"I'm a riddle in nine syllables" The nine syllables correspond with the nine months of pregnancy. Each line of the poem is a metaphor for pregnancy and there are nine lines, one for each month of gestation. The riddle in the first line is the unknown baby growing in those nine months/syllables.
Mary Warren is paid nine pounds a year for housekeeping.
That, my friend, is an old joke that is simply answered as seven ate (or eight) nine.
Oh, dude, a nine-line poem is called a nonet. It's like a sonnet, but with less commitment. So, if you're feeling poetic but not ready to commit to those extra three lines, go for a nonet.
The orifices of a newborn
refering to the sond 12 days of Christmas it was nine ladies dancing.
Nine ladies dance.
Nine ladies dancing
Nine ladies dancing
I think it represents the 9 Fruits of the Spirit?
Nine ladies dancing (eight maids-a-milking, seven swans-a-swimming, six geese-a-laying, five gold rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree)
they cost eight or nine bucks
Find the cost of each one: 1.90 / 7 = 0.27 Find the cost of nine of them: 0.27 x 9 = 2.44 (or 2.43 depending on how you rounded)
nine
Ten lords-a-leaping (nine ladies dancing, eight maids-a-milking, seven swans-a-swimming, six geese-a-laying, five gold rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree)
nine dollars a kilo in the old days
Around nine dollars.