Thousand

Examples

• I'll beat 'em, if it cost me a thousand guineas. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is a thousand pities that we have not a reproduction of those which were done in chalk upon the window-sill. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is written in letters, not figures,--twenty thousand. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Upward of three thousand such machines were then at work throughout the world; and one hundred and fifty million pairs of boots were then being made annually thereon. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• By this act I was appointed one of the commissioners for disposing of the money, sixty thousand pounds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It might have been twenty thousand pound. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Fifty thousand men are said to have been killed and ten thousand prisoners taken. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The pipe of tobacco finished the business: and the Bute-Crawleys never knew how many thousand pounds it cost them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But over most of the world the Lower Pal?olithic culture had developed into a more complicated and higher life twenty or thirty thousand years ago. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You're very right, Sir,' interposed Ben Allen, just awake enough to know that he had spent his thousand pounds without the smallest difficulty. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• An examination of his betting-book shows that bets to the amount of five thousand pounds had been registered by him against the favorite. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In 1793 the total export of cotton from the United States was less than ten thousand bales, but by 1860 the export was four million bales. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Here was a new stunner--I had been calculating on four or five thousand. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His securities are bound in one thousand pounds to the society, which they will pay, but we are like to lose the rest. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Five thousand francs is a reason, said the other. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• They say that hardly a native child in all the East is free from sore eyes, and that thousands of them go blind of one eye or both every year. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I've saved you some thousands of dollars, at different times, by taking care of your hands,--that's all the thanks I get. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• As was to be expected, the card index and electrically operated features caused thousands of concerns, large and small, to adopt the addressograph. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I do not mean that the members weren't deeply touched by the misery of these thousands of women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They made speeches, and passed resolutions, and put their names down, and printed off thousands of prospectuses. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The Chinese authorities kill thousands of innocent people on the most frivolous pretexts. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• So, when I am after a chemical result that I have in mind, I may make hundreds or thousands of experiments out of which there may be one that promises results in the right direction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• All savage and primitive peoples of to-day, on the contrary, are soaked in tradition--the tradition of thousands of generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Slowly but surely the results of the last few thousands of his preliminary experiments had pointed inevitably to a new and fruitful region ahead. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The strength of a motor may be increased by replacing the singly coiled armature by one closely wound on an iron core; in some armatures there are thousands of turns of wire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I should think I could very likely get a wife with a few thousands, who would suit both me and my affairs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We find it shown in pictures made many thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt and Assyria. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They have a great machine which prints such things by thousands every hour. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He then perceived they were soldiers--thousands and tens of thousands; but they made no more noise than a swarm of midges on a summer evening. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He hung a row of lamps from the trees at Menlo Park, and the thousands who came to see them wondered when they found they could burn day and night for longer than a week. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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