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Example sentences for "three hundred"

  • A distant day was appointed for assembling this mighty force in the harbor of Brindisi; and a previous attempt was risked with a detachment of three hundred knights, who invaded Albania, and besieged the fortress of Belgrade.

  • Soon the King himself, accompanied by Auverquerque and Ginkell, and escorted by three hundred horse, rode forward to examine the fortifications.

  • Johnson was gratified with a present of a thousand pounds, and a pension of three hundred a year for two lives.

  • He declined an action, and retreated, leaving his stores at Belturbet under the care of a detachment of three hundred soldiers.

  • He soon overtook two or three hundred of his runaways who had taken the same road.

  • Footnote 24: Three hundred myriads, or three millions of medimni, a corn measure familiar to the Athenians, and which contained six Roman modii.

  • Three hundred light-armed and active soldiers were detached in forty small boats, to fall down the stream in silence, and to land at some distance from the posts of the enemy.

  • Two or three hundred agents or messengers were employed, under the jurisdiction of the master of the offices, to announce the names of the annual consuls, and the edicts or victories of the emperors.

  • Hamilcar in exasperation, and resolved to cut his way through in one way or another, had the palisades opened; and the Carthaginians went at a furious rate half way up the hill or three hundred paces.

  • The surprise of the Carthaginians was greater still when three hundred of their own people, who had been made prisoners during the Sicilian war, arrived on board an old Punic trireme.

  • To punish them, a thousand talents, twenty thousand oxen, three hundred bags of gold dust, and considerable advances of grain had been exacted from them, and the chiefs of the tribes had been crucified or thrown to the lions.

  • Then Little John counted the money and found that the bag held three hundred pounds in silver and gold.

  • Pay me three hundred pounds, Sir Richard," said he, "and I will give thee quittance of thy debt.

  • Thou knowest, Sir Prior, that it is as easy for me to pay four hundred pounds as three hundred," said Sir Richard.

  • By my faith, Sir Sheriff, I would be ashamed to show my face if I did not reckon the King's deputy at three hundred pounds.

  • I can recollect a time, seems hundreds and hundreds of years ago, that I was getting my three hundred a month, and pickings, when I was working on a big timber contract in Calcutta.

  • As soon as the British were in possession at Beausejour, Monckton sent a detachment of three hundred men, under Col.

  • They called at Annapolis, and were joined there by three hundred regulars of Warburton's regiment, and got a small train of artillery.

  • I will eat, I will drink - two hundred, three hundred I will place before.

  • On the portions most easily cleared some three hundred acres of hop vines have been planted and are now in full bearing, yielding, it is said, at the rate of about a ton of hops to the acre.

  • Above this the ridge is weathered away to a slender knife-edge for a distance of two or three hundred yards, and thence to the summit it is a bristly mane of chaparral.

  • In all its course from the mouth of the Yakima to the sea, a distance of three hundred miles, the only considerable affluent from the northward is the Cowlitz, which heads in the glaciers of Mount Rainier.

  • Three hundred of the panic-stricken animals ran amuck when they saw and felt the flames and charged wildly down the street, trampling under foot all who were in the way.

  • The river-like flow of 1855 was remarkable for its extent, being from two to eight miles wide, with a depth of from three to three hundred feet, and extending in a winding course for a distance of sixty miles.

  • Illustrations are furnished in Southern Idaho, in which the cones formed are only three hundred or four hundred feet high, but have a breadth at the base of eight or ten miles.

  • The products have varied from twenty-six thousand francs to nine thousand or seven thousand francs, sometimes descending as low as three hundred francs.

  • Their sheep and camels were inherited by the Mussulmans: three hundred cuirasses, five hundred piles, a thousand lances, composed the most useful portion of the spoil.

  • The army with which he passed the Alps consisted of three hundred horse.

  • And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

  • And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield.

  • And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

  • A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing pitch.

  • Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years.

  • The firmness with which the Government withstood the idle outcry of two or three hundred people, about a matter with which they had nothing to do, was designated as insolent defiance of public opinion.

  • I had no hope, however, of three hundred.

  • There were seated and standing perhaps three hundred people, listening to the performers, or talking to each other.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    three acts; three chapters; three commissioners; three dayes; three days and three; three dimensions; three equal horizontal bands; three fathom; three fifths; three fourths; three hundred and twenty; three kinds; three large; three lights; three lions; three little; three miles from the; three millions; three more; three pieces; three plates; three sides; three specimens; three spoonfuls; three threads; three witnesses