| 单词 | ninety-nine |
| 例句 | "Car number four cost eighty-six pounds—a real wreck that was—and sold for six hundred and ninety-nine pounds fifty." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z I brushed my hair ninety-nine times a night to bring luck to our marital bed, in hopes of conceiving a son. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The plan was to fling particles through a tunnel fifty-two miles long, achieving a truly staggering ninety-nine trillion volts of energy. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But I told no one I was buying ninety-nine grams of pork, seven-eighths of a bushel of spinach, four and three-quarter cubes of tofu. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Hercules fought ninety-nine percent of everything in Ancient Greece.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then, trying to remember all of the goldfish’s instructions, she cracked off a small bit of stone and rubbed it up and down the needle ninety-nine times before tossing it back to the ground. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I asked him four hundred times whether he was okay, or if he was mad at me, or what was wrong, and three hundred and ninety-nine times he answered “Yes,” “No,” and “Nothing.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I’m ninety-nine percent sure he has no idea what all of us are doing in the lab anyway. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Mama asked as she browsed through the piles of videos that cost only ninety-nine cents each. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Nine hundred and ninety-nine small dragon ornaments perch on the ridges of those tiled roofs. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Did my grandmother really live to be ninety-nine? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “At the souvenir shop. Fourteen ninety-nine. That place has everything.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Nine trillion, nine hundred ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine,” recited Milo breathlessly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The harpies washed with lava instead of water, to get that extra-dean sparkle and kill ninety-nine point nine percent of all germs, so Annabeth and I had to wear asbestos gloves and aprons. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Four ninety-nine ninety-five, plus tax,” Bobby Gene whispered. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I open the flap on the hot bag and say, “That’s thirty-four ninety-nine, please.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I learned that I had been barred from the building for "ninety-nine years and a day." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There were none among the ninety-nine students taking honors English III. There were two among the ninety-one students taking honors English IV. There were none on the student council. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "Nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds and fifty pence," the father said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Dark and deep as the mud of the Nile, Set brooded lumpily through a mist of sandalwood incense—ninety-nine cents at Schmitt’s—over all kinds of mystic ceremonies, weird rites and wicked plots. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z But I’m ninety-nine percent sure he has no idea what luciferin is. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. Nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “Well, this hippo had a ball back in Chicago. Whoa Jesus, ninety-nine!” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know this is exactly what she would have wished me to do. Besides, what is another ninety-nine years? I’ll soon be young again and I’ll start over.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He lived that way for ninety-nine years, and so far I followed his directions for 101. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Got the whole bag for a dollar ninety-nine.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Someone else offered seventy-five cents, then a dollar, and before too long it was up to nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “But Emperor Zu did not live an extra nine hundred and ninety-nine years,” the stonecutter said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Me: "The rule of nines. If you add up all those numbers, the body parts, you get ninety-nine percent. What's the other one percent?" Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Professor Paul, carrying just ninety-nine pounds, ten fewer than Seabiscuit, was skipping along under the light load, inching in on the lead, while Azucar, on the far outside, was driving at them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Adiah has dwelled in my realm for ninety-nine of your mortal years,” she said sharply. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In May 2016, the last surviving member of the Mercury’s War of the Worlds team died at age ninety-nine. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Ashima was five feet four inches, tall for a Bengali woman, ninety-nine pounds. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z My father died at the age of ninety-nine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was now roughly one hundred and ninety-nine to one. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “What you’re suggesting is a one in a million chance, and that means there are nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand other chances to die.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The talk did not die down in nine or even ninety-nine days. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He went to withdraw money from his savings account, in order to continue his steady assault on all nine hundred and ninety-nine possible permutations of a three-digit variable. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Shaker took college seriously: the district had a ninety-nine percent graduation rate and virtually all the kids went on to college of some kind. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “For your information, I got it at the state fair last week, and the man said it had a ninety-nine percent success rate for helping people discover their Talents within one year.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z There were ninety-nine guidelines, all of which we had to memorize, governing the minutiae of inmate life. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I glance at the price tag on a ridiculous pink sweater and see that it’s on sale for ninety-nine dollars. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The seismology section had a million probes down here, with a ninety-nine point eight success rate at predicting the magma flares. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The warm air rushed out—the temperature had to stay at around ninety-nine degrees. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Her other ninety-nine moths had flown off and were spinning through the city in clusters, searching for some hint of activity. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z "Car number three cost one hundred and eleven pounds and sold for nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds and fifty pence." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “I can count backward from one hundred in a duck voice,” Esme volunteered through her sniffles, and then began to demonstrate, quacking: “One hundred, ninety-nine, ninety-eight. . .” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Yeah, all ninety-nine dollars of it,” I reply. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “I won’t have this namby-pamby, wishy-washy nonsense about not hitting people who deserve it. A good thrashing is what’s needed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Have you been beaten often?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Give me a minute,” I say, although I’m already ninety-nine percent sure. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Now, behind those two inches you want to hide Aristotle’s ninety-nine cubits and, speaking only of my tiny error, remain silent about his enormous mistake. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred. But I didn’t want to sell Betsy to white people.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “So then why is this jar of artichoke hearts three ninety- eight instead of three ninety-nine?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The judge sentenced him to ninety-nine years in prison. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Where are we going to get four hundred and ninety-nine dollars?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Most importantly, almost everyone all over the world had these lesions. If they were a health hazard, ninety-nine percent of the population would show some kind of symptoms.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I said, “I’m ninety-nine percent sure I can.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Sitti was eighty and Poppy said her mother had lived to be ninety-nine. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Job duties include reading, remembering encyclopedias, novels, and poetry; and memorizing the first ninety-nine digits of pi. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z There Tasha was, standing in front of a man who I was ninety-nine percent sure was the preacher. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Certainly it was one of the ninety-nine rules—inmates were never to touch gates, apart from the doors of their own cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not ninety-nine cents or a dollar and one cent, but one dollar exactly. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z When this book went to press, he was ninety-nine years old. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Ellsberg leaned to a member of his defense team and moaned, “For this I’m going to do ninety-nine years?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved; but unchanged would have been nearer the mark. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z We prayed together and we practised dhikr, the recitation of the ninety-nine revealed names of God. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z For instance, Mom was ninety-nine percent serious about divorcing Dad if he didn’t come home from jail and get his act together. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “You said you’re ninety-nine percent sure these pills will work, right?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And with a simple flick from his brush, he changed the nineteen to ninety-nine. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “We say that there are ninety-nine different mountains in Nuba and each has its own tribe,” he said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z One down and two thousand four hundred and ninety-nine to go. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Given to me toward some future fortune. “...number ninety, number ninety-three, number ninety-nine, and number one hundred. Please stay.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Every ninety-nine years, someone comes here with their questions. But I will answer only one. So choose your question carefully.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z To commit “a seven-three” was to use seven words when three would do, and a “ninety-nine one hundred” meant quitting on a nearly completed job. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Ninety-eight, ninety-nine, and the elevator comes to a stop at one hundred. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “I mean, I’m not one hundred percent sure, but definitely ninety-nine percent sure.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In social studies I scored ninety-nine percent on the final test on the United States Constitution. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z For a week now it’s been a hundred degrees and ninety-nine percent humidity. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Ford Madox Ford recommended instead that readers "open the book to page ninety-nine and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you". Putting the Page 99 test to the, er, test 2010-09-27T19:00:00Z Does Thomas Edison’s definition of genius —”one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration” — also apply to art? Tim’s Vermeer: Unlocking an Old Master’s Mystery 2014-01-31T16:57:33Z In another, ninety-nine per cent of students who said they used an artificial limb really didn’t. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z There are Toronto celebrities, but ninety-nine per cent of them became celebrities elsewhere. The Charms of Toronto for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Also, Billy Wayne proposes to solve income inequality by simply moving one hundred and ninety-nine per cent of the population into the most affluent percentile. Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?” Reviewed 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Women’s-health providers have received an influx of requests for the devices, which, once implanted within the uterus, are ninety-nine per cent effective at preventing pregnancy for up to ten years, depending on the model. Birth-Control Fears in the Age of Trump 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Along with his father’s mug shot, Kaphar found mug shots of ninety-nine other men with his father’s first and last name. Confronting America’s Shameful Mass Incarceration with Art 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Bigelow recognized ninety-nine of them; “The Moonflower Vine,” about a family that lives on a farm in Missouri, was the exception. The Custodian of Forgotten Books 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z The law threatens doctors who perform abortions with up to ninety-nine years in prison. The Messiness of Reproduction and the Dishonesty of Anti-Abortion Propaganda 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z To share that with ninety-nine other Withnail and I fans is really special. Watch Withnail and I at Crow Crag? I'll drink to that! 2013-06-12T12:56:57Z Stevens, who died last month, at the age of ninety-nine, believed that Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, wrote Shakespeare’s plays. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z That's the story they are told; it happens to one, not to the ninety-nine. The Great Gatsby and the American dream 2012-05-25T07:00:01Z At ninety-nine, Wayne Thiebaud—one of America’s greatest painters, and certainly its premier painter of food—is still going strong. Wayne Thiebaud’s “Stuffed” 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Brandsen said that she still commands fascination: “Ninety-eight to ninety-nine percent of the seats” for each performance of the ballet were sold in 2016, he said. Femme Fatale, Fallen Woman, Spy: Looking for the Real Mata Hari 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s also skyrocketed: a million strong, with participants from ninety-nine countries. The Story of the Subtle Asian Traits Facebook Group 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z The whimsical superfluousness of such stories becomes in the aggregate ninety-nine chapters of “Life,” a massive encyclopedia of the off-kilter quotidian. The Absolute Originality of Georges Perec 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z For dessert I picked from displays in a cart—chocolate cake, sugared strawberries—and the three courses cost ninety-nine cents. Garlic with Everything 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Along with minimal commentary, he submits ninety-nine numbered exhibition items—documents, photographs, objects, scribbles, and doodles—for our consideration. What Color Were Kafka’s Eyes? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z They’re manufactured clones of the Angels, who share ninety-nine per cent of their genetic material with humans, distinguishing them from super robots like the Transformers, which are sentient but alien by design. How “Neon Genesis Evangelion” Reimagined Our Relationship to Machines 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z She says that, in recent years, artists have started demanding a share of the publishing "ninety-nine per cent of the time". Meet the songwriters who told pop stars: 'Don't steal from us' 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Buck testified that he was “ninety-nine and forty-four one-hundredths” percent sure the drawers were closed, because the tool chest could tip over if they were left open. Judge undercuts ex-D.A. Jackie Lacey's initial decision not to charge Ed Buck in fatal overdose 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Most seedlings die within a year; the mortality rate is more than ninety-nine per cent. The Past and the Future of the Earth’s Oldest Trees 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Three hundred and ninety-nine years later this country is making it harder for those fleeing intolerable situations to find shelter in America. Editorial Roundup: New England 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z So far, at least ninety-nine of the workers who were detained in August have been indicted, but none of the companies they work for has been charged with a crime. After ICE Came to Morton, Mississippi 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z William James estimated that “ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual.” Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z “Every person I’ve ever met at C.B.P. fundamentally believes that ninety-nine per cent of asylum claims are what a smuggler convinced people to say,” one Administration official told me, referring to the Secretary’s background. Why Trump’s Fourth Secretary of Homeland Security Just Resigned 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The initial price was a hundred and ninety-nine dollars. Is Amazon Unstoppable? 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z At White Castle, the Impossible Slider sells for a dollar ninety-nine, one of the highest prices on the menu. Can a Burger Help Solve Climate Change? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z If he were convicted, Kebort could face anywhere from five to ninety-nine years in prison. The Perils of Semi-Legal Poker 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Of all the Democrats vying to challenge Trump, he is the only candidate to have visited each of Iowa’s ninety-nine counties. Why John Delaney Won’t Drop Out of the Presidential Race 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Ray was sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison. The Assassin Next Door 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The law, which is being challenged in court, declares that performing an abortion, except when the life of the mother is in danger, is a felony punishable by ninety-nine years in prison. How Illinois Became an Abortion-Rights Haven 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Eventually, the screens showed that Cabán was ahead by a little more than a thousand votes with ninety-nine percent of the precincts reporting. Tiffany Cabán Upends Politics As Usual in Queens 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z “You have to understand that ninety-nine per cent of the people don’t understand the lyrics, so you have to come up with something to keep the drama in the show,” Kruspe has said. Rammstein’s Heavy and Cathartic Camp 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The State Senate voted twenty-five to six to ban virtually all abortions, and to establish criminal penalties of up to ninety-nine years in prison for doctors who perform them. The Abortion Fight and the Pretense of Precedent 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z But I imagine that, for someone with a job that ninety-nine per cent of people don’t actually understand, that might be additionally stressful. A Groundbreaking Mathematician on the Politics of Her Field 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z When the two medications are taken together, they work between ninety-five and ninety-nine per cent of the time, depending on gestational age. The Challenges of Innovating Access to Abortion 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z In the end, Spahn received only a hundred and fifty-seven votes out of the nine hundred and ninety-nine cast. How Trump Made War on Angela Merkel and Europe 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The fans were sparse on the ground for the Surf Ranch Pro, which was not a surprise, with adult day passes going for ninety-nine dollars. Kelly Slater’s Shock Wave 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Another study showed them failing ninety-nine per cent of the time. The Recounts in Florida and Georgia Bring a Touch of Fairness to a Dysfunctional Election Day 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z According to the Brennan Center for Justice, ninety-nine bills designed to diminish voter access were introduced last year in thirty-one state legislatures. Voter-Suppression Tactics in the Age of Trump 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z The conviction rate across the country is more than ninety-nine per cent. Why Did China’s Biggest Movie Star and the Interpol Chief Vanish? 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z One of the account’s latest posts, on Tuesday evening, stated, “The ninety-nine percent are just a bunch of Zero’$.” F.B.I. Arrests Utah Man in Ricin Scare at Pentagon 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Twitter has not banned Jones, however, and even as he shouted about being silenced, he was live streaming the spectacle to his eight hundred and ninety-nine thousand followers on Dorsey’s platform. Facebook and Twitter’s Rehearsed Dance on Capitol Hill 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “My mom is ninety-nine years old, and right now I only have to take her a half mile to the polls. If they shut them down, I'd have to go twenty.” A Win in the Battle to Vote in Georgia 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z “He is certainly more politically astute on the mechanics of running a campaign than ninety-nine per cent of donors out there.” Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z “I’m not telling you that to try and make you feel better. Just that we’ve made some serious changes. Because ninety-nine per cent isn’t good enough.” Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z So, if you look at all the statistics on fireworks accidents, ninety-nine percent of them are people using consumer fireworks. A pyrotechnics expert describes what it’s like running a fireworks show 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Not to be morbid about it, but her father had lived to be ninety-nine. “The First World” 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z He voted against the bill because “ninety-nine percent of abortions take place before 20 weeks, so this is a solution in search of a problem.” Abortion ban bill fails to advance in the Senate 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z The campaign highlighted an open letter signed by ninety-nine former Justice Department officials from both parties who declared that they were “astonished and perplexed” by Comey’s actions. James Comey’s Conspicuous Independence 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z “The community of people that work in sensory substitution is very small, and ninety-nine per cent of them, including me, used to be very focussed on restoration, rehabilitation, and basic science,” Amedi told me. Seeing with Your Tongue 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z In the end, the votes from Noyers uncannily reflected the over-all national tally: a hundred and ninety-nine votes for Macron, a hundred and twenty for Le Pen, and forty-three blank ballots. The French Vote, Celebrate, and Return to Normal in Grand Style 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Fresh fish will be provided on board, and, for an additional charge of ninety-nine cents, grooming combs with your choice of decal initials and animal-face emojis will be provided in recyclable envelopes. Boarding Calls for Flood Airlines 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z In the hundred and ninety-nine years since “Frankenstein” was published, it has never left our consciousness. Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Loosely based on the Japanese video game of the same name, and set in a future in which dance has been outlawed, it had a cast of fifty-six; the theatre’s capacity was only ninety-nine people. A Protest Musical for the Trump Era 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Fitch asked the harried assistant if the calls were running ninety-nine to one against the proposed legislation. What Calling Congress Achieves 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z During an aerial attack, you could shoot down ninety-nine per cent of the enemy’s bombers—and the plane that you missed could obliterate an entire city. World War Three, by Mistake 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z “Ideally, in a democracy, everybody would agree that climate change is the consequence of man-made behavior, because that’s what ninety-nine per cent of scientists tell us,” he said. Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Occupy Wall Street had come and gone, and while the ninety-nine and the one per cent didn’t disappear, black and white came to the fore. Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Bryant hit twenty-six homers and knocked in ninety-nine runs last season to earn National League Rookie of the Year honors. The Most Pleasing Campaign of 2016 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z And so we have a situation where one woman, born with the biological equivalent of a turbocharger, is now being allowed to “compete” against the ninety-nine per cent of women who have no such advantage. Caster Semenya and the Logic of Olympic Competition 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z “My interest in the Great Plate Count Anomaly was ninety-nine per cent academic; it was a big intellectual challenge.” Miracle Microbes? 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z After seeing them, Poland’s deputy culture minister said that he was “more than ninety-nine per cent sure” that the train was there. Searching for Nazi Gold 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z In the early hours of Tuesday morning, with ninety-nine per cent of the precincts having reported, the delegate count was six hundred and sixty-five for Clinton, and six hundred and sixty-two for Sanders. Bernie Sanders Just Changed the Democratic Party 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The Cruz campaign had dormitories of volunteers working to turn out the vote, and the candidate himself visited each of Iowa’s ninety-nine counties. Ted Cruz Wins, Trump Loses—For Now 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z “It’s like ninety-nine local elections happening simultaneously,” he said, referring to Iowa’s ninety-nine counties. The Iowa Caucus’s Catnip King 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z “Something like ninety-nine per cent of all collectors—the rich, those who are interested and will support museums in the future—are collectors of contemporary art,” he said. The Met Gets with It 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z He emerged into the corridor and told her to relax: Leyla would receive ninety-nine lashes and then be freed. An Iranian Woman’s Battle to End Stoning 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z By some estimates, ninety-nine per cent of ancient Greek literature has been lost, and Latin has not fared much better. The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The Conservatives had ninety-nine; the N.D.P., forty-four; the separatist Bloc Québécois, ten; and the Green Party, one. What Justin Trudeau’s Victory Means for Canada 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z With roughly half the number of students as Jamaica, Townsend Harris had graduation rates that fluctuated between ninety-nine and a hundred per cent. The Life and Death of an Urban School 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z First up, an admission: like tens of millions of Americans, I am a member of Prime, Amazon.com’s program that charges ninety-nine dollars annually for unlimited shipping and other benefits. Amazon and the Realities of the “New Economy” 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Murillo Karam declared that his office had already arrested ninety-nine people. The Missing 43: The Mexican Government's Case Collapses 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z With Boggs at two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine on an off day in August, Hawkins saw Gwynn hit No. 2,999 in St. Louis then followed the Padres to Montreal. Watching Alex Rodriguez Hit No. 3,000 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Twenty-eight people were killed and ninety-nine wounded, grievously wounded in many cases. Sen. John McCain Remembers the Female Vets of the Gulf War 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z In a televised debate on Monday, Gardner portrayed Udall as a patsy for Obama, saying that he had voted with the President ninety-nine per cent of the time. Cassidy’s Count: The Midterm Elections 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z How many retailers today would sign a ninety-nine year lease? Sears Long Sad Fall 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z The partnership was negotiated between EnergIce and Learfield Sports, which manages the multimedia rights for ninety-nine collegiate titles and properties, including Army Sports Properties. Energy Ice Bar Partners With Army Athletics 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z At ninety-nine cents a download, we decided, it would be easy enough for me just to buy it. Amazon’s Failed Pitch to Authors 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z She emerged from the lower reaches of the ninety-nine per cent, growing up poor in Beaumont, at the far eastern edge of Texas. Cecily McMillan, from Zuccoti Park to Rikers 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z It is ninety-nine per cent black, effectively as segregated as the one her grandfather attended a half century ago. Sixty Years Later, We Need a New Brown 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z The agency negotiated a settlement with Duke worth only ninety-nine thousand dollars, with no requirement for a cleanup. Money, Politics, and Pollution in North Carolina 2014-05-07T04:00:00Z The middle-class model worked much better for about ninety-nine percent of the population, but that doesn’t make it some kind of dialectic inevitability. Plutocracy without end: Why the 1 percent always defeats the middle class 2014-03-30T11:00:00Z There isn’t a penalty for buying one to ten to ninety-nine shares. Why Apple Won't Split the Stock 2012-12-18T15:06:58Z It includes the familiar Seuss characters and illustrations, following "one small yawn that spreads from bedroom to bedroom across the country until finally ninety-nine zillion, nine trillion and three Seussian creatures are sound asleep". 10 Best Android apps this week 2012-08-10T08:37:00Z Were society to pay the incremental dollar of income to a middle-class consumer, he would charge society ninety to ninety-nine cents of consumption for every penny of investment — a steep price. Way of the World: Using Technology to Reinvent Government 2012-05-31T11:00:35Z Autopsies on large numbers of individuals in some of our great hospitals have shown that as many as ninety-nine per cent. of the subjects show tubercular lesions of some kind. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z Best of all, for our present consideration, is the great mass of evidence sustaining the theory that about ninety-nine per cent of our new-born infants are potentially good in an economic and moral sense. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z After Vlatko has prospered in trade, the friend proposes that he marry the emperor’s daughter, with whom ninety-nine men have already died on the wedding night. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z In 1576, when Titian was ninety-nine, he began his last picture, the "Christ of Pity," for the Franciscans of the Frari, with whom he had bargained for a grave in their chapel. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z It was a brilliant offer, one that ninety-nine commoners out of a hundred would have seized with alacrity; for it was not a morgantic union he proposed—he wanted to make Jeanne his princess. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z It was taken by one Captain Lovet for a period of ninety-nine years, and he it was that found out and employed Rudyerd. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z Melbourne streets are wide—a chain and a half or ninety-nine feet in all—and they are busy. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z In 1811 the State gave the property to the Massachusetts General Hospital who leased it for ninety-nine years. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z It was completely unexpected; and though ninety-nine out of a hundred fancied it the bold invention of a desperate woman, all allowed that it added zest to the case. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z And in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand, a girl thus launched would have ended in the gutter. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The four others seem genuine; but I should like to observe them anew; a man could wager ninety-nine to one hundred that they are true. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z It is safe to affirm that ninety-nine hundredths of the criminal class believe, or profess to believe, in the dogmas of the dominant theology, Romish and Protestant; which are essentially the same. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Have not ninety-nine in a hundred of them really thought him the greatest and best man in America? The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred a poisoned dog has had strychnine, this being the favourite drug of all those who employ poison at all. A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them 2012-03-25T02:00:07.687Z The last named made, in one well marked case, six hundred and ninety-five sections from ninety-nine tubercles in different portions of a tuberculous pleura, all of Koch's precautions being observed in the examination. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The mere fact of the possibility of fraud takes away ninety-nine one-hundredths of the worth of the observation, and makes it necessary for us to see it a hundred times before being sure. