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Combien de secondes auroit vécu un homme âgé de soix-ante-dix ans dix-sept jours et douze heures?

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

Les traditions nationales des Israelites remontent plus haut que les lois du Pentateuque et la redaction des premieres est anterieure a celle des secondes.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

Bishops have a little turn, I observe, for marrying somebody who is somebody—specially en secondes noces, good men.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas

Catherine Darnley, mariée en premières nôces avec Thomas Wentworth, Baron de Raby; et en secondes nôces, en 1699, avec James, Comte d'Anglesey.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

Les qualités secondes elles-mêmes, chaleur, son, lumière, n’ont encore aujourd’hui qu’une attribution vague.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William