"There comes Poe with his raven like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge, Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, But the heart somehow seems all squeezed out by the mind."英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
Thirty-eighth--isn't it?--Psalm and the fourteenth verse. Do that the same way as the other-- count fourteen words, and then score eight in succession. Where does that bring you?"
"The fifth Psalm."
"Every fifth word then. Go on, my dear sir--go on. 'Method' of 'escape', yes. The hundredth Psalm means a full stop. What verse? Seventy-four.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
802-804) Avoid fifth days: they are unkindly and terrible. On a fifth day, they say, the Erinyes assisted at the birth of Horcus (Oath) whom Eris (Strife) bare to trouble the forsworn.英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
SIR JOHN WILLIAM PITT MUIR-MACKENZIE, second Baronet and fifth of Delvine. He married Sophia Matilda, fifth daughter of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva, County Clackmannan, with issue--英文原著 · 《History Of The Mackenzies》
And this was by another circumcinct,
That by a third, the third then by a fourth,
By a fifth the fourth, and then by a sixth the fifth;英文原著 · 《Paradiso》
Is saving over two-fifths of the energy in the Empire State Building -- is saving over two-fifths of the energy in the Empire State Building --演讲 · 《A 40-year plan for energy ~ Amory Lovins》
Is because he knows that on the fourth day or the fifth day, those larvae will hatch is because he knows that on the fourth day or the fifth day, those larvae will hatch演讲 · 《A plant's-eye view ~ Michael Pollan》