There was something so refreshing in that thought, backed as it was by forty thousand pounds, that Chris Lisle turned over and went to sleep.
As he neared town he began to grow more calm, and he found himself repeating the words,-- "Forty thousand pounds!
Hood had about thirty-five toforty thousand men, independent of Forrest, whose forces were operating in Tennessee and Kentucky, as Mr. Davis had promised they should.
South of the Army of the Tennessee, and confronting it, was Van Dorn, with a sufficient force to organize a movable army of thirty-five to forty thousand men, after being reinforced by Price from Missouri.
He assembled the chivalry of the remote provinces; and, in the early part of his reign, scarce a year elapsed without one or more incursions into the hostile territory, with armies of thirty or forty thousand men.
I feel a great deal better than if I had sunk thirty or forty thousand dollars in a dry hole.
Forty thousand dollars, the foreman said," came from Jack.
Men spend ten to forty thousand dollars in sinking a well only to find in the end that they have had their labor for their pains.
Old Bluecher had just arrived with forty thousand men: he doubled our right wing and dispersed it.
Grouchy could not force him to return, and he could not prevent him from leaving thirty or forty thousand men to stop his pursuers, while he pushed on to the relief of Wellington.
Repayment of the loan of forty thousand pounds (with interest) was due in less than a month's time.
This done, there were actually left, between that time and Christmas, liabilities to be met to the extent of forty thousand pounds, without a farthing in hand to pay that formidable debt.
These stones," he said, "must have cost your ladyship an income of forty thousand francs.
Would you be satisfied with four horses furnished and kept, and with a supplement of funds such as you might require, according to occasions and needs, or would you prefer a fixed sum which would be, for example, forty thousand livres?
The number of the forces thus levied, amounted to forty thousand foot, a thousand horse, and two thousand armed chariots.
But Hamilcar, having surrounded them, brought forward his elephants; and either trod them all under foot, or cut them to pieces, they being upwards of forty thousand.
To keep a proper establishment going, and take the position of a leader of society, such as it is your ambition to be, you must at least command a yearly income of forty thousand florins.
At the next audit of the Bondavara Company's accounts presented to the shareholders there appeared under the heading of expenditure this remarkable entry: "Expense of foundations, forty thousand gulden.
To-morrow evening I shall blow youforty thousand kisses.
There is the contract, and here is the check for the first half-year's rent, and here is another check for the sum of forty thousand gulden on my cashier.
Forty thousand copies of this declaration were in readiness to be circulated throughout the kingdom; and to meet the pressing necessities of the treasury more than a hundred millions of paper money was created.
The republican army opposed to him only amounted to forty thousand men.
Although we are on the very hem offorty thousand acres of forest, the atmosphere is one of extraordinary dryness.
Forty thousand acres of woodland at one's doors would seem a fact sufficiently suggestive; to particularize the attractions of Bourron after this statement were surely supererogation.
The fortresses of France enforce a penalty of forty thousand francs----' A burst of laughter from the bystanders at our rueful faces prevented us hearing the remainder of the explanation.
Popinot felt that his suit would prosper if six months hence he could say to his uncle and aunt, "I am secure; my fortune is made," and carry to Birotteau thirty or forty thousand francs as his share of the profits.
How would you like slap-dash judgments, which can't be appealed, and which would make you lose forty thousand francs?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forty thousand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
