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Example sentences for "two hundred"

  • Two hundred years of peace had not sapped the red blood from his courageous line.

  • There was good cover between the animal and me, and so, though I might have hit him at two hundred yards, I preferred to crawl closer to him and make sure of the meat we both so craved.

  • We tramped away from the river for upwards of an hour before discovering anything, and then only a small red deer, which Taylor brought down with a neat shot of two hundred yards.

  • General Parks reported to General Atchison on October 7 that, on arriving there the day before, he found the place besieged by two hundred or three hundred Missourians, under a Dr.

  • When the merchants sold a calico or gingham dress pattern they threw in their profit by giving a spool of thread (two hundred yards), hooks and eyes and lining.

  • Austin, with a field-piece, and defended by two hundred or three hundred Mormons under G.

  • A band of men, numbering from one hundred to two hundred, and coming mostly from Warsaw, began burning the houses, outbuildings, and grain stacks of Mormons all over the southwest part of the county.

  • You will, therefore, please to select from the three regiments with you, two hundred of your best men, and those who are best clothed, and organize them into corps with proper officers.

  • The continentals of about five hundred men, two hundred of whom were raw troops, formed the second line, under Col.

  • He could not have been MUCH more than thirty-five years her senior; and, as he lived on two hundred rupees a month and had money of his own, he was well off.

  • The mind leaped forward a hundred-- two hundred--a thousand years.

  • It was an honest letter, written by an honest man, then stewing in the Plains on two hundred rupees a month (for he allowed his wife eight hundred and fifty), and in a silk banian and cotton trousers.

  • Confined to their castles and mansions they see only those of their own sphere, they hear only the echo of their own ideas, they imagine that there is nothing beyond the public seems to consist of two hundred persons.

  • Occasionally his debtor or tenant is a community: one deputy in the National Assembly owned a fief of two hundred casks of wine on three thousand pieces of private property.

  • There were also letters of the young man found, written to his brother, wherein he complained that his father did not act justly in giving Antipater a country, whose [yearly] revenues amounted to two hundred talents.

  • Now the army of men that wore their armor, was three hundred thousand of the tribe of Judah, of whom Adnah was the chief; but John was chief of two hundred thousand.

  • There, too, the colonists again found groups of magnificent kauries, their cylindrical trunks, crowded with a cone of verdure, rising to a height of two hundred feet.

  • Some rose to a height of two hundred feet.

  • They varied in length from eight hundred to two thousand feet, and they had a carrying power of from seventy to two hundred tons.

  • Duke of Guise, could have effected more than all the crusaders of two hundred years.

  • Between St. Louis and Cairo the steamboat wrecks average one to the mile;--two hundred wrecks, altogether.

  • When I reached the ground, two hundred men, women, and children stood massed together, transfixed with horror, and staring at the grated windows of the jail.

  • The river is more than a mile wide, and very deep--as much as two hundred feet, in places.

  • He has sent for one hundred tents, and, if all go to the hills who are in motion now, two hundred will be required.

  • To-day, the man who pays taxes to the amount of two hundred francs is virtuous; the talented man is the honest pickpocket: such truths as these are accounted trivial.

  • Two hundred grenadiers stood the obelisk of Luxor upon its base in a few hours; do you suppose that one man could have accomplished the same task in two hundred days?

  • The expedition of twelve thousand men was reduced to one of two hundred, which had been easily repulsed, with the result that of the assailants one had been wounded and one made prisoner.

  • In the evening Menon set out with two hundred grenadiers.

  • My pyrhanism vanished upon his statement that in the very region referred to he had seen petrified trees of the length of two hundred feet.

  • The long house of the Iroquois was divided into apartments so as to shelter from one hundred to two hundred Indians.

  • The canyon of the Colorado River, having a length of two hundred miles, and through the whole, nearly vertical walls of rock, three to six thousand feet in height.

  • Most of these outlines are rectangular, and vary from forty to fifty feet to two hundred by four hundred feet.

  • This grade winds around the surface of the hill for about half a mile, when it stretches out across a valley three-quarters of a mile wide, an elevated embankment from sixty to two hundred feet in height.

  • Here was a four-sided platform, three hundred and forty feet long by two hundred and eighty feet wide, and five feet high, supported a second platform measuring two hundred and forty by two hundred feet, and six feet high.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    boundary line; color light; dollar bill; good fruit; infinite number; lower rate; pour les; religious work; stand alone; study the; terminal moraine; two ago; two and; two different; two eggs well beaten; two feet; two hours; two kinds; two later; two men; two minutes; two more; two other; two pounds; two volumes; wild beast