How To Use Ten thousand In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Ten thousand birds and an equal number of chicks constitute an enormous quantity of meat.
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Ten thousand people are reported to have taken part in the protest which passed off peacefully.
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Giving birth, I suppose you'd say, expelling not one, nor even ten, but a thousand creatures; ten thousand.
GALILEE
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"The observation deck is over ten thousand feet above ground, " she said at one point.
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I have ten thousand kinds of reasons to want to love you less now you can love an excuse.
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At a recent judo clinic I attended, eighty-year old 10th dan Phil Porter told us we would achieve that when we had done a technique ‘ten thousand times’!
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I'm half-hoping he picks Chuck Hagel just because the sound of ten thousand Progressives 'heads exploding will make a more interesting noise than the nation-sized collective yawn that's going to greet whoever else it might be.
Lance Mannion:
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The labor and the lives of ten thousand slaves had gone to the making of that bedchamber, while they themselves slept in vile lairs like wild beasts.
A CURIOUS FRAGMENT
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I left off, though, when I became aware that I was being watched by a belted constable with a damned disinheriting moustache, but I've calculated since that I could have cleared ten thousand dollars a year on the streets of Baltimore, easy, which is two thousand quid, sufficient to buy you a lieutenancy in the Guards in those days - and from the look of some of them, I'd not be surprised.
THE NUMBERS
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They captured more than ten thousand prisoners and large quantities of arms in that campaign.
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Ten thousand calendars will be printed but the couple hope there will be enough demand for a lot more.
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Know that you are ten thousand person of light which dare to expect you just shine for me.
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Ten thousand birds and an equal number of chicks constitute an enormous quantity of meat.
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I feel that it is not necessary for me to go further to convince any one of my readers that the lustfulness of the priestcraft is a menace to the chastity of womankind, for if this nun has told the truth, and which I know from past experiences is true, and which I also know is a recital that could be intensified ten thousand times over, if the whole truth could be told, but which cannot be told in this volume, as I have too much respect for my readers to recite what I have seen with my own eyes and what I have had repeated to me by broken-hearted "sisters" who have come to me with tears in their eyes and with sighs in their throats to tell me of their miseries.
Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
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I am a force so terrifying that I can kill a ten thousand strong army with just a flick of my finger.
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The centre was crowded and some say it was about ten thousand strong.
Times, Sunday Times
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The town has a population of ten thousand.
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Caithe got her name spoken on ten thousand lips: the woman who fought with the frenzy of a whirlwind.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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With the land rush fading into history, the Ten Thousand Acres had proven a useful way of opening up a steady trickle of cubage.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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Know that you are ten thousand person of light which dare to expect you just shine for me.
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Even if you never see them in the elements of their renown, even in a mere courtesy-handshake between friends of friends in a parking lot, you cannot help but feel an immortal vibrancy, a comic-book kind of costumed exuberance like that parking lot is host to a historic summit or a scene in ten thousand movies we're living right now.
Bookslut
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Famous organists drew crowds in the thousands, sometimes more than ten thousand, to the churches, concert halls, pavilions and even department stores with grand organs.
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And to observe her Majesty's commands for the ten thousand pounds, we agreed he should take it out of the portion that was landed secretly, and to remove the same out of the place before my son Henry and I should come to the weighing and registering of what was left; and so it was done, and no creature living by me made privy to it but himself; and myself no privier to it than as you may perceive by this.
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4
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Ten thousand pounds! Heaven forbid! How is half sum to be repaid?
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The chancellery alone sent out more than ten thousand letters a year.
THE FAMILY
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A general of an army may be of more consequence to the welfare of a nation than a thousand common soldiers; so one idea like that of evolution may be worth a full ten thousand like the fact that "our neighbor's cat kittened yesterday.
How to Study and Teaching How to Study
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Ten thousand people a year die of the disease - that's the equivalent of the population of this town.
