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Sentences starting with thirty

Thirty or forty years more carry you to the time when this incumbent began the duties of his office; his hand was steady then; and the next volume beyond it in date betrays the work of a still different writer. [6]
Thirty years later, when his fame was not much more extended, his pay for the same matter would have been fifteen times as great, that is to say, at the rate of thirty cents per word. [5]
Thirty powerful rowers were urging the long, narrow boat toward them. [10]
Thirty cultivated and very musical ladies and gentlemen present--all of them acquaintances and many of them personal friends of mine. [5]
Thirty was nearer the price, but what did it matter. [9]
Thirty years of practice had taught Nurse Byloe the art of handling the young of her species with the soft firmness which one may notice in cats with their kittens,--more grandly in a tawny lioness mouthing her cubs. [6]
Thirty or forty pilgrims had arrived from the ship, by the short routes, and much swapping of gossip had to be indulged in. [5]
Thirty or forty persons were slaughtered, and many others were carried captive into Canada. [6]
Thirty years ago, one of our present circle--"Teacup Number Two," The Professor,--read a paper on Old Age, at a certain Breakfast-table, where he was in the habit of appearing. [6]
Thirty years from now there will not be a moral cat in New Zealand. [5]

Sentences ending with thirty

Samuel Cooper Thacher was hardly twenty years old when the "Anthology" was founded, and died when he was only a little more than thirty. [6]
No form of travel or undertaking could discountenance Mark Twain at thirty. [5]
It does seem to me that that mine is the place for the whole thirty. [5]
Her age was thirty. [9]
Tell me--a woman still beautiful, commanding, of perhaps eight and thirty? [9]
Our fathers appeared staid at six and thirty. [9]
The Duchess of Snowdon, once beautiful, but now with a face like a mask, enamelled and rouged and lifeless, had said to her once: "My dear, I ought to have died at thirty. [11]
This one they said had been dead ten years, that one twenty, another thirty. [5]
Yes, I am leaving for Washington at nine thirty. [9]
The other person is his only son and heir, a dreamy-eyed young fellow, who looks about twenty-six but is nearer thirty. [5]

Short sentences using thirty

I am thirty, you know. [9]
They are thirty thousand strong. [5]
Thirty thousand--ass that I am! [5]
Thirty thousand devils!... [2]

Sentences containing thirty two or more times

Some thirty prisoners were so taken, and during the night which followed the Boers carried away another thirty killed and wounded--the wounded to Krugersdorp hospital. [5]
Some historians say that thirty couples, some say thirty thousand couples, can dance on the head of this cask at the same time. [5]
If that primitive physician, Chiron, M. D., appears as a Centaur, as we look at him through the lapse of thirty centuries, the modern country-doctor, if he could be seen about thirty miles off, could not be distinguished from a wheel-animalcule. [6]
Davenport has gathered its thirty thousand people within the past thirty years. [5]
Thirty, thirty, thirty!--do I hear forty?--forty it is! [5]
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. [5]
Mississippi steamboating was born about 1812; at the end of thirty years, it had grown to mighty proportions; and in less than thirty more, it was dead! [5]
We are now a mighty nation; we are thirty or about thirty millions of people, and we own and inhabit about one fifteenth part of the dry land of the whole earth. [7]
Yes, she was a good deal on the cars; early every morning she rode thirty miles to her work, and thirty miles back every evening. [4]

