Jennings, the man who had been with Bill when the two had caught sight of me, was already some tenyards from the place where I was standing.
In another ten minutes, they had all left the camp.
Consequently, on the following morning we started early on our way up the river, continuing until we were within ten miles of the Soda Springs.
But on a hunting trip some ten miles more or less North, I discovered another natural curiosity, to which I was the first to call attention.
About ten o'clock on the following day, I discovered some thirty-five or forty of them descending the side of the mountain near the Ranch, on their ponies.
David Blanchard was chosen captain of the Volunteers, in less than five minutes, and in no more than ten after we were on the trail, they also were in the saddles, and following it, closely behind us.
In less than probably ten minutes from our first fire, not a living Indian remained in the camp where they had lately been sleeping.
In some tenor twelve minutes the mouth of the narrow tunnel was blocked up, I may honestly say, with a speed and completeness which even a Brunel or a Stephenson would have appreciated.
Some ten minutes after, the whole of this strange city of the unliving was literally blackened by live and threatening red-skins.
The great barrier reef along the northeast coast of Australia is about 1,250 miles long, from ten to ninety miles in width, and rises at its seaward edge from depths which in some places certainly exceed eighteen hundred feet.
Great dead branches of a certain pink coral, found in the sea at a depth of over one hundred and fifty to three hundred fathoms, are now seen in water only ten or fifteen fathoms deep.
There are at least ten species of owls, among which is the magnificent eagle-owl.
The king of Dixie's Land endeavors to seize an invader, whom he must hold long enough to repeat the words, Ten times one are ten, You are one of my men.
Cabarrus is ready to supply what we may want, on the promise of either France or Spain to repay him in ten or twelve months.
The King of Sweden has a well appointed army of more than ten thousand men near his frontiers in Finland, and the Russian army, about their frontiers, is said to be greater.
One bearded vagabond at Portsmouth charged me, when I was going to the Peninsula, ten shillings a pound for exchanging bank notes for specie, and every guinea the circumcised scoundrel gave was a light one.
Considering that I stood two contests for the county, an action for false imprisonment by a gauger, never had a lock on the hall door, kept ten horses at rack and manger, and lived like a gentleman.
That smuggled in from Prussia, being imported from China by ship, can be sold ten times cheaper than the so-called caravan-tea, which is brought directly overland by Russian merchants.
Strong as I am, however, and stubborn, I am not a stone wall ten feet thick at the base, and the pressure brought to bear upon my poor self was soon too great for my strength, and I gradually encroached upon my unresisting friend.
You know what a miserable specimen you are--couldn't frighten a mouse if you were ten times as horrible.
And so I went on for ten minutes, praising him up to the skies, and ending up with a pathetic appeal that he should manifest his presence.
This went on nearly all the morning--in fact, until ten minutes before twelve, when there came a slight knock at my door.
Subsequently I gave him the ten dollars which I think his story is worth, but I must confess that I am in a dilemma.
It was noon when I again opened my eyes, and, ten minutes after I awakened, your telegraphic summons reached me.
For ten years I have secretly been at work myself on a story.
I would not walk ten feet for the pleasure of killing any man, no matter who he is.
And few, a chosen few, must know The Mysteries that lurk below.
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
But some assert, on certain grounds, (Besides the damage and the wounds) It cost the king ten thousand pounds To have a dash at Stonington.
Let some assert, ten thousand pounds Would place our fleet on british grounds, And urge us onward to saint James To wrap his palaces in flames.
Put the armour in front of the shield, Rags," said Reeves, as he threw out his ten notched cartridges and recharged with two pointed nickel bullets.
Having discharged his automatic weapon, Reeves discreetly slipped out of the throng, retired to a safe distance, and thrust tenmore precious cartridges into the magazine.
As Gerald trod upon the "log" it became suddenly and violently active, and, struck by an irresistible blow, the lad was hurled nearly ten feet before he fell on his back in the shallow water.
After about ten miles had been traversed, the party came to an abrupt halt.
Astern, the island of Capri was a good ten miles off, while a thin column of smoke, standing out clearly against the bright sky, marked the position of the smouldering volcano of Vesuvius.
For nearly ten minutes the nerve-racking ordeal lasted--Reeves afterwards said that it was one of the tightest places he had ever been in--while the distance covered in that time could hardly have been less than six miles.
Beyond ten yards they are almost useless for stopping a man.
Standing at less than ten yards' distance, the correspondent raised his weapon and, without apparently taking aim, pressed the trigger.
A mirage is the reflection of a real object, but that object may be ten miles away, or it may be a hundred--or more.
The country, though rugged, abounded with coarse herbage, and nearly ten thousand nomads found means of subsistence in the district watered by the river and two of its tributaries.
Gerald, on one camel, was leading, with Reeves walking slightly to the left flank, while Hugh's hierie ambled at some ten paces in the rear.
Although several cannons had been placed on the walls on all sides, their positions carefully screened from outside observation, he had kept ten pieces in reserve, mounted on travelling carriages.
I am an utter stranger here, and did not know what to do to raise ten dollars to pay my car fare.
In less than ten minutes she reached the crest of the elevation where they had seen the bandit.
Afore yer could count ten I made a slipnoose fast about ther necks o' forty o' them animiles, got back aboard the frigate an' tied ther other and o' ther line ter the capstan.
Loaded with the same terrible explosive compound that he put in the bullets he used, they possessed ten times the power that ordinary dynamite shells have.
I shall take ten or fifteen miles at a stride, and be at the garden and back again before your shoulders begin to ache.
And whenever he flung himself on the earth to take a little repose, even if he got up the very next instant, he would be as strong as exactly ten just such giants as his former self.
But do you wait for me here, and I will run and gather my apron full of flowers, and be back again before the surf wave has brokenten times over you.
You are wiser than he, and have ten times as much spirit.
Some persons affirm that he grewten times stronger at every touch; others say that it was only twice as strong.
The Pygmies, being ten times as vivacious as their great numskull of a brother, could not abide the Giant's slow movements, and were determined to have him on his feet.
The list of his works fills nearly ten pages of the catalogue of the British Museum.
As I was paid ten times as much as I had received before, I thought myself in a paradise of journalism.
We reprinted, some ten years ago, one of your wisest tracts, the 'Difficulties that obstruct Co-operation.
For ten years I knew Mr. Mill to receive and write letters of suggestion from the India House.
At ten o'clock in the evening, every man is to be in his berth, except the men on guard and of the watch.
I cannot see how any man who does nothing--who lives in idleness--can insist that others should work ten or twelve hours a day.
I admit that, and pay my tribute of respect to his courage--but he happened to haveten or twelve wives too many, so he shut them up, put them in a kind of penitentiary and kept them there till they died.
In the twentieth chapter of Exodus we find the first account of the giving of the Ten Commandments.
It could hardly have been chance that made Nabal so deathly sick next morning and killed him inten days.
Ingersoll is an inch less than six feet tall, and weighs tenmore than two hundred pounds.
I cannot believe that King Amaziah did right in the sight of the Lord, and that he broke in pieces ten thousand men by casting them from a precipice.
They were only compelled to work from twelve to fourteen hours a day, leavingten hours for sleep and recreation.
To the same spot Xenophon led his famous Retreat of the Ten Thousand.
So any prince, or private gentleman, may break all the Ten Commandments, and still be a good Catholic; but if he doubts Infallibility, he is condemned.
It was with real regret that we left Lake Como, where we had passed ten very quiet but very happy days.
There is no cross and no altar; no Lord's Prayer, no Creed, and no Ten Commandments.
The greatest political event of the last ten years in Europe--perhaps the greatest since the battle of Waterloo--is the sudden rise and rapid development of the German Empire.
At ten o'clock we were cast ashore, in darkness and in rain; so that instead of feeling any inspiration, we felt only that we were very wet and very cold.
The chief of the section keeps a list of all the Indians resident in his section, and assigns to each worker--in some sections this term includes women and children--the number of kilos of rubber that he must deliver every ten days.
This sufficed for Fonseca to have him hung up by one leg, together with his little son, a boy about ten years of age.
At the expiration of the ten days the slaves start out with their loads upon their backs, accompanied by their women and children, who help them to carry the rubber.
The chief of the section keeps a list of the Indians and assigns to each one the number of kilos of rubber he must deliver every ten days.
As our rifle was out of order I took deliberate aim with the shot-gun, and at a distance of some ten metres let fly at him.
Cioni village of San Diego, a small group of about ten little bamboo shacks on the right bank of the river.
They are quite distinct from the Incas, and occupy the whole region of the Upper Putumayo, living in small villages of from ten to fifty families along its banks.
Another very common custom is that of piercing the ears and the dividing wall of the nose with small bamboo tubes coloured a bright shining black, and frequently from ten to fifteen centimetres in length and nearly one centimetre in thickness.
Rushing down to the water's edge, we saw that there were five canoes, each one containing about ten Indians.
After ten years of suffering and brutal neglect, Catherine became the mistress of her own fortunes, for at this time her husband had the good grace to die.
Such was the profusion at this banquet that the remnants taken from the table were more than enough to supply ten thousand men.
In any event, the Floral Games are still held yearly, the seven poets have become forty in number, and they compose a dignified Academy, which has some ten thousand francs a year to bestow in prizes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blow; break; breath; breather; decade; gallantry; hit; ten