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No ten thousand snow shovels were ever sent out to Panama, as later charged–only a thousand shovels that looked like snow shovels but were in fact specially designed for scooping the ash out of steam-shovel boilers, a use for which they were ideally suited.
The Path Between the Seas
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And other names for it are ten duotrigintillion, ten thousand sexdecillion, or ten sexdecilliard.
Archive 2009-04-01
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In the first place, I am convinced that not one man in ten thousand or in a hundred thousand is a genuine, chemical dipsomaniac.
Chapter 39
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Ten thousand people a year die of the disease - that's the equivalent of the population of this town.
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So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men after him.
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International check organization and quality department appoint to adopt TILO brand extensively, have had as many as ten thousand domestic and international high-quality travelling traders.
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And in the Republic, -- "By each of these disciplines, a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated, which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind; an organ better worth saving than ten thousand eyes, since truth is perceived by this alone.
Representative Man (1850)
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Waster came in for these hereditaments; though the year 1789 deprived him of all seignorial rights save to the rents paid by his tenants, which amounted to some ten thousand francs per annum.
Two Poets
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By dint of constant repetition, however, these constitutional sights had very little more interest for me than so many parochial vestries; and I was glad to exchange this one for a lounge in a well-arranged public library of some ten thousand volumes, and a visit to a tobacco manufactory, where the workmen are all slaves.
American Notes for General Circulation
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In that romantic history, the retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks, this peculiarity is alluded to.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
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There are ten thousand cities in the United States to-night lighted by the companies owned or controlled by Standard Oil, and in as many cities all the electric transportation, -- urban, suburban, and interurban, -- is in the hands of Standard Oil.
Chapter 9: The Mathematics of a Dream
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I'd fixed up the break-in myself, through Yannick Thiboult, a brocanteur, a junk wheeler who still owed us ten thousand francs.
WHITE LIES
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The compressive power of something like ten thousand tons dead weight has to be pretty fierce.
SAN ANDREAS
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Ten thousand men would fully cover the artillery and cavalry and perhaps considerably overgo it -- (The return for the 31st of May, just four days before the commencement of the movement, shows the infantry to have been 54,356 for duty, cavalry 9,536, and artillery 4,460, total 68,352. This return was not accessible to me when the within was written.)--150 guns would cover all of our artillery, and they consisted of field pieces, the most of which had been captured from the enemy.
Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States,
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Gave ten thousand dollars for it to a little mustachioed froggy art dealer on the Boulevard Haussmann.
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The town has a population of ten thousand.
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Ten thousand years ago the ice began its retreat from Scotland.
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Reading ten thousand books is like traveling ten thousand miles.
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The bottom line is that we need another ten thousand dollars to complete the project.
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Ten thousand strengths seemed then to heave him from her heart; and struggling with a power that amazed even herself, she threw him from her; and holding him off with her shackled arms, her shrieks again pierced the heavens.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Ten thousand people roar a loud sigh as you are.
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For one middle-class gentlewoman who understands anything about cookery, or who really cares for it as a scientific art or domestic necessity, there are ten thousand who do not; yet our mothers and grandmothers were not ashamed to be known as deft professors, and homes were happier in proportion to the respect paid to the stewpan and the stockpot.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
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It is said, at this time, while we fled with fear at our hearts, that the yellow-haired sea wanderer put into the Pribyloffs, right to the factory, and while the part of his men held the servants of the company, the rest loaded ten thousand green skins from the salt-houses.
An Odyssey of the North
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My counter for this website records that the site has just received its ten thousandth visitor.
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After you have read more than ten thousand volumes, you will find it easy to write as if God were there helping you.
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It's £20 000 pro rata, but I'm doing half the full number of hours, so I'll be getting ten thousand.
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The judge levied a ten thousand dollars fine against the factory for polluting the river.
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“Wan” pronounced wahn literally means ten thousand; in Chinese, wan represents all or every.
Tao I
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Soft chords formed a suspended background for loud attacks that took an eternity to die away, and the aptly titled ‘Ten Thousand Shades of Blue’ diminuendoed into ambiguously bittersweet dissonance.
