Its armament, consisting of six fifteen-inch guns and a number of light quick-firers, commanded the only approach to North Haven from the north.
Rapidly the heads of the requisite number of barrels were stove in, and the casks, raised by means of cliphooks attached to the wire ropes of the cranes, were emptied into the waiting trucks.
Barely had Detroit resumed his post at the helm when out of the fog came a succession of dull flashes, punctuated by the deafening detonation of a number of quick-firing guns.
With their noses almost touching the ground they moved deliberately and unhesitatingly, while behind them walked a number of officers and men, the latter armed with rifles and bayonets.
Bringing his night glasses to bear the officer made the discovery that a number of seaplanes were battling against the wind, their direction being due west.
All his personal belongings--and they were few in number owing to his hurried departure from the yacht--were taken from him, with the exception of his watch.
Hamerton pushed forward, counting the number of the steps he took.
Unknowingly the yacht had entered an anchorage, for the lights represented the anchor lamps of a number of vessels.
The trucks had been filled by means of a number of shoots.
Close to the mouth was a little hut, the door of which was locked; but judging by the number of insulated wires running from it the Sub concluded it was the operating station for lighting the vast recess.
He had heard that the German authorities, after repeated experiments, had decided to build a number of improved seaplanes to be stationed on the Frisian coast, and now for the first time he saw them in actual flight.
A number of armed German marines stood without the weatherbeaten fane.
Nearly four times that number of projectiles had been fired, many of the shot-holes overlapping each other.
The natural features of Sandinsel Island were favourable for this work, for stretching in a north-westerly direction for almost three miles were a number of rocky ledges, many of their points drying at low tide.
A native, refusing to give information, was ordered to be beaten, and in retaliation a number of Kroomen stoned the German soldiers.
In one corner of a subdivision of the compartment stood a metal freshwater tank, and close to it, in a rack, a number of cups.
The Squire if he heard did not heed his master, for he kept gazing at the proceedings of the strange plant, and trying to count the number of insects it gobbled up in a minute.
Plucking a number of them, he trotted back to Saint Denis.
Thus, by the time he reached the borders of Wales, he had assembled an army which, though small, was well able to perform deeds such as ten times the number of ordinary men would not have dared to attempt.
For they do but fill up the number of the dead in the bill, but we shall never hear their names, till we read them in the book of life with our own.
We judged from the number of dead and the evident punishment other divisions had taken there that the chances of coming back would be slim.
I accumulated a number of very fine razors, and one of the saw-tooth bayonets the Boche pioneers use.
They's ten men in Number 2 section and fourteen in ourn.
Usually when you get as close as that and sweat over a number for ten minutes, somebody else gets his first.
When a number comes out which appears on your card, you cover it with a bit of match.
I finally brought up in General Hospital Number 12 in Rouen.
The powers that were had an uncanny knack of issuing an odd number of articles to go among an even number of men, and vice versa.
It is really quite exciting, as you may get all but one number covered and be rooting for a certain number to come.
The dug-out thatNumber 10 drew was built of concrete and was big enough to accommodate the entire platoon.
The great number of the prisoners we took at High Wood were very scared looking at first and very surly.
Number 9 remained behind in supports in the Quarries.
This number of his journal is entitled The continuation of the Forraine Occurrents, for five Weeks past, containinge many remarkable Passages of Germanie, etc.
There are a number of things to be well considered before any one should permit himself to quarrel with our Government for not quarrelling with Great Britain and France on this matter.
The carriage stopped at the number indicated in the note.
The number of American vessels which frequent the coasts of Madagascar is a sufficient reason for us to interfere, without regard to the vastly greater interests which demand that this island shall not become a French colony.
In 1637, Archbishop Laud procured the passing of an ordinance limiting the number of master printers to twenty, and punishing with whipping and the pillory all such as should print without a license.
But even shouldst thou live until the Day of Judgment, the hour of Resurrection, thy brethren will always number thee among those who have renounced the Mother.
Our lighthouses exceed in numberthose of any other country, and we have no light-dues, as in England.
Two of their number were lost; the pair that had set out to find them would return either with or without the castaways, but in any case to find the launch gone.
He selected a number of these, handling them with no more apparent care than if they had been tins of tomatoes, instead of charges of dynamite.
This is only Number One," muttered Tubby in an alarmed undertone.
The wheel hung outside the fire house of the Vigilant Engine Company Number One.
Ram," calling to the Hindoo, "we try 'um this fellow numberone shot.
Tis in this slow succession of things he may meet with the solution of an infinite number of problems in morality and politics, which philosophers are puzzled to solve.
Now that his dear work has been finished in this world and he has gone to his reward, his works do follow him, for the number that have been saved through his preaching eternity will tell.
Trinkle, who keeps one of the halls in the Summer time has a number of boarders, and does well all of the Summer months and in the Winter he teaches in or near the Ferry.
It is a fine school of Latin, and a number of the students went to that same school.
She has a number of the students that board with her and she is much beloved.
When I had finished my public school I taught a pay school for the Summer and had a large number of scholars, and they progressed well.
Judging from the average results of a considerable number of tests, it appears that a roast weighing 6 pounds raw should weigh 5 pounds after cooking, or in other words the loss is about one-sixth of the original weight.
Whether by economic compulsion or personal preference, it is a fact that a large number of American men remain bachelors, and a corresponding number of American women content themselves with a life of "single blessedness.
The number of coats must depend upon the absorbent nature of the boards.
In a number of instances they give instruction in the making of commodities, such as soap, which are usually purchased in the stores, but which, if made at home will cost less money, and be of better quality.
To these we add two ciphers, to obtain the number of feet of gas that has been burned since the meter was set at zero on the three dials.
Quite a number of women in New York earn several thousand dollars a year each at such work, while continuing their regular editorial labors.
Provided the bottle holds half a pint or four glasses, the numberof bottles may be increased from one a day at four months to two or six at eight months.
From this number we subtract the total of feet burned at the time when the preceding gas bill was rendered.
The first number of this new monthly contains two excellent portraits by M.
The men were talking excitedly about the finding of one of their number in the canyon tied and gagged, and it was evident that it was not a good time for strangers to visit the ranch of the Sebastians.
Of course they carried with them the necessary things to fix the shoe on again, but even then it was a question of a number of minutes.
There were a number of quick, sharp orders given and Juarez noticed the increased volume of smoke pouring from the stack.
And here the three tarried, and talked of all that had happened, and received messages from one thane and another, telling of the number of men which he could bring.
Be they poor or be they rich, high or low, let thy hand be to them, King, for of their number one will be the friend of Guthred the Prince.
And the field of that fight was called amongst men the Field of the Great Slaughter--so vast was the number who lay there dead.
It is very wrong of you to plead for toleration for workers on the ground of their being in peculiar circumstances, and few in number or singular in disposition.
MY DEAR SIR,--Yesterday I despatched a box of books to Cornhill, including the number of the North British Review which you kindly lent me.
A number of tales picked up at random from an illiterate peasantry might very well abound in inconsistencies, and yet contain some measure of truth.
You mention Thackeray and the last number of Vanity Fair.
Saul: a Poem, was written in 1835, and a number of other still unpublished verses.
MY dear kind ELLEN,--I can hardly help laughing when I reckon up the number of urgent invitations I have received from you during the last three months.
MY DEAR SIR,--I thank you for your last truly friendly letter, and for the number of Blackwood which accompanied it.
Among the Romans there were sumptuary laws to restrain the number of guests at feasts;--not only the master of the feast, but all the guests too, were liable to the penalty.
Monastic houses increased in number greatly, and Bishop Ethelwold of Winchester began to rebuild the waste places of the ruined Saxon Medeshamstede, and constructed a minster, some foundations of which still remain.
They have the unusual number of five seats on the same level.
The city has a large number of interesting churches.
The present one has a vast number of bosses representing the Annunciation, Nativity, Magi, Resurrection, besides a quantity of smaller ones.
A curious scene was witnessed here in 1144 when a number of Jews were tried for the ritual murder of the boy saint, St. William of Norwich, in Thorpe Wood, whom they cruelly tortured.
Judging from the number of the names of saints which occur in Welsh nomenclature, we may conclude that the Welsh Church was famous for its zeal and activity and for the holiness of its members.
The library and museum contains many objects of great interest, including a number of Roman altars and tablets, Saxon crosses and carved stones, remarkable for their beautiful scroll-work.
The roof is made of wood, like the nave, and has a large number of foliated bosses.
In the year 1650 a large number of Scottish prisoners were confined in the Cathedral, who did much damage to the internal fittings.
His biographer assures us that there was no less than 965 dwellers in this monastery, which number must be an extraordinary exaggeration.
