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Sentences ending with tenth

The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. [5]
A part of our being has remained still in the nineteenth century, while another part of it has seemed in some unaccountable way walking among the phantoms of the tenth. [5]
My grandfather celebrated his Majesty's birthday in his own jolly fashion, and I had my own birthday party on the tenth. [9]

Short sentences using tenth

The Tenth of May. [9]

Sentences containing tenth two or more times

By the time Achilles has covered the distance that separated him from the tortoise, the tortoise has covered one tenth of that distance ahead of him: when Achilles has covered that tenth, the tortoise has covered another one hundredth, and so on forever. [2]

More example sentences with the word tenth in them

For the men were twenty feet apart and every tenth carried a standard. [9]
The Tenth Article was resentful against her for "pretending" that St. Catherine and St. Marguerite spoke French and not English, and were French in their politics. [5]
His position was undisputed, for the Street believed with the world in the magnitude of that fortune, though there were shrewd operators who said that Mavick had more chicane but not a tenth part of the ability of Rodney Henderson. [4]
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]
By a reference to the tenth section of the Bank charter, any gentleman can see that the framers of the act contemplated the holding of stock in the institutions of other corporations. [7]
So I determined to strike at once, and accordingly advised my remaining friends to go for him, which they did and elected him on the tenth ballot. [7]
This is only the tenth degree of potency, but some of his disciples profess to have obtained palpable effects from "much higher dilutions. [3]
In the morning, the tenth day out, we crossed Green River, a fine, large, limpid stream--stuck in it with the water just up to the top of our mail-bed, and waited till extra teams were put on to haul us up the steep bank. [5]
I will give the reader a few specimens: "In my tenth semester (my best one), I am cast here through the complaints of others. [5]
I have taken the mean of the quinquennial means, given in 'The Tenth Annual Report of Births, Deaths, etc., in Scotland,' 1867. [1]
He forgets that the "people," as he complacently calls only those who voted for Buchanan, are in a minority of the whole people by about four hundred thousand votes--one full tenth of all the votes. [7]
I should think that this was the tenth crop of the season; and it was as good as the first. [4]
Money is the supreme ideal--all others take tenth place with the great bulk of the nations named. [5]
Calla lilies, all sorts of geraniums, passion flowers, moss roses--I do not know the names of a tenth part of them. [5]
Then he walked slowly along Tenth, his eyes lifted to the tall, curtained windows. [9]
She was the sister of my grandfather Charaxus, and is called the tenth muse or the Lesbian swan. [10]
That did not settle the matter, because the tenth said the language of Jesus was so strait and definite that it explained itself: "Sell all," not a percentage. [5]
This tenth night seemed longer than any of the others, and of course it was the hardest, because we had been accumulating fatigue from the beginning, and had more of it on hand now than at any previous time. [5]
To the tenth section I make no objection. [7]
He walked as rapidly as his legs would carry him, for they were a trifle short for his body; and in due time, as the lamps were flickering, he arrived near Colonel Carvel's large double residence, on Tenth and Locust streets. [9]
If my Apelles pleases him, he will give ten talents for that alone, and if he buys it for only the half or even the tenth of that sum, I will make you enjoy yourself for once, Selene. [10]
This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington; we are met to celebrate this day. [7]
To a Neighbor on West Tenth Street, New York: Nov. 30. [5]
His labors ended on the tenth of January; on the eleventh the festivities began. [10]
On the morning of the tenth day he sent for the chief of the seven judges and commanded, that as lenient a sentence as possible should be pronounced on Gaumata. [10]
The mingled murmur of the loud responses, in those rhythmic phrases, so simple, yet so fervent, almost as if every tenth heart-beat, instead of its dull tic-tac, articulated itself as "Good Lord, deliver us! [6]
On the tenth of June, * coming up with the army, he spent the night in apartments prepared for him on the estate of a Polish count in the Vilkavisski forest. [2]
On the tenth of August the regiment Prince Andrew commanded was marching along the highroad past the avenue leading to Bald Hills. [2]
But this is not the worst nor the tenth part, for no pen is able to describe the wickedness. [4]
She spent her military life as colonel of the Tenth Dragoons, and saw a deal of rough service--distinguished service it was, too. [5]
The next day, May the tenth, a couple of things happened--among others. [5]
Col. James B. Knox, Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, offers his resignation under circumstances inducing me to wish to accept it. [7]
Once, when Mr. Hopper had bidden him good morning and pushed a chair toward him, the honest Captain had turned his back and marched straight to the house or Tenth Street, where he found the Colonel alone at breakfast. [9]
Nine-tenths of the Heidelberg students wore no badge or uniform; the other tenth wore caps of various colors, and belonged to social organizations called "corps. [5]
Very well, then he writes his best things for the tenth man, and he ought to warn the nine other not to buy his book. [5]
Only when we have admitted the conception of the infinitely small, and the resulting geometrical progression with a common ratio of one tenth, and have found the sum of this progression to infinity, do we reach a solution of the problem. [2]
What would have happened if on approaching Tarutino, Napoleon had attacked the Russians with but a tenth of the energy he had shown when he attacked them at Smolensk? [2]
And when he had said it for the tenth time, Molibre's words: "Mais que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere? [2]
Yet this is given only at the quadrillionth, or fourth degree of potency, and various substances are frequently administered at the decillionth or tenth degree, and occasionally at still higher attenuations with professed medicinal results. [3]
But if the failure of the cablegram on that first day may be called an immense disaster, where is the dictionary that can turn out a phrase sizeable enough to describe the tenth day's failure? [5]
Through Mr. Frank Doubleday they eventually found, at 14 West Tenth Street, a large residence handsomely furnished, and this they engaged for the winter. [5]
My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon County, Illinois. [7]
Originally it was delivered as a lecture to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on April 3, 1893, the one hundred and tenth anniversary of Irving's birth. [4]
Done at the city of Washington, this tenth day of March, A.D. 1863, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-seventh. [7]
Done at the city of Washington, this tenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred-and sixty-five, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-ninth. [7]
Done at the city of Washington, this tenth day of April, A.D. 1862, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-sixth. [7]
When one has broken the tenth commandment, the others are not of much account. [5]
Pick out the biggest frigate," he cried, for the tenth time, at least, "or the most beautiful lady, and it will surprise you, my lad, to find out how many times you will win. [9]
If there has been the massacre of three hundred there, or even the tenth part of three hundred, it will be conclusively proved; and being so proved, the retribution shall as surely come. [7]
A neighbor appeared at his gate--a tenth of a second too late! [5]
In a house at 14 West Tenth Street, and in a beautiful place at Riverdale, on the Hudson, most of the next three years were passed. [5]
The butchers' shops and milliners' shops on the avenue might as well have been at Tenth as at One Hundredth Street. [8]
The Guards had already left Petersburg on the tenth of August, and her son, who had remained in Moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to Radzivilov. [2]
She can't hold a tenth part of her weather. [5]

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