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Sentences starting with number

Number Seven is very much like other people in this respect,--very much like you and me. [6]
Number Seven demurred to this, and I am not sure that he is wrong in so doing. [6]
Number Seven has to bear a good deal in the way of neglect and ridicule, I do not doubt. [6]
Number Five and the Tutor seemed to come together as a matter of course. [6]
Number Five reads the story of her dream. [6]
Number Seven, in the person of Hilary (who was Number Seven), had been forced to come to him! [9]
Number Five showed some curiosity about the Tutor's relations with the two Annexes. [6]
Number Five looked smilingly at them. [6]
Number Five said she did n't want a diamond with a flaw in it, and that she did want to see how a diamond would burn. [6]
Number Five herself said she supposed she ought to be ashamed of its absurdities, but she did not know that it was much sillier than dreams often are, and she thought it might amuse the company. [6]

Sentences ending with number

Don't you think you can get it into the Jan. and Feb. numbers and issue it as a dollar booklet just after the middle of Jan. when you issue the Feb. number? [5]
But Lady Haldwell was not of that number. [11]
She stood motionless until the horse's hoofs rang on the highroad, and then hurried into her dressing-gown and slippers and went downstairs to the telephone and called a number. [9]
You have not two hundred thousand men, and I have three times that number. [2]
Nevertheless the Hebrew troops were twice their number. [10]
He slipped in there, avoiding the crowded lobby with its shifting groups and its haze of smoke,--plainly to be seen behind the great plates of glass,--went upstairs, and gained room Number. [9]
Do you know their number? [8]
The touch and the taste of the art editor were present throughout the number. [8]
The plan of the series was not formed in my mind when I wrote the number. [6]
They belonged to the better class, for they appeared before counts and princes, and were seven in number. [10]

Short sentences using number

Give us Number Two. [6]
Number Two, the prize-money scandal. [11]
You mean Number One? [5]
I've got his number. [9]
I took _his_ number. [5]
He's a back number. [11]
So much for Number Two. [6]
This one is number four. [5]
This makes our number fifteen. [5]
Number of times mentioned. [6]

Sentences containing number two or more times

In each of your letters to us, you will state the number of certain votes both for and against us, as well as the number of doubtful votes, with your opinion of the manner in which they will be cast. [7]
After this explanation, when I speak of Number Five or Number Seven, you will know to whom I refer. [6]
That is the way Number Five was in the habit of dealing with the explosions of Number Seven. [6]
At last here was to be a test of fighting in open field, though the French had in their whole army twice the number of our men, a walled and provisioned city behind them, and field-pieces in great number to bring against us. [11]
Men uniting in these combinations always assume such relations toward one another that the larger number take a more direct share, and the smaller number a less direct share, in the collective action for which they have combined. [2]
The first number should pay--and all subsequent ones--25 cents a number. [5]
We can only say that it depends on an increase in the actual number of the population, on the number of men endowed with high intellectual and moral faculties, as well as on their standard of excellence. [1]
With the breeds of sheep the number of hairs within a given space and the number of excretory pores are related. [1]
As a matter of fact (known only to the initiated), Asa didn't have it in him until last night, before he squeezed through the crack in the folding doors from room number six to room Number Seven. [9]
To find the number of square feet in a room you multiply the room by the number of the feet. [5]

More example sentences with the word number in them

I proceed, with your leave, to ask a considerable number of questions,--hoping to get answers to some of them, at least. [6]
Perhaps, if such young people will lay the number aside, and take it up ten years, or a little more, from the present time, they may find something in it for their advantage. [6]
I don't suppose you'll be quite sane again till after the first number is out. [8]
I would rather you were not of the number either. [14]
Of course, if you heard it, you know my belief is that the total climatic influences here are getting up a number of new patterns of humanity, some of which are not an improvement on the old model. [6]
Doesn't it make you feel rather small and otherwise unworthy when you see the kind of street these fellow-beings of yours live in, and then think how particular you are about locality and the number of bellpulls? [8]
I can give you any number of addresses, if you like. [9]
Arriving in New York, after an adventurous voyage, he met a number of old Californians--men who believed in him--and urged him to lecture. [5]
The army passing yonder would have been enough to destroy down to the last man a force ten times greater than the number of his people. [10]
Time had not yet robbed the former of a single charm, while from the Queen he had wrested many; their number was known only to herself and her confidantes, but at this hour she did not miss them. [10]
Meanwhile he had written and published a number of books. [5]
The amount of writing against it is no more test of its desuetude, than the number of religious tracts distributed in a given district is a criterion of its piety. [4]
Perhaps Number Five would give him some lessons in it. [6]
A sterner court would examine the case in Sydney--the Court of Directors, the lords of a company in whose ships the captain had served as mate a number of years. [5]
Such well-endowed pairs would commonly rear a larger number of offspring than the less favoured. [1]
Though tattered, hungry, worn out, and reduced to a third of their original number, the French entered Moscow in good marching order. [2]
As to General Wool's command, I understand it is doing for you precisely what a like number of your own would have to do if that command was away. [7]
I shelled the woods in which they were, and they in return threw a large number of shells into the lines and tents from which I moved last night to take up a stronger position. [7]
Honora did likewise, wondering at the facility with which Mr. Holt worded his appeal, and at the number of things he found to pray for. [9]
I no longer wonder at the number of feather-beds at the inns, under which we are apparently expected to sleep even in the warmest nights. [4]
I no longer wonder at the English being such excellent caricaturists, they have such an inexhaustible number and variety of subjects to study from. [4]
He had offers without number to take service in foreign armies, but he was not to be tempted. [11]
One is struck with the fact that a great number of fragments lie about his poetical workshop: poems begun and never finished; scraps of poems, chips of poems, paving the floor with intentions never carried out. [6]
The Emperor was with the army to encourage it, but his presence and ignorance of what steps to take, and the enormous number of advisers and plans, destroyed the first army's energy and it retired. [2]
He was endeavoring, with loud cries, to prevent a number of men of his own class from carrying a large chest out of the house. [10]
Thus I listened with increasing fascination to these gentlemen in evening clothes calmly treating the United States as a melon patch that existed largely for the purpose of being divided up amongst a limited and favored number of persons. [9]
If the reader will turn back to the end of the fourth number of these papers, he will find certain lines entitled, "Cacoethes Scribendi. [6]
It maps the whole surface of the body into an arbitrary number of regions, and studies each region successively from the surface to the bone, or beneath it. [3]
You cannot forget who Number Seven is if I inform you that he specially prides himself on being a seventh son of a seventh son. [6]
But after a while the steamboats so increased in number and in speed that they were able to absorb the entire commerce; and then keelboating died a permanent death. [5]
Nor were the Whigs few in number, or laggard in the day of danger. [7]
These autumnal fevers, which carry off a large number of our young people every year, are treacherous and deceptive diseases. [6]
No doubt wealth when very great tends to convert men into useless drones, but their number is never large; and some degree of elimination here occurs, for we daily see rich men, who happen to be fools or profligate, squandering away their wealth. [1]
But he softened when he looked at the accounts and saw that I had actually booked the unparalleled number of thirty-three new subscribers, and had the vegetables to show for it, cordwood, cabbage, beans, and unsalable turnips enough to run the family for two dears! [5]
On asking him what was the number of his room, he answered, that it was forty-'leven, sky-parlor floor, but that I shouldn't find it, if he did n't go ahead to show me the way. [6]
A number of wharfboat clerks were needed, and part of the time, every day, they were very busy, and part of the time tediously idle. [5]
If such means were suddenly doubled in Great Britain, our number would be quickly doubled. [1]
Among this number were Sir James and Lady Kay Shuttleworth. [14]
Besides these, there were now an immense number of soldiers. [10]
Fortunately the sailors were friendly and saved his life, and a considerable number of the better sort, seeing the malice of Ratcliffe and Archer, took Smith's part. [4]
Among the prisoners were a number of priests, and Joan took these under her protection and saved their lives. [5]
On the dressing-table were a number of little ointment-boxes and small bottles for perfumes, cosmetics, washes and oils. [10]
I am very well satisfied however, for I like the number of the Muses; and perhaps he desired to do you, Publius, particular honor, since we are assembled here in the Roman fashion. [10]
Reflect: we are well equipped, well fortified, we number 54. [5]
We might as well attempt without any definition to decide whether a certain number of houses should be called a village, town, or city. [1]
At other times we have a visitor or two, either in the place of one of our habitual number, or in addition to it. [6]
At my age we count it gain not to be disappointed, and the day when our expectations are not only fulfilled, but surpassed we number among our festivals. [10]
As far as we can judge, a recurrent period, if approximately of the right duration for any process or function, would not, when once gained, be liable to change; consequently it might be thus transmitted through almost any number of generations. [1]
You, and Josh way, an' Will, an' Sam, an' the Cap'n, an' the four Beaver brothers, will all sleep in number ten. [9]
Whatever the number was, the crowd was very great,--so great that one might well feel alarmed for the safety of any delicate person who was in the _pack_ which formed itself at one place in the course of the evening. [6]
The young Doctor was to take the two Annexes in a wagon, and the Tutor was to drive Number Five in a good old-fashioned chaise drawn by a well-conducted family horse. [6]
