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Example sentences for "four men"

  • Oaths, curses, threats were uttered by the twenty-four men, and the younger and more hasty ones instinctively sought the handles of their daggers.

  • On the morrow the twenty-four men of the jury went, all in a body, to Vranic's house.

  • Four men, disguised as workmen, were to get the king out of prison and take him to Greenwich, where a vessel was waiting.

  • Well, my lord, four men resolved to save her.

  • The long oars on the upper deck are managed by four men to each bench, the lower ones by three, and the lowest of all by two.

  • Three or four men noticed my condition; and, evidently setting it down to the results of over-many pegs, charitably endeavoured to draw me apart from the rest of the loungers.

  • Three or four men began to fire from the enemy's side, and a chance shot took Daniel in the calf of the leg.

  • After an action of three hours, during which the Spaniards lost a hundred and sixty-four men, the Sabina struck.

  • His whole strength consisted of about thirty-four men-of-war of several sizes, and the three Dutch admirals had under their command twenty-two large ships.

  • The music is lively, and evoked from the sonorous sound of four drums, which are arranged before the bodies of four men, who stand in the centre of the weird circle.

  • Four men, with their loads, were permitted to cross in the small, unshapely, and cranky canoes.

  • Four men at once issued from the bushes, and under their guidance the horsemen soon reached Aberystwith.

  • I shall return, and with my men will drive the cattle and horses to places where there is little chance of the Scots finding them; and will then, after leaving three or four men to look after them, come back to Alnwick.

  • On a planet the size of Baron IV, with seventy-four men, you should be producing a dozen times the taaro you stated.

  • Four men took up places behind the row of windbreaks beyond the first row of cabins.

  • They exact of the energetic leader domination over his men and a keen eye, at a moment when three out of four men no longer see anything, so that good cavalry leaders, squadron leaders in general are very rare.

  • Even if, in virtue of the first impulse, the position is carried, the disorder is so great that if it is counter-attacked by four men, it is lost.

  • He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counter-attack of four men and a corporal.

  • Porter had at least three or four men to one in this action, but his force was poorly disciplined, and stood little show against the seasoned veterans of McNeil.

  • It was well that all the preparations had been made expeditiously, for hardly had Harry and Jack taken their position when horsemen were heard approaching down the cross road, and soon the shadowy forms of four men appeared.

  • The mob closed in around us--four men in the midst of thousands.

  • Here, as soon as they had taken a slight refreshment, they sent their beasts across the Niger to proceed by land to Boossa, and embarked in two canoes, which were each paddled by four men.

  • He had travelled the whole of that night, and until about noon the next day, without stopping, when he was overtaken by a party of three or four men on camels, who had been sent in pursuit of him.

  • I had not been ashore an hour before Captain Teat and one John Damerel, with three or four men more, came to fetch me aboard again.

  • Hung the boatswain, Martin Holt, four men, and myself took our places in the boatt without arms; for there was no longer anything to fear.

  • At the moment of a certain difficult manoeuvre, four men had to climb to the crossbars of the fore-mast in order to reef the mainsail.

  • Four men, of the thirteen mentioned, were so fortunate as to gain the fore-top, and were afterwards taken off by the boats.

  • Four men carried me into the house, and they rubbed me with hot whisky for over four hours before circulation was restored to its normal condition.

  • It consisted of thirty-four men, including my brother John Gregg and myself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    double number; expressed great; finally settled; four cards; four cloves; four companies; four drachms; four inches; four letters; four months; four more; four persons; four pieces; four quarts; four species; four tablespoonfuls; four thousand four hundred; foure dayes; foure thousand; fourteen feet; fourteen hours; fourth inch; fourth month; fourths inches; great veneration; now you