The ones that will rule with Christ for a thousand years. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In my head I could count to one thousand—forward and backward. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“There has been a worldwide network of dedicated people keeping the preserves secret for thousands of years,” Grandpa said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds, thousands, millions of places the Slip Kid could have set up camp, and I wanted to help them puzzle it out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There were six thousand letters to date and only nine of them abusive. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“More than three thousand, enough to fill house after house, street after street.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are five or six thousand stars that can be seen with the naked eye. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man behind the desk said, “I’m a fool, I know, but my first offer stands. I still offer one thousand. What are you doing?” he asked, as Kino thrust the pearl out of sight. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany saw one man sprawled in the dirt under a black cloak, but as she rode past his cloak dissolved into a thousand flies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We’ll take our chances of becoming ‘contaminated’ with a hundred thousand ‘aliens,’” one reporter wrote, “if they produce only one William Frederick Friedman in a generation!” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Today, George can grow thirty thousand plants in an acre. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

So much had changed in seven months...she wondered how the gods could stand being alive for thousands of years. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I wondered if it bothered any of them, knowing that thousands of indentured slaves lived and toiled here in the same building, just a few floors away from them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The crowd surged toward the water, raised its four hundred thousand hands, and shouted. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He sold three thousand frindl.es the first week, and they sold so fast that stores all over Westfield couldn’t keep them in stock. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nonrestrictive relative clause is set offby commas, dashes, or parentheses, and expresses a comment from the peanut gallery, as in The pair of shoes, which cost five thousand dollars, was hideous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Standing there in the dark with the music running through me, propped up by a thousand other bodies, I disappeared into the greater, wilder, more joyful whole flooding the Palace, the perfect place to be. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The group collected four hundred thousand signatures from women who supported the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“But how can a track team raise twenty thousand dollars?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A gourmet tortilla shop in Oaxaca, Itanoni is an attempt to preserve southern Mexico's hundreds of varieties of maize, a Mesoamerican tradition that has survived for thousands of years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She said there were eight thousand letters for me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If Mom wins her first speed round and correctly guesses all the categories in the Winner’s Circle, she’ll win ten thousand dollars. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was only interested in the results of the sale, knowing that his previous nineteen thousand, nine hundred fifty boxes had been sold and he was off the hook. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of bottles of wine rested in brick alcoves. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Ten times one hundred and thirty-five is one thousand three hundred and fifty!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

All we know is that at some point, at uncertain intervals, they trundle across the road down which we are cruising at sixty-six thousand miles an hour. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

To prove her point that she considered the trial a miscarriage of justice, Anthony had three thousand copies of the court transcript printed and distributed across the country to politicians, libraries, and suffrage groups. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The nation maintains its own elected government and has twenty thousand members. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I really don’t know. I’ve gone back and forth like a thousand times about it all. Each time I reread it, I think something different, you know?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had seen many that weighed more than a thousand pounds and he had caught two of that size in his life, but never alone. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one side, the limestone cliffs were almost completely sheer, dropping into the sea over a thousand feet below, as near as Piper could figure. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were wooden toys moldering in a box; crayons on a windowsill, their colors dulled by the light of ten thousand after noons; a dollhouse with dolls inside, lifers in an ornate prison. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Hundreds, if not thousands, of girls have been married this way. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“That would require thousands of slaves. Where do the Yunkishmen expect to find so many?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person— perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered the time in Jerome when she and Akira had been standing at the barbed-wire fence, and in the forest beyond they could see what seemed like thousands of fireflies. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Inspired by Herbert Norkus, thousands more young people were drawn to the movement. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her fee was the prize money: a thousand dollars. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"This fellow raises the grapes. He's got thousands of acres of them." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I read that over twenty thousand people viewed her body, and I should have been there myself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as tens of thousands of private citizens and many government officials were concerned, these strikes were not simply motivated by hopes for higher wages. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The world’s greatest biological thinkers, having pored over the problem of heredity, had scarcely advanced the field beyond the cryptic musings of two men who had lived on two Greek islands two thousand years earlier. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They thought there would be thousands of bodies. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By 1927 there were, in some estimations, at least a hundred thousand. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The voyage began this afternoon, with more than ten thousand passengers on board. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She fell fast and she fell hard, but what did that matter, since she would have gladly dropped a thousand feet onto a bed of nails if Westley had been waiting at the bottom. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Along with promises made by the agents of the northern factory owners, thousands of African Americans were influenced in their decision to migrate by the black press. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

His mind dances with the thought of hundreds—maybe thousands—of leaflets scattered throughout Germany. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to take a thousand years for Mama to fall to the ground in a crumpled heap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

One by one, every paper, pamphlet, document, book, notebook, letter, magazine, and clipping that the police had accumulated in the last three years of searches was produced and numbered; twelve thousand in all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fading twilight, a thousand people, perhaps more, milled around talking and laughing. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were coolly assessing the hundreds of SS guards, the thousands of prisoners surrounding him. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That one book contains the definitions of more than four-hundred fifty thousand words. Now, wasn’t I right, Nicholas? All this will mean so much more since you learned about it on your own.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Confucius say a woman is worth a thousand words. Tell your wife she’s used up her total.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

What we know today as Mexico and Central America are vast areas of land where many different nations of people lived, and have lived, for thousands of years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

If you multiply by zero, you still get zero, and a thousand heartaches. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sped by Chili’s and Borders and Christiana Mall, and eventually, the snow started falling harder, white dashes shooting at the car and past the windows like light trailing from a thousand stars. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Let it wash a man’s crop out of the ground year after year, and them up there in Washington spending fifty thousand dollars a day keeping an army in Nicarauga or some place. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I breathe in the salty air—thinking of the first deep breath thousands of immigrants once took as they sailed into New York Harbor, dreaming. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The four fastest puzzle solvers nailed it: “‘Google can bring you back one hundred thousand answers. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You could sell the horse, skip college, and buy a hundred thousand pizzas.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

By season’s end, Seabiscuit had been shipped over six thousand miles and raced a staggering thirty-five times, at least triple the typical workload. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If every captain was a king aboard his own ship, as was often said, it was small wonder they named the islands the land of ten thousand kings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He recited the prime numbers between a thousand and ten thousand. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Tens of thousands of Hitler Youth, storm troopers, and helmeted military guards lined his route from the Brandenburg Gate through the Tiergarten and out to the Reichssportfeld. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“There are thirty thousand registered voters in Little Rock,” admitted Mrs. Brewer. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to say, “About a hundred thousand times” Or, “About a hundred million times.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“What you’re suggesting is a one in a million chance, and that means there are nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand other chances to die.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Altogether it is thought–though it is really only a guess, based on extrapolating from cratering rates on the Moon–that some two thousand asteroids big enough to imperil civilized existence regularly cross our orbit. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Get ten thousand in 5 and 10 bills and put it in a shoe box. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of its most ardent partisans, Haynes among them, publicly conceded that an archaeological dig in southern Chile had turned up compelling evidence of human habitation more than twelve thousand years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

How did a lactose-sensing protein recognize and regulate only a lactose-digesting gene—and not the thousands of other genes in a cell? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It simply did not make sense for both sides to lose thousands if not millions of lives in a conflict that was unnecessary. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result of such attitudes, the brilliant and promising Ionian experimental method was largely abandoned for two thousand years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such holes hardly deserve the epithet black: they really are white hot and are emitting energy at a rate of about ten thousand megawatts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One thousand strokes will bring the lies to your hair. A lady never and a lady does and a lady always. Shine and sparkle.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Once Ghohg the Evil One is gone and his palace has been destroyed, taking a few thousand diplomats and ministers with it, the whole goblin kingdom will be thrown into confusion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

White with the ashes of a thousand dead covering their faces, their bodies. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I’d never thought about it too much, but now, looking at Briares, I realized how terrible it would be to be so old—thousands and thousands of years old— and totally alone. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the town of Ravenel, ten thousand dreams hovered over the town each night and ten thousand died each morning, their washed-out corpses borne away for burial at sea by the first breeze. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four thousand members of the National Guard landed in Memphis to help manage the angry, grief-stricken crowds. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That is variable but a goodly number are in the ten- thousand- to twenty-thousand-dollar class.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple months later, I stood among hundreds of thousands of protesters at the Women’s March in Los Angeles. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"But it was ships and soldiers I wanted" "Did I not give you an army, sweetest of women? A thousand knights, each in shining armor." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He'd just made the shot of a lifetime in front of thousands of people, and for the first time in a week, he actually hadn't been thinking about money. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d heard about a piece of gum chewed by Madonna going for six thousand dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

His head was bursting with a thousand dissonant impulses as he prayed for the bombs to drop. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I drove into a little canyon out of the wind and parked by a mound of broken bottles—whisky and gin bottles, thousands of them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, aborigines had reached Australia by boat tens of thousands of years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mounted on their strange, monstrous beasts, the Spanish rode at the forefront of an army of perhaps twenty thousand Tlaxcalans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Brass bands on the quayside and women waving and a hundred thousand yachts and honkers and arcs of water from the fireships. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

You had to be like that to be a fly half, and I’m sure that Joey had been hit square against his unpadded body at least a thousand times more than Casey ever had. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t know that wine is so scarce it’s selling for five thousand livres a cask!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since this type of mammal had last existed thousands of years ago, the spear point and its owner must have been of equivalent antiquity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tyrion swirled his wine thoughtfully, took a deep draft, and hurled his empty cup to the floor, where it shattered into a thousand pieces. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But after a while the birds got used to the digging, resettled upon their freckled eggs, and hatched out ten thousand little killdeer that scurried around Cleofes Apodaca’s pit peeping hysterically. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mom gets to keep her ten thousand dollars, and her twenty-one-hundred- dollar cash bonus. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Every day, a few thousand inmates passed the camp’s gate and did not return. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was at least a thousand feet and he was carrying the three, but he was not worried. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At first she didn’t appear to be headed anywhere in particular, she just zigzagged across the open field, a thousand pairs of eyes following her along. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He might have lived for a thousand years, if it wasn’t for me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Eleven thousand dollars’ worth of flesh and bone and muscle that belonged to Maryland planters. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My excitement, however, turned to concern when I saw the cost for the first year was two thousand dollars. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered Chiron’s warning that in two thousand years, I might be considered a myth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He created more than two thousand pieces of artwork in the Postimpressionist style. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“There weren’t many of our people left by 1876,” Grandpa Nyles explained, “compared to the sheer numbers of whites. There were probably twenty thousand Lakota. At the same time, there were twenty-five million white people.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

