"One-fourth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at the floor, keeping the eyeball as stationary as possible. Take a clean wooden toothpick or slender pencil, wrapped with cotton, place on the upper lid about one-fourth of an inch from the edge, grasp the eyelashes with the other hand, give a slight push downward toward the cheek with the toothpick, a slight pull upward on the lashes and turn the lid over the toothpick. Remove the speck ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts
... must know how, must have been especially prepared for his calling. It is only character-moulding, only shaping the destinies of immortal beings, for which we demand neither preparation nor a knowledge of the business. It is only of our children that we are resigned to lose nearly one-fourth by death, "owing to ignorance and injudicious nursery management." Were this rate of mortality declared to exist among our domestic animals, the community would be ...
— A Domestic Problem • Abby Morton Diaz
... took possession of his apartments, and looked over his bills, he made the startling discovery that this short apprenticeship of Paris had cost him fifty-thousand francs, one-fourth of his fortune. ...
— File No. 113 • Emile Gaboriau
... to each spindle, representing one stretch. The bare spindle may be about a quarter of an inch in diameter, but it may finally attain a diameter of an inch and a quarter (i.e., the cop upon the spindle). This cop will only require about twenty revolutions to wind on the 64 inches, which are only one-fourth of the revolutions necessary for the empty spindles. It is the action of the quadrant which gives this variation in speed to ...
— The Story of the Cotton Plant • Frederick Wilkinson
... about one-fourth more than the best hands you've got," replied Susan, made audacious by necessity. "And I'll agree to ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
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