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
It was but their one evening of liberty before they settled down to ordinary school routine, and for the rest of the eighty-eight days before Easter their behaviour would be quite exemplary.
From The School by the Sea by Brazil, Angela
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
