9335 examples of rate in sentences

We seated ourselves in the carriages which were then driven at a rapid rate to the great palace, the entrance to which directly overlooked the numerous and celebrated grand fountains.

I felt so little inconvenience from it at the time that I assisted throughout the day in laying the cable, and operating through it after it was joined, and had the satisfaction of witnessing the successful result of passing the electricity through twenty-five hundred miles at the rate of one signal in one and a quarter second.

Since then Dr. Whitehouse has succeeded in telegraphing a message through it at the rate of a single signal in three quarters of a second.

"Our principal electrical difficulty is the slowness with which we must manipulate in order to be intelligible; twenty words in sixteen minutes is now the rate.

I am confident we can get more after awhile, but the Atlantic Telegraph has its own rate of talking and cannot be urged to speak faster, any more than any other orator, without danger of becoming unintelligible.

"The coil on deck is most beautifully uncoiling at the rate of three nautical miles an hour.

But, as the last round came up, the motion of the ship was slightly slackened, the men handled the slack cable handsomely, and in two minutes the change was made with perfect order, and the paying out from the second coil was as regularly commenced and at this moment continues, and at an increased rate to-day of five miles per hour.

Too slack a rein would allow of its egress at such a wasting rate and at such a violent speed that we should lose too great a portion of the cable, and its future stopping within controllable limits be almost impossible.

At any rate I feel impelled to support all plans that manifestly tend to the complete circumvention of the globe, and the bringing into telegraphic connection all the nations of the earth, and this when I am not fully assured that present personal interests may not temporarily suffer.

The result is that the competition for positions of teachers to be filled by ladies is so great as to reduce the price: but as males can not be employed at that price, and are necessary in certain places in the schools, those seeking their services have to pay a higher rate for them.

MEPHISTOPHELES The question trifling seems from one, Who it appears the Word doth rate so low; Who, undeluded by mere outward show, To Being's depths would penetrate alone.

Slave am I here, at any rate, If thine, or whose, it matters not, I trow.

Hand me thy cap and gown; the mask Is for my purpose quite first rate.

At any rate, he will show his true character wherever he remains a year.

The old fogy's wealth he would have at any rate, and Millicent with it, if possible, as a sort of bonus.

Here was a little fortune on the cotton he had in store at any rate, and, if he really had in his grasp all the news of the rise, he might make by it a plump ten thousand dollars out of Captain Grant's "Orion.

If you want, you can have breakfast while you are waiting; and you will find a comfortable fire in the parlor to sit by, at any rate.

I can see the Government introducing several Bills (1) For the extension of the Isle of Ceylon; (2) For the lengthening of the Malay Peninsula; (3) For the importation of five million coolies, estimated at the rate of five hundred coolies each, to give employment to ten thousand second-loots; (4) For the importation of elephants, tigers, lions, buffalo, hippopotami, giraffes and capercailzie.

It's a first-rate placemost highly recommended.

The rate as now fixed by law on the various articles was adopted at the last session of Congress, as a matter of compromise, with unusual unanimity, and unless it is found to produce more than the necessities of the Government call for there would seem to be no reason at this time to justify a change.

At any rate, he found himself possessed of an affection for the young man from Bessemer, Pennsylvania.

He gathered himself into a sitting posture and counted his money; he had spent thirty shillings, and at that rate his money would not hold out till the end of the month.

I'm a fust-rate judge of character, though I be but a pavement artist; but a picture's none the less a picture, no matter where it is drawn.

The mainsail came down with a run, and the boat kept on with the jib only, though of course at a slower rate.

Dryden produced five act plays at the rate of three a-year.

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