This was the one spot in the city where twenty thousand folk could gather. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The expression 7.39842 x 1010 is more comprehensible and legible than seventy- three billion nine hundred and eighty-four million and two hundred thousand. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of them, but no one wanted to be the first to take us on. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Could he escape Washington, its streets filled with thousands of soldiers and loyal citizens, all there to celebrate the end of the Civil War? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the coauthor of the then latest edition of the modern bible of chess, Modern Chess Openings, which contained thousands of variations, positions, analyses, and recommendations. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There would soon be twenty-one thousand National Guard troops in the area, coming from all over the country—West Virginia, Utah, New Mexico, Missouri. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Listen to this here. Mah New York Yankees have been sold to a sny-dee-kat for two million and eight hundred thousand dollahs. That there’s about enough to buy the whole state of Georgia.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves flared and faded quickly, leaving nothing but a thousand embers, making the tree look like an immense extinguished candelabrum. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In five seconds they were a thousand feet up in the sky. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Three thousand nine hundred weeks. So. You tell me your greatest fear is that Ma and Pa'll be mad at you for one of these almost four thousand weeks. Or two. Or three.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I nod but don’t answer, because I am now distracted by the thousand Charlies racing toward me from the front of the store. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, my grandmother had met thousands, tens of thousands, of other Indians at powwows all over the country. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Which is saying something—not just because who knew guffawing was an actual thing people did, but because you know Ms. Albright has seen this thing a thousand times already. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Scarcely one thousand natives remained on the peninsula, according to official figures; the disease had claimed more than five thousand lives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Looking up, he saw a thousand stars glittering in the deep velvet of a night with no moon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If I heard it, even among a thousand others, I should recognize her voice. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Later, after he met the girl, he would pay two thousand pounds. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Frequently the updrafts create cells of muscular, anvil-headed cumulonimbus clouds that can rise thirty thousand feet or more above the Mojave. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred thousand golden dragons, fifty hides of fertile land, a castle, and a lordship. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the early 1990s Folan's team had learned that this long-ignored place covered as much as twenty-five square miles and had thousands of buildings and dozens of reservoirs and canals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I told you, but she, uh. Well, when she fired me, she told me that if I wasn’t a thousand percent serious about you, I needed to break things off.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“There were thousands of stories just like this one, and mostly they didn’t end happily.” How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

With HeLa, a group of scientists in Colorado succeeded, and soon the world of science had not only HeLa but also its hundreds, then thousands, of clones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were over three thousand of us at Thurmond, and I was the last Orange—maybe in the entire world. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"I've received over four thousand letters and balloons. I'm still opening them." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of men, a sea of bright red spreading as far back as Nate could see. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The final result covered almost fifteen acres and was the largest earthen structure in the Western Hemisphere; though built out of unsuitable material in a floodplain, it has stood for a thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There could be thousands of other Earths, each teeming with creatures; it was certainly within God’s power, whether Aristotle agrees or not. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The ground that was once lush and green, filled with bushes and flowers, is now dead and buried under outdoor tents and food carts, where thousands of shoppers traverse everyday. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when it seems we might have caught a break, there’s a cracking sound, like an egg hitting the side of a bowl but magnified a thousand times. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The entire populace knows thousands of songs, and there is hardly a mediocre voice among them. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is ten thousand times more information than in our genes, and about ten times more than in our brains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This required thousands of brass nails and screws, the heads of which had to be patiently and laboriously filed down by hand before he could apply coats of marine varnish to the exterior. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They sponsored social dances, Christmas parties, and Fourth of July picnics for thousands. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When he entered the search term “AIDS” into a computer, thousands of studies came up. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Our parents didn't speak to each other, but Ma served tea, sang that Tagore song, and—according to Baba's version—fireworks exploded and a thousand sitars burst into music. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once the fair closed, many thousands more would join them on Chicago’s streets. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Before the epidemics at least three thousand Siriono, and probably many more, lived in eastern Bolivia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The word sleeping was layered with a thousand different meanings, and I was pretty sure I would never understand half of them, but I knew the most important one. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Only after five years of litigation and tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees was he able to secure return of his jet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Oddly, most climbers on Everest knew less about Ngawang’s plight than tens of thousands of people who were nowhere near the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But in its second year Del Mar needed a boost; daily attendance averaged just six thousand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear Will Hamilton is telling around you made fifteen thousand dollars in beans. That true?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had happened a thousand times to people we knew. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were the three canvas sacks closed with copper wire, and inside of them the seven thousand two hundred fourteen pieces of eight, which continued glowing like embers in the darkness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It is likely that the first British villages in North America, thousands of miles from the House of Lords, would have lost some of the brutally graded social hierarchy that characterized European life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I still felt as if I'd been stuffed in a dryer and spun around at a thousand rpm, but as Belet said, I seemed fine. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Stuart was in exile, from plundered Scotland still declining, three thousand miles away. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Workers enriched the soil with one thousand carloads of manure shipped from the Union Stock Yards and another two thousand collected from the horses working in Jackson Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In 1886 Japan had for the first time allowed its citizens to emigrate, and thousands from his district had already left the country in search of better opportunities. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cause I know just about everbody on my side a the bridge and plenty a white families too, and that sure don’t add up to be no two hundred thousand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As Japanese planes dove over Oahu, more than two thousand miles to the west, a few marines were sitting in a mess tent on Wake Atoll, having breakfast. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Like a pelican, it swoops down gently, slicing the tips of little wakes until its open bill is fully submerged, scooping nearly a thousand gallons—all within seconds. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The commission asked farmers for ten thousand sandbag sacks—gunny, feed, or flour. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The machines tapped out at two thousand cards—two thousand lines of instructions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Here she is, merely twenty years old and thousands of miles from the pastures of France, washing out the dressings of lepers and awful miscarriages, yet she’s electrified by my narrow escape. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the last two centuries, abject slavery, with us for thousands of years or more, has been almost eliminated in a stirring planet-wide revolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would become one of the thousands of widows of Vrindavan. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

But even if it had looked different, Hrdlicka said, that wouldn’t be enough to prove that the ancestors of Indians walked New Jersey thousands of years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With all of those thousands upon thousands of “angry revolutionists,” so few stayed over that the next morning the Washington hotel association reported a costly loss in empty rooms. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was gone, but she was everywhere—she was still Petra and Calder’s secret, but she was now a familiar face to many thousands of others. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The stranded dolphin towed out to sea by the Munoz brothers, and the majestic shells, thousands of them, with intricate mauve chambers, arranged on a cemetery of wet sand. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces—a city of mansions—all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I hope he may long continue to feel all the value of such a reconciliation.—He is a very liberal thanker, with his thousands and tens of thousands.—‘Happier than I deserve.’ Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“God’s word, brought to you by a crew of romantic idealists in a harsh desert culture eons ago, followed by a chain of translators two thousand years long.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should he have paid cash for the thousand head of hybrid cattle? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One man’s words could lift a thousand soldiers right up off the ground. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

By 1930, when Louie was entering his teens, California was enraptured with eugenics, and would ultimately sterilize some twenty thousand people. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“More like a hundred thousand,” which was close to the population of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Its theater contained more than four thousand seats, twelve hundred more than New York’s Metropolitan Opera House. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand—but it ain’t going to come nigh thee. So glad, amen, this morning, bless my Redeemer.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Doris started to say, “Oh, give me a—” The entire pallet of jewelry exploded with a sound like a thousand slot machines hitting the jackpot. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I arrived at the Trappist monastery with its two thousand acres of wood and farmlands and entered the courtyard as the monks were chanting Vespers. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty thousand pounds in modern money, using a retail price index, but £725,000 in modern money using an average wage multiplier. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"If you were strong enough to climb your own battlements, Lord Frey, you would see that my son has twenty thousand men outside your walls." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For some reason it seemed all right to dress that way in front of thousands of people, but in this small area it would have been embarrassing. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But those hypothetical outcomes were foreclosed by mammal extinctions thousands of years earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They joined thousands of ordinary young men, eager to prove their bravery. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He might be in a cell, in a ditch, a thousand miles away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After Mom won her ten thousand dollars, she played another speed round. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Bingo. There’s five thousand birds, men, and only one day to turn ’em into fertilizer. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was a nervous time: every afternoon, one of his force later recalled, several thousand Indian soldiers approached in canoes to within “a stone's throw” of the Spanish and mocked them as they labored. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He wanted to discuss a trouble spot of increasing concern to the United States: a mountainous, heavily forested country winding more than a thousand miles along the coast of Southeast Asia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“But I talked the car sales dude down to eighty-four hundred dollars from ten thousand, so in a way I actually saved money. You know what the color’s called?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And with him will come about seventy thousand men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He approaches Gettysburg unsure of himself, in command of twenty thousand men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its population was due to cross the two thousand mark any time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held August 28, 1963, attracting as many as three hundred thousand people to the nations capital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But if you put a few thousand volts on the tube and built up to a million volts on the particles, the glassware would survive, and the particles would accelerate. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Within a year, one hundred thousand people had been killed. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was the heaviest thing I’d ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

More than fifteen thousand people, it turned out, had come that day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of new troops in Germany. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

These language replacements in East Asia remind us of the spread of European languages, especially English and Spanish, into the New World, formerly home to a thousand or more Native American languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We can imagine our ancestors gazing idly up on some night a hundred thousand years ago and noting a strange cloud arising from the unilluminated part of the Moon, suddenly struck by the Sun’s rays. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You mean spend the next thousand years running a deli?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In this murmur that filled the grave, like a thousand wings beating on the air, he recognized a sound that he had always heard. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In a few hours we will begin registration for all of these fine ladies of the lake, the ships that will save thousands. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They’d mined tin in Cornwall for three thousand years until one day the tin had run out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

