47 collocations for outnumbering

As a class, they doubtless greatly outnumbered the Israelitish servants.

In former years the several thousand colored Methodists, who outnumbered by tenfold the whites in the congregations there, had enjoyed a quarterly conference of their own, with the custody of their collections and with control over the church trials of colored members; but on the ground of abuses these privileges were cancelled in 1815.

A swarm of summer flies on a field of clover, or the grasshoppers in a patch of stubble, outnumber the men that have lived since Adam.

Perhaps it may be attributed to the fact that the colored population of South Carolina always outnumbered the white population, and the eagerness of the latter to recruit their ranks was sufficient to overcome in some measure their prejudice against the Negro blood.

Large as the gang was (outnumbering the troops), well armed and desperate as they were, every one was dead, wounded, or a prisoner when the men who guarded the train platforms ran up.

How strange, that men at the North, who think soundly on other subjects, should deduce the feasibility of gradual emancipation in the slave statesin some of which the slaves outnumber the freefrom the fact of the like emancipation of the comparative handful of slaves in New York and Pennsylvania!

The disproportion of the colored race to the whites was fearfully great, being that of seven or eight to one; whilst, in our slaveholding states, the whites outnumber the colored people.

In the battle that ensued, several Englishmen were killed and a great many wounded; but as they outnumbered the negroes, and were much better armed, they defeated them.

The native members of Tai-hoey, almost from the first, have outnumbered the foreign.

How strange, that men at the North, who think soundly on other subjects, should deduce the feasibility of gradual emancipation in the slave statesin some of which the slaves outnumber the freefrom the fact of the like emancipation of the comparative handful of slaves in New York and Pennsylvania!

Wayne won an equally decisive victory, but he outnumbered his foes three to one.

The comma bacilli in these conditions multiply with great rapidity so as to far outnumber the other forms of bacteria, which at first might have been in far greater abundance.

Mungo Park when exploring the hinterland of this coast in 1795-1797, traveling incidentally with a slave coffle on part of his journey, estimated that in the Niger Valley generally the slaves outnumbered the free by three to one.

They greatly outnumbered the French.

But the Town far outnumbered the Gown, and, in spite of the assistance of the reverend proctor, the fight was going against them.

The Americans seemed to have outnumbered Ferguson's advance guard, which was less than two hundred strong, about three to one.

It was a strange beach, I thought, where fish-hawks invariably outnumbered both gulls and terns.

The primroses scattered by April, The stars of the wide Milky Way, Cannot outnumber the hosts of the children Magic hath stolen away.

well knowing that the Virginians greatly outnumbered the Indians, let the man go through his camp at will, and sent him back with word that the Cherokee towns were doomed, for that he would surely march to them and destroy them.

On every battle-field the Syrians outnumbered the Jews almost six to one.

But there were other towns at least equal in importance to Birmingham which were unrepresented, and it was clearly impossible to maintain a system which gave representatives to boroughs like Gatton, Old Sarum, or Corfe Castlewhere the electors scarcely outnumbered the members whom they electedand withheld them from large and opulent manufacturing centres like Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield.

The temporary positions used to outnumber the permanent placements; at present the reverse is true.

In Scotland three-fourths of the people were Presbyterians; and in Ireland the Roman Catholics outnumbered the Protestants in nearly the same proportion.

His lambs outnumber a noon's roses, Yet, when night's shadows fall, His blind old sheep-dog, Slumber-soon, Misses not one of all.

Would he not have felt, on awaking from his dream, pretty much as did the aged patriarch whose name he bore, when the angel of the Lord assured him that he would be the father of many nations, that his seed would outnumber the sands of the sea, and that through him all humanity would be blessed from generation to generation?

47 collocations for  outnumbering