Of the willow-herb it takes one hundred seeds to weigh a milligram, including the hairs attached to them, and it would take thirty thousand to weigh as much as an ordinary white bean.
About one hundred and thirty paces west of the house in which I live stand two birch trees.
Some of these were found thirty rods distant from the parent trees--not down stream in the valley of the brook, but up the stream.
But in many instances a strong breeze, sometimes a whirlwind, has been seen to carry these mature fruits from the tree to a distance of thirty rods.
She was but a step by thirty, and a woman at thirty has not settled down resignedly into a lonely old age.
He, Saunders, the despair of the girls forthirty years, had fallen into a pit of his own digging!
If one is called Gussie for thirty years, it is almost impossible not to become gussie after a while.
Thirty I brought away in cash, and with a hundred and twenty I purchased this stone from Olden Hoorn himself.
The Tyranny of Sickness is nothing to the Cruelty of Convalescence: 'tis to have Thirty Tyrants for one.
For thirty years she has been tried by me, and on her behaviour I would stake my soul.
I have been chained to that gally thirty years, a long shot.
Miss Betham's sister, Anne, who had just died, had left thirty pounds to Mary Lamb.
Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke.
Really, if she goes on thus improving, by the time she is nine and thirty she will be a tolerable comely person.
Two ladies, each more than thirty years of age, sat also in the apartment.
More than thirty thousand people are confined, he assures us, in prison upon political charges, subject to the most brutal treatment.
Some hours after, the barking of a dog brought the searchers to where Janet was lying, at the foot of a precipice about thirty feet deep.
He appeared to be a man about six feet in height, strongly built, and apparently about thirty years of age.
It corresponded with our House of Representatives, and each of its members was to be at least thirtyyears of age.
As soon as our division had evacuated, a mob of thirty or forty ruffians had proceeded to the houses of those whom they termed "Ayankeeados," and glutted their cowardly vengeance on their unfortunate victims.
It is Robinson Crusoe's island with the spell broken--the loneliness of thirty years profaned.
The large territory between the American and British lines, extending nearly thirty miles from north to south, and embracing Westchester county, was populous and highly cultivated.
With difficulty and unheard-of trouble, it succeeded in fixing, at some distance above the net, thirty of the white points, of which I told you before.
But the cap, and the voilette--I never ordered them, and you charge them thirty shillings more.
James, on Monmouth's rebellion, had on foot about fifteen thousand men; and when the prince of Orange invaded him, there were no fewer than thirty thousand regular troops in England.
They granted the sum of five hundred and eighty-six thousand pounds, for building thirty ships; though they strictly appropriated the money to that service.
Captain Graham, afterwards Viscount Dundee, an active and enterprising officer, attacked a great conventicle upon Loudon Hill, and was repulsed with the loss of thirty men.
He attacked the duke of York, and fought him with such fury for above two hours, that of two and thirty actions in which that admiral had been engaged, he declared this combat to be the most obstinately disputed.
He was sent over to the Jesuits' college at St. Omers, and though above thirty years of age, he there lived some time among the students.
About forty were killed on the spot, and a hundred and thirty taken prisoners.
This council was to consist of thirty persons, and was never to exceed that number.
A fleet of ninety sail, an army of thirty thousand men, and a million of money were also voted.
I know one who now has been active in New York literary journalism for something like thirty years--a fine intellectual figure of a man.
Two examples of Calamus verus, measuring respectively two hundred and seventy feet and two hundred and thirty feet, were exhibited in the Paris exhibition of 1855.
Capel was his home, a village of about twenty houses which we were approaching, thirty miles or so from London.
I doubt whether there are any such amateurs of New York, any who for thirty years and more have walked our streets as an intellectual sport with unabated zest.
Thirty years later, the geologist comes upon an unusual stone and turns to a great chemist for its analysis, with the consequent recognition of helium as a mundane element.
By what luck was the mother of a family, about three-and-thirty years of age, still the fashion?
Admitting for the moment that I owe thirtythousand or fifty thousand francs, in the first place, it would be a mere trifle to the d'Espards and the Blamont-Chauvrys.
Ten, twenty, thirtyminutes passed and she did not stir.
He always has a company of twenty-five or thirty cavalry, with sabres drawn and held upright over their shoulders.
Within sight of the capitol, as I write, are some thirty or forty such collections, at times holding from fifty to seventy thousand men.
Barbara had already disturbed his time-table for thirty seconds.
Incuriosity and fastidiousness, partly timid, partly romantic, had conspired to let him reach the age of two-and-thirty without ever kissing or being kissed.
Bending over Mrs. Nares' sofa, he atoned for his inattention during dinner with thirty seconds' belated sparkle and a simple epigram which he had already tried with effect on Mrs. Shelley.
I'm going down to Lashmar for the week-end and, if you can meet me for thirty seconds at Crawleigh station, I'll come straight on to you on Saturday and then get a train back to Winchester.
