sixty-five


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Adj. 1. [画像:sixty-five - being five more than sixty]sixty-five - being five more than sixty
cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"
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Whether sixty-five members for a few years, and a hundred or two hundred for a few more, be a safe depositary for a limited and well-guarded power of legislating for the United States?
It was bitter cold, at least sixty-five below zero, and when Kama harnessed the dogs with naked hands he was compelled several times to go over to the fire and warm the numbing finger-tips.
And isn't the money I had gone--a dollar sixty-five it was?"
I was twenty-two years old, weighed one hundred and sixty-five pounds stripped, every pound of which was excellent for toil; and the last traces of my scurvy were vanishing before a treatment of potatoes chewed raw.
A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
"Of course, sixty-five per cent of the gate receipts, same as with Carthey.
'And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five, what remains?'
But then, at a distance which for three hours in the morning did not exceed sixty-five miles, and in a medium free from all atmospheric disturbances, these instruments could reduce the lunar surface to within less than
He pushed his country forward until, having one hundred and sixty-five thousand telephones, it stood fourth among the European nations.
Because, an interval of three hundred and sixty-five days and nights was before him; an interval which, instead of impatiently enduring ashore, he would spend in a miscellaneous hunt; if by chance the White Whale, spending his vacation in seas far remote from his periodical feeding-grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race.
The two branches of the legislature are, in the first instance, to consist of only sixty-five persons, which is the same number of which Congress, under the existing Confederation, may be composed.
This engine-room, clearly lighted, did not measure less than sixty-five feet in length.

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