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Sentences starting with thousands

Thousands of birds were roosting there, but they were all asleep; a "dark ness that might be felt" brooded over the silent land scape. [10]
Thousands of people were made so sea-sick by the rolling and pitching of floors and streets that they were weak and bed-ridden for hours, and some few for even days afterward.--Hardly an individual escaped nausea entirely. [5]
Thousands of eyes were looking at him from all sides awaiting a word from him. [2]
Thousands of people were also roaming about in the great spaces of the edifice; but there was nowhere else anything like a crowd. [4]
Thousands entered the war, got just a taste of it, and then stepped out again, permanently. [5]
Thousands went out to meet him, as though he were the Saviour; they erected triumphal arches, even folks of my creed--no one thought of hanging back. [10]
Thousands have altered their behavior, but--answer me frankly--surely not what we mean by their feeling? [10]
Thousands are always sowing and reaping and brewing and distilling, to slake the immortal thirst of the country. [4]
Thousands flocked to see the corpse, and among them Balbilla, who had behaved like a distracted creature when she heard to what an end her idol had come. [10]
Thousands would gather round his standard, and so marching on to Paris, the Napoleonic faith would be revived, and he would come into his own. [11]

Sentences ending with thousands

No Egyptian from whom death had snatched a loved one failed to follow the swelling torrent, which increased till hundreds became thousands. [10]
Yours are worth thousands. [2]
One condemning whisper sounded louder in his ear than the plaudits of thousands. [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]
The Sybarites, now selling by thousands, would increase its sales to ten thousands. [9]
He was the pride, the monumental glory of the city of Alexander; the centre of foundations and schools which benefited thousands. [10]
The cathedral was packed with people--people in thousands. [5]
Why, the fellow numbers already his feet by the thousands. [5]
The list of its friends is daily swelled by the additions of fifties, of hundreds, and of thousands. [7]
But, strange as it may appear, woman's charms and virtues are but slightly appreciated by thousands. [5]

Short sentences using thousands

I beg a thousands pardons! [5]
Thousands think so. [10]

Sentences containing thousands two or more times

Are those countries working that kind of lie, day in and day out, in thousands and thousands of varieties, without ever resting? [5]
There were thousands upon thousands of vehicles abroad, and the scene was full of life and gaiety. [5]
I have tried, tried thousands and thousands of times; at--Richtberg, here, everywhere--deep as was my wrath! [10]
On one occasion thousands came forth to meet thousands, and the Prefect called out the troops--all Greeks--to restore order by force. [10]
I have seen thousands and thousands of pictures in my time --acres of them here and leagues of them in the galleries of Europe --but never any that moved me as these portraits do. [5]
And by the thousands and tens of thousands they had passed from here to the places of blood beyond. [9]
To look upon this picture, and sail upon this sea, they had forsaken home and its idols and journeyed thousands and thousands of miles, in weariness and tribulation. [5]
Presently some of them began to come back, gaunt and worn and tattered, among the grim cargoes that were landed by the thousands and tens of thousands on the levee. [9]
The doors of the sanctuary were closed, and guarded by soldiers; but the southern and western walls were surrounded by thousands and thousands of heathen. [10]
Why, Washington, in the Oriental countries people swarm like the sands of the desert; every square mile of ground upholds its thousands upon thousands of struggling human creatures--and every separate and individual devil of them's got the ophthalmia! [5]

