Read full poem →Making his mistress march with men of war,
With title of "Tenth Worthy" doth her lade.
Methinks that gull did use his terms as fit,
Dictionary Entry
The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “tenth”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →With folded wings against an April rain.
On June the tenth Edward and Julia married,
I did not go for fear of an old pain.
Read full poem →He started to run his best again, though his running
jpowers were growing less as he began to run the tenth
time, but it was all in vain, for the man seemed to be
Read full poem →with the reminder that possession may be nine- -tenths
of the law, but that there is another tenth compounded
out of human genius, spirit, and gumption that a man
Read full poem →Portrait of John Tyler, Tenth President of the United States 407
Read full poem →For Ten Years Commissioner of Agriculture, Statistics, and Mines,
and Special Expert for the Tenth Census,
Read full poem →be instructive that in The Txvo Gentlemeii this proportion is less than
one tenth, in the Errors one third. The Errors, at least, cannot be
later than 1594 because it was produced in notorious confusion at
Read full poem →Given under my hand the tenth of the fourth month, anno Domini 1820."
Read full poem →advertised in the _Morning Chronicle_, December 22, 1813), the date of
the last revise, or of an advance copy of the issue. The ninth, tenth,
eleventh, and twelfth editions belong to 1814, while a fourteenth