Eight horses started, one of which belonged to the Countess Voronzof and another to General Narishkin, and the riders were not lovely ladies, but rather clumsy grooms.
They are then carried by land, a distance of about thirty-eight miles to Kahilnitzkaia, where they are embarked on the Don, and conveyed to Rostof, their general entrepot.
How often have I seen in the post stations, unfortunate merchants, who had been waiting for forty-eight hours and more, for the good pleasure of the clerk, without daring to complain.
Each soldier has twenty-eight rubles yearly pay, and finds his own equipment.
The trunk is not less than eight yards in circumference, and is surrounded by a large wooden divan, almost always occupied by travellers, who use it as a tavern.
At eight in the evening we left Sarepta, delighted in the highest degree with the good Moravian brethren, and the cordial hospitality they had shown us.
And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king, and there were found of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword: and of Juda five hundred thousand fighting men.
The other four wagons, and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their offices and service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
And it came to pass, about eight days after these words, that he took Peter and James and John and went up into a mountain to pray.
And Malaleel lived after he begot Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
And all the kings that were auxiliaries of Adarezer, seeing themselves overcome by Israel, were afraid and fled away, eight and fifty thousand men before Israel.
And the length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, and there were eight steps to go up to it.
And Jared lived after he begot Henoch, eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
He was two and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
Now three thousand men were allotted to Simon, to go into Galilee: and eight thousand to Judas, to go into the land of Galaad.
And Cainan lived after he begot Malaleel, eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters.
The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth four: all the curtains were of the same size.
And their brethren that do the works of the temple: eighthundred twenty-two.
And Seth lived after he begot Enos, eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
Those people haveeight servants, and I have just one wretched maid and an ill-tempered footman who does everything!
The country house, where they passed much of the time in summer, was large enough to enable them to entertain extensively, and to provide rooms for seven or eight friends.
My wife did not reproach me; she died commending our daughter, then eight years old, to my care.
You're right again, my child; and there's a little stage that starts for Paris at eight o'clock every morning and brings you back at four.
The law of Charles III provided that one man in every five--hence the term quinta for this institution--should become subject to military service for a term of eight years.
For eight or nine years he hurled back army after army sent against him, until at length the Roman general Servilianus recognized the independence of the lands in the control of Viriatus.
It was customary for women of bad repute to accompany the armies, and it sounds strange today that one of the military manuals of the time recommended that there should be eight women, who should be common to all, for every hundred soldiers.
It was not this battle which caused the retreat of the invaders from France, but rather a civil war in Spain eight years later, necessitating a return to the peninsula.
In addition to the eight universities existing in 1516, twenty-one were added in the sixteenth century, and five in the seventeenth, making a total of thirty-four in all.
While there were only eightin the combined realms of Aragon, Navarre, and the Basque provinces, there were twenty-four in Castile.
Both in the city and in the country, people arose early; the Consejo de Castilla met at seven in the morning from April to September, and at eight from October to March.
In 1804 there were eight greater gala days and seventeen lesser ones, besides those arising from unforeseen events, such as the reception of a foreign ambassador.
The war lasted twenty-eight years, but, although it might well have been considered as more important than any of the problems of the time, other than the equally momentous Catalan revolt, it was not actively prosecuted by Spain.
At length they invaded Italy, and in the year 410 captured and sacked the city of Rome, the first time such an event had occurred in eight hundred years.
By the end of the century some estimates hold that the numbers had increased to perhaps eight and a half millions, but there is ground for doubting these assertions.
The name of this lady was Elizabeth Lumley, and it was to her that Sterne addressed those earliest letters which his daughter included in the collection published by her some eight years after her father's death.
At this juncture, four vessels, fitted out by his friends in Hispaniola arrived with two hundred infantry, eight horses, and supplies of arms and ammunition.
In the rainy season, the water falls chiefly during the night, and at this period the marshes and bogs on the south are infested with alligators of seven or eight feet in length, but which are said to be innocent.
Great quantities of copal are brought from Macas as well as wild wax, and the district containseight principal villages, and numerous missionary settlements, two priests or superiors governing the spiritual affairs.
There are many gold and silver mines in the mountainous parts of this district, and in one of these called Yecorato, there was found a piece of gold which weighed 16 marks and upwards, the mark being two-thirds of a pound, or eight ounces.
They have fine aqueduct, many churches, convents, and two colleges, with eight fine squares.
