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155

adjective
1.
Being five more than one hundred fifty.  Synonyms: clv, one hundred fifty-five.






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... like doth Fraunce. Lovers, imbrace your loves And, Captaines, joyne your bands; mix power with power And let those swords, which late were drawne for death, Sleepe in their sheaths. You, worthy Pembrooke[155], And all your followers, shall receyve our favours In plenteous largesse. So, set on to Court; Sound Drums and Trumpets, deafe the ayre with cryes, And fill eche subjects heart with joyes increase T'applaud our childrens love ...
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III • Various

... education, and has since been unusually successful. Besides a High School for Girls and numerous board schools, there are many private higher-class schools. Under the Endowments Act 1882 an educational trust was constituted which possesses a capital of L. 155,000. At Blairs, in Kincardineshire, five miles S.W. of Aberdeen, is St Mary's Roman Catholic College for the training of young men intended for ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... and tame, At second-hand we chiefly praise or blame. Hence 'tis, for else one knows not why nor how, Some authors flourish for a year or two: For many some, more wond'rous still to tell; 155 Farquhar yet lingers on the brink of hell. Of solid merit others pine unknown; } At first, tho'[A] Carlos swimmingly went down, } Poor Belvidera fail'd to melt the town. } Sunk in dead night the giant Milton lay 160 'Till Sommer's hand ...
— Essays on Taste • John Gilbert Cooper, John Armstrong, Ralph Cohen

... fled and settled themselves at Goa, thus founding the city that afterwards became the capital of Portuguese India. Nuniz alludes to the loss of "Goa, Chaull, and Dabull" by Vijayanagar in the reign of "Verupaca."[155] (Purchas states that the massacre took place ...
— A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India • Robert Sewell

... 155. In inquisitions and examinations which they shall make they shall put thirty lines on a page, and in every line ten parts [i.e.], words divided by spaces]; and they shall write a good hand and shall place at the foot of each ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume V., 1582-1583 • Various


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