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Updated: June 26, 2025
I say that 7000 or 8000 pesos must have passed to my credit there, which sum has been received since I left, besides the other money which was not given to me. "To my very dear son Don Diego at the Court." All this struggling for the due payment of eighths and tenths makes wearisome reading, and we need not follow the Admiral into his distinctions between one kind of tenth and another.
This setting out is to cost little, after all. He says he can do it with three small ships and less than a hundred and fifty men. If the ships bring back no treasure, he will not be wealthy. If there is a little gain, the Spains need not grudge him his handful of doubloons. If there is huge gain, the King and Queen but for him would not have their seven eighths.
There is something to be said on his side, it must be remembered; the man had not received what was due to him; and although he was not in actual poverty, his only property in this world consisted of these very thirds and eighths and tenths.
Hugh gave in at once seized the hand, and not only shook it, but kissed it heartily. So did Malines, and so did the others, and then they all dispersed Teddy Malone signalling his exit with a cheer and a shout to the following effect "Hooroo! boys she's ivvery inch a quane, an' two or three eighths over cut an' dry, ready-made, hot off the irons! We're in luck eh! boys, aren't we?"
Luke Tweezy the money-lender, the man who was supposed to still possess the first dollar he ever earned, had actually bought three eighths of one bottle of whiskey and the whole of another. Racey Dawson greatly desired to laugh. But he didn't dare. He was too busy being drunk and getting drunker.
The height of the capital is a diameter and one eighth; the entablature varies from one diameter and seven eighths to two diameters and a half. The portico of the Pantheon is one of the best specimens of the Corinthian order. The entablature of the temple of Jupiter Stator, like that of the Pantheon, is two diameters and one half.
I have counted upward of 3000 flowers, five eighths of an inch in diameter, on a single plant. Both its leaves and stems are so slender as to be nearly invisible, at a distance of a few yards, amid so showy a multitude of flowers. The ray and disk flowers are both yellow, the stamens purple, and the texture of the rays is rich and velvety, like the petals of garden pansies.
"Ninety-three and seven eighths bid on wheat," called Bergen from a slip, as he walked back and chalked the latest intelligence upon the board. "Well, there is a difference. In this case, we simply buy and sell on commission. These are real purchases and sales.
The tube plates of tubular boilers should be of the best Lowmoor, or Bowling iron, seven eighths to one inch thick: the shells should be of the best Staffordshire, or Thornycroft S crown iron, 7/16ths of an inch thick. Q. Of what kind of iron should the angle iron or corner iron be composed?
To-day it has 21,000 offices, sends each year some 58,000,000 messages, receives about $23,000,000, and does seven eighths of all the telegraph business in the United States. India Rubber.% The same year which witnessed the introduction of the telegraph saw the perfection of Goodyear's secret for the vulcanization of India rubber.
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