"One-quarter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... (Skagerrak and Kattegat) linking Baltic and North Seas; about one-quarter of the ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... know one-quarter. The police do not know one-half. But I know. You have read what the papers have printed, or what some retired Inspector has seen fit to tell in his Memoirs. You did not pass, night after night, the sinister house of the woman whose open boast was that, if she wished ...
— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice
... Muztagh-Karakoram range, all included in the Indus basin. But it does not embrace the whole of it. Part is in Tibet, part in Afghanistan and Biluchistan, and part in Sindh, through which province the Indus flows for 450 miles, or one-quarter of its whole course of 1800 miles. It seems likely that the Jamna valley was not always an exception, or at least that that river once flowed westwards through Rajputana to the Indian ocean. The five great rivers of the Panjab all drain into the Indus, and the Ghagar with its tributary, the Sarusti, ...
— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie
... reduced and supplemented by grazing and other kinds of food, such as green forage, beans, peas, rice, palay, wheat, and rye. Wheat and rye should be crushed and fed sparingly (about one-fourth of the allowance). For unshelled corn, add about one-quarter weight. ...
— Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry • War Department
... the articles of partnership under which business was undertaken at St. John in 1764, viz. Samuel Blodget, James Simonds and William Hazen, had each one-quarter interest in the business, the junior partners, Robert Peaslie, James White and Richard Simonds had only one-twelfth part each. The articles of partnership provided that James Simonds and the three junior partners should proceed to St. John as soon as possible, ...
— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond
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