"Ten-thousandth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... abruptly. "Not one ten-thousandth part as good-looking, nor one millionth part as bright, as Marcia Hubbard!" He caught her and smothered her against ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... from one portion of the air to another. The amount of motion diminishes as the square of the distance; a simple calculation shows that at a quarter of a mile from the point of explosion it would not be one ten-thousandth of an inch. The condensation is only momentary; it may last the hundredth or the thousandth of a second, according to the suddenness and violence of the explosion; then elasticity restores the air to its original condition and everything is just as it was before ...
— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb |
