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He came of a literary family, and, as he says of himself, from his seventh to his fortieth year study and letter occupied all his available time.

Again and once again they fought their battles with savage beast and savage man, and dawn was already breaking when Basuli, for the fortieth time, narrated how he and a handful of his warriors had watched the battle for the golden ingots which the Abyssinians of Abdul Mourak had waged against the Arab raiders of Achmet Zek, and how, when the victors had ridden away they had sneaked out of the river reeds and stolen away with the precious ingots to hide them where no robber eye ever could discover them.

But at this moment the Nautilus, raised by the last waves of the tide, quitted her coral bed exactly at the fortieth minute fixed by the Captain.

Nobody ever HAD built above Fortieth Street--no, says I, nor above the Battery either, before Christopher Columbus discovered America.

Someone proposed a vast bonfire made out of the works of the Forty Academicians into which the Great Victorians might be hurled on their fortieth birthday.

To take possession of the moon in the name of the United States; to add a fortieth State to the Union; to colonize the lunar regions; to cultivate them, to people them, to transport thither all the prodigies of art, of science, and industry; to civilize the Selenites, unless they are more civilized than we are; and to constitute them a republic, if they are not already one!"

The morning of the fortieth dawned, and the young man when he woke gave thanks in an outburst of joy that the danger was passed.

* An old French coin, equal to the two hundred and fortieth part of a pound.

Our digital business posted its fortieth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, and mobile remained our fastest growing channel."

They were to dig a 50 feet pit but unfortunately it collapsed at about the fortieth feet.

Addressing Journalists in Abuja, one of the leaders of the Movement, Sheikh Sidi Munir Sokoto said the trek was to mark Arbaeen (fortieth day), which is a mourning period in Islam to mark and commemorate 40 days after Ashura, the tragic day that Tyrant Yazid bn Muawiyyah killed Imam Hussain ibn Ali (AS).