More example sentences with the word thirty in them

At thirty the youth has sobered into manhood, but the strong men of forty rise in almost unbroken rank between him and the approaches of old age as they show in the men of fifty. [6]
She was a young woman of thirty, slim to spareness, simply dressed in a shirtwaist and a dark blue skirt; alert, so distinctly American in type as to give a suggestion of the Indian. [9]
I looked this young man steadily in the face for about thirty seconds. [6]
Who was this young man of three and thirty to agitate him so? [9]
I've been with you thirty years, come December, Mr. Pindar, and you've been a good employer to me. [9]
It would take you thirty years to guess, and even then you would have to give it up, I believe. [5]
I've lived with you for over thirty years, and I haven't spoken my mind often, but I'm speaking it now. [11]
How noble and yet how easy was the bearing of the dignitary, who was still less than thirty years old! [10]
In those thirty years, by a sane and steady growth, Hilary Vane had achieved his present eminent position in the State. [9]
Hardy was thirty years old, and a bachelor; pale, given to reverie and reading. [5]
Six and thirty years he had been supreme in that town--long enough for any man. [9]
For thirty long years he had been in one sense homeless, his wife having lost her reason three years after they were married. [11]
Livy darling, six years have gone by since I made my first great success in life and won you, and thirty years have passed since Providence made preparation for that happy success by sending you into the world. [5]
For some thirty years Bogucharovo had been managed by the village Elder, Dron, whom the old prince called by the diminutive "Dronushka. [2]
It started thirty year ago, or som'ers along there. [5]
Please walk thirty yards, so that I can get a perspective on the thing.... Now, then--your head's right, speed's right, shoulders right, eyes right, chin right, gait, carriage, general style right--everything's right! [5]
But the boat would float on, and the boulder descend again, and then we could see that when we had been exactly above it, it must still have been twenty or thirty feet below the surface. [5]
In a long wooden building, divided into two main apartments, twenty to thirty operators are employed. [4]
Was it not wonderful that for more than thirty years, over a generation, the choicest portion of them had remained in one family, untouched, as if, separated for some great use! [5]
When they were within thirty yards of me they let their long lances droop to a level, depressed their mailed heads, and so, with their horse-hair plumes streaming straight out behind, most gallant to see, this lightning express came tearing for me! [5]
When it got within thirty steps of Higbie I was so excited that I fancied I could hear my own heart beat. [5]
You, there, Muroc, with your charcoal face, who was it walk thirty miles in the dead of winter to bring a doctor to your wife, eh? [11]
He stormed fortresses with thirty thousand men. [2]
They both listened with such tension that the veins in their foreheads swelled; but from the tablinum, which was hardly thirty paces from them, came only very faint and intermittent sounds, indistinct in character and drowned by the tumult without. [10]
Her dryad-like face, with its sweet, elusive smile, seemed to peer at him now wistfully out of the forest, and suddenly a new and startling thought rose up within him--after six and thirty years. [9]
Its ball carried with it the hatreds, the rages of thirty years, shaped and cooled in the mould of malignant deliberation. [6]
I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. [5]
Taken as a whole, the underground city had some thirty miles of streets and a population of five or six thousand. [5]
Captain Basil Hall, who saw it at flood-stage, says-- 'Sometimes we passed along distances of twenty or thirty miles without seeing a single habitation. [5]
But Mr. Douglas, who had arrived the evening before to the booming of two and thirty guns, had his banners end his bunting, too. [9]
The famous Ruysch, who died a hundred and thirty years ago, showed that each of the viscera has its terminal vessels arranged in its own peculiar way; the same fact which you may see illustrated in Gerber's figures after the minute injections of Berres. [3]
Presently land appeared, which they took to be the continent, and coasted along to the northward a hundred and thirty miles before finding a harbor. [4]
His great remedy, which he gave oftener than any other, was nitre; which he ordered in doses of twenty or thirty grains to adults, and of three grains to infants. [3]
Now this one, which cost my uncle ten dollars, thirty years ago, and is one of the sweetest things in Texas, I will let you have for-- "Let me interrupt you," I said. [5]
Would Jethro remember what happened there almost six and thirty years before? [9]
Then just think what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! [2]
But if you were forty, I should question its propriety; if you were thirty, I should veto it, and you are but a little more than twenty. [6]
Meantime the Indians were bringing in supplies of corn and meat, the men were so improved in health that thirty were able to work, and provision for three weeks' bread was laid up. [4]
There was a well by the corn-crib; so I substituted thirty fathom of rope for the bridle, and fetched him home with the windlass. [5]
After the performance we were invited by Mr. Harris to a supper of some thirty persons, where we were the special guests. [6]
Harris told them we had made thirty English miles, too. [5]
From the time we first struck the Bras d'Or for thirty miles we rode in constant sight of its magnificent water. [4]
Outside the house we encountered a double rank of twenty or thirty of Miss Porter's young ladies arriving from a walk, and we stood aside, ostensibly to let them have room to file past, but really to look at them. [5]
In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. [5]
So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air! [5]
The original nucleus was the Methodist camp-meeting, which, in the season, brought here twenty thousand to thirty thousand people at a time, who camped and picnicked in a somewhat primitive style. [4]
Young Lord Carlisle was the intimate of Mr. Selwyn, born thirty years before him. [9]
When Abraham Lincoln was running for the Legislature the first time, on the platform of the improvement of the navigation of the Sangamon River, he went to secure the votes of thirty men who were cradling a wheat field. [4]
Every patrician who was past the age of thirty, had the right to become a candidate yearly for the office. [10]
I heard they was only thirty miles north this afternoon. [11]
