fifthly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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The Mariners added two more runs in the fifthly inning.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 3, 2022
And, fifthly, I asked whither he went; and they replied, they knew nothing of the matter,—and this is all I could learn.
From The Beaux-Stratagem by Farquhar, George
The parson was working his Sunday's text—— Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the—Moses—was coming next.
From Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I by Masson, Thomas L.
And, fifthly, you know whom I mean, To humble that vexatious Dean; And, sixthly, for my soul to barter it For fifty times its worth to Carteret.
From Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell by Anonymous
The Horse, the Hound, the Pheasant, the Bag-fox, and, fifthly, Man, were there the gradations of rank; and a compound being—half man, half brute—was, by a not unparalleled freak of fortune, the master of all.
From Bred in the Bone by Payn, James
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