In Kepler's form of stating the law the radius vector is supposed to travel with the planet and in each day to sweep over the same fractional part of the total area of the orbit.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
He showed by actual statistics that up to 1840 we had paid to the Indians eighty-five millions of dollars for land purchases, which was over five times as much as the United States gave the great Napoleon for Louisiana; and about three times as much as we paid France, Spain, and Mexico together for the purchase of Louisiana, Florida, and California; while the amount of land received in return would not equal any one of these purchases, and was but a fractional part of Louisiana or California.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
I was considerably grand at that time-being a Junior who had had a rib smashed playing football and was going to edit the college paper the next year-but the way she looked at me you would have thought that I was the fractional part of a peeled cipher.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch