"One-twelfth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 1830 one-twelfth of the population of Lexington consisted of free persons of color, who since 1822 had had a Baptist church served by a member of their own race and a school in which thirty-two of their children were taught by a white man from Tennessee. He had pledged himself ...
— The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861 • Carter Godwin Woodson
... sloping screen fixed between the upper platform and the furnace floor, the fine ashes which pass through the screen being taken away to the manure heaps, and the combustible parts to the furnaces of the carbonizer. In this way a good deal of the ash pit refuse is got rid of; it is often one-twelfth part of the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various
... eyes hardened suddenly. She could not believe what the doctor had told her five minutes earlier. Five minutes—one-twelfth part of Mrs. Harrington's ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman |
