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Jagged with octave jumps, hard-to-land-on intervals of sevenths and ninths, and grinding dissonances, his high-tensioned 70-minute song cycle was even more difficult to sing than to listen to.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other than wins, Sofia has had a third, two fifths and two ninths.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sofia has had three first place wins, a third, two fifths and two ninths.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the sun is at the equinoxes, that is, passing through Aries or Libra, he makes the gnomon cast a shadow equal to eight ninths of its own length, in the latitude of Rome.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

They only babbled of theme and counter-theme, of harmonies and resultant sounds, of consecutive ninths and tierce major.

From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Cannan, Gilbert