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  • "All right, Bud, all right -- only you'd best send two telegrams t 'make sure -- one t' Fift 'Av, an' one t 'his place up th' river.

    The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • And when I get a-going down here good, I'll be wantin 'some time to look at a place on Fift' Av'ner, maybe.

    The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City Amy Bell Marlowe

  • Thirty-third Street and Fift 'Avenue at the time, so I calls a cop, and he orders me to run' im over to Bellevue.

    The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball

  • "I s'pose you're used to nothin 'but Fift' Avenoo," he said.

    T. Tembarom 1913

  • First we drives over to Fift 'avenue and stops at one of those places where it says "Robes" on a brass plate outside.

    Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • "Fift 'mile, m'sieu," answered Bram without hesitation.

    The Golden Snare James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • "There is not a man of you can back a horse or hold a bill; and as for archery -- St. Michael! if old Harry the Fift were back again, he would stand and let ye shoot at him for a farthen a shoot!"

    The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Fift, oncest down on the paraira, we'll put straight for the settlements.

    The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

  • “Henry the Fift” [_this spelling is used consistently_] except the “Faery Queen,” [_spelling unchanged_] next to the Miter and Phænix [_error for “Phœnix” in original_] [Stz. 3 sidenote] ...

    The Battaile of Agincourt Michael Drayton 1597

  • The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France, and included a speech on the eve of battle which added to the English language the phrases

    California Literary Review 2009

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