Three feet being the average Perimeter it follows that, in a Polygon of three hundred sides each side will be no more than the hundredth part of a foot in length, or little more than the tenth part
of an inch; and in a Polygon of six or seven hundred sides the sides are little larger than the diameter of a Spaceland pin-head.
When I wish to rise to the level of the sea, I only let off the water, and empty all the reservoirs if I want the Nautilus to emerge from the tenth part
of her total capacity."
To an American, for example, the significance of a skylark is that Shelley sang it to skies where even it could never have mounted; and any one who has heard the nightingale must, if he be open-minded, confess its tremendous debt to Keats: a tenth part
genuine song, the rest moon, stars, silence, and John Keats,--such is the nightingale.
With all these treasures I came joyfully back to Bagdad, where I disposed of them for large sums of money, of which I did not fail as before to give the tenth part
to the poor, and after that I rested from my labours and comforted myself with all the pleasures that my riches could give me.
At last, more than thirty million years hence, the huge red-hot dome of the sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part
of the darkling heavens.
That is why I place 'T.E.' Thoroughly Educated upon my cards; for my greatest pride lies in the fact that the world cannot produce another Woggle-Bug with a tenth part
of my own culture and erudition."
I only keep to statistical facts when I say that, during the war, and for the very largest guns, the weight of the powder was reduced, as the result of experience, to a tenth part
of the weight of the shot."
You boast of spending a tenth part
of your income in charity; maybe you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.
"If a tenth part
of his detachment returns I shall thank God," he added as if speaking to himself.
Far under the wide-pathed earth a branch of Oceanus flows through the dark night out of the holy stream, and a tenth part
of his water is allotted to her.
And if I gave it all to you, would it represent even the tenth part
of the value I place upon your friendship, my Tarzan?
By degrees, however, the place resolved itself into a bare and dirty room, with a couple of windows, whereof a tenth part
might be of glass, the remainder being stopped up with old copy-books and paper.