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Out of fifty-three thousand Sioux, forty-six thou-sand are ` wild and scarcely tractable'-those are the very words, sir.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

The federal government sent out pamphlets to thirty thou-sand industrialists demanding that they hire an estimated one million black men and women who were unemployed or underemployed.

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

And so you gave him a thou-sand pounds to take part, of it back from hijn, by a few paltry guineas at a time, at his pleasure?

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

He does all he can to assure my heart, and divert me: a thou-sand agreeable lively things he says: so tender, so considerate, in his joy! surely I shall be too happy.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Pity, my clear grandmamma, that different nations of the world, though of different persuasions, did not, more than they do, consider themselves as the creatures of one God, the sovereign of a thou-sand worlds!

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

(There extand by now one thou-sand and one stories, all told, of the same).

Finnegans Wake 2006

The angry cries faded as the crowd gathered into a massive choir, returning to the song that they had been singing earlier: The hill of Zi-on yields a thou-sand sa-cred sweets.

Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001

Times like this, he liked to just sit back and watch the dance of lights as the ship shot through seventy thou-sand light-years in a matter of minutes.

Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

The angry cries faded as the crowd gathered into a massive choir, returning to the song that they had been singing earlier: The hill of Zi-on yields a thou-sand sa-cred sweets.

Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001

Out of fifty-three thousand Sioux, forty-six thou-sand are ` wild and scarcely tractable'-those are the very words, sir.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982