Two men in a bombing machine can attack and perhaps destroy a force which, if allowed to reach the front lines, would have to be met byseveral thousand infantrymen.
The aeronauts made an amusing landing on a housetop, little the worse for their sudden drop of several thousand feet.
At a height of several thousand feet in the air, he freed himself and descended gradually, alighting gently upon the earth.
At the head of steamboat navigation on the San Joaquin, she gathered into her lap the trade and travel of a wide district there, and was already a busy and thriving town of several thousand inhabitants.
They occupy a Reservation of several thousand acres on the Missouri just below Leavenworth, and are engaged generally in farming and stock-raising.
My brother, seeing the slope still beyond, and not knowing it was merely the cornice overhanging a precipice of several thousand feet, rushed onward.
As the river had never been surveyed, it was my intention to make an accurate map of its entire course as far as its junction with the Tres Barras, several thousand kils.
Next morning circular ranges of soldiers extended lifeless marked the bivouacs; and the ground about them was strewed with the bodies of several thousand horses.
Several thousand Cossacks, with four pieces of cannon, were retreating in that direction.
To these obstacles were shortly added the fire of several thousand enemies, who lined the heights upon his right.
By degrees, he marched into the country, and, with the addition of the natives, he found himself at the head of an army consisting of several thousand persons.
At the close of the revolutionary war, several thousand of disbanded British troops removed from New England, were located at Frederickton.
These petitioners, amounting in number to several thousand, have thought proper to make me their organ, in communicating to Congress their opinions and wishes on subjects which, to them, appear of the highest importance.
He thinks several thousand men may have been permitted to escape military service by it.
Several thousand of the enemy were killed, wounded, and taken prisoners.
At least one half of the operatives in paper factories in the United States are females, amounting to several thousand.
There are plenty found to learn the business, and it gives employment to several thousand.
Even so small an item as the eyes of children's dolls produces a circulation of several thousand pounds in England.
Several thousand head, mostly beautiful cattle, arrived at Kissaki, and would have formed a most welcome mobile reserve of supplies.
Soon after, a powerful attack was made byseveral thousand men on the three companies holding our position.
She directed her dower to be paid in the house of the New Temple at London, together with the arrears due to her from the king, amounting to several thousand pounds.
About an hour afterwards I received sixty pounds from a brother whom up to this day I never saw, and who then lived, as he does still, a distance of several thousand miles.
At last, the twenty thousand pounds were almost entirely spent, when at that very time the father of this very brother died, whereby he came into the possession of an income of several thousand pounds a year.
During the last year a considerable part of my income has come from a distance of several thousand miles, from a brother whom I never saw.
As for the spectacle, several thousand lunatics, in the violent stage, capering and gesticulating under a strong paroxysm of their malady, will present a faint picture of it.
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