Billions and billions of tiny pin points of pain slashed at his face and hands.
You know that there arebillions of stars in the Universe, and that stars have planets as naturally as cats have kittens.
Billions of neural relays, thousands of unvolitional functions--it is no exaggeration to compare our efforts with those of a monkey in a power plant.
A few billions spent around the house can make things quite comfortable.
Bare ground, teeming with life, billions of life forms in every cubic foot of ground beneath our feet.
She had need of her billions to carry out her hobbies, or, as she called it, her "life's work.
I suppose it's all those billions that act as shock insulation for you.
And there are billions of human beings on billions of planets; each having red blood cells identical, as far as we know, with yours and mine.
We are trying now, by charting the galaxies throughout billions of cubic parsecs of space, to find merely the direction in which our own galaxy lies.
SMITH They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men, two women, lost in an experimental spaceship billions of parsecs from home.
But if the light is filtered in the way that I have described, the production of the phenomena will commence at once, the vibrations of the interfering rays being reduced, it is said, to about four hundred billions per second or less.
On account of my care and the self-sacrificing work of German art experts and soldiers--partly at the risk of their lives--art treasures worth billions were preserved for their French owners and for French towns.
The golden chain of the French billions not only bound Russia to France financially, but made Russia serve the French idea of revenge.
We haven't done this in the proper manner of team research and billions spent in experiments and planned predicted achievements made with the proper Madison Avenue bow to the financier that made it possible.
Already we have poured out practically twobillions of dollars for securities and credits of the warring countries.
Millions of men have been killed or maimed: billions of dollars in property have gone up in smoke and ruin--all part of the mighty sacrifice laid on the Altar of the Great War.
You have seen how our millions have joined that greater stream of European billions to meet the rising tide of war cost.
Again, the Allies might have "dumped" their American securities representing an investment of over three billions of dollars, which would have upset the American stock market and sent prices down.
Thus, in spite of the war, her invaded territories, and her mobilized citizens, France has in three years raised three national loans of almost seventeen billions francs in hard cash.
That of October, 1916, amounted in round numbers to ten billions francs, of which more than five billions were paid in hard cash.
The great cities of Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Laon and Mezières have been compelled to pay exorbitant levies for war purposes, which have amounted to billions of francs.
Of this enormous fund only two billionshave been borrowed from outside sources; all the remainder has been subscribed or paid for by taxation or by loans in France herself.
Since opening up its locally-controlled casino industry to foreign competition in 2001, the territory has attracted tens of billions of dollars in foreign investment that have helped transform it into the world's largest gaming center.
If you listen to the old stories you will see the Council growing and growing Billions and billions of lions at last--the Sleeper's estate.
I know, and I have known all along, that to win against a system backed by billions of dollars working in the dark and controlling largely the law-making powers of the nation, I must have the people with me.
Since then, against the whole force of the billions and billionscommanded by the Standard Oil system, Amalgamated has dropped from 82 into the 60's.
I also know that among these legitimate billions of dollars are now mixed other billions of dollars that have no proper title to being, save the greed of the "System.
I do know there must be billions of dollars' worth of stocks and bonds in America.
A few more dollars a week in wages, a better distribution of jobs with a shorter working day will almost overnight make millions of our lowest-paid workers actual buyers of billions of dollars of industrial and farm products.
Let us unanimously recognize the fact that the federal debt, whether it be twenty-five billions or forty billions, can only be paid if the nation obtains a vastly increased citizen income.
It may seem inconsistent for a government to cut down its regular expenses and at the same time to borrow and to spend billions for an emergency.
But it is an undeniable fact that the restoration of other billions of sound investments to a reasonable earning power could not be brought about in one year.
Also, billions of dollars of invested capital have today a greater security of present and future earning power than before.
Thus it is seen that there are great gaps in the different rates to which our senses are fitted to respond--a sudden drop from billions in the case of the eye to millions in touch, and to thousands or even tens in hearing.
No dead log and toadstools are here, but dainty shapes with billions of possibilities for new life, new beauties, new thoughts.
Viewed in this way, the haze became a mighty, broad-mouthed river of life, fed by billions of tiny streams and moving ever toward the vast ocean of the sunlight.
In 1910 the total reached about nine billions and it is probable that scientific agriculture was the main cause of the great increase rather than additional acreage.
These steps have already saved billions of dollars in regulatory costs and slashed thousands of outmoded regulations.
Our economic deregulation program has achieved major successes in five areas: Airlines: The Airline Deregulation Act is generating healthy competition, saving billions in fares, and making the airlines more efficient.
The same astronomer states that each second of parallax indicates a distance of 20 billions of miles, or 3¼ years’ journey of light.
Some terrific force was at work, creating worlds and disturbing the positions of stars within a radius already known to extend billions and trillions of miles from the path of the seven new stars.
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