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
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
I ’ad six nippers, then I goes and leaves one on a bus, the eighty-eight up from Brixton.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
It is regretted that all the eighty-eight officers and men of H.M.S.
From Sea-Hounds by Freeman, Lewis R.
He wrote on numerous subjects besides politics; and, in addition to the eighty-eight volumes of the Register, and the twelve of his Peter Porcupine, he put to press nearly fifty volumes.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
