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Sentences starting with millions

Millions upon millions would not have seemed to him too large a price for this object. [10]
Millions were coming to the cloud-bank all the time, happy and hosannahing; millions were leaving it all the time, looking mighty quiet, I tell you. [5]
Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west, slaying their fellows. [2]
Millions upon millions poured in, and still the mighty stream flowed thundering along, still its vast volume increased. [5]
Millions of dollars have been spent by the churches, in the effort to abolish profanity in the commercial marine. [5]
Millions will pour forth from there"--he pointed to the merchants' hall--"but our business is to supply men and not spare ourselves... That is the least we can do! [2]
Millions of wild ducks and sea-gulls swim about the surface, but no living thing exists under the surface, except a white feathery sort of worm, one half an inch long, which looks like a bit of white thread frayed out at the sides. [5]
Millions have perished by her hands in all ages and countries. [3]
Millions of times. [5]
Millions of them! [5]

Sentences ending with millions

You'd gamble with your immortal soul, but you wouldn't sell it--not for three millions, not for a hundred times three millions. [11]
My word "fountain" would be correct; it would speak the strict truth; and it would convey the strict truth to the handful of Syrians, and the strictest misinformation to the North American millions. [5]
In addition to this, Australasia does a trade with countries other than England, amounting to a hundred million dollars a year, and a domestic intercolonial trade amounting to a hundred and fifty millions. [5]
The population of the United Kingdom in 1876 was estimated at near thirty-four millions; in the last few decades the decennial increase had been considerably over two millions; at that rate the population in 1900 would be near forty millions. [4]
And then upon the three millions. [5]
The counting by the micrometer took him a week.--You have, my full-grown friend, of these little couriers in crimson or scarlet livery, running on your vital errands day and night as long as you live, sixty-five billions, five hundred and seventy thousand millions. [6]
The expenditures of the Government for the year 1838--the last for which we have had the report--were forty millions. [7]
No, sir; less than two millions. [7]
Looking after those ten millions. [4]
Now he is reckoned at anywhere from five to ten millions. [4]

Short sentences using millions

There's millions in the job. [5]
Will it be millions? [5]
Let them squander millions! [5]
They say she has millions. [2]
Ten millions of francs! [5]
Yes, it will be millions. [5]
Two hundred millions? [7]
Twenty-four hundred millions! [5]
Two millions? [5]
Millions! [5]

Sentences containing millions two or more times

One more battle would have abolished the waiting chains of millions upon millions of unborn Russians and I wish it could have been fought. [5]
But to know what can and what cannot be executed is impossible, not only in the case of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in which millions participated, but even in the simplest event, for in either case millions of obstacles may arise to prevent its execution. [2]
At that time we shall probably have a hundred millions of people to share the burden, instead of thirty-one millions as now. [7]
For, after all, there was the spirit of Art in framing a great policy which would benefit millions in the present and countless millions in the future. [11]
It is true that he was related to millions and moved in a millionaire atmosphere, but these millions might never flow into his bank account. [4]
To move to St. Louis, the country must throw away a hundred millions of capital invested in those buildings, and go right to work to spend a hundred millions on new buildings in St. Louis. [5]
Repeatedly, he took pure well water which was bare of animal life, and put into it a few cholera germs; they always began to propagate at once, and always within six hours they swarmed--and were numberable by millions upon millions. [5]
I stepped out on it, and saw below me millions of people blocking all the streets, and other millions caked together in all the windows and on all the house-tops around. [5]
So the railways of America move more than two millions of people every day; six hundred and fifty millions of people a year, without counting the Sundays. [5]
With her three millions of population, and seventy outside millions to draw upon, she can afford it, she can support it. [5]

More example sentences with the word millions in them

The first fifteen years of the nineteenth century in Europe present an extraordinary movement of millions of people. [2]
I said it would cost us millions of dollars, and make all the other strikes we've had here look like fifty cents. [9]
Imagine a man worth a hundred millions who finds himself suddenly penniless and fifty million in debt in his old age. [5]
All over the world, every day, there are some millions of men in that condition temporarily. [5]
He could deal with those millions virtuously, and withal with ability, too--but of course you would rather he had a salaried position? [5]
She describes 100,000 with one word --a 'lahk'; she describes ten millions with one word--a 'crore'. [5]
When a person with his millions gives a hundred thousand dollars it makes a great noise in the world, but he does not miss it; it's the widow's mite that makes no noise but does the best work. [5]
This vast work will absorb many years, and millions of dollars, in its completion; but it will early yield money, for that desirable epoch will begin as soon as it strikes the first end of the vein. [5]
Of the millions who tremble before him, not one prays or offers sacrifice of his own free-will for the prosperity of the monarch. [10]
There were those who said that there were millions of family money back of Jack, and that he had recently come in for something handsome. [4]
So, at first, while yet the memories of Washington were much with her, the appeal of the millions was strong. [11]
I'll settle millions where they ought to be settled, drop Wall Street, and--go into training. [11]
The train marched westward; for there, where the earthly remains of man also found rest, the millions of suns had disappeared, each of which was succeeded daily by a new one, born of the night. [10]
As several millions were involved in this one branch of the case --the suit of the bondholders--the newspapers treated it with the consideration and dignity it deserved. [4]
All the millions went down on their knees, and stared, and looked glad, and burst out into a joyful kind of murmurs. [5]
It may be well to look at the prospects before us, if a peace is established on the basis of Southern independence, the only peace possible, unless we choose to add ourselves to the four millions who already call the Southern whites their masters. [6]
You complain that we employers aren't thinking of you, but are you thinking of the millions of the unskilled who live from hand to mouth? [9]
In truth, she was seeing things millions of miles away; she was seeing a Promised Land. [11]
An internal-improvement convention was held there since we met, which recommended a loan of several millions of dollars, on the faith of the State, to construct railroads. [7]
The whole air was full of a vague vast scheme which was to eventuate in filling Laura's pockets with millions of money; some had one idea of the scheme, and some another, but nobody had any exact knowledge upon the subject. [5]
As the train waited, John heard from miles of marshes round about the evening song of millions of frogs, louder and more melancholy and entreating than the vesper call of the bells. [4]
Thus the Imperial visit swallowed up millions, and Hadrian, who enquired into every detail and contrived to obtain information as to the sums expended by the city, blamed the recklessness of his lavish entertainers. [10]
Katharina was a very attractive, pretty little mouse, and even without her millions much too good for the libertine Orion. [10]
The Hawkinses are under the weather now, but their Tennessee property is millions when it comes into market. [5]
They collect from two hundred millions of people, but they keep the bulk of the result at home. [5]
A minister was trying to create influential friends for a project which might be worth ten millions a year to the agriculturists of the Republic; and our Government had furnished him ham and lemonade to persuade the opposition with. [5]
Thus the merest trifle, when it affects the emperor, becomes important for the millions over whom he rules. [10]
Her son's growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. [2]
We have here to-night one who has made millions laugh--not the loud laughter that bespeaks the vacant mind, but the laugh of intelligent mirth that helps the human heart and the human mind. [5]
She belonged, logically, to that world which is disposed to take the law into its own hands, and she was the possessor of five millions of dollars. [9]
I should like to live here also, if I had the millions of Jerry Hollowell. [4]
Why ask us to do for nothing what two hundred millions of dollars could not induce you to do? [7]
Until we are thus divinely qualified, and willing to drink His cup, millions of vain repetitions will never pour into prayer the unction of Spirit, in demonstration of power, and "with signs following. [5]
And thus, in those five States, and in five millions of free, enterprising people, we have before us the rich fruits of this policy. [7]
Well, for a thing that has got to be done some time, the seed has to be sown, and it's always sown by men like Claridge Pasha, who has shown millions of people--barbarians and half-civilised alike--what a true lover of the world can do. [11]
How many times they had done the same in olden days, when the millions were not yet arrived, and their only luxury was companionship and champagne--or something less expensive. [11]
The placing of these millions added seriously and most uncomfortably to the family expenses--in tallow candles. [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]
The North got the western boundary of Texas thrown farther back eastward than the South desired; but, in turn, they gave Texas ten millions of dollars with which to pay her old debts. [7]
I may demand the respect, the adoration of millions and it will be mine. [10]
There, too, was the poet whose National Hymn, "My Country, 't is of thee," is known to more millions, and dearer to many of them, than all the other songs written since the Psalms of David. [6]
The furniture of the narrow chamber of death we had just visited weighed six millions of francs in ounces and carats alone, without a penny thrown into the account for the costly workmanship bestowed upon them! [5]
But power is the most common ambition, and only a handful of the hundreds of millions get it in any large way. [11]
Four years afterward the mine thus disposed of was worth in the San Francisco market seven millions six hundred thousand dollars in gold coin. [5]
And where are the millions which this excellent economist saves from his personal expenses? [10]
But scarcely was the ink dry on the receipts from his creditors when he was once more borne into the clouds on the prospect of millions, perhaps even billions, to be made from a marvelous carpet-pattern machine, the invention of Sczezepanik, an Austrian genius. [5]
The triumph of the conqueror's fame is sounding from hill to hill, from sea to sea, and from land to land, and calling millions to his standard at a blast. [7]
He experienced now that weird charm which has drawn so many into Arctic wilds and gathered the eyes of millions longingly. [11]
Certain it is that this two thousand millions of dollars, invested in this species of property, all so concentrated that the mind can grasp it at once--this immense pecuniary interest--has its influence upon their minds. [7]
History shows us that these justifications of the events have no common sense and are all contradictory, as in the case of killing a man as the result of recognizing his rights, and the killing of millions in Russia for the humiliation of England. [2]
It was evident that the old man had mentioned his millions in the way of a hint to him of what he might reasonably expect if he would turn and be his son-in-law. [8]
Certainly the thought that she was the possessor of uncounted millions would have been, on his side, an insuperable barrier to any advance. [4]
How is it that millions of men commit collective crimes--make war, commit murder, and so on? [2]
We have learned that English criticism is dictated by love for us, by a warm interest in our intellectual development, just as English anxiety about our revenue laws is based upon a yearning that our down-trodden millions shall enjoy the benefits of free-trade. [4]
He tells us that at a certain point of our history more than two hundred millions of dollars had been applied for to make improvements; and this he does to prove that the treasury would be overwhelmed by such a system. [7]
If you wanted ten millions, I could understand that--it's inside the human limits. [5]
He says that ten millions of that year's expenditure was a contingent appropriation, to prosecute an anticipated war with Great Britain on the Maine boundary question. [7]
First, that the ten millions appropriated was not made till 1839, and consequently could not have been expended in 1838; second, although it was appropriated, it has never been expended at all. [7]
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]
The Queen has sunk millions in the sand on the Syrian frontier of the Delta. [10]
There are single stones in the Treasury building (and a good many of them) that cost twenty-seven thousand dollars apiece--and millions were spent in the construction of that and the Patent Office and the other great government buildings. [5]
Any one can stay there who is worth two millions of dollars, or can produce a certificate from the Recorder of New York that he is a direct descendant of Hendrick Hudson or Diedrich Knickerbocker. [4]
He ran up stairs and wrote glowingly, enthusiastically, to his mother about the hogs and the corn, the banks and the eye-water--and added a few inconsequential millions to each project. [5]
The old national spirit, which made the Greeks omnipotent against the millions of Darius and Xerxes, shall live again, and we will keep the Barbarians at a distance as a Patrician forbids his inferiors to count themselves as belonging to his illustrious house. [10]
Thus a widow's sorrow may bring blessing to millions of human beings. [10]
We shall have so saved it that the succeeding millions of free happy people the world over shall rise up and call us blessed to the latest generations. [7]
How wonderful that so many millions who had loved had come and gone, and yet of all they felt they had spoken no word that laid bare the exact feeling to her or to any other. [11]
It is contemptibly small compared with our seventy millions of people. [4]
Then, nothing but sleep--sleep, a sinking down millions of miles in an ether of drowsiness which thrilled him; and after--no more. [11]
Commissioners had been sent to find where were the ninety millions he had borrowed. [11]
The responsibility of selecting the mental food for millions of people is serious. [4]
Yet I have seen hanging in those plains cities all blue and red with millions of lights showing, and voices, voices everywhere, like the singing of soft masses. [11]
It did n't seem much to them to condemn a few thousand millions of people to purgatory or worse for a mistake of judgment. [6]
We did not see them, but they are said to number millions of documents. [5]
And he, the ruler of the world, had thought it impossible that one, even one of his millions of subjects, should have prayed for him. [10]
But gabidal"--his passion rose again--"where you find gabidal, millions of money that a man hass cot togeder in fife, ten, twenty years, you findt the smell of tears and ploodt! [8]
I suppose Boerhaave put up with them when he could not get poor ones, as he left his daughter two millions of florins when he died. [6]
When Alison had put into execution the astounding folly (to the Gore mind) of rejecting the inheritance of millions to espouse a profession, it had been Charlotte Plimpton who led the chorus of ridicule and disapproval. [9]
Napoleon, predestined by Providence for the gloomy role of executioner of the peoples, assured himself that the aim of his actions had been the peoples' welfare and that he could control the fate of millions and by the employment of power confer benefactions. [2]
The honorable legal profession, as my friend reminded me to-night, is not the swiftest road to millions. [9]
And yet there prevailed in the community a vague sense that millions were there, and a curious expectation of some individual benefit from them. [4]
There isn't any power on earth that can prevent England's thirty millions from electing themselves dukes and duchesses to-morrow and calling themselves so. [5]
Here is a picture of that other aspect--the grimness, the monotony, and the frequent bestiality of trench life, the horror of slaughtering millions of men by highly specialized machinery. [9]
There's millions of people down there on earth that are promising themselves the same thing. [5]
Even in our own day a war, that cost millions of treasure and rivers of blood, was fought because two rival nations claimed the sole right to put a new dome upon it. [5]
The man who originated public gas-lighting, and that other benefactor who introduced the cultivation of the potato and thus blessed millions of his starving countrymen, lie with the Prince of Masserano, and with exiled queens and princes of Further India. [5]
There were three or four millions of people in it, but the great houses were for the most part left without occupants except their liveried guardians. [6]
The nation numbers only eight hundred thousand souls, and there is poverty and misery and mendacity enough among them to furnish forty millions and be liberal about it. [5]
And they not only duplicated those works of art but did it in the brittlest and most treacherous of substances--glass: made them out of old brandy bottles flung out of the British camps; millions of tons of them. [5]
Bess was only one of millions at the mercy of unknown motive in nature and life. [13]
I know that one branch line was bought for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and capitalized for three millions, and that most of the others were scandalously over-capitalized. [9]
When one is on the coast in July or August it seems as if the whole fifty millions of people had come down to lie on the rocks, wade in the sand, and dip into the sea. [4]
Whether the owners of this species of property do really see it as it is, it is not for me to say, but if they do, they see it as it is through two thousand millions of dollars, and that is a pretty thick coating. [7]
Notes--I make millions of them; and so I get no time to write to you. [5]
Sleep, while, defiant of the slow delays Of Time, thy glorious writings speak for thee And in the answering heart of millions raise The generous zeal for Right and Liberty. [6]
The amazing nature of the offer of five millions of dollars stimulated her imagination, roused her; gold coins are counters in the game of success, signs and tokens. [11]
It was one of the millions of proposals, one as good as another, that could be made as long as it was quite unknown what character the war would take. [2]
As a proof of the confidence of these Eastern gentlemen in our city, they were willing to spend five millions, and present more than six hundred telephones free to the city departments! [9]
In sixty millions of people, all of whom are, or have been, in reach of the common school, it must be confessed that their audience is small. [4]
You little handful of people here--little more than half a million--imagine that you can defeat thirty-five millions, with an army of half a million, a hundred battle- ships, ten thousand cannon and a million rifles. [11]

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