"3rd" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... At last, upon September 29th, it was settled that Cosimo should be exiled to Padua for ten years. The Medici were declared Grandi, by way of excluding them from political rights. But their property remained untouched; and on October 3rd, Cosimo ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... prop. applied to the Birth-feast of Mohammed which begins on the 3rd day of Rab al-Awwal (third Moslem month) and lasts a week or ten days (according to local custom), usually ending on the 12th and celebrated with salutes of cannon, circumcision feasts. marriage banquets. Zikr-litanies, perfections of the Koran and all manner of solemn festivities ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton
... May 3rd I received from Mr. Mulvaney" (of the police) "a brown paper parcel containing a pair of dark trousers, a man's shirt, and a man's wide-awake hat. On the following evening I received from Mr. Mulvaney a brown paper parcel containing a lock ...
— The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 • Various
... manuscript records, found in the Jacobite papers, it appears that the double execution took place on the 3rd of August, in the ...
— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat
... on that day." Christmas decorations were removed from the houses; the holly, rosemary, bay, and mistletoe disappeared, to make room for sprigs of box, which remained until Easter brought in the yew. Our ancestors were very fond of bonfires, and on the 3rd of this month, St. Blaize's Day,[4] the red flames might be seen darting up from every hilltop. But why they should do this on that day is not evident, except that the good Bishop's name sounded something like blaze, and perhaps that was quite a sufficient ...
— Old English Sports • Peter Hampson Ditchfield
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