ninety-and-ninth

Updated: May 6, 2025

Then he addressed the old man on his throne, saying, 'Tell me, O King! how camest thou here? and in search of what? The old man's lips moved, and he muttered in deep tones, 'When cometh he of the ninety-and-ninth door? So Shibli Bagarag cried, 'Surely he is before thee, in Aklis.

George Meredith - The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 3

Make a simple beginning in the university of experience by learning with experiments what constitutes a "story" and by drudging with pencil and typewriter to put that "story" into professional manuscript form. Get the right pictures for it; then ship it off to market. If the first choice of markets rejects you, try the second, the third, fourth, fifth and sixth even unto the ninety-and-ninth.

Charles Phelps Cushing - If You Don't Write Fiction

Then he addressed the old man on his throne, saying, 'Tell me, O King! how camest thou here? and in search of what? The old man's lips moved, and he muttered in deep tones, 'When cometh he of the ninety-and-ninth door? So Shibli Bagarag cried, 'Surely he is before thee, in Aklis.

George Meredith - The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete