The hyæna was employed as a medicinal agent in seventy-nine diseases; and the crocodile, chameleon, lion, elephant, camel, and the hippopotamus all contributed certain curative agents.

[484] According to Sergi fifty-one out of the ninety-one show this feature[Pg 156] and these are distributed pretty generally among all indices from sixty-five to seventy-nine.

The cephalic index seems to have ranged from sixty-five to seventy-nine, though more usually from seventy-one to seventy-eight, while the more typical members of the group varied from seventy-three to seventy-six.

" Macaulay, on the morning after a vital division, in which the Whigs had saved their places by seventy-nine votes, wrote triumphantly to his sister- "So hang the dirty Tories, and let them starve and pine, And hurrah!

for the majority of glorious seventy-nine.

Seventy-nine percent of the nodes were benign and 21% of the nodes were malignant.

general stated that his losses were much below this number, they must have been very heavy, from the very nature of the ground and climatic conditions, and much heavier, indeed, than those of the Turks which officially were stated to have been only seventy-nine killed, 168 wounded and nine missing.

In other words, while Phileas Fogg, going eastward, saw the sun pass the meridian eighty times, his friends in London only saw it pass the meridian seventy-nine times.

Seventy-nine of the hundred guineas were his, Wildeve possessing only twenty-one.

Those were her personal charms, for her face was regular and agreeable rather than beautiful and those charms she retained with little diminution to her death at the age of seventy-nine. (111) Her mental qualifications were by no means shining; her eyes and countenance showed her character, which was grave and mild.

Norimberghæ, 1544, in 4to., 20 leaves.) The last of these narratives is the earliest in date, since it was composed in the Isle of Chios, the 16th of August, 1453, only seventy-nine days after the loss of the city, and in the first confusion of ideas and passions.

With the addition of some separate and nameless columns, such were the remains of the ancient city; for the marks of a more recent structure might be detected in the walls, which formed a circumference of ten miles, included three hundred and seventy-nine turrets, and opened into the country by thirteen gates. [Footnote 5: See Poggius, p. 8--22.] [Footnote 501: One was in the Via Nomentana; est alter præterea Gallieno principi dicatus, ut superscriptio indicat, _Viâ Nomentana_.

The House divided: when there were seventy-nine for the motion, and against it, twenty.

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