This prince aided him in building a church and founding a monastery here, and fabulous records tell of the amazing number of the monks.
Hell, they'd swarmed him before his take-off, starting with the moment his number had come up as possible candidate.
By Despotism, his name has been recorded on the list of infamy, but future generations will number him among the noble and brave.
Another effect resulting from the introduction of the Christian age concerned the variety and number of worshippers.
This regulation, so far as it was adapted to the proportion which subsisted between the number of males and females, was founded in the reason upon which the most improved nations of Europe proceed at present.
Lord, so teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
The poverty of the family might not admit of a very liberal supply, or a larger number of visiters might come than had been expected.
Number four rides cunning, cuts off curves, and heads for likely covers.
Occasionally we gain a glimpse behind the veil; for instance, when the periodical scare as to the number of human brains required to keep up British prestige seizes on some cantonment.
Number one ought to make the pace, keeping both eyes on the bird.
What a number of cousins the Rajpore ladies must have!
In the far corner of the inner reading-room a girl stood looking at the new number of the Scientific American, keeping a stern watch the while on the present possessor of the Saturday Review.
We shall be in time for number two----' then she paused abruptly in careless surprise.
Number two keeps his on the going, so as to save Number one from coming to grief over rough country.
One sees dozens of them nowadays in society; one will see more and more year by year, as the unnatural disproportion in the number of the sexes tends to intensify the present seclusion of the nicest girls from the men.
The futility of many proverbs has scarcely a better example than that one which sets the orthodox number for anger at two, when almost universally it is either one or three.
The numbertells him the district in which the fire has occurred, and with one touch of a telegraphic key he sends out an alarm to the thirty-odd engine-houses in the neighborhood of the fire.
You remember, of course, that when the Powers occupied Crete, each nation in the combination landed a certain number of soldiers on the island to help preserve peace.
This causes a signal-number to appear on the key-board in front of the operator at headquarters.
The Government had been busy in the interval, and had prepared a motion that all persons guilty of disorderly conduct in the Reichsrath should be suspended for a certain number of days, and deprived of their pay for that time.
A certain fixed number of cents has to be paid for every pound, gallon, or yard of such goods before they can be brought into the country.
A number of petitions had been presented to the Parliament against the decree making it necessary for officials in Bohemia to understand both the German and Czech languages.
They occur at the north point of Mariscal Mountain and in a number of places near the Fossil Knobs and on the Chisos Mining Company property at Terlingua.
The rains had washed the loess extensively, and I found a number of places where it lay redistributed, with a fairly smooth surface.
In short, there may be a large number of factors, sometimes even in combination, each one of which increases the chances that the individual may come in danger in the midst of developed society.
They also supply the magical papers covered with writings and pictures of birds, to prevent the appearance of smallpox and pestilence and to cure a number of diseases.
I draw on the blackboard of a classroom two circles of an equal size, and write in the one the numberfourteen and in the other the number eighty-nine, and ask the children which is the larger circle.
For that end society may take over directly from the workshop of the psychotherapist quite a number of almost technical methods.
In short, we finally have not merely two but a number of personalities in us.
Again any number of methods may be applied and a few illustrations with quite different ways of treatment may indicate more fully the character of the trouble.
When he came to me, a number of physical cures, especially bromides and electricity, had been tried in vain by the physician.
When my number was drawn, I reported to see what I could do about getting out; I took a look at the other fellows who were trying to squirm, and chucked it.
The fourth occupant of number 96, Claude's cabin, had not turned up by noon, nor had any of his belongings, so the three who had settled their few effects there began to hope they would have the place to themselves.
The number of books astonished him almost as much; the wainscoting all around the room was built up in open bookcases, stuffed with volumes fat and thin, and they all looked interesting and hard-used.
I know that last night a number of cases of eggs and oranges were carried into this room.
He had a number of impersonal preoccupations; was interested in politics and history and in new inventions.
I know that, Lieutenant, but there are a number of sick men this morning, and the only other physician on board is the sickest of the lot.
Hamilton, Jay, Chancellor and other Livingstons, Melanchthon Smith, and a number of leading citizens were members of the convention.
Scotland is not a sovereign nation because her peers elect twelve of their number to the House of Lords of the government of Great Britain.
Probably not more than twenty-five or thirty members, in the total number of one hundred and seventy, regarded the constitutional difficulty as fatal to the bill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "number" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
