I wrote reams of verse in those days, but when I came into the rough and tumble of journalistic life I was too occupied to court the Muses any longer, and found myself condemned to a life of prose.
Then, to make the plot complete, the French minister to the United States was asking permission to make a tour through Canada at the very time when Carleton was sending home reams of documents bearing on the impending troubles.
These newly-pasted cards are then, in quantities of four or fivereams at a time, subjected to the gradual but powerful pressure of a hydraulic press of one hundred tons, worked by a steam-engine.
No other use of paper thou shouldst make Than carrying loads and reams upon thy back.
Wilson and Kautz's cavalry divisions, on the 22d, in a raid took Reams Station and destroyed some miles of the Weldon Railroad, and the next day, after defeating W.
Two men at a vat, and a boy as a layer or lifter, can make about 6 or 8 reams in 10 hours.
These reams are compressed, tied up, and sent to the warehouse for sale.
At the end of that time, owing to my pressing remonstrances and entreaties, a regular supply of about twelve reams per week of most excellent paper commenced.
At Peterhof, a town about twenty miles out of St Petersburg, he found fifty reams of a paper such as he required.
My old friend from boyhood, Owen Blayney Cole, must not be forgotten; year after year for some forty of them he has sent me reams of his poetry.
But one who knows his theme may write reams about sonneteering; for instance, see that striking article on Shakespeare's sonnets in a recent Fortnightly (or was it a Contemporary?
Sometimes reams of discussion are gathered into half a page; sometimes a single sentence contains seeds for reams of discussion.
About a fortnight later ten reams of paper were delivered.
Many of the large quarto books were printed on this paper, of which the first two reams were delivered in February, 1893.
All of us hadreams of "copy" to release, after having been muzzled for five days.
Rob answered reams of sympathizing letters, which showed how many friends they had; and the kindly praises of the lost man would have made Emil a hero and a saint, had they all been true.
Josie wrote reams to her mother; and when the visit ended rejoiced her heart by bringing her a somewhat changed little daughter, who fell to work at the once-detested books with a patient energy which surprised and pleased everyone.
I suppose we have all read reams on reams of magazine verse exhibiting technical correctness, exactitude in language, and pretty fancy; and after a momentary unspoken tribute the writer's skill, we straightway forget.
While there are reams and reams written about the individual members of the group, dead and living, there is almost nothing of them as a whole.
Of this, coasting was a precise instance; but to call the Rule an acknowledged principle of the law of nations was an assumption peculiarly calculated to irritate Madison, who had expendedreams in refutation.
Arvilly, lookin' hull reams of by-laws and statutes at him.
One good spankin' will strike in truth when reams of sermons and tearful expostulations will fail.
And so on, through reams and reams of a strange man's life records.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reams" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
