Do we say cent or scent

cent 4370 occurrences

Not at a quarter premium?" "Nor a half," Wingate replied, "nor, as a matter of fact, a hundred per cent.

You mean that we are to sell wheat at about sixty per cent, less than the present market valuein many cases sixty per cent.

You mean that we are to sell wheat at about sixty per cent, less than the present market valuein many cases sixty per cent.

The little boys met us with bow in hand and arrow on string, and cried, "Put up a cent."

Turning to the year 1887, there is every reason to believe that where 7 per cent, are unemployed in the picked, skilled industries of a country, where the normal supply of labour is actually limited by Union regulations, the proportion in unskilled or less organized industries is much larger.

It is probable that 12 per cent, is not an excessive figure to take as the representative of the average proportion of unemployed.

In the recent official returns of wages in textile industries, it is admitted that 10 per cent, should be taken off from the nominal wages for irregularity of employment.

Comparing these figures with the total number of deaths, we find that in the richest city of the world 32.5 per cent., or one in three of the inhabitants, dies dependent on public charity.

Whereas only 5 per cent of the population under 60 years are paupers, the proportion is 40 per cent in the case of those over 70.

In London 22½ per cent of the aged poor are indoor paupers.

While incomes of £100 to £300 have grown by a little more than 50 per cent., those from £300 to £1000 have nearly doubled, those between £1000 and £5000 have more than doubled, and incomes over £5000 have more than trebled.

The gain to the workers is chiefly confined to food prices, which have fallen some 40 per cent since 1880.

Taking the retail prices of foods consumed by London working-class families we find that since 1880 the price of flour has fallen about 60 per cent., bread falling a little more than half that amount; the prices of beef and mutton have fallen nearly to the same extent as flour, though bacon stands in 1903 just about where it stood in 1880.

So that when we are told that in seven large Scotch towns only 524 out of each 1000 are natives, and that in Middlesex only 35 per cent.

If we take the inhabitants of rural sanitary districts, and of urban districts below 10,000 as the rural population, we shall find that between 1891 and 1901 the growth in the rural districts is 5.3 per cent.

Whereas, in 1861, 37.7 per cent.

of the population were living in the country, in 1901 the proportion has sunk to 23 per cent.

It is enough to say that labourer's wages in London and other large cities are some 50 per cent, higher than the wages of agricultural labourers in most parts of England, and the wages of skilled labour show a similar relation.

He is not particular about the priceis willing the United States should make 25 per cent or 30 per cent profit.

He is not particular about the priceis willing the United States should make 25 per cent or 30 per cent profit.

The present rebellion only represents a half per cent, of the inhabitants, and it would not be right to oblige 6,000,000 inhabitants to submit to 30,000 rebels.

The Wakefields justified the transactions on the ground that population would rapidly make the ten per cent.

But New Zealand, which has lately borrowed many times that sum at about three per cent.

interest, could not then raise the money at fifteen per cent.

The ascent is a gradual one, the steepest grade being a trifle over seven per cent, while the train twists and turns around two hundred and sixty curves from the base to the summit.

scent 1513 occurrences

We saw on our return along the beach, the track of a bear in the sand, that had been made during the day, and we had some talk of trying the scent of our dogs upon it.

They took the scent cheerfully, and with a united and fierce cry they dashed away in pursuit.

As we landed, our dogs began nosing and dashing about, as if suddenly roused into excitement by the hot scent of some animal that had been disturbed by our coming.

We saw his bed but a few rods from where we landed, and from which our dogs had aroused him, though they, in their excitement, had overrun his scent, and dashed off after a deer.

The drums are booming, shrill fifes whistling clear, The scent of human blood is in the blast, And the load cannon stuns the startled ear. Awayaway!

A spring shower, hardly fallen, was already drying on the sidewalks, and from the patch of Bryant Park across the maze of car-tracks there stole the immemorial scent of rain-water and black earth, a just-set-out crescent of hyacinths giving off their light steam of fragrance.

How insidious is an old scent!

They have a keen scent for impressionable women, of whom a fellow of that sort has always half-a-dozen in tow.

That has put them on the scent of what they will no doubt call a sensational development.

And the kiss, languid and yet warm, heavy with a human scent, with the scent of the night, honest, sensuous, and longlong!

And the kiss, languid and yet warm, heavy with a human scent, with the scent of the night, honest, sensuous, and longlong!

It would entirely spoil its only great charm if a rush of silly city folks should scent it out.

If we could but put them off your scent, and lead them to believe that you have given it up in despair here, and are trying again to reach Scotland, it might throw them off their guard, and make it more easy for us to find a ship.

We have put the king's enemies off the scent.

The very briny scent of the atmosphere convinced me there was some sea running in the bay; and it was the more unexpected as we had had no tokens of a storm for several days previous.

The landscape was a forest wide and bare; 530 Where neither beast, nor human kind repair; The fowl, that scent afar, the borders fly, And shun the bitter blast, and wheel about the sky.

Then from the ground a scent began to rise, Sweet smelling, as accepted sacrifice: This omen pleased, and as the flames aspire With odorous incense

En dere de dogs stood en barked, en bayed, en pawed at de tree, en tried ter climb up on it; en w'en dey wuz tuk roun' thoo de swamp ter look fer de scent, dey broke loose en made fer dat tree ag'in.

Sandy must 'a' clim' up on de tree en jump' off on a mule er sump'n, en rid fur ernuff fer ter spile de scent.

His marster a'vertise' him in de papers, en offered a big reward fer 'im. De nigger-ketchers fotch out dey dogs, en track' 'im down ter de aidge er de swamp, en den de scent gun out; en dat was de las' anybody seed er Primus fer a long, long time.

A light breeze from the shore wafted towards us the scent of orange-blossoms.

As artificial flowers have one defect, the want of scent, artificial crowns of thorn have one advantage, they do not prick, and may be worn as a bonnet, very becoming to a pretty face.

She had not yet been told that he had crossed the Atlantic in search of her, deluded by a false scent.

He has left Englandon a false scent.

It was an evening without cloudseverything shining clear after rain, the scent of the flowers rising like incense so full and sweet that you could almost see it.

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