the eighty-eight

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Bevelacqua, noticing the eighty-eight, shook his head and said, “We’re looking for the hundreds.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 31, 2018

I ’ad six nippers, then I goes and leaves one on a bus, the eighty-eight up from Brixton.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Of the eighty-eight thousand residents, sixty-six thousand were white, while twenty-two thousand were black.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

The last, constituting fifty per cent out of the eighty-eight, or half the entire nation, had too little wealth to be estimated at all, apparently living a hand-to-mouth existence.

From Equality by Bellamy, Edward

One could now see all the elegant and daring beauty of the eighty-eight pillars soaring audaciously into space, white as frozen snow, and the delicate ribs interlacing to carry the vaulting.

From The Shadow of the Cathedral by Gillespie, Mrs. W. A.