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... becoming too ludicrous," said I. "It need not take five minutes to satisfy you why, how, and where, I ...

— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)

... will divide the butter into forty-two parts, and each take five. And now let us go to work and cut ...

— The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales • Frank R. Stockton

... The latter are a branch of the former, but much different, living in round bamboo huts, surprisingly like those of some African tribes. He secured two excellent casts of the Triquis, and three of the Mixtecas. He intended to take five of each tribe he visited, but his plaster failed to arrive. He studies the languages, also, as he goes, and finds many varying dialects, from each of which he secures a test vocabulary of 200 words. He is now approaching the Mixes, the "cannibals." All the City of Mexico ...

— In Indian Mexico (1908) • Frederick Starr

... take five thousand at ninety-seven?" hastily demanded a man, whom, as he entered, I recognized as a broker. "We'll make a splendid ...

— Prue and I • George William Curtis

... you think I'm going to wheel this thing back here to-morrow you've missed your guess," said Neil. "All it needs is to have a chain link welded or glued or something; it won't take five minutes. And the fellow that owns it is a cripple and can't go out until this machine's fixed. Now go ahead, like a good chap; ...

— Behind the Line • Ralph Henry Barbour

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