250 examples of ninety-nine in sentences

Unconscious spokeswoman for the ninety-nine hundredths of the human race!

When Abram was ninety-nine years, our Lord appeared to him and said: Abram, lo!

And when he had complished ninety-nine years he died in the dread of God, and with joy they buried him.

Some of the sayings are as mournful jeremiads as any uttered by Carlyle, showing great scorn of what ninety-nine in one hundred are vain of, and pursue after, as all ending in vanity and vexation of spirit.

There may (if computation's just) One now and then my conduct trust: 110 I blame the fool, for what can I, When ninety-nine my power defy?

For many years he had considered and compared the ways of men; he had lived to be ninety-nine.

As the pitcher which is carried safely to the well ninety-nine times sometimes gets broken at the hundredth attempt, so was it with General Custer.

Ninety-nine out of every hundred bearsprobably a hundred and ninety-nine out of every two hundredare left-handed; Thor was right-handed.

Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand answer, that the courts have construed it rightly, and almost as many cheerfully support it.

Nineteen thousand four hundred and ninety-nine are neuters or working bees, five hundred are drones, and the remaining one is the queen or mother!

of puff, and the book is in a second edition before ninety-nine readers out of a hundred have found out the one is as little likely to have written, as the others to have done what is attributed to them.

"Ninety-nine of my readers out of a hundred, and I dare say, nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand, will shudder at the thought of tearing about in this manner; thinking that breaking-off, tearing-off, cutting-off the roots of such large plants, just as they are coming into bloom, must be a sort of work of destruction.

The power of wealth is great, the power of consecrated wealth is incalculably great; and this the New Testament freely recognizes; but wealth is not the great, necessary, all-sufficing thing that ninety-nine out of a hundred of us believe it to be.

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred where one holds on after the other has let go the reason is vanity, wounded vanitywhere it isn't the material consideration that explains why there are so many abandoned wives and so few abandoned husbands.

Ninety-nine new sermons for children.

Ninety-nine musical games

They would rather see Caput Magnus made mincemeat of than ninety-nine criminals convicted, even were they guilty of bigamy.

The writer is not of the school that admits there is such a thing as judge-made law, but believes the phrase to be a misnomer, at least in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred.

[N.] ] I answer, thirdly, that freethinkers are the most virtuous persons in the world; for all freethinkers must certainly differ from the priests, and from nine hundred ninety-nine of a thousand of those among whom they live; and are therefore virtuous of course, because everybody hates them.

One out of a hundred may be a moral herothe ninety-nine will be scamps; and the moral hero will most likely get his brains blown out early in the day.

"'They sent me over the road for ninety-nine years.'

Next came the grasslands deal on Guadalcanartwenty thousand acres, on a governmental nine hundred and ninety-nine years' lease at a nominal sum.

"To ninety-nine, George Street, St. James," cried Fisherton, in his loudest tones.

There's a rest, thank our stars, of ninety-nine bars, Ere the tempest of sound recommences.

" Nine hundred and ninety-nine swallowed the insult, but one huge, double-fisted warrior moved uneasily and stepping from the line he said "You can't lick me, Jim Conners.

250 examples of  ninety-nine  in sentences