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The faces of the volutes must recede from the edge of the abacus inwards by one and a half eighteenths of that same amount.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

"There aren't two eighteenths of October in one year."

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.

As William II himself puts it, this day, like all the "eighteenths" that went before it, has its special significance.

From The Schemes of the Kaiser by Adam, Juliette