Sentence Examples

1. A small, low door gave egress from the walled space we have been describing into the projected street, the ground having been abandoned as unproductive by its various renters, and had now fallen so completely in general estimation as to return not even the one-half per cent it had originally paid.
2. Dantès half feared that such valuable jewels in the hands of a poor sailor like himself might excite suspicion but the cunning purchaser asked no troublesome questions concerning a bargain by which he gained a round profit of at least eighty per cent.
3. As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.
4. His wildest dreams had not exceeded a hundred per cent.
5. They calculated that not twenty-five per cent of this would reach its destination, and that two or three per cent would be wasted in the cars.
6. Taller by a head than ninety-five per cent of the foot-flow, with every person on the street giving me a wide berth.
7. Where Susan had suffered smoke inhalation, head injuries and second-degree burns to forty per cent of her body and had been left to perish.
8. They could be self-sufficient, anonymous and never pay a cent to anyone to lead a fulfilled life.
9. The charge on the battery was two per cent going on one.