27 Metaphors for millions

Now a million is a kind of golden cheese, which represents in a compendious form the summer's growth of a fat meadow of craft or commerce; and as this kind of meadow rarely bears more than one crop, it is pretty certain that sons and grandsons will not get another golden cheese out of it, whether they milk the same cows or turn in new ones.

One hundred millions are the victims of the betelnut, which has specially blasted the East Indies.

Of the 31,000,000 inhabitants, as we have seen, 7 millions are Ukranians, 2.2 Russians, 2.1 Germans, and nearly half a million of other nationalities.

Don't forget that millions is the crest of the groundlings.'

In any case, seven-and-a-half millions were a substantial percentage of the total population, estimated at 45,000,000.

And all the millions who were swayed By those who dwelt upon this hill, And who in humble awe obeyed The dictates of their sovereign will, Are they self-conscious beings still, Or are their minds and bodies ...

What use would those millions be to him on this island?

"A million and a half is no child's play," screamed Ephraim.

The latter complained that the twenty millions of pounds was but a pittance of the value of their slaves, and to drown their cries about robbery and oppression this system of modified slavery was granted to them, that they might, for a term of years, enjoy the toil of the negro without compensation.

"What! alive yet, father?" Gen. P. "Yes, still living, and enjoying the pleasant reflection that millions are freemen, whom he helped to make freebut who, without his labours, and those of kindred spirits, might this day be doing homage to British power.

" "A million of inhabitants"that is the crux of the problem.

At the usual rate of increase it now amounts to thirty-four millions; of these, four millions are blacks, and of the residue, twenty-six millions are in the loyal districts, and but four millions in the Confederacy, if we exclude New Orleans and those portions of Virginia and Tennessee which have been subdued by the Federal arms.

12 million of those mobilized were Russian, 11 million were Germans, 8.4 million were French, 8 million were from the British Empire.

But this forty-one millions is a blind.

all the three or four hundred millions of Indians are Bengali babus).

My impression has been that four hundred millions is hardly an exaggeration.

"Millions for defence, not a cent for tribute," are immortal words.

12 million of those mobilized were Russian, 11 million were Germans, 8.4 million were French, 8 million were from the British Empire.

A million is the unit of wealth, now and here in America.

Its area is computed at 55,408 square miles, or 35,459,200 acres, less than two millions of which are called swamp lands, the remaining thirty-three millions being tillable land of unsurpassed fertility.

Four hundred millions of our race are opium-eaters.

Nine million would be a conservative guess.

"Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute," was the cry of the day.

Of these it is probable that at least one million were Loyalists.

"Do you forget that those millions would be a temptation to scoundrels?

27 Metaphors for  millions