What is "fifty-seven"

Usage examples of "fifty-seven".

A violent contest ensued, in the course of which the house divided, and of fifty-seven peers who voted for the delay, forty-six were such as enjoyed preferment in the church, commissions in the army, or civil employments under the government.

Tied from his belt to the crossarm, it held him suspended fifty-seven feet above the ground, in a perfect position to watch his mission end in catastrophe.

When Eunice Parchman was engaged as their housekeeper George was fifty-seven and Jacqueline forty-two.

So did David, when he told her, as gently as he knew how, the all-volunteer Kinderhook County Humane Society had neither the means, facilities nor staff to care for fifty-seven bitches, stud males and puppies.

Of the one hundred Tigers assigned to the southern front of the Kursk bulge, fifty-seven served in the three SS divisions and the Grossdeutschland division of 48th Panzer Corps.

Gadgets shoved a wad of brilliant-colored Sri Lankan bank notes into a plastic shopping bag heavy with fifty-seven cassette tapes.

That was what your other grandfather said to me, Hare-Lip, when he greeted me there on the shore of Lake Temescal fifty-seven years ago.

There are fifty-seven apple-evaporating furnaces, to say nothing of the apple canneries and cider and vinegar factories.

Wheeling, West Virginia, speech, in which he said he had in his hand the names of fifty-seven card-carrying Communists in the State Department.

Similarly, in The Manchurian Candidate, one of scores of Hollywood movies popularizing lies about McCarthy, the McCarthy figure chooses fifty-seven as the number of Communists in the government after seeing it on a bottle of Heinz ketchup.

Public taste had changed, and the majority now went for psychedelic space fantasy, the incredibly violent Supersoldier series, and, of course, the fifty-seven hundred varieties of sex scenario that were in the catalog in a section all to themselves.

Kemal, champion of Westernization and the secular Turkish state, would remain true to those principles to the end, dying at fifty-seven of cirrhosis of the liver.

You are charged with killing fifty-seven sentient entities on the planet Atria XVI.

If you cannot prove, absolutely and beyond question, that Man Krantz did not cause the deaths of fifty-seven Atrians, then you are wasting the court's time.

According to Atrian law he must plead guilty, for he was indeed the agent whereby fifty-seven of your citizens died.