"Seventy-five" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of press work, enlisted the help of seventy-five per cent. of the newspapers. In some cases editorial approval and assistance were given, in others space was allowed for suffrage matter. In August Mrs. Elizabeth Tabor donated the use of two rooms in the opera house ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various
... must have seen how dazed Casey looked. "Maybe you ain't heard the horrible deal they handed us, Mister. They stopped our show before we'd raised the curtain,—and it was a seventy-five dollar house if it was a cent!" she wailed. "They had a bill as long as my arm for license—we couldn't get by with the five-dollar one—and for lights and hall rent and what-all. There wasn't enough money in the house to pay it! ...
— Casey Ryan • B. M. Bower
... to the walls of the city, very extraordinary and apparently contradictory accounts are given by the various ancient authors who described them. Some make them seventy-five and others two or three hundred feet high. There have been many discussions in respect to the comparative credibility of these several statements, and some ingenious attempts have been made to reconcile them. It is not, however, at all surprising that ...
— Cyrus the Great - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... nearly two miles in extent, and consist of double and treble walls, the outer one of which is said to be seventy-five ...
— A Woman's Journey Round the World • Ida Pfeiffer
... went out every day, ever night she lay in the little harbor that formed the sea-board part of the yard. At her anchorage was a depth of seventy-five feet of water. ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham
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