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Example sentences for "ninth"

Lexicographically close words:
ninguno; nini; ninnies; ninos; nint; ninths; nion; nip; nipa; nipal
  1. In Ninth Street, Pittsburg, the rails of the traction line are for some distance carried on steel ties similar in form, as here shown.

  2. The best trees do not show flower before the ninth year, and one such is worth a score of the others.

  3. With these Northmen, in the ninth century, the chief business and amusement in life was to set sail for some pleasant country, like Spain or France, and make all the coasts and navigable rivers hideous with rapine and massacre.

  4. In the Faro Islands it is believed that seals cast off their skins every ninth night, assume human forms, and sing and dance like men and women until daybreak, when they resume their skins and their seal natures.

  5. As for the embassy to Achilleus, in the ninth book, I am unable to see how the final reconciliation with Agamemnon would be complete without it.

  6. During the ninth century the Râshṭrakûṭas seem to have ruled over most of western India from Malwa to the Tungabhadra.

  7. Tibetan translations were made mainly in the ninth and eleventh centuries and represent the literature esteemed by the mediæval Buddhism of Bengal.

  8. Later Forms of Hinduism In the eighth and ninth centuries this degenerate Buddhism was exposed to the attacks of the great Hindu champions Kumâriḷa and Śankara, though it probably endured little persecution in our sense of the word.

  9. The struggle continued from the fourth to the ninth century, after which Buddhism was clearly defeated and survived only in special localities.

  10. I therefore think it probable that he became a lay Buddhist soon after the conquest of Kalinga, that is in the ninth or tenth year after his accession, and a member of the Sangha two and a half years later.

  11. In the forty-ninth he found the Fairy of the Dawn herself.

  12. Towards midnight there was a rush of wings, and the eight pea-hens settled on the tree, while the ninth became a maiden, and ran to greet the prince.

  13. So early as his ninth year, he began to work at his father's trade of a shoemaker.

  14. I offered to play the remaining holes later in the day, or skip the eighth and begin all square on the ninth tee.

  15. Braced by the thought that he was annoying his opponent by these verbal outbursts, he managed to halve four holes in a row, but on the ninth green he missed another short putt.

  16. How he had got himself from Forty-fourth Street to Fifty-ninth Street after the riot was only a hazy half-memory.

  17. Somewhere between Forty-fourth Street and Fifty-ninth Street the other soldiers had met some women and disappeared.

  18. But Mr. Washington, followed by the two boys, was already strolling on toward the ninth hole of the golf course, as though the pit and its contents were no more than a hazard over which his facile iron had triumphed with ease.

  19. It was the cumulative effect of all this that moved Perry Parkhurst on the twenty-ninth day of December to a decision.

  20. And thou didst know her well--long years agone, Benedict?

  21. So crying, of a sudden Beltane caught Black Roger's sun-burned hand and kissed it, and thereafter turned him to the shadows.

  22. But Beltane laughed, saying: "I have no lust to thy purse, most learned bowman, or indeed to aught of thine unless it be thy company.

  23. Now Beltane, yet astride the mighty roan that snuffed the fragrant air and stooped to crop the tender herbage, looked upon the youthful paladin 'neath wrinkled brow, and pulled his lip as one in doubt.

  24. And still as one a-dream he felt her slip from his failing clasp, felt her arms close about him, aiding him to earth.

  25. As for me, these gyves upon my wrists were riveted there by folly, for fool is he that trusteth to woman and the ways of woman.

  26. Then she shivered, her proud head drooped and a great sob brake from her, for that she knew she was come too late, her dreams of wandering with Beltane through sunny glades were nought but dreams after all.

  27. And so he gasped, and gasping, strove feebly with arm and leg while ever the strong hand grasped at his girdle.

  28. Then shouted Beltane, and fell upon them right joyously and smote them gleefully and laughed to see them reel and scatter before his sudden onset; whereon, beholding Sir Fidelis pale and scant of breath, he stayed to clap him on the shoulder.

  29. Now," quoth Beltane, "shew me where I may eat, for I have a mighty hunger.

  30. Yet doth her radiant soul lie on the breast of God forever, since she, for honour, died the death--Behold!

  31. Lord," quoth Roger, "Sir Gilles marcheth with the remnant of his company, and we are but two.

  32. Taking her apart to their hut they gave her assiduous care; she was baptized, and, dying on the ninth day afterward, they introduced her into Heaven.

