256 Metaphors for numbers

" Although it appeared late, the fourth number was the best that had yet been issued.

The problem of the Natica's existence was solved, and the verification was found in more than one Buccinum minus the animal,the number of the latter victims being still an unknown quantity.

During the time-interval between the signatures shown in Nos. 7 and 8, the first number of the "Pickwick Papers" was publishedMarch, 1836and Charles Dickens married Catherine Hogarth on the 2nd of April in that year.

The whole number of depositors in this institution, on the 23d July, was nineteen hundred and seventy-six; the whole number of deposits was three hundred and five thousand seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy cents, (about £60,000.)

Number 1 is a small conical hill; 2 is hummocky; 3, 4, and 6, are very small; 5 makes with a hollow in its centre, like the seat of a saddle.

Numbers are so much the Measure of every thing that is valuable, that it is not possible to demonstrate the Success of any Action, or the Prudence of any Undertaking, without them.

You think, perhaps, you will marry a duke, if you wait long enough for his Grace to appear; but the number of marrying dukes is rather small, Lady Lesbia, and I don't think any of those would care to marry Lord Maulevrier's granddaughter.

By recent writers of Spain the number of slain on the part of the Africans was two hundred thousand; on that of the Christians, twenty-five individuals only.

The number of distinct species of sheep in our fauna is a matter of too much uncertainty to be treated with any sort of authority at this time.

The information was received with perfect indifference by most of the trappers, and with contemptuous laughter by some; for a large number of Cameron's men were wild, evil-disposed fellows, who would have as gladly taken the life of an Indian as that of a buffalo.

The 19. great numbers of white birdes, and the 20. a bird as bigge as a Swan, whereof foure or fiue together is a good signe of being neere the Cape de bona Sperance.

Numbers, in grammar, are modifications that distinguish unity and plurality.

'Round numbers are always false,' iii. 226, n. 4. RUFFIAN.

There can be but little doubt now, that while Mr. Skinner was plying Mr. Bensington's chicks with Herakleophorbia IV, a number of wasps were just as industriouslyperhaps more industriouslycarrying quantities of the same paste to their early summer broods in the sand-banks beyond the adjacent pine-woods.

But the great numbers of people being often the occasion of riots and disturbances, the privilege of holding a fair was granted by royal charter.

The number of the sheep is a little under 20,000,000; of cattle, 1,150,000; of horses, 250,000.

The Moorish ships were all drawn on the beach in a close line, having their sterns to the shore, and were well armed with ordnance, and had many soldiers on board armed with bows and arrows, a considerable number of them being men of a fair complexion.

Another pretty deduction from the theory of square numbers is, that any number whose square is the sum of two squares, is itself the sum of two squares.

Such sublimities of numbers give no food for thought; one cannot think, for of course the highest number always finally becomes the smallest again.

Both these estimates are exceeded by Dr. T.W. Rhys Davids (intimating also the uncertainty of the statements, and that numbers are no evidence of truth) in the introduction to his "Manual of Buddhism."

Some species have a fleshy, muscular fin on each side, by aid of which they accomplish these apparently inconvenient motions; but, at least, an equal number of them are finless, and yet can swim with perhaps little less agility.

The whole number of acres found in cultivation by individuals, was 125-1/2 acres; and by bands, and in common, 100-3/4 acres, which would give an average of a little over 1/3 of an acre per soul.

McClellan, who a number of years afterwards became a famous plainsman and Rocky Mountain man, was remarkably swift of foot.

Moreover, a number of technical departments had been createdin all, a system that might compare favourably with European systems of the eighteenth century.

Number 19 is the right-hand half of a single-story, low-roofed tenement, washed with yellow ochre, which it shares generously with whoever leans against it.

256 Metaphors for  numbers