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The lower parts of the town, adjacent to the Hudson, are about as odoriferous and architecturally beautiful as a sixth-rate seaport in

She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.

Personally he may not have known enough about painting to be more than a fifth-rate painter, or enough about the organ to be more than a sixth-rate organist.

Robert Browning 1905

But there are, when all is said and done, some things which a fifth-rate painter knows which a first-rate art critic does not know; there are some things which a sixth-rate organist knows which a first-rate judge of music does not know.

Robert Browning 1905

The _Dauphin_ was a sixth-rate man-of-war, and carried 24 guns, 150 sailors, 3 lieutenants, and 37 petty officers.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

And when they devote themselves to law or medicine, and succeed in becoming only fifth or sixth-rate proficients in these professions, verily they would not yield their own opinions a hair's breadth to

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860

In the course of a few years after this, sloops, bombs, fire-ships, and yachts are spoken of as among the unrated classes; but in the sixth-rate were comprised vessels mounting only two guns.

How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

They have been purchased of some wretched supernumeraries, or sixth-rate actors, and are now offered for the benefit of the rising generation, who, on condition of making certain weekly payments, amounting in the whole to about ten times their value, may avail themselves of such desirable bargains.

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

A "nobility," which is numerous enough to fill a separate ball-room in every sixth-rate town, it needs no argument to show, cannot be a nobility in any English sense.

Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

A "nobility," which is numerous enough to fill a separate ball-room in every sixth-rate town, it needs no argument to show, cannot be a nobility in any English sense.

Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

The "Blackmoor" was a sixth-rate of twelve guns, built at

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668