Eighth

Examples

• The English mind again had a phase of brightness in the seventh and eighth centuries, and it did not shine again until the fifteenth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and seventh from Samuel. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the eighth day a letter in her handwriting was placed among the other letters on my table. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is the united testimony of manufacturers and farmers alike that the crop is increased from one-eighth to one-fourth, especially in the winter wheat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I am in my seventy-eighth year. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• EIGHTH NARRATIVE Contributed by GABRIEL BETTEREDGE I am the person (as you remember no doubt) who led the way in these pages, and opened the story. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries a steady process of conversion to Christianity went on amidst these German and Slavonic tribes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He suggested to me that he had a friend over on Eighth Avenue who made a superior grade of cigars, and who would show them a trick. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If the tax for example, was one-tenth, the wages of labour must necessarily soon rise, not one-tenth part only, but one-eighth. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Feeder invention overcame this trouble, and made it possible to use conductors ONLY ONE-EIGHTH THE SIZE that would otherwise have been necessary to produce the same results. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mrs. Archer, who had long been a widow, lived with her son and daughter in West Twenty-eighth Street. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I have asked whether Henry the Eighth was an amiable character? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But if there is an eighth wonder in the world, it must be the dwelling-houses of Naples. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Among the three hundred stars observed Challis was struck by the appearance of one which presented a disk and shone with the brightness of a star of the eighth magnitude. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• This rule we find still to hold good [Seventh and Eighth Experiments. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The fraction drum of the indicator could be driven in either direction, known as the advance and retrograde movements, and was divided and marked in eighths. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The quantity of this is said to be five eighths of what we eat. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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