Thousands were condemned to prison for the awful crime of manifesting their French sentiments.
Here multiplied thousands took refuge during some of the memorable sieges that the city went through.
It is said that in all thethousands of years since it was built not a single fact in astronomy or mathematics has been discovered to contradict the wisdom of those who constructed it.
Of course thousands of them drifted to the great centers of population and Brazil has had and is still having her share of race troubles.
Thousands of Indians, as well as white people, are engaged in the harvesting and shipping of this tea.
There are thousands of acres of this growing wild and the product made from that in the wild state is as good as any.
To care for the thousands who attend, the town must have a good water supply, an up-to-date sanitary system, and many things that would be uncalled for in an ordinary town.
At this hour thousands of young men can handle these flyers as easily and with almost as little danger as they can handle an automobile.
Not only have these birds lived and died here but multiplied thousands of seal have come here to breed.
Cholera, which used to sweep away tens of thousandsis almost unknown.
The money bet on a single day's races often runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the Jockey Club that owns the race tracks is so rich that it is embarrassing to get its money spent.
There are multiplied thousands of these mummies in Egypt.
From noon until two-thirty or three o'clock shops are closed and thousands of people drop down where they are and go to sleep.
These observers also reported that Aspiduchus borinquen was found in Puerto Rico in a limestone cavern by thousands in the grass and on the walls.
In limestone cavern by thousands in grass and on walls (Rehn and Hebard, 1927; Rehn, J.
The holds were infested with thousands of Periplaneta americana, but in the crew's quarters, mess halls, and storerooms B.
In a hospital Frings (1948) found cockroaches in decorative trim around doorways, by the thousands in wicker laundry baskets, and in incubators for premature babies.
Hundreds of thousands of women have been taken out of their domestic cages and tasted both discipline and independence.
Other incidents were so grotesque that I cannot mention them without enabling the reader to identify the parties, which would not be fair, as they were no more to blame than thousands of others who must necessarily be nameless.
For four years the London theatres were crowded every night with thousandsof soldiers on leave from the front.
Thousands of those Protestants who were the most industrious and intelligent part of the population had emigrated to England.
In short, the law became an engine of oppression and destroyed the fortunes of thousands who had put their confidence in it.
Thousands had taken refuge in the places which still held out for William and Mary.
But here the entire surface of the water shone with thousands and thousands of fish.
Then he said, "This dredge: isn't it pretty ambitious for a boat this size to try to dredge some thousands of fathoms down?
I told you why they didn't die when they came up from thousands of fathoms!
A deliberately made underwater signal can be heard through an unbelievable number of thousands of miles of seawater.
After dinner Davis, as usual, settled himself down to enjoy a program of symphonic music from San Francisco, many thousands of miles away.
All those thousands of tons of fish were pushed straight down.
They are the reason for the shining circle of sea from which thousands of tons of living fish were drawn down into the abyss.
He wanted to accomplish something himself, not as part of a team of some thousands of members.
It is the outcome of the experience of tens of thousands of men for many years--and the result of the expenditure of tons of money.
Take, for example, the loss of the Royal Hibernian Academy, with thousands of pounds of pictures.
My own experience must have been that of thousands of people in Dublin, but I quote it, as I will quote it again, because I can personally testify to it.
There was an array of servants in gorgeous liveries, and the apartment was lit by thousands of candles (no lamps) and as light as day.
There are thousands of people starving here in Lockmanville; and would you want to starve without knowing the reason?
But all these thousands of men who are starving to death--they ought to be told it, too.
The salmon lays millions of eggs, and thousands of young trees spring up in every thicket.
Many thousands of them are in the possession of citizens of the United States, and they will be preserved and transmitted as souvenirs of the greatest act of the most illustrious American of this century.
These were sold in large numbers, and thus many thousands of dollars were added to the receipts of the fair.
Of the thousands that one may meet in a lifetime, General Sherman was among the freest from anything in the nature of hypocrisy or dissimulation.
Many thousands of industrious and orderly citizens doom themselves to perpetual exile rather than abjure the Protestant faith.
Before an hour has passed, a dense multitude, many thousandsin number, are packed together.
Thousands had come together to see the favourite die.
Grenoble assembled in their thousands in the narrow streets which abut upon the ramparts.
How gladly would Victor then have lost the hundred thousandswhich he meant to risk to-morrow!
And up above on the plateau the British troops hear the thunder of thousands of horses' hoofs, galloping--galloping to this last charge which must be irresistible.
Emotionally, we are hundreds of thousands of years old; rationally, we are embryos.
The low intellectual environment of his barbaric past was constant for thousands of years, and his adaptation thereto was complete.
Changes take place in some of the thousands of millions of brain-cells in every thought that we think, and in every emotion that we feel, but the nexus remains an impenetrable mystery.
Thus, to the reports of what Jesus taught were added those of the wonders which he had wrought, from feeding thousands of folk with a few loaves of bread to raising the dead to life.
But if the fortune of war should turn against them, all their children would be in danger from so many thousands of enemies.
Many thousandsof the barbarians were slain in the field, and great numbers in the storming of the camp.
And on the other hand, thousands of the aged, who had British ideas, have dropped and are daily dropping, from the stage of business and life.
One common rule, drawn from a universal sentiment, has presided at the framing of all epitaphs for some thousands of years.
The handful of worshippers here collected from among the tens of thousands of a cathedral town also testify to the fact that such establishments could not be originated now, and are no longer in harmony with the spirit of the multitude.
It does not seem to be rash to anticipate such a state of human affairs as this, when an aspiration like the following has been received with sympathy by thousands of republicans united under a constitution of ideas.
I have been dreaming of this happiness for thousands of miles; now I find that the reality beats all the dreaming!
With regard to the first question--so far as I know, there are no fixed periods for which a scent may be active--I think we may take it that that period does not run into thousands of years.
You see, this is a natural scent, and may derive from a place where it has been effective for thousands of years.
If this be so, what could be a more fitting subject than primeval monsters whose strength was such as to allow a survival ofthousands of years?
But, my dear boy, you must remember that all this took place thousands of years ago.
It costs little to maintain an artist, but it taxes thousands to support the philistine and his wife.
This feeling is intensified when he compares the thousands paid for a single hour of a prima donna's song or a playwright's wit with his own yearly wage laboriously earned.
As many thousands of people [as there are in the world], so many different inclinations are there.
Thus I live more comfortably, O illustrious senator, than you, and than thousands of others.
And this takes no account of the many thousands who served the South as mechanics, laborers, etc.
It must also be remembered that there were thousands of men in all the Confederate States exempted by State authority.
We must also remember that thousands of men were employed on the railroads, in the Government departments and in various branches of manufacture necessary for the support of the army and the people, and also for agricultural labor.
But the simple reason that Yakoob Beg could not have rendered any service to the Russians worth the thousands of pounds he is said to have received, ought to demolish the whole fabrication.
This soldier was thousands of miles from England, and yet he was in the Kingdom of England.
The spirit of God who brooded upon the waters thousands of years ago, is busy now creating men, within these commonplace lives of ours, in the image of God.
This living by code was Franklin's method; and I suppose thousands more could tell how they had hung up in their bedrooms, or hid in locked-fast drawers, the rules which one solemn day they drew up to shape their lives.
Thousands of persons go to church every Sunday hoping to solve this mystery.
To trust Him without knowing Him as thousands do, is not faith, but credulity.
Ah, for the boundless forests of my native land, where the great trees for thousands of miles grow but to furnish firewood wherewithal to burn our foes.
They say the diamonds and things was worth thousands of thousands of pounds.
That's thousands of years ago, but I hear that children still build castles on the sand.
There must be thousands of pounds among the lot of us.
Father said it was once,' Anthea said; 'he says there are shells there thousands of years old.
Father says they infest old places - and this must be pretty old if the sea was here thousands of years ago.
He was as refreshing as the big stein of good Münchener beer which we, with thousands of others, were making disappear.
It was bordered by thousands of people in their holiday attire, which always adds to the charm.
Doubtless thousands were there who had never heard this story before, not knowing whether Jacob was Joseph’s father or Joseph Jacob’s father.
We got off at the pier of Kew Gardens, where thousands land for a visit each day to this beautiful spot.
Thousands are without pants or coats, and hundreds without even a pair of drawers to cover their nakedness.
No plea was made that thousands were being murdered there.
Thus Slavery would legalize frightful tyranny, and declare permanent proscriptions, with the same ease that it consigned thousands to starvation.
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