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"Twenty-four" Quotes from Famous Books

... that, if I state to him the designs of his enemies in a manner which may appear to him ludicrous and impossible, I tell him nothing that has not exactly happened, point by point, but twenty-four miles from our own shore. I assure him that the Frenchified faction, more encouraged than others are warned by what has happened in France, look at him and his landed possessions as an object at once of curiosity and ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... frantically to the idea of a separate and independent existence, rose twice again in revolt; once just after the battle of Cannae, when they threw themselves into the arms of Hannibal, and then against Sylla, one hundred and twenty-four years later—facts that prove the tenacity of their resistance. On both occasions Pompeii was retaken, and the second time partly dismantled and occupied by a detachment of soldiers, who did not long remain there. And thus we have the whole history of this little city. The Romans were fond ...

— The Wonders of Pompeii • Marc Monnier

... arm, and solemnly they went. The room, which had been designed to enable twenty-four people to dine in comfort, held now but a little round table. In his present solitude the big dining-table oppressed old Jolyon; he had caused it to be removed till his son came back. Here in the company of two really good copies ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... that way. It was altogether likely, too, so he calculated, that the Mexican army was now nearer than he to San Antonio. His flight had taken him to the west while Santa Anna was moving straight toward the Texan outworks. But he believed that by steady riding he could reach San Antonio within twenty-four hours. ...

— The Texan Scouts - A Story of the Alamo and Goliad • Joseph A. Altsheler

... were only twenty-four Patriarchs. These are said to have been foretold by the Buddha and twenty-four is a usual number in such series.[803] The twenty-fourth Patriarch Simha Bhikshu or Simhalaputra went to Kashmir and suffered martyrdom there at the ...

— Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Charles Eliot

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