28 Metaphors for ten

For I must say that nine out of ten of these young men, leaning over backward to be neutral, were pro- Ally, including some with German names.

" "Ten to one she did, and your father is your trustee; and when you marry, he must show his accounts and cash up.

Relying then on this senate, he looks down on the senate which supported Pompeius, in which ten of us were men of consular rank; and if they were all alive now this war would never have arisen at all.

And as for that matter, half-past ten is two hours and a half past their bed-time; they might as well stay an hour longer.

My first ten were all books.

Of our thirteen district health officers, ten are Filipinos.

He looked at her out of the corner of his eye, because about ten of them were pictures of herself, but she was dressed in all kinds of strange costumes.

Young Ten, upon his Two-forty, is the chaperon.

Ten and eleven are genuine thumb-marks; twelve and thirteen are forgeries; but as to fourteen I am very doubtful, though I am inclined to regard it as a forgery.

Ten of them are genuine prints of the prisoner's left thumb and ten are forgeries.

When Shakespeare has Lear say of Cordelia: "Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman," we find that ten of the thirteen words are Saxon, but the other three of Romance (French) origin are as necessary as is a small amount of tin added to copper to make bronze.

Ten and eleven is a common age for girls to be married.

The ten taken from the old and from the new Testament are Audite coeli (Deut., chap.

Ashtavakra said, "Ten is said to be the number of cardinal points, entering into the cognition of men in this world; ten times hundred make up a thousand; ten is the number of months, during which women bear; and ten are the teachers of true knowledge, and ten, the haters thereof, and ten again are those capable of learning it.

" "Of course, you understand that the ten is a charge against the store.

They are divided into many tribes, ten of whom are Christians, and the rest heathens.

At Baltimore there were in 1835 ten colored congregations, with slave and free membership intermingled, several of which had colored ministers; and by 1847 the number of churches had increased to thirteen or more, ten of which were Methodist.

Nineteen of our negroes were carried off, of whom ten were children under eleven years of age.

Of course, letters of introduction have their proper use, but about nine out of ten of them are simply a license to some Clarence to waste an hour of your time and to graft on you for the luncheon and cigars.

Of Shakespeare's thirty-seven dramas, ten are true Chronicle plays of English kings; three are from the legendary annals of Britain; and three more are from the history of other nations.

"4 times two units is 8 units, and 4 times 5 tens is twenty tens.

Ten of those present were actually his own agents, working among their fellow unionists and agitating with themhidden sources of information and of influence at needand yet not one of those ten knew that the Marine Captain upon the platform was his own official chief.

Upon inquiry it was found that there had been between thirty and forty cabin passengers, of whom ten or twelve were ladies.

John Wesley speaks of the serenity with which his mother "worked among her thirteen children;" but ten was the number of those who were spared to enjoy the blessing of that enlightened, affectionate, and admirable training on her part, which has been so fully recorded, and of which the fruits were witnessed especially in the eminence of her sons Charles and John.

Ten of the males are Proprietors, of whom two are minors, and one a person non compos.

28 Metaphors for  ten