It is in the form of a square, each side being about 100 feet in length, with four great doorways and eight chambers.
On these islands, huts were built for the divers, who were mostly negroes, and boats holding from eight to ten people, went out to the banks, which were not more than fifteen fathoms under water.
Baeza, the capital of Quixos y Macas, is a miserable village, of only eight or nine houses, the governor residing always at Archidona.
He said at last, that he was a native of Ecija, and had been brought up for the church; but had been wrecked eight years before, in a voyage from Hispaniola to Darien.
And if you have your Sunday School class of lively boys in for the evening, you won't expect them to play paper and pencil games from eight to ten.
Friday evening Eight o'clock The affair was planned by one girl to announce the engagement of a chum, and of course the object of the party was not revealed in the invitations.
The clocks in the village were striking eight when I entered the lodge.
It is about eight years ago that she lost her husband," said neighbour Smith.
At eight my mother went to bed, complaining of indisposition.
Will he receive this large sum in one payment--or will it be by instalments of eight hundred or a thousand pounds?
Here little May Cheffington remained as a pupil for nearly eight years.
When six oreight weeks old, and even after they are full grown, they often get frightened, or gallied as it were, in dark nights.
At the end of forty-eight hours they may be turned.
The best material for this is soft hay or straw, cut six or eight inches long, placed upon a soil bottom.
The hatch will be protracted long after the proper time, and if those on the ends of trays come out at all it will be forty-eight hours behind time and with weakened constitutions, keeping one in constant stir with their sickly plaints.
The feeding boxes should be long and roomy; mine are 6x7 feet long, eight inches wide and three inches high.
They are as susceptible to rain as chicks up to three weeks of age, but after that, will endure more, and at eight or ten weeks old, will really enjoy a good rain storm.
When from eight to ten weeks old, feed one half corn-meal; equal parts of wheat-bran and low grade flour; ten per cent.
In my building the brooding arrangement is very simple, being a box with two sides resting on the ground, eight inches high in the clear, the ground being utilized as the bottom of brooder.
I bought stock from you four years ago, and have been breeding from it ever since, and now your birds are six or eight pounds per pair heavier than mine.
When from six to eightweeks old, feed equal parts corn-meal; wheat-bran and fifteen per cent.
The president is elected for four years," he answered, "although sometimes he is reelected for a second term, which makes eight years in all.
A man, sir, who can at all times make it eight bells, must needs be a good sailor," Dogvane said.
It was past eight bells, and the midnight watch had been set sufficiently long to allow all the look-out men to take up their positions of repose.
I can use the strangest of sea oaths, and I can at all times make it eight bells.
They had soundings all the way, the depth being 21 fathoms, a coarse sandy bottom, at eight miles distance from the land.
Five or six miles to the West of the rock are seven or eight white cliffs, which are remarkable, because there are none other so white and so thick together on all the coast.
Before this river are eight or ten Islands, and shoals on which the sea breaks at low water; but there are channels between them through which ships may pass[85].
About the 21st, the ships anchored near the Island Quibo; from the North part of which, to the town of Pueblo Nuevo on the main land, was reckoned eight leagues.
The best riding is near the main-land, where the depth is seven or eight fathoms, clean hard sand.
The wine came from Pisco, 'which place is famous for wine, and was contained in jars of seven or eight gallons each.
Nevertheless, the honour acquired to his Majesty's arms, besides near eight or nine millions that could not escape us, consoled us for the rest.
Their houses are but small and low, the roofs about eight feet high.
Both vessels stood to the Northward, keeping upon a wind, and sailed directly North, having the wind at ENE, till five in the afternoon, having at that time run eightmiles and increased our latitude so many minutes.
It is a small spit of sand appearing just above the water's edge, with several rocks about iteight or ten feet high above water.
Near the flow box, running at right angles across the machine, are two so-called “slices” about eight inches apart.
There is a distinct tendency toward “chain stores” one of the more prominent of which now comprises eight warehouses and seventeen branch offices, covering practically the entire country.
Times were hard on the continent, yet the Government of France, recognizing the importance of the invention, awarded Robert eight thousand francs and a patent for fifteen years.
He paid a third visit at eight o'clock the next evening.
The eight of them drank cold milk, and ate of the dainty little cakes which some one placed on her table every night while she slept.
But how can a man who is not ill go to bed at eight o'clock?
If those coveted years had been added to his thirty-eight beautiful ones, a brighter radiance might have crowned our literature.
He says, "Wife and I have been to look at a lovely house with eight rooms and many charming appliances," whereof the rent was less than that of the four rooms.
Drugs, considered as a lifelong pursuit, did not appeal to the youth who had been writing verses ever since he had arrived at the age of eight years and now held a place in the poet's corner of a Charleston paper.
When they were at last distributed in the villages, the exhausted Germans found rest and refreshment for the first time for forty-eight hours.
My sister was taken ill with rheumatism, and eight days afterward we buried her in the churchyard.
There were four of them--the youngest a mite of two or three, who only babbled with the others; the eldest, a pale little girl of seven or eight years.
On the appointed evening they all met at eight o'clock at Borchardt's in the Franzbsischen Strasse.
Paul and Malvine told him cheerfully of all that had occurred to them during the last eight months; he was condemned to lock away his experiences in the depths of his heart.
It was eight o'clock by this time, and Wilhelm really felt the want of rest.
He had been thinking over the book for seventeen years, had been eight years in writing it, and as it had taken such an important place in his life, he must be pardoned a little vanity about it now.
I am forty-eight years old, and yet I have not forgotten my youthful ideas.
After her departure from Hornberg she had not written to him for eight days.
One morning the inmates of the house on the Boulevard Pereire saw the arrival of three carriages, which discharged eight persons at the door.
In the Alps, where glaciers of this sort are very typically shown, they vary in length up to eight or nine miles.
Eight minutes later a rather violent earthquake shock took place, followed during the next ten or twelve hours by less severe shocks.
Their culmination in size was reached during the Devonian when some forms grew to the astonishing length of over eight feet!
Modern corals (beginning with the Mesozoic) have six or eight partitions; are nearly all profusely branched; and are mostly tiny individuals.
In southern Sweden, at Malmo, a certain street now at times becomes covered by wind-driven high water, and during excavations made some years ago an older street eightfeet below the present one was found.
The sun and all eight planets rotate on their axes in the same direction, the earth's rotation being accomplished every twenty-four hours.
I tell you it is better even than the strawberry business, with eight strawberries on the top and all the rest leaves.
Then he advanced to six, to seven, and to eight hundred.
Nor had he any in view when he declined accepting the offer of eight hundred dollars.
But I am assured that at least seven or eight hundred will be made up during the year.
Six, seven, eight o'clock came, and still it was all dark with Mr. Smith.
When the committee again waited on Mr. Malcolm, to receive his answer, it was in the affirmative; but he was decided in his resolution not to receive more than eight hundred dollars.
This, your first offer of eight hundred dollars would have given; but I declined it, with no other place in view, because I thought it best for both you and me that we should separate.
Eight logs a day he was told that each team would haul, and he believed it.
Seven or eight thousand dollars would relieve me, if I had the use of it for one or two years, so that I could devote all my time to business.
But why do they not make the salary seven or eighthundred dollars at once?
Only eight hundred dollars have since been paid on it; and as the time for which the mortgage was to remain has now expired, a foreclosure is about to take place.
If I do consent to remain, I will not receive more than your first offer of eight hundred dollars, for on that I can live comfortably.
Now it happened that this Benson mortgage was the first which he had taken out under his inheritance; it had a certain special interest to him for that reason; it had netted him eight per cent.
On the five fifty-eight elevated," replied the man, imperturbably.
It was ten minutes of eight o'clock on the morning of the eighth of July.
As the church bells tolled eight the organ pealed forth the wedding march.
Constituents wrote to their representatives in Washington, instructing them to vote the ransom, without delay, from the surplus fund, which was now one hundred and seventy-eight million dollars.
His methods of gaining a livelihood were unique on the coast; yet it was Scud who "stocked" eight hundred and fifty dollars that summer clean, two hundred dollars above any one else in the harbor.
If Benson's farm were only eight miles away why did he not see him before he sent the command to foreclose?
The moral sense of the people could not prevent a murmur of admiration when the Lightning, with eight millions of national gold aboard, in less than nine minutes was but a speck.
As it isn't eight bells, we need no flags," explained Colonel Odminton.
The future speed of my boat will be eight knots an hour.
Was it true that Los Alamos had been completely wiped out by plague, but the area taboo to Deathlanders because of the robot guards they'd left behind--metal guards eight feet tall who tramped across the white sands, wailing?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
