Drawing includes seven-eighths of what constitutes painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art] Reference

I use flat-head, brass, wood screws, seven-eighths inch long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922] 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

From the same authority, and others, we learn that seven-eighths of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right of American Slavery] Reference

The other seven-eighths of the nation has been dissing us for decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Slater: Why They Dis Californians] Reference

"Tiger" was not the word; this Olmstead must be seven-eighths dinosaur.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Lensman]

He swung around so fast in the seven-eighths gravity he almost pitched onto his nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behold the Stars]

We will have cattle that will be three-fourths Guernsey, or five, six, or seven-eighths.    From Wordnik.com.  [FEDERATION OF WOMEN] Reference

These must be cut seven-eighths of an inch wide, then folded over, and lightly hammered down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference

But those who actually read it will find that seven-eighths of the book is about other things.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 17, 2009] Reference

This is two hundred times as large as our world, and "slin" covers seven-eighths of its surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in a Thousand Worlds] 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

The cerebrum comprises nearly seven-eighths of the entire mass, and fills the upper part of the skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

It differs only from seven-eighths of the novels that are produced today in being more carefully written.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship] Reference

So, what was it, I think seven-eighths of the German army were on the French front or on the western front.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First World War] Reference

When I sat writing in my cabin, I had scarcely been aware that my weight had been reduced by seven-eighths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

In England, one inch in 24 hours is considered a great rain; but in New England six inches and seven-eighths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference

At least three-fourths of our exports are agricultural, and of the new exports probably seven-eighths would be.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Not Silver, What?] Reference

Gravity in this part of the asteroid was about seven-eighths terrestrial, enough to put a good bounce in your step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sagittarius Whorl]

For example, researchers in central Texas are producing a cross that is one-eighth banteng/seven-eighths Charolais.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

He walked out from reception on Gordonstoun, aware of the seven-eighths gra­vity and the heady, wine-like atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behold the Stars]

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

Which made a man like Jablonsky all the more dangerous: like an iceberg, seven-eighths of his lethal menace was out of sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear is the Key]

All these contained around seven-eighths of an ounce of gold, and this seems to have defined the international gold standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest World Coin Auction of All Time (Part 5): Gold Coins as World Currencies : Coin Collecting News] Reference

The passage from my nose to my windpipe was closed for repairs, and that from my mouth to my throat was seven-eighths closed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Discovery] 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

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

From 1786 until the 1830s, and even later in independent Latin American nations, escudos coins were seven-eighths fine 87.5% gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest World Coin Auction of All Time (Part 5): Gold Coins as World Currencies : Coin Collecting News] Reference

The shadow of this satellite, while crossing the face of Saturn, has been observed by Banks with a two and seven-eighths objective.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891] Reference

Even if morality be not seven-eighths of our life (the exact proportion as at present estimated), there was a place even on the Hellenic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference

At a low estimate, three-fourths of our Royal Academicians are Forsytes, seven-eighths of our novelists, a large proportion of the press.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man of Property] Reference