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Example sentences for "five thousand"

  • There is also great injustice in the behaviour of the family in passing by the instantaneous payment of, I believe, five thousand pounds, to Charles, won at the same sitting, without any observations.

  • If I would keep up the Established Church of England, it is not for the sake of lords, and baronets, and country gentlemen of five thousand pounds a-year, and rich bankers in the city.

  • It rose from sixty-five thousand to one hundred and ninety-five thousand.

  • I leave five thousand to Athos, five thousand to Porthos and five thousand to Aramis, that they may give the said sums in my name and their own to my young friend Raoul, Vicomte de Bragelonne.

  • Fouquet has given you twenty thousand livres instead of five thousand?

  • The peace establishment of Hadrian and his successors was composed of no less than thirty of these formidable brigades; and most probably formed a standing force of three hundred and seventy-five thousand men.

  • Mention is made of a mine near Carthagena which yielded every day twenty-five thousand drachmns of silver, or about three hundred thousand pounds a year.

  • He at once wrote a check against fifty thousand dollars of his deposits in that bank, took twenty-five thousand of his available office funds, called a loan of fifty thousand against Tighe & Co.

  • This money made him worth nearly twenty-five thousand dollars in his own right, and he knew exactly what to do with it.

  • He could see where, all told, he might raise seventy-five thousand dollars by hypothecating double the amount in shares; but this was ridiculously insufficient.

  • The robbery consisted of twelve louis, five guineas, five thousand pounds in assignats, and several other objects.

  • Banks, however, still had twenty thousand men at Harrisonburg, with twenty-five thousand more in or within call of the Valley.

  • But by the time the second mine was exploded Pemberton was sounding his generals about the chances of getting their own thirty thousand to join Johnston's thirty thousand against Grant's seventy-five thousand.

  • Before the fall of Vicksburg his total strength reached seventy-five thousand.

  • She was thinking that her aunt had said he had desired her to love him from a distance of five thousand miles.

  • She thought that he cared very much about the expenditure of an income of five thousand a year and that the fact that she had done so much for him would rouse in him some affection for her.

  • Endnote 20} These formed the chest of the army, and were supported by five thousand foot, and three thousand horse in reserve.

  • Nasta had poured down from his highlands and was on his way to join her with no less than twenty-five thousand of his mountaineers, the most terrible soldiers to face in all Zu-Vendis.

  • Fouquet, instead of paying me a quarter or five thousand livres--" "A quarter or five thousand livres!

  • I leave five thousand to Athos, five thousand to Porthos, and five thousand to Aramis, that they may give the said sums in my name and their own to my young friend Raoul, Vicomte de Bragelonne.

  • The man may be unfit to live, but you don't need to risk as much as that for a matter of five thousand pounds.

  • I have just had the misfortune to lose to him a bet of twenty-five thousand francs.

  • At the same time, five thousand pounds is an excellent sum.

  • And the spoil which the army had taken, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, 31:33.

  • And he had chosen five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same city: Five thousand.

  • According to their ability, they gave towards the expenses of the work, sixty-one thousand solids of gold, five thousand pounds of silver, and a hundred garments for the priests.

  • And it came to pass that night, that an angel of the Lord came, and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand.

  • Thanks to poar Dawkins's five thousand pound, we were as complete gentlemen as any in Paris.

  • Five thousand pound is, I think, pretty near the mark.

  • It's on the second line from the top, so the prize is seventy-five thousand.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been killed; five acres; five bushels; five days; five degrees; five dollars; five eggs; five fathom; five fathoms; five generations; five grains; five letters; five mile; five miles; five minutes; five parts; five per; five percent; five pieces; five regiments; five thousand; five volumes; five wounded; inland navigation; other things; suppose the