"Hundreds and thousands. More than you ever saw, crow." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was a tremendous fishy odor like a thousand tuna cans had been opened, and a sizable pool had formed on the ground below its mouth—blood, seawater, and mysterious shark fluids. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The league, in their view, was inherently fragile and fissiparous; if it had been founded a thousand years ago, it would have broken up well before the Pilgrims. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was laid down over ten thousand years ago by retreating glaciers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Consequently, three thousand devices were collecting dust in army warehouses. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Einarsson and Sverrisson pointed out, though, that the apartment was in extremely poor condition and would need repairs amounting to tens of thousands of dollars. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The shouting inside was drowned out by the sound of a thousand furious wasps as Babou drove the Bahrami family vehicle up to the curb. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I can get a thousand dollars over by the Homestead,” Mrs. Reilly told the silent patrolman quietly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trumpets sounded from among them, tiny and brazen, soon swallowed by the roar of a thousand shouts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Each SS Einsatzgruppe had about one thousand men, or commandos, who worked behind the military lines. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got no more for my efforts than a thousand boys before me, and a thousand since. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you know the likelihood of having two sets of fraternal twins, Tuti? One in three thousand. One. In three thousand.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Both their hands had brushed its wood a thousand thousand times. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But twenty thousand dollars of reality has sunk in, and my lungs have shut down again. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The day had been worth a thousand extra hours at the piano. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“That is my curse. I had hoped to be free of it by now, but here l am, still stuck on Ogygia after three thousand years.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"It was of this man sitting on a stoop just like we're doing now. And it was selling for like four thousand dollars." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

By the night of March 2, because of both President Wilson’s inauguration on the fourth and the suffragist parade the next day, hundreds of thousands of people had gathered in the nation’s capital. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Or how about four thousand painkillers? That would be great.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But then—boom! — the personal computer revolution happened, and they had their ten thousand hours in. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

You could see hundreds, maybe thousands or even millions, twinkling in the clear desert sky. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He must have died, trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the meeting, a network of two thousand women set off on a nationwide mission to collect signatures on a petition urging Congress to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He knew there were thousands more, but he stopped there—best to leave things on a dividend of three. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though a thousand age-old fears woke and struggled for supremacy in his brain. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth to ask the first of a thousand questions, but he quickly put a finger to his lips. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I feel as if I could sleep for a thousand days. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Matilda Joslyn Gage also helped with the project, but it still took more than ten years to produce three volumes, each about one thousand pages long. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“He lived about a thousand years ago; for all we know, you could be.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

With fourteen thousand arid acres to sell, truth in advertising was not something to dwell over. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like I am going to bust into the tower walls and crimble into a thousand pieces. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

This is how the thousand nights begin, with Scheherazade entertaining the king with a story. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I also leave her one thousand dollars, as promised at the time of said marriage.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Hence Onofre had written a thousand love letters for a thousand lovers, and he had also read those love letters to the persons who received them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For you a thousand times over!” he said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pumped for a time and counted them, figuring that he worked the pump about thirty times a minute, so a hundred minutes would be three thousand pumps. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beef cattle still get born on thousands of independently owned ranches like theirs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Had Millennium Challenge been a real war instead of just an exercise, twenty thousand American servicemen and women would have been killed before their own army had even fired a shot. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I want to hear more about the thousand sucres and the fruit and the TV, but no one says another word to me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ignatius, honey, the man wants over a thousand dollars for what I did to his building.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt badly about the ruins until I thought that this had been happening to the mountain for thousands of years and the trees were still there, as were the animals and birds. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I didn’t come thousands of miles looking for a house full of creepy garbage.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Two dozen controlled charges detonated in their chambers, driving two dozen alloy cylinders out of their mounts at over a thousand miles per hour. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The five thousand marines there were cut off and could get supplies only by air, even though any helicopter that flew over took a lot of enemy fire from the twenty thousand surrounding Vietcong troops. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

So when they had finished, Ned rolled off and climbed from her bed, as he had a thousand times before. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One officer was able to search over three thousand bags in a nine-month period employing these techniques. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Glass sprayed like a thousand knives, and the world had no up or down. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m asking for help from a friend to pay a debt, that’s all. Ten thousand dollars is nothing to someone like you.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were five thousand men in the hall, but only a handful who knew the Common Tongue. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When the random sample selected contains one thousand people, the theoretical 95 percent confidence interval for estimating the percentage who favor candidate X or dog food Y is about plus or minus 3 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy dragon marched on its thousands of feet, and now above the drums came the shrilling of the fifes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shone upon the rows of armored suits, the edges of the swords and axes, and on spear tips and a thousand other pointy objects designed to spoil your day permanently. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Within a thousand years it would strike Tierra del Fuego. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I stand there, feeling broken and small, thousands of eyes trained on me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had punched thousands of holes into the scrubby earth, and some believed it was only a matter of time before the place got tapped out. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than six thousand American soldiers had been killed, and as the fighting intensified that year, the death toll rose sharply to nearly one thousand a month. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He had been allowed to keep the angle iron, and it was now stacked—four hundred thousand pounds of it—in tangled mountains all over the yard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“There are children in that camp, hundreds of them, thousands. Women as well.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I hurry to the workbench and rest my gloved hand against the vial, whose contents could kill me ten thousand times over. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You told me to wake you up at six. It’s six thirty. That’s, like, thirty-six thousand miles past six.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

How can we account for the empirical observation that band or tribal organization just does not work for societies of hundreds of thousands of people, and that all existing large societies have complex centralized organization? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of manuscripts in this room. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand throats roared out their thanks; then twenty thousand; then all. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They pooled and swirled, sparkling with thousands of tiny motes of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Behind the next window, Miss Lucy cut open Cora’s stomach with a letter opener and a thousand black spiders spilled from her guts. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

So am I. You know my ancestors invented soccer in China over four thousand— You’re from Singapore, dude. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rap music changed after the War on Drugs shifted into high gear and thousands of young, black men were suddenly swept off the streets and into prisons. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Win twenty-five thousand dollars like she did and bounce up outta this jungle. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

All three agreed, as they quickly informed Hrdlicka, that the discovery admitted only one possible explanation: thousands of years ago, a Pleistocene hunter had speared a bison. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Five thousand two hundred and seventy-four,” Rose answered. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Between one hundred thousand and three hundred thousand spectators lined the streets to watch. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

According to the Daily Mail, their house is worth four hundred thousand pounds. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The busboy and the Mexican who intervened were paid several thousand dollars and the owners promised to promote a current Mexican employee to waiter within a month. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A thousand years ago, she had known a girl who loved lemon cakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Scientists have evidence that Indigenous peoples in Central Mexico cultivated corn ten thousand years ago, around 8000 BCE. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir,” the animal salesman said, “our asking price is already a thousand dollars under book. Check your Sidney’s; I’ll hang on. I want you to see for yourself, sir, that our price is fair.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I heard hundreds of questions and thousands of answers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is doubtful whether Homo sapiens will still be around a thousand years from now, so 2 million years is really out of our league. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Police and prosecutors have been influenced by the media coverage, and a presumption of guilt has now fallen on thousands of women—particularly poor women in difficult circumstances—whose children die unexpectedly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This stink was just the smell of a thousand people jammed into cellars and tunnels that had been dug to shelter no more than a hundred. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’d been looking forward to introducing her to Miles—I had a feeling he wouldn’t mind fueling her Word of the Week a thousand times over. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

"A thousand years ago we knew, and have been waiting all this time. We sent the comet to show you the way." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The number of black holes may well be greater even than the number of visible stars, which totals about a hundred thousand million in our galaxy alone. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Government cars, and they paid the land-grant association five thousand dollars not to ask questions about the test holes they were drilling. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘It’s like being around my mom, except this place radiates fear, not love. That’s why you started feeling overwhelmed on the hill. Down here, it’s a thousand times stronger.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even among our own black people in the Harlem ghetto, you could have said “Muslim” to a thousand, and maybe only one would not have asked you “What’s that?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

San Bernardino had just sixty thousand inhabitants, but millions of people passed through there every year. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

After Jamie was stung, he writhed in pain for two full days, which is almost three thousand minutes. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Twenty-eight thousand fans, the biggest throng in Michigan racing history, showed up to see it, among them Charles and Marcela Howard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the sound of it, Laura Friendly had missed a hundred meetings and a thousand phone calls. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over the decades, without much acclaim beyond his community and the world of high school theater, Volpe has transformed lives, thousands of them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sitting among the lacy needles, the image of the one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions, and Sam came to mind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And in her soul, the madwoman felt a thousand birds—birds of paper, birds of feathers, birds of hearts and minds and flesh—leap into the sky and soar over the dreaming trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She watched with pride as an actress read it to the few thousand people close enough to hear it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Tom said, “Say, what do you think it is with—nickel and silver—” “It must have been long thousand centuries ago,” Samuel said, and his sons knew he was seeing it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His feet barely touched the ground as he was swept along by the crowd of thousands of people running and screaming. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least a thousand years separate the beginning from the end. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The soles of his feet tingled as he walked upon the ground that halted the fall of thousands. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Seats a hundred thousand,” said Mr. Weasley, spotting the awestruck look on Harry’s face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He hired thousands of men to clean streets and ordered police stations opened at night for men seeking a place to sleep. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I’d heard the band play and practice a thousand times and still had to just about sit on my hands when they were finished so I wouldn’t bust out clapping. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were so far away, it took Annabeth a moment to realize she was looking at an army—thousands, maybe tens of thousands of monsters, gathered around a central pinpoint of darkness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Four thousand years ago I should have found their ancestors living in the same place, in the same kind of house. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Its emotional tone is as familiar to me as my own skin; it is but another way of saying that sinners shall be bound in Hell a thousand years. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Genes reside on chromosomes—long, filamentous structures buried within cells that contain tens of thousands of genes linked together in chains.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

To hang a child in front of thousands of onlookers was not a small matter. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A phone call from New York truly sounded as crackly as a thousand miles away ought to. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The thousands who ride freight trains must hop between seven and thirty trains to get through Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Our car slowed through the winding streets, lined by shops on both sides and with buses, cars, and tracks, and tens of thousands of pilgrims from all over the earth were everywhere. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother doesn’t want him fake-dead anymore, though, and he’s stopped getting a thousand vitriolic tweets an hour, so he counts it as a win. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He saw no thousands on the mud flats, and there were none in the pastures from which he had come. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Entering in a parade of nations and standing at attention, the athletes were treated to a thunderous show that culminated in the release of twenty thousand doves. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

