It had been calculated by Duplessis-Mornay that France had paid subsidies to the Provinces amounting from first to last to 200 millions of livres.
Man was crawling about the world on all fours, learning to be an animal for millionsof years before the secret of his birth was whispered to him.
There must be millions of youngsters in the world who have never known hunger, except as an appetiser to their dinner; who have never felt what it was to be tired, without the knowledge that a comfortable bed was awaiting them.
I wonder what he will do with the three or four millions which will fall to his share.
With that small sum she hoped my expenses, talents, and domestic comfort, under her housewifery, would create a state of happiness and independence which millions could not procure in the mad career which I had pursued.
And I have no doubt that he was a gambler: it is certain that he got rid of millions nobody knew how.
The Czar of Russia freed the millions of serfs in his empire by a bold and manly ukase; but the nobility, who counted their wealth by the number of human beings whom they held in thralldom, have not yet forgiven the Czar for doing so.
He succeeded, on retiring from the presidency, in taking with him of his ill-gotten wealth several millions of dollars.
It contains at this writing about two million inhabitants, and the value of its taxable property is nearly or quite eight hundred millions of dollars.
There is a familiar anecdote, which is always retailed by the guides to the strangers whom they initiate into the mysteries of the fortress upon which Cortez is said to have expended uselessly many millions of dollars.
Ninety years did not suffice to complete it, and several millions of dollars were expended in the original construction.
It is the boast of the church party that their confiscated millions shall all be gathered into their coffers again.
They also collected from the civilian population several millions of francs, the teachers taxing themselves according to a fixed schedule.
Millions of dollars worth of cotton and wool have been destroyed in military and munition use.
It is such professional obstructionists who make no provision for the millions of our foreign born to learn the English language and American customs through the establishment of up-to-date methods in teaching the adult illiterate.
What indeed had been its dimensions before the millions of years of its struggle?
That canyon had opened there to sky and light for millions of years; and doubtless it had harbored sheep herders, Indians, cliff dwellers, barbarians.
There was a wonderful brightness of all the millions of red and yellow and gray surfaces still exposed to the sun.
The toiling millions of the crowded cities were ignorant of this terrible beauty and sublimity.
Glenn didn't have a father who made taintedmillions out of the war.
When first proud Britain raised her hostile hand With claims unjust to bind our native land, Transported armies, and her millions spent To enforce the mandate that a tyrant sent; "Resist!
Now, suppose we add to that danger a hundred millions of dollars that the Secretary of the Treasury can put in this community or that, in this bank or that, at his pleasure; is not the power of the executive perilously increased?
There is a very proper use I think that can be made of more than twenty millions of it.
Gratitude to that Providence that has increased the feeble colonies on an inhospitable coast to these millions of prosperous people, who have found another sea and populated its sunny shores with a happy and growing people.
Our sixty millions of people are the best buyers in the world, and they are such because our working classes receive the best wages.
The unavoidable deduction from which pair of facts was the overwhelming truth that the world, instead of being only two hundred thousand years old, was older by millions upon millions of years!
And how can we ever be sufficiently grateful for the tune called "Toplady," which has endeared "Rock of Ages" to millions of hearts?
I thought, "the communication from my agent to say that the millions have disappeared.
Well," I thought, "my two millions are nicely exploded by this time.
Most men, however, do not sacrifice themselves much; and therefore they can hardly be brought out as martyrs to the cause of progress, as the millions who have perished by the wayside in the march of evolution.
For some time past census figures reveal the very remarkable fact that considerably over 1-3/4 millions of married couples are childless.
Mesopotamia alone has millions of acres of potential wheat land with a few Arabs squatting on it.
Henry (now read by millions in England) because at first sight they get the impression that it is "all American slang.
In the middle of 1879, the committee of the Transvaal Chamber of Commerce pointed out that the trade of the country had in two years risen to the sum of two millions sterling per annum.
It appeared as though he had not even taken in the fact of the existence of those four millions of slaves, the uneasy clanking of whose chains had long foreboded the approach of the avenging hand of the Deliverer.
According to Oliphant, Kohl, Doellinger and others who have described the state of the empire as it was about forty years later, sixteen millions or about one fourth of the entire population of Russia did not profess the Greek faith.
In America everything is in a formative state and what money is available has to be used for elementary instruction, both religious and secular, of the millions whom poverty and persecution have driven out of Europe.
To all human appearances millionsof heathens were thus hopelessly lost.
There are many Britons who now reflect that millions which have gone into Mesopotamia might have been better spent by the Ministries of Health and Education.
I do not reckon the millions of prefectural, county and village debt.
By loss in play, men oft forget The duty they do owe To Him that did bestow the same, And thousand millions moe.
It has been established by calculation that a player at Whist may hold above 635 thousand millions of various hands!
I think that many thousands of millions would be 'within the mark' as the contribution of England to the insatiate god of gambling.
Only three hundred dollars went, though millionswere of course to be ultimately realized.
If you had read the paper more closely you would have seen the statement, given with a great air of truth, that Herbert Hollister's millions are flowing away from him at a terrible rate, and that to-night may see him almost ruined.
But if he put his millions at my disposal, could I become the great lady you and I have talked about?
But at the same time if the largeness of the city comes into the problem, then remember it is the smaller city that furnishes the great opportunity to make the millions of money.
Conwell delivered this lecture for the five thousandth time, Mr. John Wanamaker said that if the proceeds had been put out at compound interest the sum would aggregate eight millions of dollars.
The statistics very carefully gathered in New York in 1889 showed one hundred and seven millionaires in the city worth over ten millions apiece.
And when this brave little people, with a standing army of forty-two thousand men, single-handed defied two millions of Germans, it tells us that Ajax has come back once more to defy the god of lightnings.
All western and central Europe was turned into a crowd by the preaching of the crusaders, and millions of the followers of the Prince of Peace rushed to the Holy Land to kill the heathen.
If you get a hundred millions you will have the lies; you will be lied about, and you can judge your success in any line by the lies that are told about you.
I left you themillions of Italy, and I find only spoliation and poverty.
Why should I deny that a divine hand fed a multitude with a few loaves and fishes when I see hundreds of millions fed every year by a hand which converts the seeds scattered over the field into an abundant harvest?
There are only ninety millions of us, scattered over a continent.
Germany has sixty-five millions packed in a country very much smaller than Texas.
It is a sight that gladdens the eyes and cheers the hearts of other millions ready to second them.
The popular "Soothing Sirups" for children are nearly all opium products, and have been given to millions of babies in this country by deluded mothers, in the belief that because it soothed, their innocent child was being benefited.
We know by the selective processes through millions of years of evolution that those chemical substances which work in harmony have become associated so as to form life.
This indulgence cultivates the desire through both the body-functions and the appetite, and the blighting habit dethrones the reason, thus rendering useless the lives of millions of worthy people.
This life-giving process is only one of the many thousands selected by evolution from the millions of chemical changes possible in nature.
Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade against slavery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "millions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: mint; pile; pot; score; wad
