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For nearly two hundred years ever since the city had had a post-office the post-office had been not too superior to remain in the vieux carré. Now, like so many old Creole homes themselves, it was "away up" in the American quarter or "nine-tenth'" at Lafayette Square. On holidays any one anxious enough for his mail to go "away up yondah" between nine and ten A.M., could have it for the asking.
This planet was something over nine-tenth rolling sea, but there were a few tens of thousands of square miles of solid ground in the one archipelago that broke the ocean's surface. It was such loneliness as very few people ever experience. But they did not notice it. They were busy. They went over the ground immediately about the landing place.
And tha'z but the biginning; you have not count' the dramatization hundreds the week! and those movie' the same! and those tranzlation'!" "Well, I think we will be satisfied, Mr. Chester, with the tenth of that, eh?" Chester's reply was drowned in monsieur's: "No, my child! But nine-tenth' maybe, yes!
The attitude is one of danger and alarm; and it is a curious fact, that in this attitude nine-tenth of the Pterichthyes of the Lower Old Red Sandstone are to be found." A century has passed since Miller thought he had discovered a turtle which was so modified in structure as to be a link between the turtles and the fish.
This train averages, between London and Carlisle forty-nine and nine-tenth miles an hour. It is a distance of 299 miles. There is one stop. It occurs at Crewe, and endures five minutes. In consequence, the block signals flashed by seemingly at the end of the moment in which they were sighted.
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