A single number was printed, when it was interrupted the course of events, and not resumed until nearly years later, in January, 1890. [6]
And I also was of the number, but not in the same degree--for she was above my duller comprehension. [5]
Yet their number was not very large, and Ludo, our most intimate friends, and I never joined them. [10]
The Persian foot was not much more numerous than the Egyptian, but they had six times the number of horse-soldiers. [10]
The huge building was filled in all parts by the followers of the embassy, nearly three hundred in number, and by the high guests themselves, to whom every possible attention was paid. [10]
This day I was certain I had the greater number of birds in my wallet, and I walked in good heart toward the end of the path. [10]
Among their number was Archias, Daphne's father, a man of middle height and comfortable portliness, from whose well-formed, beardless face looked forth a pair of shrewd eyes, and whose quick movements revealed the slight irritability of his temperament. [10]
And so it was all as plain sailing for Number Five and the young Tutor as it had been for Delilah and the young Doctor, was it? [6]
Weapon number one was a slip of paper with a date and a few words written upon it. [6]
But, besides, there was a bookcase with an unusual number of books in it, and there was an open colonial writing-desk, claw-footed, brass-handled, and scutcheoned, with foreign periodicals--French and English--littering its leaf, and some pages of manuscript scattered among them. [8]
Thus, in the wards of Louis, at the Hospital of La Pitie, a vast number of patients in the last stages of consumption were constantly entering, to swell the mortality of that hospital. [3]
Instructions are not wanting as to the shape of the table and the size of the party; it is universally admitted that the number must be small. [4]
The number of voices as well as their power seemed to have doubled. [10]
But the sweet voice of Number Five and her sincere way of addressing him seemed to touch his feelings. [6]
The number of victims swelled daily, and the approach of the comet kept pace with the growing misery of the town. [10]
That afternoon, after vespers (which Francois did not attend), the Cure made his way to the sculptor's workshop, followed by a number of parishioners. [11]
While I am very anxious that any great disaster or capture of our men in great number shall be avoided, I know that these points are less likely to escape your attention than they would be mine. [7]
The common people usually shirked the trouble of filtering it, and it was among them that the greater number died of a mortal and infectious pestilence, till then unknown. [10]
But we are used to the outbursts, and extravagances, and oddities of Number Seven, and do not take offence at his rough speeches as we should if any other of the company uttered them. [6]
There was a use for every one who could heave a stone or flourish a sword; and when he thought over the number of his troops he believed he might succeed in holding the building for some considerable time. [10]
It would enable us to teach them that, inasmuch as we select one of their own number to carry out our principles, we are free from the charge that we mean more than we say. [7]
Hilary had him up in Number Seven tryin' to find out what he came down for, and Austen told him pretty straight--what he didn't tell the Gaylords, either. [9]
She had grown up free from care among a number of brothers and sisters. [10]
Not a single unwounded straggler came back to White House from the field, and the number of wounded reaching there up to 11 A.M. Saturday was not large. [7]
The number of universities in Prussia. [5]
The boom gybed twenty times that morning, and the Celebrity offered an equal number of apologies. [9]
As to the Tutor and Number Five, their going together caused no special comment. [6]
So the young Tutor and Number Five read together pretty regularly, and came to depend upon their meeting over a book as one of their stated seasons of enjoyment. [6]
Venters noted that Tull and the line of horsemen, perhaps ten or twelve in number, stopped several times and evidently looked hard down the slope. [13]
However, he would try what effect it might have on the people, and a number of scribes were at work to make copies of it in the course of the night. [10]
Yes, I have tried a number of summer homes, here and in Europe together. [5]
Chance has thrown together at the table with me a number of persons who are worth studying, and I mean not only to look on them, but, if I can, through them. [6]
We had General Todtleben (the famous defender of Sebastopol, during the siege,) and many inferior army and also navy officers, and a number of unofficial Russian ladies and gentlemen. [5]
She was anxious to write of things she had known and seen; and among the number was the West Yorkshire character, for which any tale laid among the Luddites would afford full scope. [14]
She was engaged to write a serial story, it seems, and had only got as far as the second number, and some critic had been jumping upon it, she said, and grinding his heel into it, till she couldn't bear to look at it. [6]
This impartial testimony to the superior qualities of the establishment and its head attracted a number of applicants for admission, and a couple of new boarders made a brief appearance at the table. [6]
The large addition to the regular army, in connection with the defection that has so considerably diminished the number of its officers, gives peculiar importance to his recommendation for increasing the corps of cadets to the greatest capacity of the Military Academy. [7]
He rode on to the region where the greatest number of men had perished in fleeing from Pratzen. [2]
It is patent to the most superficial observation that our present method does not protect society, and does not lessen the number of the criminal class, either by deterrent methods or by reformatory processes, except in a very limited way. [4]
Captain Newport decided to take one hundred and twenty men, fearing to go with a less number and journey to Werowocomoco to crown Powhatan. [4]
It is strange to see how we are all coming to depend upon the friendly aid of Number Five in our various perplexities. [6]
It was pitiful to see how the people in his train who did not belong to the number of those who were to accompany him to Jarandilla behaved at the parting from their beloved master. [10]
I am pleased to say that he has been promoted to an upper clerkship, and, in consequence of his rise in office, has taken an apartment somewhat lower down than number "forty-'leven," as he facetiously called his attic. [6]
He knew that to rise now and make for the door would be of no advantage, for a number of the excited crowd were between him and it. [11]
Phips himself was to remain on the Bridgwater Merchant, the Swallow lying near with a goodly number of men to meet any possible attack from the sea. [11]
Munroe advised me to obtain a subscription to a sufficient number of copies to secure the cost of the publication. [6]
This she addressed to Mrs. Alexander Duncan, at a certain number on Beacon Street, and sent it out to be posted immediately. [9]
We were soon to learn by experience the number of days required to reach my mother's home from Berlin, for there was then no railroad to Holland. [10]
I would like to know, in the case covered by the essay, what condition the people of the Territory are in before they reach the number of ten thousand? [7]

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