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Français · Égypte: “Cinquante-sept ans après le coup d'état, encore des questions sur sa réelle utilité”
Global Voices in English » Egypt: “Fifty-seven years after the coup and we still are not able cope” 2009
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Cinquante piastres, fünfzig, fünfzig, fifty do I hear, and a half an 'a half an' a half e un demi piastre un d'mi un d'mi ein halb 'und ein halb' und ein halb 'un medio y tin medio -- wer sagt six shillins, six escalins, six escalins, seis reales, sechs schillin!?
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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His other works include a volume of "Essais en vers et en prose," issued in 1797, "Cinquante Chants Français" (1825), and "Macbeth," a lyrical tragedy (1827).
Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Walter Rowlands
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'Cinquante quatre, quatre vingt dix,' said the stout old woman at the counter.
Pied Piper Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1942
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H. von Zwiedeneck-Sudenhorst, Deutsche Geschichte von der Auflösung d. alten bis zur Errichtung d. neuen Kaiserreichs (Stuttgart, 1903-1905); and M.L. Van Deventer, Cinquante années de l'histoire fédérale de l'Allemagne (Brussels, 1870).
The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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The "Cinkante (i.e. Cinquante, Fifty) Balades" really contains fifty-two, or, if we count the two of the dedication, fifty-four.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Guchen, Cinquante ans de Madure (1887); Moore, History of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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At which he and all the peasants around, even including my guide, laughed aloud as at an excellent joke, and said, _'Cinquante, Ho! ho! '
The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911
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You never see here a pile of gold or bank notes on the table, as at Hombourg or Wiesbaden, with the player saying, "Cinquante louis aux billet, &" "Cent-vingt louis à la masse, &" and the winnings scrupulously paid, or the losings raked carefully away from the heap.
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= Pibrac = (_Seigneur de_), poet and diplomatist, author of _Cinquante
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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