multiplication-table

One blessing is enough for the whole multiplication-table.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Malay, and I often heard them repeating the multiplication-table, up to twenty times twenty, very glibly.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

So far Kim had been thinking in Hindi, but a tremor came on him, and with an effort like that of a swimmer before sharks, who hurls himself half out of the water, his mind leaped up from a darkness that was swallowing it and took refuge in — the multiplication-table in

Kim 2003

It was simpler than the five-times multiplication-table, and did not need to be learnt.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

The next scene is so awful to the Greek Chorus, who may be of a business turn, that I am charitable enough not to reproduce it here; but the percentage the Jew wants for the loan seems to be quite a multiplication-table of tangible securities, and I only wonder the Doge does not order him into the Adriatic.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

"Our family" could boast of many Pharisees, as well as blush for many prodigals; but her sympathies were wholly with the latter; and for these she was eternally killing fatted calves, in spite of angry elder brothers and the whole sect of whited sepulchres, who forgive exactly four hundred and ninety times by the multiplication-table, and compass sea and land to make one hypocrite.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

Loo looked upon Grey secretly as rather silly; (she did all the counting for her; Grey hardly knew the multiplication-table;) she always, however, kept her opinions to herself.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

_ Repeat the multiplication-table backward, from twelve times down to twice.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

Had he brought the same zeal to bear against mathematics, it seems to me he might have shaken the popular faith in the multiplication-table.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

Neglect these, to grasp at random after everything which you see others doing, and you will fail like a bookkeeper who is weak in the multiplication-table.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various