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Example sentences for "many men"

  • If many men assemble in a place where food is scarce, everything becomes expensive.

  • He should have considered that at the prospect of so many men, such great numbers of knights and foot soldiers, all of Greece, as one might say, trembled to its very foundations.

  • But it is funny, having so many men, with so much money, and so little idea of what to do with it, is it not?

  • Monsieur de Thome seizes this opportunity to show the reason why so many men of science relegated Swedenborg to oblivion while they delved into his treasure-house and took his facts to aid their work.

  • What to them are sciences and the treasures of the earth when they grasp all things by the eye at all moments, when the worlds which absorb the minds of so many men are to them but the last step from which they spring to God?

  • The manners of society are by no means so unchanged and unalterable as many men suppose.

  • The following remarks can pretend to be nothing more than a few loose and undigested thoughts upon a subject, which has recently occupied the attention of many men, and obtained an extraordinary vogue in the world.

  • Many men, as has already appeared, are forced into situations and pursuits ill assorted to their talents, and by that means are exhibited to their contemporaries in a light both despicable and ludicrous.

  • He is writing that which shall be perused by as many men as can be prevailed on to become his readers.

  • Till at last they came without any order in great security to make an assault, when he issued forth, and put them to flight with the loss of many men.

  • It was a puzzle to know what to do with so many men.

  • Chibisa's deputy was civil, and readily gave us permission to hire as many men to carry the Bishop's goods up to the hills as were willing to go.

  • In the last two months they have lost well nigh as many men as in the campaign in the mountains.

  • We are but children in the art of war beside them, and methinks it would be difficult indeed for us to construct such a machine, though mayhap it could be done had we with us many men skilled in the making of chariots.

  • They see but twenty or thirty thousand men here, and they forget that that number have alone been sent because they were sufficient for the work, and that Rome could, if need be, despatch five times as many men.

  • They do not swing it upon men's arms, seeing that it would be most difficult to get so many men to exercise their strength together, and indeed could not give it the momentum required.

  • Many men, Mr. Robarts, have bought their experience much dearer than that, I can assure you.

  • In the minds of many men an archdeacon, who was the father-in-law of a marquess, was himself as good as any bishop.

  • Down from the ledge on which the castle stood to a point apparently within a few yards of the clay ramp there had been cut a winding swath through the forest, along which four horses abreast could be ridden, or as many men marched.

  • Next day, however, Kagig agreed to let me have as many men as could be crowded together to work, and I took a hundred and twenty.

  • He seemed to be recognized as some sort of chieftain, and carried himself with a commanding air, but so many men talked at once, and all in Armenian, that we could not pick out more than a word or two here and there.

  • Many men, however, my dear, might be willing to compromise it differently.

  • So many men of Elsmere's type give themselves up once and for all as they become mature to the life of doing and feeling, practically excluding the life of thought.

  • In vain I pleaded I could not stand the suffocation of so many men, especially of Waganda, who eat raw plantains; and unless they turned out, I should do so, to benefit by the pure air.

  • It is said of Nabal, That his wine went from him, as many men's sins forsake them, because they are decayed, and want strength and opportunity to perform them.

  • And there was here enough of this to harness out as many men, for the service of their Lord, as there be stars in the Heaven for multitude.

  • Take heed of that; many men crave by their desires, as the dropsical man craves drink; his drinking makes his belly swell big, but consumes other parts of his body.

  • In truth, a man who professes to be himself a defender of many men, wise men say, ought in the first place to show himself able to protect his own life.

  • Our ancestors, indeed, decreed statues to many men; public sepulchres to few.

  • Atli was a great king and mighty, wise, and a lord of many men; and now he falls to counsel with his folk as to the ways of them.

  • I will lead to the Rhine five hundred valiant men, that when they see me and mine at Burgundy, they may say that never king sent so many men so far as thou hast sent to us, to the Rhine.

  • Because of my child that ye slew, and my many men, nor peace nor truce shall ye have.

  • Never have I beheld, with a king's wife, so many men, sword in hand, as for strife.

  • She had not, certes, had so many men to serve her in her first husband's time.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good deeds; many books; many countries; many critics; many distinct; many evils; many fields; many forms; many good; many hands; many hundreds; many instances; many lands; many men; many other; many others; many pictures; many places; many races; many rows; many servants; many sorts; many souls; many teachers; many times; seat near