They are not troubling themselves about getting forgiveness and settling their heavenly debts for a cent on the dollar.
It is willing that the rest of the country should pay an additional cent or two a pound on sugar for its benefit, and while receiving the benefit it does not wish to bear its part of the burden.
I was on my way to New Orleans on a packet, when some thief stole my pocketbook, with everycent in the world I had, and my passage ticket as well.
Reckon he just thought what a fine snap it'd be if he could get aboard, and be carried all the way down to the place he wants to reach, without spending a red cent for grub, or traveling expenses.
But notwithstanding these surplus additions of 40 per cent and 85 per cent above the original weight of the craft, the delicate wing spars and ribs were not broken, nor was any part of the machine excessively overstrained.
And every centfrom the tickets goes to help the strike.
In the two and three cent papers Yetta got most of the space, in the one cent papers the proportions were reversed.
The article in the Forwaertz had been a stirring one, and probably ninety per cent of the trade had heard of the outbreak in Goldfogle's shop and Braun's prophecy of large consequences.
Frontenac that the 25 per cent could be abolished and make it up on something else, as it is a question of saving the country, but he did not deem fit of anything being said about it.
Gamelin to give him 800 livres (shillings) on the commission of one percent the company allow the receiver at Montreal, and M.
I must keep up the ten per cent interest on three hundred dollars of my indebtedness, and could not contract five hundred dollars more to finish the institution building erected on the acre of ground I had given for that object.
He called in a few days, and introduced himself saying that he had received a statement from me that I could only pay him the coming Fall fifty per cent on the eighty-dollar note he held against my husband.
I've a mighty poor financial head, and I may be all wrong--but tell me if I am wrong in supposing that in lending my own firm money at 6 per cent I pay 4 of it myself and so really get only a per cent?
I have been out and bought a box of 6-cent cigars; I was smoking 4 1/2 centers before.
What could I do with that 20-cent copy of "Roughing It" which the United States has collared on the border and is waiting to release to me for cash in case I am willing to come down to its moral level and help rob myself?
A sliding scale of reduction of 10 per cent a year has a sort of plausible look, and I am willing to try that if three other powers will join.
Can't we get four great powers to agree to reduce their strength 10 per cent a year and thrash the others into doing likewise?
Them Germans won't be worth a cent on the high slopes, anyway!
Look here,' I said at last, telling the truth with frankness, 'I get 25 per cent on all bicycles I sell.
This syndicate, besides fulfilling the prophecies, will pay forty per cent on every penny embarked in it.
You suggested 10 per cent as the amount of your commission on sales you might effect; and I jumped at it.
Without doubt it was a temptation, especially inasmuch as at that moment his well-manicured right hand held in its grasp every cent that he possessed.
She sidetracked her chewing gum, completely ignored her other customers, and helped him select a handful of her choicest sixty-cent Havanas.
With your permission, I'd like to take things in hand and add a hundred per cent to your future comfort?
From this work varieties of beets used to-day have evolved which often contain as high as 20 to 25 per cent sucrose.
The theoretical yield then of alcohol from sucrose would be 53 per cent and from invert sugar 51 per cent.
The fumes from a well-regulated sulphur furnace should contain from 15 to 16 per cent sulphurous acid.
The theoretical percentage obtainable is about 21 per cent of the acid.
Ordinary molasses contains from 30 to 35 per cent of sucrose and almost as much glucose.
This work is repeated several times until the finished product, which is very hydroscopic, contains about 25 per cent of phosphoric acid.
Many singular provisions were inserted in this charter, but none more remarkable than one which stipulated that all profits over fifteen per cent should revert to the State Treasury.
When revenues increased beyond the six per cent mark, however, the tendency was to reduce tolls or to use the extra profit to purchase the stock for the State, with the expectation of ultimately abolishing tollgates entirely.
Continued selections have shown, a yield of from a third more to twice as much as corn, that it is thirty per cent more valuable than oats for feeding horses, and that for stock fattening it is equal to corn, pound for pound.
It has cost us 90 cent per pair to feed for twelve months; remember, we buy in large quantities; it would cost the small breeder $1 a year per pair to feed.
It would be well to allow 60 cent a pair for labor and supplies, such as grit, charcoal, tobacco stems, etc.
It is rare that a building pays five per cent net on the value of the land and the cost of the house.
In certain states where manuring has been thought unnecessary, experiments have demonstrated that the yield may be increased 60 per cent by this simple practice.
Nice bright dried leaves sell for about 15 cent a pound.
We must not overlook the differences in cost of lumber and labor in different places, sometimes more than doubling nor the fact that different contractors will vary often twenty-five per cent in their bids.
Edison confesses that he has never made a cent out of his patents in electric light and power--in fact, that they have been an expense to him, and thus a free gift to the world.
But they took whatever was needed from his system, and he "has never had a cent from them.
He then repudiated the contract with the Automatic Telegraph people, and they never received a cent for their wires or patents, and I lost three years of very hard labor.
There never was a monopoly in incandescent electric lighting, and even from the earliest days competitors and infringers were in the field reaping the benefits, and though defeated in the end, paying not a cent of tribute.
I signed, and I never got a cent because there was a clause in it which prevented me from ever getting anything.
Let us not think too lightly of the humble five-cent theatre with its gaping crowd following with breathless interest the vicissitudes of the beautiful heroine.
In the medical and teaching professions also the number of Muhammadans is comparatively large, while of persons of independent means a proportion of 29 per cent are of this religion.
