sixths

• It ends with Rubinstein's sign and seal, an arpeggio in sixths, which is as trite a musical finis as fiction's "They lived happily ever afterward, surrounded by a large circle of admiring friends Three mazurkas constitute opus 125. —  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
• Five-sixths are for me. —  The Heart of Unaga
• Five-sixths, at least, of the population of Ireland belonged to the Church of Rome and were devoted to the religion of that Church. —  A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)
• The population (I include in this calculation Ireland) being estimated at 30,000,000, we have then 25,000,000 of people, or five-sixths of the population of this great nation, depending upon the article cotton alone for subsistence, and the black man is the producer of the raw material, and the source from whence it comes. —  Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party
• In 1911 they numbered about 2000 persons, of whom five-sixths were men, this fact indicating the temporary nature of their settlements. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II

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