Word: thousander
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...supposing that you have chosen your pictures with a little less regard for fashion and a little more regard for taste, you will find matters very different. If you have travelled, a couple of views of some well-remembered spot will carry you at once a thousand miles away. Before your cigarette is half finished you will find yourself wandering in fancy among the crumbling ruins of Italy, or beneath the battered castles of the robber-barons of the Rhine, or in the fading palaces of the Spanish Moors...
...will be twenty-six lockers arranged in five rows, at right angles to the sides. On both sides dormer-windows will be projected, and if more light is needed, skylights will be cut in the roof. If the whole plan as proposed can be carried out with the two thousand dollars given by the Corporation, we shall have a very commodious, convenient, and handsome boat-house. For the last few years nothing has so dampened the spirits of oarsmen and kept so many from rowing as the wretched condition of the boat-house. The removal of this drawback will...
...this circumstance, and a few weeks ago Mr. Brantingham received a windy rigmarole of a legal summons to attend at the Vice-Chancellor's Court, and show cause why he should not forfeit the sum of pound 20 in that he did 'in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five to wit, at Christ Church, Oxford, wear and use Armorial Bearings, for the wearing and using of which a license was required, without having a proper license...
...night before the battle President Langdon, on the steps of the Holmes House, made a prayer before the soldiers just starting for Bunker Hill. Harvard was now entirely given over to the military. Two thousand men were quartered in her halls, and earthworks were thrown up on the College green. In the old meeting-house, which stood very near where Dane Hall now stands, the minute-men and the famous Committee of Safety were organized...
...Academy sent a delegation of Freshmen some one thousand strong, with two thousand eight hundred Proctors to keep them in order. Many thousand other children from the High Schools and Seminaries of our great metropolis were also present...