ninety-and-nine

So the eunuch rose, bemused with sleep, and brought him basin and ewer, whereupon Kamar al-Zaman entered the water closet and did his need; 271 then, coming out made the Wuzu-ablution and prayed the dawn-prayer, after which he sat telling on his beads the ninety-and-nine names of Almighty Allah.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

It will often leave the ninety-and-nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost.

A Miscellany of Men 2007

Over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety-and-nine just persons, which need no repentance, * were his words.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Instead of a stocking full of coal, he got the ninety-and-nine plan at Stateville for Christmas, not to mention a limp to walk with for every one of those years.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

Instead of a stocking full of coal, he got the ninety-and-nine plan at Stateville for Christmas, not to mention a limp to walk with for every one of those years.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

[If one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety-and-nine, &c.]

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

I have given instances elsewhere, let me in this place add one more: "Of those hundred cries that a woman in travail uttereth, ninety-and-nine of them are to death, and only one of them to life."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

"Surely, he will have all the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who would rejoice in one sheep found more than in all the ninety-and-nine who went not astray."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various

Well, one man in a hundred exchanges with profit; the ninety-and-nine, the further they go the more they lose -- onions peeled coat by coat.

On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller

The ninety-and-nine discover that they have a weary contest to maintain with manifold contingencies and combinations which no foresight can preclude.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various