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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
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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
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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
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"I s'pose you're used to nothin 'but Fift' Avenoo," he said.
T. Tembarom 1913
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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
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"Fift 'mile, m'sieu," answered Bram without hesitation.
The Golden Snare James Oliver Curwood 1903
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"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
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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
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“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
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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
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