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Ten thousand reckless little goofs get injured in our country's playground parks each year according to the Ontario-based Canadian Standards Association.
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For though one should speak ten thousand words well, if there happen to be one little word displeasing to you, because not sufficiently intelligible or accurate, you make no account of the many good words, but lay hold of the little word, and are very zealous in setting it up as something impious and guilty; in order that, when you are judged with the very same judgment by God, you may have a much heavier account to render for your great audacities, whether evil actions, or bad interpretations which you obtain by falsifying the truth.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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I have said that there were ten thousand of us that stood hip to hip and shoulder to shoulder on the sandbank.
YAH! YAH! YAH!
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Republic, — “By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind; an organ better worth saving than ten thousand eyes, since truth is perceived by this alone.”
Representative Men
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Know that you are ten thousand person of light which dare to expect you just shine for me.
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Ten thousand onlookers are expected at the musical beachfront finale today, so think twice about taking your towel.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wonder how much interest I can earn from a time deposit of ten thousand Yuan.
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The United Press estimated that ten thousand Iowans swarmed the Van Meter High ballyard for the exhibition game.3 Again, Bob pitched for both the Adel nine and the Kingsbury Beer squad from Des Moines, fanning twelve of fourteen batters, many of whom he had known growing up.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert
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You have these persons, then, linked together in such manner, as will render them perfectly inseparable in these various stock transactions; having dealt for some little time; having bought and having sold; having this tremendous balance, this world of Stock, under which they were, on the Saturday evening, bending and groaning, on the Monday morning they had disburthened themselves completely of this with a profit of a little more than ten thousand pounds.
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
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It was a word similar to misunderstanding, which when Grace thought of it now, was like those huge beautiful air balloons, a hundred feet in circumference, that the Japanese had sent across the ocean, nearly ten thousand of them, during the Second World War.
The Life You Longed For
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It's taken ten thousand hours of supercomputation to derive the construction process for the smallest machine modern science will allow to exist, but at the end of the long and sleepless night of 11th November the magic box contains a fully functional femtoassembler.
Everything2 New Writeups
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When all the financial world was clamoring for money and perishing through lack of it, the first of each month many thousands of dollars poured into his coffers from the water-rates, and each day ten thousand dollars, in dime and nickels, came in from his street railways and ferries.
Chapter XX
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The ten thousand trees beneath, and their ten million branches and twigs all completely clothed in crystal -- while not the slightest breeze was stirring -- presented a view of fairyland, such as flits across the vision in dreams, that the memory fain would cling to, but which is lost in the real and conflicting transactions of returning day.
Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described
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The dice and chuck-a-luck seemed ten thousand miles away.
Vigorish
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When we find, indeed, a system such as Jesuitism blasted by the ridicule of Pascal, we conclude that it was not true, -- but why? not merely because ridicule assailed it, for ridicule has assailed ten thousand systems which never even shook in the storm, but because, in the view of all candid and liberal thinkers, the ridicule _prevailed_.
Poetical Works of Akenside
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The judge levied a ten thousand dollars fine against the factory for polluting the river.
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I have been making some calculations and have been able to satisfy myself that a 'hyperspace' about ten feet on a side was, in fact, generated: a matter of some ten thousand quartic-not cubic!
Reach For Tomorrow
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On February 27th Sheridan, with two divisions of cavalry, ten thousand sabers, moved up the Valley to Staunton.
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There are a trillion times more "green house gases" emitted from the volcanos in one minute that cars, industry, etc. emit in ten thousand years.
Kerry: Palin should check out 'the view from her front porch'
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Up to ten thousand Zimbabwean soldiers are operating in Mozambique.
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An iPod can store up to ten thousand songs in a gleaming white box smaller than a pack of cigarettes.
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Up to ten thousand Zimbabwean soldiers are operating in Mozambique.
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On February 27th Sheridan, with two divisions of cavalry, ten thousand sabers, moved up the Valley to Staunton.
