but surely Fitzgerald would find out and tank his election ambitions, if those aspirations weren't already six feet under.

He and his buddies finished first six or seven times in a row.

I couldn't find nothing on Josh without a last name, but Ed Plotke was in the phone book for six years between 1956 and 1962.

Six ladies, all carrying campaign signs, formed an honor guard around the vehicle.

The six ladies-in-waiting of the Dean for Sheriff brigade cupped their hands and booed the competition, to the delight of the crowd.

The weapon hadn't been cleaned since it was last fired, but all six chambers contained bullets.

There was a question of jurisdictions and when Weller volunteered that Martha was safe and comfortable at Bird Song where she'd spent the last six months, no one seemed to protest.

Her soul had been sentient only since she died-dead, about six months ago.

Not many people thought differently of the first Ancient Immortal, who had led the Council with six of his sons for many years before being killed.

The human I created twenty six years ago.

Carmen's first impulse was to snatch Destiny back, but the six months waiting period had long passed.

I mean, if she was going to try, she should have come back before the six months was up... right?

At under six feet tall, Logan was still almost half a foot taller than she was.

There were six students around five-years-old and an older boy on the verge of puberty sitting around a beautiful blond, who was reading a book out loud.

I am six months pregnant.

The experimental surgeries I performed the first six months were not geared towards curing you at all.

Your amnesia is trauma induced from the rape you survived six years ago.

She sat in the general manager's office of the fast food joint where she'd worked for six months.

He was taller than average, over six and a half feet, built like a rock with wide shoulders and tapered abdomen and hips beneath a jumpsuit similar to those worn by the prisoners.

The smallest statue was Rhyn as a child of five or six, standing on Antarctica.

Evelyn was six feet tall and Romas a full head taller than her.

The second floor contained six, five rooms for guests, the sixth occupied by Fred O'Connor.

Perhaps that's why many of the citizens of the picturesque town decided they might as well enjoy mother nature's offerings rather than remain locked indoors for six or seven months.

Edith Shipton's rental car, blanketed in six inches of fresh snow, remained out front.

The trio was far more comfortable now, six months later, with enough money in the bank to keep the wolves away, and expectations, if not of prosperity, of at least a reasonably comfortable coming season.

Six months without a mystery and I'm still in top form.

The three third floor rooms contained six ice climbers while Donald Ryland remained in the small first floor quarters.

I voted for Franklin Delano Roosevelt five or six times.

While the independent woman had only been to Ouray once in the six months the Deans had been married, she and her son-in-law got along spectacularly.

The past half-year was the best six months of his life.

Now, six months later, in spite of the windshield pockmarked from the gravel roads of Ouray County, it felt like an old friend.

At six feet, two inches tall, with a slim, athletic build, he moved with the grace of a dancer.

Jackson was right; she could barely get through five or six measures before the tears started to flow.

Elisabeth pulled into the drive at three minutes to six.

You've already drawn six pints?

Six inch high strappy heels adorned her feet.

The full moon is in six days.

They were simply very tall – all well over six feet.

Of all the... do you actually think I traveled six hundred miles just for a tumble in the hay with you?

Sure, you say that now, but come Monday morning you'll be six hundred miles away.

They were all over six feet, all engineered for power, agility, and endurance.

Precisely at six the next morning, he strode through the medical facility's maximum security barriers.

Kris heard what Kiki didn't say, that only Andre had been able to keep the Council together after their father's death.  The six headstrong brothers of the Council That Was Seven had respected Andre, who was an adult when the rest of the brothers were born.

The longest I had lasted in one foster home was six months.

But for the past six weeks or so, neither Billie nor Willie could be found anywhere.

It was ten past six, according to his bedside clock.

The only exception to the lonely customers was a young fam­ily of four, husband, wife, girl about nine and boy about six.

He grasped the handle of tray number six but, before opening it, glanced down at Cynthia Byrne.

It only took me six tries.

We're only six days behind him, maybe less.

He can go anywhere in the world in six days, especially if he has a couple of a million dollars.

He could see the biker clearly now, six or seven telephone poles ahead.

It was six weeks today since Jeffrey Byrne's disappearance and ever since, Dean's world had revolved around that happening like a long-playing record.

To listen to her talk, you'd think he was six feet tall and bullet proof.

The phone ran six times and then stopped.

Not that it mattered; he still had her beat by a good six inches.

Fifteen minutes to travel six miles to the clinic — most of it rough gravel roads.

Mrs. Barnett, you're four to six weeks pregnant.

Lori had six months to change her mind.

Their betrothal was short by White God standards, a matter of six days.

Jenn gazed towards the wall, mentally determining her chances at taking on six guardsmen and getting them all over the wall before more came or worse—before Others showed up.

We're having six kids.

This boy is between six and ten summers, when his body is strong enough to contain the beast and yet still pure.

He tore into the center of the group, hacking down two men before the other six reacted.

My uncle tells me this is why I must wait until my dear son is six or seven summers.

It was after six am, but still not full daylight.

There were three of them … well, six now.

A mature bull weighs over a ton and can be six feet or more at the hump.

Bison can jump six feet high.

Six. There are two ewes and three lambs somewhere up there.

Six people left the corral that morning.

She was one of a litter of six and they didn't want the puppies because they were mixed breed.

She opened the mini blinds and looked down at the busy city six stories below.

Beside the tank was a pile of split wood about three feet high and six feet long.

Wasn't there supposed to be something between "nice to meet you" and "I love you" - like six months of courtship?

It is only a fracture, but she's going to have to stay off it for six weeks.

Had it actually been six months ago that things had begun changing so dramatically?

Yes, life had changed in the last six months, but they were fortunate that those changes had been for the good.

The man before her – a Watcher by his glowing green eyes and the Original Watcher by his unusual height of nearly six feet – was smiling.

His senses picked up six Guardians.

Six months ago, they lost their ability to move between worlds, mainly because the immortal world was destroyed.

His face six inches away, he was gazing at her with a strange light in his eyes, but it wasn't the glow that caught her attention.

Despite being over six feet tall, Charles was no more of an obstacle than Jessi's small body.

I've only killed six in my lifetime.

You've GPS chipped me, killed six women, warned me about betraying you and now, you're hunting me down like a people-burger.

If you can't, call me by six.

Exactly. We're due to move our headquarters, but his wife had a baby six months ago.

You tell me you've killed six women, and I invite you into my house.

You killed six women and god knows how many men.

Darian had killed off six Others while the rest had fled.

Noteworthy among the buildings within the ancient citadel is a small tetrastyle temple, variously ascribed to Jupiter and Minerva, the portico supported by six monolithic columns of cippolino, four being in front.

According to Hagenbeck's estimate, this elephant, which came from the French Congo, was about six years old at the time it came under scientific notice.

Albert married Elizabeth, daughter of Meinhard IV., count of Gdrz and Tirol, who bore him six sons and five daughters.

In August he skirmished with Sir James Yeo's small squadron of six vessels, but made little effective use of his own fourteen.

When Galen again attacked Holland six years later he was in alliance with Louis, but he soon deserted his new friend, and fought for the emperor Leopold I.

The molar teeth are six in number on each side, increasing in size from before backwards, and, as in the elephants, with a horizontal succession, the anterior teeth being lost before the full development of the posterior ones, which gradually move forward, taking the place of those that are destroyed by wear.

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.

Hinds states that the hibernating individuals live for more than six months.

It consequently has four vertices and six edges.

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.

The beds remain in bearing for six or eight months, and then the spent manure is taken to the surface again for garden and field purposes.

The county court, consisting of three commissioners elected for six years but with terms so arranged that one retires every two years, is the police and fiscal authority.

Other officers are the clerk of the county court, elected for six years, the sheriff, who also acts as tax-collector and treasurer, the prosecuting attorney, one or two assessors, the surveyor of lands and the superintendent of free schools, all elected for the term of four years; the sheriff may not serve two consecutive full terms. In addition there are boards appointed or elected by various authorities and charged with specific duties.

They are governed by a board of regents consisting of the state superintendent and six other members appointed by the governor.

Having obtained a papal bull, he founded it by deed of the 12th of June 1458, converting the hospital into a college with a president and six fellows, to which college two days later Magdalen Hall surrendered itself and its possessions, its members being incorporated into "the New College of St Mary Magdalen."

The intimacy began in 28 and lasted till 23 B.C. These six years must not, however, be supposed to have been a period of unbroken felicity.

Macaulay imputes this reduction to Hastings as a characteristic act of financial immorality; but in truth it had been expressly enjoined by the court of directors, in a despatch dated six months before he took up office.

He is assisted by the conseil colonial numbering sixteen members, six of whom are French citizens elected by the French, six natives elected by the natives, the other four being members of the chamber of commerce of Saigon and the conseil prive.

Primary instruction is given in some six hundred schools.

The thirteen lords were assisted by twelve other inhabitants chosen by the freeholders, and when the number of lords was reduced to six, seven others were chosen from the assistants.

Few persons can see with the naked eye - much less measure - more than six stars of the Pleiades, although all the stars measured by Maestlin have been seen with the naked eye by a few individuals of exceptional powers of eyesight.

This form of micrometer is of course capable of giving results of high precision, but the drawback is that the process involves a minimum of six pointings and the entering of six screw-head readings in order to measure the two co-ordinates of the star.

The first series contained six essays, the most notable being that "On the office of a Chaplain," which throws much light on the position of a large section of the clergy at that time.

The yield of corn varies from six to ten times the amount sown.

The rights of the Six Nations to all this territory were purchased at Albany, New York, by the Susquehanna Company in 1754, but the work of colonization was delayed for a time by the Seven Years' War.

In the meantime the Six Nations (in 1768) had repudiated their sale of the region to the Susquehanna Company and had sold it to the Penns; the Penns had erected here the manors of Stoke and Sunbury, the government of Pennsylvania had commissioned Charles Stewart, Amos Ogden and others to lay out these manors, and they had arrived and taken possession of the block-house and huts at Mill Creek in January 1769.

Edgar Mortara, when between five and six years of age, fell ill.

Before she was six years old negotiations were opened, which dragged on for several years, for marrying the princess to James IV.

In 1500 the diet had divided Germany into six circles, for the maintenance of peace, to which the emperor at the diet of Cologne in 1512 added four others.

He knew something of six languages, and could discuss art, music, literature or theology.

The course of the road after the first six miles from Rome is not identical with that of any modern road, but can be clearly traced by remains of pavement and buildings along its course.

The truce was disturbed by raids on both sides, but in 1204 it was renewed for six years.

Having received his elementary education at the monastery of Monte Cassino, he studied for six years at the university of Naples, leaving it in his-sixteenth year.

The siege was long and costly; the army suffered severely; and only the tenacity of the tsar kept it in camp for six weeks.

The Queen's Park and Titwood clubs in Glasgow have each three greens, and as they can quite comfortably play six rinks on each, it is not uncommon to see 144 players making their game simultaneously.

For some five or six centuries before1908-1909the junction with the Euphrates was at Korna, some 30 m.

The Alexander legend was the theme of poetry in all European languages; six or seven German poets dealt with the subject, and it may be read in French, English, Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Flemish and Bohemian.

The Albanians in Greece and Italy, though separated for six centuries from the parent stock, have not yet been absorbed by the surrounding populations.

I I, 13), occupied Edom for six months and devastated it; it was garrisoned and permanently held by David (2 Sam.

This railway has six radiating lines leaving the city of Winnipeg, and its main line connects Port Arthur on Lake Superior with Edmonton in the west.

With " very hard " water this deposit may require removal every three months; in London it is usual to clean out the boiler every six months and the cylinders and tanks at longer intervals.

