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"Fraction" Quotes from Famous Books

... Broadway, for we were rather more than an hour in driving three miles in a stage, we crossed the Brooklyn Ferry in one of those palace ferry-boats, where the spacious rooms for passengers are heated by steam-pipes, and the charge is only one cent, or a fraction less than a halfpenny. It was a beautiful day; there was not a cloud upon the sky; the waves of the Sound and of the North River were crisped and foam-tipped, and dashed noisily upon the white pebbly beach. ...

— The Englishwoman in America • Isabella Lucy Bird

... of such profound problems as, that the whole of a thing is more than a fraction of it; and things that are exactly alike resemble each other, for ...

— Bart Ridgeley - A Story of Northern Ohio • A. G. Riddle

... will weigh the letter he reads to the smallest fraction of a fraction before he moves ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... didn't it work beautiful, Mr. Rockwall? I'm glad William A. Brady wasn't onto that little outdoor vehicle mob scene. I wouldn't want William to break his heart with jealousy. And never a rehearsal, either! The boys was on time to the fraction of a second. It was two hours before a snake could ...

— The Four Million • O. Henry

... fraction may, in certain cases, constitute an enormity. Again, the value of a standard, not the specific or numerical value which is an invariable basis, but the relative or moral value, must be deduced from the importance of the medium to which ...

— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various

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