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• The rage and the disappointment of the admiral were beyond all bounds; what to him was the value of the capture of Aisa, of the Turkish alcaid, of the ten thousand of the baser sort; nay, what to him was the value of "Africa" itself when once again like a mocking spirit Dragut had glided beyond the sea horizon to devastate, to plunder, and to slay once more, the scourge and the menace of Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
• When they got to Lisbon there was a telex from Tex Weston offering to buy the aircraft for ten thousand pounds. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
• And when he was before the prince, he excused himself so sagely that the prince and his council held him excused, and so he fell again into the prince's love and redeemed out his men by reasonable ransoms; and the chatelain was set to his ransom of ten thousand franks, the which he paid after. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
• Romoeuf, riding a franc etrier, on that old Herb-merchant's route, quickened during the last stages, has got to Varennes; where the Ten thousand now furiously demand, with fury of panic terror, that Royalty shall forthwith return Paris-ward, that there be not infinite bloodshed. The French Revolution
• I stood it until I became tortured day and night by the prod of reason, then I quietly left the church and bade farewell to the heathen Scapular and the ten thousand other trinkets of blind paganism, and resolved to break the chain of this "_slave of the soul_" and "_tyrant of reason_. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
• Ten thousand birds and an equal number of chicks constitute an enormous quantity of meat.
• Ten thousand people are reported to have taken part in the protest which passed off peacefully.
• Giving birth, I suppose you'd say, expelling not one, nor even ten, but a thousand creatures; ten thousand. GALILEE
• "The observation deck is over ten thousand feet above ground, " she said at one point.
• I have ten thousand kinds of reasons to want to love you less now you can love an excuse.