This did not include extras: a German stove hired at five francs a month for the winter season; wood at four francs the hundred pounds weight; candles at thirteen sous the pound, and soap at a fraction less.
The merest fraction of a turn is enough to break the contact, which is all that is required.
Nevertheless, each large fraction of an army having a defined aim would have its own strategic front determined by the features of the country and the positions occupied by the large bodies of the enemy.
The term zone of operations is applied to a large fraction of the general theater of war; the term lines of operations will designate the part of this fraction embraced by the enterprises of the army.
A zone of operations is a certain fraction of the whole theater of war, which may be traversed by an army in the attainment of its object, whether it act singly or in concert with other and secondary armies.
The eastern fractionof the empire still maintained a powerful navy, which the possession of the islands of the Archipelago made a necessity, while at the same time it afforded the means.
A fraction of the crowd, as we entered the precincts of the town, were engaged in a lawsuit relative to a question of title.
As I said, this was all in the fraction of a second.
She was deadly faint and cold and shaking, and all in a second, in the fraction of a second, before she had risen from her stooping posture.
He scarcely lacked anything except that fractionof ambition, of brutality and material force which are necessary to success in this world; but he was appreciated by the best society of Paris, and he cared for nothing else.
Everything repeats itself by analogy, and each little fraction of the earth reproduces in a smaller and individual form all the phenomena of the planet.
The words of the note she had found on her breast flashed back into Myra's mind in the fraction of a second that she hesitated before answering the question on which the fate of Don Carlos depended.
And in that fraction of a second she found the answer to many questions she had put to herself.
At a given moment every drummer beats his drum with ever-increasing force without a fraction of a moment's respite.
For the fractionof a second they were strikingly silhouetted against the sky-line; then with a cheer they charged down the other side.
The two must be taken together, and either alone could only represent a fraction of the real person.
We see, as plain as day--and nothing can contravene our conclusion--that it is only a fraction of the real person that is concerned.
Do we not all feel that our best is only a fraction of what we want to say?
Even then you might contend that, since it was your memory, you must have been there--or at any rate some fraction of yourself in the ancestor, which now has become incorporated in your personality.
Consequently any mass made up of iron sulphide molecules will have the same fraction of iron by weight as do the individual iron sulphide molecules.
As has been stated in a former chapter, nitrogen constitutes a large fraction of the atmosphere.
These compounds form a large fraction of the earth's crust.
It has been found, however, that only a fraction of the molecules dissociate.
Many of these are rare, and very few of them make any large fraction of the materials in the earth's crust.
The light oil fraction of the coal-tar distillate, which comes over below 140 deg.
The toluene fraction requires a more thorough washing with sulphuric acid in order to eliminate the thiotolene, which is sulphonated much less readily than thiophene.
The banded colors were there for a minute fraction of a second.
Once a course is set the robot pilot keeps the machine on that route and errors of even a fraction of a degree are instantly and automatically detected and corrected.
The actual length of the days seems, however, sometimes to be decreasing a tiny fraction of a second from year to year, as theory says that it should; sometimes to be increasing in a way for which no present theory provides.
From that time forth, pleasure has been distributed without reference to merit, and pain inflicted without reference to demerit, throughout all but a mere fraction of the higher animals.
It seizes upon a fact as upon a lever, to separate and lift up somefraction of its meaning.
Beach birds become marvellously quick in reckoning the fraction of a second when they must run from under the combing wave about to break over their little heads.
I have only a single cohort under my command, and yet with the Canninefates and Batavi, a mere fraction of the Gallic peoples, I am engaged in destroying their great useless camp and besieging them with famine and the sword.
If we are challenging Rome--what an infinitesimal fraction of the human race we Batavians are!
He clawed wildly at the choking coils, but they failed to loosen even a fraction of an inch.
The gold-flecked sheet flowed together again so swiftly behind the things that a fraction of a second later there was not even the slightest indication in its shimmering unbroken surface to show that it had ever been pierced.
When the cock evaded the deadly rush by leaping straight at it and over it, instead of dodging aside or turning tail, the weasel was nonplussed for just a fraction of a second, and stood snarling.
His eyes opened wide for a fraction of a second, and darted one searching glance at the child's face.
At exactly the right fraction of the instant the cock had leapt upwards on his powerful wings, lightly as a thistle-seed, but swift as if shot from a catapult.
Each second ticked away anotherfraction of the planet's life.
Every fraction of his attention was focused on the muffled and hooded men.
Light crosses this distance in a fraction of a second.
A minute is not a very large measure of time and his body needed every fraction of it.
The factories have steadily improved their models and materials, and at the present day only a negligible fraction of the people of the United States wear clothes made to their order.
Her losses in men and material have been stupendous, she is eating herself up, she is blazing away her piled-up wealth at a time when she cannot keep going even a fraction of her commerce to make up for the steady drain upon her.
Only a momentary silence followed his words, but, in this fraction of time, a series of impressions swept through her brain with the continuity of a bird's flight.
It seemed unnatural that he was debarred from giving her just a fraction of the happiness she craved--he, who, had there been the least need for it, would have lain himself down for her to tread on.
For still the fraction of a second, he heard the familiar melody, to which the soldiers marched; and the branch swayed .
For the fraction of a second he became aware of a vision of womanhood, to him the most perfect in all the world.
Just for a fraction of a second he paused as he closed on the bush he had so long contemplated, and his friends heard his voice in a furious oath.
But the Englishman was close to him--so close that his hand reached the leveled barrel a fraction of a second before the hammer fell upon the cartridge, and the bullet that was intended for Tarzan's heart whirred harmlessly above his head.
Only the fractionof a second had stood between Clayton and death at the hands of the ape-man.
It is obvious that revolutions have never taken place, and will never take place, save with the aid of an important fraction of the army.
Only when the direct interests of the people are involved do we see, as recently in Champagne, any fraction of the people rising spontaneously.
