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THIRTY-FIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being five more than thirty
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
Anything under twenty or over thirty-five, at or about thirteen stone.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And then came the foremast, larger in diameter, and weighing surely thirty-five hundred pounds.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
You can have the principal to keep for yourself, if you'll use the thirty-five dollars a month for cooking and washing and scrubbing.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Perhaps, said Elinor, thirty-five and seventeen had better not have any thing to do with matrimony together.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Sir Charles Tregellis’s selection is limited to men below twenty or above thirty-five years of age, so as to exclude Belcher and the other candidates for championship honours.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Thirty-five, sir.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Thus, in addition to the cousins Dorothy and Florence, Martin encountered two university professors, one of Latin, the other of English; a young army officer just back from the Philippines, one-time school-mate of Ruth's; a young fellow named Melville, private secretary to Joseph Perkins, head of the San Francisco Trust Company; and finally of the men, a live bank cashier, Charles Hapgood, a youngish man of thirty-five, graduate of Stanford University, member of the Nile Club and the Unity Club, and a conservative speaker for the Republican Party during campaigns—in short, a rising young man in every way.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It would be impossible, I know, replied Elinor, to convince you that a woman of seven and twenty could feel for a man of thirty-five anything near enough to love, to make him a desirable companion to her.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
If even now you can read how the gallant fellow, unable with his one eye to judge his distances, fought for thirty-five minutes against his young and formidable opponent, and how, in the bitterness of defeat, he was heard only to express his sorrow for a friend who had backed him with all he possessed, and if you are not touched by the story there must be something wanting in you which should go to the making of a man.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I, who had lived my life in quiet places, only to enter at the age of thirty-five upon a course of the most irrational adventure I could have imagined, never had more incident and excitement crammed into any forty hours of my experience.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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