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Additional sonic materiel is supplied by The Ten Thousand Things, who contributed four lush and unsettling “eldritch drones” to the project.
"Eldritch Musicks" : The Lovecraft News Network
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Reporter pay attention ten thousand branch four seasons Huacheng also has some villas is also nobody housing repair semifinished materials room, but license hiring at present only then this.
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In fact he would have given ten thousand pounds from his own pocket (Kate's plum was _her own_) if he could have invented anything like an excuse for complying with our very natural wishes.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
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You and I shall become a good team working for the good of our sovereign lord, His Majesty, may he live ten thousand years.
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After this he commanded that all that had belonged to him should be given to the lady, the which was not so little but that it outvalued ten thousand doubloons.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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The judge levied a ten thousand dollars fine against the factory for polluting the river.
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Tracy and I walked the halls, and fucked and ate and sightsaw, and one day wound up in a great dark cavern of the winds, in which were suspended ten thousand interstellar warships, bristling with missile launchers and turrets and ray projectors.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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It's hard to believe that the building inspector who charges a thousand dollars to approve a sound building wouldn't accept ten thousand dollars to approve an unsound one.
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All day he maintained his perilous station between the city and the Barbarians: Villehardouin decamped in silence at the dead of night; and his masterly retreat of three days would have deserved the praise of Xenophon and the ten thousand.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The logical choice—if any choice could be called logical under such conditions—was one of the western corridors rising to an altitude of no more than ten thousand feet.
Alexander the Great
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He would offer all the cattle, and all the oil of his kingdom, _thousands of ram, and ten thousands of rivers of oil_!
Sermons on Various Important Subjects
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You should not be overhasty . Remember there's a matter of over ten thousand dollars at stake.
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Friendly Devil on Two Sticks, for ten times ten thousands years, keep Blink-Bonny jibbing at the post, and let us have no start!
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
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After you have read more than ten thousand volumes, you will find it easy to write as if God were there helping you.
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The total number of Komondors worldwide is far less than ten thousand.
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And then the proud and smirking Poet and Maker falls ten thousand feet into dubiety .
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But Demetrius, whose courage did not sink, resolutely sent him answer, that, though he were to lose ten thousand battles like that of Ipsus, he would pay no price for the good-will of such a son-in-law as Seleucus.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Ten thousand bouquets, liberally admixed with teddy bears and poetic effusions, were laid around the church, often by people who had come hundreds of miles.
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And when he came to the sea he sent home the footmen again, and took no more with him but ten thousand men on horseback, the most part men of arms, and so shipped and passed the sea into England, and landed at Dover; and through the wit of Merlin, he had the host northward, the priviest way that could be thought, unto the forest of Bedegraine, and there in a valley he lodged them secretly.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
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This rain, falling on land five, ten, a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand feet above the sea level, begins to run back to the sea, picking out the easiest road and cutting a channel that we call a brook, a stream, or a river.
Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine
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Though casualty figures remain unclear, estimates suggest at least 20, 000 Chinese soldiers died, while Vietnamese dead number under ten thousand.
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I have ten thousand kinds of reasons to want to love you less now you can love an excuse.
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Today, Bahrain erupted again when ten thousand people streamed into Manama's Pearl Square "galvanized" by the death of a protestor on Monday and another on Tuesday.
Sharmine Narwani: Washington's Valentine's Day Faux Pas in the Middle East
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The judge levied a ten thousand dollars fine against the factory for polluting the river.
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Feels as if I could bust inter ten thousand emptins, dey's so agerwatin.
Success with Small Fruits
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On the escaladder he told someone, "It's cruel to tie ticklers to slow-witted snaily humans when ticklers can think and live ... ten thousand times as fast," he finished, plucking the figure from the murk of his unconscious.
The Creature from Cleveland Depths
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To what a degree of tenuity then this silky matter can be reduced that stretches out in threads of which it takes ten thousand to equal the size of one hair!