By steadily pursuing this mode of life he was enabled to accumulate sums of money--from ten to thirty pounds.
He has to split his death into thirty different deaths; and each is but a skeleton.
And it was only thirty years afterwards that I found I had been quite right after all, and working like Baccio Bandini!
A man of twenty-five is in the prime of life, a man of thirty aged, and on the whole the term of life closes at thirty-five.
In ten minutes time everything was ready and the caravan upon its way, twenty or thirty women carrying our boxes, satchels, provisions, and collections.
When they are thirty those “boys” will be rich men, with women, slaves, and piles of stuff.
There were no other towns on the road from there to Isangila, a distance of thirty miles, for the wicked people had killed each other out over their witch palavers.
So far as the main river is concerned, a steamer is started from Leopoldville for the trip to Stanley Falls every ten days, taking from twenty-four to thirty days to make the journey.
I still had two hundred thousand francs: I had jewellery worth thirty thousand francs, and fifty thousand florins at Amsterdam.
He bought the phaeton and horses, and I only lost thirty sequins by the transaction.
I had about thirty volumes, all more or less against the Papacy, religion, or the virtues inculcated thereby.
When I lose a paroli of ten sequins I put three fingers into my purse, and am certain to bring up thirty sequins.
His father has been dead these thirty years, and my mother and my sister only live by the work they do.
I wanted to give them some jewels, but they said they would rather I ordered gloves to the amount of thirty louis, the money to be paid in advance, and the gloves not to be called for.
She will give birth to a son who will make France happy, and in thirty years time you will see wondrous things, of which, unfortunately, I can tell you nothing until your transformation.
The cards were brought in, and various coloured counters handed round, and I sat down putting thirty ducats before me.
After about thirty drops had fallen from each of us, the bleeding ceased.
The company gave a play the next evening, but as only thirty or at most forty people were present, poor Bassi did not know where to turn to pay for the lighting and the orchestra.
I spent thirty sequins in what I considered necessary, but then I noticed that there was no English point on her mask, and burst out again.
There were only thirty in all, but they were chosen, although somewhat elementary.
I was a needle-woman, and earned from twenty tothirty sous a day.
My father has only a small yearly pension for having served thirty years as a Government messenger.
I peeped over the edge of the trench and there, sure enough, was a big cloud of sooty black smoke wallowing up from behind some broken masonry not more than thirty yards off.
At five-thirty o'clock I was struggling into a heavy leather suit which I put on over my regular clothes and a heavy padded helmet which was carefully fastened under my chin by a buttoned flap and also an elastic band.
Then, as if the projector had started to run again, all thirty of the youngsters broke into activity.
All thirty of the guests were chewing industriously.
Thirty minutes later the word-of-mouth information was carefully spread through the school that the principal had been taken to the hospital for observation and he was doing nicely.
The factory survived less thanthirty seconds, before it gave way to the bank and row of stores which had originally stood on the site.
Elvin walked into the workshop, where all thirty of the tenth graders were gathered around the littered work table.
There was a long silence, while the thirty youngsters looked from one to the other.
From the archway he looked in on the guests, somethirty youngsters, all of the tenth grade of San Benedicto High School.
Gary Elvin leaned back in his chair and surveyed, with satisfaction, the thirtyheads bent studiously over their desks.
After school that afternoon the fellows belonging to Oakvale Troop to the number of thirty marched to police headquarters.
With cotton selling around thirty cents a pound, the difference between the cost per pound of middling fair, the highest market grade of white cotton, and good ordinary, the lowest market grade, may amount to twelve or thirteen cents.
At twenty-five shillings I knew that he was weakening; atthirty shillings the ladder was mine.
To those who have breakfasted at eight, and have motored over thirty miles of moorland, tea and sardines at two o'clock are a mere affair of outposts, that leave the heart of the position untouched.
As we ran out of Killoge, at something near thirty miles an hour, I heard scald-crow laughter behind me in the shawls.
Thirty minutes with an old fox, and now a nice burst with a jackass!
At nine-thirty that night I sat with my hostess and my wife, engaged in a domestic game of Poker-patience.
The fullest account is given by Sir Thomas Gray, who wrote in 1355--just half a century later, but still twenty and thirty years earlier than Barbour and Fordun.
As they lay in wait, the sub-warden arrived with over thirty men in three boats, bringing provisions and arms; and Douglas and Boyd set upon them.
Captain Shirril discovered that a bunch of thirty cattle were missing, and believed they had joined his friend's herd a mile to the southward, from which it would be necessary to separate or cut them out.
Gleeson and Files were between thirty and forty years of age, but Ward Burrell, from the lowlands of Arkansas, had rounded his half-century of existence, acquiring during the journey such a peculiar complexion that he was known as Old Bronze.
Since each cowboy was provided with at least three horses, there were about thirty with the company.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thirty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
