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Sentences starting with hundreds

Hundreds of Jesuits, with thousands of the populace, had filed behind the cross and the host. [11]
Hundreds of families whose men were in the army came to be within touch of the War Office and Aldershot, and the capital of the Empire was overrun by intriguers, harmless and otherwise. [11]
Hundreds of glow-worms were shimmering in the hedge. [11]
Hundreds of corporators were named, and even thousands were included in the various London trades and guilds that were joined in the enterprise. [4]
Hundreds saw the two make their way across the veld, across the lead-swept plain; but such things in the hour of battle are commonplaces; they are taken as part of the awful game. [11]
Hundreds of times they would go to bed without wishing each other 'good-night,' and still more often would they avoid any morning greeting when they first met in the day. [10]
Hundreds of times they rushed to our aid just at the right time, and assisted us to hew off the hand of the foe which was already choking us. [10]
Hundreds had touched the coffin, taking a last farewell. [11]
Hundreds of times she had heard those words, and they had been as meaningless to her as to Nicodemus. [9]
Hundreds of eyes scanned her face, yet she seemed unconscious of them, indifferent to them. [11]

Sentences ending with hundreds

At the usual rate for such lessons, his debt, with interest for twenty-odd years, would run very far into the hundreds. [8]
They fill four or five great salons, and must number a good many hundreds. [5]
Every shout of laughter, every burst of mad mirth from the revellers above cut her to the heart--and yet, how they would have gladdened her if only one other voice could have mingled with those hundreds! [10]
From this malignant delight in the woes of others, and in the hope of rising higher in office, that wicked man has brought misery on hundreds. [10]

Short sentences using hundreds

Blood flowed, and hundreds gasped. [11]

Sentences containing hundreds two or more times

Half the time, when it is packed as full as it can stick, you will see that New England weather sticking out beyond the edges and projecting around hundreds and hundreds of miles over the neighboring states. [5]
And, where is the wisdom in permitting hundreds upon hundreds of millions of francs to be locked up in the useless trumpery of churches all over Italy, and the people ground to death with taxation to uphold a perishing Government? [5]
Hundreds upon hundreds of miles that endless trail went winding to the farthest North-west. [11]
But Janders did not go large; for at that very moment there came the bugle-call for the working parties to get into the zeriba, as from the mimosa scrub came hundreds upon hundreds of "Osnum Digners" hard upon the heels of the vedettes. [11]
They passed from lip to lip, from hundreds to hundreds and, though those more distant did not know the cause, they joined in the shouts. [10]
At my house I have hundreds upon hundreds of them. [5]
The horses' hoofs have bored holes in these rocks to the depth of six inches during the hundreds and hundreds of years that the castle was garrisoned. [5]
You see, he had killed hundreds and hundreds of them, and that's the way to find out about birds. [5]
This will be enough to last the year, but not more than enough, because hundreds of bees are drowned every day, and other hundreds are eaten by birds, and it is the queen's business to keep the population up to standard--say, fifty thousand. [5]
My friends, I can tell you what people's wages are going to be at any date in the future you want to know, for hundreds and hundreds of years. [5]

