It was the missing piece, the five-hundredth piece. From Wordnik.com. [December 6]
The five-hundredth piece of the puzzle is still missing. From Wordnik.com. [December 6]
She was the five-hundredth Palestinian fatality of the intifada. From Wordnik.com. [West Bank Story] Reference
This is the five-hundredth anniversary of Sir Thomas More's birth. From Wordnik.com. [The Lesson of Thomas More] Reference
The dimensions of an ovum are one seven-hundred-and-fiftieth by one five-hundredth of an inch. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference
Then up to four words flashed simultaneously on the screen at rates of one five-hundredth of a second. From Wordnik.com. [Speed Reading: Fact or Fiction? « Articles « Literacy News] Reference
Each head of clover contains about sixty separate flower-tubes, in each of which is a portion of sugar not exceeding the five-hundredth part of a grain. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
The air around a bird is only displaced by the bird's volume, and the pressure of the air corresponding to this displacement is not equivalent to more than one five-hundredth part of the bird's weight. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885] Reference
“It was the five-hundredth anniversary of the conquest of the Americas by Spain,” the courtly, soft-spoken CEO of CEMEX recently recalled with a chuckle in his art-filled offices in midtown New York. From Wordnik.com. [The Emerging Markets Century] Reference
For instance, the barometer-wheel carries successive numbers for every five-hundredth of a millimeter -- 760.00, 760.05, 760.1, etc.; so that when the motion is stopped the uppermost type gives in figures the actual reading of the barometer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887] Reference
I could refute several of the points you made in your previous post, but since the comments there are already full of refutations upon refutations upon refutations, I'll refrain from launching into the five-hundredth verse (same as the first). From Wordnik.com. [A Few Last Words] Reference
For the celebration of the five-hundredth anniversary of the union of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
The five-hundredth anniversary of the foundation was celebrated in 1911. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
It would set the value of the dollar to one five-hundredth of an ounce of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Sibby Online] Reference
For those playing along at home, this is literally about the five-hundredth hint that. From Wordnik.com. [DSLreports - front page] Reference
These additional micro-bubbles would each be one five-hundredth of a millimeter and would essentially serve as. From Wordnik.com. [Discover Blogs] Reference
Flying pigeons were photographed in different positions, each picture taken in a five-hundredth part of a second. From Wordnik.com. [The Photoplay A Psychological Study] Reference
The first step is undertaken lightly, pleasantly, and with your soul in the sky; it is the five-hundredth that counts. From Wordnik.com. [The Path to Rome] Reference
A man can not even imagine the consciousness of so short an interval of time as the five-hundredth part of one second. From Wordnik.com. [Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn] Reference
"Oh yes, fine," answered the boy, looking at the motionless model for the five-hundredth time, and sticking his hands into his pockets. From Wordnik.com. [The Little City of Hope A Christmas Story] Reference
What a prim, bustling, active, green-railinged, tea-gardened, gravel-walked place would it have been in the five-hundredth town in England!. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2] Reference
It has been asserted that during his stay at Aix, Handel composed a cantata for the five-hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Elbing, a town in. From Wordnik.com. [Handel] Reference
In 1992, the Nobel Prize Committee took the occasion of the five-hundredth anniversary of Colombus's "discovery" to award the Nobel Peace Prize to a Guatemalan woman, an. From Wordnik.com. [ChronWatch - Articles] Reference
A moveable arm carrying a brass plate with a slit and a vernier, enables the observer to read off at the vanishing point of the sun's limb, to one five-hundredth of an inch. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
Palladio was born in 1508, and his five-hundredth birthday is currently being marked, belatedly but enthusiastically, with an elaborate exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, in London. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
"I can't bear to go," said Polly, turning reluctantly away; "it's most beautiful -- oh, Ben," and she faced him for the five-hundredth time with the question, "is your Santa Claus dress all safe?". From Wordnik.com. [Five Little Peppers and How They Grew] Reference
Then he named a sum that was a great sum, but not the value of the Jewel to the fiftieth part, nay nor the five-hundredth part, of its value; and Ukleet remonstrated with him, but he was resolute, saying. From Wordnik.com. [The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete] Reference
From this it has been calculated that the mass of Sirius equals two of our suns, and its intrinsic brightness equals twenty suns; but the companion, having a mass equal to our sun, has only a five-hundredth part of the sun's brightness. From Wordnik.com. [History of Astronomy] Reference
In 1865, on the occasion of the celebration of the five-hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the university, he was chosen rector in order that, as the most distinguished member of the university, he should represent her on that day. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
Again, as the train drew out of the station, the old gentleman pulled out of his pocket his great shining watch; and for the fifth, or, as it seemed to me, the five-hundredth time, he said (we were in the carriage alone together) 'To the minute, to the very minute!. From Wordnik.com. [More Trivia] Reference
6 Gueymard made his debut in the title role of Robert le diable and also sang at the five-hundredth performance in 1867. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on 'Lewis/Gounod's Bleeding _Nonne_: Introduction and Translation of the Scribe/Delavigne Libretto'] Reference
On the five-hundredth anniversary of Mantegna’s death in 2006, Mantegna’s three cities Padua, Verona, Mantua each hosted exhibitions of the artist’s work. From Wordnik.com. [A to Z: M is for Mantinia] Reference
By the time that the fifth year of Nic’s visiting had arrived, on about the five-hundredth occasion of his presence at her tea-table, he noticed that the bleaching process which had begun upon his own locks was also spreading to hers. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
2 hr 40 min ago, -0/+9I think this is the five-hundredth time I've read this joke so far in these comments. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
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