Twenty-four Sentence Examples

We've got to start moving everything within twenty-four hours, Lon told them, slinging a machine gun over his shoulder.

Twenty-four hours after his hour-long downhill hike from the mine, Dean's stilts felt like he'd run a barefoot marathon on cobblestoned streets.

They got twenty-four hours to do something.

The spell lasts twenty four hours, but it works.

The standard day is longer than ours, about thirty hours instead of twenty-four, with that divided evenly between day and night.

It was almost twenty-four hours before Shipton and Donnie got back to civilization, with the kid's body.

A police guard blocked Dean's door for the first twenty-four hours, precluding visitors.

All the comforts of home, except behind the rich brocade fabric walls stood twenty-four inches of rebar reinforced concrete and the door consisted of eight-inch diameter solid steel bars.

I can't watch them twenty-four hours a day, you know.

Check your systems for threats, anything in the last twenty-four hours that seems out of place.

Surprisingly, Fred's list of twenty-four contained eight of the same riders Dean had recorded.

The only time something happens is when you've been in one world more than twenty-four hours.

Changes undergone in the immortal world normally weren't permanent, once they returned to their world for twenty-four hours.

However, if they didn't hurry, Sofi would come back with a child before twenty-four hours passed in the mortal world..

For while at New College only twenty out of seventy fellows were to study law instead of arts, philosophy and theology, at All Souls College sixteen were to be " jurists " and only twenty-four " artists "; and while at New College there were ten chaplains and three clerks necessarily, at All Souls the number was not defined but left optional; so that there are now only one chaplain and four bible clerks.

A law enacted in 1908 requires that children between eight and fifteen years of age shall attend school twenty-four weeks each year, provided the public school in their district is in session that length of time.

Two years before he left school he was selected as one of the twenty-four who went forth to receive the heart of Henry IV.

During his residence in Holland he lived at thirteen different places, and changed his abode twenty-four times.

Without setting aside the Confession as the church's standard, twenty-four "Articles of the Faith" have been adopted.

A large army of twenty-four thousand men was collected at Montevideo, and on the 8th of January 1852 the allied forces crossed the Parana and the road to Buenos Aires lay open before them.

There are twenty-four districts, each under the control of a directeur, assisted by inspeciors, sub-inspectors and other officials.

It included, however, only twenty-four Spanish ships.

Astrology is in its nature an occult science, and there is no trace of a day of twenty-four hours among the ancient Hebrews.

There the nineteen bishops and twenty-four presbyters, from all parts of Spain, but chiefly from the south, assembled, probably at the instigation of Hosius of Cordova, but under the presidency of Felix of Accis, with a view to restoring order and discipline in the church.

The block containing his body was built into an angle of the Fort of the Twenty-four Hours, then under construction.

In 1853 the Fort of the Twenty-four Hours was demolished, and in the angle specified by Haedo the skeleton of Geronimo was found.

The estates of only twenty-four leaders of the defeated cause were forfeited by Cromwell, and the national church was left untouched though deprived of all powers of interference with the civil government, the general assembly being dissolved in 1653.

Albrecht had been elected at the age of twenty-four to a see already impoverished by frequent successions and payments of annates to Rome.

The grappling of the cable and raising it to the surface from a depth of 2000 fathoms seldom occupy less than twenty-four hours, and since any extra strain due to the pitching of the vessel must be avoided, it is clear that the state of the sea and weather is the predominating factor in the time necessary for effecting the long series of operations which, in the most favourable circumstances, are required for a repair.

The submarine telegraphs are mainly controlled by companies, the amount of issued capital of the existing British telegraph companies (twenty-four in number) being £3 0, 447, 1 9 1, but a certain number of lines are in government hands.

The average expectation of life at birth for the same period was 52 years and II months, 62 years and 2 months at the age of three years, 52 years at the age of fifteen, 44 years at the age of twenty-four, 30 years at the age of forty; while the average period of life, which was 35 years 3 months per individual in 1882, was 43 yearf per individual in 1901.

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.

The daughter-individuals grow, form the full number of twenty-four tentacles and divide again.

Basilides wrote an exegetical work in twenty-four books on "his" gospel, but which this was is not known.

Then suddenly, for reasons which cannot easily be explained, he inaugurated a reign of terror which lasted for twenty-four years and earned for him the epithet of "theTerrible."

Allowing for this interval of military service, he applied himself exclusively for twenty-four years to his legal work.

In 1761 Gibbon, at the age of twenty-four, after many delays, and with many flutterings of hope and fear, gave to the world, in French, his maiden publication, an Essai sur l'etude de la litterature, which he had composed two years before.

The interior has twenty-four columns of marble (from Constantinople according to some, from Rome according to others), with almost uniform capitals.

It has twenty-four columns of Carystian (cipollino) marble, with capitals probably of Byzantine work with swelling acanthus leaves; but the rest of the church is due to native architects.

If the first paroxysm should not cease within the twenty-four hours, the fever is not reckoned as an intermittent, but as a remittent.

Elhanan of Bethlehem slew the giant Goliath of Gath, and David's own brother Shimei (or Shammah) overthrew a monster who could boast of twenty-four fingers and toes.

At the 1905 show, sheep of each breed, and also cross-breds, competed as (1) wether lambs under twelve months old, and (2) wether sheep above twelve and under twenty-four months old.

On the 9th of July he received an order from the provisional government at Paris to leave France within twenty-four hours.

The Naturalist's Miscellany or Vivarium Naturale, in English and Latin, of Shaw and Nodder, the former being the author, the latter the draughtsman and engraver, was begun in 1789 and carried on till Shaw's death, forming twenty-four volumes.

The number of members of the school-board was in 1905 reduced from twenty-four to five, elected by the city at large, or serving for one, two or three years; at the same time power was centralized in the hands of the superintendent of schools.

Eventually the civil code with some changes was adopted in twenty-four states, and the criminal code in eighteen, and the whole formed a basis of the reform in procedure in England and several of her colonies.

He served as a nominee of the opposition on the committee of twenty-four which was appointed, in the Oxford parliament of that year, to reform the administration.

In 1859 the settlement of palace debts gave rise to the issue of 1,000,000 purses of new interior bonds (esham-i jedide) spread over a period of three years, repayable in twenty-four years, and bearing interest at 6%.

An ultimatum was presented ordering Turkey within twenty-four hours to dismiss the French ambassador, hand over the Turkish fleet, and make peace with Russia.

This place had been held by a French garrison, but had capitulated only twenty-four hours beforehand, a fact of which Napoleon was naturally unaware.

It puts through 9-12 tons of ore in twenty-four hours, reducing the percentage of sulphur to 2-4%, and requires four to six men and about 2 tons of coal.

The crystallization proper lasts one hour, the working of a charge four hours, six charges being run in twenty-four hours.

The plan was abandoned for lack of funds, after twelve out of the twenty-four Greek pillars had been erected, but it is perhaps more effective in its unfinished state than if it had been completed.

The attempt was not completely successful; but the government was now equally divided between the two estates by the creation of a supreme magistracy of twenty-four citizens - twelve nobles and twelve popolani.

Exasperated by the tyranny of the Salimbeni and other patrician families allied to the Ghibellines, it decreed in 127 7 the exclusion of all nobles from the supreme magistracy (consisting since 1270 of thirty-six instead of twenty-four members), and insisted that this council should be formed solely of Guelf traders and men of the middle class.

Legislative power was vested, nominally, in the volksraad (consisting of twenty-four members),while the president and executive were changed every three months.

In 1782 he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, and though only twenty-four years of age he was chosen a member of the governor's council.

With the aid of inquisitors from Rome, the evil was literally burnt out, but not before provinces, especially in the south and 1 In 1412 he pawned the twenty-four Zips towns to Poland, and, .in 1411 he pledged his margraviate of Brandenburg to the Hohenzollerns.

For a considerable time Barasat town was the headquarters of a joint magistracy, known as the "Barasat District," but in 1861, on a readjustment of boundaries Barasat district was abolished by order of government, and was converted into a subdivision of the Twenty-four Parganas.

A strong heat is applied for about two hours so as to make the saffron "sweat," and a gentler temperature for a further period of twenty-four hours, the cake being turned every hour so that every part is thoroughly dried.

Twelve years later (1205-1206) we learn from another document, preserved in the same volume as the oath, that alii probi homines were associated with the mayor and dchevins to form a body of twenty-four (that is, twelve skivini and an equal number of councillors).

The invaders of Helles had secured but a precarious foothold on Ottoman soil by the morning of the 26th, twenty-four hours after starting operations; but fair progress was made by them during the course of this second day.

Twenty-four hours later the long spell of calm, a godsend to Godley and Byng, came to an end.

But Bestuzhev succeeded, at last, in convincing the empress that Chetardie was an impudent intriguer, and on the 6th of June 174.4, that diplomatist was ordered to quit Russia within twenty-four hours.

Every twenty-four hours or so the flow of juice may be conveniently stopped, and, after all the impurities have subsided, the superincumbent clear liquor may be decanted by a cock placed at the side of the cone for the purpose, and the vessel may be washed out.

His works number about 200 and occupy, together with the replies which they excited, twenty-four columns in the catalogue of the British Museum.

In this form a large number, after being cooked or stoved in moist heat for about twenty-four hours, are piled between plates in an hydraulic press, and subjected to great pressure for a month or six weeks, during which time a slow fermentation takes place, and a considerable exudation of juice results from the severe pressure.

About six or eight hours after starting the distillation is in full swing, and in twenty-four hours it is completed.

The most terrible was that of 1746, which destroyed Callao, on the 28th of October, and there were 220 shocks in the following twenty-four hours.

Munich is divided into twenty-four municipal districts, nineteen of which, including the old town, lie on the left bank of the Isar, while the suburban districts of Au, Haidhausen, Giesing, Bogenhausen and Ramersdorf are on the opposite bank.

If in the course of the first twenty-four hours this larva meet with a tadpole it attaches itself at once and undergoes further development.

Haemorrhage has been classified as - (I) primary, occurring at the time of the injury; (2) reactionary, or within twenty-four hours of the accident, during the stage of reaction; (3) secondary, occurring at a later period and caused by faulty application of a ligature or septic condition of the wound.

Two years of incessant labor with relays of artisans working steadily throughout the twenty-four hours were required to finish this piece.

In from twelve to twenty-four hours these severe constitutional symptoms usually pass off, but in the meantime the swelling and discoloration have spread enormously.

The largest amount of alcohol that can be burnt up within the healthy body in twenty-four hours is 12 oz., but it must be consumed in great dilution and divided into small doses taken every four hours.

It was obvious that what they had failed to do by surprise was hopeless now that twenty-four hours had been given in which the Germans 1 Steinmetz was shortly afterwards relieved of his command and returned to Germany.

This practice continued to prevail till the 17th century, when, at the instance of the Jesuit Schall, president of the tribunal of mathematics, they adopted the European method of dividing the day into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and each minute into sixty seconds.

After his'return,though only twenty-four years of age, he was invited to become president of an academy then projected at Genoa; but, declining this honour, he was, in the following year, appointed professor of mathematics at St Petersburg.

The first, for a memoir on the construction of a clepsydra for measuring time exactly at sea, he gained at the age of twenty-four; the second, for one on the physical cause of the inclination of the planetary orbits, he divided with his father; and the third, for a communication on the tides, he shared with Euler, Colin Maclaurin and another competitor.

Members of the lower house must be at least twenty-four years of age, members of the senate at least twenty-seven; members of both houses must at the time of their election have been citizens of the state for at least three years.

At the age of twenty-four he entered the priesthood, becoming one of two curates under the incumbent of Pingjum, a village near his birthplace.

A lofty stone wall, pierced by five gates and flanked by twenty-four towers, encloses the city, which has a population of about 40,000.

The Mexican commander, Pedro de Ampudia, demanded Taylor's withdrawal beyond the Nueces within twenty-four hours.

General Churchill, Marlborough's brother, had meanwhile surrounded the French garrison of Blenheim; and after one or two attempts to break out, twenty-four battalions of infantry and four regiments of dragoons, many of them the finest of the French army, surrendered.

As a manager, though he committed some grievous blunders, he did good service to the theatre and signally advanced the popularity of Shakespeare's plays, of which not less than twenty-four were produced at Drury Lane under his management.

At the most moderate estimate, his travels covered a space of thirty-one degrees of longitude, or 1700 miles, and twenty-four of latitude, or nearly the same distance.

Their retreat having been unmolested, the Prussians were ready once more to take the field, quite twenty-four hours before Napoleon deemed it possible for the foe defeated at Ligny.

On the expiration of the charter of the New Netherland Company (1618) the StatesGeneral refused to grant a renewal, and only private ventures were authorized until 1621, when the West India Company was chartered for a term of twenty-four years; to this company was given a monopoly of Dutch trade with the whole American coast from Newfoundland to the Straits of Magellan.

The ultimatum required Turkish acquiescence to this course within twenty-four hours.

It was discovered in 1774 by Captain Cook, and was taken by Philip King of the "Stirling" and twenty-four convicts from New South Wales.

For judicial purposes the province is divided into twenty-four divisions, in each of which is a resident magistrate, who has limited civil and criminal jurisdiction.

The qualifications for a senator are that he be at least twenty-four years of age and have resided in his county or district at least one year next preceding his election; for a representative there are no qualifications other than those required for suffrage.

He was elected again in 1882 and in 1883, and at the age of twenty-four was his party's candidate for Speaker of the Assembly.

It is best to begin with only one dose in the twenty-four hours, to be taken just before going to sleep, so that the patient is saved its unpleasant "repetition" from an unaccustomed stomach.

In the elections to the Convention, Marat was elected seventh out of the twenty-four deputies for Paris, and for the first time took his seat in an assembly of the nation.

Besides divisions into twentyeight and twenty-four parts, it included two distinct duodenary series.

The twenty-four tsieki or demi-tse were probably invented to mark the course of weather changes throughout the year.

It was considered by Biot to have been originally twenty-four, but to have been enlarged to twenty-eight about i ioo B.C., by the addition of determinants for the solstices and equinoxes of that period.

Twenty-four out of twenty-eight were formed, at least in part, of nakshatra or sieu stars.'

Each of his twenty-four topics has its complement of stories.

In 1664 the duke of York became proprietor of the newly erected province of New York and by his grant in the same year to Berkeley and Carteret of all that portion which lay west of the Hudson river, Staten Island became properly a part of New Jersey, but in 1668 the duke decided that all islands within New York Bay which could be circumnavigated in twenty-four hours should be adjudged to New York.

About six ironclads and twenty smaller vessels of the royal navy are stationed in colonial waters; the vessels of the colonial marine number about twenty-four, and undertake police supervision, prevention of slave trading, &c.

The disulphonate is more readily obtained by moistening the nitrilosulphonate with dilute sulphuric acid and letting it stand for twenty-four hours, after which it is recrystallized from dilute ammonia.

The siege corps was commanded by General von Tresckow and numbered at first io,000 men with twenty-four field guns - a force which appeared adequate for the reduction of the antiquated works of Vauban.

The expansion of the Talmudic twenty-four to the thirty-nine Old Testament books of the English Bible is effected by reckoning the Minor Prophets one by one, by separating Ezra from Nehemiah, and by subdividing the long books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles.

His prophecies (which are regularly dated) are assigned to various years from 592 to 570 B.C. The theme of the first twenty-four chapters of his book is the impending fall of Jerusalem, which took place actually in 586, and which Ezekiel foretells in a series of prophecies, distinguished by great variety of symbolism and imagery.

This was published in 1876 under the title Tables for the formation of logarithms and antilogarithms to twenty-four or any less number of places, and contains the most complete and useful application of the method, with many improvements in points of detail.

The ingenuity of nature, however, in adapting animals is not infinite, because the same devices are repeatedly employed by her to accomplish the same adaptive ends whether in fishes, reptiles, birds or mammals; thus she has repeated herself at least twenty-four times in the evolution of long-snouted rapacious swimming types of animals.

He destroyed their rearguard, the Tigurini, as it was about to cross, transported his army across the river in twenty-four hours, pursued the Helvetii in a northerly direction, and utterly defeated them at Bibracte (Mont Beuvray).

When about twenty-four she married a builder of York, Tobias Shipton..

Copper was produced in 1908 in twenty-four states of the Union.

Five states Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Washingtongive the suffrage for all elections to women.i In 1905 women could vote at school elections in twenty-four states.

Northwards chinooks become less frequent and the winter's cold increases, but the coming of spring is not much later, and the summer temperatures, with sunshine for twenty hours out of twenty-four in June, are almost the same as for hundreds of miles to the south, so that most kinds of grain and vegetables ripen far to the north in the Peace river valley.

In 1564 Lord Robert Stewart, natural son of James V., who had visited Kirkwall twenty-four years before, was made sheriff of the Orkneys and Shetlands, and received possession of the estates of the udallers; in 1581 he was created earl of Orkney by James IV., the charter being ratified ten years later to his son Patrick, but in 1615 the earldom was again annexed to the crown.

The subdivision of the day (q.v.) into twenty-four parts, or hours, has prevailed since the remotest ages, though different nations have not agreed either with respect to the epoch of its commencement or the manner of distributing the hours.

Hipparchus reckoned the twenty-four hours from midnight to midnight.

For Example, If We Observe The Line B In Table Iii., We Shall See That It Contains Both The Epacts Twenty Four And Twenty Five, So That If These Correspond To The Same Day Of The Month, Two New Moons Would Be Indicated As Happening On That Day Within Nineteen Years.

Now, From The Manner In Which The Intercalation Is Directed To Be Made (Namely, Seven Times Successively At The End Of 300 Years, And Once At The End Of 400), It Is Evident That The Fraction 2 Must Amount To Unity When The 5 Number Of Centuries Amounts To Twenty Four.

His work (` w i lacxa) in twenty-four books, written in Greek, is rather a number of monographs than a connected history.

In its earliest form, as it appears in inscriptions on various articles found in Schleswig and in Scandinavian countries, it consisted of twenty-four letters, all of which occur in abecedaria in England.

The number of points of the compass, according to the Chinese, is twenty-four, which are reckoned from the south pole; the form also of the instrument they employ is different from that familiar to Europeans.

This post he held for twenty-four years.

The evidence may be examined at length in Nicolas and Beltz; it is indisputable that in the wardrobe account from September 1347 to January 1349, the 21st and 23rd Edward III., the issue of certain habits with garters and the motto embroidered on them is marked for St George's Day; that the letters patent relating to the preparation of the royal chapel of Windsor are dated in August 1348; and that in the treasury accounts of the prince of Wales there is an entry in November 1348 of the gift by him of " twenty-four garters to the knights of the Society of the Garter."

The number of British members has been fixed at twenty-four, with the addition of such foreign persons as the sovereign shall appoint.

After twenty-four hours the hole may be levelled in, with moderate treading, if the water has soaked well in, the surface being left level and not sloping upwards towards the stem of the tree.

The fame of Maurice, a consummate general at the early age of twenty-four, was on all men's lips.

A pair of working converters has made 4958 charges of 10 tons each, or a total of 50,547 tons, in one month, or at an average rate of a charge every seven minutes and twenty-four seconds throughout every working day.

The Ashanti, who lost over 2000 men, failed, however, to storm the English fort, though the garrison was reduced from twenty-four to eight men.

Parker's orders were to give Denmark twenty-four hours in which to withdraw from the coalition, and on her refusal to destroy or neutralize her strength and then proceed against the Russians before the breaking up of the ice allowed the ships at Reval to join the squadron at Kronstadt.

The limits of Belgium are fixed by the London protocol of the 15th of October 1831 - also called the twenty-four articles - which cut off what is now termed the grand duchy of Luxemburg, and also a good portion of the duchy of Limburg.

The pay of a schoolmaster in a small commune is only £48, and in a large town £96, with a maximum ranging from go to £152 after twenty-four years' service.

The chambers argued that Belgium had been induced to agree to the twenty-four articles in 1832 in the hope of thereby at once terminating all harassing disputes, but as Holland refused then to accept them, the conditions were no longer binding and the circumstances were now quite changed.

He was twenty-four years of age, and at the coronation festival, which was held at Aix-la-Chapelle, the dukes performed for the first time the nominally menial offices known as the arch-offices of the German kingdom.

When Pertz resigned his editorial position in 1874 and the Gesellschaft was dissolved, twenty-four folio volumes had been published.

Twenty-four Constitutionalists and thirty Declaranten were chosen; the latter, of course, did not go to Vienna, but the additional twenty-four made a working majority by which the government was carried on for the rest of the year.

This consists in a sudden rise of the sea-level, occasionally to the height of 3 ft., sometimes occurring only once, sometimes repeated at intervals of a minute for two hours, or even, at Mazzara, where it is most frequently observed, for twenty-four hours together.

In 1315 he instituted a survey of Egypt, and of the twenty-four parts into which it was divided ten were assigned to the sultan and fourteen to the amirs and the army.

At length, in consequence of the remonstrances of the English, and a promise made by al-Alfi of 1500 purses, the Porte consented to reinstate the twenty-four beys and to place al-Alfi at their head; but this measure met with the opposition of Mehemet Ali and the determined resistance of the majority of the Mamelukes, who, rather than have al-AlfI at their head, preferred their present condition; for the enmity of al-Bardisi had not subsided, and he commanded the voice of most of the other beys.

TheBordein grounded on the following day, and again on the 2 6th, by which twenty-four hours were lost.

With its popularly elected assembly of twenty-four Etten (jurati) Drente remained practically independent.

After burning for twenty-four hours the smouldering embers were extinguished with libations of wine.

The size of the task may be judged from the fact that 30,000 to 50,000 telegrams passed through the hands of the censors in the United Kingdom every twenty-four hours.

The older, which is very substantial, was finished in 1634, having taken twenty-four years in building.

At the Cambridge tripos (as described by Jebb in 1774, Remarks, &c., pp. 20-31) the first twenty-four candidates were also selected by a preliminary test; they were then divided further into " wranglers" (the disputants, par excellence) and Senior Optimes, the next twelve on the list being called the Junior Optimes.

At the French agregation candidates are given twenty-four hours for the preparation of a lecture of this kind.

According to this, the days at the summer solstice were twenty-four hours in length, and conversely at the winter solstice the nights were of equal duration.

At the eastern end of the town, close to the river, there is a picturesque triangular castle with twenty-four square towers, built by George Brankovich in 1430 on the model of the Constantinople walls.

A natural day includes all the twenty-four hours from midnight to midnight.

In cases where action must be taken for preserving or asserting a right, a day would mean the natural day of twenty-four hours, but on the other hand, as in cases of survivorship, for testamentary or other purposes, it would suffice if a person survived for even the smallest portion of the last day necessary.