They act like they have done this a thousand times before, and maybe they have. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We heard news — which word could not but quicken the blood—of common men rising in the thousands to empty the rural law courts of corruption and expel the un-elected favorites of government. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he told us about the time a friend of his found a bag containing twenty thousand dollars. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a question of saving hundreds of thousands of American lives,” he later explained. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could have called any of twenty-five thousand high school drama directors,” he would recall. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Hopping from refuge to refuge, paleo-Indians could have made their way down the coast at any time in the last forty thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The country’s ten thousand dead had gone unmoumed and uneulogized while the boys went on singing English songs and playing cricket, moved only by reports that reached them, three weeks late, from the British Isles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rounded the corner, and there was the Methodist church, lit with a thousand lamps. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Incredibly, hunters in the countryside captured tens of thousands of pigeons in nets and sent the living birds to urban hunting clubs for target practice. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Chiron’s eyes were deep brown, full of thousands of years of sadness. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The critical point is that thousands of people are swept into the criminal justice system every year pursuant to the drug war without much regard for their guilt or innocence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After two thousand years, it had finally happened. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Pluto is about forty AUs from us, the heart of the Oort cloud about fifty thousand. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Radios, maybe one per hundred thousand residents. No telephones. Newspapers as scarce as hen’s teeth, and a literacy rate made to match. They get their evening news by listening to their neighbors’ drums.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard gave the nod and Woolf rode Seabiscuit out before a crowd of fifty thousand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fremantle could feel the presence of that vast army; he knew it was there, thousands of men, thousands of horses, miles of cannon, miles of steel. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon thousands of radio intercepts were pouring into her office, just as they had done during the rumrunner days. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The west branch of the Delaware, the town of Delhi, and the one mountain among thousands were where she belonged. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The white canopy ballooned on the night wind, flapping softly, tied by a thousand green ribbons to the birds. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

War was declared officially on December 4, and twelve days later, the Pakistani army, weakened by having to fight three thousand miles from its source of supplies, surrendered in Dacca. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Telescopes could now take thousands of pictures and let a computer detect the telltale bright spots that marked a supernova explosion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Just a few weeks before, Mayor Gayle and the entire Montgomery City Council had made a public show of joining the White Citizens Council in a packed coliseum with thousands cheering their approval. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

All I heard was the number—ten thousand dollars, cash. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The crop in the field today is the sum of thousands of individual choices made by community members in the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Over the next few months, he would need to teach these boys, or those few among them who made the freshman team, every last one of those thousand and one small things. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Naw, fool, they didn’t steal no money, they was worth four thousand dollars when they run ’way ten year ago. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“What were you doing with three thousand dollars hid in the house?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such events occur only once in a thousand years or so. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Three thousand years, and I will never get over the power of the Mist... and mortal ignorance.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Many thousands of Mexicans had flooded across the border in search of work. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government knew that thousands of milling, angry blacks not only could completely disrupt Washington—but they could erupt in Washington. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have one, and it’s forty-one thousand dollars.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the Korean War, U.S. forces helped push back the invasion, but at a cost of more than thirty-six thousand American lives. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At all events, there is some evidence to suggest that for the next twenty thousand years the total number of people on Earth was never more than a few thousand at any time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He squatted down and began to pull the first of a thousand noxious shoots that threatened the cucumber plants so precious to Min’s wife. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But it took nearly six hundred seventy-five thousand wells to produce that amount in North America. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A collective consciousness that has burned bright for thousands of years. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“The dollar rose by a factor of more than ten between 1920 and now, so that's more than thirty-five thousand dollars in today's dollars. A lot of tours at eleven bucks apiece.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

To the left and right, sixty thousand voices roared. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like one thousand and one nights of challenge the mountain began to level off and we started passing scattered lights on either side of the road. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was on the Indonesian island of Bali, some nine thousand miles away from me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But the newscaster on TV said there were already ten thousand people at the football stadium, with thousands more lined up around the building. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand questions pushed through my mind, but the Voice within me did not answer. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bering land bridge, during its millennia of intermittent existence, would have been up to a thousand miles wide, covered by open tundra, and easily traversable by people adapted to cold conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You had three thousand kids at your camp?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The village slowly grew to a few thousand. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mahler was born into a Bohemian corner of the Austrian Empire, into a German-speaking Jewish community of about a thousand souls whose existence was entirely wiped from the map during the Holocaust. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I would rather die a thousand deaths,” he said. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know why she owned thousands of records but never told anyone she even liked music. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Rice has been cultivated in China for thousands of years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I finally decide I'm going to just stab him a thousand times with a ballpoint pen. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,” he explains. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Indigenous women cook and clean and work in fields and take care of children; they don’t sing in the spotlight on TV to thousands of fans. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The names gathered first on the African coast in tens of thousands of manifests. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"I had to fly three thousand miles to find you." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If each one of those soldiers had at least one M-16 assault rifle, there were about twenty thousand automatic rifles in the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A three years’ course with Air Service Training would have cost you over a thousand pounds. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Her body was so slim and fragile one got the feeling that if she fell over she would smash into a thousand pieces, like a porcelain figure. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We must be ready to march. We must be ready to go to jail by the thousands....Our cry to the state of Alabama is a simple one. Give us the ballot!” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a thousand bucks that didn’t have to come out of my father’s pocket. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

This time of year, the valley shimmers with clumps of orange jewelweed and sapphire bellflowers that shoot up from a blanket of moss so soft you could lie down and sleep for a thousand years. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The springiness of the earth was caused by thousands and thousands of plastic bags. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Would we argue that ten thousand targeted nuclear warheads are likely to enhance the prospects for our survival? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, between now and the average life expectancy of seventy-five, we will live about five hundred thousand more hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And even though the field was quite a way from our house, we could hear the hum of thousands of voices chanting Taliban songs. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of people there, arguing, selling, and buying; vegetables for sale amongst daggers, and carpets displayed alongside tobacco. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crot—the deadliest insult anyone could utter—was a simple, harmless eejit, like the thousands who had cut grass, washed floors, and tended poppies as far back as Matt could remember. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if I’m Mercer, he thought, I can never die, not in ten thousand years. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“One thousand honors would please us more. Make it so.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For the finale the fair’s pyrotechnicians launched five thousand rockets all at once into the black sky over the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Imagine a time hundreds of thousands of years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were formed in ranks, with Russian soldiers guarding us—Englishmen, Americans, Dutchmen, Belgians, Frenchmen, Canadians, South Africans, New Zealanders, Australians, thousands of us about to stop being prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For that matter, all the thousands of dollars I’d handled, and / had nothing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if you even look at my sister, I will cut you into ten thousand pieces, you lying, stinking, filthy little pig.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In all, some ninety thousand people came to Mars, and more, on Earth, were packing their grips. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, for hundreds, perhaps for thousands of years, they have posted guards on each side of the opening on the wall, and done their best to put it out of their minds. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We have more than three hundred thousand specimens from one hundred and sixty-six countries,” he said. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the men will be militia and not the match of our boys, but they will come in thousands, bringing fresh guns. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Fine. Make it two hundred thousand. And I’ll toss in the puppy.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“That was over four thousand dollars in drugs! I have to pay someone back for that!” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I’d gone from meeting hundreds of people at a gathering to a thousand or more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Sarai knew those vicious words had come not from old ghost women but her own innermost self, guilt-poisoned from four thousands nights of dark dreams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hundreds and thousands of roots and shoots can solve the problems, change the world, and make it a better place to live. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A floating reception force of more than four thousand Indians—two hundred war canoes, each carrying twenty or thirty people—greeted the Spanish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the Dikori family decided to leave and to join the tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees streaming into Egypt. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They allowed thousands of players to simultaneously coexist inside a simulated world, which they connected to via the Internet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“A thousand dollars? He will not get a cent. We shall have him prosecuted immediately. Contact our attorneys, Mother.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even then he waited for another thousand tocks before he allowed himself a deep breath and, at last, sleep. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the Tuskegee staff grew to thirty-five scientists and technicians, who produced twenty thousand tubes of HeLa—about 6 trillion cells—every week. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The thousand thoughts swarming inside me cried out in unison at her soft words. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Fourteen days passed, three hundred and thirty-six hours flew by, twenty thousand one hundred and sixty minutes whistled past, twelve million ninety six thousand seconds roared away.... Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Fun times, made even more fun by the thousands of bug bites and peeling sunburns I always showed up with on the first day of school. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“You know what a good guard dog goes for these days? I’ll tell you. There’s a German shepherd on the internet on sale for fifty-five thousand dollars. For one dog! Fifty-five K!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Next morning, there were two thousand armed men scattered throughout the palm trees at Al-Fayoum. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy guessed there were about fifty thousand gallons of water over their heads. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I saw in one look what I would conservatively estimate to be hundreds of thousands of meerkats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Near three thousand of the devils. Wish we could have shot them all.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re playing a close game with fifty thousand dollars,” she said, “and you’re not going to get away with it. I don’t know what the trick is, but I’m going to find out.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the end, he had saved over a thousand Jews. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She imagined this was similar—only she was moving a thousand times faster, and the grass blades weren’t adoring fans. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t haul a thousand heavy Mason jars up the peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Much of the big private collection that Parkhurst had willed to the prison was still in crates and boxes in the back of the library—thousands of old books. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These constellations have been set for tens of thousands of years. They describe the history of our planet itself, moving ever so slowly with the passage of time.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They dared not go to bed with over a thousand British soldiers suddenly camped upon them—defeated soldiers whose mood might turn ugly. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of my friends have to memorize a thousand words. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I dreamed this moment a thousand times, he says. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Nowadays tens of thousands of university graduates do, and many millions of people are at least familiar with the idea. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five thousand dollars is easily the largest bounty in months. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She tormented herself with a thousand words of the same sort But what she felt to herself, in the uncharted regions of her heart, was a different matter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It resounded in the sanctuaries of First Baptist and Queen Street Baptist and Bethel AME and thousands of black churches around the country. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Alby’s eyelids fluttered briefly as he continued; he looked like he could think of a thousand things he’d rather be doing right then. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Once we’re parked and headed toward our destination on foot, I feel like there are a thousand grasshoppers on speed bouncing around in my gastrointestinal tract. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

An earthquake in rural China buried thousands in their homes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the walls beneath the jungle vines, thousands of beautiful apsara goddesses with big round breasts wearing only short wraparound skirts smile at visitors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is why it took humans hundreds of thousands of years to make these steps. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm batting a thousand when it comes to grandmother disappointment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the one extreme, the Tasmanians continued to use stone tools superseded tens of thousands of years earlier in Europe and replaced in most of mainland Australia too. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But I hope you will get over it, and live to see many young men of four thousand a year come into the neighbourhood.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I checked my avatar’s stats and saw that I’d been awarded several hundred thousand experience points for clearing the gate, enough to raise my avatar from tenth level up to twentieth in one shot. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Standing and sitting and lying around that field were lots and lots and lots—hundreds, maybe a thousand—of us Sudanese. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the four days I spent on the Stampede Trail, I didn’t see a single aircraft overhead, other than commercial jets flying at altitudes greater than twenty-five thousand feet. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The responsibility...,” the press release said, “is with the government and not with the women of America, if the lack of democracy at home weakens government in its fight for democracy three thousand miles away.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He passed a valley filled with the wreckage of thousands of yellow bulldozers, tractors and Caterpillars. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Around to the other side of the building, tanker trucks pump in thousands of gallons of liquefied fat, usually beef fat from a nearby slaughterhouse. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The shelves are stuffed with thousands of different items. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But now, three years later, tens of thousands of American soldiers had been killed in brutal battles. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

There must be thousands of acorns buried in the ground here. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate: forty bombs per aircraft, four hundred and eighty altogether, seventy- two thousand pounds of explosives. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

About ten million years ago, the Sun emerged from the Gould Belt complex of the Orion Spiral Arm, which is now a little less than a thousand light-years away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two thousand meters up the course, on the far side of the lake, a gangway had been constructed to the starting line, 325 feet out into the Langer See. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For reference, there was his talismanic Lipnitsky on which to rely, and the latest edition of Modern Chess Openings, which had thousands of games and variations. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, thousands of African Americans left the region as part of the Great Migration and headed mostly to the Midwest and West Coast for jobs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Pong and Manit both held still and listened, Voices, thousands of them, sang together. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

For every ambiguity that is inadvertently funny or ironic, there must be thousands that are simply confusing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

A thousand tiny stabs, felt all at once. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

To honor Stanton and her historic significance, the House Judiciary Committee had ten thousand copies of the speech printed and distributed across the country. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Five hundred thousand depositors had funneled $2 billion into his sixteen banks and had been promised 15 percent interest on their money. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Millions of people were going hungry, and hundreds of thousands of them would starve to death. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In a matter of a few months, half a dozen other students were working under him, and he’d put seven thousand dollars into his bank account. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One hundred thousand dollars between four guys? He couldn’t have been that good.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

No, and he, Govinda, did not want to become any of these, not a Brahmin like ten thousand others of their kind. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a thousand amazing memories of Jesse, but his suicide is leaking into those recollections, poisoning our past. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A complex program might include hundreds, if not thousands, of these cards in tall stacks. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

So far both he and Alex had hit the number ten thousand every single day. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The corpses of a thousand thousand thousand men and women would be hard to bury or burn. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch him warm my hands as he has done a thousand times before. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For much of the last century archaeologists believed that Indians came to the Americas through the Bering Strait about thirteen thousand years ago at the tail end of the last Ice Age. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By counting back through these layers and measuring the amount of lead in each, he could work out global lead concentrations at any time for hundreds, or even thousands, of years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Horse racing was one of the most lucrative sports in America at that time, and even undistinguished horses often earned two to three thousand dollars a year. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was walking through the crypts beneath Winterfell, as he had walked a thousand times before. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mom didn’t believe in spending thousands of dollars for summer activities when I could have fun at home for free. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Somehow, astonishingly, she managed to use her position of political influence to quietly help out an estimated five thousand people who might otherwise have been victims of Stalin’s purges. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She had helped ease the pain of hundreds and thousands of people in preparation for that journey into the unknown. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"This morning the Wisdom Munciter told me that we had seven thousand eight hundred and forty. That count includes four thousand jars from King Aerys's day, to be sure." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of them, all in neat ranks. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather see him dead a thousand times over, Grandmother,” she begged. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the two thousand million inhabitants of the planet had only ten thousand names between them, the coincidence was not particularly surprising. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead, thousands of Sixer gunships filled the sky like an angry swarm of metal wasps. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her personal library contained thousands of rare manuscripts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Imagine a thousand starving orphans on a sinking ship in the middle of a shark-infested sea, and you’re getting close to how much I don’t want to be there,” Miles said dryly. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was so beautiful, my heart leaped—metal wings constructed from thousands of interlocking bronze feathers. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the KKK circulated flyers offering ten thousand dollars dead and five thousand dollars alive for each of us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But she could see by the way he was smiling dreamily into space that he was thinking now of a thousand colorful mochigashi, maybe sitting in piles around him on the floor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, a thousand pardons, little brown-noser. If I’d only known that it was a prayer for the first game. There’s nothing in the world as tacky as a basketball game.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five thousand fans gushed into the grandstand and clubhouse, staking out their territory with blankets and spring jackets. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fortresslike conference room was an interior room with concrete walls, fluorescent lighting, and ergonomically correct leather chairs that cost five thousand a pop. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Among the hundreds of thousands of such women in the California data, many bore distinctively black names and many others did not. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As midday rolled past, seventy thousand fans spilled out of the hotels and special trains and poured into the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day had come about through the unimaginable sacrifices of thousands of my people, people whose suffering and courage can never be counted or repaid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pass their green paper, dry as old leaves and smelling of a thousand hands, back and forth and back again. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

A thousand miles up from the Atlantic, the river is still so broad that at high water the other side is only a faint dark line on the horizon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"There was a tree with my brother's face. The wild- lings . . . there were thousands, more than I ever knew existed. And giants riding mammoths." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was alive with the racket of a thousand different songbirds calling to us from the grove, surrounding us with their chants, their hymns, their lullabies. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, Hillary Clinton won nearly three million more votes than her opponent, but Trump had captured the Electoral College thanks to fewer than eighty thousand votes spread across Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I had never been to see mmuo, to sit in a stationary car alongside thousands of people who had all come to watch. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He next started to invent separate signs for each word, and again became dissatisfied when he had coined thousands of signs and still needed more. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No hero has bested me in a thousand years.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And then, to her horror, the air turned and rushed at her; it swirled around her throat like a thousand scarves, tightening until she had lost all her breath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Something like a few thousand dollars worth of luggage. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

To produce that single illuminating experiment, a thousand nonilluminating experiments have to be sent into the trash; it is battle between nature and nerve. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“For a thousand years it has not shown a leaf. In another thousand it will have turned to stone, the maesters say. Weirwoods never rot.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I filled it With wet dirt, This upside-down turtle, This slaughterhouse For chiles and tomatoes, The thousand sheets of onion. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone said there’s like two thousand students who go here, though that seems like a lot. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I sit and count, “One, one thousand, two, one thousand, three, one thousand…” I count until my mouth cracks dry. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

When they inspected his bankbooks they found that he had over ninety-three thousand dollars in the bank and ten thousand dollars in good securities. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In this way Duke was able to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for his continuing work in the field of white supremacy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Sing Sing was a place of, probably, over two thousand locks, many with the same key. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The God of Wild Places disappeared two thousand years ago,” he told me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The person on the left is Boethius, a Christian from about a thousand years later, who is using Arabic numerals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In hundreds, and then thousands, and tens of thousands, until half that part of the sky was darkened, the minute figures flew and flew and kept on coming. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had approximately one thousand dollars tucked in his boot. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner couldn’t help thinking of Lizzie’s grandfather, dug up and tossed around, not allowed to stay on the island where he had seen the sun rise and set ten thousand times. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A town of eleven thousand, Garden City began assembling its founders soon after the Civil War. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

By late evening, he had walked about six miles and entered the outskirts of Bukchang, a coal town just south of the river with a population of about ten thousand people. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But there was only the survival manual, which I must have read ten thousand times over the course of my ordeal. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In that dusty chamber in the mountains it seemed a thousand years ago and on the other side of the world. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On June 22, 1941, Hitler broke a peace treaty and invaded the Soviet Union, sending his army storming across the huge nation in a battlefront that stretched for over a thousand miles. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We liked to think the garden could hide things for a thousand years. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand years of humus lay thick upon the godswood floor, swallowing the sound of her feet, but the red eyes of the weirwood seemed to follow her as she came. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The injustice of it made him want to curse Snape into a thousand slimy pieces. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Within that small part, he had found an Englishman, caravans, tribal wars, and an oasis with fifty thousand palm trees and three hundred wells. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I have read it a thousand times since because I don’t know who wrote it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I owed them fifty thousand dollars or a trophy. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a moment I had dreamed about a thousand times. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could think of about a thousand things I missed while I was at Thurmond, but dresses were not on that list. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When I said I couldn’t get away, he called me a thousand times that day insisting he had to see me or something awful would happen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, down to the last copper. And he then went out and spent all of it. Over five hundred thousand gold coins. Gone in three hours.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Some were antisemitic and had been pleased to see us out of what they considered to be their country, despite the fact that Jews had lived there for over one thousand years. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

His voice was low, like the drone of a thousand bees. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Nobody seems to be amazed that Penny is soaking up and learning thousands of words,” Mrs. V replies with a shrug. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A few thousand years ago, the idea developed that the motions of the planets determined the fates of kings, dynasties, empires. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head is full of statistics, facts and figures extrapolated into thousands of different combinations and comparisons. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Panic and pandemonium broke out among the travelers, and James Henry Trotter, glancing up quickly, saw the faces of a thousand furious Cloud-Men peering down at him over the edge of the cloud. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

For half a heartbeat the night came alive with a thousand smells, and Jon Snow heard the crackle of the crust breaking on a patch of old snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he counted off a thousand steps before he risked lifting his head. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

On the radio, they were reporting that another ten thousand National Guardsmen were being sent to the region, about one-third of them directed to maintain order. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She stared at herself in the thousand pieces of the mirror. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer asked the Project Bread director for a few thousand dollars. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

