The eighty-second strophe of the poem commences thus: "'Of Paynim yonder, saw I more,' Quoth Oliver, 'than e'er before The eye of man hath seen An hundred thousand are a-field, With helm and hauberk, lance and shield, And pikes and pike-heads gleaming bright; Prepare for fight, a fiercer fight Than ever yet hath been.

All its thousands of articles on the subject of our relations with Germany had been but a clash of individual opinions coloured by the traditional policy of each paper, by the prejudice of the writers and by the influence of party interests.

Yes, seventy thousand and odd is a big pile.

'Twould break a head and niver a hat harmeda thousand's the pities them chaps wears no hats.

Thousands of women moving in our circle are not half so good as I am.

In the first place it has become ever more evident that the thousands of traditions about Mohammed, which, together with the Qorân, form the foundation upon which the doctrine and life of the community are based, are for the most part the conventional expression of all the opinions which prevailed amongst his followers during the first three centuries after the Hijrah.

"'At least twenty thousand,' was the reply; 'for the old men are just as strong and brave as the young ones.' "'But what do they live upon?' "'Upon bread and water.

" "Ten thousand a year is a lot; but it isn't everything.

Thousands of minutes of the seven hundred and ninety-eight daysand there were over one million of them, during which I had been borne down by intolerably burdensome delusionswere, I imagine, much like the last minutes of consciousness experienced by persons who drown.

Philip II. had landed there with an army of forty-seven thousand men, of whom seven thousand were English.

Of these, something like three hundred thousand are unmarried girls between the ages of fourteen and thirty.

" If twelve thousand for Lucknow be a fair estimate, can we put the figures for the whole country at less than 100,000?

Ten thousand to one but the gay Gentleman who stared, at the same time is an House-keeper; for you must know they have got into a Humour of late of being very regular in their Sins, and a young Fellow shall keep his four Maids and three Footmen with the greatest Gravity imaginable.

It has a good trade, and contains about eighty thousand inhabitants, twenty thousand of which are Jews, said to be very rich.

And when shearing time approaches he opens hut to all, And though ten thousand are his flocks, he featly shears them all, Even to the scabby wanderer you’d think no good at all; For while he fattens all the great, he boils down all the small— Like a fine old Murray squatter, one of the olden time.

There are in London seven hundred thousand parliamentary voters, and I am informed by the man who is in the best position to know that it would be safe to say that less than ten thousand persons actually attend the annual ward meetings of the various parties, and that not more than thirty thousand are members of the party associations.

Your six thousand won't be a starter, Joe.

Of this number, ten thousand is the proportion of the towns north of Salt Lake City, and upward of fifteen thousand that of the city itself and the settlements in its immediate neighborhood.

In the realm of physics it was held for thousands of years to be a fact beyond question that water was a simple and consequently an original element.

" Dorn turned to Anderson and asked, "Is it worth that much?" "No. Seventy-five thousand would be a big price," replied the rancher.

Had not success elsewhere come to brighten the horizon, it would have been difficult to have raised new forces to recruit the Army of the Potomac, which, shaken in its structure, its valor quenched in blood, and thousands of its ablest officers killed and wounded, was the Army of the Potomac

I am sorry to tell you that hundreds of thousands of American children are slaves.

In several Copies we meet with a Hundred Beauties by the usual Errour of the Transcribers, who probably omitted a Cypher, and had not Taste enough to know that the Word Thousand was ten Times a greater Compliment to the Poet's Mistress than an Hundred. Verse the Fourth.

"On throwing stones down the precipices, thousands of feet deep, the traveller feels an almost irresistible desire to throw himself after them!" Monthly Magazine.

A great revival was then going on in the army, and thousands were becoming professors of religion.