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z He threw down the small deer, and the ninety-nine others were as big as at first; they burst out of the small one, made a great noise, and filled all the space before the sweat-house. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand of the colonists will never once entertain a thought but of submission to our sovereign and to authority of Parliament, in all possible contingencies. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z Strict obedience to the plain, homely doctrine of Epicurus would prevent ninety-nine one hundredths of the physical and mental ailments which these various systems of healing profess to cure. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z It was at this point that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the defenders of an African village would have flung away their arms and run. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z It might seem that charity could easily be overdone; it must never be forgotten, however, that it is better that ninety-nine guilty should escape rather than that one innocent person should be punished. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Do not ninety-nine persons in a hundred use steel pens, and has more than one out of the ninety-nine the effrontery to say he can write with them? 100 Years Ago: Lighter Than Air 2012-03-03T13:45:02.307Z "The company owes you about nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars, kid!" declared the engineer, giving Ralph a glance of the profoundest admiration. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred a quarrel with a cook, on such grounds, in present conditions, would be prejudicial to the interests of the self as a whole. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z On the tenth day Ali brought all his riches downstairs and filled ninety-nine store-rooms full. Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z The butter record alluded to was ninety-nine pounds six and one-half ounces in thirty days. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z Remember, all the while, that Macy's sells for cash and for cash alone—always and forever; and then consider that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, pianos are sold upon the installment plan. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z How much more pleasant it would be to take them right on to Montreal, which, at any rate, is the destination of ninety-nine out of a hundred at the very least. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z To eat such a breakfast, for ninety-nine men out of every hundred, would be gluttony. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z During his period on the islands, he notes, beachwear became more and more daring, until "ninety-nine hundredths stripping" became acceptable. A forgotten hero of World War II 2012-02-14T00:31:20Z In other words if they establish one hundred circumstances and ninety-nine point to guilt and one circumstance thoroughly established is inconsistent with guilt or perfectly consistent with innocence, that is the end of the case. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z When the name of New Granada was changed to that of Colombia, the time was extended to ninety-nine years. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z Take a thousand dollars and then take nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand; so you will have one thousand piles of one thousand each. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z If any man goes about the world in a chronic unhappiness, it is ninety-nine per cent the fault, not of his circumstances, but of himself. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z According to the sacred Scriptures man has been on this earth five thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine years and no more. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z The Government says the difference was four thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety-nine cents, an absolutely fatal variance. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z At this strange Sabbath service the Infanta Isabel, whose mother's birth was 118 celebrated by the slaying of ninety-nine bulls, is a regular attendant, occupying the royal box and wearing the national colors. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Such," said the curate, "is the true history of the ninety-nine miracles. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z The ninety-nine other men knew this ninety-nine seconds after. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z There were ninety-nine starters from the Clock Tower at 6.30 on that chill May morning: not middle-aged stockbrokers, but chiefly young stockbrokers’ clerks. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z But there were deductions, ninety-nine dollars and thirty-four cents, leaving eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-five cents. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z I'm offering you something that ninety-nine men out of a hundred would jump at in your position, and you throw it in my face. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z We may render, for example, ninety-nine degrees of service to God and one to Mammon, or ninety-nine to Mammon and one to God. Doctrine of the Will 2012-01-22T03:00:26.997Z Professions, which ninety-nine times out of a hundred bring in little besides disappointments, disillusions, a miserable pittance, and often despair? Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z They were all in the four hundred and ninety-nine. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z It is charged that Peck and Dorsey presented a false account for the third quarter of 1879 for four thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety-nine cents. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z About five hundred made for him, and it seemed to Reggy that at least four hundred and ninety-nine of them got him. Frank Merriwell's Alarm Doing His Best 2011-12-30T03:00:28.567Z One man could make as much cotton cloth in a day as two hundred could have done before; but what was to become of the one hundred and ninety-nine? Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z At first sight this seems a hardship, for a hundred and ninety-nine people might have been, and probably were, thrown out of their accustomed employment. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z There was not one chance in five hundred that her work was worth anything; and, in the four hundred and ninety-nine, pray what was he to say? The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z One hundred ninety-nine tornadoes in a single day. The Top 10 Science Stories of 2011 2011-12-22T17:45:05.630Z It is a striking coincidence that in the present war, just ninety-nine years later, the Gordons swung to the Greys' stirrups in another wild charge, this time against the Germans. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z The Burmese speak of the ninety-nine towns of the Shan country. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z Nor was it strange; he looked a likeable fellow--indeed, ninety-nine people out of a hundred liked him at first sight. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z Have you forgotten that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety-nine just persons? A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z You have to pay a higher price for whole wheat bread—because ninety-nine people out of a hundred are ignorant, and insist upon having their foodstuffs pretty to look at! The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Our five per cent. bonds have risen to ninety-seven and ninety-nine. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z I have caused ninety-nine tanks and ancient reservoirs to be dug, or repaired, and sixty-six canals, whereby a great deal of rice land will be made available. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z Why, of course, that the other nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine shares were hidden somewhere in my house, exactly as that one had been. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z They did come rather high; I had to pay ten dollars for the garden set, but I got the lamp for less than five!—four ninety-nine. Three Little Women A Story for Girls 2011-11-17T03:00:30.707Z I consider that the "gastronomic art," as it is pompously called, is ninety-nine per cent plain rubbish. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z “The only name I have ever given him is ‘Tally’; but his correct name has about ninety-nine letters in it and when pronounced it sounds something like Talitheachee-choolee. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z Duttagamini, king of Ceylon, is said to have built ninety-nine great temples. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z Thus, one reporteth, how in the Persecution under Dioeletian, there were neither under nor over, but just nine hundred ninety-nine martyrs. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Now, three months later, Crosses has announced plans to release a Collector’s Bundle – ninety-nine dollars worth of merchandise, collectibles, and the exact same music they gave away for free earlier this year. Can Grocery Store Marketing Work in the Music Biz? 2011-11-09T15:01:25Z I did not blench when I learned that, judicial executions apart, ninety-nine per cent. of hangings were suicidal, so that, certain other precautions being observed, a presumption could be made preponderatingly probable. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z Once again the instrument with plugs was produced, and the ninety-nine game played. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z That is to say, in ninety-nine out of a hundred cases where she could please she must scorn and put aside all thoughts of pleasing. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z In the furnishing of ninety-nine out of every hundred of the fine mansions that surround the capital, pictures—real pictures—have, I have been told by those who know, been the last thing thought of. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z He expired at Potsdam on the 15th of June 1888, after a reign of ninety-nine days. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z Dry cut resolutions, imprudently adopted, and pressed upon unwilling populations would have ninety-nine chances out of a hundred to be more injurious than profitable. England, Canada and the Great War 2011-10-20T02:00:21.577Z He thought "ninety-nine," and the stranger smiled very kindly at him. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z They become slaveholders and landed proprietors; and, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, they are better qualified to become constituents of our institution, than even a certain class of our native born.... The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 2011-10-19T02:00:21.010Z The Troop at this time consisted of three officers, one contract surgeon, ninety-nine men, one hundred and four horses and twenty mules. Campaign of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry April 25-November 11, 1898 2011-10-16T02:00:16.233Z “Councils of war never fight” is an old maxim, justified in ninety-nine cases in a hundred. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z This was obtained, at a rental of five shillings per annum, on a lease of ninety-nine years. Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. 2011-10-13T02:00:37.230Z "Now just go on thinking 'ninety-nine'…" and whether he floated out of the window, or vanished like the Cheshire cat, or walked away in the ordinary manner, Archie was quite unaware. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Such precisely is the position in which ninety-nine out of a hundred Roman Catholics are placed. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z "Perfectly true; but in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred I shouldn't mean it." The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z “Charlie, there’s about ninety-nine men in a hundred who would think you a fool,” Jack said as he took the diamond, and then gave his old friend’s hand a grip. Luck at the Diamond Fields 2011-10-06T02:00:43.067Z Fr�lich was small, round, and pink, and always dressed in a swallow-tail coat, of which, thanks to the munificence of the King, he had ninety-nine. The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong 2011-10-06T02:00:36.083Z The events of this short reign, which lasted 890 only ninety-nine days, have chiefly a personal interest, and are narrated under the articles Frederick III. and Bismarck. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z In France sparks had been drawn from a rod ninety-nine feet high, but this did not reach into the clouds. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z The fact is pretty well established, that he won no less than ninety-nine belts; and at various places he tried hard to make the number up to an even hundred, but laboured in vain. Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z And ninety-nine chances in a hundred it will lead you into complications. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z The ninety-nine names or attributes of God are then recited, while the sheik counts the ninety-nine beads of his chaplet. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred a mortally wounded crocodile can scramble to deep water and get away; but the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut was literally broken into three pieces. The Second Jungle Book 2011-09-10T02:00:30.870Z ‘Have you really been in this bag ninety-nine years?’ she asked, not being able to get over her surprise. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z Did he not, as a lawyer, know, that to bring a man from his shop to the dock, the chances must be at least ninety-nine out of a hundred that he is guilty. In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 2011-08-25T02:00:34.247Z The consent of the authorities was graciously given, whereupon the prize-winner purchased for himself a golden-eagle writing stand for which he gave a hundred sovereigns, adding ninety-nine pounds fifteen shillings to the prize-money. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z Remember that in ninety-nine times out of a hundred every man hath his own ends to serve, and if you are not eager and brave another will outdo you. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the action condemned by the criminal law will be condemned by the moralist. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z To say that a man is a Freethinker is to give, to ninety-nine people out of a hundred, the impression that he is anti-religious. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z You have committed the unpardonable sin by turning out to be just one of the ninety-nine, after all. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z There are two principal kinds of pleasures that man seeks; one is material pleasures, and about ninety-nine per cent of the human family devote themselves to these. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z The votes of the electoral colleges were ninety-nine for General Jackson, eighty-four for Mr. Adams, forty-one for Mr. Crawford, and thirty-seven for Mr. Clay. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z A terrier ninety-nine times out of a hundred is bitten through the muzzle, under the jaws, and about the skull and ears, and when inexperienced, about the fore-legs and shoulders. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z They regard it as the command of God; and that is the only reason why it is practised by ninety-nine out of every hundred of the polygamists of Utah. The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It 2011-07-21T02:00:23.213Z Of one hundred books extended by the insertion of prints which were not made for them, ninety-nine are ruined; the hundredth book is no longer a book; it is a museum. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z You are of that one per cent, and you are here in order that you may enlighten the other ninety-nine per cent. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z But the chances are that, if left to their own guidance, ninety-nine persons out of a hundred would choose exactly the wrong time to see these mountains. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z Valentine! you have said that in ninety-nine days of a hundred you can govern your master. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z However, to conform to the requirements of the law, it fixes its duration at ninety-nine years, which shall commence on the day of its definitive organization. Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z Referring to the total of coalition seats, Ms. Yingluck said at a news conference: “Two hundred ninety-nine is a beautiful number.” Victorious Thai Party Forms Coalition 2011-07-04T08:51:51Z In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the play will contain little except action. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z G is in 4to, of ninety-nine leaves, with twenty-one lines in each. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z You may fancy his skill from the time we made—ninety-nine miles, was it not? The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z His temperance and tranquil spirit were probably favourable to longevity, as he died on the verge of ninety-nine, two hundred and sixty-four years before the Christian era. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z Emperor; his reign of ninety-nine days; his death; succession of William II. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z From the beginning of time we have written our prescriptions in such a way that ninety-nine out of one hundred patients have not been able to understand them. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z "Padded cell number nine hundred and ninety-nine," whispered Billy. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z His father lived to the age of one hundred and seven and his mother to one hundred and five and he himself lived to the age of ninety-nine years. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z I did try to get better terms," David answered, looking wistfully across the fields, "and I mentioned ninety-nine years as the term of the lease, and he nearly turned me out of his office. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z William I., beloved by the German people as no sovereign before him had been, died on the 9th of March, and his son and heir, Frederick III., began his reign of ninety-nine days. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z If that happened a hundred times, in ninety-nine the bloke would be kicked to death before he could say "knife." From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z The Prussians had fifteen officers and ninety-nine men killed and wounded; among the wounded were the Division-Commander and his general-staff officer. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z Counting by moons he claims to have lived there ninety-nine years. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z In fact, no lease ought to be less than ninety-nine years. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Margaret had a fine spirit of her own, and could have borne the downfall of her illusions and hopes as well as ninety-nine young women out of a hundred. Boston Neighbours In Town and Out 2011-05-24T02:00:13.567Z Ten to one she goes to pieces on the breakers before ever sighting land again, and a hundred to ninety-nine her cargo is thrown overboard before she reaches mid-sea. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z I mean ninety-nine out of every hundred of the men who will read this, and, in a modified degree, all the women whom they have drilled to acquiescence in their decisions. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z The number of public, and absolutely free schools, is one hundred and ninety-nine; embracing fifteen schools for the instruction of colored children. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z "Then I suppose we'll have to stand it," sighed Mr. Huntington, "but it seems decidedly unfortunate that when ninety-nine school-ma'ams out of a hundred have some measure of attractiveness, you should have chosen the hundredth." The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z The chimes consist of ninety-nine bells, the smallest of which is only fifteen inches in circumference, while the largest weighs eight tons. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z Each of these companies was allotted a definite sphere of influence, and was granted a concession for ninety-nine years from its date of formation, the concessions thus terminating at various dates between 1950 and 1960. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Many of them were perfectly deprived of sight, and ninety-nine out of a hundred that were so had their eyes shut. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z I honestly believe that in ninety-nine percent of the cases in our league, a player doesn't intend to hurt anybody. Rondo's status up in air 2011-05-08T21:44:00Z What a mighty tower it is! ninety-nine feet high, the walls eleven feet thick, strengthened on all sides by straight buttresses, an impressive memorial of the Normans. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Ask anyone the question, where in literature is jealousy best illustrated, and ninety-nine people in a hundred will reply, Othello. A Syrup of the Bees 2011-04-23T02:00:04.300Z There is no intervening esplanade or road or path such as cuts off ninety-nine out of the hundred of houses that face the sea. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z He did, as a matter of fact, a little later grant a ninety-nine years' lease, on very favourable terms, of an excellent site for the Jewish place of worship. John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z There were ninety-nine chances in a hundred that Butler's life would never be adequately, or even intelligently, recorded. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The desires and pursuits of ninety-nine out of a hundred men are so lunatical that we should die of laughing at one another, if we were not all mad together. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Every note of it would be fresh to nine hundred and ninety-nine opera-goers out of a thousand. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Out of every thousand men, nine hundred and ninety-nine might well find food for envy in this way luck had served him. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z Although the land now belonged irrevocably to the Indians, it was possible for white people to secure ninety-nine year leases from the Indian agent. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z From the fact that she showed just ninety-nine dollars, it was probable that she had only recently changed one of the one-hundred-dollar bills taken from young Trafton. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z Of these hundred women, ninety-nine discarded his protection. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Jackson led with ninety-nine votes; Adams was next with eighty-four; Crawford followed with forty-one; and Clay came last with thirty-seven. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z Could it possibly be that sort of thing in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine? The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z “Nine hundred and ninety-nine,” answered Pietie, who was good at arithmetic. Outa Karel's Stories South African Folk-Lore Tales 2011-03-14T03:01:04.340Z There are ninety-nine chances to one against his escaping without some inquiry after his finger, some mention of the fox, some chance allusion which will betray him. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z The weight of matter sent abroad for ten years, ending 1877, was ninety-nine thousand pounds. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z At the moment the representation in the Senate was evenly balanced, but in the House it stood against the South, one hundred and forty-one to ninety-nine. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z Dawson was now the home of twenty thousand people, ninety-nine per cent. adult males. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z It is nine hundred and ninety-nine years since there was a red tortoise, so next year this time baasjes can begin to look for one. Outa Karel's Stories South African Folk-Lore Tales 2011-03-14T03:01:04.340Z Shall he pick out the one chance for, out of the ninety-nine against, there being any real meaning in her message, to build upon it this fool's errand. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z But we paid him the ninety-nine and Jack threw in another. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z The men in the Rossiter circle were of the four hundred and ninety-nine to whom I wasn't attractive; the women were all civil—from a distance. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Out of every thousand individuals we have certain evidence that nine hundred and ninety-nine are brought into existence by the ordinary modes of generation; that is, they depend upon progenitors. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Then when it comes to a race between Fear and Curiosity, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred Curiosity wins hands down. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z The net gain would be—the figures flew quickly through his mind—ninety-nine dollars and ninety-four cents; quite a good piece of business for Dave. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z He came back to appear against Alford at his trial and when the jury gave Alford ninety-nine years, Anderson was glad, of course. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z With these ancient craft the Kaiser seized a piece of Chinese territory for himself, and demanded that it should be leased to him with sovereign rights for ninety-nine years. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z Does not sound philosophy demand that the proof of the casual production of the thousandth case shall be as decided as that of the normal generation of the nine hundred and ninety-nine? The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z The gum-drop filled with cotton loses its charm when you contrast it with Consolidated Radium containing one part of radium and ninety-nine parts of water. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z It would be a very large pie, he thought, with nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine birds in it. The Joyous Story of Toto 2011-02-16T03:00:35.520Z No. 67 of one hundred and ninety-nine copies printed. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z At sixteen he went to the high school, where he was adored by his teachers because he stood ninety-nine in algebra. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z Not that he hasn't wickedness for ninety-nine; still, even now I don't despair of him. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z “If a bank lost fifteen dollars on my idiocy it would be out ninety-nine hundred and eighty-five dollars less than that Oklahoma institution is on its hot-air loan.” The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it will be found that the doctrine is applicable, and the master protected from liability. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z It was one of his favorite forms of mental pastime to try and discover the reason of ninety-nine per cent, of the marriages which had come under his fairly intimate observation. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, where a man passes from this state into the future state, you'll find a doctor mixed up in it somewhere, even if it's only as a coroner. Half-Hours with the Idiot 2011-01-22T03:00:18.853Z Such tribunals, consisting of judges, numerous enough, and perfectly competent to settle justly probably ninety-nine one-hundredths of all the controversies that arise among men, could be obtained in every village. A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People 2011-01-22T03:00:14.093Z The king had had ninety-nine swineherds, who one and all had disappeared, and in all probability would never again be heard of. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z Remember that I only did what ninety-nine men out of a hundred would have done in my place. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z "Only too often, but these are the impossible marriages, and ninety-nine per cent. of them prove failures, or worse." Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z Then I wrote about embryology of fishes because I knew nothing about it and reasoned that ninety-nine men in a hundred would be in the same boat. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z With such marvellous delicacy did they test the current of electricity sent through it, that it was determined that of one thousand parts, over nine hundred and ninety-nine came out at the other end! The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph 2010-12-29T03:00:29.577Z Had voted several times a day in the Sixth Ward, and weighed ninety-nine pounds. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z You have nine hundred and ninety-nine chances against you, and one for you; and will you go on? Gamblers and Gambling 2010-12-26T03:00:19.913Z Jackson's loss was thirty-two white men and twenty-three friendly Indians killed, ninety-nine white men and forty-seven friendly Indians wounded. Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. 2010-12-20T17:12:28.183Z Go and ask the first hundred Frenchmen you meet in the streets of Paris what is the name of the President of the United States, you will find ninety-nine of them unable to tell you. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z “Nineteen ninety-nine won in dazzling fashion,” said Stephen Fybish, a weather historian. July, Though Hot, Falls Short of the Record 2010-08-02T02:09:00Z A meteor shower blinds ninety-nine point nine per cent of the world’s population, and that’s only Chapter 1—things go way south after that. 20 Under 40 Fiction Q. & A.: Karen Russell. 2010-06-07T04:00:00Z "The Truth" is one of the ninety-nine names or epithets of God. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments But they did not use steeples; they erected lofty iron rods, in one instance ninety-nine feet high. The True Benjamin Franklin Actually the duchy of Luxemburg is only nine hundred and ninety-nine square miles and has a population of three hundred thousand persons. The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred twelve o'clock, noon, is early enough; and it is generally the most convenient time. The Science of Being Well And this goes on with a blissful invincible disregard of the fact that in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of the thousand the genius of the teacher isn't and can't be there. The Salvaging Of Civilisation Peculiarly disagreeable taste, gentlemen, that of tears, despite their simple elementary composition—ninety-nine and six-tenths per cent. water, you remember, and the rest a modicum of chloride of sodium, mucus, soda and phosphates. The Haunted Pajamas For out of every thousand Germans nine hundred and ninety-nine would give, with emphasis, a contrary advice, and the remaining one would not agree with me. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen By the fireless cooker you save nine-tenths of the fuel, and ninety-nine hundredths of your temper, your time, and your labor. The Kitchen Encyclopedia Twelfth Edition (Swift & Company) Now it was not difficult to observe, that, after ninety-nine lunar months, the setting of the Pleiades coincided pretty exactly with the same phase of the moon. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 I've forgotten nine hundred and ninety-nine of them but I remember one. The Tempering Heaven, we are assured, is much more pleased to view a repentant sinner than ninety-nine persons who have supported a course of undeviating rectitude. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Any person who had come from the devil would know how to manage a fire better than ninety-nine per cent. of the cooks ever born. The Inventions of the Idiot I counted one hundred and ninety-nine shots, I think, and then——” “And then you risked six lives, Léontine’s among them!” The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 You must persevere, and repeat things to them a hundred times, if ninety-nine will not do. John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced Thus the nine-tenths, the ninety-nine hundredths, perhaps, of the solar systems, would idly revolve like senseless and gigantic mill-wheels, a useless encumbrance of space. Underground Man The victory was all the more popular because ninety-nine out of every hundred spectators had backed the winner. Hard Pressed Now, it is more than probable that ninety-nine out of one hundred of billiard-keepers in New York would not allow such proceedings against their interests, for our descents did not particularly improve their profits. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them When the roll was called it was found that the Ninety-Third had nine officers and ninety-nine men, in all one hundred and eight, killed and wounded. Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude To-day it may be asserted that, out of a hundred men who wear single eye-glasses, ninety-nine see through—the other one. Rambles in Womanland David, in short, was doing just what ninety-nine per cent. of the human race insists on doing; even at the hint of opportunity, he was trying to face about and escape. In And Out But I am sure that either of us could spot the winner in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred within fifty lengths of the post. Hard Pressed The fact that ninety-nine hundredths of these poor people were Roman Catholics compelled us also to confine ourselves to the most simple and fundamental instructions, and to avoid, in any way, arousing religious bigotry. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them When the Italian student leaves the conservatory, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred his ambitions are solely along the line of operatic composition. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Sidney Cooper, the English animal painter, whose work of last year will be exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, this year, died at ninety-nine, practically with his brushes in his hands. Rambles in Womanland Judgment came upon him unexpectedly, suddenly: and probably ninety-nine out of every hundred judgments come in this way. Weighed and Wanting Addresses on the Ten Commandments On Saturday morning the ninety-nine other perfectly beautiful girls were engaged. H. R. And it is a fact that among French prisoners who belong to the better classes, there are ninety-nine out of every hundred who have committed murder, forgery, embezzlement, theft, for the sake of a woman. Her Royal Highness Woman She was too fundamentally honest to try and wriggle out of the scrape as ninety-nine out of a hundred schoolgirls might have done. Just Gerry To be convinced of its truth, nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of every thousand require to SEE it—to be convinced by INDUCTION, founded upon experiment. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology Call on a college student to read any prose passage extempore, and what is the result in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred? The Voice and Spiritual Education Instantly as well as instinctively the other ninety-nine beautiful perfections rose in their boxes and waved their handkerchiefs. H. R. It is of the chocolate kind of literature that ninety-nine out of a hundred persons are thinking when they applaud phrases about the books that cheer us all up. The Book of This and That A lease for an hundred years in some states is deemed a parting with the absolute title to lands though railroads make long leases running for ninety-nine years. Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman I want to say here to young men, that when a young man makes a wrong start, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is ruin to him. Moody's Stories Incidents and Illustrations We think ninety-nine years a long time, but I don’t doubt but that theirs ran for nine hundred and ninety nine years. The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons I am sure that ninety-nine in every hundred of those out of Christ think that, instead of loving them, God hates them. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians "I would not give up my four thousand pounds," said Stuart as he sat down, "if anyone were to offer me three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine." Round the World in Eighty Days Perhaps it may be half and half; then again perhaps it may be in a ratio of ninety-nine per cent. to the first one named and one per cent. to the second! The American Country Girl He longed for love—not for the ordinary springtide passion experienced by ninety-nine men out of a hundred; nor for the ordinary “living-prosaically-ever-after” which is the ultimate sequel to such affairs. What a Man Wills He had given way to her wishes, had been patient and self-sacrificing, more patient than ninety-nine men out of a hundred would have been under the circumstances. A Question of Marriage For, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the fuel for heating the oven costs very little. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend “I am in ninety-nine minds what to wish for,” exclaimed Harry; “we must take care not to be like the foolish old woman in the fairy tale, who got only a yard of black pudding.” Holiday House A Series of Tales Nine hundred and ninety-nine of ’em go By your looks or your acts or your glory. Rewards and Fairies That is, of course, what would occur to you, what would occur to, I dare say, ninety-nine persons out of a hundred. The Intriguers He could tell the difference between a horse and an automobile; he could probably have picked a horse from a herd of cows ninety-nine times out of a hundred. Sube Cane Dexter's theory was correct, his rule a good one probably in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred; only—Anne was the hundredth. Anne The largest documentary library, the Library of the Medical-Pharmaceutical Institute, operates ninety-nine branch facilities, and its annual book inventory has been in excess of 1.2 million volumes. Area Handbook for Romania Nine hundred and ninety-nine can’t bide The shame or mocking or laughter, But the Thousandth Man will stand by your side To the gallows-foot—and after! Rewards and Fairies The Executive Council—corresponding to the BKP Central Committee—is composed of ninety-nine members and forty-seven alternate members. Area Handbook for Bulgaria In high excitement, seeing himself waited for, he takes up a package which he put up for a hundred notes, but which in his opinion may possibly contain a hundred and eleven or only ninety-nine. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. A hundred is just ninety-nine pound nineteen more than he deserves. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland To continue thinking unchallenged is, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, our practical substitute for knowing in the completed sense. Essays in Radical Empiricism To ninety-nine out of a hundred people, this was conclusive. The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin The county elections brought new surprises, and by the end of the second week the liberal gains were reckoned at ninety-nine. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) He was really quite a nice Animal, and his Mummy was very fond of him and of his twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine other brothers that lived at the bottom of the sea. Just So Stories In the ninety-nine other cases, he will accomplish the desired result, but by means totally different from those to which the American housekeeper is accustomed. Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition "I'm twenty-seven, and feel ninety-nine," he capped me. The Brightener Its charter was renewed in 1881 for a period of ninety-nine years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" After all, Kit, these things, in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred, are only snaps of the percussion-cap. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day It may proceed from weakness; though, in ninety-nine cases out of every hundred, it results from that debility which accompanies accumulated fat and sloth. The Dog When you meet an American with all his beard, you want to shake his hands and thank him for not shaving it, as ninety-nine out of every hundred Americans do. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things This implies its omission ninety-nine times out of a hundred. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers He had done more than ninety-nine men out of a hundred would do. The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients That a husband should provide the means of subsistence is the very Magna Charta of honorable marriage; and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand so accept it. Maids Wives and Bachelors Panic spreads throughout the country, causing general suspension of banks; failures in the United States and Canada, five thousand one hundred and twenty-three; liabilities two hundred and ninety-nine million eight hundred thousand dollars. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 Nine times out of ten—not to say ninety-nine times out of a hundred—the passage is bad. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things "The interests of the employers and employed are the same nine times out of ten—I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten." The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 Now, as most purchases are made from the walls of exhibitions, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the copyright is absolutely lost. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" The sons were, in Irish parlance, "good boys," and the girls fine-tempered and good-natured,—as ninety-nine out of the hundred are in the land they come from. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Of the very large number of letters that reach me from readers of the book, quite ninety-nine out of every hundred are concerned with Pisé. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) You forget that ninety-nine sailor-men out of each hundred feed themselves exclusively on dreams. Captain Macedoine's Daughter The plantations have an appearance of high cultivation; a tolerable idea may be formed of their value when you know that last year Demerara numbered seventy-two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine slaves. Wanderings in South America Now on the boat they were ninety-nine percent I. W. W.'s, just a few passengers had bought their passage before. The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry “For there is no use ordering a supper for five hundred if but four hundred and ninety-nine are coming,” he told her. The House of Fulfilment Right is right, though only one man in a thousand pursues it; and wrong will be forever wrong, though it be the allowed practice of the other nine hundred and ninety-nine. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales Now we say that the race is—if not always—ninety-nine times in a hundred—to the swift, and the battle to the strong. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) For it is the machinery of Scotland Yard that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred calls check to the criminal's move. Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police “But what assurance have I, that, unlike the ninety-nine, you will resemble the one-hundredth?” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part "You only did what you thought you ought to do, and ninety-nine times out of a hundred no harm would have come of it." Doubloons—and the Girl In some respects the trial reminds us of one that was to take place ninety-nine years later in Massachusetts. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 In 1706 a lease of ninety-nine years was granted by the corporation of Trinity House to a Captain Lovet, who undertook the management of the affairs connected with the building. Smeaton and Lighthouses A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel And such is the case ninety-nine times out of a hundred. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century The ministers preferred ready money by annuities for ninety-nine years, and by a lottery. Old and New London Volume I Joyce said "ninety-nine" many times obediently, and was like a child in her unconsciousness of self. Banked Fires There will be long-term leases—up to ninety-nine years, but no outright sale. The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce A woman ought to be loved in one way or another by everybody around her; and if she is, then she's doing more in the world than ninety-nine men out of a hundred. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons In addition to their providing for the wants of probably ninety-nine out of a hundred of their own countrymen, our soap manufacturers do an enormous and rapidly growing business abroad. Are we Ruined by the Germans? If you ask ninety-nine out of a hundred Germans they will not give you a reply. German Problems and Personalities The Indian fought as he had always fought, and ninety-nine times out of one hundred he firmly believed that he was enforcing the right. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women The "woman's edition" fever raged with great violence at this time, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the editors of ninety-nine hundredths of them wrote to Miss Anthony for an article. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Morgan said in joke that there was a miscount, and that he actually received only ninety-nine blows. Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools Jackson led with ninety-nine votes in the electoral college; Adams had eighty-four, Crawford forty-one, Clay thirty-seven. Andrew Jackson The answer was such as might be safely given in regard to ninety-nine out of every hundred persons—some vague, indefinite epithet that would apply to almost any one. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education I could sell it for as high as eighty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents, but not a penny dearer, or back the thing must come to me. