"I s'pose with one horse you'd hardly reach the middle of the Boulevard by--well, before the tenth of the month. Hey?"
The tenth of the month! The TENTH! Why, it was on the tenth that that Omaha cousin of Olive Edwards was to--Mr. Phinney began to see--to see and to grin, slow but expansive. "Hm-m-m!" he mused. "Yes," observed Captain Sol. "That white horse of yours looks sort of ailin' to me, Sim.英文原著 · 《The Depot Master》
"I do now. You object to my going in person to Homburg. You know I was once acquainted with that lady, and you feel about her a little of what I feel about Lord Uxmoor; about a tenth part of what I feel, I suppose, and with not one-tenth so much reason. Well, I know what the pangs of jealousy are: I will never inflict them on you, as you have on me. But I _will_ have my money, whether you like or not."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
In the celebrated Perkins sale, in 1873, a magnificent early MS., part of which was written in gold on a purple ground, and which was dated in the catalogue "ninth or tenth century," but was in reality of the end of the tenth or beginning of the eleventh, was sold for 565 pounds to a dealer. It found its way into Mr. Bragge's collection, at what price I do not know, and was resold, three years later, for 780 pounds.英文原著 · 《The Library》
On the tenth of April came the Government report on the condition of winter wheat. It announced an average far below any known for ten years past. On March tenth the same bulletin had shown a moderate supply in farmers' hands, less than one hundred million bushels in fact, and a visible supply of less than forty millions.英文原著 · 《The Pit》
Being pulled about by wild horses can easily be called Massage. The modern problem is not so much what people will endure as what they will not endure. But I fear I interrupt.... The boiling oil is boiling; and the Tenth Mandarin is already reciting the "Seventeen Serious Principles and the Fifty-three Virtues of the Sacred Emperor."英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
"It's better than medicine," said Ninon, after the tenth day, as, wan with watching, she held the cool hand of one of the recovering men in her own. "If we had had medicines we should have killed these men."英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Happy to say, tenth floor has finally picked our new junior exec,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
And remember, even though it's his tenth birthday, we have to pretend he's six or he'll be in a bad mood all week.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
A shock is coming home to find your mom in the tub with your tenthgrade crush.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》