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So as soon as the wagons were safely delivered to Lukasz's mansion, and the treasure safely stored in his rooms, he and Piotr selected one beautifully decorated small dagger - one six-hundredth of the total - and ceremoniously delivered it to Countess Halka Lubonska, with a heartbreaking account of how they had stood with her husband in the fatal moments when eighteen Turkish Janissaries had ambushed them, and of how the three had fought
Poland Michener, James 1983
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In one case only does the proportion reach five per cent, while the average scarcely exceeds one, and in the fir the quantity amounts to no more than one six-hundredth of the dry matter.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson
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Of this surface, only a six-hundredth part is, on an average, under cultivation, an area which, it is said, might be doubled.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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Genesis places the Deluge in the six-hundredth year of Noe; the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The dose of the active principle, aconitin nitrate, is about one six-hundredth of a grain.
The War Terror 1908
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Kanemaru won the 400m in Shizuoka International in 45.27, six-hundredth seconds short of his personal best.
IAAF.org - News 2009
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The eldest son of my Lord is just come from Eton ” he knows a good deal about AEneas and Dido, Apollo and Daphne ” and that is all; and to this boy his father gives a six-hundredth part of the power of making laws, as he would give him a horse or a double-barrelled gun.
Sydney Smith Rusell, George W E 1904
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