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Example sentences for "four hundred"

  • HOW ROBIN HOOD WAS PAID HIS LOAN Retold by Mary Macleod Twelve months had come and gone since Robin Hood lent four hundred pounds to the poor knight to redeem his land, and now the day had arrived when he had promised to pay back the money.

  • Here dwelt that noble knight, Sir Richard Lee, to whom Robin Hood had lent the four hundred pounds to redeem his land.

  • Bring me four hundred pounds, and look that you count it out carefully.

  • They were afterwards deposited in the temple of Peace; and at the end of four hundred years, the spoils of Jerusalem were transferred from Rome to Carthage, by a Barbarian who derived his origin from the shores of the Baltic.

  • And all that were in distress, and oppressed with debt, and under affliction of mind, gathered themselves unto him: and he became their prince, and there were with him about four hundred men.

  • And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver, of common current money.

  • The fleet of Sesostris consisted of four hundred ships; and when Semiramis invaded India she was opposed by four thousand vessels.

  • When the sun Nahui-atl came there had passed away four hundred years, plus two ages, plus seventy-six years.

  • Why on earth did you buy Hallett's four hundred shares?

  • Eight thousand was, of course, the price at par of Jethro Hallett's four hundred shares of Wellmouth Development stock.

  • Four hundred, at a pistole each, four hundred pistoles.

  • Yes," interposed Porthos, "four hundred pistoles; but who is to make four hundred pistoles?

  • Four hundred, at a louis each, make four hundred louis.

  • All the talk of Scotland, where the highest report I perceive, runs but upon three or four hundred in armes.

  • All the news to-day is, that the Parliament this morning voted the House to be made up four hundred forthwith.

  • When the original tribes were dispersed, more than four thousand years ago, Nimrod and a large party traveled three or four hundred miles, and settled where the great city of Babylon afterwards stood.

  • Every three or four hundred yards, it seemed to me, we came upon the shrine of some saint or other--a rude picture of him built into a huge cross or a stone pillar by the road-side.

  • We saw a new statue put in its niche yesterday, alongside of one which had been standing these four hundred years, they said.

  • It is said that the city once numbered a population of four hundred thousand; but her sceptre has passed from her grasp, now, her ships and her armies are gone, her commerce is dead.

  • Including the various modern styles of fancy type, some three or four hundred varieties of face are made.

  • One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.

  • She was then met by David as she was descending a hill, who was coming against Nabal with four hundred men.

  • His army consisted of four hundred thousand, but the army of Jeroboam was double to it.

  • Four hundred dollars a year is all this parish can afford to pay a minister, and that Mr. Malcolm was distinctly told before he came.

  • Four hundred dollars a year, and the parsonage--a little affair, that would rent for about a hundred dollars.

  • And yet, we are very content and self-complacent in our niggardly tender of four hundred dollars.

  • But you know as well as I do that he cannot live on four hundred dollars a year.

  • I only turned your thoughts in this direction, that you might realize in your own mind how hard it must be for a man with a family of three children, just the number that you have, to live on four hundred dollars a year.

  • Palmer with the artillery and about four hundred infantry to support it, moved directly on Lavergne, some fifteen miles from Nashville, while Colonel John F.

  • Wheeler then withdrew with a total loss of one hundred and fifty killed, four hundred wounded, and one hundred and fifty captured.

  • Miller with about twenty-four hundred men in his command moved on the road to the right to make the attack on the rear of the enemy.

  • Four hundred dollars is a very SMALL profit in as many weeks.

  • Well, we had to perform a journey of four hundred miles in an ox-cart, which carried, besides me and the children, all our household stuff.

  • At Montreal such terraces are found six hundred and twenty feet above sea level, and along Lake Champlain--where the skeleton of a whale was once found among them--at from five hundred to four hundred feet.

  • In places in southern Brazil the rock is decomposed to a depth of four hundred feet.

  • Four hundred victims, including 180 of the name of O'Moore, are said to have fallen in this deliberate butchery.

  • While they were thus speaking, a message came in that a large number of armed men, three or four hundred strong, with banners flying and pipes playing, were just in sight on the hill above Dingwall.

  • Colin, who was at the time in delicate health, sent for his brother, Rory Mor of Redcastle, and sent him next day across the ferry of Ardersier with a force of four hundred warriors.

  • On his way to Kintail, leading his men and driving the creach before them, he met three or four hundred Camerons, who sent Mackenzie a message demanding "a bounty of the booty" for passing through their territory.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    four books; four centuries; four cloves; four companies; four divisions; four fathoms; four feet; four hundred; four men; four miles; four minutes; four pieces; four slices; four syllables; four tablespoonfuls; four times; four volumes; four wheels; four winds; fourteen guns; fourteen hundred; fourteen years; fourth brother; fourth dimension; fourth inches; fourth pound