As to that, we count him by tens of thousands now, and his footmen and maids by hundreds of thousands.
He owned miles upon miles of land, thousands of cattle, and his sheep ran into hundreds of thousands.
He told him all about the glittering wire, of the awful loneliness of the life, the terrible droughts, the millions of rabbits, how they died in hundreds of thousands from lack of food, and their bones were piled up in great heaps.
Get off," yelled Bill, and hundredsof voices took up the cry.
His speech was not that of the keepers of the fence, or the bulk of them, for there were many and strange beings on these hundreds of miles of wire line.
Then you were a better teacher than hundreds of men who profess to know a heap of things," declared Glen.
Millions of glimmering specks and hundreds of thousands of electric sparks danced on it in revelry.
Rendered furious by the sight of hundreds of scalps waving mournfully in the night-wind in front of the lodges, the pitiless assailants hunted the doomed savages down like blood-hounds.
High up, hundreds of feet up the mountain, it boils and foams; it hardly seems to run.
All around, under the thick shade, hundreds of enormous trees lay rotting; yet exquisitely the prostrate trunks were overspread with robes of softest green, effectually concealing the repulsiveness, the suggestions of decay.
Barclay's letter is a model of its kind for candor and generosity.
The Wolfe made any thing but an obstinate fight, leaving almost all the work to the gallant Mulcaster, in the Royal George, who shares with Lieutenant Finch of the Tompkins most of the glory of the day.
Nothing is more difficult than to exactly describe the armaments of the smaller lake vessels.
Charge after charge was made with the bayonet, and the artillery was taken and retaken once and again.
As she toiled up and outwards to the next point, the sea was no longer sea, but hundreds upon hundreds of gaping sea monsters, roaring with desire.
Upon and around two old trees the grey administrators of justice were raving; there were hundreds of them.
Many of these songs that under the impelling force of his appetite for drink were sold for a few dollars, often brought hundreds and even thousands of dollars to the purchasers.
Its sale reached many hundreds of thousands of copies during the war, and since then it has retained its popularity perhaps as completely as any of our war lyrics.
As the strains of the music rang out upon the air, cheer after cheer went up from the throats of the hundreds of happy men who had called to congratulate Mr. Lincoln upon the return of peace.
Nearly a year after its publication, a copy of a newspaper containing it was smuggled into the prison, where many hundreds of Northern officers and soldiers were confined, among them being the brilliant Chaplain, now Bishop, Charles C.
In the inner court Colgran's men surged in their hundreds like an impatient sea.
Torches flashed and ebbed along the streets, with hundreds of scampering shadows, and a glinting of steel.
The steepest parts are ascended by hundreds of stone steps, worn by age, often broken, and half-buried in turf and flowers.
There the very dresses of the women might have been the same forhundreds of years.
They had just brought the net ashore, and hundreds of fish were leaping in their prison.
Oh, these women who had passed her by, hundreds and hundreds strong, who were they?
They were along the line of the most effective retail organisation, with hundreds of stores coordinated into one and laid out upon the most imposing and economic basis.
She also marvelled at the whistles of the hundreds of vessels in the harbour--the long, low cries of the Sound steamers and ferry-boats when fog was on.
Hundreds of rebels were blown into the air; but unfortunately the greater part of the stores fell into the enemy's hands.
If his pretensions were rejected, he threatened to burn, sack, and slaughter his enemies by hundreds of thousands.
They saw the invading foe and their sympathizers enjoying every luxury of the table, while hundreds of the poorer classes were literally starving.
This was to be followed by a period of "dispersion," and such Protestantism has been, for the people of God have been scattered in hundreds of bodies.
Barrington d'Almeida Many hundreds of years ago, not long after the Greeks returned from the famous siege of Troy, there lived a king of Egypt, whose name was Rhampsinitus.
You will find it easy enough to exchange a golden rose like that (which will last hundreds of years) for an ordinary one which would wither in a day.
The pecan industry in Georgia bids fair to be a very large one, as hundreds of acres have been planted.
