There were upwards of a thousand present.

Barely fifteen thousand lived in the three little towns of Quebec, Montreal, and Three Rivers; while over fifty thousand lived in the country.

Marshal Beaulieu, their commander-in-chief, had scarcely twenty thousand men, while the Count de Narbonne had left the French army in so good a condition that Degraves, his successor, was able to send a hundred and thirty thousand men against him; and Dumouriez furnished him with a plan for an invasion of the Netherlands, which, if properly carried out, would have made the French masters of the whole country in a few days.

Her total casualties in that war were approximately a hundred thousand, just about the same as our casualties in Gallipoli.

A thousand apiece, that's something like!

Upward of three thousand of such engraved tablets, including the famous Roman laws of the Twelve Tables, were consumed in the great fire which destroyed the Capitol in the time of Vespasian.

There can be little doubt that the estimate of Mr. Wright, of Maryland, (fifteen thousand annually,) is some thousands too small.

Little less than three thousand men were slain or made prisoners in the camp; considerably more, however, were captured than slain.

A larger number may be called well educatedthese reside mostly in the cities and large villages, but a majority of the slaveholders are ignorant men, thousands of them notoriously so, mere boors unable to write their names or to read the alphabet.

I shall have at least seven hundred dollarsprobably one thousand.

Mavor does not affirm that there were a hundred and fitly thousand pounds; but that there was morei.e., more money than so many pounds are, or amount to.

Yet it cannot be but, from my words and actions, some revelations should reach these poor people; and going in and out amongst them perpetually, I shall teach, and they learn involuntarily a thousand things of deepest import.

"I will pay willingly five hundred thousand livres for the deliverance of my people," said Louis, and I will give up Damietta for the deliverance of my own person, for I am not a man who ought to be bought and sold for money."

In the one all nature is free, whilst the debauchee frowns on her laughing landscapes; in the other, conscience and her busy devils are at workyet thousands thus embitter life's cup, and then repine at their uncheery lot.

Soon after this the company entered the pavilion, and the thousands outside were entertained, as an especial favor, by the band of the 87th Regiment, while from the many liquor booths around the field, they could enjoy themselves in another way.

I find no data showing with exactness the mileage completed by the Magoon government, which came to an end in January, 1909, but a Cuban official report made at the end of 1910 shows that the combined activities of the respective administrations, Spanish, American, and Cuban, had given the island, at that time, practically a thousand miles of improved highway, distributed throughout the island.

Five hides, sometimes less, made a knight's fee, of which there were about sixty thousand in England, consequently near three hundred thousand hides; and at the rate of three shillings a hide, the sum would amount to forty-five thousand pounds, or one hundred and thirty-five thousand of our present money.

But if he wants to see here something more, Then stretch him 'neath the stick and give him straight A thousand blows upon the belly; then Take him away to the physician, who Will bleed him well.

Dirty, unsanitary, miserable as they usually are, if they were closed by law, hundreds, perhaps thousands of domestics temporarily out of work, would be turned into the streets.

In timehow many thousands of years, I know notI attained to some degree of quietudesufficient to enable me to pay attention to what was transpiring around me.

In this tour he was not unfrequently twenty thousand feet above the sea, but failing to recover his health, he, in 1868, returned to the United States, after an absence of eight years.

A thousand diff'rent shapes it bears; Comely in thousand shapes appears.

How came you to find your way to this inaccessible spot?" "We are going to the Achenseeto the Hotel Rhiner, to hear Fräulein Therese" "You have heard of my little friend Therese, and you have comehow many thousand miles?to hear her sing and play on her zither?" "To do all that, but mostly to see if she will tell me her love story.

We were now encamped in view of the scene of our future operations, and the exploration and settlement of a territory of considerably over a hundred thousand square miles was before us, and the destiny of a new State was in embryo.

People are talking into the radio broadcasters and their voices are heard distinctly thousands of miles.