255 collocations for numbering

COWPER had remarked that he would not number in his list of friends the man who needlessly set foot upon a cow.

The French Canadians numbered sixty-five thousand altogether, exclusive of the fur traders and coureurs de bois.

Is there any other processional in the world's history which, numbering such millions and millions, began with only one?

No former editions number this scene.

It is a large village, numbering over nine hundred souls, as the board affixed to its first house testifieth in incomprehensible Russian figures.

I learnt, before we went in, that two families lived here, numbering together eight persons; and, though it was well known to the committee that they had suffered as severely as any on the relief list, yet their sufferings had been increased by the anonymous slanders of some ill-disposed neighbours.

It is estimated there were 6,000 of these guns, and the soldiers that were gathered together numbered hundreds of thousands.

Sitting in our little island, we are apt to forget what it means to possess a purely artificial frontier of 400 miles, and to see just beyond it a neighbour numbering 171,000,000 inhabitants, in an earlier stage of civilisation and capable of being set in motion by causes which no longer operate in the western world.

Thus may you number out your happy years, Till Love and Glory no more proofs can give Of what they can bestow, or you receive.

Europe, which, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, barely numbered 100,000,000 people, suddenly grew nearly five-fold.

HILL, M. A., JR. Answers to even numbered problems in First year college math.

On the first Sunday in every month the girls' and women's guilds, numbering about 600 members, attend one of the morning masses; on the third Sunday in each month the members of the boys' and men's guilds, numbering between 400 and 500, do like-wise.

The library was the largest in the world, numbering over seven hundred thousand volumes; and this was connected with a museum, a menagerie, a botanical garden, and various halls for lectures, altogether forming the most famous university in the Roman empire.

They were dated on the 16th and 17th of September; which probably ought to have been the 17th and 18th, for he repeatedly makes such mistakes in numbering the days of that month.

The crew numbered officers and men.

At the battle of Trafalgar the British Fleet numbered twenty-seven, the Franco-Spanish Fleet numbered thirty-three; at the battle of the Nile the numbers were equalthirteen on each side.

Thursday morning, as I said, we were extremely happyabout noon, she numbered the hours she had been with me; all of them to be but as one minute; and desired to be left to herself.

And then I married, and was rich As I could wish to be; Of sheep I numbered a full score, And every year increased my store.

The poem, numbering about a thousand lines, is in the Spenserian stanza, varied by the heroic metre, and perhaps by some other rhythms.

Who does not number in his circle of acquaintance many unmarried women, between the ages of thirty and forty, perhaps even older, who have practically little more freedom in the ordering of their own lives than they had when they were eleven?

Still, the party that remained faithful to Ignatius numbered many adherents, and therefore Photius thought it well to enlist the support of the Bishop of Rome on his side.

Huerta had been appointed by President Madero to the supreme command of the loyal forces at the capital, numbering barely three thousand soldiers, only a few days before Madero's fall.

The young fellow had no time to say more, for the downfall of their comrade brought a shout of rage from the group of workmen, numbering nearly a dozen, and with one accord they rushed upon the man who had dared champion the defenseless girls.

The first class numbered thirty.

United States numbered highways, by W. C. Markham.

255 collocations for  numbering