More example sentences with the word hundreds in them

If any but you had dictated the Reply, M. Bourget, I would know that that anecdote was twisted around and its intention magnified some hundreds of times, in order that it might be used as a pretext to creep in the back way. [5]
The grand total would have been twice as large, but the streets were very narrow, and hundreds who wanted to bid could not get within a block of the stand, and could not make themselves heard. [5]
Fielding was busy with the map at the dreaded moment that hundreds of the villagers appeared upon the bank and rushed the Amenhotep. [11]
As to variety, why, he confessed that he got hundreds of kinds of weather that he had never heard of before. [5]
No Egyptian from whom death had snatched a loved one failed to follow the swelling torrent, which increased till hundreds became thousands. [10]
Under the trees were hundreds of tables surrounded by hovering ministering angels in white, and if you were German, they brought you beer; if American, ice-cream. [9]
At first there were dozens of these disk-shaped, transparent creatures, and then hundreds, starring the water like marguerites sprinkled on a meadow, and of sizes from that of a teacup to a dinner-plate. [4]
Hundreds, maybe thousands, were being killed off there in the hills. [11]
The latter, as well as Appenzelder, still frequently called upon her, and tried to diminish her grief over the injury to her voice by telling her of hundreds of similar cases which had resulted favourably. [10]
On my right was the St. Lawrence swelling on its course, hundreds of feet beneath, little boats passing hither and thither on its flood. [11]
Not that it was such a great event, one of hundreds of railroad accidents that come to court. [9]
He said there was hundreds of soldiers there, and elephants and treasure, and so on, but we had enemies which he called magicians; and they had turned the whole thing into an infant Sunday-school, just out of spite. [5]
Under the roof vast knots of bats had packed themselves together, thousands in a bunch; the lights disturbed the creatures and they came flocking down by hundreds, squeaking and darting furiously at the candles. [5]
If they'd got up, there'd have been hundreds of settlers massacreed. [11]
It had swept up to Vadrome Mountain, and had marched furiously through the forest, carrying down hundreds of trees, drowning the roars of wild animals and the crying and fluttering of birds. [11]
I will report unto you a Thing which many Hundreds among us know to be true. [6]
Every extraordinary occurrence unsettles the heads of hundreds of thousands of men for a few moments or hours or days. [5]
Soon other voices took up that cry--tens, scores, hundreds of voices; all the world seemed filled with the brutal joy of it. [5]
Long before eleven, too, the chiefs over tens and the chiefs over hundreds had gathered their men and marched them into the state-house; and Mr. Tooting, who was everywhere that morning, noticed that some of these led soldiers had pieces of paper in their hands. [9]
From the ground to the top of the unfinished towers is one mass of rich stone-work, the creation of genius that hundreds of years ago knew no other way to write its poems than with the chisel. [4]
It was confided to the skillful care of Colonel Paul Varney to be steered through this legislature, as hundreds of other measures have been steered through,--without unnecessary noise. [9]
Here too were to come the Gentlemen Pensioners, resplendent in scarlet, to "run with the spear;" and hundreds of men-at-arms were set at every point to give garish bravery to all. [11]
But hundreds of tinkling little bells broke the stillness. [11]
During the whole time of his convalescence in Orel Pierre had experienced a feeling of joy, freedom, and life; but when during his journey he found himself in the open world and saw hundreds of new faces, that feeling was intensified. [2]
My hands are tied with regard to you, and yet they must be everywhere and always at work if the hundreds committed to my care are to be kept from harm. [10]
In the forest they were surrounded by delightful shade animated by hundreds of loud and low voices far away and close at hand. [10]
It is said there are hundreds of people in this curious city who never have seen a living horse in their lives. [5]
If he were then told that hundreds of similar specimens could be brought from the same countries, he would assuredly declare that they were as good species as many to which he had been in the habit of affixing specific names. [1]
Then some of them rallied, but before the partial recovery hundreds of men had been ruined. [4]
You see, the theater is empty, and hundreds of the audience are a good way off in the feeding-house; the first bugle-call is blown about a quarter of an hour before time for the curtain to rise. [5]
He boldly took the whole responsibility for what happened, and his darkened mind found justification in the belief that among the hundreds of thousands who perished there were fewer Frenchmen than Hessians and Bavarians. [2]
I stood between the trees and the foe, and kept hundreds and thousands of the enemy at bay when they were thirsting for your blood. [5]
The captains over the tens and the captains over the hundreds would want little retainers--and who was to pay these? [9]
The doors of the temple were thrown wide open; the temple-servants and hundreds of soldiers were busied in clearing the steps and approaches of the stones and fragments of statuary with which the heathen had encumbered them. [10]