Of persons employed in domestic services nearly 14 per centof the total are Muhammadans, and of beggars, vagrants and prostitutes 23 per cent.
In the garrison they actually outnumber Hindus, while in the police they form 37 per cent of the whole force.
The number of Muhammadans in Government service excluding the police and army, is quite disproportionate to their small numerical strength in the Provinces, being 20 per cent of all persons employed.
Of the Telis or oil-pressers only 9 per cent are engaged in their traditional occupation, and the remainder are landholders, cultivators and shopkeepers.
In the Chhattisgarh Division and the Feudatory States the number of Muhammadans is extremely small, constituting less than one per cent of the population.
Of the two main sects of Islam, ninety-four per cent of the Muhammadans in the Central Province were returned as being Sunnis in 1911 and three per cent as Shiahs, while the remainder gave no sect.
Only 12 per cent of the Chamars are supported by the tanning industry, and so on.
Of the Ahirs or graziers only 20 per cent tend and breed cattle.
Nothing that had cost her a cent or a drop of blood.
Have not the raw silk and cocoons been raised upon us fifty per cent in price?
In addition to these fascinations, the five-cent theater is also fast becoming the general social center and club house in many crowded neighborhoods.
We are informed by high authority that there is nothing in the environment to which youth so keenly responds as to music, and yet the streets, the vaudeville shows, the five-cent theaters are full of the most blatant and vulgar songs.
Hundreds of young people attend these five-cent theaters every evening in the week, including Sunday, and what is seen and heard there becomes the sole topic of conversation, forming the ground pattern of their social life.
A series of slides which has lately been very popular in the five-cent theaters of Chicago, portrayed five masked men breaking into a humble dwelling, killing the father of the family and carrying away the family treasure.
This discrepancy between the church and the stage is at times apparently recognized by the five-cent theater itself, and a blundering attempt is made to suffuse the songs and moving pictures with piety.
These attempts also combine social life with the training of the artistic sense and in this approximate the fascinations of the five-cent theater.
The plants in this process lose about 60 per cent of their green weight, or about 40 per cent of their air-dry weight.
After draining and washing free from bleach residues, the stock was furnished in the beater with 13 per cent of clay, 1 per cent of resin size, and 2.
They are probably of little value for paper, but they constitute less than 1 per cent of the weight of the hurds.
The ash should not be over 10 per cent for this grade of paper, but in spite of the larger amount used the physical tests are sufficiently high.
This effect is already apparent in many wood-using industries, and although the paper industry consumes only about 3 percent of the total forest cut, it is probable that it will be affected through this economy.
The yield of total fiber obtained from the hurds may be placed at 35 per cent of bone-dry fiber calculated on the bone-dry weight of hurds used, or 33.
In these tests it was desirable so to cook the hurds that the consumption of bleach would not be over about 10 per cent of the fiber.
The bleaching powder used was estimated to contain 35 per cent of available chlorin, as this is the commercial practice, and the amount required was calculated to the bone-dry weight of the unbleached stock.
Ten years ago sulphite manufacturers would not accept consignments of spruce logs if they contained over 5 per cent of fir, while to-day many manufacturers tolerate 50 per cent.
Sufficient caustic solution was added to furnish 25 or 30 per cent of actual caustic soda, calculated on the bone-dry weight of hurds in the charge.
The yield of bleached fiber was not determined in this preliminary work, but may be safely estimated as 30 per cent, which is low when compared with a yield of about 47 per cent of bone-dry bleached fiber from bone-dry poplar wood.
The blackguard had not a cent in his pocket, and walked away looking very foolish.
On our arrival at Maysville, this lady, with her gentleman, told the captain that they were sorry they had not a cent wherewith to defray the expenses of their passage.
This reminds me of an ingenious plan put in practice by a fellow who had drunk every cent out of his pocket, and was as thirsty as ever.
The navy is a favourite service, it is true, but the officers of the American navy have not one centmore than they are entitled to, or than they absolutely require.
A single centpaid by all who travel on steam vessels would make the family of Fulton one of the richest in the world; but how collect these "few cents"?
So they might be; but for every cent that reached them the community would be taxed dollars in loss of time and comfort, and in extra charges.
But it was also true that they spent every cent they had.
Sir George Adam Smith in an American address stated that in Scotland 90 per cent of the ministers' sons of military age entered the army before conscription.
After I had practically been declared one hundred per cent pluperfect I gave the electric cardiograph man a picture or exhibition performance under an attack.
The Congressmen were not made to feel that those ignorant foreigners who were fifty-five percent of the steel workers, must learn to read papers that were written in American, not in Russian or Yiddish or Polish or Italian.
If it had come out a month sooner we would have stood fifty per cent better chance of getting the bill through, because the papers would have come to the front so much sooner and we would have been thirty days ahead with our bill.
Before he got back the threatened strike came, and then the demand of the men for a ten per centbonus was acceded to, upsetting all other settlements in San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles, etc.
I believe that is the way ninety per cent of the boys and girls go wrong, and instead of teaching them the Bible, why not try reducing the size of their conceit and their disposition to boast.
There is certainly a good fifty per cent chance that this fine spirit will marry some damn brute who will worry and harass the soul out of her.
If she persists she will be successful in driving from her the opinion of this country, which is ninety per cent in her favor, although practically all of the German-Americans are loyal to their home country.
Hughes may be the easiest man to beat, after all, because he vetoed the Income tax amendment in New York, a two-cent fare bill, and other things which are pretty popular.
I was very glad to read the other day that while only eighty percent of English-made shells explode, over ninety per cent of American-made shells explode.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
