seventy-ninth

On February 17, my seventy-ninth day at sea, and seven hundred miles from Antigua, my satellite phone failed, thus severing my only means of communicating with anyone on dry land.

Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

On February 17, my seventy-ninth day at sea, and seven hundred miles from Antigua, my satellite phone failed, thus severing my only means of communicating with anyone on dry land.

Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

Near his seventy-ninth birthday I got the call that my dad was in the hospital and not expected to live.

The Gate Keepers of Death 2009

After several days of unconsciousness, he died very peacefully in his house on Drammensvej, opposite the Royal Gardens of Christiania, at half-past two in the afternoon of May 23, 1906, being in his seventy-ninth year.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

After several days of unconsciousness, he died very peacefully in his house on Drammensvej, opposite the Royal Gardens of Christiania, at half-past two in the afternoon of May 23, 1906, being in his seventy-ninth year.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

That is the very disturbing question that many Americans are nervously asking on this, the seventy-ninth anniversary of "Black Tuesday," the date of the Stock Market Crash, in October 1929.

Robert S. McElvaine: "Black Tuesday" plus 79 Years 2008

At the seventy-ninth tree on the left-hand side, the insolvent butcher hanged himself.

The Book of Snobs 2006

London on Saturday, the twenty-first day of December, when it was really Friday, the twentieth, the seventy-ninth day only from his departure?

Around the World in 80 Days 2003

Hurriedly we piled gun-cotton against the piers, which were about five feet thick and twenty-five feet high; a good bridge, my seventy-ninth, and strategically most critical, since we were going to live opposite it at Umtaiye until Allenby came forward and relieved us.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

He died on October 16, not quite having reached his seventy-ninth birthday.

General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003