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Shoot, Dad," he called breathlessly, as the cross hairs intersected the exact center of one of the spheres ten thousand feet below.
"The War of the Planets" by Harl Vincent, part 12
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It produced ten thousand pounds, with what was "noodled" or picked up from the dumps.
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After you have read more than ten thousand volumes, you will find it easy to write as if God were there helping you.
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`Here lie ten thousand Valari warriors,' I said, looking about the knoll.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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The lawyer who is a humourist is a man of ten thousand.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
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_ «Mīlle», _a thousand_, in the singular is usually an indeclinable adjective (as, «mīlle mīlitēs», _a thousand soldiers_), but in the plural it is a declinable noun and takes the partitive genitive (as, «decem mīlia mīlitum», _ten thousand soldiers_).
Latin for Beginners
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Initially, many Galactics had objected to the Ten Thousand Acres as an appalling waste of cubage.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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The brush lining our path buzzed with the sounds of ten thousand winged neighbors exchanging the morning news.
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And behind, all down the island-studded Alaskan coast, even to the Horn, were yet ten thousand more, harnessers of wind and steam, hasteners from the ends of the earth.
CHAPTER I
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The head of the branch bank embezzled ten thousand dollars from the bank where he worked.
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It's said that in the old days the warriors of the Satsuma domain [in Kyushu] would strike a bundle of brushwood ten thousand times every day, but I could only manage about five hundred at best.
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Non-Ghanaian nationals pay ten times more than Ghanaian nationals: ten thousand cedis (approximately four dollars) instead of one thousand cedis (approximately forty cents).
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Reading ten thousand books is like traveling ten thousand miles.
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And then the proud and smirking Poet and Maker falls ten thousand feet into dubiety .
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Everywhere is pure, light illumines the ten directions, and the ten thousand dharmas [things] are one as is.
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`Here lie ten thousand Valari warriors,' I said, looking about the knoll.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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Know that you are ten thousand person of light which dare to expect you just shine for me.
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At last one Mr. Wood a mean ordinary man, a hard-ware dealer, procured a patent under his Majesty's Broad Seal to coin fourscore and ten thousand pounds in copper for this kingdom, which patent however did not oblige any one here to take them, unless they pleased.
Political Pamphlets
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Where the curving hills scalloped the edge of the light-blue sky Mount Egmont soared ten thousand feet, sloping into the clouds, its sides still white with snow, its symmetry so perfect that even those like Frank who saw it every day of their lives never ceased to marvel.
The Thorn Birds
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The Ten Thousand Islands of southwest Florida have the highest concentration of mangroves in the state.
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The head of the branch bank embezzled ten thousand dollars from the bank where he worked.
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We unlocked horns and relations improved ten thousandfold.
Fallin’ Up
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Once more I write with the splendours of the quenchless fires in sight, and the usual world seems twilight and commonplace by the fierce glare of Halemaumau, and the fitful glare of the other and loftier flame, which is burning ten thousand feet higher in lonely
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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The town after a desperate and prolonged resistance was at last taken by storm; and Doria captured Aisa, a Turkish alcaid, and ten thousand prisoners of the baser sort.
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
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My lord was rolling up, and wetting betwigst his lips, another segar; he lookt up, after he had lighted it, and said quietly — “Certainly, Miss Griffin had a fortune of ten thousand a year.”
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
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Blame it on the lightless conspiracy of bee life, a secret guarded by ten thousand fanatically loyal, armed soldiers.
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After you have read more than ten thousand volumes, you will find it easy to write as if God were there helping you.
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'There are ten thousand hangable rogues in Paris, but only one poet amongst them!'
The Justice of the King
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Given the nature of modern mass media, if 10 people wear red and hold red flags, and ten thousand wear white, the media will sensationalize the ten "commos".
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The regular doctor will administer a dose containing ten thousand times as much of the mother drug as the homeopath .
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It was meant as a kind of religious devotional image and he had planned to produce ten thousand copies.