Lay days, which are days given to the charterer in a charter party either to load or unload without paying for the use of the ship, are days of the week, not periods of twenty-four hours.

Madison and Monroe, his immediate successors - neighbours and devoted friends, whom he had advised in their early education and led in their maturer years - consulted him on all great questions, and there was no break of principles in the twenty-four years of the "Jeffersonian system."

It is limited to about a thousand members, who are chosen by open competition in England between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-four.

During twenty-four centuries Buddhism has encountered and outlived a series of powerful rivals.

At the same time the nawab made a grant to the company of the zamindari rights over an extensive tract of country round Calcutta, now known as the district of the Twenty-four Parganas.

This was quelled by Major (afterwards Sir Hector) Munro, who ordered twenty-four of the ringleaders to be blown from guns, an old Mogul punishment.

The Bourbonists, although they bombarded the city from the citadel and the warships in the harbour, gradually lost ground, and after three days' street fighting their commander, General Lanza, not knowing that the Garibaldians had scarcely a cartridge left, asked for and obtained a twenty-four hours' armistice (May 30th).

He was protected by the valiant Stephen Bathory, and the first act of the pious Sigismund III., on ascending the Polish throne, was to make Skarga his court preacher, an office he held for twenty-four years (1588-1611).

Twenty-four hours of victuals and twenty-four hours of hunger will be many more hours than we shall need.

The twenty-four years of Moqtadir's reign are a period of rapid decay.

No man is permitted to marry until twenty-four years of age, and no woman until twenty.

He created no new types of commune, however, except Peronne, which received a maximum of political independence, the twenty-four electors, who named the jures and other officers, being elected by the corps de metiers.

It is the largest of the Thuringian states, and consists of the three chief detached districts of Weimar, Eisenach and Neustadt, and twenty-four scattered exclaves, of which Allstedt, Oldisleben and Ilmenau belonging to Weimar, and Ostheim belonging to Eisenach, are the chief.

Other prud'hommes were occasionally called in, and from 1296 prevot and echevins appointed twenty-four councillors to form with themselves a.

The alphabet devised by the Egyptians consisted of twenty-four letters.

The patient may die comatose within twenty-four hours, but more commonly death occurs on the second or third day.

Later observations have, however, established that the Yersin-Roux serum is of undoubted benefit when used early in the case, in fact during the first twenty-four hours.

Revisiting Jerusalem and Cairo he made the haj a fourth time, and finally reappeared at Fez (visiting Sardinia en route) on the 8th of November 1349, after twenty-four years' absence.

The original intention was to push the experiments to a pressure equivalent to thirty atmospheres, but owing to the signs of failure exhibited by the boiler the limit actually reached was twenty-four atmospheres, at which pressure the thermometers indicated a temperature of about 224 0 C. In his last paper, published posthumously in 1838, Dulong gave an account of experiments made to determine the heat disengaged in the combination of various simple and compound bodies, together with a description of the calorimeter he employed.

It is under the control of a board of twenty-four trustees, vacancies in which are filled by the remaining members.

About the eighth hour after commencement of development the membrane ruptures and the oval embryo escapes, swimming by means of its flagella at the surface of the sea for another twenty-four hours, during which the principal organs are laid down, although the mouth does not open until the close of this period.

The grapes are first trodden for a period varying from twenty-four hours upwards, and are then allowed to ferment in the lagar itself.

Night is that part of the natural day of twenty-four hours during which the sun is below the horizon, the dark part of the day from sunset to sunrise.

Twenty-four minarets rise from the various mosques.

Claussen's process consisted in steeping flax fibre or tow for twenty-four hours in a weak solution of caustic soda, next boiling it for about two hours in a similar solution, and then saturating it in a solution containing 5% of carbonate of soda, after which it was immersed in a vat containing water acidulated with z% of sulphuric acid.

Double sets of plates are placed on the main machine, which is capable of taking twenty-four pages, but by using narrower rolls the number of pages may be reduced to either sixteen or twenty if a smaller paper is desired.

On the motion, however, of Ippolito d'Este, the papal legate, exception was taken to the further conduct of the negotiations in full conclave; and a committee of twenty-four representatives, twelve from each party, was appointed - ostensibly to facilitate a satisfactory decision.

The streaks are now handed over to the cutters who cut off the roots, and finally the material is allowed to remain for twelve to twenty-four hours to allow the mixture of oil and water to thoroughly spread over the fibre.

Greely, Schley was appointed to command the third Greely relief expedition; and near Cape Sabine on the 22nd of June rescued Greely and six (of his twenty-four) companions.

Its centre was led by Sheikh Au Khan, covered by twenty-four field-pieces.

The phonetic system in Old Persian is much simpler than in nd; we reckon twenty-four letters in all.

His academic career was so rapidly successful that at the age of twenty-four he was already doctor and professor of theology.

During these twenty-four years he exercised considerable influence on public opinion and even on the Government, by representing with great ability the moderately Conservative spirit of Moscow in opposition to the occasionally ultra-Liberal and always cosmopolitan spirit of St Petersburg.

In the remaining twenty-four years of his life he at once corrected and enlarged the basis which he had laid in the De emendatione.

He also greatly facilitated the study of liquid films by showing how to form a liquid, the films of which will last for twelve or even for twenty-four hours.

One bacterium might thus produce in twenty-four hours a number of segments amounting to many millions of millions.

The legislature meets biennially; its members, who must be citizens of the United States and electors of the state for one year preceding their election, are chosen biennially; the number of senators may never exceed twenty-four, that of representatives sixty; each county is entitled to at least one representative.

The diet resolved to entrust the election to twenty-four of their members, chosen in equal number from the three estates.

With regard to his birth, parentage, youth, and education everything depends upon this tradition, and it is not until he was according to one extreme hypothesis thirty-six, according to the other extreme twenty-four, that we have solid testimony respecting him.

The king had twelve lictors; each of the consuls (immediately after their institution) twelve, subsequently limited to the monthly officiating consul, although Caesar appears to have restored the original arrangement; the dictator, as representing both consuls, twenty-four; the emperors twelve, until the time of Domitian, who had twenty-four.

After twenty-four hours about one-half of the silver has separated out in crystals; from the mother-liquor the rest comes down promptly on application pf a water-bath heat.

Later each of these twelve sold onehalf of his share to another associate, thus making twenty-four proprietors; and on the 14th of March the duke of York confirmed the sale, and gave them all the powers necessary for governing the province.

The government of the twenty-four proprietors, however, was liberal.

A mayor and twenty-four brethren who formed the council of the borough are mentioned in 1440, but the earliest charter of incorporation is that of Charles I.

After twenty-four years' labour in the diocese of Oxford, he was translated by Gladstone to the bishopric of Winchester.

By a law passed in 1899, the proprietors are bound to arrange for the safe outlet of the water from the mountains, keep the existing canals open, and reclaim the district exposed to inundation, within a period of twenty-four years.

The province of Bengal, therefore, now consists of the thirty-three British districts of Burdwan, Birbhum, Bankura, Midnapore, Hugh, Howrah, Twenty-four Parganas, Calcutta, Nadia, Murshidabad, Jessore, Khulna, Patna, Gaya, Shahabad, Saran, Champaran, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Monghyr, Bhagalpur, Purnea, Santal Parganas, Cuttack, Balasore, Angul and Khondmals, Puri, Hazaribagh, Ranchi, Palamau, Manbhum, Singhbum and Sambalpur, and the native states of Sikkim and the tributary states of Orissa and Chota Nagpur.

Within the 19th century, however, cast iron became general in the case of large towns; but following the precedent inseparable from the use of weaker conduits, the water was still delivered under very low pressure, rarely more than sufficient to supply taps or tanks near the level of the ground, and generally for only a short period out of each twenty-four hours.

Should the patient survive the first twenty-four hours death generally results later from stricture of the oesophagus or intestine, from destruction of the glands of the stomach or from exhaustion.

In 1812 he was appointed surgeon to the Middlesex hospital, a post he retained for twenty-four years.

It occupies twenty-four octavo pages, and consists of four theorems and seven problems, some of which are identical with some of the most important propositions of the second and third sections of the first book of the Principia.

Beyond twenty it is usually, but not always, observed; we sometimes instead of twenty-four say four and twenty.

The Carlist lieutenantcolonel was glad to be re-admitted into the Prussian service as a second lieutenant, but he was still young, and few subalterns could at the age of twenty-four claim five years' meritorious war service.

Very little reliance can be placed upon the details reported in the Jain books concerning the previous Jinas in the list of the twenty-four Tirthankaras.

He reigned, but did not rule, for twenty-four years, though he was well on in middle age before he was crowned.

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They provided that he was to do nothing without the consent of a permanent council of fifteen barons and bishops, and that all his finances were to be controlled by another committee of twenty-four persons.

The arrangement was too cumbersome, for there was nothing which would be called a central execntive; the three bodies (two of twenty-four members each, the third of fifteen) were interdependent, and none of them possessed efficient control over the others.

This submission having been made, Edward acted with honesty and fairness, handing over the adjudication to a body of eighty Scottish and twenty-four English barons, knights and bishops.

Another institution treated with considerable fulness in the treatise Taanith is that of the -nyn 'th (y iri stationis), who are represented as having been laymen severally representing the twenty-four classes or families into which the whole commonwealth of the laity was divided.

After standing for twenty-four hours, hydroxylamine potassium disulphonate crystallizes out.

The climate is characterized by great extremes and a wide range of temperature, not only between summer and winter, but sometimes also in the course of twenty-four hours.

He is officially styled the prefect of Stamboul, and is assisted by a council of twenty-four members, appointed by the sultan or the minister of the interior.

There he was tried by courtmartial, and on the 10th of February was shot, twenty-four hours after his condemnation.

A charter of Queen Mary in 1556 added some new privileges, and specified that the common council should consist of a mayor, two aldermen and twenty-four chief burgesses.

The latter were twenty-four in number, two from each tribe.

It is then allowed to stand twenty-four hours, filtered, washed with dilute ammonia, dried, ignited to constant weight and weighed, the filter paper being incinerated separately after moistening with nitric acid.

To the departments that were hostile to the dictatorship of Paris, and the tyranny of Danton or Robespierre, it promised the referendum, an executive of twenty-four citizens, universal suffrage, and the free exercise of religion.

This can hardly cause wonder if it is borne in mind that for many weeks during the height of the season a prolific queen will deposit eggs at the rate of from two to three thousand every twenty-four hours.

On his death it became the residence of his wife, Elizabeth of Hungary, who built a hospital there, and died in 1231, at the age of twenty-four, worn out with works of religion and charity.

The order thus imposed lasted twenty-four years, until a military revolution placed a soldier of fortune, half Armenian, half Persian, named Leo, on the throne; he, like his soldiers, was persuaded that the ill-success of the Roman arms against Bulgarians and other invaders was due to the idolatry rampant at court and elsewhere.

On the 10th of February 1619 he was arraigned before a special court of twenty-four members, only half of whom were Hollanders, and nearly all of them his personal enemies.

From Khartum he proceeded up the White Nile to Gondokoro, where he arrived in twenty-four days, the sudd, which had proved such an obstacle to Baker, having been removed since the departure of the latter by the Egyptian governor-general.

In all thirteen men, eighteen women, and twenty-four children had been butchered.

As early as 1894, when he was twenty-four, Lenin had become a revolutionary agitator and a convinced Marxist.

Elstow Storage Dept, in the outskirts of Bedford, had a massive blaze which took more than twenty-four hours to contain.

That's twenty-four (24) X 500 mg capsules a day.

Just twenty-four hours after becoming a claret he scored on his debut although we were beaten 3-1.

During the following twenty-four hours a massive counterforce was assembled and officers from General Headquarters personally supervised the annihilation of the disturbances.

David Wood, the acclaimed children's dramatist, draws upon the most entertaining and instructive of the twenty-four books for this popular adaptation.

All of them refer to the twenty-four elders who appear to be unique representatives of the redeemed people of God from all ages.

In September 1703 the inhabitants of Wolverhampton purchased a fire engine and twenty-four buckets for the water.

We had also hit hard twenty four military garrison.

Appointments canceled with less than twenty-four hours notice will normally be charged the full fee.

The babies start eating within twenty four hours of birth and are totally independent of their mother at three weeks of age.

It is believed that of the ceol mor or piobaireachd that Iain Dall wrote, twenty-four works survive.

Despite developing phenylketonuria during his childhood years his mother Mary encouraged him to paint at the age of twenty-four.

Nyborg Ditto, completely rigged, her guns of twenty-four pounders.

Under Meaden and his successors the school continued to grow until it reached twenty-four boys, including four probationers.

The former serfs occupy on the average about an acre, paying a rent of from twenty to twenty-four francs.

Lawson (70), are from twenty-four years, 1857-1880; those for the United States, due to Henry (68), are for five years, 1896-1900.

The pinion z and the toothed wheel d are connected by an intermediate wheel and pinion Y; the numbers of teeth in the wheels and pinions are so proportioned that twenty-four revolutions of the micrometer screw produce one revolution of the drum and wheel d.

Its fortifications were strengthened by the tyrant Nabis, but in 195 B.C. it was invested and taken by Titus and Lucius Quintius Flamininus, and, though recovered by Nabis two or three years later, was recaptured immediately after his murder (192 B.C.) by Philopoemen and Aulus Atilius and remained in the Achaean League until its dissolution in 146 B.C. Subsequently it formed the most important of the Eleutherolaconian towns, a group of twenty-four, later eighteen, communities leagued together to maintain their autonomy against Sparta and declared free by Augustus.

To emphasize the superiority of this imperium over that of the consuls, the dictator might be preceded by twenty-four lictors, not by the usual twelve; and, at least in the earlier period of the office, these lictors bore the axes, the symbols of life and death, within the city walls.

Successively bishop of Castello, Latin patriarch of Constantinople, cardinal-priest of San Marco, and papal secretary, he was elected to succeed Innocent VII., after an interregnum of twenty-four days, under the express condition that, should the antipope Benedict XIII.

Of the twenty-four cities which originally composed the league, only eighteen remained as members by the reign of Hadrian (see Achaean League).

In a period varying from twenty-four to thirty hours there is marked evidence of the removal of the degenerated cellular elements in the damaged zone by the mono-nuclear phagocytes.

Such a slicer is capable of efficiently slicing 300,000 kilos of roots in twenty-four hours, the knives being changed four times in that period, or oftener if required, for it is necessary to change them the moment the slices show by their rough appearance that the knives are losing their cutting edges.

With the fixed retorts these valves are worked from time to time by the attendant, but with revolving retorts they are worked continuously and automatically and allow from sixteen to twenty-four ounces of char to escape per minute from each cooler, and so make room in the retort above for a corresponding quantity to enter from the drying floor.

The smallest number of teeth in a pinion for epicycloidal teeth ought to be twelve (see 49)but it is better, for smoothness of motion, not to go below fifteen; and for involute teeth the smallest number is about twenty-four.

The most surprising part of the Great Charter to modern eyes is its sixty-first paragraph, that which openly statesdoubts as to the kings intention to abide by his promise, and appoints a committee of twenty-five guardians of the charter (twenty-four barons and the mayor of London), who are to coerce their master, by force of arms if necessary, to observe every one of its clauses.

George Armstrong Custer, of "Custer's Last Stand" fame, became a major general at twenty-four.

The twenty-four sharpshooters with discharged muskets, standing in the center of the circle, ran back to their places as the companies passed by.

Expecting the enemy from behind and not in front, the French separated in their flight and spread out over a distance of twenty-four hours.

After that service, she fed twenty-four persons; and then, and not till then, she retired to a scanty ascetic meal.

And the twenty-four Abba songs are shoehorned into the plot in the most embarrassing way possible.

Winter and summertime temperatures are experienced in a single twenty four hour period.

Major Carr, Captains Saurin and Smith, Lieutenant Wallis, two Quartermasters and twenty-eight troopers wounded as well as twenty-four horses.

The upshot of the matter was (and this is what I like to emphasize) that after some twenty-four months of balking.

Fortunately, with quality neonatal care, babies who are twenty-four weeks have an excellent chance of survival.

Amazingly, often is the case that baby will naturally fall into a pattern of hunger that for many parents falls around the same times over a twenty-four hour clock.

Twenty-four karat gold is purer than 18 karat gold and also more expensive.

Twenty-four karat gold is purer than 18 karat gold and more expensive.

Cats are independent thinkers, and, unlike dogs, may not choose to love you twenty-four hours a day.

Most cat bite infection symptoms occur in the first twenty-four hours.

The Discover Card account center is an online feature that provides you with access to important information about your Discover card twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.

With settlements in twenty-four states, variations in Amish furniture styles and designs exist from area to area and craftsman to craftsman.

Take a good estimate of the time needed and then add at least twenty-four hours to the total.

In 1892, Susy, at age twenty-four, died from spinal meningitis in the family Nook farm home.

Sized anywhere from seven to twenty-four quarts, they are used to create large batches of soup stock, or mass quantities of pasta.

There are only twenty-four hours in a day and nothing you do is going to change that.

However, you can change the way you manage your time during those twenty-four hours.

Whether you come up with twenty-four inches, or thirty-six inches, knowing this key number will ensure that the bodice of your dress fits correctly.

To have a New York wedding we had to go to the City Clerk's office downtown and get a marriage license and then wait twenty-four hours before having a ceremony.

Grand Lido Negril Jamaica Super Clubs-This all-inclusive resort boasts three award-winning Epicurean restaurants, twenty-four hour room service, and features a honeymoon yacht that was once owned by Princess Grace.

Some stores also offer layaway plans, so if you are worried about losing those deals before your bridesmaids have tried on the dresses, place them on layaway or ask a department manager if she'll hold them for twenty-four hours.

Room service is also available twenty-four hours a day, and while the standard menu is quite limited, during dining hours it is possible to arrange for a cabin steward to deliver restaurant items to your cabin.

Private, in-cabin babysitting can also be arranged for a slightly higher fee, but must be reserved at least twenty-four hours in advance.

Now, put the molds in the refrigerator for twenty-four hours.

After twenty-four hours, your lolly pops will easily "pop" right out of the molds.

He no longer needs his wrap, but poor Little Man is still young and has to wear his wrap almost twenty-four hours a day unless we are outside or walking.

Pinks remain fairly small, growing only about twenty-four inches tall at most.

If you can count to twenty two or twenty four (depending on how many frets your guitar has) you can read tablature.

If you can count to twenty-four (the maximum number of frets on a standard electric guitar) you can read tablature.

The frets on the guitar are numbered one through twenty-four, and the strings are presented visually as six horizontal lines.

After all, if the twenty-four carat canary diamond engagement ring Paris Hilton received from Paris Latsis is any indication, the popularity of yellow diamonds is on the rise.

A single karat is one part in twenty-four, by weight.

A karat measurement always assumes a total of twenty-four parts.

Gold rated 24 karat (24k) contains twenty-four parts of pure gold.

Care is available seven days a week all year round from four to twenty-four hours per day.

The organization manages four senior residences in the United Kingdom, five in Canada and twenty-four throughout the United States.

Loading screens will be the bane of your existence, as each one takes a whole twenty-four seconds to finish the job.

By using a circular chart and dividing the main circle into six circles of concentric size, as well as twenty-four pie segments, the scholars were able to chart the sun's movements and determine how many days were in the average year.

As of November 2009, twenty-four weeks of work during the current year are required to be eligible for government aid.

Due to the risk of infection, many care providers will start pitocin to ensure your baby will be born within twenty-four hours.

The High Boy is more like a standard lawn chair, sitting about eighteen to twenty-four inches off the ground.

These shorts are serviceable for girls form twenty four months to two years.

Women's swimsuits range from sizes five to twenty-four.

Wholesale beach towels are typically sold twelve to twenty-four to a case.

First, try allowing the razor's internal battery to drain completely and then place it on the charger for a full twenty-four hours.

On the other hand, a pound of premium ground coffee can provide 42 six-ounce cups at about twenty-four cents per cup.

The beeswax candle kits are available in a choice of bright or pastel colors and contain everything needed to create twenty-four tapered candles or twelve candles with straight sides.

The friend space display has room for up to twenty-four friends' names and pictures.

The basic Myspace template now allows up to twenty-four people, but if you want more you can find generators that let you display up to forty.

There are twenty-four questions to answer in all.

In other words, if your idea of partnering with someone is to be together twenty-four hours a day, holding hands and sitting on the porch, it may be best to look elsewhere.

Once you begin watching the movie you have twenty-four hours until it is automatically purged from your Apple TV's hard drive.

You can watch the movie as often as you like within that twenty-four hour period.

As the 2009 Halloween season approached, the owners of Black Island Farms found inspiration in the popularity of Twilight and decided to create an impressive twenty-four acre corn maze featuring two main actors from the movie.

We are the largest in Utah at twenty four acres.

New episodes are typically posted within twenty-four hours of the episode airing.

Currently, visitors staying twenty-four hours or less may bring back purchases totaling $50 Canadian.

Additional amenities include onsite dry cleaning services, twenty-four hour security, an on-call doctor, and parking.

Twenty-four hour security ensures guests' safety.

You may send you inquiry via email or leave a message at their online help center, but it may take over twenty-four hours to get a response.

This means that when the clocks go back in the fall, the time changes from two in the morning to one in the morning, thus giving the day twenty-five hours instead of the normal twenty-four hours.

When testing this website for vehicle valuations, the email used received five emails in one twenty-four hour period from both GMAC and the Canadian Black Book.

Once you've learned about twenty four counts of the cheerleading dance, try dancing just that much to the music.

The final key to success, support, is critical for individuals to be able to maintain their healthy habits, and support from certified dietitians is available online twenty-four hours a day.

The process can take twenty-four hours or longer.

The phone lines for emergency legal protection and household emergencies are open twenty-four hours a day.

With two EPs, two live albums, nine studio records, forty-five singles, and even twenty-four music videos, Metallica is one of biggest influences on heavy metal and rock music alongside bands like Slayer and Anthrax.

Support staff can be reached seven days a week, twenty four hours a day by telephone at 1-800-368-4088.

She had nearly run him down, slapped his face and taken him away from his work in less than twenty-four hours.

We still have more tests we could run but up to twenty four to forty eight hours; I'm pretty close on both time and location.

I played dumb but I figured my phone lines were tapped and big brother had his eye on me twenty-four, seven.

The camping facilities were secondary to the main park functions, multiple ball fields, tennis courts and twenty-four horse shoe pits, for the serious pitcher.

I dropped my women off at the terminal entrance of Logan Airport, amid kisses and a promise to see them in twenty-four hours.

She turned twenty-four two months ago and started having all these issues, like she's a vamp.

He knew nothing beyond the past twenty-four hours.

She'd been terrified that day, unaware she'd be mated to him twenty four hours later.