More example sentences with the word thousands in them

For thousands of years this clan have dwelt in Shechem under strict tabu, and having little commerce or fellowship with their fellow men of any religion or nationality. [5]
For thousands of years the story of the Exodus has lived in the minds of numberless people as something actual, and it still retains its vitality. [10]
Hundreds of Jesuits, with thousands of the populace, had filed behind the cross and the host. [11]
And you, you--the wife of the man who has induced thousands to desert King Philip, the wife of the exile, who directs the resistance within these walls. [10]
These men, of whom very few could read and write, had at their command all the most effective verses of their poets having thousands of lines stored in their minds. [10]
But even those who have felt the silence and the stir that prefaces the clamorous applause of the thousands could not know the thrill that swept her under his tribute. [9]
This little trip, which thousands of people made daily, took on for her the air of an adventure. [4]
That the sword which had slain thousands of their sons should have been dedicated to Serapis, and accepted by the god, alienated many of the citizens from the patron divinity of the town. [10]
And Janet remembered when the little red book that contained the songs had arrived at Headquarters from the west and had been distributed by thousands among the strikers. [9]
We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them. [2]
Around the bottom were thousands of little nicks just distinguishable to the eye. [13]
Hundreds of corporators were named, and even thousands were included in the various London trades and guilds that were joined in the enterprise. [4]
The magnificent apartments were made as light as day by thousands of wax-candles in silver and bronze candelabra; costly Gobelin tapestry and purple Flanders hangings covered the walls, and the bright hues of the paintings were reflected from the polished floors, flooded with brilliant light. [10]
Hundreds, maybe thousands, were being killed off there in the hills. [11]
Terror and grief weighed on thousands of hearts, while some tried to make a profit out of the prevailing anxiety, and others--many others--went forth, as light-hearted as ever, in pursuit of pleasure and amusement. [10]
The cliffs were water-worn, as if they had been gnawed for thousands of years by hungry waves. [6]
A man's life"--he watched her closely with his wide, benevolent eyes--"is neither here nor there, nor a few thousands, in the destiny of a nation. [11]
The first prophet was the high-priest of the House of Seti, and at the same time the superior of all the thousands of upper and under servants of the divinities which belonged to the City of the Dead of Thebes. [10]
The spacious Hippodrome was filled with some thousands of spectators. [10]
The great banqueting-hall was bright as day--even brighter, from the light of thousands of candles whose rays were reflected in the gold plates forming the panelling of the walls. [10]
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]
Forced by the unshaken solidarity of tens of thousands, the manufacturers offer bribes to end the reign of terror they have inaugurated.... Inhuman treatment and oppressive toil have brought all nationalities together into one great army to fight against a brutal system of exploitation. [9]
Every extraordinary occurrence unsettles the heads of hundreds of thousands of men for a few moments or hours or days. [5]
Well, I'd be under the sage with thousands of other men now livin' an' sure better men than me. [13]
Half-breed and Indian troubles came-- The same old story--land and game; And Dubois' Men were the first to feel The bullet-sting and the clip of steel; And last in battle 'gainst thousands sent, With Gatling guns for our punishment. [11]
In the muddy trenches of Flanders and France a new comradeship has sprung up between officers and Tommies, while time-honoured precedent has been broken by the necessity of giving thousands of commissions to men of merit who do not belong to the "officer caste. [9]
The men who treasure their dead for thousands of years, and would rather lose their last loaf than allow a single bone belonging to one of their ancestors to be taken from them, are not constant, they are foolish. [10]
Then came reference to the well known fact that an experienced mariner can look at the compass of a new iron vessel, thousands of mile from her birthplace, and tell which way her head was pointing when she was in process of building. [5]
You have only to learn for the first time how the acclamations of tens of thousands take hold upon the heart and intoxicate the senses. [10]
How was he to know that thousands of his countrymen were to experience the same sensation? [9]
It would appeal to him on some grand scale, with real danger and, say, a few scores of thousands of pounds at stake--not unless. [11]
There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. [1]
It seems unaccountable to a superficial observer that the thousands of people who are dissatisfied with their climate do not seek a more congenial one--or stop grumbling. [4]
In anger Knife-in-the-Wind thrust an arrow into the ground and said: "How can the white man who died thousands of moons ago in a far country save the red man to-day? [11]
She had seen thousands of youths march in, and there they stood in close ranks in the arena below her. [10]
There were some thousands of wounded in the place, he told me, scattered about everywhere. [6]
I've took off thousands of warts off of my hands that way, Huck. [5]
I have preserved thousands of their letters, and destroyed a very large number, after answering most of them. [6]
This man, like thousands of others in the city, idealized you. [9]
But you sell thousands of my moss-backed old books every year--the youngest of them being books that range from fifteen to twenty-seven years old, and the oldest reaching back to thirty-five and forty. [5]
I have met thousands of mourners in these melancholy scenes, which, I can assure you, are the very best school for training any one who desires to search the hearts of his fellow-creatures. [10]
Church has many thousands of members more than its building can accommodate. [5]
I myself have thousands of dollars of worthless stock in my safe. [9]
Thou mayst find thousands in Egypt who will serve thee at any price, and bear thee in any mood. [11]
But of all those thousands he was the only one who looked behind him and observed it. [10]
Do you not think so, and does not the acclamation of so many thousands stir your soul? [10]
At each of these towns thousands of people met him with excitement and enthusiasm. [2]
It has stood there for thousands of years, the wonder and admiration of travelers; but who built it, or when it was built, are questions that may never be answered. [5]
Some gentlemen have their stock in their hands, while others, who have more money than they know what to do with, want it; and this, and this alone, is the question, to settle which we are called on to squander thousands of the people's money. [7]
Then down on their knees to Him who sits high above the yellow haze fell the thousands in the Place d'Armes. [9]
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]
The governor beaten, the Whig vote being decreased many thousands since 1840, although the Democratic vote had not increased any. [7]
I am virtually the trustee for thousands of stockholders, many of whom are widows and orphans. [9]
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]
Yesterday, among all the thousands, there was scarcely a single doubter; but to-day-how does it happen? [10]
The blessing of the thousands whom she could protect and save would make the hardest task sweet and endurable. [10]
Where now were the thousands of which he had dreamed, and which he was to have brought into the Church? [9]
Men stood on the street corners in the rain, reading of the capture of Camp Jackson, and of the riot, and thousands lifted up their voices to execrate the Foreign City below Market Street. [9]
The beauty of the scene was but a mechanical impression, to be remembered afterward when thousands of miles away, for the American Correspondent now at last lit his cigar and took up the strain. [11]
Hence we behold the process by which thousands are daily passing from under the yoke of bondage hailed by some as the advance of liberty, and bewailed by others as the destruction of all liberty. [7]
Abdalla motioned to the next room, where the blind men ate their evening meal, and out to the dimly lighted streets where thousands of narghilehs and cigarettes made little smoky clouds that floated around white turbans and dark faces. [11]
He floated down the Mississippi on a log, out of Vicksburg, and brought back thousands and thousands of percussion caps. [9]
Perhaps it was the instinctive craving to take part in the grand impulsive expression of thousands of others that had carried away each individual. [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]
Next year, maybe, the Empire Tube Company goes into the business of making crude steel, and many more thousands of tons go from us. [9]
Surely it was the Egyptians whom Moses' curse had robbed of thousands of beloved lives, while the Hebrews had escaped their revenge by flight. [10]
The taste of the editor, or of some assistant who uses the scissors, is in a manner forced upon thousands of people, who see little other printed matter than that which he gives them. [4]
This was before the days when the wounded arrived by the thousands, when the zeal of the Southern ladies threatened to throw out of gear the workings of a great system. [9]
Upon examination of the corn stored in casks, it was found half-rotten, and the rest consumed by rats, which had bred in thousands from the few which came over in the ships. [4]
Many thousands of the citizens of Nisaea were within reach of his voice, as he cried aloud: "Ye all know that the kings who have, up to the present time, loaded you with honor and glory, belonged to the house of the Achaemenidae. [10]
What cared they, that the weal and woe of thousands depended on their decision? [10]
So it is that the best of us may at times desire misery to thousands that our own malice may be fed. [9]
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]
Is it possible that on account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, and my life, my life," he thought, "must be risked? [2]
Was I worse than thousands of others? [11]
He's robbed his tens of thousands, and goes on robbing them right along. [9]
Visitors by the tens of thousands would come in automobiles, and remain and buy summer places. [9]
Think of the talk this past summer, the rivers and oceans of it, on piazzas and galleries in the warm evenings or the fresher mornings, in private houses, on hotel verandas, in the shade of thousands of cottages by the sea and in the hills! [4]
And in that sweet curve of shore, from the St. Charles to Beauport, thousands of stars seemed shining. [11]
There are thousands such as I in Russia. [2]
The experiment is successful, and thousands have won their deathless names in making it so. [7]
He's made a study of it, he's spent thousands of dollars, and as soon as these machines became practical he put 'em in. [9]
The Gate was studded with thousands of nails, which fastened to its massive timbers relics of the faithful, bits of silk and cloth, and hair and leather; and here from time immemorial a holy man had sat and prayed. [11]
Indirectly this vast struggle in which thousands of lives were being lost had come through his wife's disloyalty, however unintentional, or in whatever degree. [11]
Treasonable, you mean,--to strike when the lives of hundreds of thousands of your fellow countrymen depend on your labour. [9]
I published that story, and it became widely known in America, India, China, England--and the reputation it made for me has paid me thousands and thousands of dollars since. [5]
Perhaps the wild storm of applause, the mingled cries of horror, compassion and thanksgiving that went up from the assembled thousands once more reached her ear--but she dived head foremost to rise no more. [10]
I may not state the thousands carried on leave every day across the channel and back again--in spite of submarines. [9]
As the news spread that the troops were to attack the Serapeum early next morning, thousands of spectators collected, and filled the temple itself in breathless anxiety to watch the issue of the struggle. [10]
Yet, though Anatole spent tens of thousands of rubles, Dolokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a footing that all who knew them, including Anatole himself, respected him more than they did Anatole. [2]
They are the souls of the thousands whom grim death has snatched away, laden with the curse of the Hebrew, unburied, unshielded from corruption, to descend the rounds of the ladder leading to the eternal world. [10]
He imagined all sorts of possible contingencies, just like the younger men, but with this difference, that he saw thousands of contingencies instead of two or three and based nothing on them. [2]
Why should He smother one under heaps of gold, while He gave thousands of poor creatures too little to satisfy their hunger! [10]
The cloudless blue sky arched pitilessly over the city, and at night glittered with thousands of twinkling stars. [10]
At a given signal thousands of lights appeared round the tiers of seats, and, if the splendor of the entertainment answered at all to that of the Alexandrian spectators, something fine indeed was to be expected. [10]
One man alone, shouting for joy, is like a madman escaped from an asylum, but when thousands of men rejoice together it must have a powerful effect on the coldest heart. [10]
My series has served many in duelling, and I, Andreas, their master, have made tierce follow quarte and side-thrust tierce thousands of times, but always with buttons on the foils and against padded doublets. [10]
He is a self-respecting, able young Irish American of the blue-eyed type that have died by thousands on the battle fields of France, and whose pictures may be seen in our newspapers. [9]
No one is secure, not even of life, least of all a woman, however strong she may be, who has made common cause with those against whom thousands murmur. [10]
Thousands of crows rose above the walls and circled in the air, cawing and noisily flapping their wings. [2]

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