The long line of coffins of French counts and nobles, whose lives had in like manner been sacrificed, brought up the rear; and alas!
Some people can do better with one rifle and some with another, and in the long run it is "the man behind the gun" that counts most.
And the heads of the two Counts were placed upon the posts with the iron tips.
And on this scaffold were beheaded the noble Counts d'Egmont and de Hoorn.
But the Counts d'Egmont and de Hoorn were not of this mind.
His hearing is more delicate than that of the archangel in heaven who counts the heart-beats of the just.
The Chapter of the Cathedral of Lyons was the most important body of clergy in France; they were thirty-two in number, all Counts of Lyons, the rank of Premier Canon being held by the reigning King of France.
The traveller who, remembering the long period of Turkish sway, counts on receiving an Oriental impression from the aspect of Athens is doomed to disappointment.
The picturesque Old Palace (Alte Residenz) was built in 1591 on the site of an old residence of the counts of Babenberg.
A cannon counts 2; missing the white object-ball scores 1 to the adversary; missing the black, 5 to the adversary.
If there are pockets, the striker scores 2 for holing the white object-ball and 3 for holing the black, but a cannon must be made by the same stroke; otherwise the score counts for the adversary.
The object of the game is to make cannons (caroms), balls played into holes, at the same time counting the number of the holes, but if a ball falls into a hole during a play in which no cannon is made the score counts for the adversary.
During the middle ages the district which now forms the grand-duchy of Baden was ruled by various counts, prominent among whom were the counts and dukes of Zähringen.
Intellectual and moral equipment, as I ventured to write when the war began, sometimes counts for more than battalions.
Counts Aehrenthal and Berchtold destined Bulgaria and Roumania to coalesce and form the nucleus of a permanent Balkan confederation to be patronized and protected by the Habsburgs.
In war, God's command counts for nothing, and the general's for everything.
The framework of the body counts little toward size.
Besides this, they are healthy, wholesome, well-developed women, and that counts a good deal in the race for beauty.
I am a firm believer in the tailor-made gown, and I am of the opinion that style often counts more than real beauty with women of stately carriage and pretty figure.
The Moors were in possession of the sea-washed fortress for about one hundred years, and then the reign of the Counts of Barcelona, independent sovereigns, began.
The Counts of Barcelona ruled over the place until the union of Catalonia and Aragon, an event which gave birth to the Crown Prince's title of Principe de Gerona.
Show us the boy who, when he counts his temporal treasures and thinks of the Fourth of July, does not make a mental dive for his Christmas stocking the next minute!
You ask the missionary how many of the tribe he counts as Christian.
This factor counts in history; and always will count so long as, three times in every century, the only wealth of nations is reduced to dust, and is raised again from helpless infancy.
But Tintoretto's influence counts heavier in this picture than Titian's, a picture assigned by Cossió midway between Greco's first and second period.
Quality counts heaviest, therefore the surprise is not that Madrid boasts numbers but the wonderful quality of so many of them.
We believe in a Father in heaven who, counts the hairs of our heads, and whose counsels rule our destiny.
And the most clairvoyant philanthropist will add that "not only laughing and joyful wisdom, but also the tragic with all its sublime irrationality, counts among the means and necessities for the conservation of the race!
You are barely in the prime of life, you are strong, you have the one thing which society today countsalmost divine--great, immeasurable wealth!
What the world may say or think counts for very little.
But it counts at the same time as a valuable testimony to the condition of the allies of Athens under the Athenian empire, and goes far in reply to the charge of practical oppression against the imperial city.
But we discern on the present occasion another motive, whichcounts for much in dictating his hesitation.
Such alone he counts worthy of sharing with his fellows.
In the cloister of Hellfde there lived many most excellent persons, the children of counts and lords, and of nobles and common people.
Therefore these two counts made an exchange of the convent with the two barons, the Lord Albert and the Lord Ludolf of Hackeborn, for the manor and village of Hellfde, adding on their part other estates.
Santa Claus counts eight and the children must all close their eyes by the time he says 'eight.
When her physician counts it meet," said he, with a slight movement of his shapely shoulders, which did not augur much gratification at the prospect before him.
She thinks, "therefore, we may say that in the choice of a profession inherited taste counts for about 2/3 and environmental conditions for about 1/3.
As a fact, one case counts for practically nothing as proof of hereditary influence; even half a dozen or a dozen may be of no significance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "counts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
