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In the northeast there emerged two volcanic islands of unequal size, surrounded by a coral reef whose circuit measured forty miles.
After clearing the outer belt of rocks via a narrow passageway, the Nautilus lay inside the breakers where the sea had a depth of thirty to forty fathoms.
This tree is distinguished from other trees by a straight trunk forty feet high.
On a bed there lay a man some forty years old, with strongly molded features, the very image of an Anglo-Saxon.
You won't pull it off, because if I'm not mistaken, certain navigators have cruised through milk seas for more than forty miles."
I'm not sure that Conseil heeded my recommendation, because he seemed to be deep in thought, no doubt trying to calculate how many one-fifths of a millimeter are found in forty square miles.
If it kept up this pace, forty hours would do it for reaching the pole.
The Nautilus was traveling at the frightful speed of forty miles per hour.
The hurricane was unleashed at a speed of forty-five meters per second, hence almost forty leagues per hour.
She was a woman of about forty, with fine shoulders, a hook nose, a drawling voice, and on this evening she wore over her brown hair a simple guipure fichu that fell in a point at the back.
A few men (some fifteen or so), of twenty-five to forty, scattered here and there among the dancers or talking at the doorways, distinguished themselves from the crowd by a certain air of breeding, whatever their differences in age, dress, or face.
Madame Bovary senior, the evening before, passing along the passage, had surprised her in company of a man—a man with a brown collar, about forty years old, who, at the sound of her step, had quickly escaped through the kitchen.
It weighed forty thousand pounds.
It is four hundred and forty feet high, nine less than the great pyramid of Egypt.
And thus he went along, full of that debonair majesty that is given by the consciousness of great talent, of fortune, and of forty years of a labourious and irreproachable life.
On his death, he had bequeathed to him his Cross of the Legion of Honour, the arrears of his pension, and thirty or forty volumes, the most precious of which had just taken a plunge into the public lade, diverted by the Mayor's influence.
Today we see priests at forty drawing stipends of a hundred thousand francs, that is to say three times as much as the famous divisional commanders under Napoleon.
He made an effort to master his timidity; he ventured to enter, and found himself in a hall thirty or forty feet long, the ceiling of which rose to a height of at least twenty feet.
The Hercules of modern times is Sixtus V, who for fifteen years on end, by his modesty, deceived forty Cardinals, who had seen him proud and vigorous in his youth.
But, in order to reach the centre of the baldachino, over the tabernacle, one had to step across an old wooden cornice, possibly worm-eaten, and forty feet from the ground.
Had Julien chosen to give his mind to the material interests of the Cathedral, his imagination flying beyond its goal would have thought of saving forty francs for the Chapter, and would have let slip the opportunity of avoiding an outlay of twenty-five centimes.
These are all my politics: I enjoy music, and painting; a good book is an event in my life; I shall soon be four and forty.
I was, four years ago, forty years old, and had five hundred thousand francs, I am four years older now, and have probably fifty thousand less, which I shall lose by the sale of my place, Monfleury, by the Rhone, a superb position.
'And all that has been your Bonaparte's doing,' Saint-Giraud continued: 'An honest man, harmless if ever there was one, forty years old and with five hundred thousand francs, can't settle down in the country and find peace there.
'Your Emperor, may the devil fly away with him,' went on the man of four and forty, 'was great only upon his battlefields, and when he restored our financial balance in 1801.
Please be so good as to obtain leave for me to go and dine for forty sous in some obscure inn.'
'Nowadays, it is true, with the said black coat, at the age of forty, a man has emoluments of one hundred thousand francs and the Blue Riband, like the Bishop of Beauvais.
After several phrases of morality and indulgent philosophy, the man with the waistcoats said:'Noble England, guided by a great man, the immortal Pitt, spent forty thousand million francs in destroying the Revolution.
'Noble England,' the speaker went on, 'is crushed today, for every Englishman, before paying for his daily bread, is obliged to pay the interest on the forty thousand million francs which were employed against the Jacobins.
'You, Sir,' M. de La Mole said to the interrupter with a supercilious ease that was quite admirable, 'you do not handle, since the word appears to shock you, you devour forty thousand francs borne on the state budget and eighty thousand which you receive from the Civil List.
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