#eighteen

Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#bring #came #captain #clarke #clock

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America. ↗

— David McCullough

#also #america #army #book #century

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#crumbling #did #eighteen #fix #generation

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#body #eighteen #fridge #i #keep

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#century #eighteenth #eighteenth century #end #revolution

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. ↗

— Black Elk

#anything #came #dance #during #eighteenth

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965. ↗

— Wanda Jackson

#german #had #i #language #number

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#eighteen #hours #i #more #politics

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#eighteenth #eighteenth century #loathed #melancholy #whole

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#ago #america #ancestors #came #dissenters