| Uriah Heep is watered down tenth-rate Jethro Tull, only even more boring and inane. |
| The Murray in February is a streamless ditch, which in America, if known and named at all, would rank as a tenth-rate river. |
| Nevertheless, all the translations of Pushkin's poems that I have ever seen make him resemble a tenth-rate imitator of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. |
| At a pitch I could be a tolerable road-sweeper or an inefficient gardener or even a tenth-rate farm hand. |
| Many, at any rate, would say that it does not: that a tenth-rate novel might give more facts about 18th-century life than a first-rate novel of the same century. |