She first offered him nine; when he refused them, she burned three and offered him the remaining six at the same price; when he again refused them, she burned three more and offered him the remaining three still at the same price.

This committee consisted of six members, two barons, two ministers and two burgesses - the two barons selected being John Napier of Merchiston and James Maxwell of Calderwood.

More recently a new edition (six vols.) has appeared.

The six or seven weeks of the long vacation, during which he had pupils with him, were mainly employed in writing.

Of these eighty churches, twelve were in the United Kingdom, twenty on the continent of Europe, sixteen in North America, three in South America, ten in Asia, nine in Africa, six in Australia, two in New Zealand, one in Jamaica and one in Melanesia.

There are in England fourteen congregations in connexion with the Church of Scotland, six of them in London and the remainder in Berwick, Northumberland, Carlisle and Lancashire.

Mendelssohn had six children.

Vultures and hawks are well represented, but perhaps the most numerous of all are the parrots, of which there are six or seven species.

His term of office is six years, and neither he nor the vice-president is eligible for the next presidential term.

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.

This depreciation reached its maximum in October 1891 ($460.82 paper for $100 gold), and remained between that figure and $264 during the next six years.

Construction proceeded under this law, but not with very satisfactory results, and new arrangements had to be made between 1852 and 1857, when the railways were concentrated in the hands of six great companies, the Nord, the Est, the Ouest, the Paris-Lyon-Mditerrane, the Orleans and the Midi.

This body consists, according to the population of the commune, of from 10 to 36 members, elected for four years on the principle of the scrutin de liste by Frenchmen who have reached the age of twenty-one years and have a six months residence qualification.

The expenditure of the government has several times been regulated for as long as six months upon this system.

The soldier spends six years in the Territorial Army, and six in the reserve of the Territorial Army.

Primary Inslruction.All primary public instruction is free and compulsory for children of both sexes between the ages of six and thirteen, but if a child can gain a certificate of primary studies at the age of eleven or after, he may be excused the rest of the period demanded by law.

Public primary schools include (1) icoles maternellesinfant schools for children from two to six years old; (2) elementary primary schoolsthese are the ordinary schools for children from six to thirteen; (3) higher primary schools (coles primaires suprieures) and supplementary courses; these admit pupils who have gained the certificate of primary elementary studies (cerlificat diludes primaires), offer a more advanced course and prepare for technical instruction; (4) primary technical schools (coles manuelles dapprenlissage, coles primaires suprleures professionnelles) kept by the communes or departments.

They give an education similar to that offered in the lyces for boys with certain modificationsin a curriculum of five or six years.

The hospices and hpitaux and Guadeloupe the bureaux de bienfaisance, the founda- Martinique tion of which is optional for the commune, St Pierre and Miquel are managed by committees consisting of the mayor of the municipality and six Total in Am members, two elected by the municipal council and four nominated by the prefect.

The prose comedy, El Café ó la comedic nueva, given at the same theatre six years afterwards, at once became popular.

The pouch is incomplete, with two lateral folds, and the number of teats six.

The tail is long and in some cases prehensile; the first hind-toe may be either large, small or absent; the dentition usually includes three pairs of upper and one of lower incisors, and six or seven pairs of cheekteeth in each jaw; the stomach is either simple or sadculated, without a cardiac gland; and there are four teats.

They did, indeed, represent the aristocracy of wealth, for they had to pay a subscription of four louis, a large sum at that time, besides six livres for attendance.

The three cities founded by these settlers - Lindus, Ialysus and Camirusbelonged to the "League of Six Cities," by which the Dorian colonists in Asia Minor sought to protect themselves against the barbarians of the neighbouring mainland.

Everett, and issued in 1887 in six sheets, by the Geological Survey of Victoria.

The exports of breadstuffs - chiefly to the United Kingdom - exceed six millions per annum, butter two and a half millions, and minerals of all kinds, except gold, six millions.

The federal government has no public debt, but each of the six states has contracted debts which aggregate £237,000,000, equal to about £58, 8s.

Of the six Australian states, New South Wales is the oldest.

At that time the district contained about 25,000 inhabitants; and in the first six years its population was quadrupled and its trade trebled.

In accordance with this general verdict of all the states, the colonial draft bill was submitted to the imperial government for legislation as an imperial act; and six delegates were sent to England to explain the measure and to pilot it through the cabinet and parliament.

The six colonies entering the Commonwealth were denominated original states, and new states might be admitted, or might be formed by separation from or union of two or more states or parts of states; and territories (as distinguished from Provisions states) might be taken over and governed under the legis- of the Act lative power of the Commonwealth.

The Senate was to consist of the same number of members (not less than six) for each state, the term of service being six years, but subject to an arrangement that half the number would retire every three years.

After the year 1884 Labour troubles became very frequent, the New South Wales coal miners in particular being at war with the colliery owners during the greater part of the six years intervening between then and what is called the Great Strike.

During the first six years of federation there were five ministries; the tenure of office under the threeyearly system was naturally uncertain, and this uncertainty was reflected in the proposals of whatever ministry was in office.

He also studied the first six books of Euclid and some algebra, besides reading a considerable quantity of Hebrew and learning the Odes of Horace by heart.

The diet, elected for six years, consists of 24 members, of whom 4 are elected by the largest landowners, 4 by those who pay tax on incomes of £150 or more, and 16 by the other electors.

His Burgundian lands passed without opposition to his son Charles, then six years of age.

The next morning he retreated, and six days later Mons surrendered.

On the 18th of December 1573 Alva, who to the end had persisted in his policy of pitiless severity, left Brussels, carrying with him the curses of the people over whom he had tyrannized for six terrible years of misery and oppression.

A change of climate, however, is imperatively necessary every five or six years, and the children of European parents should not be kept in the peninsula after they have attained the age of four or five years.

There was nothing in the Reformation to appeal to him, except the repudiation of papal control; and he was one of those numerous Englishmen whose views were faithfully reflected in the Six Articles.

He became a staunch Conservative, and, apart from his embassy to the emperor in 1524-1543, was mainly occupied during the last years of Henry's reign in brandishing the "whip with six strings."

Being a meeting point of six main roads,' it was much visited by travellers.

Sofia, a circular edifice of about 760, now modernized, the roof of which is supported by six ancient columns, is a relic of the Lombard period; it has a fine cloister of the 12th century constructed in part of fragments of earlier buildings; while the cathedral with its fine arcaded facade and incomplete square campanile (begun in 1279) dates from the 9th century and was rebuilt in 1114.

The ovary, three-celled at first, but becoming one-celled and one-seeded by abortion, is surmounted by an inconspicuous perianth with six small teeth.

The male flowers are in small clusters on the usually slender and pendent stalk, forming an interrupted catkin; the stamens vary in number, usually six to twelve.

On the 28th he was sent to Ely for the defence of the eastern counties against the king's advance; and on the 10th of June, upon Fairfax's petition, he was named by the Commons lieutenant-general, joining Fairfax on the 13th with six hundred horse.

During the succeeding ten years he wrote the six works which are ascribed to him and were published under his name by P. Mandonnet in 1899.

After having been expelled from a monastery for his excessive austerities, at thirty years of age he built a pillar six feet high on which he took up his abode.

The date of his death is uncertain, but it must have been at least six or seven years later than the council of Chalcedon (451).

It was well known during the middle ages, and was largely used by William, archbishop of Tyre, for the first six books of his Belli sacri historic. In modern times its historical value has been seriously impugned, but the verdict of the best scholarship seems to be that in general it forms a true record of the events of the first crusade, although containing some legendary matter.

Over a large part of England this was fixed at 1200 shillings, or six times that of the ceorl.

The walls still stand at many of the angles with a height of from 40 to 50 ft., and indicate an original elevation of several storeys, perhaps six or seven.

The citadel was begun six years later "ad coercendam Perusinorum audaciam."

A nervous system has been shown to exist in many species, and consists of a perioesophageal ring giving off usually six nerves which run forwards and backwards along the lateral and median lines; these are connected by numerous fine, circular threads in the sub-cuticle.

The town was incorporated in 1890, and is governed by a mayor, six aldermen and eighteen councillors.

A man was only bound to serve so many (six ?) times, but the land had to find a man annually.

If these were not at hand he might adjourn the case for their production, specifying a time up to six months.

This telegraph required six wires, and was shortly afterwards displaced by the single-needle system, still to a large extent used on railway and other less important circuits.

Thus between London and Manchester only four sets of apparatus could be worked, but between London and Birmingham, a shorter distance, six sets (the maximum for which the system is adapted) were used.

The system brought out in 1874 by Emile Baudot and since considerably developed is a multiplex system giving from two to six channels on one wire, each channel giving a working, speed of thirty words per minute.

The price awarded to the six telegraph companies was £5,733,000.

So zealously was the work of improvement pursued that within little more than six years of the transfer the aggregate extent of road wires in the United Kingdom was already 63,000 m.

He kept up the communication for six months, in all weathers, and found that ordinary commercial messages could be transmitted at the rate of 15 to 20 words a minute.

With the help of a strong detachment of officers and men from the Atlantic coast he equipped a squadron consisting of one brig, six fine schooners and one sloop. Other vessels were laid down at Presque Isle (now Erie), where he concentrated the Lake Erie fleet in July.

In the Ader transmitter as many as twelve carbon pencils were employed, arranged in a series of two groups with six pencils in parallel in each group. These were supported at their ends in parallel carbon bars, which were carried by a nearly horizontal wooden diaphragm.

Within six years the services had been extended to 400 towns with about 55,000 subscribers.

In 1274 the council of Lyons imposed a tax of a tenth part of all church revenues during the six following years for the relief of the Holy Land.

Both bodies are elected for six years, one-half being renewed every three years.

In the rotation of crops there is an amazing diversityshifts of two years, three years, four years, six years, and in many cases whatever order strikes the fancy of the farmer.

On some small holdings, however, it exists with contracts lasting from two to six years.

Leasehold, varying from four to six years for arable land and from six to eighteen years for forest-land, prevails also in Campania, Basilicata and Calabria.

In pure leasehold the landlord demands at least six months rent as guarantee, and the forfeiture of any fortuitous advantages.

The minimum annual premium is six lire for an annuity of one lira per day at the age of sixty, and insurance against sickness.

The total imports for the first six months of 1907 amounted to 57,840,000, an increase of 7,520,000 as compared with the corresponding period of 1906.

The age limit is six to nine years for the lower grade, and up to twelve for the higher grade, attendance being obligatory at the latter also where it exists.

Infant asylums (where the first rudiments of instruction are imparted to children between two and a half and six years of age) and elementary schools have increased in number.

The law of 1877 rendering education compulsory for children between six and nine years of age has been the principal cause of the spread of elementary education.

In 1901-1902 only 65% out of the whole number of children between six and nine years of age were registered in the lower standards of the elementary and private schools.

Under present regulations the term of liability is divided into nine years in the Active Army and Reserve (three or two years with the colors) four in the Mobile MilitIa and six in the Territorial Militia.

The men classed in it have to train for six months, and they are called up in the late summer to bridge the The 2nd category of the 1875 law had practically ceased to exist.

There are in Italy six clearing houses, namely, the ancient one at Leghorn, and those of Genoa, Milan, Rome, Florence and Turin, founded since 1882.

The period for which both communal and provincial councils are elected is six years, one-half being renewed every three years.

Here, as upon neutral ground, the emperor met the pope, and a truce for six years was concluded with the Lombard burghs.

Piedmont was organized in six departments on the model of those of France, and a number of French veterans were settled by Napoleon in and near the fortress of Alessandria.

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.

