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Usage examples of fourth.

WITH 1826 marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it was not long into the new year when Adams and Jefferson were being asked to attend a variety of celebrations planned to commemorate the historic event on the Fourth of July.

As once he had been determined to drive a declaration of independence through Congress, or to cross the Pyrenees in winter, so Adams was determined now to live to see one last Fourth of July.

There were four deaths in the town the next week, but three of them were of sickly infants and only the fourth of plague, and, again, the victim was someone recently come from London, from Allhallows by the Wall, near Moorfields.

And the fourth is Fabius Sanga, at present well on his way to the lands of the Allobroges in the company of his clients.

But on the fourth of the month Hideyoshi had made peace with the Mori, on the fifth he had departed, on the seventh he had arrived at Himeji, on the ninth he had turned toward Amagasaki, on the thirteenth he had struck down Mitsuhide in the battle at Yamazaki, and by the time Katsuie had reached the borders of Omi, he had already swept the capital clear of the remaining enemy troops.

Fourth, which were in service at Appleton two years ago, when Sir George died?

But the command had been issued: the astrogator had ordered a fourth and a fifth teleprobe sent up.

So one day, as Roger was nailing down sheets of aluminum on the roof, Nate came to him, told him of Operation Auca, and asked him to go along as the badly-needed fourth man.

Pehlevi probably of the fourth century, according to Troyer,6 and is believed to have been originally written in the Avestan tongue, though this is extremely doubtful.

After the death of the younger Romanus, the fourth in lineal descent of the Basilian race, his widow Theophania successively married Nicephorus Phocas and his assassin John Zimisces, the two heroes of the age.

But George the Fourth, looking anxiously from his bassinette, need not have been so afraid she was going to refuse.

The Times went on to point out that Bedaux was the fourth of that group to meet with an unnatural end.

Forest continue to be felled one by one -- to make matters worse, it would have been a good beechnut year -- Eddi Amsel in his villa on Steffensweg builds the fourth life-size scarecrow: a black mobile twelve-legged dog.

This advance of 550 miles from Hollandia to Cape Sansapor required little more than three months, with three big Japanese air bases-Hollandia, Wakde, Biak picked up en route, and a fourth, Wewak, leapfrogged.

She could identify three of the buildings, the cabin, the woodshed, the biffy, but there was a fourth square, much smaller than the cabin but larger than the others, drawn into an empty corner of the lot.