"88" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and pains in our bones. This morning I served about two teaspoonfuls of rum to each person and the allowance of bread and water as usual. At noon the sun broke out and revived everyone. I found we were in latitude 14 degrees 49 minutes south; longitude made 25 degrees 46 minutes west; course south 88 ...
— A Voyage to the South Sea • William Bligh
... their application, neither have any of their other very definite and ample list of terms for relatives, except the terms macu [cf. magu, "parturition"] and macipa [cf. cipa, "female"], son and daughter." This statement is, however, too sweeping perhaps (166. 88). ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... alive by the constant infusion of new blood, accruing to it from the entrance of magistrates who had been chosen by the people. Tacitus tells us that it was with this object that Sulla had increased the number of Quaestors.[88] Cicero's hopes—his futile hopes of what an honest Senate might be made to do—still ran high, although at the very time in which he was elected Quaestor he was aware that the judges, then elected from the Senate, were so corrupt that their judgment could not be trusted. Of this popular mode of ...
— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope
... carry out what they, in their simplicity, judged to be the instruction given by the people at the polls. The "great secretary" alone of the "smart" men of the land, understood the people in the '88 election better; he, it seems, well understood that "protection" carried to prohibition was the yawning grave of any party responsible for it without providing some loop-hole of escape in the burial ceremony, ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 • Various
... girl did? She cached the gold, saving out thirty pounds, which she carried back to the coast. Then she signaled a passing canoe, made her way to Pat Healy's trading post at Dyea, outfitted, and went over Chilcoot Pass. That was in '88—eight years before the Klondike strike, and the Yukon was a howling wilderness. She was afraid of the bucks, but she took two young squaws with her, crossed the lakes, and went down the river and to all the early camps on the Lower Yukon. She wandered several years over that country ...
— The Night-Born • Jack London
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