In the Limousin the luckless creature had a special disadvantage, for here the collector of the _taille_ had also to collect the twentieths, and the twentieths were a tax for which even the privileged classes were liable. ❋ John Morley (1880)
Hilaire Belloc estimated that nineteen-twentieths of the people in England owned no productive property. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Let it be his to cause a drove of swine to be driven along by a legion of devils; that is, by six thousand seven hundred, who take possession of these swine — there being three devils and seven-twentieths per pig — and drown them in a lake. ❋ Unknown (2007)
That proletariat is certainly the, great mass of the State: it covers about nineteen twentieths of the population if we exclude Ireland, where, as I shall point out in my concluding pages, the reaction against Capitalism, and therefore against its development towards a Servile State, is already successful. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It is most deplorable that, in nineteen-twentieths of ❋ Unknown (2007)
During the next one hundred and fifty years it yielded nineteen-twentieths of the revenue. ❋ Praguetory (2006)
Proceeding upon these principles we appear to arrive at the conclusion that nineteen-twentieths of all the writings which have ever been ascribed to Plato, are undoubtedly genuine. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Even in 2000 C.E., nineteen-twentieths of mankind were still unassimilated to the organization. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
The principal impositions of the French government are these: first, the taille, payed by all the commons, except those that are privileged: secondly, the capitation, from which no persons (not even the nobles) are excepted: thirdly, the tenths and twentieths, called Dixiemes and Vingtiemes, which every body pays. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Do you think that he wishes to pay money to the collectors of twentieths? ❋ Unknown (2004)
As Dean Burgon says, "But nineteen-twentieths of those documents, for any use which has been made of them, might just as well be still lying in the monastic libraries from which they were obtained." ❋ Unknown (1986)
It castrated nineteen-twentieths of its male calves, allowed them to wander over the range and sold them at age three to packers in Chicago, receiving cash in return. ❋ Michener, James (1974)
With nineteen-twentieths of the state an open range, cattle from one ranch could wander for a hundred miles without being detected, so when the cows had calves it was essential that some kind of general collection of animals be held, to enable each ranch to identify and brand its stock. ❋ Michener, James (1974)
The dogmatic set of his mouth was relaxed, and with his eyes shut he no longer seemed to be disapproving of nineteen twentieths of what occurred. ❋ Francis, Dick (1971)
Nowadays every dictionary contains, no doubt inevitably, nineteen twentieths or perhaps ninety-nine hundredths of unnecessary matter. ❋ Unknown (1969)
Once, five years before when he was seventeen, while playing with four other boys for credit twentieths, he won nineteen out of twenty games of showdown. ❋ Van Vogt, A. E. (1951)
A spherometer capable of measuring a 2-inch surface may be procured, having a screw of, say, 50 threads to the inch, and a micrometer surface divided into 200 parts, each part easily capable of subdivision -- into tenths or even twentieths. ❋ Richard Threlfall (N/A)
The English maker appears to ignore the fact that nineteen-twentieths of the wear of a lock is upon the latch, spindle, and follower; the amount of actual wear upon the rest of the lock is comparatively slight. ❋ Various (N/A)
They do not become broad-backed, thick, or fleshy, but rather shrivelled, and contain from six to seven very large peas, which are roundish and somewhat compressed, half an inch long, nearly the same broad, and nine-twentieths thick. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)
