Crossword-Solution: CENTAGE 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Gabriel’s farm had been stocked by a dealer—on the strength of Oak’s promising look and character—who was receiving a per-centage from the farmer till such time as the advance should be cleared off.

And the ignorant by-stander prays that the doctor may have grace given him and time for repentance; whilst his more liberal companion reproves his want of charity, observing that travellers into far countries have always had a license for lying, as a sort of tax or fine levied for remunerating their own risks; and that great astronomers, as necessarily far travellers into space, are entitled to a double per centage of the same Munchausen privilege.

You see the preponderance of that party in the city of New York, and that is the feeling amongst them throughout the State of New York; but, throughout the whole of the United States, it is merely a small per-centage, which has no sensible effect upon the constitution of Congress, or upon legislation or government.

Our inquiries into this branch of the subject lead us to conclude that there are very few salaries paid from the city or county treasury which do not yield an annual per centage to some one of the 'head-centres' of corruption.

They are subject to a humane, though strict discipline, and a very large per centage, especially of the boys, do undoubtedly become reformed.