Plato has seized by anticipation the spirit which hung over Greek literature for a thousand years afterwards.
For more than a thousand years not a single writer of first-rate, or even of second-rate, reputation has a place in the innumerable rolls of Greek literature.
The dreary waste which follows, beginning with the Alexandrian writers and even before them in the platitudes of Isocrates and his school, spreads over much more than a thousand years.
Every cat, every rat, every mouse, every louse has a thousand years to burn!
Tell those hell-hounds they have a thousand years to burn--every one of them!
Tie on some picks an' shovels an' put you behind the wheel, and only the guys that are in the know would ever get wise in a thousand years.
And believe, I suppose, that a man can live a thousand years, whereas we know well that he cannot live more than about a hundred.
Well," I replied at hazard, "if you were assured by someone that a man could live for a thousand years?
Who knows then but that at some time in its history, men did not live for a thousand years, and that lost civilisations did not exist of which this Oro and his daughter may be two survivors?
Lady Yva," I said, "did I rightly understand the Lord Oro to say that he was a thousand years old?
I myself had seen more than a thousand years when I lay down to sleep.
Even had this once noble collection never endured such acts of violence, the mere wear and tear, and perhaps, I may add, the pilfering of a thousand years, would have diminished it sadly.
Victory had awarded the prize of battle, Jerusalem, to the Mohammedan; and, notwithstanding the temporary successes of the Crusaders, after much more than a thousand years in his hands it remains to this day.
Yet, for more than a thousand years, such was the accepted logic, and all over Europe propositions equally absurd were accepted on equally ridiculous proof.
She thus took a course which determined her whole future career: she became a stumbling-block in the intellectual advancement of Europe for more than a thousand years.
The values of a thousand years glitter on those scales, and thus speaketh the mightiest of all dragons: "All the values of things--glitter on me.
For my part, speaking with the holiness of truth, I would not give one hour of life as a Soul for a thousand years of life as a man.
Meanwhile, in France, Europe was trying to solve at a stroke the problems of a thousand years.
His sensibility was touched by the contrast, and he saw himself as a picturesque figure linking the new dreams of liberty and equality to the feudal traditions of a thousand years.
Would Providence have permitted such a power to rule for a thousand yearshad it not been a necessity?
For the fact stares us in the face that it is rooted deeply in a large part of the Eastern world, or, at least, has prevailed victorious for more than a thousand years.
He was not one of those men that Gibbon appreciated; but his fame is steadily growing, after a lapse of a thousand years.
These he heeded not, but pondered On the volume in his hand, Wherein amazed he read: "A thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night!
One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period.
One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.
Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.
May you live a thousand years, and may you always be the head of this great nation.
When the northern tribes-men overwhelmed the Roman culture they paralysed progress for a thousand years or so; set back the clock by that much.
May you live a thousand years--and longer; to continue good work of enlightenment.
But it is no swift and easy matter to disabuse the race mind from attitudes and habits inculcated for a thousand years.
We like what we are used to, and if we have been used to it for a thousand years we like it more intensely.
Here we have the explanation of another passage of Scripture, that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thousand years" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
