eighty-niner
八九不离十,八九十年代,八十九,八九十
Definitions
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- : a person who began homesteading in Oklahoma in 1889.
Examples
The Eighty-ninth Congress was potentially more fertile ground for the broad range of controversial programs on his dream agenda.
For the first year and a half of operation, they bottled only eighty cases per day, manually.
“I will feel some justice has been done,” said White, now eighty-eight.
Eighty-four people were arrested and more than 30 people were treated for injuries, with scores more hurt but not treated.
Eighty percent of these abortion clinics in Texas are going to be basically out of business because of this new law.
It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.
So, small as his force was, only one hundred and eighty, he determined to move out and attack Porter without delay.
On the evening of September 17th he sent away his advance guard of two thousand men in eighty small boats.
They led me to the largest wigwam of all; it contained fully eighty people.
The ship has anchored in the province of Ylocos, eighty leguas from here, as the weather does not permit it to come to this port.