But his strength was not like that of the man beside him, who was thirty years younger. [11]
I knew it was just about the length of the capitol at Washington--say seven hundred and thirty feet. [5]
This ancient temple was built of rough blocks of lava, and was simply a roofless inclosure a hundred and thirty feet long and seventy wide --nothing but naked walls, very thick, but not much higher than a man's head. [5]
The other fellow was about thirty, and dressed about as ornery. [5]
But suddenly there was a rush from the Residency Square, and thirty men, under the command of Cumner, rode in with sabres drawn. [11]
We had to wait twenty or thirty minutes. [5]
Then the sailors' wages were enough for comfortable support; but in 1797 through the rise in the cost of living, and with an advance of thirty per cent. [11]
Whereupon the latter vowed that they would have a party at their house too, and made arrangements for a dance of twenty or thirty couples, to be followed by an entertainment. [6]
The whole thirty voted for him. [4]
Twenty or thirty voices cried out: "What is it? [5]
This was a very great change; for the law thus repealed was of more than thirty years' standing. [7]
So in one vast space--say a third of a mile wide and two miles long--were collected two thousand gondolas, and every one of them had from two to ten, twenty and even thirty colored lanterns suspended about it, and from four to a dozen occupants. [5]
She has the usual Upper River quota of factories, newspapers, and institutions of learning; she has telephones, local telegraphs, an electric alarm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. [5]
George gazed speechless upon the battered and grotesque nightmare before him for the space of thirty seconds, and then wilted to the floor and went into convulsions. [5]
One may rest under the Poultry Cross, where twenty or thirty generations have rested before him. [6]
There were ten, twenty, sometimes even thirty of them on their feet at a time, storming at the prisoner minute after minute, but Joan was not disturbed. [5]
When I was twenty I killed two men with my own sword at a blow; when I was thirty, to serve the King I rode a hundred and forty miles in one day--from Paris to Dracourt it was. [11]
It is absolutely true that we shall have to fight nobody but these thirty thousand knights. [5]
When we took Troyes a calf was worth thirty francs, a sheep sixteen, a French prisoner eight. [5]
A smaller stream trickled over the cliff and built up an isolated pyramid about thirty feet high, which has the semblance of a mass of large gnarled and knotted vines and roots and stems intricately twisted and woven together. [5]
Smith wrote his travels in London nearly thirty years after, and it is difficult to say how much is the result of his own observation and how much he appropriated from preceding romances. [4]
Eglington had indeed touched the old man as he had not been touched in thirty years and more by one of his name. [11]
He swooped down to within thirty or forty feet of the lake, and stopped right over the center, and sung out: "Leggo, and drop! [5]
We settled down to within thirty foot of the land--that is, it was land if sand is land; for this wasn't anything but pure sand. [5]
They levied taxes to the amount of thirty or forty thousand dollars and ordered expenditures to the extent of about a million. [5]
It has come to such a pass that I never speak to the Man of the Monument without wanting to take my hat off and feeling as if I were looking down a vista of twenty or thirty centuries. [6]
If he wished to remain in the world, he would settle upon him a yearly income of from twenty to thirty thousand ducats, which was to pass also to his heirs. [10]
It is fair to presume that in thirty centuries history will not get done admiring these men who attempted what the world regarded as impossible and achieved it. [5]
Yet he had to pay a house-tax of five piastres, a war-tax of five piastres, a camel-tax of five piastres, a palm-tax of five piastres, a salt-tax of nine piastres, a poll-tax of thirty piastres, a land-tax of ninety piastres. [11]
I stand prepared to bring thirty reliable witnesses to prove that Putnam's famous feat at Horseneck was insignificant compared to this. [5]
Flitting about were to be seen the social heroes who had a notoriety thirty and forty years ago in the newspapers. [4]
He'll do that till we've got twenty or thirty men on deck! [11]
He says the through express made the run faster thirty years ago. [9]
Nicholas accepted thirty thousand rubles offered him by his brother-in-law Bezukhov to pay off debts he regarded as genuinely due for value received. [2]
He received thirty thousand dollars for the chapters; the house cost him nearly double that amount. [5]
In pursuance of this plan, Duke Mercury, with an army of thirty thousand, whereof nearly ten thousand were French, besieged Stowell-Weisenberg, otherwise called Alba Regalis, a place so strong by art and nature that it was thought impregnable. [4]
I sat by this grim Sphynx and watched her kill thirty or forty mosquitoes--watched her, and waited for her to say something, but she never did. [5]
I've been in this business over thirty years --yes; over thirty-five years. [4]
There are just thirty-two of them, as there were five and thirty years ago, but they are steeper and harder to climb, it seems to me, than they were then. [6]
At eight and thirty, though tragedy had left its mark, it had been powerless to destroy the sweetness of a nature of such vitality as hers. [9]
She might be thirty, or perhaps even past forty. [10]
Though not yet thirty, he had directed--first as his late father's assistant and afterwards as his successor--the construction of the huge buildings erected by Cleopatra in Alexandria. [10]
She was nearing thirty, and in spite of her beauty and the rarer distinction that can best be described as breeding, she had never married. [9]
He is but thirty years, they say, and yet his hair is white as a pigeon's wing. [11]
For more than thirty years this great discovery, which was to banish at least half the evils which afflict humanity, has been sleeping undisturbed in the grave of oblivion. [6]
The body seemed thirty years old, the head sixty; the man's exact age was forty-five. [11]
He is about thirty years old, and has a pale, calm face. [10]
Jethro was about thirty years of age, and he wore a coonskin cap even in those days, and trousers tacked into his boots. [9]
For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of receiving a volume of poems or a poem, printed or manuscript--I will not say daily, though I sometimes receive more than one in a day, but at very short intervals. [6]
If it were thirty years ago, before people began to be liberal in such matters, I shudder to think what might have become of me. [9]

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