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Trained to be one a handful of "secret super agents", Rhenn succeeds spectacularly but since spotlight is fatal for secrecy, he is reassigned as L'Excelsis police liaison for the Collegium and is publicly recognized as a Master d'Aspect rather than the official "tertius".
Imager's Challenge (Imager #2) by LE Modesitt (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2009
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Sure, she fell in line with our tripertight photos as the lyonised mails when we were stablelads together like the corks again brothers, hungry and angry, cavileer grace by roundhered force, or like boyrun to sibster, me and you, shinners true and pinchme, our tertius quiddus, that never talked or listened.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Secundus et tertius comitatus sunt eiusdem numeri virorum cum primo, quorum vnus ad dextram tendit Imperatoris, alius ad sinistrum in distantia ab ipso ad trium vel duarum leucarum.
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Illísque pertranseuntibus, succedit simili modo millenarius secundus, et tertius, atque quartus, nec auditur à quoquam vnicum verbum.
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Quando autem vult equitare de vna terra ad aliam, habet 4. exercitus equitum, et vnus per vnam dietam ipsum antecedit, secundus aliam, et tertius similitèr, et quartus; ita quod semper ipse se tenet in medio in modum crucis; et ita omnes exercitus habent omnes dietas suas ordinatas, quod inueniunt omnia victualia parata sine defectu.
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Primus Occidentem versus est, qui vocatur Hecla, alter crucis, tertius Helga.
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Ill韘que pertranseuntibus, succedit simili modo millenarius secundus, et tertius, atque quartus, nec auditur � quoquam vnicum verbum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Claruit anno � Seruatoris nostri natiuitate 1230 confectus senio, dum Henricus tertius sub Antichristi tyrannide in Anglia regnaret.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Islandiæ tertius: Episcopatum Schalholtens. & vice Episcopatum
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Quin & plures nouam terram visendi cupido incessit: nam & post illos duos adhuc tertius quidam
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