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Sentences starting with nine

Nine years later, when he was twenty-one, I came upon the family in one of the lake towns of New York, and the mother told me about an adventure which her son had been having. [5]
Nine couches, arranged three and three in a horseshoe, invited the guests to repose, with their arms of ebony and cushions of dull olive-green brocade, on which a delicate pattern of gold and silver seemed just to have been breathed. [10]
Nine tenths of the "Juvenile Poems" written spring out of the above musical and suggestive coincidences. [6]
Nine hundred and ten dollars, gents, nine hundred and ten. [9]
Nine breast-pins were promised, and the weird sisters filed out again. [5]
Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcoming is from his apology. [6]
Nine smokers out of ten would prefer an ordinary domestic article, three for a quarter, to fifty-cent Partaga, if kept in ignorance of the cost of the latter. [5]
Nine in the morning now! [5]
Nine days were lost thus; then he came, arriving at St. Denis September 7th. [5]
Nine immortal votes is the only power we uncover for that is, in civil life. [5]

Sentences ending with nine

It was getting very close to nine. [5]
There's not another train to Quicksands till after nine. [9]
She sat meditating sorrowfully upon this change, and mingling it, as it were, with everything about her, when the distant church-clock bell struck nine. [12]
A longing to see Ditmar again invaded her: he would take an early train, he would be at the office by nine. [9]
Between eight and nine. [2]
He took out his watch; it was ten minutes to nine. [11]
He said: "I have the honor to say that my principal strenuously objects to the hour chosen, and begs you will consent to change it to half past nine. [5]
At the next deal both got a point, and both stood at nine! [11]
Lots were drawn by every ten men, and he on whom the lot fell was killed and eaten by the other nine. [10]
I left Granville at three; Rulle cour left Chaussey at nine. [11]

Short sentences using nine

There were nine separate parts. [10]
It was nine o'clock. [9]
It was nine o'clock. [11]
That was nine months ago. [11]
I took nine kings captive. [10]
Nine thousand dollars--and her own! [9]
Nine and a half (feet). [5]
Nine months in eighteen years. [9]
It's nine o'clock. [9]
Nine hundred, dollars? [5]

Sentences containing nine two or more times

He said there was now but one chance of finding coal against nine hundred and ninety nine that he would not find it, and so it would be wrong in him to make the request and foolish in Mr. Montague to grant it. [5]
And now at this moment, when hope was dead, Tom Sawyer came forward with nine yellow tickets, nine red tickets, and ten blue ones, and demanded a Bible. [5]
You may be nine tenths paternal at one period of your life, and nine tenths maternal at another. [6]
You who toil miserably for nine hours and produce, let us say, nine dollars of wealth--do you receive it? [9]
Going at nine hundred an' ten--nine ten--going--going--" down came the hammer--"gone at nine hundred and ten to Mr.--Mr.--you have the advantage of me, suh. [9]
Then there's his brother George: 'Damn that fellow,--knows eight or nine languages; yes, sir, nine languages,--Arabic, Spanish, Greek, Ital---And there's his wife, now,--she and Mrs. Madison are always together. [4]

More example sentences with the word nine in them

In nine days you will fetch me the letter. [5]
Let me show you what a man has got to go through: Nine years ago I mapped out my "Journey in Heaven. [5]
Need I tell you that amongst the dancers in the foreign quarter nine out of ten are the daughters of outlawed parents? [10]
I don't believe you could drag them away from Gretchen with nine span of horses. [5]
More than nine years had passed since the closing of the Hartford house--eventful years that had seen failure, bereavement, battle with debt, and rehabilitated fortunes. [5]
Of the wonders wrought by "the great earthquake," these were all that came under my eye; but the tricks it did, elsewhere, and far and wide over the town, made toothsome gossip for nine days. [5]
Every letter Comyn writ me was nine parts Dolly, and the rest of his sheet usually taken up with Mr. Fox and his calamities: these had fallen upon him very thick of late. [9]
I went to work at nine o'clock yesterday morning, and went to bed an hour after midnight. [5]
However, if you will examine every thought that occurs to you for the next two days, you will find that in at least nine cases out of ten you can put your finger on the outside suggestion--And that ought to convince you that No. [5]
We ran that whole battery of nine blasts in a row, and it was certainly one of the most exciting and uncomfortable weeks I ever spent, either aship or ashore. [5]
An infantry regiment which had left Tarutino three thousand strong but now numbered only nine hundred was one of the first to arrive that night at its halting place--a village on the highroad. [2]
One autumn day when I was a little lad of eight or nine, my grandfather and I were driving back from Whitehall in the big coach, when we spied a little maid of six by the Severn's bank, with her apron full of chestnuts. [9]
Possession's nine points were with me; and here I sat and faced him; and here he stormed, and would do this and should do that; and I went on with my work. [11]
Usually the light went out before nine o'clock. [11]
About nine o'clock we made an important discovery --that we were not in any path. [5]
Seems to me we had a man from there eight or nine hundred years ago--but people from that system very seldom enter by this gate. [5]
At nine o'clock we are in Innsbruck, at the foot of the Brenner. [4]
In Brooklyn, Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago, the play paid me an average of nine hundred dollars a week. [5]
If this really was so she would rather, a thousand times rather, lift her hands in prayer to the smiling Aphrodite, roguish Eros, beautiful Apollo, and all the nine Muses who protected her Pollux, than to Him. [10]
Long before supper was ready, nearly nine o'clock, we had almost lost interest in it. [4]
Mandane said it was but nine, she had counted it up herself; and he agreed, and declared that her little fingers must be bewitched. [10]
Kamehameha went to war, and in the course of ten years he whipped out all the other kings and made himself master of every one of the nine or ten islands that form the group. [5]
There was another wait of half an hour toward nine o'clock, but I had gone through so much by that time that I had no spirit left, and so had no desire but to be let alone. [5]
He is a very nice old bachelor, but is an old bachelor just the same and isn't more than about a year this side of retirement by age limit; and so what does he know about taking care of a little maid nine years old? [5]
It was not until nine o'clock in the evening that we returned and the bottom suddenly dropped out of things. [9]
After nine o'clock two traps and three mounted men, who had been sent to look for them, arrived to fetch Natasha and Petya. [2]
It was now two in the afternoon, and I had been present since half past nine in the morning. [5]
If the distance traversed by a locomotive in an hour is represented by one tenth of an inch, it would need a line nine feet long to indicate the corresponding advance of the earth in the same time. [4]
Another little lassie to whom I paid attention in Hannibal when she was nine years old and I the same, is still alive--in London--and hale and hearty, just as I am. [5]
I didn't expect to use it until to-night at nine o'clock, when, also for the first time, I am to light the mills by electricity; a thing that's not been attempted yet in any saw-mill on the Continent. [11]
He asked me to retain one of the dollars as security, until he could go to town and --I interrupted: "What, and fetch back nine cents? [5]
Orders were given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. [2]
Yet he had to pay a house-tax of five piastres, a war-tax of five piastres, a camel-tax of five piastres, a palm-tax of five piastres, a salt-tax of nine piastres, a poll-tax of thirty piastres, a land-tax of ninety piastres. [11]
