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Example sentences for "eighty thousand"

  • The total loss in dead was computed at eighty thousand.

  • The allies marched through Dresden[6] and took up a firm position in and about Bautzen, after being joined by a reinforcement of eighty thousand Bavarians.

  • Eighty thousand lives," he muttered; "eighty thousand lives, besides those of my soldiers whom you will slay.

  • Yet I say that if Saladin asked for half the noble maidens in the city, it would be cheap to let him have them in payment for the blood of eighty thousand folk," and he stalked towards the door.

  • The latter were routed with terrible slaughter, leaving, Tacitus says, upwards of eighty thousand dead on the field.

  • For this position, it will be remembered, was a strongly intrenched line, held by eighty thousand men, well armed and equipped, having in their front less than half their number of Confederates.

  • His first encounter with them was at Hermannstadt, north of the Danube, which was invested by an army of eighty thousand Ottomans.

  • The Persian army consisted of eighty thousand cavalry, splendidly mounted and equipped, and well trained.

  • After three weeks from crossing the Balkans, Diebitsch arrived in front of Adrianople, a city of eighty thousand inhabitants, with a garrison of ten thousand men.

  • Meanwhile Sobieski had time to bring up his army from Poland and to join Prince Charles of Lorraine, who was in command of the Imperial troops, making a total force of eighty thousand.

  • The trust fund, with interest, would amount to eighty thousand pounds.

  • Notwithstanding that he was the owner of eighty thousand pounds, Mr. George Carmichael left the august presence of the head of Paget Brothers feeling somewhat crestfallen.

  • Young, plain, yet with a certain distinguished bearing, with an income of eighty thousand francs, Laginski was a leading light in Paris, during the reign of Louis Philippe.

  • Supposed to have an income of eighty thousand francs.

  • From sixty to eighty thousand of the best mounted warriors stayed behind for work of ruin and revenge.

  • On a fixed day, through a false alarm that the Kirghises and Bashkirs had made an inroad upon the Kalmuck lands, he succeeded in gathering a great Kalmuck horde, eighty thousand in all, at a point out of reach of Russian ears.

  • But, because none of us would believe you dead, he has made a reservation in your favour of eighty thousand pounds.

  • I may tell you that he has secured to him, in case of his return, eighty thousand pounds.

  • Tchitchakof was defeated; and of eighty thousand men, Napoleon succeeded in saving sixty thousand.

  • This was offering, for the single government of Moscow, eighty thousand men, and a great quantity of stores.

  • A Chinaman--a diamond worth every penny of eighty thousand pounds--Ah!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being shot; beloved daughter; desert life; eighty acres; eighty days; eighty feet; eighty leagues; eighty miles; eighty pounds; eighty thousand; eighty yards; everybody knew; gainful occupations; high walls; humble servant; inch plank; inversely proportional; made aware; one thousand five hundred; placing them; quite recent; receive the; responsible government; stone quarry; then take off the; will well