For over a thousand years it has been used by witches and wizards to guard valuables and secret hideaways. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Maybe a hundred miles; maybe a thousand.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are a thousand ways to tell if someone is lying to you. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We sat inside — it would have been futile to even attempt to open the door, so many people were pressing on it — for more than an hour, imprisoned by thousands of our own supporters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two decades later, though more than thirty thousand blacks were living in Chicago, only five hundred had jobs in the meatpacking industry. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So did a thousand shards of glass, and it seemed to Laila that she could see each individual one flying all around her, flipping slowly end over end, the sunlight catching in each. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The only thing on his mind was trying to figure out how on earth he was going to come up with four thousand dollars— and fast. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The wind will blow them across the ocean thousands of them in giant boats swarming like larva out of a crushed ant hill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There will doubtless be thousands of ribald failures, but in the world’s history artists have always been drawn where they are welcome and well treated. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this way, it will become clear that even the most transformative, elegant- seeming solution, appearing by inspiration two thousand years before its time, was the result of a struggle. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Certainly not any sight or experience or sensation that I hadn’t had a thousand times already. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Of the three thousand square feet of livable space, fully half of it was the living room. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As I went along I found that more and more people lusted toward Florida and that thousands had moved there and more thousands wanted to and would. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been shred into a thousand pieces, cut with his own scythe. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some three thousand carved pieces of sugar stood on that table, showing every step of her trip, down to carved sugar birds in sugar cages and sugar elephants on parade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The immediate task at hand was to carefully review, cut, and splice selections from the four hundred thousand feet of raw film she had shot at the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It could end thousands of years of hostility. It might be the key to defeating Gaea. But if we can’t help you...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"What I need is my half of the ten thousand dollars." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doc pays us a nickel a frog and we got about a thousand.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every three hundred Americans; fifty years later, it was one bed for every three thousand. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s the sound of one hundred thousand bee wings fanning the air.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there is one thing to be learned from the thousand sisters of Raskova’s regiments, it is that change is possible. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Had the slide been a thousand feet long, he would have carried them happily. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You think those ten thousand new-type work rockets will come through to Mars?” she said at last. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd made my way to the hospital, past thousands of poxies, bewildered as their diseases receded and their health was restored. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The tens of thousands of people going to work ignored the PAC men. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the thirty thousand enemy soldiers, she says, were just conscripts and Indians. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Later this night would be referred to as Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, because of the thousands of windows that had been shattered in synagogues, in Jewish homes and businesses. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

With the help of family and friends in the Sudanese community, Shamsoun raised more than two thousand dollars so he could attend the inauguration of President Barack Obama with a student group. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I had thousands of new e-mail messages waiting, and I could tell just by their subject lines what had happened while I’d been at work. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mark and Marc stare at me, their jaws collectively dropped to the floor, the grime of a thousand New York auditions blowing into their little bearded mouths. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Now it is eighty thousand and leaping pell mell on in a mathematical progression—a hundred thousand in three years and perhaps two hundred thousand in ten, with no end in sight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we become fluent readers we file away in memory tens of thousands of common word pairs, such as horse race, hunt ducks, cotton clothing, fat people, prime number, old man, and data point. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The normal cells which make up our bodies are tiny objects, five thousand of which would fit on the head of a pin,” he said, his voice a bit too loud and stilted. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The fireball continued rolling and rising, twisting itself into an enormous mushroom shape, glowing dark purple thousands of feet above the desert. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a fierce auction and they’d been thrilled to walk away with it for fifty thousand—really a bargain. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was only a few months ago that there was finally a pause in the thousands of wars being waged all over the planet. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Private industries throughout the country made millions of dollars with free convict labor, while thousands of African Americans died in horrific work conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Still, the idea of packing lettuce in plastic boxes and shipping it five days and three thousand miles away didn’t feel very organic to me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the North, men said that it had cost anywhere between forty and a hundred thousand dollars for the United States Government to return Bums to his master. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew from listening to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn’t really heard, heard to understand, a single word. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, early death was commonplace: Families often lost children to disease, and thousands of people wanted to reach out to loved ones who had died in the Civil War. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand a year’s a lot of money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finding asteroids became a popular activity in the 1800s, and by the end of the century about a thousand were known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I swiped the back of the label and watched August fix it on the jar, then fasten the second label beneath it, as if she’d done this ten thousand times. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Towers of Silence, where Zoroastrians buried their dead—it was called sky burial—had stood sentinel over Yazd for thousands of years. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It looked like thousands of worms were under his skin, squirming to find a way out. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Buoyed by this example of success, thousands of new migrants massing in the city’s second ward in 1917 and 1918 took to the polls and elected two black aldermen to represent them. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the simple existence of the Indian slave trade— thousands of native men and women working in bondage for Europeans—was a testament to Indians’ catastrophic loss of power and status. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Half her length, she sways her heads in air, outside her horrid cleft, hunting the sea around that promontory for dolphins, dogfish, or what bigger game thundering Amphitrite feeds in thousands. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been a thousand of them on each wall, and another thousand on the ceiling! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The garden had perished during the war and the path had ruptured in a thousand places. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There is nothing wrong with using which to introduce a restrictive relative clause, as in The pair of shoes which cost five thousand dollars was hideous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When they crossed the road, they would begin to take canister fire and thousands of balls of shrapnel wiping huge holes in the lines. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A civil war had to be won first, hundreds of thousands of lives lost, and then—only then—were slaves across the South set free. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A vastly larger stadium was to be built, one that would hold at least a hundred thousand people. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same thing happened when, in Harlem, I staged a rally that drew seven thousand people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As many as ninety thousand people now lined both sides of the Hudson—the largest crowd in years. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I have been in my domain for nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-five days. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Estimates of Alexandria’s population in the Hellenistic era range from four hundred thousand to one million— bigger than any Mediterranean city except Rome. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I do not worry much about the computers that are wired to help me find a friend among fifty thousand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess six thousand dollars—to me, an unconquerable mountain—isn’t even worth a second thought when you’re a billionaire. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the climate warmed, the glaciers slowly melted and sea levels rose; within three thousand years, Beringia had again disappeared beneath the waves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Eventually, much would be made of the fact that Holmes had erected his building during the same period in which Jack the Ripper, thousands of miles away, began his killings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I’m sure there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of teens who received the alert today, but there are only eighty-nine registered Deckers between the ages of sixteen and eighteen online right now. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I could hardly hear my own voice as thousands of others joined and recited it with me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The river god was talking about something that had happened thousands of years ago, when this area was nothing but marshes and maybe some shacks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Each item is easily worth thousands—shirts, jeans, dresses, coats, shoes, purses and clutches, belts and jewelry. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If she wins a second speed round, the Winner’s Circle is worth fifteen thousand dollars. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The group had been working to resettle tens of thousands of Congolese refugees. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Are we allowed to tip a thousand dollars to a nice waitress?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the limited variety of wild starting material suitable for plant domestication, even Africa’s earliest agriculture may have begun several thousand years later than that of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If you belong, you pay your two, or three, or five dollars a year—but who gives those organizations those two, and three, and five thousand dollar donations? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say that these are the thousand red eyes of the dead—though there are more than a thousand, and they will not always be dead. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She’s quiet and serious and a thousand years old and seems like she can talk to the wind. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Zeno’s riddles plagued mathematicians for nearly two thousand years. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t recommend getting struck. Lightning kills an average of 47 people in America every year and severely injures hundreds, maybe thousands.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The shutters of the town are drawn, but between slats, over sills, a thousand eyes peer out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Around two thousand years ago, Hopewell jumped into prominence from its bases in the Midwest, establishing a trade network that covered most of North America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the chapel felt oppressive - thousands of hollow eye sockets staring at Nico. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

All adults had to be addressed as Mister, Missus, Miss, Auntie, Cousin, Unk, Uncle, Buhbah, Sister, Brother and a thousand other appellations indicating familial relationship and the lowliness of the addressor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ask me what that was for? You dare to ask me that? I ought to cut you up into a thousand pieces, you snake. You...skunk!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I think I said that word a thousand times to myself. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They didn't wear masks, they didn't even own cars, they didn't get but a few thousand dollars each time—they were just playing a game of cops and robbers until they were caught. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The square's quite large, but not enough to hold District 12's population of about eight thousand. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

For instance, I spoke to eight thousand students at the University of California, and the press there gave big coverage to what I said of the power and program of Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the summer ended, I returned to BYU with only two thousand dollars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Who would have thought twenty flyers could have brought more than a thousand people to the park? One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

North American researchers tended to scoff at the notion that some mysterious non-Indians had lived fifteen thousand years ago in the heart of Brazil, but South Americans, Pena among them, were less dismissive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There’s still five dollars a cord, and there’s three thousand cords in that little grove alone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard that phrase, nice to meet you, a thousand times. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

As she spoke, the thousands of little bells and chimes which covered her from head to toe tinkled softly and, as if in reply, the telephone began to ring, too. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

In 1935, that number drops by almost six hundred thousand, and then, within a decade and a half, the number is back over three million again. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I would have carried a thousand pounds for that. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

In three hours Marie-Laure’s numb fingers discover a stranded jellyfish, an encrusted buoy, and a thousand polished stones. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

To grasp the significance of these two discoveries, we need to transport ourselves back to the sound world of that period, one thousand five hundred years ago. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Of the millions of stars that may mark the location of advanced civilizations, we have so far examined by radio no more than thousands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last I overheard, we were carrying more than ten thousand passengers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She had bought a small house in town for less than twelve thousand dollars, which is what she could afford. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is why the brain library is some ten thousand times larger than the gene library. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually he moved faster, trying to imagine a whale migrating thousands of miles, being led by instinct. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

These pale petals were gathering in the wind like flocking birds— thousands of them, like a spring snowstorm. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She turned her head almost all the way around, but could not see or sense the one mountain among thousands of mountains, the one tree among millions of trees. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Before I had left Chicago I had thought of a thousand arguments to present for the retention of the John Reed Clubs, but now the retention of those clubs did not seem important. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Four thousand years ago, more or less. I am much older.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

If we multiply by a hundred thousand our sense of loss for this work of Aristarchus, we begin to appreciate the grandeur of the achievement of classical civilization and the tragedy of its destruction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of them swarming as far back into the underbrush as he could see, and they appeared to swell in size and multiply in number as he spied them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure this final chapter is going to push me over fifty thousand reads, which is mind-blowing. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I have to pout and roll my eyes for hours until she finally wears down and crumbles into a thousand grains of beach sand. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When tens of thousands of city dwellers are brought to the farms to assist with the fall harvest, soldiers monitor them to make sure they do not steal food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The city’s 80 percent unemployment rate, a result of the Great Depression, had led factory managers to reduce wages and inspired thousands of citizens to support the strikers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

With thousands of soldiers being sent to Vietnam, there were not enough volunteers for the military to meet troop needs. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A thousand times better than Winston, he knew what the world was really like, in what degradation the mass of human beings lived and by what lies and barbarities the Party kept them there. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But Pembroke knew exactly whom to call: those high school kids from Lakeside who had been running up thousands of hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Five thousand dollars a week may sound like a great deal of money, and yet the Poppers were far from rich. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The kingdom was held together by thousands of miles of footpaths crossing the forest, with suspension bridges of woven vines swinging quietly over the rivers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt as though my body weighed a thousand kilograms. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

"A thousand other women might have loved him with all their hearts. What did he do to make you hate him so?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

So all day long, as I took in the scenery, and as I imagined us in a thousand accidents, and as I prayed underneath it all to any tree whizzing by, I talked about Peeby. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

