Definitions
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- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-seven and one
- adjective being eight more than twenty
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He uses, and indeed quotes, with the freedom of a master, his great collection of the Italian Historians, in xxviii. volumes; and as that treasure is in my library, I have thought it an amusement, if not a duty, to consult the originals.] 14 I cannot refrain from transcribing the high-colored words of Pandulphus Pisanus, (p. 384.)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly, Mémoires, in Avant-Moniteur ou Tableau sommaire des huit premiers mois de Révolution française Paris: Levrault, Schoell, 1805, xxviii.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Wills claims that the "only Jesus we have is the Jesus of faith (p. xxvi)" and that "the ` historical Jesus 'does not exist for us (Wills, What Jesus Meant, p. xxviii)."
Books 2009
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly, Mémoires, in Avant-Moniteur ou Tableau sommaire des huit premiers mois de Révolution française Paris: Levrault, Schoell, 1805, xxviii.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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IV.xxviii. 146b, On their heads [they] hadde sallets of leather.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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See the excellent brief biography in Kelly and Baradell, Iredell Papers III, xxv–xlvi, esp. xxv–xxviii.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Massachusetts and other states proposed amendments to the Articles, but Congress rejected them all: See DHRC IV: xxviii.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Ghandi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth Boston: Beacon Press, 1993; originally published 1929, page xxviii.
God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010
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Ghandi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth Boston: Beacon Press, 1993; originally published 1929, page xxviii.
God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010
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Ghandi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth Boston: Beacon Press, 1993; originally published 1929, page xxviii.
God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010
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