Word: thousander
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Soph. (translating "Milla tum pransi tria reprimus") : "And after we had eaten three thousand suppers we crawled along...
Poet - "But, my dear sir, it is now four years since you accepted my epic, and no steps have yet been taken to publish it." Publisher - "Don't be in a hurry, young man. Homer had to wait more than three thousand years before he got into print, and you can hardly claim that your poem is an Illiad." - [Fliegende Blatter...
...dispatch from Dublin states that letters seized at Walsh's lodgings reveal the fact that six thousand men are enrolled in the secret society he has organized in the North of England...
...Three thousand physical examinations, said Dr. Sargent in his lecture yesterday, have done much to convince me that the number of men with imperfectly formed chests is very much larger than is commonly supposed. To this fact may be attributed the large percent. of deaths which annually occur from pulmonary diseases. In this State one-fifth of the mortality is due to consumption, and in some other States it is even larger than this. Many men who have large chests and apparently well developed ones, are yet deficient in depth and respiratory power. To the casual observer a flat, depressed...
...Forty thousand Cuban slaves, not liberated by their owners in 1870, are to be treated by the government as free...