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After lunch, I walked him the few blocks to his apartment on East Forty-Ninth Street.
Isabel Vincent: Lunch with Dominick Dunne Isabel Vincent 2010
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Initially existing on the fringes of New York society, and mainly known through Parsian caf-concs of the 1890s, the cabaret first reached beyond the vice districts to the attention of respectable New Yorkers in the spring of 1911 when Henry B. Harris and Jesse Lasky, two vaudeville entrepreneurs, opened the Folies Bergère Theater on Forty-Ninth in the heart of the theatre district.
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To the shoppers, hoppers, and hawkers on Forty-Ninth, he looked much as he had looked to Fat Johnny: like a desperado.
The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987
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He clipped the rear fender of a produce truck sliding onto Forty-Ninth.
The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987
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As Roland strode down Forty-Ninth street in Jack Mort's body, arms swinging, bullshooter's eyes fixed firmly upon the sign which read DRUGS, oblivious to the stares he was getting and the way people swerved to avoid him, the sun was still up in Roland's world.
The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987
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In Canada you have nourished the illusion that we in the United States were simply waiting for the most opportune moment to invite you to become our Forty-Ninth State; in short, that we had friendly designs on you.
Books and Canada 1955
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As the colors of the Forty-Ninth passed before him, the General made an effort to address some language of encouragement to his old corps, but the words died away in indistinct murmurs, and waving his hand in the direction of the heights, he sank back exhausted with the effort, and resigned his gallant spirit for ever.
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 2 John Richardson 1824
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As the colors of the Forty-Ninth passed before him, the General made an effort to address some language of encouragement to his old corps, but the words died away in indistinct murmurs, and waving his hand in the direction of the heights, he sank back exhausted with the effort, and resigned his gallant spirit for ever.
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Complete John Richardson 1824
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"Hurrah, Forty-Ninth!" he exclaimed, in language suited to those he addressed.
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Complete John Richardson 1824
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"Hurrah, Forty-Ninth!" he exclaimed, in language suited to those he addressed.
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 2 John Richardson 1824
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