Rome, its size being one-sixteenth of the original.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Water to the Columbian Exposition] Reference

What would it be like, living life as a one-sixteenth?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]

In other words, the machine was stopped for only one-sixteenth.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE OPERATING] Reference

By day four, only one-sixteenth of the original memory is intact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sequential Problem Solving A Student Handbook with Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking] Reference

Suppose I should say one-sixteenth of an inch was the proper lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rough and Tumble Engineering] Reference

The remaining one-sixteenth die at 80; except a one-thirty-third, at 90.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

Measure off two and one-sixteenth inches (shy) and draw a third parallel line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools] Reference

The edge should be turned in one-sixteenth of an inch and gathered all around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Your Own Hats] Reference

If you are one-sixteenth Native American, then you can claim it in job applications.    From Wordnik.com.  ["This woman is an Obama-level political natural."] Reference

Where the scale is 1-62,500, the atlas-sheet will represent one-sixteenth of a degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885] Reference

The perforations comprised about four holes, each hole about one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference

Her one-sixteenth came swimming to surface, matching Julian's full measure of uncompromised blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]

I don't want to sit here examining everyone's family tree and finding out who is one-sixteenth Dominican.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cara Joy David: Not Since Tamyra Gray...] Reference

Everybody if they had a drop of Japanese blood, one-sixteenth, we were all gathered up and put into camps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weenie Royale: Food and the Japanese Internment] Reference

Thus, at four feet, one gets only one-sixteenth part of the light upon his page that he would at one foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888] Reference

This switch bar, like the brackets, is made of brass, one-half inch wide by one-sixteenth of an inch thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Electricity for Boys] Reference

The record showed an injection of strychnine, one-sixteenth of a grain, at eight-forty, twenty minutes previously.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs] Reference

Ammonia one-sixteenth of an oz., well shaken and mixed together; perfume to suit -- Bergamont or any other perfume.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

We told our host that there was only one-sixteenth part of an inch between the length of Napoleon's nose and that of.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

Here they undergo a metamorphosis and increase enormously in size, some attaining one-sixteenth of an inch in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference

Insert the needle in the centre of this loop, on the traced line about one-sixteenth of an inch below the starting-point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

The quantity of yarn, on the contrary, exported colonially, does not reach to one-sixteenth of the total colonial exports.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference

According to Dr. William Gregory the loss amounts to the very large proportion of one-sixteenth part of the whole of the flour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

The clause allowing the king to subscribe one-sixteenth of the stock was omitted, but he could become a shareholder at any time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference

The first must be cut with teeth about three-sixteenths of an inch in width, the next one-eighth, and the third about one-sixteenth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference

A generation ago, its people produced, on average, about one-sixteenth as much as Americans did; now they produce about one‑sixth.    From Wordnik.com.  [How America Can Rise Again] Reference

Sift out the fine dust and the larger pieces; bits about as large as small beads -- say one-sixteenth inch every way -- do very well.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

Representatives in the House of Representatives, and containing less than one-sixteenth of the whole population of the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

The old lady exhibited a piece of solid brass about an inch long, three-quarters of an inch in width, and one-sixteenth in thickness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference

Deducting one-sixteenth for the amount exported, and one-tenth for seed, the quantity of maize annually consumed for food in the United.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

The thermometer tubing should be of all sizes of bore, from the finest obtainable up to that which has a bore of about one-sixteenth of an inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

The king himself reserved the privilege of becoming an adventurer at any time and to invest an amount of money not exceeding one-sixteenth of the company's stock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference

For this purpose take a glass rod about one-sixteenth inch in diameter, and turn the flame to give its greatest effect, still keeping rather an excess of air or oxygen.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

The diameter of the holes made by each species corresponds closely to that of the body, and varies from about one-twentieth to one-sixteenth of an inch for the tropical species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference