8 Metaphors for eighth

One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it.

In 1870, according to Squier, seven eighths of the population of Cuzco were still pure Indian.

" "Not much difference, then; but, I tell you what, that old Twenty-eighth is a whoppera thousand men.

The eighth of this month was the anniversary of the birth of the Virgin, and the celebration, if such it might be called, commenced the evening before, It is the custom, and Heaven only knows how it originated, for the people of the lower class to go through the streets in a company, blowing little penny whistles.

The seventh is a singularly unentertaining dispute, in which typical representatives of age and youth abuse one another by turns; the eighth is a description of the golden age, a theme Spenser had omitted; and lastly, in the ninth we return to the opening love-motive, this time, as in the Calender, amid the frosts of winter.

Not an eighth of a mile ahead was the tamarack forest.

Probably not more than five-eighths of the men of legal age, qualified to vote, are heads of families, and not more than that proportion of adult women are united with men in the legal merger of married life.

The eighth is his favourite commandment.

8 Metaphors for  eighth