Perhaps I ought to have mentioned before that Billy was just nine years old. [11]
He was trying to figure out nine times seven, but it was a hopeless task, and he turned to St. Clair McKelway, who sat near him. [5]
I was obliged to exert the utmost care and caution, for in many places the road was not two yards wide, and often the lower side of it sloped away in slanting precipices eight and even nine feet deep. [5]
The only thing to chronicle to-day is the quantities of fish about; nine bonitos were caught this forenoon, and some large albacores seen. [5]
Since she came to Canada, some nine months ago, she has lived most quietly and religiously, though many trials have been made to bring her talents into service; and the Intendant has made many efforts have her dance in the palace for his guests. [11]
If I live to be nine hundred and ninety-nine years old I don't suppose I could ever forget that walk. [5]
Truth compels me to admit that the sum total of all his mortgages did not amount to nine thousand "dollars"; but that was a large sum of money for Coniston in those days, and even now. [9]
And in that time my absolute and necessary expenses have been scorchingly heavy--for I have now less than three thousand six hundred dollars in bank out of the eight or nine thousand I have made during those months, lecturing. [5]
We will work till nine to-night! [11]
They had waited till nine o'clock, when the moon was high and full, to venture forth. [11]
Seventeen bridges in three miles and a half--forty-nine bridges from Hark-from-the-Tomb to Stone's Landing altogether--forty nine bridges, and culverts enough to culvert creation itself! [5]
Result--eleven over a thousand votes, and some nine hundred men in the hall! [9]
Over there, twenty thousand people in a million elect themselves gentlemen and ladies, and the nine hundred and eighty thousand accept that decree and swallow the affront which it puts upon them. [5]
If we lift those people up, we have a right to lift ourselves up nine or ten grades or so, at their expense. [5]
And more than this, read nine of these cases, which he has published, as I have just done, and observe the absolute nullity of aconite, belladonna, and bryonia, against the symptoms over which they are pretended to exert such palpable, such obvious, such astonishing influences. [3]
There nine and thirty lashes were bestowed on the unfortunate image, the people crying out that this was the Mosaic Law. [9]
By nine o'clock they had wandered back to the tavern. [5]
Two weeks later they had begun a residence abroad which was to last for more than nine years. [5]
The fount is these nine days dry. [5]
I saw heiresses there worth, in their own right--worth, well, I suppose I might venture to say, as much as nine dollars and a half. [5]
At nine o'clock there was a pull at the bell that threatened to drag the wire out, and an insignificant little urchin appeared with a telegram, which frightened Miss Forsythe, and seemed to Margaret to drop out of heaven. [4]
Lieutenant-General Alison is the youngest by considerable; I think she is about nine and a half or three-quarters. [5]
In nine hours the water had risen to its customary level--that is to say, it was within twenty-three feet of the top. [5]
Yes, ever since the time of Clovis, and that was nine hundred years. [5]
At nine o'clock the same evening he attended a woman in labor; she was so nearly delivered that he had scarcely anything to do. [3]
At half-past nine the richest wool-broker in Sydney was sitting in his morning-room at home, settling his breakfast with the morning paper. [5]
For nine years the prisoner at the bar did not adequately support his family. [5]
It is worth the price of admission to hear the guide tell the story nine times in succession to different parties, and never miss a word or alter a sentence or a gesture. [5]
The receipts of the Patent Office have declined in nine months about $100,000.00 rendering a large reduction of the force employed necessary to make it self-sustaining. [7]
The sisters retained the old habit, which was begun in their aunt's life-time, of putting away their work at nine o'clock, and beginning their study, pacing up and down the sitting room. [14]
He willingly accepted the office of "champion at the tea-parties;" he was one of a knot of young fellows of literary tastes and convivial habits, who delighted to be known as "The Nine Worthies," or "Lads of Kilkenny. [4]
The opinion of the nine seems strange to me, for it is unsupported by authority, while there was at least constructive authority for the opposite view. [5]
One whispered to the next Teacup, "More than nine out of ten! [6]
They hung about the neighborhood of the tavern until after nine, one watching the alley at a distance and the other the tavern door. [5]
