But see, my child: although this world contains countless thousands, there is not one among them I may call my friend.

Uncounted thousands of people cannot read God's Word.

[Illustration] Fernando Stevens stood on the wharf among the assembled thousands, watching the steamer until it disappeared far up the river.

Time appeared to pass with unusual slowness, and not he alone, but anxious thousands, awaited the signal to kindle their fires.

Drenched with the sea and with the rain, hungry, cold, and comfortless, thousands of miles from their native land, almost beyond expectation of human succor, hope nearly annihilated,the shipwrecked voyagers retired to their tents.

For, as you have foundas untold thousands have found before you, and will yet findone can't squander one's youth and keep it, too!

It is managing a whole gigantic industry with employes running into millions, half a million of them women, and managing it under wholly new conditions of humanity and forethought; it is housing and feeding and caring for innumerable thousands; transforming from day to day, as by a kind of by-work, the industrial mind and training of multitudes, and laying the foundations of a new, and surely happier England, after the War.

Stratford-on-Avon, a picturesque town situated on the river Avon, in Warwickshire, is visited yearly by thousands of people desirous of seeing the birthplace of William Shakespeare.

It is this free, social life which renders Vienna so attractive to foreigners and draws yearly thousands of visitors from all parts of Europe.

And because of this light, that eye had been mightily examined through unknown thousands of years; and some held that the eye looked through the light steadfastly at the Pyramid; but others set out that the light blinded it, and was the work of those Other Powers which were abroad to do combat with the Evil Forces.

" "No!" said the envoy, "no such rank is mine, Sikander holds among his numerous host Thousands superior to the humble slave Who stands before thee.

we have a long and abstruse problem in chances worked out to show that it was so many millions, and so many odd thousands to one, that accident could not have produced the phenomenon; not a bit of it.

With shipping ever on their left and cotton-yards and warehouses for tobacco and for salt on their right their horses' feet clinked leisurely over the cobble pavements, between thousands of cotton-bales headed upon the unsheltered wharves and only fewer thousands on the narrow sidewalks.

On the one hand, splendid paseos lined with magnificent palaces, where, in their automobiles, the pleasure-seeking women of the rich displayed their raiment worth thousands of dollars; and, on the other, streets filled with beggars, their clothes literally dropping off them in filthy rags, reeking with the typhus which for years has been endemic in the City of Mexico.

Doubtless thousands of innocent men as free from crime and evil intent as we, are wasting their lives away in dungeons as loathsome as those that imprisoned us.

In New York he was the guest of the city and was visited by thousands eager to shake his hand.

And when his young voice rang clearly out in the words, "I promise you that I shall, to my dying day, preserve faithfully the honour and integrity of Servia, and shall be ready to shed the last drop of my blood to defend its rights," there was scarcely one of the enthusiastic thousands that heard him who would not have been willing to lay down his life for the idolised Prince.

They called him the Great Commoner, the heaven-born statesman; they showered gold boxes upon him; they bore him through the city, the centre of frantic thousands, to the effacement even of the sovereign.

The little black knobs that rise above the edge represent for him huge impassable rocks, sinking on one side in scarped slippery surfaces towards the snow-field, and on the other stooping in one tremendous cliff to a distorted glacier thousands of feet below.

Visions of golden thousands were already floating before his greedy eyes.

He comes in his thousands, greedy for his part of the good food; but, knowing this, the fishermen also hasten to the spot, and the Haddock pays dearly for his love of Herring eggs.

I knew there must be thousands in this very point more true-hearted than I: nay, such still might some be, whose names I went over with myself:

"We lost many men herevery manyseveral thousands, I think.

As I passed up the crowded river in my launch on the morning after the first night's bombardment we seemed to be followed by a wave of sounda great murmur of mingled anguish and misery and fatigue and hunger from the homeless thousands adrift upon the waters.

I see the brow relaxed, that scowled defiance at hostile thousands!