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ff

American  

abbreviation

  1. folios.

  2. (and the) following (pages, verses, etc.).

  3. Music. fortissimo.


ff British  

symbol

  1. folios

  2. following (pages, lines, etc)

  3. music fortissimo: an instruction to play very loudly

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She recites poetry where she should radiate it; and goes through the role as though following a score marked presto or lento, ff. or pp.

From Time Magazine Archive

Concomitants, law of varying, 172 ff.;     law of contrasting, 173 ff.

From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)

Dalderby, ff. 23d, 37, 44, 60d, 79d, 118d, 328d, 366, 373, 378, 382, 388.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

For anecdotes from this source already quoted in the text, see pp. 27-9, 296-7, 511, 520 ff., etc.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

According to a second account of the death of Saul in 2 Sam. i. ff., an Amalekite came unexpectedly to Mount Gilboa.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max

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