He still uses the name he had registered when I came so near catching him nine months ago--"James Walker"; doubtless the same he adopted when he fled from Silver Gulch. [5]
But he ordered the motor at half-past nine, and at ten o'clock precisely the clerk at the Ripton House was bowing to him and handing him, deferentially, a dripping pen. [9]
At nine in the morning the caravan was before the hotel door and we were at breakfast. [5]
Brengyn turned to the men behind him, the dark, determined toilers who sustained the immortal spirit of courage and humanity on thirty shillings a week and nine hours' work a day. [11]
And he admired the ingenuity which had carried this road through nine miles of shabby firs and balsams, in a way absolutely devoid of interest, in order to heighten the effect of the surprise at the end in the sudden arrival at the Franconia Notch. [4]
At half-past nine the great doors opened, and the procession began, in slow and stately moving fashion, to enter. [4]
When I for the first time heard that letter read, nine years ago, I felt that it was the most remarkable one I had ever encountered. [5]
At nine in the evening the whole vast river-front of the palace was blazing with light. [5]
We lay off the cremation-ghat half an hour and saw nine corpses burned. [5]
A baboon at the Cape of Good Hope, as I have been informed by Sir Andrew Smith, recognised him with joy after an absence of nine months. [1]
Could he do the All-Good, Good-Good, Good-Gracious, Liver, Bones, Truth, All down but Nine, Set them up on the Other Alley? [5]
She was at that time nine years old, and I was about eleven. [5]
Don't you crowd that slick, greasy-looking place; there ain't nine feet there; she won't stand it. [5]
Her work was that of clerk and copyist in a freight office, and she earned nine dollars a week, on which she supported herself and her mother. [4]
And he said that Gould sold out for a pair of second-hand government blankets and a bottle of whisky that killed nine men in three hours, and that an unoffending stranger that smelt the cork was disabled for life. [5]
It was ordered that a warm dinner should cost twelve shillings, a cold dinner nine shillings, and a good breakfast twelve shillings. [4]
Position: A plank ten feet long, and from nine to twelve inches broad, to be firmly fixed on edge, on the ground, as the line between us, which neither is to pass his foot over upon forfeit of his life. [7]
There was a temple built to her "of hewed or sawed logs nine inches thick"--so said the specifications. [9]
I remain to tell you that Grafton has an appointment at nine with his Majesty's chief Secretary of State. [9]
I began to tell this story, and instead of the description of Mr. Boone's man, I put in that of Mr. Potts,--in height some five feet nine, spare, of sallow complexion and a green greatcoat. [9]
Our admirable jury system enabled the persecuted ex-officials to secure a jury of nine gentlemen from a neighboring asylum and three graduates from Sing-Sing, and presently they walked forth with characters vindicated. [5]
The water runs swiftest in high water and we have taken the point of nine feet above low water. [7]
Seized by a sudden whim, she rang her bell, breakfasted at an unusual hour, and nine o'clock found her, with her skirts flying, on the road above the cliffs that leads to the Fort. [9]
It is plenty strong enough as concerns Austria, for ten years ago 5,000,000 was nine per cent of the empire's population. [5]
His flesh was stripped from the bones and burned (except nine pounds of it which were sent on board the ships). [5]
Had he not stone-walled in the New South Wales Parliament for nine hours, and been placed on a Royal Commission for that service? [11]
I have three sons--one seventeen, one nine, and one seven. [7]
Or is it so that you yearn over the lost sheep, more than over the ninety and nine of the fold? [11]
While he was sleeping in his boat his powder-bag was accidentally fired; the explosion tore the flesh from his body and thighs, nine or ten inches square, in the most frightful manner. [4]
First the four silver trumpets were twelve, then thirty-five, finally ninety-six; and by that time he had thrown in so many drums and cymbals that he had to lengthen the hall from five hundred feet to nine hundred to accommodate them. [5]
This worthy man sighted Mohair on a Sunday morning, and at nine o'clock dropped his anchor with a salute which caused Mr. Cooke to say unpleasant things in his sleep. [9]
It is the shortest one in English history except Lady Jane Grey's, which was only nine days. [5]
The world was shocked and clamorous for a matter of nine days, and then it forgot this foolish and awkward circumstance; but Just Trafford never forgot it. [11]

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