  33. Given at Paris on the ninth day of September, in the year of grace, 1610, and in the first of our reign.

  34. The ninth android hobbled back to his chair and waited quietly.

  35. That made the ninth android unapproachable, so his counterpart-leader withdrew to the end of the corridor and waited until Doctor Corson came out.

  36. The blood-fluid spouted out and drained down over the chest of the ninth android.

  37. He put his hand on the head of the ninth android and drew it backward so that the neck muscles were taut.

  38. Even though eight units were unaccounted for, his intelligent handling of the ninth android, and of himself, was still vitally important.

  39. When Frank Corson and the ninth android emerged, two cabs, not one, wheeled down Manhattan and into Greenwich Village.

  40. I knew about the ninth android, and I met the tenth one in front of your apartment that second morning.

  41. A few minutes later, he was gaping down at a hasty reassembly of what had once been the ninth android.

  42. King took a picture of the ninth android.

  43. This was the ninth light to be located on the Brant Point site.

  44. Permanent iron shafts, 20 feet high, were set in eight of the holes in which the old lighthouse piling had been, while the ninth or central hole was left open, to form a cavity for the base circle.

  45. Eight were placed in a circle, 25 feet in diameter, with the ninth in the center.

  46. The ninth assembly at Galesburg in Illinois in 1875 laid down as its fundamental principle, “Lutheran pulpits only for Lutheran preachers, and Lutheran altars only for Lutheran communicants.

  47. A Teachers’ Evangelical Association held its ninth assembly at Hamburg in A.

  48. This tale, as I have given it here, dates from the ninth century, and is found in the "Yellow Book of Lecan.

  49. In the hours of your greatest need ye shall be weak and helpless as women in childbirth, and this shall endure for five days and four nights--to the ninth generation the curse shall be upon you.

  50. Unfortunately we cannot tell when he lived, but the tale as we have it probably dates from the ninth century.

  51. On the ninth of Ab one must abstain from eating and drinking, and anointing one's self, and wearing shoes, and matrimonial intercourse.

  52. He who does any work on the ninth of Ab will never see even a sign of blessing.

  53. On the ninth day of the month Ab (about August) both the first Temple and the second were destroyed.

  54. When he reached the ninth verse, "He distributeth, he giveth to the needy, his righteousness endureth forever.

  55. In the twenty-ninth idyl, the phrase #Achilleioi philoi# is used to describe the most perfect pair of manly friends.

  56. Now that we have brought the Frankish Empire to its dissolution, and the Papacy to its degradation, we must leave the two wrecks for the moment, and stop in these dark years at the end of the ninth century to see how Italy herself has fared.

  57. The Greek Emperor made common cause with his fellow Christians, and the immediate danger of conquest was arrested; but throughout this dismal ninth century, and all the tenth, southern Italy continued to suffer from Saracen marauders.

  58. It was placed in the crotch of an alder at a height of two feet, and contained, on the ninth day of June, four slightly incubated eggs.

  59. Baker, on both sides of the Forty-ninth Parallel.

  60. When he took his seat in the Twenty-ninth Congress the issue in regard to the extension of slavery in the Territories was beginning to enlist public interest.

  61. This is substantially the history of contraction, or of attempts at contraction made by the Thirty-ninth Congress.

  62. He died in 1869, in the forty-ninth year of his age.

  63. The Fortieth Congress met at the very moment the Thirty-ninth closed--on the fourth day of March, 1867.

  64. He was in his seventy-ninth year when he retired, but in exceptional vigor of body and mind.

  65. Curtis, when he appeared in the Impeachment case, was in the fullness of his powers, in the fifty-ninth year of his age.

  66. He had just entered upon his ninth term as representative in Congress from Illinois, and resigned immediately after swearing in Mr. Blaine as Speaker,--a duty assigned to him as the oldest member of the House in consecutive service.

  67. A popular convention, originating from his recommendation and assembling under his auspices, was organized at Nashville on the ninth day of January, 1865.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ninth century; ninth parallel; ninth year