Go to the garden at nightfall and sit down in the same place and look thou eat not, for eating induces sleep; and beware of sleeping, for she will not come to thee, till a fourth part of the night be passed.
So he rode on alone along the valley, till a fourth part of the night was passed, when he grew weary and sleep overcame him, so that he could no longer spur his horse.
So I left her, full of gladness, and repairing to the garden, entered the pavilion, where I sat down satiated with food, and watched till a fourth part of the night was past.
As a great number of inhabitants had returned to Bangoon, they introduced incendiaries into that town, who lighted up a conflagration which was not extinguished until more than a fourth part of the place was destroyed.
It is difficult to imagine that a fourth part of them have originated during the last thirty centuries.
As dwellers on the land, we inhabit about a fourth part of the surface; and that portion is almost exclusively a theatre of decay, and not of reproduction.
A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.
Less than a fourth part of such expense, applied as it is in America, would remedy a great part of the corruption.
By the statement before shown of the progress of taxation, it is seen that taxes have been lessened to a fourth part of what they had formerly been.
Defn: A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.
Solar hour, the twenty-fourth part of a solar day.
Sidereal hour, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day.
Having made and settled this experiment, we let the same ball descend through a fourth part only of the length of the groove, and found the measured time to be exactly half the former.
Thus, there is a considerable number of ex-serfs who have received one-fourth part only of the regulation allotments, but they have received them free of redemption and in individual ownership.
But it seems highly probable that a fourth partof England has been, in the course of little more than a century, turned from a wild into a garden.
A country gentleman who witnessed the Revolution was probably in receipt of about a fourth part of the rent which his acres now yield to his posterity.
It is extraordinary that the same nation should have spread themselves over all the isles in this vast ocean, from New Zealand to this island, which is almost one-fourth part of the circumference of the globe.
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