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... leagues above Memphis the river went—has gone—still goes—through more violent writhings than in any like part of its whole course, running almost twenty crazy miles to make two sane ones—made finally, in the republic's hundredth year, by Centennial Cut-off. On an average there was an island for every four miles of river, or, say, three for every hour of the Votaress's progress, and in this high water she was running all their chutes. A great resource such incidents were, on that particular ...

— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable

... and enter the service, or wait?" he asked himself for the hundredth time. He took a pack of cards that lay on the table and began to lay them out for a ...

— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... end His Majesty might be the better secured. There was a wonder among wonders to be seen, in that God struck with fear and cowardliness the enemies of the truth. And although at that time the Prince Elector of Saxony was alone, and but only the hundredth sheep, while the others were ninety-and-nine, yet, notwithstanding, it so fell out that they all trembled and were afraid. Now when they came to the point, and began to take the business in hand, then there appeared but a very small heap that ...

— Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther • Martin Luther

... comet was estimated by MM. Faye and Roche at about the seven-hundredth part of the bulk of the ...

— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly

... aimed directly at his breast. Then Landsberg looked up, and for the hundredth part of a second caught ...

— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein

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