Fort Sumter is a modern truncated pentagonal fort, three miles and three-eighths from the city of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrations of the War in America] Reference

TOSS & START POTATOES at 400F (detailed instructions follow) 1 pound Yukon gold potatoes, cut in eighths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roasted Potatoes with Garlic & Pimenton | A Veggie Venture] Reference

(such as eighths or quarters or half, etc.) so that the length can be made 19 units.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts] Reference

The Yankee owners put in five eighths of the Yankees.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wall St. Squeeze Play] Reference

Of all imports, Lower Canada was to receive seven-eighths, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

The rope that they used was new rope, about three-eighths inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Fruit: Anniversary Of A Lynching] Reference

B, it determines the limit of cut-off on the five-eighths cam in Figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference

Then she should turn and baste a hem three eighths of an inch in depth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference

The border on paper and envelopes is usually three-eighths of an inch for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference

A cam designed to cut off the steam at five-eighths of the piston stroke 244.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference

The entire cost of placing the loan was less than three-eighths of one per cent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

Hose should be three-eighths to one-half inch in diameter, one inch being too heavy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple Growing] Reference

You could go out and get a 30-year mortgage right now, today, at four-and-three-eighths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economist: Now Not The Time To Buy A House] Reference

These curved lines embrace a cut-off cam of five-eighths limit, shown complete in Figure 278.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference

Within were ten guns, each with a barrel twenty inches long, and a three-eighths of an inch bore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen] Reference

Thus over seven-eighths of his power was wastefully developed in order to render one-eighth useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Steam on the Erie Canal] Reference

Altogether, perhaps, in some way or other, seven-eighths of the life of man is taken up by the Cadmean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference

Miss 1st 4 stitches, make a treble in each of 96 stitches, drawing up to about five-eighths of an inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet] Reference

The terms half blood, three-eighths blood, and quarter blood refer to the full-blooded Merino standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

As spreads squeezed from eighths to pennies, a new batch of electronic-trading networks blinked into action.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Market Solution That Put Investors in a Fix] Reference

Pare, core and cut five sour apples into eighths; place evenly in a pie plate lined with the usual pie pastry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Community Cook Book] Reference

But Eurasia holds five eighths of the world's population, and its combined GNP exceeds that of the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eurasia And The Epidemic] Reference

In addition to our beef we export about 400,000 cattle annually, more than seven eighths of which are taken by Great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference

A heavy planet native, he felt vaguely uneasy on this Gienah III with its gravity of only seven-eighths Terran Standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing Link] Reference

Nor is the seizing possession of seven-eighths of the Irish representation the only or even the greatest fact of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

If he did it on his own, he'd cut it off at six and seven-eighths, I never heard of it, but I'd get him to cut it off on four.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anita O'Day: Revisiting A Classic Voice] Reference

In size the mushrooms range from three-fourths to one and five-eighths inches in diameter of top, and are pure white in color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference

It should be borne in mind that seven-eighths of the floating iceberg is under water, leaving but one-eighth above the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

Strips of wood five-eighths of an inch square and nine inches long are screwed across the uprights, and on these the shelves rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

In proportion the Celts were five-eighths and the Saxons one-eighth of the people of the country, two-eighths being of other origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

Light wooden shutters -- made of one-half inch or five-eighths inch pine -- may be used for the same end, and will last for many years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference

The longitudinal stick should be of strong spruce, sixty inches in length and about three-eighths or one-half inch in width and thickness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference

Then add six peeled raw potatoes and small head of young cabbage (cut in eighths) cover closely and allow at least an hour's slow boiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference