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  • Smoked some the other night that was supposed to be really excellent ($30 per eighth's worth of excellent to be exact) and felt like the skin was going to crawl right off my body.

    kinaesthesia Diary Entry kinaesthesia 2001

  • His name was Amferes, the fourth's Eutoctenes, the seventh's Alusipo, the eighth's Mestores, the ninth's Azaen, the tenth's Diaprepem.

    History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

  • Words united so as to form a complex noun add the sign to the last; as, "Henry the eighth's reign."

    Our Own Primary Grammar for the Use of Beginners. Charles Winslow 1861

  • How many strange accidents concurred in the whole business of king Henry the eighth's divorce! yet we see Providence directed it and them to an entire change of the affairs and state of the whole kingdom.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • For many years he was in the service of Spain; but returning to England at the close of Henry the eighth's reign, he was received with merited favor at court.

    Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822

  • Screw them into the electrical box until there is about three eighth's inch between the ceiling and the underside of the screw head.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

  • For the plaintiff it was infifted, that it was too rank; for the whole rcftory was worth but 33 I. a year in Htfnry the eighth's time; and the whole demefhe lands of that ma* nor in queen Elizabeth's time were worth. but 48 1. a year, 'fo that Che modus then would have been juft as much as the manor itfelf.

    Ecclesiastical Law 1797

  • WHEREAS I Robert South, doctor in divinity, and canon of the collegiate church of Christ in Oxon, of king Henry the eighth's foundation, &c. have by my last testament, bearing date as aforesaid, already disposed of all or most of my real, and a great part of my personal estate after my decease, I do nevertheless by this codicil (which I do hereby annex to my said will, as part thereof) bestow upon the persons hereafter mentioned these following legacies.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • The objeAton isj its being too rank a modus, and confequently that it could not be time out of mind, for it appears that manor is now but 80 1. a year; and ac« cording to the natural improvement of lands from Henry the eighth's time, it ought to have been ten times as much, on account of money finking in its value, anci lands ri (ing in theirs.

    Ecclesiastical Law 1797

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