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Better to give the real, the only excuse, and say that the soil is so -- no, not adhesive, not sticky, not tenacious, but, to use a word ten thousand times more expressive than these, so _clarty_.
The Bed-Book of Happiness
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Of the enemy ten thousand were slain: on our part three hundred and sixty fell; among whom was Aulus Atticus, the praefect of a cohort, who, by his juvenile ardor, and the fire of his horse, was borne into the midst of the enemy.
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
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Moreover, O my son, it hath reached me that they have married thee, by way of intermediary, to the lady Zubaydah the lutist and they have imposed on thee a marriage-settlement of ten thousand dinars; wherefore I send thee also fifty thousand dinars by the slave Salím.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In London in 1823, stage designers used ten thousand gallons of water to represent the Falls as backdrop for a play.
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The Tail Burn cascaded through a landscape strewn with mounds of flood-washed rubble left behind by glacial meltwaters, weathered over ten thousand years into rounded hillocks.
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Jupiter from his rotation has not the fifty thousandth part of his revolutional moment of momentum, while the earth's rotational share is not one ten thousandth part of that of
Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon
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Ten thousand or so civilians worked at the dockyard to repair and supply the fleet, and went to and from their work in fleets of buses and special trains.
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Reporter pay attention ten thousand branch four seasons Huacheng also has some villas is also nobody housing repair semifinished materials room, but license hiring at present only then this.
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Ten thousand West Coast dockworkers can tell you how it feels when that happens.
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Reading ten thousand books is like traveling ten thousand miles.
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After you have read more than ten thousand volumes, you will find it easy to write as if God were there helping you.
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The rain fell harder as we arrived at a larger town, crested with ten thousand 1V aerials.
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The judge levied a ten thousand dollars fine against the factory for polluting the river.
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Meanwhile the datto and his followers stood calmly and unflinchingly erect with uncovered heads, to show their respect for that great American, George Washington, who little thought that in the first year of the twentieth century his birthday would be celebrated on American territory ten thousand miles away from the United States.
A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Euripides
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Blame it on the lightless conspiracy of bee life, a secret guarded by ten thousand fanatically loyal, armed soldiers.
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It will hold ten thousand people and host concerts, ice skating and sports facilities.
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The pesatero or landlord of the inn had been despatched by my brave chapel-churies, with his fine family of children — the officers quartered in the podesta had of course bolted; but one man remained, and my fellows were on the point of cutting him into ten thousand pieces with their borachios, when I arrived in the room time enough to prevent the catastrophe.
Burlesques
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My master, who was the most prominent courtier to his most gracious Majesty, the Emperor Kao, may he live ten thousand years.
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And only one couple in ten thousand were childhood sweethearts and are actually in love, no matter what the storybooks say.
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In addition there were about ten thousand Ghazis.
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I detailed Kelly Eyre to Quimperlé with orders for ten thousand crimson hand-bills; I sent McCadger, with Dawley, the bass-drummer, and Irwin, the cornettist, to plaster our posters from Pont Aven to
The Maids of Paradise
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In the worst-case scenario more than ten thousand people might be affected.
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141 From the street, visitors first entered through a two-story pagoda with green roofs edged with vermilion, and next they walked beneath a grand sign written in gilded Chinese characters that read, “Ten Thousand Chinese Things.”
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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Ten thousand people roar a loud sigh as you are.
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The bottom line is that we need another ten thousand dollars to complete the project.
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Around ten thousand ravers were expected to attend the open-air party.
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I have received your outstanding help of ten thousand shillings.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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Ten thousand people work in the jails of Kuzbass, jails packed with over thirty thousand inmates.
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A thousand meals cluttered the Cuartel, already mildewed and being eaten by cockroaches and stray cats; woven cloth and manufactured footgear sufficient for ten thousand poor were destined for the flames.
Mexico's Army and Ours
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In a recent study undertaken in the US by Katy Santiago, a bio mechanist who founded the Restorative Exercise Institute™, participants took part in the 10,000 steps walking programme; which states that people should aim to record ten thousand steps roughly 4 miles of walking in some form each day.
