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• “The four Corners of the Table must be furnished with _four Holes_, and exactly in the middle of each side _one Hole_, and these Holes must be hung at the bottoms with _Nets_, Which Holes are named _Hazards_, because if either by Skill or Chance one Gamester strikes anothers Ball into these Holes, or Hazards, as we will now call them, he wins One; the”

  The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing

• “I never hear of an inexperienced buyer in search of a rifle without being reminded of the purchaser of a telescope, who, on asking the optician, among a multitude of other questions, whether he would be able to discern an object through it four miles off, received for reply, 'See an object _four_ miles off, Sir?”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862

• “The owner or master of the establishment was squatted upon the dry sandy ground, with three or four young children sprawling round him, while his _four_ wives were occupied with their respective duties.”

  Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878

• “The players during this drawing and discarding are gradually improving their hands, and matching them into four sets and an extra tile, a set being _three of a kind_, _four of a kind_, or _three in a sequence_.”

  Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling

• “The number of lines used in the staff has varied greatly since the time of Guido, there having been all the way from four to fifteen at various times and in various places, (_four_ being the standard number for a long time).”

  Music Notation and Terminology

• “Such a Nootka word, for instance, as “when, as they say, he had been absent for four days” might be expected to embody at least three radical elements corresponding to the concepts of “absent, ” “four, ” and “day.”

  Chapter 4. Form in Language: Grammatical Processes

• “Now in order to establish a position in a space of four dimensions it would be necessary to measure in _four_ mutually perpendicular directions.”

  Four-Dimensional Vistas

• “The four actors of whom I shall attempt to tell, you something -- Burbage, Betterton, Garrick, and Kean -- were the _four_ greatest champions, in their respective times, on the stage of Nature in contradistinction to Artificiality.”

  The Drama

• “Lucrezia swinging in a hammock in the centre of a large room, the four corners of which are occupied by four bedsteads containing four children, in the production of whom not exactly _four_ fathers, as they ought for perfect symmetry, but as a compromise _three_, have assisted.”

  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century

• “In the invasion of Mexico, the United States formed four separate armies, moving on _four distinct lines of operation: _ 1st.”

  Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.

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