See thirteener on Wiktionary
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"text": "Boomers played cassettes in their cars and popularized FM radio. Thirteeners love their compact disks. Today's electronics industry is abuzz with talk of the new digital technology that awaits Millennial teenagers.",
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"text": "At last they were all chosen [for the watch] but me; and it was the chief mate's next turn to choose; though there could be little choosing in my case since I was a thirteener, and must, whether or not, go over to the next column, like the odd figure you carry along when you do a sum in addition.",
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"text": "[T]he following description of a thorough-going College Whist-player is too good to lose. […] How he used to bring out forgotten thirteeners at the end of the hand! And how the majesty of your kings and queens was forced to bow down before his dirty little sixes and sevens!",
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"text": "When you hold the best trump and partner the next best, and right-hand adversary holds the only other trump, you may force partner by leading a thirteener, if necessary, so as to divide your trumps; and he should, when he holds a high trump, always play it on your thirteener, unless it is evident that you cannot hold the best trump.",
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"text": "[A. C.] King once hit a \"thirteener\" in a match on the school ground. Probably the ball got lost for a minute or two in long grass, or perhaps it was badly overthrown. But, however it happened, there stands the score in the official book, a \"13.\" clearly got in one fell swoop by the hard-hitting King.",
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"text": "Upon their return from Ireland, vvhere they collected ſome thirteeners for vvhich they had not given the intrinſic value, ſhillings, they made their appearance at Tenby, in Pembrokeſhire, on a pretended tour of pleaſure.",
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"text": "[\"]A gintleman once said to me: 'Here, Pat, yer sowl, you look hungry. Here's a thirteener for yez; go and get drunk wid it.' Och, no, your honour, he wasn't an Irish gentleman; it was afther mocking me he was, God save him.\" […] On my asking the boy if he felt hurt at the mockery, he answered, slily, with all his air of simplicity, \"Sure, thin, wasn't there the shillin'! For it was a shillin' he gave me, glory be to God. No, I niver heard it called a thirteener before, but mother has.[\"]",
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"text": "[T]he woman banged a shilling down upon the table, crying, \"Arrah, my honey, with this thirteener, won't I sit in the gallery, and won't your Royal Grace give me a curtsey—and won't I give your Royal Highness a howl and a hiss into the bargain!\"",
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"ref": "1992, Peter Quartermain, “‘Not at All Surprised by Science’: Louis Zukofsky’s First Half of ‘A’ – 9”, in Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 74:",
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"ref": "1999, Alan Hager, “The Narrative Source of Romeo and Juliet”, in Understanding Romeo and Juliet: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (Literature in Context), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 70:",
"text": "The term \"poulter's measure\"—a poulter was a poultry retailer—was originally a joke-name based on the fact that if one bought a dozen eggs in Tudor England a thirteenth was free, like the later \"baker's dozen.\" Thirteener, or poulter's measure, meant couplets (two rhymed lines), the first with six accents or strong beats, the second with seven (often with twelve beats, then fourteen). […] The resembles the standard ballad rhythm, as in Samual Coleridge's famous Rime of the Ancient Mariner: \"Water, water, everywhere / And not a drop to drink.\"",
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"ref": "2011, Edward T. Duffy, “Recounting Reverses, Recovering the Initiative: Act II of Prometheus Unbound”, in The Constitution of Shelley’s Poetry: The Argument of Language in Prometheus Unbound (Anthem Nineteenth-century Series), London; New York, N.Y.: Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 144:",
"text": "[…] I would first agree with [Earl] Wasserman that the last line [\"[shapes] Which walk upon the sea, and chaunt melodiously\"] alludes to Jesus walking on water, the point of the allusion being the kerygmatic expression of a form of transcendence, which is more or less specified by the way the other hemistych of this remarkably balanced thirteener – \"and chaunt melodiously\" – recalls how it is on the breath of enamored air and song that all the vigorously launched members and voices of this scene are sustaining their courses.",
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"text": "[T]he following description of a thorough-going College Whist-player is too good to lose. […] How he used to bring out forgotten thirteeners at the end of the hand! And how the majesty of your kings and queens was forced to bow down before his dirty little sixes and sevens!",
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"text": "When you hold the best trump and partner the next best, and right-hand adversary holds the only other trump, you may force partner by leading a thirteener, if necessary, so as to divide your trumps; and he should, when he holds a high trump, always play it on your thirteener, unless it is evident that you cannot hold the best trump.",
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"text": "Upon their return from Ireland, vvhere they collected ſome thirteeners for vvhich they had not given the intrinſic value, ſhillings, they made their appearance at Tenby, in Pembrokeſhire, on a pretended tour of pleaſure.",
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"text": "[\"]A gintleman once said to me: 'Here, Pat, yer sowl, you look hungry. Here's a thirteener for yez; go and get drunk wid it.' Och, no, your honour, he wasn't an Irish gentleman; it was afther mocking me he was, God save him.\" […] On my asking the boy if he felt hurt at the mockery, he answered, slily, with all his air of simplicity, \"Sure, thin, wasn't there the shillin'! For it was a shillin' he gave me, glory be to God. No, I niver heard it called a thirteener before, but mother has.[\"]",
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"text": "[T]he woman banged a shilling down upon the table, crying, \"Arrah, my honey, with this thirteener, won't I sit in the gallery, and won't your Royal Grace give me a curtsey—and won't I give your Royal Highness a howl and a hiss into the bargain!\"",
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"ref": "1999, Alan Hager, “The Narrative Source of Romeo and Juliet”, in Understanding Romeo and Juliet: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (Literature in Context), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 70:",
"text": "The term \"poulter's measure\"—a poulter was a poultry retailer—was originally a joke-name based on the fact that if one bought a dozen eggs in Tudor England a thirteenth was free, like the later \"baker's dozen.\" Thirteener, or poulter's measure, meant couplets (two rhymed lines), the first with six accents or strong beats, the second with seven (often with twelve beats, then fourteen). […] The resembles the standard ballad rhythm, as in Samual Coleridge's famous Rime of the Ancient Mariner: \"Water, water, everywhere / And not a drop to drink.\"",
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"ref": "2011, Edward T. Duffy, “Recounting Reverses, Recovering the Initiative: Act II of Prometheus Unbound”, in The Constitution of Shelley’s Poetry: The Argument of Language in Prometheus Unbound (Anthem Nineteenth-century Series), London; New York, N.Y.: Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 144:",
"text": "[…] I would first agree with [Earl] Wasserman that the last line [\"[shapes] Which walk upon the sea, and chaunt melodiously\"] alludes to Jesus walking on water, the point of the allusion being the kerygmatic expression of a form of transcendence, which is more or less specified by the way the other hemistych of this remarkably balanced thirteener – \"and chaunt melodiously\" – recalls how it is on the breath of enamored air and song that all the vigorously launched members and voices of this scene are sustaining their courses.",
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