Take a Step above the Rest in Earth
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Ten thousand a year renders pines cheap at 1l. 11s. 6d. per pound; ten hundred is better exemplified by Ribston pippins!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
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Ten thousand dollars is well within the budget of a smallish software development company.
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His intentions were good, but does that really excuse the fact that he actively supported a junta responsible for ten thousand murders?
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The decibel scale is logarithmic - a noise level of 30 decibels is therefore ten thousand times quieter than the sound of a conversation.
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The bottom line is that we need another ten thousand dollars to complete the project.
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I intend to live to be a hundred, and to go to ten thousand routs and balls, and to play cards every night of my life till the year eighteen hundred [it is currently 1712].
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I have ten thousand kinds of reasons to want to love you less now you can love an excuse.
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Ten metres make a decametre, and one thousand metres make a kilometre, and ten thousand metres make a myriametre.
Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing
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Ten thousand pound reward in murder hunt.
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Blame it on the lightless conspiracy of bee life, a secret guarded by ten thousand fanatically loyal, armed soldiers.
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One thing is certain: it has a tendency to enervate both body and mind, and were it not for the revivifying effects produced by a winter residence in the country, where gentlemen take to field sports, and ladies to razeed dresses, sensible shoes, and constitutional walks, the mortality among our "upper ten thousand" would, I believe, be frightful.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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I have ten thousand kinds of reasons to want to love you less now you can love an excuse.
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But there are people to whom these questions seem of such first importance, that to be with them when you are young and impressionable, is to feel every defect in your own personal appearance to be a crime, and to believe that there is neither worth, nor love, nor happiness (no life, in fact, worth living for) connected with much less than ten thousand a year, and 'connections.'
Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
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The general style of the capote is the same in all the islands, and will remain so for the next ten thousand years, but each island shapes its capotes just enough differently from the others to enable an observer to tell at a glance what particular island a lady hails from.
The Innocents Abroad
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Ten thousand people in Sarawak, Malaysia, have been displaced by the Bakun dam, which is expected to open next year, and a series of Latin American dams could force many thousands of people off their land.
Hydroelectric dams pose threat to tribal peoples, report warns
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The scented clover field -- the white campions dot it here and there -- yields a rich, nectareous food for ten thousand bees, whose hum comes together with its odour on the air.
Nature Near London
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I saw few animals beyond birds and an occasional deer as this massive monoculture forest that lies between eight thousand and ten thousand feet was rather sterile for wildlife, a biological desert with virtually no understory.
Bird Cloud
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The orphanage worker led her into his office, and she plunked down ten thousand dollars - in cash - on the desk.
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For we cannot imagine that the next ten thousand years will offer its ectype.
SPECIAL CONTEST ACTIVITY
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Know that you are ten thousand person of light which dare to expect you just shine for me.
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He was one of ten thousand soldiers to take part in the battle and only two thousand returned home.
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Ten thousand people roar a loud sigh as you are.
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And it would have required all the civility possessed by Earl Russell to frame despatches to avoid a castigatory war, such as that with which we are now menaced because some of our upper ten thousand believed what the
London: Saturday, August 26, 1865
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To dispel any confusion, the track segues into a reprise of On Play Patterns' second half, ‘Ten Thousand Animal Calls.’
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The fact was that he had sold out certain stock, and every night took an intense delight in contemplating those ten thousand francs, gloating over them, and finding something quite roysterous and insurrectional in their appearance.
The Fat and the Thin
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I think of Egypt where, for the first time in its history, a recorded history that goes back nearly ten thousand years, the fellah, the peasant of the Nile, like the ryot on the Ganges, is able to gather in the fruit of his own labours.
The Relation of the United States to the Issues of the War
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In his presentation document to al-Qaeda, Barot said that the americium from around ten thousand smoke detectors would be needed to make the bomb effective and that once the device was detonated the subsequent radioactive cloud “has the potential to affect around 500 people.”
The Longest War
