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Sentences starting with thousand

Thousand 'stapes of wit Make thee the father of their idle dream, And rack thee in their fancies! [6]

Sentences ending with thousand

Did I tell you I had an offer from Bobbett and Fanshaw to go into their office as confidential clerk on a salary of ten thousand? [5]
Taken as a whole, the underground city had some thirty miles of streets and a population of five or six thousand. [5]
All of us who did not vote for Mr. Buchanan, taken together, are a majority of four hundred thousand. [7]
In the Close, which is a little Garden of Eden, with no serpent in it that I could hear of, the deaths were only fourteen in a thousand. [6]
Still, I doubt whether in my hands and his together it ever before yesterday slaughtered a hundred thousand. [10]
You might as well tell me that if one horse weighs more than another horse he is worth more,--a cart-horse that weighs twelve or fourteen hundred pounds better than Eclipse, that may have weighed a thousand. [6]
The boisterous day was reddening to its close as the Colonel lined his little army in front of the wood, and we covered the space of four thousand. [9]
All that was wanted now was ten thousand dollars in cash to enable him to close the great bargain and make his hundred and fifty thousand. [11]
And if so treated and driven out, at what point of time would there ever be ten thousand? [7]
He had decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. [2]

Short sentences using thousand

For ten thousand years. [5]
It's five thousand years old. [11]
No, a thousand times no! [10]
She's worth two thousand. [9]
We have fifteen thousand. [11]
He had a thousand! [5]
Going, going--" "A thousand! [5]
They are thirty thousand strong. [5]
Four and twenty thousand sequins! [10]
Shattered into a thousand pieces. [10]

Sentences containing thousand two or more times

And now again your hand, and a thousand, thousand thanks. [10]
The pearls were worth over ten thousand dollars--in all, there would be eleven thousand, enough to secure Rosalie from poverty. [11]
Mrs. John Grier was to be paid during her life a yearly stipend of twenty thousand dollars from the business; she also received a grant of seventy thousand dollars. [11]
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]
From Moscow to Vyazma the French army of seventy-three thousand men not reckoning the Guards (who did nothing during the whole war but pillage) was reduced to thirty-six thousand, though not more than five thousand had fallen in battle. [2]
The crater of Vesuvius, as I have before remarked, is a modest pit about a thousand feet deep and three thousand in circumference; that of Kilauea is somewhat deeper, and ten miles in circumference. [5]
She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies. [5]
The plantation contains two thousand six hundred acres; six hundred and fifty are in cane; and there is a fruitful orange grove of five thousand trees. [5]
Last year I traveled twenty thousand miles, almost entirely by rail; the year before, I traveled over twenty-five thousand miles, half by sea and half by rail; and the year before that I traveled in the neighborhood of ten thousand miles, exclusively by rail. [5]
It was mortgaged to within eight thousand dollars of what it could be sold for but, if he could gain time, that eight thousand dollars would build the mill again. [11]

