The third organized body of rebel troops was in Eastern Kentucky, under General Zollicoffer, estimated, according to the most reliable information, at six thousand men.
In the first place, my pension of six thousand francs is pledged for four years, so I have nothing.
Our apartment costs us six thousand francs a year in rent, we have four servants, we eat thirty thousand francs' worth of food in a year.
I want to see Marneffe a first-class clerk; he will then draw a salary ofsix thousand francs.
Lisbeth, who never spent a sou of her twelve hundred francs, whose rent and dress were given to her, and who never put her hand in her pocket, had likewise a small capital of five or six thousand francs, of which Crevel took fatherly care.
The Marshal is an old man, but he will last a long time yet--he draws good pay; when he dies his widow would have a pension of six thousand francs.
The Appian Way was lined with six thousand crosses, bearing aloft as many bodies--a terrible warning of the fate awaiting slaves that should dare to strike for freedom.
Thebans earned the renown of being the most invincible soldiers in the world by completely overthrowing, with a force of six thousand men, the Spartan army of twice that number.
Cleon proposed that all the men of the place, six thousand in number, should be slain, and the women and children sold as slaves.
Six thousand of the Goths were slaughtered without mercy in the field of Tagina.
The plain between Hierapolis and the river was covered with the squadrons of cavalry, six thousand hunters, tall and robust, who pursued their game without the apprehension of an enemy.
Agrippina, at the price ofsix thousand sestertii, equal to about fifty pounds of our present money; and that Asinius Celer {Lib.
By act of assembly, they have restrained its cultivation to six thousand plants, supposed to yield a thousand weight of tobacco, for every negro between sixteen and sixty years of age.
Maryland, and Virginia, for example, send annually to Great Britain upwards of ninety-six thousand hogsheads of tobacco, and the consumption of Great Britain is said not to exceed fourteen thousand.
We imported about ninety-six thousand hogsheads, and the home consumption was not supposed to exceed fourteen thousand.
As a widow, Madame Bridau could live suitably on an income of six thousand francs.
He won at first, and gained as much as six thousand francs; but he let himself be dazzled by the idea of getting out of his difficulties at one stroke.
Connected with the works are a twenty thousand barrel tank, a fifteen thousand barrel tank, two of ten thousand barrels each, one of six thousand barrels, and several from two thousand barrels down.
Soon after, without solicitation on his part, he was appointed an agent for the sale of the Western Reserve school lands, a tract of fifty-six thousand acres, situated in the Virginia Military District.
About twelve thousand surrendered in the Transvaal, six thousand in the Orange River Colony, and about two thousand in the Cape Colony, showing that the movement in the rebel districts had always been more vexatious than formidable.
The loyal population of the surrounding country had flocked into Ookiep, and the Commandant found himself burdened with the care of six thousand people.
Himeji contains the ruins of a great castle of thirty turrets; and a daimyo used to dwell therein whose revenue was one hundred and fifty-six thousand koku of rice.
But from the wreck of this great prize thirty-six thousand crowns' worth of jewels came ashore.
Let him first fix his mind on the fact that the earth moves through space at a speed of more than sixty-six thousand miles an hour.
This is the result of six thousand years of constant civilization.
Enough to live on--six thousand francs a year; and we shall complain of her stinginess?
He now refuses my presidency, with a salary of six thousand thalers, as he last year refused the position of tutor to the heir of the throne of Russia, with a salary of a hundred thousand francs.
I gave you an army corps of thirty-six thousand men, and you bring me back sixteen thousand!
It's a great point, you see, to come in suddenly, when you expect nothing, to a nice lump sum of five or six thousand!
Six thousand pounds down on the nail to Cyril, six thousand more in a few weeks to Guy.
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