You think it was easy sitting through all that tolerance education, learning every day that the bad thing I did was a thousand times worse than I thought it was? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The granite ledges were streaked by a thousand shades of gray and silver, separated by slices of pink quartz that glowed like happiness. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

On the Appelplatz, surrounded by electrified barbed wire, thousands of Jews, anguish on their faces, gathered in silence. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If we do this," Vogel said, "it would be over one thousand days of space. This is enough space for a life. I do not need to return." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one day, the blood travels a total of twelve thousand miles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I was shocked and said, ‘Then I don’t want to sell my land to that white man who offered seventy-five thousand dollars for it.’ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all stuffed into a silver-gray Honda—all thousand of them. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thirty thousand local residents turned out on a blustery day in mid-March to fete the men they had adopted as hometown heroes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A thousand live bats fluttered from the walls and ceiling while a thousand more swooped over the tables in low black clouds, making the candles in the pumpkins stutter. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I filled a bin with two thousand pounds of iron; then, my arms aching, I ran to find Dad. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The next year he returned to the island with seventeen ships and a thousand men. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was like being plunged into an ice bath, a thousand small knives pricking at his skin. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In both cases, Hoving and Zeri brushed aside a thousand other considerations about the way the sculpture looked and zeroed in on a specific feature that told them everything they needed to know. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was thousands of feet wide and hundreds of feet deep. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“About a hundred and seventy thousand dollars,” Benji said, not looking up from the menu. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two thousand feet below, slicing a deep crease through the surrounding bedrock, the Dudh Kosi appeared as a crooked strand of silver glinting from the shadows. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A decade later Cieza de Leon saw the battleground and from the wreckage and unburied remains thought the dead could have numbered sixteen thousand. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This is about a thousand times the temperature at the center of the sun, but temperatures as high as this are reached in H-bomb explosions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham was allowed to go home after she promised to do a thousand hours of public service. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

For two thousand years, religious and personal prejudices against Jews have been vented and exercised, as strong as white prejudices against the non-white. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mabel and I have boarded buses together thousands of times, but when the bus appears in the distance it's entirely unfamiliar. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I have a thousand questions, and she left before I could ask any of them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She must know about Theresa Carmody and the green sofa, how I got her into a state of sin and sent her to hell, the worst sin of all, worse than Carrigogunnell a thousand times. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Two thousand,” called a new voice, back of the benches. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Enormously. They take nearly a thousand prisoners. It’s in the bulletin. Didn’t you see it?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Whoever lived here could certainly pay ten thousand dollars for a child. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Goodness knows how many tens of thousands of people suffered unnecessary agonies under the surgeon’s knife because no one thought of the gas’s most obvious practical application. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Younger, more hideous, and pocked by thousands of tiny cuts and large bruises and oozing welts all over their faces and hands. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

During the next three thousand years, Peru hosted so many diverse cultures that the archaeological timelines in textbooks, with their multiple arrows and switchbacks, are as impenetrable as the family trees of European kings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The trouble with sharing your home with a thousand people was it needed a serious wipe-down at the end of every day, and that was left to me and Daoud. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then I boarded a plane and took myself five thousand miles away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A thousand freckles speckled her cheeks and brow, and her nose had been broken more than once. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The blue whale has the largest heart, weighing more than a thousand pounds, the size of an average dairy cow. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sensing imminent danger, thousands of Jewish scientists migrated to foreign countries. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Those babies cost five thousand dollars a pop,” Harris said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Back in the 1940s, there were over a hundred thousand kilometers of road in the country. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that the circumference of the Earth was forty thousand kilometers, and that only the male cardinal was bright red. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They might have easily been lost amidst the Land of Always Winter, a thousand leagues beyond the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Do not ask your brother to buy your gown. He's done enough. And I’d like to buy your dress, but I don't have six thousand dollars to spend. We'll need to find something reasonable.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He saw no sign of air conditioning, which meant it must have been a thousand degrees in there. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A thousand times he saw Nipper’s neck wrung. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Anthony ordered fifty thousand copies of the remarks printed in pamphlet form, and she spread them around the state “like flakes of snow.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Women survived for thousands of years without them.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But can you really make a family of thousands? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Japanese still hold the world record, with pottery thousands of years older than the oldest from the Fertile Crescent or Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I think I read somewhere about six hundred thousand a year,” Grandpa Nyles told him. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

"The U-2 required very little runway for takeoff; a thousand feet would suffice. Within moments...you could begin climbing—at better than a forty-five-degree angle." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma must have been excited and exhausted, traveling a thousand miles to marry a man she had never met. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s why I had to drop out. It was only two thousand people. I need a bigger audience.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions, and Sam were coming more vividly to mind the longer she lingered. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

If you want to know what eight hundred thousand links look like, picture a forty-foot silo attached to a small barn. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’m happy to have found him...but it isn’t long until a thousand thoughts cascade through my head, bursting the levees that maintain my patience. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Was that first flight a thousand years ago? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The dark streets were already flooded with thousands of excited people, who, like Melita, were turning out to watch the victory parade in honor of Adolf Hitler. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The towers were part of a windmill farm, which spanned more than eight thousand acres and was expected to eventually supply electricity to some forty-five thousand homes in Oklahoma. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The first part of the answer had been sitting under his nose since his childhood in the farmlands of Shrewsbury and Hereford; Darwin had merely traveled eight thousand miles around the globe to rediscover it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see the thousands of people staring at me. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Six thousand militiamen were put on standby in nearby armories. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The frieze alone boasted a thousand sparrows so lifelike that real birds had been known to while away their lives romancing them in vain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Chicago isn’t a thousand miles away from Gainesville,” Mom replied. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“More than a thousand, actually. Ten times ten thousand books. More than that. More books than you could ever read.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the train pulled out of Hangzhou the next day, the Hsus found themselves depleted of some nine thousand dollars’ worth of goodwill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from this height, I should’ve heard the noise of the city—millions of people bustling around, thousands of cars and machines—the hum of a huge metropolis. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"A thousand lovely knights," she said, "but not the sort my enemies need fear. And my bullocks cannot carry me across the water, I—why are we stopping?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Since there was no way to verify the data’s authenticity, the bidding stayed low, and I won the auction for a few thousand credits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I have climbed these steps a thousand times before. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The interior was pretty impressive, considering it had been constructed two thousand years ago. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He bred mice by the thousands, hoping to prove Galton right. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And Stephen Byerley, tight-lipped, in the face of thousands who watched in person and the millions who watched by screen, drew back his fist and caught the man crackingly upon the chin. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

How many of the nine thousand things could be waiting to surprise you after fifty years? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

About three thousand of our supporters had driven in from all over the state, showing that we were both organized and active—stronger than anyone thought. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We have a patron. Someone who insists on staying anonymous. They have pledged a dollar for every dollar we raise, up to ten thousand dollars.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

If a thousand giant octopuses had squirted ink at the same time, at the bottom of the deepest, most sunless ocean trench, it could not have been blacker. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Never more than a few hundred, maybe a thousand rand at a time, but it was all cash on hand. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Netbook blinks, and I wait for the thousands of bits to become the few I need. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Not because they were spending thousands, but because it was fun. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three hundred thousand copies were sold in the first year after its publication. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even with everybody participating, that would mean each and every one of us would have to be responsible for ten thousand links of chain. It’s not realistic to think we could accomplish it.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The prizes included VIP seating for Shrek, signed books, tee times, and about a thousand different gift baskets. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing like that for thousands of miles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The government still existed and the government owed the owner of that lottery ticket ten thousand dollars. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

More than one hundred and fifty thousand Liberians died. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The music carried Bandit away, thousands of miles to the sea. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But a thousand questions buzzed behind his eyes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Beyond a thousand miles the devastation from the blast would gradually diminish. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had found a stack of sticky notes and priced items anywhere from one cent to three hundred thousand dollars. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“If we don’t, the Golden Dawns are dead, and we got ourselves a thousand rough lemon trees.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane skidded for two thousand feet, severing an oil pipeline and snapping pine trees, before falling into a ravine and bursting into flames. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At his desk at home, he stacked the thousands of letters he’d received since his arrest. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Some dudes are going to pay us a thousand bucks to stand in line for them. We just don’t know who they are yet. See, you got to think outside the box.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He could have stood there like Darwin at the Galapagos and known that if he had come a thousand years earlier, everything would have been the same. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The Colonel’s hatred for Harsden burned with the fire of a thousand suns. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Under the dictators they had all gone to ruin, and now there were fewer than a thousand. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And in Wisconsin, more than eleven thousand poor people go to court without representation every year because anyone who earns more than $3,000 per year is considered able to afford a lawyer. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know exactly, but my guess is at least a thousand dollars—between the materials and the labor. Maybe more.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Evidently it’s a disease where you have to go to the bathroom a thousand times a day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or even earlier than that—the Chilean site had suggestive evidence of artifacts more than thirty thousand years old. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Klaxons were blaring throughout the building, and the thousands of NPC guards stationed on the floors below were probably already on their way up here to find me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In response the excited citizenry had shelled out precious nickels and quarters and dollars, raising an astonishing twelve thousand dollars to send the crews east. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For the most part this pollution is unseen and invisible, making its presence known when hundreds or thousands of fish die, but more often never detected at all. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Unlike the majority of the audience, Monroe believed the poem to be rather a brilliant work, so much so that she had hired a printer to produce five thousand copies for sale to the public. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The value of the grand unification energy is not very well known, but it would probably have to be at least a thousand million million GeV. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Encanis ran free and did the work of a thousand demons, destroying and despoiling wherever he went. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We have created a new caste system that forces thousands of people into homelessness, bans them from living with their families and in their communities, and renders them virtually unemployable. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A thousand feet below lay the old Ottoman capital of Bursa, like a backgammon board spread out across the valley’s green felt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And from the storefront floated the aroma of toasting maize, which has permeated Mexico and Central America for thousands of years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I wish we could go twenty-four thousand miles away,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Papa told us after we got here, after we settled down and were safe, that thousands of people have died crossing the border both ways. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Forty-five thousand rowdy fans had packed the track to see him run, and they had made him the heavy favorite. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, then, did the Fertile Crescent and China eventually lose their enormous leads of thousands of years to late-starting Europe? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And if there were anything these Ekumens wanted from us, they wouldn’t have sent you alone. It’s a joke, a hoax. Aliens would be here by the thousand.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