More example sentences with the word thousand in them

You've got coin, you've got sense, you're a bit distinguished-looking, and I'll back your heart against a thousand bishops. [11]
Why, he'll read your wrinkles as easy as a book, and not only tell you fifty or sixty things that's going to happen to you, but fifty or sixty thousand that ain't. [5]
If you command your staff to have this posted as a proclamation throughout the island, it will do as much good as a thousand soldiers. [11]
And above Winona you'll have lovely prairies; and then come the Thousand Islands, too beautiful for anything; green? [5]
I will thank you, therefore, to inform me, if you can, by what day, at the earliest, you can promise to have ready to be mustered into the United States service the eight thousand men. [7]
But to play you, the greatest gambler in the West, for two thousand dollars-- yes, I'd like the sting of it again. [11]
I'm sorry for you, M'sieu' Jean Jacques, and I've come to say that I'm ready to lend you two thousand dollars, if that's any help. [11]
The Chevalier needs you, and the Duc de Mauban needs you, but Detricand of Vaufontaine needs you a thousand times more. [11]
That is what you will say, Thomas--and you wouldn't take any money for those two thousand verses--no indeed you wouldn't. [5]
Yet I tell you that, heavy as your losses may seem, Spargapises, Tomyris and fifty thousand Massagetae can never outweigh the spirit of one king of Persia, least of all of a Cyrus. [10]
Ah, but then you shall be my wife in spite of him, in spite of a thousand Philip d'Avranches! [11]
I don't believe you men know, half the time, whether a lady wears a nine-penny collar or a thread-lace cape worth a thousand dollars. [6]
Why, you ass, you have won a thousand times over what you lost. [9]
As soon as you get a few thousand people together in a town, there is somebody that every sharp thing you say is sure to hit. [6]
May I offer you four thousand drachmae for your precious possession? [10]
I come to you because I know that you could circumvent the Effendina, even if he sent ten thousand men. [11]
He does not yet know of my purpose, but I am sure that he would help us if a thousand deaths threatened him. [10]
He's a thousand years old, which is about as old-fashioned as I mean, and as wise, and as plain to read as though you'd write the letters of words as big as a date-palm. [11]
For four thousand years its waters have not gone dry or its fertility failed. [5]
Since two thousand years all these coasts have changed more or less, risen and sunk, and the temples and palaces of two civilizations have tumbled into the sea. [4]
In the Palace yard a thousand men stood at attention, and at their head was Cushnan Di with fifty hillsmen. [11]
I was just writing you to beg a thousand pardons. [5]
My Western course would easily amount to $10,000, but I would rather make 2 or 3 thousand in New England than submit again to so much wearing travel. [5]
The old man would a thousand times rather his wife lived than died. [11]
You know I would a thousand times rather bake your cakes and clean your silver! [9]
Them di'monds is worth twelve thousand dollars. [5]
It was the world in a man--personality, knowledge of life, the culture of the thousand things which make up civilization: it was personality got from life and power in contest with the ordered world. [11]
And now the work was complete, and on board the Bridgwater Merchant was treasure to the sum of three hundred thousand pounds, and more. [11]
Kitty ceased her work for an instant and, looking away from him into the distance, said: "Three people said those same words to me all in one day a thousand years ago. [11]
Then came these words, but hardly audible: "And in a thousand years the English power in France will not rise up from that blow. [5]
In very few words Nicholas bought seventeen picked stallions for six thousand rubles--to serve, as he said, as samples of his remounts. [2]
There isn't one woman out of ten thousand that would have stood the test as your wife has stood it; injured at the start, constant neglect, temptation--" he paused. [11]
A thousand voices within warn me that I am about to do an unworthy deed and a ruinous--ruinous for myself, for thee, the kingdom and our house. [10]
That's the case with your philosopher; and I'm not sure that I won't lose twenty thousand dollars by him yet. [11]
He stormed fortresses with thirty thousand men. [2]
Ten thousand toadstools, with the right purchase, could lift a man, I suppose. [5]
If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy--if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. [5]
Upon the castle, with the flag of the duchy, waved the republican tricolour, where for a thousand years had floated a royal banner. [11]
I've seen us with pearls on board worth a thousand quid, and not a drop of water nor three square meals in the caboose. [11]
Your grandfather's balance with me was something less than one thousand five hundred, as I made him a remittance in December last. [9]
When the procession, with its thousand lamps and torches, paused before the hovel, which was almost invisible in the dusk, and one citizen said to another: "Here comes the sacred heart! [10]
What of Jargeau, with its battlements and towers, its devastating artillery, its seven thousand picked veterans? [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]
Were his thoughts with his heart, ten thousand miles away, beyond the billowy wastes of the Pacific? [5]
And Fastolfe coming with five thousand men! [5]
He will move with between thirty-five and forty thousand men. [7]
A name credited with a dozen murders, a hundred forays, and a thousand stealings of cattle. [13]
It is a wine-cask as big as a cottage, and some traditions say it holds eighteen thousand bottles, and other traditions say it holds eighteen hundred million barrels. [5]
I'll materialise him--I will, on my honor--and I'd do it were he a thousand heirs jammed into one and stretching in a solid rank from here to the stolen estates of Rossmore, and barring the road forever to the rightful earl! [5]
Your wedding present will be the ranch and a hundred thousand dollars," she added. [11]
Perhaps the father will be living at the rate of ten thousand a year on a salary of four thousand; perhaps the mother, more beautiful and younger than her beautified daughters, will rouge; perhaps the young ladies will make wax-work. [4]
So the thousand wild cat shafts burrowed deeper and deeper into the earth day by day, and all men were beside themselves with hope and happiness. [5]
Assa escaped his wife's scolding, but a thousand curses have fallen on him and on his house. [10]
I don't see why an officer should get two thousand five hundred times as much as a seaman. [11]
Did not you, whose life is a thousand times more important than mine, of your own free-will go into captivity and to death in order to save our father? [10]
