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Example sentences for "thousand horse"

  • A body of twenty-two thousand foot and a thousand horse, under the command of the earl of Leicester, was stationed at Tilbury in order to defend the capital.

  • At the same time the other Consul, Aulus Postumius, conveyed his army across from Brundisium, consisting of twenty thousand infantry and about two thousand horse.

  • In Rome itself, ready as a reserve in case of the accidents of war, there remained twenty thousand foot and three thousand horse of citizens, and thirty thousand foot and two thousand horse of the allies.

  • He gratified the gods by performing a thousand Horse-sacrifices.

  • Once on a time a thousand horse-sacrifices and Truth were weighed against each other in the balance.

  • Moreover, the dictator was sent forward into Spain with Mago to hire twenty thousand foot and four thousand horse, to recruit the armies in Italy and Spain.

  • Wazir Dandan, who had come out amongst a thousand horse to honour Abrizah and Sharrkan, by especial commandment of King Omar Son of Al- Nu'uman.

  • When ye dispersed, I waxed jealous for your honour; so I rushed on the Chief Knight their leader, albeit he was a match for a thousand horse, and I smote him till I severed head from trunk.

  • So he made him ready and the whole body set out for Irak, leaving a thousand horse to guard the Castle.

  • Now there was in this town a King called Jamak, under whose hand were twenty thousand horsemen, and there gathered themselves together to him from the villages other fifty thousand horse, who pitched their tents facing the city.

  • Answered Ajib, "I left them in Cufa and they be fifty-thousand horse.

  • Then the Moslems collected the horses and arms, the loads and tents of the enemy and despatched them to Cufa with an escort of a thousand horse;--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.

  • Accordingly, within a few days, thirty thousand foot and about four thousand horse assembled in the Sedetanian territory, according to the orders which had been given.

  • And collecting again all the soldiers who had dispersed at the time of his flight, and were now wandering about the country, he got together a body of near a thousand horse, and with them fled from Antigonus, whom he justly feared.

  • Nor did he judge amiss; for being charged by a thousand horse, and sixty armed chariots, which advanced before their main body, he took all the chariots, and killed four hundred horse upon the place.

  • He was received in several towns by the magistrates of the corporation in their formalities, and often attended by a body of a thousand horse.

  • This retreat was made with such expedition, that the duke of Argyle, with all his activity, could never overtake their rear-guard, which consisted of a thousand horse commanded by the earl Marischal.

  • Vespasian sent Trajan, with two thousand foot and a thousand horse, against it.

  • On the 14th of May, Placidus and Ebutius were sent forward by Vespasian, with a thousand horse, to surround the town and cut off all possibility of escape.

  • He has thirty thousand foot and five thousand horse, and is laying up a store of corn for ten years, so that he can be independent of his own territory or that of his enemies with respect to provisions.

  • To these were added a brigade of near a thousand horse, which they called Agema.

  • The confederates of the Latin nation were ordered to furnish sixteen thousand foot and one thousand horse.

  • The English army was soon joined by the count de Buren, admiral of Flanders, with ten thousand foot and four thousand horse; and the whole composed an army which nothing on that frontier was able to resist.

  • He was attended by a train of a thousand horse.

  • Art thou but captain of a thousand horse, That by characters graven in thy brows, And by thy martial face and stout aspect, Deserv'st to have the leading of an host?

  • He pictured the Harwich flotilla coming out in line ahead, a light cruiser leading, her four hundred and thirty-six feet of slim grey length driven through the water by her forty-thousand horse power.

  • Back in 1919 the destroyers of the 'flotilla leader' class had thirty-thousand horse turbines.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thousand horse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    awfully fond; capital letter; hand fighting; mental state; still young; thousand crowns; thousand different; thousand dollars; thousand eyes; thousand feet above the; thousand francs; thousand gold; thousand head; thousand kine; thousand little; thousand millions; thousand other; thousand pounds; thousand roubles; thousand thousand; thousand ways; thousand words; thousand years; thousandth part; wages will; wrote thus