And if two persons have an equal number of votes, and thus increase the number beyond one-half, they shall withdraw the younger of the two and do away the excess; and then including all the rest they shall again vote, until there are left three having an unequal number of votes.
— from Laws by Plato

He therefore moved: “But if no person have such majority, then the House of Representatives shall immediately proceed to choose by ballot from the two persons having the greatest number of votes, one of them for President; or if there be three or more persons having an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall in like manner, from the persons having such equality of votes, choose the President; or if there be one person having a greater number of votes—not being a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed—than any other person, and two or more persons who have an equal number of votes one with the other, then the House of Representatives shall in like manner, from among such persons having the greater number of votes and such other persons having an equality of votes, choose the President.”
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

“It is a well-known fact that the Central Powers have an enormous number of submarines, and that they have been sent to all the important lanes of travel in the Atlantic [237] Ocean, as well as the Mediterranean Sea and the North Sea.
— from The Rover Boys Under Canvas; Or, The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine by Edward Stratemeyer

Philadelphia had an extraordinary number of public houses, and many were needed; for the city had a vast number of visitors, and a great current of immigration poured into that port.
— from Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

Now enormous palaces have arisen everywhere, not only in the West End, but in Bayswater, Bloomsbury, and other less modish quarters; sumptuous mansions, still of ornate red brick and terra-cotta, springing up with the promptitude of an Aladdin's palace, and dominating, as it may be, their respective street or square.
— from Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook

A further division of the Zodiac was of each sign into three parts of 10° each, called Decans, or, in the whole Zodiac, 36 parts, among which the seven planets were apportioned anew, each planet having an equal number of Decans, except the first, which, opening and closing the series of planets five times repeated, necessarily had one Decan more than the others.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

[Pg x] Saltpetre, to pulverize for Fire-works 164 Sealing-wax spun into Threads by Electricity 100 Sea-fight, &c. in Aquatic Fire-works 196 Serpents, for Fire-works, to make 169 Shillings, a Person having an even number of in one Hand, and an odd Number in the other, to tell in which Hand the odd or even Number is 17 Shock, inconceivable 88 Shower, mercurial 80 Shower, fiery 90 Silver-plate, to give a Lustre to 44 Silver extracted from a gilded Ring 135 Sky-rockets 170 to fire under Water 198 Sound, travelling of 141 , 142 Sparks, electric 93 Sparks, in choked Cases 167 Sparrows, Experiments with 82 Spectre on the Table 64 Spider, artificial 84 Spirit, Cameleon 23 Spots in the Sun's Disk, to show 128 Spur-fire 166 Square Yards, to contain the Changes of the Alphabet 59 Squares, Magic 55 Squibs, to make 169 Stars, with Points, in Fire-works 188 Steam, Power of 31 Steel or Iron, to soften 135 Stone, floating 78 Storm at Sea, to represent by the Magic Lantern 63 Sulphur for Fire-works 163 Sun, fixed, with a transparent Face 189 Sun's Rays, Effects of, on different coloured Cloths 146 Swans and Ducks in Aquatic Fire-works 199 Tantalus, Cup of 85 Thunder, artificial 14 , 15 Touch-paper, to make 167 Transcolorations, curious 29 , 30 Transmutations, magical 35 Travelling of Sound 141 , 142 Travelling of Light 145 Tree, Silver 27
— from Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works. by Unknown

B then tells A to count twenty on the dial, beginning at the next hour to that at which he proposes to rise, which will be 5, and counting backwards, reckoning each hour as one, and including in his addition the number of the hour the hand is placed at, the addition will end at 6, which is the hour proposed; thus, The hour the hand is placed at is 8 The next hour to that which A intends to rise at is 5, which counts for 1 Count back the hours from 5, and reckon them at 1 each, there will be 11 hours, viz., 4, 3, 2, 1, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 11 ——— Making 20 A person having an even Number of Shillings in one Hand, and an odd Number in the other, to tell in which hand the odd or even Number is.
— from Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works. by Unknown

The nobleman with whose troops he had been a sort of prisoner, had, after examination, not only dismissed him, but furnished him with the means of returning rapidly to Glasgow, in order to announce to my friends my precarious and unpleasant situation.
— from Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Walter Scott

The player who has the greatest number of cards in a suit has the point; but when both players have an equal number of cards in the same or different suits, the point is then won by the player who has the greatest number of pips, counting the ace as eleven and the court cards as ten each.
— from Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun by Various