We don't know who the friend was to whom he offered a quarter interest for the modest sum of two hundred thousand dollars. [5]
There are those who prefer a warm bath to a brisk walk in the inspiring air, where ten thousand keen influences minister to the sense of beauty and run along the excited nerves. [4]
Fifty thousand people who have lost friends, or who have had friends crippled, receive that Fourth of July, when it comes, as a day of mourning for the losses they have sustained in their families. [5]
A thousand blossoms, white, red, blue and yellow, swayed on their slender stalks, opened their calixes to the bees, unfolded their stars to deck the woodland carpet, or proudly stretched themselves up as straight as candles. [10]
Two thousand acres which, since the General's death, had been at sixes and sevens. [9]
But these delights, which Nemu had passed a thousand times, had never had any temptation for him. [10]
On the pilgrimage which he made to Loretto he had distributed more than ten thousand ducats among the poor. [10]
Three thousand gulden, which he had lent to the Convent of Vierzehnheiligen, and of which he might at any time require the repayment, he had set apart to ransom Herdegen and pay for his home-coming. [10]
My uncle's Oregon-echo, which he called the Great Pitt Echo, was a twenty-two carat gem, and cost two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars--they threw the land in, for it was four hundred miles from a settlement. [5]
An infantry regiment which had left Tarutino three thousand strong but now numbered only nine hundred was one of the first to arrive that night at its halting place--a village on the highroad. [2]
The furtive smile which had betrayed his content at pocketing the six thousand dollars still lingered at the corners of his mouth. [11]
These two mountains, which belong to the great system of which Marcy is the giant centre, and are in the neighborhood of five thousand feet high, on the southern outposts of the great mountains, form the gate-posts of the pass into the south country. [4]
I don't know where we shall go now; Boston isn't like home any more; and we couldn't live on two thousand there; I should be ashamed to try. [8]
At the Secundrabagh, where nearly two thousand of the enemy occupied a great stone house in a garden, the work of slaughter was continued until every man was killed. [5]
It was sunset when they started, and they had not gone a thousand yards before some of the mutineering ships opened fire on the Ariadne. [11]
From the moment when she had seen Zminis she had expected the worst, but the cry of rage and despair from a thousand voices which now split her ear told her how far the incredible reality outdid her most horrible imaginings. [10]
By good luck, when I had paid into Mr. Dix's hand the thousand pounds I had received from Charles Fox, and cleared my outstanding bills, the sum I remained in Comyn's debt was not greatly above seven hundred pounds. [9]
I tell you what, Sir, there are a thousand lives, aye, sometimes a million, go to get a new word into a language that is worth speaking. [6]
In great causes, what is a screw of tyranny here, a bolt of oppression there, or a few thousand lives! [11]
Sixty prominent "disloyalists" were to be chosen and assessed to make up a sum of ten thousand dollars. [9]
In this district were three large cemeteries, in which during the previous year more than three thousand bodies had been buried. [5]
Two thousand persons were present, chiefly young ladies and gentlemen. [5]
When her eyes were not thus busy, they were searching the lee of the hillside round for yellow lilies, and the valley below for the campion, the daffodil, and the thousand pretty ferns growing in profusion there. [11]
A thousand men were mine to command, but I came alone. [11]
Before the lamps were lighted along the Rue de Rivoli and in the great square of the Revolution, the garden was left to the silence of its statues and its thousand memories. [4]
His two sons were in Thessalonica, and a ship, just arrived from thence, brought the news-only too well substantiated, that fifteen thousand of the inhabitants of that town had been treacherously assassinated in the Circus there. [10]
There also cries were heard and from a thousand lips rang the glad shout: "Jehovah our standard! [10]
A thousand fires were burning, and there were no sounds save the murmuring voices of myriads of men, and the stamp of hoofs where the Cavalry and Mounted Infantry horses were picketed. [11]
In 1621 there were as many as ten thousand strangers in London, engaged in one hundred and twenty-one different trades. [4]
If my son were a thousand times a criminal, nevertheless I would ache to take him by the hand. [11]
On land there were a thousand miles of open country, with woods and houses, caves and cliffs, to which men could flee for hiding; and the danger of rebellion was less dominant. [11]
Beyond that, there were a few gifts to hospitals and for the protection of horses, while to the clergyman of the parish went one thousand dollars. [11]
Of course we went to see the venerable relic of the ancient glory of Venice, with its pavements worn and broken by the passing feet of a thousand years of plebeians and patricians--The Cathedral of St. Mark. [5]
You know she went on a pilgrimage to Rome, with her lover, Conan, and eleven thousand virgins; and, on their return to Cologne, they were all massacred by the Huns. [4]
If the evidence went as far to establish a guilty profit of one or two hundred thousand dollars, as it does of one or two hundred dollars, the case would, on the question of guilt, bear a far different aspect. [7]
Still another group went and brought away ten thousand pounds, and lost it in fighting with Spanish buccaneers. [11]
And couldn't, very well, perhaps, on a Metaphysical College income of but a few thousand dollars a day, or a week, or whatever it was in those magnificently flourishing times. [5]
He succeeded pretty well, but the failure of Page, Bacon & Co. relieved him of six thousand dollars, and then, to all intents and purposes, he was a bankrupt in his old age and he resumed service in the pulpit again. [5]
At his bidding we have laughed at a thousand absurdities. [5]
Betimes, next morning, we had reached an altitude of five thousand feet above the level of the sea. [5]
Before twelve o'clock we had found a good position for the tent, at a height of eleven thousand feet. [5]
The great sin we both committed has been visited on me alone, but the punishment is a hundred--a thousand times too heavy! [10]
In a thousand ways she was reminded, lest she drive it from her belief. [9]
Much the best way to work him to supply that thousand dollars is to split it into parts and contribute, say a hundred dollars a year, or fifty, or whatever the sum maybe. [5]
The hollow, brittle wax broke into a thousand fragments, and Cambyses sank back on to his bed with a groan. [10]

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