But, fortunately, before there was time to do anything so cowardly, a realization of what it meant to thus hang back when I had spoken the words which sent my comrade forward came upon me with full force, and I followed him so closely that he could not have had any suspicion of that which, for the merest fraction of time, found lodgment in my heart.

This almost invisible dot is made of magic rocks and is filled with the song of rapids; this infinitesimal fraction of "Scale five miles to the inch" is a haunted valley of purple pine-woods, and the moon rising, and the lonely cry of a sheep that has lost her little one somewhere in the folds of the hills.

And, as Patricia says, it is an unpleasant thing to realize that your wife is not leaving you through the ordinary channels of death or of type-written decrees of the court, but only in vulgar fractions, as it were" "Please don't be quite so brutal, Rudolph.

I do hope you don't mind my being merely a Stapylton, Olaf, because if only I wasn't too modest to even think of alluding to the circumstance, I would try to tell you about the tiniest fraction of how much a certain ravishingly beautiful half-strainer loves you, Olaf, and the consequences would be deplorable.

Sometimes a sidestep made his blows miss by the slightest fraction of an inch.

She surreptitiously possessed herself of a minute fraction of my heart, which has been missing ever since I saw her.

As a matter of fact the number so raised, for quite two centuries, was only an insignificant fraction of the whole.

Therefore, without more ado (having taken my sorrowful leave of my last guinea, and reduced Carolus Secundus, from a whole number, to decimal fractions) I dispatched a letter into the country, full of excuse, and penitence, baited with all the submissive eloquence imaginable.

If it is used, freedom of movement for the ships must be given up, because they cannot go so far from it as to be obliged to consume a considerable fraction of their coal in reaching it and returning to their station.

It will be plain to the quick-minded that, towards the end, there will be a certain chasing about of little fractions of votes, and a slight modification of the quota due to voting papers having no second or third preferences marked upon them, a chasing about that it will be difficult for an untrained intelligence to follow.

Analytic theory of continued fractions.

For a bare fraction of a second the two men stared at each other, then, instinctively, the warden's right hand moved toward the open drawer of his desk where a revolver lay, and his left toward several electrically connected levers.

Rev. C.C. Jones believed that only an inconsiderable fraction of the slaves could read.

Our ideal decomposition of the drops which are all that we feel into still finer fractions is but an incident in that great transformation of the perceptual order into a conceptual order of which I spoke in my last lecture.

; but what are we to do with the large foreign fraction of our population imported within the last forty years, a great proportion of whom never so much as heard even of the war of 1812?

The same is true of the fourth fraction and the two immediately preceding it.

In chemical compounds, such as water or alcohol, the rate is that of the highest, the others uniting in harmonic fractions.

"Captain Alden" whipped her pistol from its holster, not a fraction of a second before the Master's leaped into his hand.

An imperceptible fraction may, in certain cases, constitute an enormity.

In places where the blacks once had the privilege of getting an elementary education, only an inconceivable fraction of them could rise above illiteracy.

In the commercial production, on large scale, there remains a small fraction of molasses or other harmless substances, indistinguishable by sight, taste, or smell.

"Snobs," and its antithesis, "nobs," arose among the internal fractions of shoemakers perhaps ten years later.

The number of detrimentals has been calculated to amount to three times the number of first editions of the Star newspaper, plus a mean fraction of a child's Banbury cake, multiplied by the nod of a Duchess to a leader of Society in Peckham Rye.

He meditatedthe fraction of a second too long.

I am the additional fraction trailing after the whole number in the rear of a decimal point.