During the first six months of 1901 the strikes numbered 600, and involved more than 1,000,000

In 1678 Charles, taking advantage of the growing hostility to France in the nation and parliament, raised his price, and Danby by his directions demanded through Ralph Montagu (afterwards duke of Montagu) six million livres a year (30o,000) for three years.

Both in parliament and in Convocation he opposed the Six Articles of 1539, but he stood almost alone.

The radial canals may be simple or branched, primarily four, rarely six in number.

A " stolon " of unknown origin produces thirty-two buds, which become as many Polypodia; each has twenty-four tentacles and divides by fission repeated twice into four individuals, each with six tentacles.

Trophosome (only known in one genus), polyps with two tentacles forming a creeping colony; gonosome, free medusae with four, six or more radial canals, giving off one or more lateral branches which run to the margin of the umbrella, with the stomach produced into four, six or more lobes, upon which the gonads are developed; the mouth with four lips or with a folded margin; the tentacles simple, arranged evenly round the margin of the umbrella.

Four or six radial canals; gonads band-like; stomach prolonged into a manubrium of great length; tentaculocysts enclosed.

In 1832 her father, who had for six years been the pastor of a church in Boston, accepted the presidency of the newly founded Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati.

It would seem that up to the 4th century of our era the Sinhalese had written exclusively in their own tongue; that is to say that for six centuries they had studied and understood Pali as a dead language without using it as a means of literary expression.

The length of the Tetuaroa reef ring is about six miles; it bears twelve palm-covered islets, of which several are inhabited, and has one narrow boat-passage leading into the lagoon.

In Rome and Alexandria, and even in Jerusalem, Holy Week was included in Lent and the whole fast lasted but six weeks, Saturdays, however, not being exempt.

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.

In 1804 Vauquelin resigned his professorship at the College de France and successfully used his influence to obtain the appointment for Thenard, who six years later, after Fourcroy's death, was further elected to the chairs of chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Faculte des Sciences.

After his arrival at Safed Luria lived at most six years, and died in 1572.

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.

Six sensitive hairs spring from the upper surface of the lobes, three from each; when one of these is touched the two lobes rapidly close, bringing their upper surfaces into contact and imprisoning anything which for the moment is between them.

The first book, of fourteen short chapters, is concerned with the general properties of the globe; the remaining six books treat in considerable detail of the countries of Europe and of the other continents.

If on each occasion he himself made the observations his voyage must have extended over six years; but it is not impossible that he ascertained the approximate length of the longest day in some cases by questioning the natives.

On the 18th of January 1788 Admiral Phillip and Captain Hunter arrived in Botany Bay in the " Supply " and " Sirius," followed by six transports, and established a colony at Port Jackson.

The fundamental form-elements may be reduced to the six proposed by Professor Penck as the basis of his double system of classification by form and origin.'

These may be looked The six upon as being all derived by various modifications or elementa ry arrangements of the single form-unit, the slope or inclined land forms. plane surface.

On the demand of Lennox, Darnley's father, Bothwell was put upon his trial, in April, but Lennox, having been forbidden to enter the city with more than six attendants, refused to attend, and Bothwell was declared not guilty.

The last six or seven caudal vertebrae coalesce into the pygostyle, an upright blade which carries the rectrices.

The ischiadic portion consists generally of five or six nerves, which leave the pelvis as one thick system through the ilio-ischiadic foramen.

But these six divisions of Sclater and Wallace are not all equivalent, only some are of primary importance; they require coand sub-ordination.

The second duke, twice married, was father of at least eleven sons and six daughters, the sons including Edward the lord high admiral, killed in boarding Pregent's galleys at Brest, Edmund the knight marshal of the army at Flodden, and William the first Lord Howard of Effingham.

The Elamite king was dethroned and imprisoned in 700 B.C. by his brother Khallusu, who six years later marched into Babylonia, captured the son of Sennacherib, whom his father had placed there as king, and raised a nominee of his own, Nergal-yusezib, to the throne.

