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In 1860, the year immediately preceding the rebellion, the deficiency amounted to $5,656,705.49, the postal receipts of that year being $2,645,722.19 less that those of 1863. [7]
The other class were the active agents, and were termed strikers, and amounted to about six hundred and fifty. [5]
These people about us had other peculiarities, which I have noticed in the noble red man, too: they were infested with vermin, and the dirt had caked on them till it amounted to bark. [5]
They all allude to the envy and detraction to which he was subject, and which must have amounted to a storm of abuse and perhaps ridicule; and they all tax the English vocabulary to extol Smith, his deeds, and his works. [4]
Ours have amounted to sixteen thousand dollars and some cents up to this time. [5]
The debts amounted to double the value of the property. [2]
The proceeds amounted to about $1,000. [5]
The sum amounted to a little over twelve thousand dollars. [5]
In many cases this amounted to three or four hundred dollars. [5]
Hawkins bought out the village store for a song and proceeded to reap the profits, which amounted to but little more than another song. [5]
But what distressed the princess most of all was her father's irritability, which was always directed against her and had of late amounted to cruelty. [2]
The stamps on the deed, which is now on its way to Humboldt County, from New York, for record, amounted to $3,000, which is said to be the largest amount of stamps ever placed on one document. [5]
But it proved that our combined resources only amounted to a dollar and seventy-five cents. [9]
Their patriotism was strong, their pride in the flag was of the old fashioned pattern, their love of country amounted to idolatry. [5]
It is a source of honest pride to his descendant that his bill, which was honestly paid, as it seems to have been honorably earned, amounted to the handsome total of seven pounds and two shillings. [3]
Still it is something to know that in the last year--a year of almost unparalleled pecuniary pressure--it amounted to more than forty thousand dollars. [7]
The observation was so innocent and so honest that it amounted to a very good thing for a guide to say. [5]
It has been roughly estimated by those best capable of judging, that when Cook discovered the Islands in 1779, the population amounted to about 300,000. [1]
The public debt on the first day of July last, as appears by the books of the Treasury, amounted to $1,740,690,489.49. [7]
They can see now what his prolonged life amounted to, and how the world has closed up the gap he once filled while he still lives in it. [4]
Though Jane Withersteen never admitted so to herself, it amounted to no less than a system of charity. [13]
The mail was monthly, and sometimes amounted to as much as three or four letters at a single delivery. [5]
Why, in the matter of noise it amounted to a riot, an insurrection, a revolution. [5]
A very grave man--in fact his gravity amounted to solemnity, and almost to austerity--sat opposite us and he was "tight," but doing his best to appear sober. [5]
The Earl of Leicester, very soon after the death of Orange, was appointed governor of the provinces, and the alliance between the two countries almost amounted to a political union. [6]
He did not know at all how much he had, what his debts amounted to, or what dowry he could give Vera. [2]
Last year his jobbing trade amounted to upwards of $52,000,000. [5]
Well, Scotland and Ireland were tributary to Arthur, and the united populations of the British Islands amounted to something less than 1,000,000. [5]
His learning in his specialty was deep and thorough, his interest in his subject amounted to a passion, he had an easy gift of speech; and so, when he talked about animals it was a pleasure to listen to him. [5]
Yes, and what has it all amounted to? [9]
The creature probably glowed with a gratitude that amounted to prayer, too, at this moment, but it was premature: for when he started thankfully to travel off, Tom turned him aside with a pin and made him take a new direction. [5]
The postal revenues for the year ending June 30, 1864, amounted to $12,438,253.78, and the expenditures to $12,644,786.20, the excess of expenditures over receipts being $206,532.42. [7]
At moments it flared up into what almost amounted to a conviction that she could not resist my appeal. [9]
There were but few Europeans--only fourteen but they were all kind and hospitable, and it amounted to being at home. [5]
I was settling down delightedly to my old, easy, and unmolested existence when Farrar and I received an invitation, which amounted to a summons, to go to Mohair and make ourselves generally useful. [9]
The gang was composed of two classes: the Heads or Council, as they were called, who planned and concerted, but seldom acted; they amounted to about four hundred. [5]
The newspaper reports began to grow monotonous with facts that amounted to nothing, clues which led to nothing, and theories which had nearly exhausted the elements which surprise and delight and dazzle. [5]
It would have been most desirable, he said, to have ascertained what these papers, or rather this particular paper, to which so much importance was attached, amounted to. [6]
As shown by authentic documents, the expenditures on improvements during 1825, 1826, 1827, and 1828 amounted to one million eight hundred and seventy-nine thousand six hundred and twenty-seven dollars and one cent. [7]
The Professor expressed at once a feeling about mountain-climbing that amounted to hostility,--he would go nowhere that he could not ride. [4]
He was fisherman and hunter, and had been the comrade of sportsmen and explorers; and his enthusiasm for the beauty and sublimity of the region, and for its untamable wildness, amounted to a passion. [4]
The sales soon amounted to more than fifty thousand copies, and had increased to very nearly one hundred thousand at the end of the first three years. [5]
Nancy had what amounted to a genius for interior effects, and she was the first to introduce among us the luxury that was to grow more and more prevalent as our wealth increased by leaps and bounds. [9]

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