"Fifty" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mystery of coming light. The ancient city's domed and pointed roofs already glistened with pale gold, and a pearly mist wreathed the crowded quarter of the merchants. Beyond that the river, not more than fifty yards wide, flowed like molten sapphire between unseen banks. As the pale stars died, thin rays of liquid silver touched the surface of a lake to westward, seen through a rift between purple hills. The green of irrigation ...
— Guns of the Gods • Talbot Mundy
... First, then, of the money borrowed for his trip—the original two hundred dollars—he had twenty-five dollars left over. Besides this sum, after paying all expenses, he had accumulated, by hard work and strict economy, fifty dollars' worth ...
— The Young Miner - or Tom Nelson in California • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... and good luck to my neck," said L'Isle, with a laugh. "It is about fifty miles; but one need not go the whole way in ...
— The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters • Sue Petigru Bowen
... tendency of its money market was to London; and indeed, for purposes of trade, the principal circulation of the important districts of Lancashire and others, seems to have been bills of exchange payable in London, with from twenty to fifty endorsements on each. With us such a system was unknown. Scotland, then as now, and we devoutly trust for ever, had her own internal circulation, and neither took nor gave, except when statutorily compelled, beyond the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 • Various
... Atchison. Atchison! No traveller by sea ever longed to set his foot on shore as we longed to reach the end of our dreary coach-ride over the wildest part of the whole continent. How we talked Atchison, and dreamed Atchison, for the next fifty hours! Atchison, I shall always love you. You were evidently mistaken, Atchison, when you told me that in case I "lectured" there, immense crowds would throng to the hall; but you are very dear to me. Let me kiss you for ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 4 • Charles Farrar Browne
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