Just as the snake has devoured the eight little sparrows and their mother, so shall the war swallow up the nine coming years, and in the tenth we shall overcome Troy.
I floated about on the waters for nine long days, and on the tenth I came to Calypso's island.
Nine days and nine nights we were driven about on the sea by the violent storm, and on the tenth we reached the land of the Lotus-eaters.
We sailed along nine days and nine nights, blown by the friendly breeze from the west, and on the tenth we saw in the distance the mountain tops of Ithaca and the fires along the shore.
In the tenth century we find the kings of Ailech still inhabiting Ailech.
The chief king of the Northern Ui Néill was called king of Aileach, from the prehistoric stone fortress of Aileach near Derry, which was occupied by kings of that line as late as the tenth century.
The event shows that Ailech, one of the great prehistoric stone fortresses, was still occupied in the tenth century by the kings who took their title from it.
The tenthand eleventh centuries produced a school of Irish historians whose chief work was to reduce the old miscellaneous matter of tradition to unity and sequence.
In the tenth century the Norse settlements in Ireland became part of the Irish body politic, and if they went to war in Ireland, as often as not, it was in alliance with one Irish king against another.
The position of fer léiginn is first noticed in the annals in the tenth century.
No seigneur had a tenth of his tract under cultivation, yet all the best-located and most fertile soil of the colony had been given out.
In 1700 they amounted in value to about five thousand livres, a sum which did not support one-tenth of the colony's body of priests.
The tenth time, it is mere paranoia, and hence more manageable.
Had Brenton held within himself one tenth of Reed Opdyke's staying power, all would have come out right in the end.
If he had had one tenth of her will power, he'd have counted.
Portugal, without flocks or fire, without coals or capital, could never have manufactured cloth enough to cover the tenth part of her population, at ten times the expense.
This is at least his tenth turn up and down the Battery.
The only mistake of Charles Tenth was not to have fifty thousand men around Paris to force their acceptance.
The pumpkin they cut into thin slices and dry in the sun, which reduces it to a small size, and not more than a tenth of its original weight.
It is certainly somewhat late in English history that this "Walled Ford" is heard of--with the tenth century.
We hear nothing more of this town during the remainder of the tenth century, but we have a long account in what is probably an accurate record of the rising of the townsmen against the Danes in the beginning of the eleventh.
Old Windsor we have already dealt with, and made it out from a fifth to a tenth of Wallingford.
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenthin Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
The first originates with the famous anatomist and physiologist Karl Friedrich Burdach, who from his tenth to his thirtieth year had occasional attacks of moon walking, although he apparently "enjoyed the most perfect health.
It was reoccupied in July, 1872, by two companies of theTenth Cavalry under Colonel Benjamin H.
After the brief stay of the Tenth Cavalry a company of the Sixth Cavalry and a detachment of the Fifth Infantry were assigned to the post to help police the country, with Lieutenant Thomas M.
A detachment of regular troops from the first battalion of the Tenth United States Infantry in command of Major James M.
I am not speaking now in a chronological sense, but of the highest intellectual point reached by the doctrines of Taoism, which began to decline long before the writer of this poem, himself a pure Taoist of the tenth century, was born.
The nine husbands them all agreed that the bold tenth man, who had not run away, should be at once appointed their president; but on coming to offer him the post, they found that he had died of fright!
The demand for army surgeons at this time became very great; and although not a graduate, I found no difficulty in getting the place of Assistant-Surgeon to the Tenth Indiana Volunteers.
Richard Ralestone was born in England, but he left there in his tenth year.
She read aloud slowly: "'This Room Was Occupied by General Andrew Jackson, the Victor of the Battle of New Orleans, upon the Tenth Day after the Battle.
Val had no doubt that a woodsman might have done the whole job better in much less time and without a tenth of the effort they had expended.
There are charming references to singing-insects in poetical collections made during the tenth century, and doubtless containing many compositions of a yet earlier period.
Some of these are very old,--dating back to the tenthcentury at least.
Brederode says he always comes here when he's anywhere in the neighborhood, for a look at the Prinzenhof on the tenth of July," Robert went on.
I knew this when Rob van Buren spoke of the two girls who were with him at the Prinzenhof on July tenth as his "American cousin and an English friend.
An act of parliament was passed enabling the marquis to reap the benefit and profit from this invention, subject to a tenth part which was reserved for the king and his heirs.
A lexicographer of the tenth century, composer of the most comprehensive Greek dictionary of early times.
The seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth sections, treat on a mode of shares in trade and shipping, viz.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: decimal; fifth; sixth; tithe
