28263 examples of thousands in sentences

It was a game paradise, and the snow-shoe rabbit abounded in thousands.

Nearly all the rest of the world is changing, but you can't change these almost impenetrable thousands of square miles of ridges and swamps and forests.

It was the "heavy snow" of the Indiansthe snow that lay like lead on the earth, and under which partridges and rabbits were smothered in thousands.

Certainly Mistress Marjorie, who must have been much younger, made him a good wife, and when he died, in 1685, he left a son and a daughter, besides an estate valued at several thousands of pounds, accumulated with true Scottish thrift.

" His countenance is thus described by Thomas Hood: "His was no common face, none of those willow-pattern ones which Nature turns out by thousands at her potteries, but more like a chance specimen of the Chinese ware,one to the set; unique, antique, quaint, you might have sworn to it piecemeal,a separate affidavit to each feature.

That it has no originality in its cast, nor anything in the feelings but what is common and natural to thousands, nor ought properly to be called poetry, I see; still, it will tend to keep present to my mind a view of things which I ought to indulge.

I am sure this is a kind of writing which comes tenfold better recommended to the heart, comes there more like a neighbor or familiar, than thousands of Hamnels and Zillahs and Madelons.

how far do you go With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs, and isles And people upon you for thousands of miles?

Just to make one more among the thousands of doctors in America was one thing, he said.

And amid a hurrahing roar of thousands the train with its strange load slowly pulled out.

"The thousands of boys who go to fight regard it a duty.

That moment was the beginning of her sacrifice, the sacrifice she shared in common now with thousands of other women.

Out of the hundreds of thousands of American troops in France, what honor it was to be in the chosen battalion to go to the front!

Thousands of feet of rich coral reef; thousands of feet of barren sands; then thousands of feet of rich alluvial forestand all these sliding into each other, if not in one place, then in another, without violent break or change; this is the story which the lime in the mortar and the coal on the fire, between the two, reveal.

Thousands of feet of rich coral reef; thousands of feet of barren sands; then thousands of feet of rich alluvial forestand all these sliding into each other, if not in one place, then in another, without violent break or change; this is the story which the lime in the mortar and the coal on the fire, between the two, reveal.

Thousands of feet of rich coral reef; thousands of feet of barren sands; then thousands of feet of rich alluvial forestand all these sliding into each other, if not in one place, then in another, without violent break or change; this is the story which the lime in the mortar and the coal on the fire, between the two, reveal.

At Kábul and Zábul there was nothing but feasting and rejoicing, as soon as the tidings were known, and thousands of dínars were given away in charity to the poor.

You ought to know, Miss Caroline, that the sight of thousands of your other dead never moved me to any merriment.

" [Many persons were not aware, and thousands are not at the present time, that when a verdict of "Wilful murder" is pronounced a Judge has no alternative but to read the prescribed sentence of death.

Tracts of thousands and tens of thousands, are sometimes not to be discovered.

Tracts of thousands and tens of thousands, are sometimes not to be discovered.

That she might retain her own sovereignty, or the independence of Egypt,still the most fertile of countries, rich, splendid, and with grand traditions which went back thousands of years; the oldest, and once the most powerful of monarchies.

Now, for my part, I must needs say (and I much fancy I speak the mind of thousands) that it had been much better for such an imprudent and ridiculous bawler as this, to have been condemned to have cried oysters or brooms, than to discredit, after this unsanctified rate, his Profession and our Religion.

Imagine his father, some forty years ago, ever dreaming of building an air-ship and speeding through the upper currents, perhaps thousands of feet above the earth, at the rate of a mile a minute!

His eminency above others hath made him a man of worship, for he had never been preferred, but that he was worth thousands.

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