About nine-tenths of women's so-called "sympathy" is just about as foolish and misplaced as that.

city; "and," said he, "what else do nine-tenths of mankind ask for in their souls?" He tore his helmet from his forehead, and, with a start of inward pain, flung it to a measureless distance in the air.

And, in general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends upon health alone.

" "And Timéa?" "Timéa would not know how to use the treasure, and her adopted father would absorb it, and get rid of nine-tenths of it.

We think that something is due to the prejudices (supposing them to be no more than prejudices) of nine-tenths of the people of England; and we are even so childish (for which we crave Mr. Smith's pardon) as to pay some regard to the feelings of the King, in whose personal mortification, we fairly own, we should not take the smallest pleasure....

My account of slavery will apply to field hands, who compose much the largest portion of the black population, (probably nine-tenths,) and not to those who are kept for kitchen maids, nurses, waiters, &c., about the houses of the planters and public hotels, where persons from the north obtain most of their knowledge of the evils of slavery.

Manifestly, because its genius was wholly unlike that of Southern slavery; and because its rigors and wrongs, if rigors and wrongs there were in it, bear no comparison to those which characterize Southern slavery; and which would impel nine-tenths of its adult subjects to fly from their homes, did they but know that they would not be obliged to return to them.

Such, doubtless, were the sentiments of more than nine-tenths of the persons invested with the management of estates in Jamaica.

More than nine-tenths of us deny the rightfulness of offensive, and a large majority, even that of defensive national wars.

I question very much if every boy, on leaving a high school in the United States, does not know far more of the institutions of his country than nine-tenths of the members of the British House of Commons do of theirs.

That's my programme; that's The Nine-Tenths.

Here was a poor weak devil who would rather maim himself for life than to face danger where he might be killed, but it is safe to say that nine-tenths of the rest would have gone even after the loss of the toe.

The broad plains of soft mud, by the aid of the sun, the rains, the guano, and the plough, had now been some years converted into meadows and arable lands; and those which still lay remote from the peopled parts of the group, still nine-tenths of its surface, were fast getting the character of rich pastures, where cattle, and horses, and hogs were allowed to roam at pleasure.

It's goin' to take me nine-tenths of eternity to tell you how tiresome you are.

Happiness, he said, was the main and chief object in life, and yet nine-tenths of the people of the world throw it away for such imitation pleasure; and you can't often catch it again once you have lost it.

Nine-tenths of the whole of our present literature aims solely at taking a few shillings out of the public's pocket, and to accomplish this, author, publisher, and reviewer have joined forces.

Although the spread eagle figures largely as the patron genius of American hotels, still nine-tenths of them bear the names of states, counties, towns, or national or local celebrities.

On that day, at dawn, Dick Sand saw, not without terror, the barometer fall to twenty-seven and nine-tenths inches.

I asked that question of a gentleman who of all others ought to be able to answer it correctly and he replied, "Nine-tenths of these teachers come from the missionary schools, and of these nine-tenths, more than one-half come from the institutions of the American Missionary Association."

I admit it was nine-tenths my fault, but now I call for an honest deck and the hands played above the table.

Nine-tenths of them understood not a word of English; but his gesture was unmistakable.

Nine-tenths of the evil he attributes to the long hours of school study, and to the neglect of physical exercises for girls.

Hence also nine-tenths of our first coadjutors were Quakers.]

Perhaps nine-tenths of all the white inhabitants of the Union are the direct descendants of men who quitted Europe in order to worship God according to conviction and conscience.

Nearly all the letters of the village were written by my uncle's gardener, a Scotchman, who, having the degree of education usual with his countrymen of the profession, and who being very good natured, had abundant occupation for his evenings, and being, moreover, a prudent man, and safe, became the depository of nine-tenths of the family secrets of the inhabitants.