Numbered

Examples

• So soon as a government departs from that standard, it ceases to be anything more than the gang in possession, and its days are numbered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the still uncultivated wilds of America, what wonder that among its other giant destroyers, Plague should be numbered! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The objects of my visit, he went on, quite irrepressibly, are numbered on my fingers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Among the technical w ritings of Varro besides the book on agriculture, which is extant, are numbered works on law, mensuration, and naval tactics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The presence of high overtones in the oboe and the presence of odd-numbered overtones in the clarinet enable us to distinguish without fail the sounds given out by these instruments. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• THESE events occupied so much time, that June had numbered more than half its days, before we again commenced our long-protracted journey. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It greatly helped them to have these points and aphorisms numbered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And poor Worcester perhaps might soon be numbered with the dead, food for worms! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Grandfer Cantle's watch had numbered many followers in years gone by, but since he had grown older faiths were shaken. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Tremble lest in that case you should be numbered with those who have denied the faith, and are worse than infidels! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The little expedition--it numbered altogether eighty-eight men! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hardee's whole force probably numbered less than ten thousand men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A keyboard (not shown) is arranged above the cylinder, having keys lettered and numbered corresponding to the letters and figures on the type-wheels. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It numbered five hundred souls. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When a man has been numbered with the dead forty years, it is hard to believe that he is alive, said the Demarch philosophically. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Among these will Rebecca be numbered. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Toward the end of 1879 the laboratory force thus numbered at least one hundred earnest men. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These, with his cavalry, numbered about forty-five thousand men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Of all these things I could have told the peculiarities, numbered the flaws or cracks, like any _clairvoyante_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We may suppose that the numbered letters in italics represent genera, and the dotted lines diverging from them the species in each genus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• And with all the cross streets numbered! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Sherman's army, after all the depletions, numbered about sixty thousand effective men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A large hop-scotch diagram is marked out on the deck with chalk, and each compartment numbered. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He was numbered among her citizens, his name was added to the list of Grecian heroes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We numbered a little over seven hundred persons, including the families of officers and soldiers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The book is numbered 184, falls into the period now dealt with, and runs along casually with items spread out over two or three years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We are numbered no longer with the people whose lives are open and known. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• At the crossing of the James River June 14th-15th the army numbered about 115,000. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I have already said that General Taylor's whole command on the Rio Grande numbered less than three thousand men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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