The entire day's run was eight and one-eighth miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference

I may be compelled to allow the one-eighth commission down to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

I replied: "It has never been analyzed -- perhaps one-eighth.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898] Reference

This is a one-eighth scale model of the Hussey reapers built between 1845 and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference

All members must charge one-eighth of one per cent, per hundred shares, each way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

I think we do not over-estimate it, when we consider it as forming one-eighth of the whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

The largest noticed was about three inches long, and the general width one-eighth of an inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

The wages of the parcher are a proportion of the grain, varying from one-eighth to one-fourth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] 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

Measure it carefully about one-eighth of an inch less at head and foot than the height of the book.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

Having by this time advanced three and one-eighth miles from last night's camp we stopped for dinner.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference

This operation offsets the carriage one-eighth of an inch so that the log returns entirely clear of the saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handwork in Wood] Reference

Tear tissue-paper into bits, one-eighth of an inch square, and this piece of electrified paper will draw them.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

You know, I would say, one-third to one-quarter, you might get some of them now, maybe one-quarter to one-eighth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Olson Finds 'Salvation'] Reference

German troops advance from one-eighth to one-fifth of a mile on a three-mile front, taking war material and prisoners.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference

It is about thirty inches high and has been reduced to less than one-eighth of its starting volume eighteen months ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

F. (3) A sum equal to one-eighth of the weekly compensation shall be paid for each performance over eight in each week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference

Hence, Elmira Turner, the guard of Viola, was compelled to go to a spring one-eighth of a mile distant to get pure water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference

Small pieces of cabinet cork (about one-eighth inch thick) will be found very useful for spreading the fins of small fishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

The service was average, at best, and if I was traveling off hours, I always took the Peter Pan bus for one-eighth the cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Beat: Railroaded Again] Reference

Bring it out again on the traced line, about one-eighth of an inch lower down, and draw it through over the held down thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

= — Take equal parts of camphor, sulphuric ether, ammonia, laudanum, tincture of cayenne, and one-eighth part oil of cloves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] 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

Paragraph J. (3) A sum equal to one-eighth of the weekly compensation shall be paid for each performance over eight in each week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference

Paragraph F. (3) A sum equal to one-eighth of the weekly compensation shall be paid for each performance over eight in each week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference

Four eggs well beaten, one pound powdered sugar, one pound flour, a pinch of salt, one-eighth teaspoonful soda, flavor with anise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Community Cook Book] Reference

A rod one-eighth inch in diameter is made just long enough to pass between the upturned ends of the first piece when both are cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] 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

The scalding water should be applied before the buttons appear, but not penetrate more than one-eighth of an inch below the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference

Holding a well-smoothed disk or cross-section one-eighth inch thick toward the light, it is readily seen that pine wood is a very porous structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Have your Vulcanized Rubber all ready, as made in long strips three inches wide and one-eighth of an inch thick, cut off the size of the intended stamp.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

At a time when nearly one-eighth of the state's work force is jobless, some want California to dial back, not bolster, its leading-edge air pollution rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Votes On Nation's Most Aggressive Energy Standard] Reference

Equal portions of apple and celery cut in small cubes, one-eighth the amount of pimentos cut fine and one-eighth the amount of Maraschino cherries cut in half.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games For All Occasions] Reference