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Example sentences for "fifteen thousand"

  • He had another army in Poland of twenty thousand, and another in Finland of fifteen thousand.

  • His army was now reduced to five thousand men; he had only three days' provisions; all the passes were filled by the enemy, and he was completely surrounded by fifteen thousand men.

  • Fifteen thousand remained on Staten Island, to attack Bergen Point, Elizabethtown Point, and Amboy.

  • Governor Lee marched with the troops in two divisions, amounting to fifteen thousand men, into the western counties of Pennsylvania.

  • Nathan, acting on Florine's advice, gained Finot's support by selling him the sixth share for fifteen thousand francs, and Lousteau consequently lost his commission.

  • Governor Boggs, and so vigorously enforced upon from ten to fifteen thousand of our society, including my wife and little ones, together with all my witnesses and friends.

  • Thus had a whole people, variously estimated at from ten to fifteen thousand souls, been driven from houses and lands and reduced to poverty, and had removed to another State during one short winter and part of a spring.

  • He generally expounds to one, two, or three Societies every night; and has preached seven or eight times on a mount, about two miles from Bristol, where have been from fifteen hundred to fifteen thousand hearers.

  • During all this tour he was unable to sit up in company even once; yet he often preached to ten or fifteen thousand people, and made their "tears flow like water from the rock.

  • I told him I should like to have the value of the jewels, and the next day I found myself once more in possession of fifteen thousand francs.

  • While the count was out of the room, I exchanged the thousand sequins for the fifteen thousand francs in bank notes which Greppi had given me.

  • I added a sufficient sum to her six hundred louis to give her a capital in round numbers of fifteen thousand francs.

  • And then Hewitt told me the whole tale of Samuel and his loss of fifteen thousand pounds' worth of diamonds, just as it appears earlier in this narrative.

  • If you decline to come down and take it, and I leave it on your doorstep at the call of the first tramp who happens to come along, I have done my duty, and the loss is yours--a matter of fifteen thousand dollars.

  • Martin & Company probably want to throw up a contract because prices have gone up, the contract must be made binding by payment of fifteen thousand dollars by midnight, or Dunn & Son lose.

  • Fifteen thousand of the enemy were slain.

  • Having been incited, as was mentioned above, to a war with the Romans, he collected all his forces, amounting to fifteen thousand men, at Lissus.

  • Fifteen thousand, monsieur; and every man, woman, and child, true to the cause and the faith.

  • The Company had, therefore, recovered thirteen out of fifteen thousand pounds.

  • It is fifteen thousand pounds, is it not?

  • To-day it's fifteen thousand a year and a bachelor again.

  • Fifteen thousand a year, liberty and no alimony.

  • I am in the immediate want of fifteen thousand pounds.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acting engine; constrained voice; fifteen days; fifteen drops; fifteen fathoms; fifteen feet; fifteen francs; fifteen hundred; fifteen inches; fifteen miles; fifteen millions; fifteen minutes; fifteen months; fifteen thousand; fifteen yards; fifteenth century; first experience; had with; intelligent beings; iron filings; much shorter; national election; present time; prevent the; their lands; thus far