2088 examples of tenth in sentences

As early as the tenth century, the petty sovereigns established on the ruins of the empire of Charlemagne began the independent coining of money; and the various provinces were during the rest of this epoch inundated with a most embarrassing variety of gold, silver, and copper.

The confederation acquired its perfect organization in the month of February, 1566, on the tenth of which month its celebrated manifesto was signed by its numerous adherents.

Alfred (849-900), the greatest of Anglo-Saxon rulers, temporarily checked them, but in the latter part of the tenth century they were more troublesome, and in 1017 they made Canute, the Dane, king of England.

Absence of taxation enables your journals to be published at one tenth, or even one twentieth, of the English price: hence several of your daily papers reach from thirty to sixty thousand readers, while in England one paper alone is on this scale,the London 'Times,' which circulates thirty thousand, perhaps.

In addition, an ordinance was published that "all who had ever borne arms for the king, or declared themselves to be of the royal party, should be decimated, that is, pay a tenth part of all the estate which they had left, to support the charge which the commonwealth was put to by the unquietness of their temper, and the just cause of jealousy which they had administered."

[Footnote 2: His claim was one-fifteenth, that of the duke of York, as admiral, one-tenth.

About one-third of the paupers are children, about one-tenth lunatics, about one-half are aged, infirm, or sick.

The rice which is soonest ripe is cut for ten per cent, that is, the laborer receives for his toil the tenth bundle for himself.

On an average, half of all the children go to school, generally from the seventh to the tenth year.

The king of Spain at first received a fifth, and then a tenth, of the produce; but the tax subsequently ceased.

In Morga's time the tenth amounted on an average to $10,000 ("which was kept quite secret"); the profit, consequently, to above $100,000.

Davison's stress on the word 'covet', in the tenth commandment, is, I think, beyond what so ancient a Code warrants;and for the other instances, Michaelis would remind him that the Mosaic constitution was a strict theocracy, and that Jehovah, the God of all, was their 'king'.

I question whether from any modern work of a tenth part of the merit of these Discourses, either in matter or in force and felicity of diction and composition, as many uncouth and awkward sentences could be extracted.

They took the Canaries in their way, whence shaping their course for Cipango, or towards Japan, they were much amazed to find the sea all full of weeds, and with great fear arrived at the Antilles on the tenth day of October; the first island they descried, called Guanahany by the natives, they named San Salvador.

[-28-] Augustus now entered upon office for the tenth time with Gaius Norbanus, and on the first day of the month the senate took oaths, confirming his deeds.

The ninth and tenth verses of the same chapter limit it absolutely by the jubilee.

" TENTH PROPOSITION.The negroes are more trust-worthy, and take a deeper interest in their employers' affairs, since emancipation.

In the next book of the chronicles of the Starmen, JOURNEY TO THE TENTH PLANET, the threat to Earth will take new form.

Here's just a sample of action from the next Starman book, JOURNEY TO THE TENTH PLANET: The long journey was coming to an end.

Pluto was about three and a half billion miles from Earth, and the tenth planet was more than two billion miles farther than that-but coming closer.

Now the Starventure was close enough that the tenth planet could be seen with the unaided eye.

Before long, Joe brought the ship into a low orbit around the tenth planet.

Now that the great ship had attained orbit, the time had come for Zip to announce the name of the tenth planet.

Soon you'll be able to ask for JOURNEY TO THE TENTH PLANET by Michael D. Cooper.

40:1-4] In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on that very day, the hand of Jehovah was laid upon me, and he brought me in an inspired vision to the land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain, on which was a city-like building toward the south.

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