You have a clear head for business, and are a capital arithmetician. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
SOCRATES: And this will be he who knows number, or the arithmetician?. From Wordnik.com. [Alcibiades I] Reference
He is as good an arithmetician as Bareme, draws, dances, and sings well. From Wordnik.com. [The Ball at Sceaux] Reference
So do the geometrician, and arithmetician, in their diverse sorts of quantities. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
He wrote a fair letter, was a tolerable arithmetician, but beyond this he did not aspire. From Wordnik.com. [The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid]
'For,' said this political arithmetician, 'you have been twenty-six years a Tory, twenty-six years. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
True, we say that the physician or arithmetician or grammarian has made a mistake, but this is only. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference
This too is the actual procedure of the arithmetician, who assumes both the nature and the existence of unit. From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
The author of these verses is variously identified as Apollodorus the calculator or Apollodorus the arithmetician. From Wordnik.com. [Pythagoras] Reference
"So it wasn't as long ago as when you had your hair cut," said Emma, who already showed promise as an arithmetician. From Wordnik.com. [Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories]
He was, like Cassio, "a great arithmetician, who had never set a squadron in the field or the division of a battle knew," etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
BUXTON, JEDEDIAH (1707-1772), English arithmetician, was born on the 20th of March 1707 at Elmton, near Chesterfield, in Derbyshire. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Upon his own confession he "wasn't no arithmetician," and. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of the Lamp] Reference
The next to him was Mr.A. Minusex, a wondrous arithmetician. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
In life itself a cold arithmetician who adds up our follies. From Wordnik.com. [Pearls of Thought] Reference
That is why the common arithmetician prefers music to poetry. From Wordnik.com. [George Bernard Shaw] Reference
"That makes four -- you are a great arithmetician to be sure!". From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
(The arithmetician.) "Robert, you must turn your foot further round!". From Wordnik.com. [This Freedom] Reference
But he does not come very near, as the young arithmetician will find. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
Considering myself for one moment as an arithmetician, I may say that. From Wordnik.com. [Eugenics and Other Evils] Reference
And that person is he who is good at calculation -- the arithmetician?. From Wordnik.com. [Lesser Hippias] Reference
Lancaster herald, a political arithmetician of great acuteness and judgment. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference
That is an item in the cost of fish which occurs to a prosaic arithmetician. From Wordnik.com. [A Dream of the North Sea] Reference
SOCRATES: And tell me, Hippias, are you not a skilful calculator and arithmetician?. From Wordnik.com. [Lesser Hippias] Reference
What these ideas mean, it is necessary to know if you wish to become an arithmetician. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference
It will be among the sums you may count, if you are a moderate arithmetician, in groschen. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
We here detect a person quite unnoticed hitherto by the moderns, Magnus the arithmetician. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
There was once a worthy man at Athens who was not only a cranky arithmetician, but also a mystic. From Wordnik.com. [The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems] Reference
The news from Palermo may be said to have converted him from an arithmetician into an astronomer. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
He was a natural mathematician and was the most profound and original arithmetician in the Southwest. From Wordnik.com. [The Case of Summerfield] Reference
It will soon be impossible to go to a dance without being accompanied by a professional arithmetician. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920] Reference
You see he himself is an eccentric accountant, a Pindaric book-keeper, an arithmetician in the clouds. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)] Reference
He has gone into the detail in proper A.G. spirit, namely, as an arithmetician rather than a tactician. From Wordnik.com. [Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2] Reference
Basile was an exact arithmetician, could write an excellent hand, and was a ready draughtsman and surveyor. From Wordnik.com. [Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales] Reference
He has but a miserable knowledge of arithmetic, who is no arithmetician without a pen or pencil in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Man's Guide] Reference
You have translated Pythagoras the musician, Ptolemy the astronomer, Nicomachus the arithmetician, Euclid the geometer. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator] Reference
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