You see, Frank, it was this way with Solomon: he had a thousand wives, more or less, and I reckon he never had time to strike a general average.
If the horse has been bid up to one thousand dollars, the racing association shares the run-up with the owner of the horse which finished second.
I'll bet those two fellows have rehearsed that switch a thousand times.
That's a whole lot better than my buying a goat from him--for a thousand dollars.
A few thousand spectators were asking variations of the same question, but one spectator asked no questions at all.
Nearly three per cent, of the cattle belonging to the Double Arrow yearly found death on this tableland, and the herds of that ranch numbered many thousand heads.
This pleasing opulence was due to his business ability, for he had recently sold a claim for several thousand dollars.
You served 'em right when you made 'em pay that Meader man six thousand dollars, and I told Hilary so.
Congressman Fairplay's prophecy of "negligible" was an exaggeration, and one gentleman who had rashly predicted that Mr. Crewe would get twenty delegates out of a thousand hid himself for shame.
They've got their machine to working a thousand to the minute, and everybody they have a slant on is going into line.
You've got to be a 'come on' with thirty thousand dollars to be a Northeastern governor and live next door to the Honourable Hilary in the Pelican.
It was worth quite a journey to see a single thousand head of these cattle engaged in feeding together.
It is by no means certain that their ancestors did not roam the plains of the Brazos and the Rio Grande a thousand years or more before America was visited by the Spaniards.
Have I told you by the way that I have now an income of L84, or as I prefer to put it for dignity's sake, two thousand one hundred francs, a year.
It is a fetter dance to the music of minute guns--not at sea, but in a region not a thousand miles from the Sahara.
However, thank God it is life I want, and nothing posthumous, and for two good emotions I would sacrifice a thousand years of fame.
She spoke as if this were self-evident; while the Count read himself a thousand lessons upon the errors vanity is apt to lead one into.
A new life was opened up to him with a thousand nameless hopes and aspirations, though probably as yet he kept all these things to himself, and pondered them in his heart.
The beasts know it not, the blacks only a little, while to one in a hundred thousand of earth's dominant race it is given as a gift from heaven that man may not perish from the earth.
For years Tarzan had seen it lying there, giving it no more attention than he gave the countless thousand bones that strewed his jungle haunts.
My Lord Trip, Bill Squash, the Creolian, and I, sometimes make a party at being ridiculous; and so we say and do a thousand things for the joke.
Not less than one hundred thousand families live in opulence, elegance, and ease, merely by securing our property.
After your first two thousand difficulty begins, but until you have ten thousand volumes the less you say about your library the better.
To be proud of having two thousand books would be absurd.
I stroll over the Common and survey the beautiful purple hills around, twinkling with a thousand bright villas, which have sprung up over this charming ground since first I saw it.
I have contracted a friendship with an alderman, only by observing, that if we take a farthing from a thousand pounds, it will be a thousand pounds no longer.
Troy, and than two thousand years before our Christian era--may be inferred from Gen.
He left the Estate with ten thousand Pounds Debt upon it, but however by all Hands I have been informed that he was every way the finest Gentleman in the World.
Not too young to know the value of nine thousand pounds and its yearly interest, I can tell you, Mr Smythe," said the other, with a laugh.
I did it because that fool persuaded me to; and I wouldn't do it again for a thousand pounds.
If an express rides in, they jump to the conclusion that Kreli is marching on their precious town at the head of twenty thousand men.
Well, it wasn't to be expected they could stand against five thousand of Kreli's chaps; and they didn't.
And the upshot of the whole affair was that nearly two thousand rebels, with an immense number of cattle, had succeeded in breaking through, and had gone to join their countrymen in the fastnesses of the Amatola Mountains.
To my valued friend, Arthur Claverton, I bequeath the sum of nine thousand pounds.
A thousand years of ten times the peril and hardship he has gone through since they parted would be a small price to pay for such a moment as this, he thinks.
Not for the cattle upon a thousand hills will they so much as touch anything that has been killed by lightning with the end of their little fingers, and the nearest neighbour was twenty miles off.
It was the Black Prince's business to get down on to the great road which has been the trunk road of Western France for two thousand years, and which leads from Paris through Chatellerault and Poitiers to Angouleme, and so to Bordeaux.
The length of that line was, almost to a foot, one thousand English yards, and it will easily be perceived that even with his small force only a portion of his men were necessary to hold it.
He had left, to make one supreme effort, perhaps five, perhaps six thousand men.
The six thousand horse galloped against the dismounted armoured men of John down the little slope.
A thousand thoughts, striking the whole gamut of a man's emotions, held him to the place.
The herald of the breaking day had breathed upon the passions of those who slept; the rising sun shone upon the faces of fifty thousand whose pulses quickened already with the ferocity of combat.
Watchfires glowed red in the woods as a thousand stars of good omen.
A thousandvoices spoke to her, but she could recognize none of them.
We are fighting the heads of columns, mon ami--two hundred thousand men if I have any eyes to see.
A thousand messages of love to the little wife who is waiting for me, and who has forgotten already that there is any other country but France.
Two thousand dead the city mourned; and yet, mourning them, prepared to die.
What will you say when I tell you that at Saarbrueck on Tuesday General Bataille killed fourthousand of them?
I am sorry for the people down below--there are no more vineyards now, and you could not find an empty house in the villages if you offered ten thousand francs for it.
A thousand women's hearts are heavy as yours to-day.
A thousand horses in the village yesterday--and all night long the tramp, tramp, tramp!
We mustn't expect any common-sense while the Germans are sending a thousand shells a day as a pleasant token of their good intentions.
That ungrateful creature is, as you perceive, the grandmother of eightthousand nine hundred and seventy-six flies!
Not till afterwards did he fully realize that he had deceived Celeste a thousandfold more grossly than Justine--for Justine was his lawful wife, Celeste his victim.
You see, old man Barlow, who has been looked upon as the soul of honor, skipped town last night with a hundred thousand dollars belonging to depositors, and he is now where the detectives can't find him.
Banging his gavel in a final thump, Chairman Robinson put the question, and the answer roared back at him with all the volume of a thousand voices in shouting the tremendous "Aye!
One million six hundredthousand foreign-born in this country cannot read or write our language.
I also proposed, as they had no standing troops, to help them with a thousand warriors; but if so, I expected to have a share in the new government that should be established.
There are probably in and about this city, at a short distance from the river, not far from thirty thousand of these warlike fanatics, and it is but a year since they have settled in the Illinois.
These stories, and thousand others, all exemplifying the triumph of virtue and honour over baseness and vice, are every day narrated by the elders, in presence of the young men and children.
By this the reader will see that a band of two thousand warriors, only four or five hundred are effectually fighting, unless the number of warriors agreed upon by the chiefs prove too small, when new reinforcements are sent forward.
Chief of a mighty nation, thou hast heard my voice, and in my voice are heard the thousand voices of thy thousand warriors.
The Governor and police of the first and second municipalities offer one thousanddollars reward for the apprehension of the miserable assassin, who, of course, has absconded.
Immediately a thousand voices burst forth to cheer him on.
What new "City of God" can it build on the tragic wreckage of a thousand years of civilization?
But anyhow none of these names are Jewish, and not thus were "the Kings of Jerusalem" even "six thousand years ago.
The chronology is characteristic of anti-Semitic looseness: six thousand years ago the world by Hebrew reckoning had not been created, and at any rate the then Kings of Jerusalem were not Jewish.
From Moses to Ezra was over a thousand years, and the roots of the race are placed still earlier.
Forty thousand Turks were left dead upon the field, four thousand were taken prisoners, and threethousand cannon were captured.
Ten thousandother Confederates passed victoriously over the Hegau, and in eight days burned twenty villages, hamlets, and castles.
His attendants were allowed free access to the castle; he had brought with him fifteen thousand gold crowns, and these he anxiously employed to secure the good offices of Charles' advisers.
But at a salary of three thousand a year, he still couldn't pay it all off and have enough to support a family on at the same time.
You owe us two hundred and three thousand dollars and twenty-nine cents, Mr. Carrin, as of your last purchase.
My dear girl," said the commander, "since I saw you last I have come into a fortune of one hundred thousand livres, neither more nor less.
He indulged in a thousand ridiculous extravagances and exaggerations, and declared himself the happiest of men.
A thousand oaths, a thousandprotestations of love were, exchanged.
A thousand times I thank you, not for what you are doing for me, but for the balm you pour on my wounded spirit.
Excitement rose in the public mind, a thousand arguments on this or that side permeated the town, and a thousand quarrels took place on all sides.
About Christmas, the royal magazines in Panay were burned, and in them some six thousand cabans of rice.
As for what concerns the residencia, the sum will be about one hundred thousand pesos; in this decision the judge has, in the opinion of all, proceeded most mercifully.
All agree that six hundred thousand pesos would not suffice Don Juan de Vargas for what they demand from him.
There are more than three hundred thousand pesos, in jewels and commodities, that he has carried away, well guarded; and he is full of confidence of new rewards.
The amount which the governor received from the Marques de la Laguna, at Santa Rosa, was one hundred thousand pesos.
The second of the rulers concerned, Enmenunna (Ammenon), is placed in Sumerian tradition severalthousand years before the reputed succession of the gods Lugalbanda and Tammuz and of the national hero Gilgamesh to the throne of Erech.
In Babylonia the water was led into small fields of two or three acres, while the Nile valley was irrigated in great basins each containing some thirty to forty thousand acres.
The vessel in Berossus measures five stadia by two, and thus had a length of over three thousand feet and a breadth of more than twelve hundred.
Here more than thirty thousand contracts and accounts, dating from the fourth millennium to the fifth century B.
It thrills our blood to-day, as it must have done those who spoke, and those who listened, two thousand four hundred years ago.
The thousand causes which involve large neighbouring states in warfare all exist, and all are endowed with tenfold force in the case of independent city commonwealths.
In less than one year she transported in her own ships two hundred and fifty thousand soldiers to South Africa, without the loss of a single life.
Yet in the case of each the evil is balanced by a thousand things great and good, and the welfare of the world depends upon the growth and prosperity of the English-speaking lands as upon nothing else.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thousand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
