My brother and I counted them, and there were ninety-nine.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

And after he had lived ninety-nine years in the fear of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

The cenotaph is engraved with ninety-nine names of the deity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

It has about ninety-nine, or nine hundred and ninety-nine lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference

Captain Lovet got a ninety-nine years lease from Trinity House; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference

There is such an alley as this, but it is unknown to ninety-nine Spaniards in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

People say that a cat has nine lives; then a tiger must have ninety-nine lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonders of the Jungle Book One] Reference

This strip extends back thirty miles and is held for a term of ninety-nine years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

"To ninety-nine, George street, St. James," cried Fisherton, in his loudest tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

So much so that they have become about ninety-nine percent unconscious of reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference

But ninety-nine out of one hundred men, the ordinary normal men, can learn to fly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opportunities in Aviation] Reference

The offering, ninety-nine percent of which was bought by U.K. accounts, drew almost.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Securities Issues] Reference

Anything that disables a man in space is deadly ninety-nine times out of a hundred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorite] Reference

When Rowley talks of purchasing his house "on a repayring lease for ninety-nine years.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

Beauregard afterward reported his entire loss as ten thousand six hundred and ninety-nine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

And after he had lived ninety-nine years in the fear of the Lord, with joy they buried him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 17: Tobias The Challoner Revision] Reference

In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, if these symptoms are present the woman is pregnant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

If our children are bad, the fault is, ninety-nine cases in a hundred, our own, in some way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Nineteen ninety-nine will in all likelihood be remembered as a year of achievement for Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renewing The Social Contract] Reference

From the 12th of April to the 30th there were ninety-eight or ninety-nine shocks of earthquake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

Efficiency and reliability cover ninety-nine per cent. of the requirements of the automobilist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

Woman is still believed intellectually inferior to man, by ninety-nine one hundredths of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

Land for a building was granted by the city for ninety-nine years at an annual rental of one dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference

The Chesapeake lost forty-seven killed and ninety-nine wounded, and of the latter fourteen afterward died.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference

Nineteen ninety-nine was supposed to be the year that rock died, and for eight months the prophecy bore out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Rock And Roll Here To Stay?] Reference

Instead, he said to me: 'This is surely a case where, although there were ninety-nine against him, the one is right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Road] Reference

This was at least plain speaking, and it discloses the secret of ninety-nine out of every hundred of the Republicans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

Even before cliches like this, Edison wrote: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trophy Syndrome] Reference

They don't see the obvious: worrying about ninety-nine useless things out of a hundred is a waste of time and emotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deepak Chopra: Break the Habit: How to Stop Worrying] Reference

The shepherd leaving ninety-nine, did not return till he had completed his number by recovering that sheep which was lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

And ninety-nine chances to one, those ideas will be vile and pernicious unless they come from a wise, loving and pure parent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference

From Port Essington to Sydney, two thousand three hundred and forty miles; the rate being one hundred and ninety-nine miles a-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

This small showing should not imply that the remaining ninety-eight or ninety-nine per cent could in fairness be called worthless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

As far as he was concerned, the other two millions nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight did not exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Triflers] Reference

There are two principal pleasures man seeks; one is material pleasures and that takes in about ninety-nine per cent of the human family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference

Nineteen ninety-nine was a suitable exclamation point for a century that would like to be remembered more for its wealth than for its wars.    From Wordnik.com.  [1999: Sort Of Satisfactory] Reference