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Example sentences for "five men"

  • Lewis took four or five men & went to Some Licks or Springs of Salt water from two to four miles up the Creek on Rt.

  • Fields & Guterich, five men Sick to day with a violent Head ake &c.

  • Viz: "five men of the Mandan Nation out hunting in a S.

  • He fell in with two French ships, the one of ten guns and sixty-five men, and the other of sixteen guns and seventy-five men.

  • Against their will we penetrated two or three leagues into the interior with, twenty-five men; when we came to the shore, they shot at us with their arrows, raising the most horrible cries and afterwards fleeing to the woods.

  • Footnote: The American official account says that they captured the British provision returns, according to which their force amounted to eleven hundred and twenty-five men.

  • Nor were they disappointed; for next morning Floyd, the county lieutenant, with twenty-five men, made his appearance.

  • Of Tombs's troop alone, twenty-five men (out of fifty) and seventeen horses were hit.

  • About this time Major M'Cullough arrived with forty-five men, and they all proceeded to view the battle ground.

  • Robert Patterson, at the head of twenty-five men, commenced a block house where Lexington now stands.

  • He had brought with him an armed body-guard of twenty-five men, and in the other caravel were the returned slaves, babies and all, under the charge of six friars.

  • Some fifteen years later Eric's son Lief made an expedition with thirty-five men and a ship in the direction of the new land.

  • Under this awning were the women and children, and all the commodities; and though there were twenty-five men in the canoe, they had not the courage to defend themselves against the people in our boats who pursued them.

  • On the way to this point a canoe followed the admirals ship, having twenty-five men on board, and stopped at the distance of a cannon-shot, calling out and speaking very loud.

  • The next morning, he arrived at the place where the Arab army was gathered, numbering in all two thousand two hundred and twenty-five men, of whom fifteen hundred were armed with guns.

  • This was getting to be fearful marching--five men in one day was a death-roll that could not be kept up long, and Stanley began to cast about anxiously to determine what step he should next take.

  • In the meantime, one of his carriers deserted, while sickness attacked the camp, and out of his twenty-five men, ten were soon on the sick list.

  • The loss of the right wing was two officers and thirty-five men killed, twelve officers and two hundred and eighty-nine men wounded, and seventy missing.

  • Lieutenant Maynard's force consisted of thirty-five men in the schooner and twenty-five men in the sloop.

  • Footnote 2: The pirate captain had really only twenty-five men aboard of his sloop at the time of the battle.

  • Hitherto I have been speaking of the relations of my twenty-five men to each other.

  • Watches were set, five men in each, I taking my turn in the first watch.

  • With him went the bos'n, three midshipmen, whereof Greville Drake and I were included, and twenty-five men.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    answered his; five books; five degrees; five divisions; five equal horizontal bands; five fathom; five generations; five guineas; five hundred; five hundred years ago; five kilometres; five knots; five mile; five minutes; five oceans; five points; five pounds; five sail; five species; five thousand four hundred; five times; medical literature; private school; pulled himself; pure cultures; wife came