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• “To denote a number greater than ten, we must begin again, _ten_ and _one, ten_ and _two_, &c.”

  English Grammar in Familiar Lectures

• “In the sentence, Ten men _walk_, the verb _walk_ denotes _ten_ actions, for there are ten actors.”

  English Grammar in Familiar Lectures

• “Out of forty lines of Vergil, Scaife would do fifteen, John fifteen, and the Caterpillar ten; _ten_, because, as he pointed out, he had been nearly three years in the school.”

  The Hill A Romance of Friendship

• “Out of forty lines of Vergil, Scaife would be fifteen, John fifteen, and the Caterpillar ten; _ten_, because, as he pointed out, he had been nearly three years in the school.”

  The Hill A Romance of Friendship

• “He would accept the ten pounds -- but really, did ever you hear of anything so ridiculous in your life, _ten pounds!”

  The Lost Girl

• “On we bound, and on comes the pursuer, not ten yards behind -- not _ten_, but more than _five_.”

  Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life

• “Congressmen, representing both her white and slave population, but wishes them appointed throughout the State without regard to the slave population: so that the county containing ten thousand white inhabitants, and double that number of slaves, should be entitled to no more representation than the county containing _ten_ thousand white inhabitants and no slaves!”

  Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors

• “He then related, that he had had ten children, _all put out to be suckled_, in consequence of the necessity of his having the mother's assistance to carry on his business; and that _two out of the ten_ had come home _ideots_; though the rest were all sane, and though insanity had never been known in the family of either father or mother!”

  Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.

• “-- Thus, I have expended ten _score_ words, to tell the world what another would have told them in _ten_ -- "That our prison is wretched, and we want a better.”

  An History of Birmingham (1783)

• “On the scale of disruption, from one to ten, this is a ten+, because the infrastructure, financial and government support systems are so weak in Haiti.”

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