And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
And Samson said, "With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
Smith, who was at Kingston, collected together a couple of thousand men, and proceeded in cars to the relief of Dalton when Wheeler retreated northward toward Cleveland.
In the early stages of the war the field-guns often bore the proportion of six to a thousand men; but toward the close of the war one gun; or at most two, to a thousand men, was deemed enough.
On the 4th of August Colonel Adams, commanding a little brigade of about a thousand men, returned reporting Stoneman and all but himself as lost.
Pickett with a full division from Richmond was up; Hoke from North Carolina had come with a brigade; and Breckinridge was there: in all probably not less than fifteen thousand men.
A few days after Colonel Adams's return Colonel Capron also got in with a small detachment and confirmed the report of the capture of Stoneman with something less than a thousand men.
And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass, which lay there, catching it up, he slew therewith a thousand men.
One of you shall chase a thousand men of the enemies: because the Lord your God himself will fight for you, as he hath promised.
And the children of Benjamin coming out of Gabaa slew of the children of Israel that day two and twenty thousand men.
Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.
And he said: With the jawbone of an ass, with the jaw of the colt of asses, I have destroyed them, and have slain a thousand men.
Solms' thousand men came up and took part in the action, and the batteries plied the Spaniards with their shot.
Altogether, the assault cost the Spaniards two thousand men.
Each of these parties consisted of about a thousand men.
It might have a greater money value than a thousand men, yet death was not the penalty, nor maiming, nor braiding, nor even stripes, but double of the same kind.
Oh, no--Government is only an association of individuals, and the same rules of morality which govern my conduct in relation to a thousand men, ought to regulate my conduct to any one.
It might have a greater money value than a thousand men, yet death was not the penalty, nor maiming, nor branding, nor even stripes, but double of the same kind.
This porch was famous both for length, and breadth, and strength, it was able to contain a thousand men.
Don Francisco de Velasco was transported to Malaga with about a thousand men of his garrison; the rest voluntarily engaged in the service of king Charles, and six other regiments were raised by the states of Catalonia.
The loss of the allies did not exceed three thousand men, including prince Louis of Hesse, and Mr. Bentinck, who were slain in the engagement.
In a word, the confederates were obliged to retire with precipitation, leaving their cannon and about eight thousand men killed or wounded on the field of battle.
I'll return eftsoon and bring you a thousand men, the very best of knights that I have ever known.
Then came a thousand men-at-arms, bold Siegfried's men.
The doughty Hornbog, (5) with full a thousand men, wheeled from the king away towards the queen.
Then were soon arrayed the good Knight Iring and Irnfried of Thuringia, a daring youth, and the stalwart Hawart and full a thousand men.
Then were all the comrades arrayed in lordly wise for strife; nor had they more than a thousand men, and thereto Siegfried's twelve men-at-arms.
The Archbishop of Mayence, who but a short time since crowned the Emperor at the great altar of the cathedral, is herewith a thousand men at his back.
Winneburg sent messengers, first to Beilstein, asking him to attend at Treves on the second day of the month, and bring with him an escort of at least a thousand men.
I have letters from him desiring me to equip a supplementary squadron and raise a body of not less than a thousand men to reenforce him on his arrival.
When next he sailed away it was with a fleet of five fine ships in which went something over a thousand men.
I compute that when this is done we shall have a force of a thousand men, the buccaneers apart.
In ten days 4 thousand men perished of cold and misery; food and clothing were deficient, the soldiers died in anguish and despair, and a great many of the officers and soldiers had their noses, feet and hands frozen.
The nobility of Riazen had sent a deputation to the emperor to offer him 60 thousand men, armed and equipped.
About 9 thousand men of the corps of Marshal Oudinot passed over the first bridge and under great precautions took two cannons along.
The whole army which marched to Russia consisted of 620 thousand men.
With every throb now of its red heart a cannon was born destined to slay a thousand men.
Wallace's division, and at Crump's Landing, Lew Wallace was stationed with six thousand men.
You could not call out three thousand men, without attracting the attention of your neighbours?
You talk of danger, and would desert a thousand men, women, and children, including two hundred of your own countrymen, and leave them at the mercy of an enemy!
Major Smith advised that at least a thousand men should be left, near at hand, to succour the garrisons of the redoubts; which, being open at the rear, were liable to an attack.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thousand men" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
