Nine times out of ten he travels wearily around in a little circle, which grows smaller and smaller as his over-taxed strength grows less and less.
Nine times out of ten, or perhaps ninety-nine times out of a hundred, this is the case; but there are times when the will simply refuses to respond to desire.
The matter of drainage frightens the home-maker out of undertaking the improvement of the yard, nine times out of ten, if you urge its importance upon him.
Nine times out of ten the result was a weak, spindling plant by the time it was safe to put it into the ground--which was not until all danger from frost was over.
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred failure with window-boxes is due to just one thing: They let their plants die simply because they do not give them water enough.
I have found that mildew on Rose-bushes is traceable, nine times out of ten, to exposure to cold drafts, and that few varieties are strong enough to withstand the effects of repeated attacks of it.
And on the front in very large figures and letters, was stated the undoubted fact that nine times nine is 81.
Nine times nine is eighty-one," was printed on the top of all the flying advertisements issued by the firm, and the printing was all done in magenta.
Nine times in this Message has the President, after joining issue first with the President of Hayti,--nine times has he menaced the independence of the Haytian Republic.
She put up her work presently, studied her spelling, and went over "nine times.
She could say the ten and eleven perfectly, but that very day she had missed on "nine times," and Mrs. Webb told her she had better study it a little more.
Every day they blew the trumpet twenty-one times, thrice at opening the gates, nine times at the daily offering of the morning, and nine times at the daily offering of the evening.
There isn't any real fighting, as you call it, nine timesout of ten.
So they are always--or nine times out of ten at any rate.
If the place be not secured beforehand, and garrisoned, nine timesin ten you will take it.
Observe their weaknesses, their passions, their humors, of all which their understandings are, nine times in ten, the dupes.
The surface of the larger is forty-nine times that of the smaller, and thus it gives out at the beginning, and at each corresponding stage of cooling, forty-nine times as much heat as the smaller.
Friends are often troublesome, especially over secrets; nine times out of ten you daren't ask their advice for fear of their knowing too much.
In fact, nine times out of ten, what we call beauty is the outward and visible sign of inward health.
Nine times out of ten her husband has her in hand in the most perfect working order, so that she would swear the moon shone at midday if it were his pleasure that she should make a fool of herself in that direction.
Its very vagueness answers, nine times out of ten, to my repugnance and my preference; and the high lights, the vividly realized portions emerging from that vagueness, represent what I like.
The notion has a specious air of amiability and disinterestedness and general good-breeding; but the only truth it really contains is that, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, a present gives exactly no pleasure at all.
Nine times out of ten the confessions of a discovered juvenile pilferer go to prove that he sinned for his belly’s sake.
The little old lady’s manner was plausible and smooth, and well calculated to impose on the “lady of the house” nine times out of ten.
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