"For sixty years I have never been outside of this palace.
"But they haven't slain you," the girl reminded her, "and you have been their prisoner, you say, for sixty years."
And, although it is hard to believe, I have learned that this is so, for I have lived here among them for sixty years in the palace of their king.
They have seen the value of the talking wire to hold their valley villages together; and so have cries-crossed the Alps with a cheap and somewhat flimsy system of telephony that carries
sixty million conversations a year.
"And there's five hundred Daylight's back in sixty days," he added aloud.
"And I'm sure going to win, and sixty days is a long time between drinks, so I pay now.
On the sixteenth, before sun-rise, I departed in the most secret manner, and arrived at Boonsborough on the twentieth, after a journey of one hundred and sixty miles; during which, I had but one meal.
We held the treaty within sixty yards of the garrison, on purpose to divert them from a breach of honour, as we could not avoid suspicions of the savages.
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucke river.
On the 4th of November fifty workmen commenced digging, in the very center of the enclosed space on the summit of Stones Hill, a circular hole
sixty feet in diameter.
"Yes, but," said Bernouin, "thirty-nine millions two hundred and
sixty thousand livres make a good round sum."
He's got forty tricks up each of his four legs, and the man don't live that he'll let stick on big back for
sixty seconds.