On Sunday, October 20th, towards noon, they came in sight of the Indian coast: two hours later the pilot came on board.
20th. This was a gain to Phileas Fogg of two days since his departure from London, and he calmly entered the fact in the itinerary, in the column of gains.
My well-remembered experience has convinced me that, in that corner of the ocean, once the wind has got to the northward of west (as it did on the
20th, taking the British fleet aback), appearances of westerly weather go for nothing, and that it is infinitely more likely to veer right round to the east than to shift back again.
On the 12th of January, 1893, I was seventeen, and the
20th of January I signed before the shipping commissioner the articles of the Sophie Sutherland, a three topmast sealing schooner bound on a voyage to the coast of Japan.
They departed again on the 26th of May, and reentered Kazeh on the
20th of June.
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20th August.--We have been two months at our home in Scotland, and I see no change in George for the better.
Thus, then, on the
20th of August, 1672, as we have already stated in the beginning of this chapter, the whole town was crowding towards the Buytenhof, to witness the departure of Cornelius de Witt from prison, as he was going to exile; and to see what traces the torture of the rack had left on the noble frame of the man who knew his Horace so well.
On the
20th of July, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, of the Calcutta and Burnach Steam Navigation Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia.
On the
20th of October, at a general meeting of the Gun Club, Barbicane produced a magnificent map of the United States.
The next day (20th) we smoothly glided onwards in our little fleet, and came to a more inhabited district.
January 20th. -- Early in the morning we arrived at the point where the Beagle Channel divides into two arms; and we entered the northern one.
JIGSAW Curzon House Day Nursery, a multi award-winning, nationally recognised day nursery on Wrexham Road in Chester, celebrates its
20th anniversary this year.
20th - coming next after the nineteenth in position