Word: fift
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...Fift . . . uh, no, here," Lucius returned counting out the money for the shine. Rallying slowly, he tied a double knot in his laces and trundled with relief to the stacks...
Shakespeare's Henry V. As Shakesspeare wrote it, The Cronicle History of Henry the fift is an intensely masculine, simple, sanguine drama of kinghood and war. Its more eloquent theme is a young king's coming of age. Once an endearingly wild Prince of Wales, Henry V (at 28) had to prove his worthiness for the scepter by leading his army in war. He invaded France, England's longtime enemy. He captured Harfleur, then tried to withdraw his exhausted and vastly outnumbered army to Calais (see map). The French confronted him at Agincourt. In one of Shakespeare...
...news arrives, it is true, in the first act, that somebody has shot John Sands. The second act is given over almost entirely to heartless catechism conducted by a district attorney. The third finds Fifi Sands imprisoned in a skyscraper apartment with the lunatic who, because he had loved Fift and was afraid to let her divorce his friend and marry another man, had killed her husband. But the thread of evidence is only one of the strands drawn through the astonishing tapestry of this play. It tries to reproduce the effect that such a murder might really have upon...
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