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) We're not part of that ninety-nine out of a hundred, Sam. Frigid Fracas Merely that I am ninety-nine times stupider than I should be. Mystery Ranch The dragging in of ninety-nine of these, with the transparent object of slurring over the hundredth, which each knew the other was thinking of, merely added to its vividness. When Ghost Meets Ghost That is to say, it is the reality of marriage in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Enough that it was a very little error, and one that might have passed ninety-nine times in a hundred. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) And ninety-nine people out of a hundred don't care. Frigid Fracas A century ago only a few men of science and scientific philosophers had reached it, not twenty five per cent, but now the percentage is nearly ninety and it will soon be ninety-nine. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View Whereas they are, in reality, things not only different, but so opposed, that 36 to advance in the one is, in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred, to retrograde in the other. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) Thursday came—the Thursday of the sacrament and of the coronation; and, with ninety-nine hundredths of the church-going portion of my townsfolk, I went to church as usual. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. For it is a most deplorable fact that ninety-nine out of every hundred of the inhabitants, even of the civilized world, have a very poor conception of the geography and ethnology of the world. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Nay, why should God prefer the penitence of one sinner to the constant goodness of ninety-nine righteous men? Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion These are the men, who, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, make the inventions, discoveries and improvements, which the man with the money-bag exploits. Woman under socialism A man's life is like a musical comedy; there is always one woman in it who is the star—but it takes ninety-nine others to make up the "ensemble." A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl Does He not tell us Himself that, like a good shepherd, He leaves ninety-nine just to go in search of one lost sheep? The Shepherd Of My Soul Brother, we number in all one hundred and thirty-eight in spirit;—ninety-nine, having accomplished their task in the flesh, have departed; thirty-nine, still in the flesh, endeavor their duty to fulfil. Told in the Coffee House Turkish Tales As Murray had intimated, under the new prison law a man could be paroled the day after he was sentenced, though he were in for ninety-nine years. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp Machinery and implements of all sorts will be there in abundance, very differently from the experience of ninety-nine one hundredths of our modern farmers. Woman under socialism Solomon was the only man who ever had six hundred and ninety-nine alibis when one of his wives detected the fragrance of another woman's sachet on his coat lapel. A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl Each Sunday he must play—every motet and aria and choral—and he is ninety-nine. Unfinished Portraits Stories of Musicians and Artists Still I believe that ninety-nine hundredths of the drink which is used, as now used, does more harm than good. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery With ninety-nine out of a hundred biographies the total impression which Carlyle demands, and very properly demands, is, in fact, a total absence of impression. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 "You are just a shade less than ninety-nine point nine nine per cent correct." Occasion for Disaster There are a hundred things that the cleverest man in the world never can understand—and ninety-nine of them are women. A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl It is what ninety-nine men out of a hundred think, but not one in a thousand dares to say. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Use a hyphen in compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine, and in fractions according to the following examples: Twenty-three, eighty-nine; but one hundred and one. The Century Handbook of Writing No one would have built a house on leasehold land, and several of the houses were of so substantial a character that one saw they had been intended to last for more than ninety-nine years. My Autobiography A Fragment The number of tremors required to produce red light is estimated at four hundred and seventy-four million millions a second, and for the production of violet light, six hundred and ninety-nine million millions a second. Under the Maples Boldness, dash, and peculiarly favoring circumstances had taken him through the Comanche lines, 73 when a repetition of the attempt would fail ninety-nine times out of a hundred. The Great Cattle Trail Nothing is truer than that the religious belief of more than ninety-nine hundredths of mankind is determined by the geographical accident of birth. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The Christian therefore would have one chance of being right, and nine hundred and ninety-nine chances of being wrong. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) There are ninety-nine chances to one that he was going to Canada. The Quality of Mercy Besides he had ninety-nine ways of borrowing money and we would have, he said, only a single way of spending it. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales At the time of the Domesday Survey the salt industry was important, and there were ninety-nine mills in the county and thirteen fisheries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" That term, we believe, would accurately describe the creed of ninety-nine out of every hundred, in every part of the world, whose particular faith is merely the result of the geographical accident of their birth. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) For then in ninety-nine cases out of every hundred what is regarded as duty is really a question of expediency. The Truth About Woman In Persia a woman may marry for periods varying from one hour to ninety-nine years. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study It in every age sends ninety-nine hundreds of historical works down the gulf of time. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 An examination of the file of the Journal will show that ninety-nine per cent. of the writers were opposed to the amendment. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Nothing could be more logical than a belief that where one hundred privileges have been opposed and then ninety-nine of them granted, the remaining one will ultimately follow. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV "By thy submission rule," really means in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, "Rule by sex-seduction and flattery." The Truth About Woman She had not dreamed she could win—it had been that ninety-nine in Cicero. Highacres In literature, when nine hundred and ninety-nine souls ignore you, but the thousandth buys your work, or at least borrows it—that is called enormous popularity. A Great Man A Frolic In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the most hot-headed and powerful bull of the caribou will shrink from trying conclusions with a full grown black bear. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories These resulted in county societies in ninety-four of the ninety-nine counties and one hundred new clubs. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV He is said to have reigned ninety-nine years, and to have died at the age of one hundred and forty-one. Japan This guy and me was brung up together," he explains, "and before I went into the fight game we was as close as ninety-nine and a hundred. Kid Scanlan If she could steady him and forgive him ninety-nine times, it is possible that, on the hundredth, she would have nothing to forgive. The Dominant Strain All leaseholders whose leases would expire within ninety-nine years after the passing of the Land Act of 1887 may go to Court, have their contracts broken, and a judicial rent fixed. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Sixty of the ninety-nine public libraries in the State employ women librarians, and five are served by volunteers. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Why is it that ninety-nine persons out of a hundred lose this faculty in the earliest period of their childhood? The Curse of Education Enough to keep you in the Big House for ninety-nine years and then hang you.” The Coyote A Western Story In these modern days education seems to be about ninety-nine parts mental. Rural Life and the Rural School The Irish leaders and the Irish people alike, who support Home Rule, are ninety-nine hundredths disloyal. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule He never suspected that ninety-nine percent of her difficulties were imaginary, and that she had invented them as soon as she saw his face. Rope But nothing but deep-seated and virulent hostility was manifested by ninety-nine out of every hundred of those who gathered about the Courthouse in Newport and reviewed the famous crime in infinite detail. The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan or: the Headless Horror. This remarkable remedy was found by analysis to contain ninety-nine parts of water to one part of harmless salts. Rural Hygiene Next, a wild jargon of unmeaning voices strikes your ear and you discover that ninety-nine people out of a hundred have forgotten how to speak English. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions The total number of mackerel packed on the ice-hulk amounted to the respectable total of two hundred and ninety-nine thousand four hundred and eighty. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule "Nine hundred and ninety-nine more and off we march to Potsdam in the morning." Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 9, 1914 They had shared everything, he said; everything except blows, where he had had a distinct advantage over his squire, having taken ninety-nine out of a hundred beatings. The Story of Don Quixote He waves me away, as Mr. Jeune is quoting some extraordinary document six hundred years old in reply to Sir Horace Davey's authority, which only dates back five hundred and ninety-nine years. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 Certainly, out of a hundred Americans who go abroad ninety-nine return with what they have lost in narrowness of experience completely offset by what they have gained in pretentious affectation. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 I have eaten up one hundred Elephants, a hundred Tigers, a thousand Wolves, and ninety-nine Lions. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales They captured one officer and ninety-nine of other ranks, and several machine guns and a trench mortar. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources Often enough he gets the bonds in London at ninety-eight, only to find that the ninety-nine bid in New York has been withdrawn. Elements of Foreign Exchange A Foreign Exchange Primer A man who by dint of perseverance and self-denial acquired more learning than ninety-nine in a hundred ever got at a university—an accomplished and most trustworthy writer. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 In anticipation of a French attack they brought there, before the 25th, another twenty-nine battalions, making a total of ninety-nine battalions. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War |
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