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The cmpreft was overthrown by the abufe of vidlory; the oath of fidelity which fhe cxadled to herfelf alone, was pronounced with reludlant murmurs; and the bold refufal of the Armenian guards encouraged a free and general declaration, that Conftantine the fixth was the lawful emperor of the Romans.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1788
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The fixth is the arable farm, the foil light enough for turnips: It is nearly on a par with the preceding one.
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The Orangemen (10-3) reached 10 wins for the fixth time in school history and avenged a loss to Kansas State in the 1997
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"Oh, they'll get thomebody down to fixth it after we've been out on the road a couple of days," said the cherub, optimistically.
Jill the Reckless 1928
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This Earl of Oxford had also, by the same Lady, two daugh - ters; viz. Lady Sarah who died unmarried, on April 29th, 1737 in the fixth year of her age, and is buried at St Mary-le-4one, near London $ and Lady Martha, who was bom on Nov. 28tb,
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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And Jane Fitz-William, fixth and youngest daughter, who died young.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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The Philippines extend from the fixth to nearly the twentieth degree of latitude north, and from the hundred and fixteenth to the hundred and twenty-uxth degree of longi* tude eaft of Paris \
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Proco - pius takes notice, that in the time of Juftioian (the fixth century) filk was brought from Serimia, a country in India.
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Of thefe* five were difcovere J in the lall century: a fixth was firft obferved by Dr. Herfchel, on the 28th of Auguft 1788; and a feventh he difcovercd on the 17th of September, the fame year.
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They hold their meetings on the firft and fixth day of each decade.
A Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts .. 1797
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