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Example sentences for "four thousand"

  • By doubling and quadrupling the parts, the ordinary speed of about twenty-four thousand impressions an hour may be increased to one hundred thousand an hour.

  • At last, 1448, he set out against the Sultan with an army of twenty-four thousand of his most trusty soldiers.

  • The head of the house of Collinet, whose failure in 1814 had caused the Lorrains a loss of twenty-four thousand francs, had gone to America with his children after his disasters.

  • He gave Madame Bridau a pension of four thousand francs, intending, no doubt, to advance the fortune of her sons in future years.

  • Madame Descoings and Agathe possessed, by putting all their resources together, an income of five thousand three hundred francs, four thousand of which belonged to Madame Descoings and were merely a life annuity.

  • In short, it was known to every body in Bagdad that this woman belonged to her, and therefore he thought it prudent to conceal his having any knowledge of her.

  • As a considerable number of helots had joined their Spartan lords and perished with them, the bodies of the slain amounted to four thousand [75], while those of the Persians were only one thousand.

  • There they confirmed their conquest by the establishment of four thousand colonists [255] in the fertile meadows of Euboea, which had been dedicated by the islanders to the pasturage of their horses.

  • Perhaps the father will be living at the rate of ten thousand a year on a salary of four thousand; perhaps the mother, more beautiful and younger than her beautified daughters, will rouge; perhaps the young ladies will make wax-work.

  • His only companions are his dogs and the three or four thousand sheep he is herding.

  • His lordship had (exclusive of the reinforcement from Portsmouth, said to be six hundred) four thousand men, eight hundred of whom were dragoons, or mounted infantry.

  • There may be found in the army four thousand coats and waistcoats which are not absolutely bad, four thousand stocks or cravats, and one thousand pretty good hats.

  • Four thousand men, who embarked at New York, had, it is true, ascended the Hudson.

  • THE CAMP The camp was in the form of a square, twelve thousand cubits on each side, and in the middle was the space, four thousand cubits in size, for the sanctuary, and the dwelling place of priests and Levites.

  • Each of theses divisions had for its dwelling place a space of a hundred cubits, while each group of three tribes that joined under one standard had a space of four thousand cubits.

  • The tumult of virtue and freedom subsided; and the sum of four thousand pounds of gold was granted, under the name of a subsidy, to secure the peace of Italy, and to conciliate the friendship of the king of the Goths.

  • They were soon engaged between the horns of a crescent, into which the adverse wings had been insensibly curved, and were saluted from either side by the volleys of four thousand archers.

  • A rich man can afford to leave three or four thousand a year behind him, in the way of wages for labour.

  • Four thousand a-year gone for ever from the property!

  • The stakes are close on four thousand pounds: your share will do well to pay the posters, &c.

  • It is the topographic line of four thousand feet," replied the professor.

  • Yes, it makes a curve about Las Animas, and then the land lies at an average elevation of four thousand feet, until it takes another rise beyond Pueblo.

  • At length, finding his army increased by the addition of subsidies from Spain to twenty-four thousand men, William determined to infuse new vigor into the public mind by the commencement of offensive hostilities.

  • But by degrees he had grown to have, and could maintain it, an Army of twenty-four thousand men, among the best troops then in being.

  • In the second week of April; De Rosne was detached at the head of four thousand men, and suddenly appeared before Calais.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    four acres; four bells; four blades; four books; four corps; four cubits; four days; four eggs; four inches; four leaves; four onions; four ounces; four quarters; four ships; four sides; four tablespoons; four vessels; four weeks; four women; fourth book; fourth century; fourth edition; fourth inches; fourth year; gone down; leaved variety