King, and published in six volumes (New York, 1894-1900).

Under his auspices the instrumental equipment at Greenwich was completely changed, and the number of assistants increased from one to six.

It has pale-purple flowers, rarely more than three in number; the perianth is funnel-shaped, and produced below into a long slender tube, in the upper part of which the six stamens are inserted.

Six months after the assassination of Aurelian he was chosen by the senate to succeed him, and the choice was cordially ratified by the army.

The fathers of the first six or seven centuries, so far as they agree, may be fairly taken to represent the main stream of Christian tradition and belief during the period when the apostolic teaching took shape in the great creeds and dogmatic decisions of Christendom.

It is divided into six "orders," according to subject, and each order is subdivided into chapters.

Both Talmuds are arranged according to the six orders of the Mishnah, but the discussion of the Mishnic text often wanders off into widely different topics.

From Switzerland he passed in six months to England, where he formed acquaintances with other French exiles and with prominent British statesmen, and imbibed a lasting admiration for the English Constitution.

The province is divided into six districts, the chief towns of which are Vyernyi (the capital), Jarkent, Kopal, Pishpek, Przhevalsk and Sergiopol.

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.

His father, who was physician to the constable Charles of Bourbon, sent him to study at Toulouse, whence at the age of eighteen he was driven, a consequence of the evil fortunes of the family patron, to Padua, where he studied law and letters for about six years.

The senators are elected for six years, and one-third of their number retire every two years.

Primary instruction is nominally obligatory; nevertheless at the beginning of the 10th century nearly half the population over six years of age was illiterate.

For speeds over six knots a 14-second glass is employed, and the speed indicated by the log-line is doubled.

On the inner side towards the Acropolis, this wall is faced with a portico of six Doric columns.

It lasted six days (April 28 - May 3), the first day being the anniversary of the foundation of her temple.

There is some evidence that the "tradition of the six canoes" does not represent the first contact of the Polynesian race with New Zealand.

If earlier immigrants from Samoa or other eastern Pacific islands arrived they must have become absorbed into the native Papuan population - arguing from the absence of any distinct tradition earlier than that "of the six canoes."

The shell heaps found on the coasts and elsewhere dispose of the theory that New Zealand was uninhabited or practically so six centuries back.

The majority of these reformers exemplified their preaching in their own persons, and St Dominic gained great renown by inflicting upon himself 300,000 strokes in six days.

The excretory (malpighian) tubes are few in number, either four or six.

Lameere's classification is founded on the number of abdominal sterna, the nervuration of the wings, the number of malpighian tubules (whether four or six) and other structural characters.

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.

There are either four or six malpighian tubes.

There are six malpighian tubes.

On the other hand, in the six years, 1892-97, the excess of Russian emigration over immigration was 207,353, as compared with an excess of foreign immigration over emigration of only 136,740.

To check this courts were multiplied (there were five, six or more instances), which only multiplied the evil.

The system of obligatory military service for all, introduced in 1874, has been maintained, but the six years' term of service has Army.

Accompanied by these so-called Oprichniki, who have been compared to the Turkish Janissaries of the worst period, he ruthlessly devastated large districts - with no other object apparently than that of terrorizing the population and rewarding his myrmidons - and during a residence of six weeks in Novgorod, lest the old turbulent spirit of the municipal republic should revive, he massacred, it is said, no less than 60,000 of the inhabitants, including many women and children.

The late tsar's eldest son, Theodore, was weak in health and died Theodore without male issue after an uneventful reign of six III..

Six years later began the rapid expansion of Russia in Central Asia, and at the end xxiii.

It had six columns at each end (a double row in the front) and seventeen on each long side.

This was the case once before, in 1901; and the total of fatal accidents to passengers and servants, taken together, has in several years been very low (1896, eight; 1901, eight; 1902, ten; 1904, thirteen), but never before was it down to six.

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.

In each of these two cases the resistance can of course be analysed into the six components set out in the above list.