It was followed by the boring of hundreds of others, and the result is that to-day residents of South Georgia are as free from the taint of malaria as are those of "the hills of Habersham.
My example has been followed by many others, and now from several miles above Mount Airy to Alto, ten miles below, are hundreds of acres planted in peaches, as many as six hundred cars being shipped out of this section in one season.
He lived to see hundreds of flowing wells and thousands from which pure water is pumped, and another generation will no doubt see his vision of a section made fabulously rich by irrigation likewise realized.
Hundreds have all these crowding upon them from morning to night.
There are hundreds more of such terms; all as uncertain in their orthography as these.
Mess was in one of the big barracks, where they mingled with hundreds of others, some of whom were raw rookies like themselves, others of longer experience, and some of previous service in Haiti and elsewhere.
The embalmers were now enjoying their millennium, and a steam coffin manufactory was erected at White House, where twenty men worked day and night, turning out hundreds of pine boxes.
But now the parsons and the choristers were gone; the scaffold was erected, the axe bare, and with a good by glance at the world and man, some hundreds of wretches were to drop into eternity.
My tombstone would have been some hundreds of muster-rolls and my obituary a fortune to a newspaper.
The hundreds of fabrics, the millions of wealth, that crumbled less than a week ago beneath one fiery kiss, here topple and moulder into rest.
The guns of Bull Run were heard here on the day of battle, and hundreds of the wounded came into town at nightfall.
To enumerate the immense tasks he undertook--some single volumes alone containing hundreds of illustrations--will give some faint idea of his industry.
And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.
I have propounded these questions to hundreds of people, and never have got from them a direct reply.
The French took up arms in 1870 to make their national existence secure, and the attempt resulted in the destruction of hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen.
A clerk and his wife will find hundreds of people who are their equals; but the clerks of a higher rank will not admit them to a footing of social equality, and they, in their turn, are excluded by others.
All this is printed in hundreds of thousands of copies, and under the name of Christian doctrine is taught by compulsion to every Russian, who is obliged to receive it under penalty of castigation.
During the present year (1865) thousands of square miles have been flooded, hundreds of houses swept away, and large amounts of property destroyed.
Hundreds walked to the front, to carry the provisions they had prepared with their own hands.
The noise of each of those shells I can distinctly recall, though I have since listened to hundreds of similar sounds, of which I have no vivid recollection.
As the shower of bullets struck the Rebel front, hundreds of men went down.
The hoe is a rude instrument, however well made and handled; the young cotton-plant is as delicate as vegetation can be, and springs up in lines of solid masses, composed of hundreds of plants.
One sin is enough to shut us out of heaven, but we have sinned not only once, but hundreds of thousands of times; our souls are covered with sin stains.
And what I do only seems to me like a drop in the ocean when I look at the hundreds of people there are in these crowded courts; I could almost cry sometimes when I feel how little I can reach them.
Every year will bring within its inviting precincts hundreds of pilgrims, and every college commencement its missionary jubilee.
In the course of unknown ages, Nature has enriched and extended the valley of the Nile hundreds of miles into the sea, by transporting thither the pulverized wealth of the Abyssinian mountains.
It is an ascertained fact that a speck of potato-rot, the size of a pin-head, contains hundreds of these little ferocious animals, fighting and devouring each other without mercy and without cessation.
But, in the present state of the fashion, a really rare uncut Elzevir may be worth hundreds of pounds, while a cropped example scarcely fetches as many shillings.
First the rainbow Shinarump, then the Vermilion, White and Pink cliffs, tier upon tier and hundreds of miles in convoluted length, all shining and shifting in the sun.
The surface on which the road lies is the same as that on top of the ledge; the land in the valley either dropped hundreds of feet or the plateau was upthrust an equal distance.
Where one succeeds another, the uppermost presents sinuous cliff walls, hundreds of miles in length and superbly distinctive in color and carving.
So that if he had lived for hundreds of years, and he certainly gave one that impression, he had not gained a very great amount of wisdom in that time.
He who guides the great fur seals back through the stormy seas, through hundreds of miles of darkness and mist to their far northern islands in June, He guided you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hundreds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
