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

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.

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