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  • So, I'm not Jewish..but I ride a single speed/fixty-the Montague BOSTON and love it.

    Code of Living: Choose Your Faithway BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • The last few months have been deadly for US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, with an average of fixty or sixty five troops killed each month [2].

    A Trail of Failed Policies and Lost Battles 2009

  • Verily in mine eight and fixty yeeres have I not heard ye fellow to this fart…Prithee, lette ye author confeffe ye offfpring.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Verily in mine eight and fixty yeeres have I not heard ye fellow to this fart…Prithee, lette ye author confeffe ye offfpring.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • As foon as it was day, we faw a great prow, built like the lilmdanajran prows, with about fixty men in her; and fix fmaller prows.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

  • The breadth of the river within the city, is about one hundred and fixty or one hundred and eighty feet.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

  • Banda is fituate in latitude iix degrees fouth, longitude one hundred and fixty-three degrees thirty minutes, from the line of demarcation.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

  • Ja£Fnapatnam is a place of confcquence, ftrongly fortified, lymg oppofite to and not far from the. continent of Indoflan; it is the capital of what was formerly a kingdom, nearly fixty leagues in circum - ference; elephants form the only obje& of trade of this country for the Company; tbisi nowever, yields

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

  • This fhoal is laid down in our drafts not above fixteen or twenty leagues from New Holland, but we did run afterwards fixty leagues due fouth before we fell in with it; and I am very confident, that no part of New Holland hereabouts lies fo far northerly by forty leagues as it is laid down in our drafts* For if New Holland were laid down true.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

  • The charges which the Company incur at 1 emate amount to about one hundred and forty thoufand gilders per annum, and the profits on the goods which are confumed among the natives, to fixty or feventy thoufand *.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

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