For there lay the sea, and the plain of Sorrento, with its darkening groves and hundreds of twinkling lights. [4]
But power is the most common ambition, and only a handful of the hundreds of millions get it in any large way. [11]
Our cheers told the general the news, and soon hundreds of soldiers were climbing the hard way that we had come. [11]
By October, when the French were fleeing toward Smolensk, there were hundreds of such companies, of various sizes and characters. [2]
As soon as the four burgomasters, the eight magistrates of the city, and the members of the common council appeared at the windows, hundreds of voices joined in the Geusenlied,--[Beggars' Song or Hymn. [10]
In place of the former close dark circles formed by thousands of bees sitting back to back and guarding the high mystery of generation, he sees hundreds of dull, listless, and sleepy shells of bees. [2]
The infantry of the detachment passed along the road and quickly disappeared amid the trees in the mist of early dawn, hundreds of feet splashing through the mud. [2]
These holes were the beginnings of tunnels, and the purpose was to drive them hundreds of feet into the mountain, and some day tap the hidden ledge where the silver was. [5]
Your office demands that you should be both brave and circumspect; these characteristics are rarely united; but there are scriveners by hundreds in the temples. [10]
The conductor said that one of those streams which we were looking at, was just starting on a journey westward to the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean, through hundreds and even thousands of miles of desert solitudes. [5]
And now people talk about geological epochs and hundreds of millions of years in the planet's history as calmly as if they were discussing the age of their deceased great-grandmothers. [6]
There are no such surprises in our oldest places as one finds in Chester, or Tewkesbury, or Stratford, or Salisbury, and I have no doubt in scores or hundreds of similar places which I have never visited. [6]
Treasonable, you mean,--to strike when the lives of hundreds of thousands of your fellow countrymen depend on your labour. [9]
The conventions were so photographed by hundreds of pens, that the public outside saw them almost as distinctly as the crowd in attendance. [4]
Suddenly, at a slight bend of the road, the corner of the little red building came in sight, some hundreds of yards ahead; and, on the side where it stood, in the clearing, was a white mass which Victoria recognized as a pile of lumber. [9]
I see the sheep in hundreds on the far hills of pasturage--sheep with short hair, small and sweet as any that ever came from the South Downs. [11]
An excursion numbering several hundreds, gathered along the river towns by the benevolent enterprise of railway officials, came up to the mountain one day. [4]
When I was seventeen we went to Milan to take part in the great strike, and there I saw the soldiers shooting down the workers by the hundreds, putting them in prison by the thousands. [9]
He sat from seven every evening until two in the morning, listening to the fond foolishness of the two lovers, and to the concussion of hundreds of squandered kisses--for the privilege of sharing only one of which he would have given his right hand. [5]
The Drawer has seen hundreds of citizens in a body, going about the country on an excursion, parading through town after town, with no other distinction of dress than a uniform high white hat, who carried joy and delight wherever they went. [4]
Why, we have seen him hundreds of times. [5]
Hundreds of mangled remains are sent into eternity. [5]
Nicholas' letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she did not let it out of her hands. [2]
Still, you too, Ptolimus, bear the crosier, and to you I will confess that your brethren in office, the shepherds of the Jacobite fold, have ruined my peace for hundreds of days and nights, and I have been near to cursing them. [10]
He was a Protestant, and replied, still anxious to keep up the credit of his city, "Tousands is too many; some hundreds maybe; tousands is too many. [4]
There is a picture of the eleven thousand disembarking from one boat on the Rhine, which is as wonderful as the trooping of hundreds of spirits out of a conjurer's bottle. [4]
The Rock of Perce was a wall, three hundred feet high, and the wall was an island that had once been a long promontory like a battlement, jutting out hundreds of yards into the gulf. [11]
Some hundreds of people were elbowing each other in the street, for the most part quiet and anxious, until Mr. Hammond appeared and whispered to a man at the door. [9]
At last a particularly severe winter fell upon the country, and hundreds of them were reduced to mendicancy and were to be seen day after day in the bitterest weather, standing barefoot in the snow, holding out their crowns for alms. [5]
So we sent out our cards to a few hundreds of persons,--those who we thought might like invitations. [6]
Has he read or heard the plays of Sandeau, Augier, Dumas, and Sardou, the works of those Titans of modern literature, whose names will be household words all over the world for hundreds of years to come? [5]
Presently the steamers opened fire, to encourage the besieged, who replied with frenzied shouts of joy, and soon there poured upon the sands hundreds of men in the uniform of the Effendina. [11]
