"Thirty-five!-- thirty-six!-- thirty-seven!--
thirty-eight!-- thirty-nine!-- forty!
The room above it, in which the Baron had slept, took its place on the hotel-register as Number
Thirty-Eight. With the ornaments on the walls and ceilings cleaned and brightened up, and with the heavy old-fashioned beds, chairs, and tables replaced by bright, pretty, and luxurious modern furniture, these two promised to be at once the most attractive and the most comfortable bedchambers in the hotel.
The distance between Suez and Aden is precisely thirteen hundred and ten miles, and the regulations of the company allow the steamers one hundred and
thirty-eight hours in which to traverse it.
But most astonishing was the quantity of ammunition-cartridges for Lee-Metfords, for Winchesters and Marlins, for revolvers from thirty-two calibre to forty-five, shot- gun cartridges, Joan's two boxes of
thirty-eight, cartridges of prodigious bore for the ancient Sniders of Malaita, flasks of black powder, sticks of dynamite, yards of fuse, and boxes of detonators.
The Lion's Head was
thirty-eight hundred and thirty-five feet.
Fifteen hundred prisoners and
thirty-eight guns were taken on the spot, besides standards and
The aeronauts swept on with the speed of twelve miles per hour, and soon were passing in
thirty-eight degrees twenty minutes east longitude, over the village of Tounda.
"This ain't no thirty-seven year job; this is a
thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer."
A few steps off, a monstrous sea-spider, about
thirty-eight inches high, was watching me with squinting eyes, ready to spring upon me.
There was McMann, who ran up a single bar-room bill of
thirty-eight thousand dollars; and Jimmie the Rough, who spent one hundred thousand a month for four months in riotous living, and then fell down drunk in the snow one March night and was frozen to death; and Swiftwater Bill, who, after spending three valuable claims in an extravagance of debauchery, borrowed three thousand dollars with which to leave the country, and who, out of this sum, because the lady-love that had jilted him liked eggs, cornered the one hundred and ten dozen eggs on the Dawson market, paying twenty-four dollars a dozen for them and promptly feeding them to the wolf-dogs.
Later he sat there and ran the first presidential telephone campaign; talked to his managers in
thirty-eight States.
He left Sweden when he was eighteen, is now
thirty-eight, and in all the intervening time has not been home once.
thirty-eight - being eight more than thirty