The story of the early days of mankind is a sickening record of torture and slaughter in the name of ten thousand butcher-gods.
Ten thousand leagues to southward, And thirty years removed-- They knew not noble Valdez, But me they knew and loved.
He marched from Damascus at the head of ten thousand of the bravest Arabs; and the genuine force of the Moslems was enlarged by the doubtful aid and conversion of many thousand Barbarians.
Malaterra is more cautious in his style; but the Apulian is bold and positive.
In the siege of Nice, such were used by the Franks themselves as the materials of a wall.
The cold philosophy of modern times is incapable of feeling the impression that was made on a sinful and fanatic world.
Ten thousand of those auxiliaries, and Bacurius, general of the Iberians, died bravely on the field of battle.
Adolphus, educated among a race of warriors, who esteemed the duty of revenge as the most precious and sacred portion of their inheritance, advanced with a body of ten thousand Goths to encounter the hereditary enemy of the house of Balti.
They know that I am the daughter of ten thousand jeddaks, that I trace my ancestry straight back without a break to the builder of the first great waterway, and they, who do not even know their own mothers, are jealous of me.
They are carried on in every school, in every church, behind ten thousand counters, at ten thousand firesides.
The humble mechanic who discovers some slight improvement in the construction of safety lamps or steam-vessels does more for the happiness of mankind than the "magnificent principle," as Mr Bentham calls it, will do in ten thousand years.
He printed three thousand copies, and in order to defray the expense of publication, sold one of his farms for the sum of ten thousand francs.
Anthemius formed the design, and his genius directed the hands of ten thousand workmen, whose payment in pieces of fine silver was never delayed beyond the evening.
Despair united their counsels and invigorated their arms: they withstood the assault of the Persians and the flight of Nacoragan preceded or followed the slaughter of ten thousand of his bravest soldiers.
The real impossibility or difficulty is of another sort, and is rarely surmounted in the course of ages; but when once it is surmounted, ten thousand or rather all blessings follow.
The right wing was held by ten thousand Lacedemonians; and of these the five thousand who were Spartans were attended by thirty-five thousand Helots serving as light-armed troops, seven of them appointed for each man.
For come, let me examine it by all that is probable: how could a thousand or ten thousand or even fifty thousand, at least if they were all equally free and were not ruled by one man, stand against so great an army?
These keep the roses fair, Young and without a care, Making so sweet the air, Ten thousand years.
Both Leaders: You shall have torches bright, Watching the folds by night, Guarding the lambs aright, Ten thousand years.
Ere you returned to the shining harbor There were pirates by ten thousand Descended on the town In vessels mountain-high and red and brown, Moon-ships that climbed the storms and cut the skies.
Ten thousand man-hating tigers Whirling down from the north, like a flood!
Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know, My idleness doth hatch.
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man pick'd out of ten thousand.
The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.
A metric weight, consisting of ten thousand grams or ten kilograms.
The construction which the ministers put on the resolution of the eleventh of December was, that the army was to consist of ten thousand men; and in this construction the House acquiesced.
The population of Caledonia had already increased from twelve hundred to ten thousand.
The number of seamen was fixed at ten thousand, a great force, according to the notions of that age, for a time of peace.
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