A sacristan commanded one party which captured several hundred prisoners in the course of a month; and there was Vasilisa, the wife of a village elder, who slew hundreds of the French. [2]
The Romany goes on his way as he has gone these hundreds of years. [11]
Here sacrifices were offered on the altars of Serapis, Isis, and Anubis; here the sacred sistrum of Isis might be kissed; here hundreds of priests performed solemn ceremonies, and half of those who came hither for the festival of the dead collected about them. [10]
The Comes went off at once to the Hippodrome, preceded by hundreds who had hurried off to tell the assembled multitude that Alexandria had lost her god. [10]
The few hundreds of years of Genoese and Venetian might and splendor were, to grave old Damascus, only a trifling scintillation hardly worth remembering. [5]
In their hundreds of thousands they moved like a whole nation. [2]
There are hundreds of these, and their dates stretch back through many centuries. [5]
For months, hundreds of them had not been very far away. [11]
In this corner of the West was such a revival as none could remember--not even those who had been to camp meetings in the East in their youth, and had seen the Spirit descend upon hundreds and draw them to the anxious seat. [11]
There were hundreds of the Corinthian columns which supported the roof that covered the footway, and near to one of these the Emperor and Pollux succeeded at last in effecting a halt and taking breath. [10]
Of the hundreds of tents which till lately had covered it, only those of the seventh cohort of the praetorian guard remained; for these, having to protect the person of the emperor, had not been quartered in the town. [10]
I have hundreds of interesting letters never published or to be published, by Queen Elizabeth, Burghley, Walsingham, Sidney, Drake, Willoughby, Leicester, and others. [6]
Of the hundreds of friends which Mark Twain had in London scarcely half a dozen knew his address. [5]
One saw hundreds of French soldiers, of course, in all sorts of uniforms, from the new grey blue and visor to the traditional cloth blouse and kepi; once in a while a smart French officer. [9]
There are hundreds of artists that could illustrate any other book of mine, but there was only one who could illustrate this one. [5]
April 20.--The cyclone of 1892 killed and crippled hundreds of people; it was accompanied by a deluge of rain, which drowned Port Louis and produced a water famine. [5]
Take away India now, and you cut off the career of hundreds of thousands of young Englishmen, and the hope of tens of thousands of households. [4]
True, he would not need to expose himself to this uproar a second time, yet if he remained in Alexandria the witticisms, mockery, and jibes of the whole city, though in a gentler form, would echo hundreds of times around him. [10]
All she did not like she could empty into the mill of the destroying gods: just as General Grant poured hundreds of thousands of men into the valley of the James, not thinking of lives but victory, not of blood but triumph. [11]
Many hundreds of noble gentlemen use the sword in this country, and the man who sits here has taught them to wield it according to the rules. [10]
Here in the Netherlands the heretics, in consequence of the Draconian severity of the regulations which he himself had issued, had been hung and burned by hundreds, and hitherto he had gained nothing but the hatred of the nation which he preferred to all others. [10]
This, creeping into my senses, helped me to remember that the last thing I saw in the Intendant's courtyard was a burning torch, which suddenly multiplied to dancing hundreds and then went out. [11]
Gathering other blase multimillionaires into a Poker Club; defiling his own palace with it; losing hundreds of thousands to it at every sitting, and sillily vain of the admiring notoriety it made for him. [5]
There are hundreds more workmen in both the towns than there were when he came. [11]
This was not merely necessary to save him from the importunities of cranks who might carry concealed dynamite arguments, but as well to protect him from hundreds of business men with whom he was indirectly dealing, and with whom he wished to evade explanations. [4]
Think of a man's having some hundreds of these semi-epileptic seizures every day, and you need not wonder that he does not say much; these fits take the talk all out of him. [6]
Not seldom a man is almost ruined by one of these religious raids,--at least he is left with a debt of hundreds of dollars. [4]
His people had lived in Connemara for hundreds of years; and he himself had only one passion in life, which was the Protestant passion of prejudice. [11]
The advice bore little fruit, and not until hundreds had rushed past him, did the frightened crowd diminish. [10]
The day was like hundreds of Sundays I had known, the city familiar, yet passing strange. [9]
Logan, Reddick Ridgely, Lewis Zwizler, and hundreds such. [7]
At Naashon's bidding ladders had been brought and, in the twinkling of an eye, hundreds climbed up the building from every direction and, after a short, bloodless struggle, the granaries fell into the Hebrews' hands, though the Egyptians had succeeded in still retaining the fort. [10]
Hundreds of other knights and squires could break in the new horses for the Emperor and the young Bohemian princess, though perhaps not quite so skilfully. [10]
Now to Prince Kaid's ears there came from hundreds of hoarse throats the cry: "Allah! [11]

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