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Definition of Thousands
1. thousand [n] - See also: thousand
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thousands
Literary usage of Thousands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1874)
"IN WHICH THE BAG OF BANK-NOTES DISGORGES SOME thousands OF POUNDS MORE. THE train
entered the station, and Passepartout, jumping out first, was followed by ..."
2. The Holy Bible by Canadian Bible Society (1851)
"And the king stood by the pate pide, and all the people came out by hundreds and
by thousands. while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Ferries, automobiles, steam and electric railways bring daily into the city
thousands of these people This fact can be easily illustrated. ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... coming hour of fate My power were such to hide him safe away From baleful
death, as now to forge him arms, The marvel of the thousands who shall see ! ..."
5. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"... night-dress never moved—I waited, looking at her, as I have seen her thousands
of times, as I shall never see her again—and then stole hack to my room. ..."
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