"They may not wish to. They are thousands, and we will be three hundred when the Halfhand reaches us." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of people are released from prison every year, only to find themselves locked out of the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“A hundred thousand dollars,” he said, and offered it to me. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We’d almost made it to the rim when the row of mirrors opened like hatches and thousands of tiny metallic .. . things poured out. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There had never, not in a thousand years, been arms to match Fezzik’s. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a saying, ‘Death hath a thousand doors to let out life; I shall find one.’ Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

An avid skydiver, Horan has made more than three thousand jumps and serves on the board of the International Skydiving Museum and Hall of Fame. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Night gathers, and now my watch begins,” they said, as thousands had said before them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“What is it if I let you make five hundred dollars to let me make ten thousand? ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky above them was dappled with more stars than he could count, a thousand diamonds dropped into an inkpot. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And then suddenly, thousands of the steel bolts that held the tank together let go. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

By midafternoon, seventy-eight thousand people had crammed into the track, more than ten thousand in the infield alone. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aeons passed...worlds spun and whirled...Time was motionless...It stood still—it passed through a thousand ages…. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It’s only the biggest chicken farm in the county with flocks of fifty thousand birds at a time. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A thousand Sparra warriors perched in the branches of trees all around the Abbey, waiting. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“His field of study went back much further than you’d expect, that’s all. He was looking for remains of civilizations from twenty, thirty thousand years ago,” the Pole replied. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the United States, with a population of two hundred and seventy-five million, that comes to one hundred and thirty-seven thousand intersexuals alive today. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Two or three thousand dollars, sometimes,” Pearl told him with pride, and Moody did quick mental math: if Mia sold ten pictures a year... Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Party claimed that the infant mortality rate was now only a hundred and sixty per thousand, whereas before the Revolution it had been three hundred—and so it went on. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe he drops the diamond into the pool among the thousands of snails. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Church bells tolled for the dead, over forty thousand and counting. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Ice, as Estraven had said, tends to hold a high-pressure zone above its central area, where thousands of square miles of white reflect the sunlight. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Orson Welles, the Mercury, and CBS faced thousands of dollars worth of lawsuits for personal injury, mental anguish, and damages. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was the smell of thousands of onions, growing and rotting and sprouting. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Harker, having collected a million dollars to solve the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease, was in search of talent, and the offer of six thousand for one year seemed to Odile wonderfully generous. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Dean Town is a real city—twenty thousand people, much bigger than Ogdentown. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

You realize there is a need for something to help you see sraf and instantly, out of the materials we have known for thousands of years, you put together an instrument to do so. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My father went by the same name, and though he lived a thousand miles away, I liked to imagine someone getting the two of us confused. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

At their peak, his team brought in over four thousand dollars a day. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Ten thousand swords makes for a princely gift, I grant you. Her Grace should be most pleased.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Nine trillion, nine hundred ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine,” recited Milo breathlessly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

A scientific noun can launch a thousand questions—and the idea of the “gene” did exactly that. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, remember we started out with a forty-dollar investment? And that morphed into eight thousand dollars?” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could imagine a thousand heinous people who might have some bone to pick out of Richie's skull— even his friends were scary. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The prison’s more than a thousand miles away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But beauty can make people forgive a thousand cruelties. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It has taken us thousands of miles and many days, but here we are: her head on my shoulder, her breath on my neck, the fatigue thick inside both of us. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I spoke at the Wendy’s International convention in Las Vegas to more than three thousand guests just before a fund-raising auction for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But the image of twenty thousand boxes of chocolates being delivered here to Trinity was ridiculous. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Bronze Age? Goodness, I don’t know; about five thousand years ago,” she said. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The key strategic insight was that the residency question must never again be allowed to come before Congress, where it was certain to fall victim to the political version of death by a thousand cuts. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The crowds were becoming thousands, and there was not one there but guessed what was to be done, and all approved. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Helena, I know I’ve told you this twenty thousand times, but you need challenges bigger than Baked Alaskas. Julia's flying the nest this year. Why don’t you think about going back to work?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Louisiana National Guard had called four thousand troops into service. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The average debt among graduates was two hundred dollars, it said, and the average four-year tab was more than two thousand. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She flew straight for the one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions, and Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

That meant selling every stock mentioned in their clues and buying more shares of Westing Paper Products—at a loss of some thousands of dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once that creaky coffin door had opened, the smell of a thousand years of rotting death drifted out through the thick woven fabric of my clothing. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The imaginary conversations were back, but much worse than they had been after Peris had left A thousand times she’d fought with Shay in her head—long, rambling discussions about beauty, biology, growing up. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

All those momentous consequences of pottery triggered a population explosion, causing Japan’s population to climb from an estimated few thousand people to a quarter of a million. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was noise—the wailing of a thousand screaming throats in the wind, the slapping of the sail sounding like a cannon. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he narrowed the search to towns with populations under ten thousand that were also on the banks of rivers. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Sailing across the ocean among half a thousand perfect strangers conveyed an anonymity in which my grandparents could re-create themselves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Kate said in a pleading voice, “Joe, do you think you could help me? If I gave you ten thousand dollars, do you think you could fix everything up?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a thousand,” said his dad, covering her face in kisses. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

They may have joined the human pack thousands of years earlier. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could buy a small house with that! What does she need twenty thousand pounds for?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I keep looking at Sahil and he keeps looking at me and our hands have brushed a thousand times as we both reach for the same pencil or highlighter. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In it he observed that wilderness as it was commonly understood simply did not exist in the eastern United States, and had not existed for thousands of years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have any money, but I’ll stack lots of cups tomorrow. Three hundred. A thousand, even.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was no wind, and this snow fell quietly; perched on a thousand fence posts, the meadowlarks waited for it to be over. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That great wad-dling sack of suet? His own people mock him as Lord Lamprey, I've heard. The man can scarce walk. If you stuck a sword in his belly, ten thousand eels would wriggle out." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Twenty-four cartloads… What is that, twenty thousand books?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

At public events, I focused on making personal connections with the people I met, in small groups and in crowds of thousands, in backstage chats and harried rope lines. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It can’t be more than a thousand yards from here to there.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No big Magnolia mystery after all. Just another homegrown calamity claiming a thousand small green lives. Faith.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lolo used to tell us stories of the manongs, thousands of men who came from the Philippines to California way before Mom and I were ever born. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

As the German army rolled across Poland and into Eastern Europe toward Russia, the SS Einsatzgruppen slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and western Russia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I lied, sweet queen. It was a thousand. But never once a dragon.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, no. I wouldn’t read five thousand pages of something if it contained precise instructions on how to lose twenty pounds by eating Krispy Kremes and orgasming. Do you not have homework?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The prisoner had folded and torn and twisted and fringed paper into thousands and thousands of paper birds, of all shapes and sizes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was going away from the one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions, and Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Flow did this extraordinary art happen to survive intact over so many thousands of years? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As of July 2001, twenty-six thousand asteroids had been named and identified–half in just the previous two years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And it was from Cody that he inherited money--a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was surrounded by men sworn to House Lannister, a vast host twenty thousand strong, and yet he was alone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Two thousand, eight hundred and eighty-eight minutes since the moment his chance to win the competition had evaporated. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Germany was sinking over a thousand Allied merchant ships every year, killing many sailors and destroying a vast tonnage of Allied supplies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One might at first be surprised that Clovis descendants could reach Patagonia, lying 8,000 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border, in less than a thousand years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand men and ten thousand machines worked ceaselessly through the night under powerful arc-lights, and the massive task was completed only just in time. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the thousands of species that our ancestors hunted and gathered, only a few were suitable candidates for farming and herding. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aye, she has the mark. Like all Borrells, for five thousand years. My daughter’s daughter. Not the one who makes the stew.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She couldn't sing for him now, here, with the sky a swirl with fire and men dying in their hundreds and their thousands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The square was packed with several thousand people, including a block of about a thousand schoolchildren in the uniform of the Spies. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the same time that the tournament was taking place, thousands of miles away at Wimbledon, England, Arthur Ashe was blazing his way to the finals. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drape covering the blinds also had peacocks on it, only they faced forward, their plumage spread into a thousand blue-green eyes that seemed to watch us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Originally mistakenly identified as the bomber, Mr. Aziz is being laid to rest by well over a thousand community members of all faiths here in Dearborn, Michigan. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In the end, Park’s group managed to launch just one of its ten balloons and tens of thousands of leaflets were spilled onto the ground. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Only one in a thousand of us is allowed to be a servant. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“A thousand,” he grunted as sweat broke out on his brow. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A thousand songbirds greeted us as we walked beneath the open canopy of trees in the oak grove. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once Socrates, the great Athenian teacher, who lived hundreds of years, thousands, perhaps, after the mythological stories were first told, went on a walk with a young man he was fond of named Phaedrus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all, the workforce in the park numbered four thousand. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Republic has thousands of underground factories for the animals. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Or was it, perhaps, only the echo of a thousand headlines that had already screamed their violence into the deepest corners of her soul? 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the Shear, then at the pile next to it, about fifty thousand pounds of iron. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They were suddenly right up alongside the enormous wooden bleachers on the north side of the course, not more than ten feet from thousands of spectators screaming in unison, “Deutsch-land! Deutsch-land! Deutsch-land!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I would imagine it was not more than a thousand dollars, and maybe half of that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would send out ugly photographs, thousands of them. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By three o’clock that afternoon it had made thirty-five trips aloft, to an altitude of one thousand feet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And then it said, “Ten thousand years, and the knife is still sharp...” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I have seen some that cost $20,000 and contained all the thousand appliances we live by—dishwashers, automatic clothes washers and driers, refrigerators and deep freezes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The food’s boring. There’s no music. We’ve invented eight thousand games and outgrown them all, some of them literally. Why not grow into something?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand caps were back on our heads, at lightning speed. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train raced over bridges and along cliffs where glacial waterfalls tumbled thousands of feet down the rocks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But this is simply the way it was—the way it was over tens of thousands of square miles of hill and cove, from the Carolinas to New England. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers filled his head: there were a hundred thousand cars lost in the flood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

About five thousand people were there, and when he came to the microphone to give a short speech they rose and honored him with a standing ovation, because they would be thankful to him forever. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the thousands of people who listened in, I never considered that one might be my brother. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“One thousand. Never more, and never less. A new flame is kindled for every one that gutters out.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There’s no competition; there are just a thousand local monopolies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

C.P. grew excited thinking of what they could eventually accomplish: a thousand low-income whites marching and rallying to demand better housing and city services. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is certain that thousands upon thousands of sick people through the centuries believed that he had freed them from their pain and restored them to health. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

An enormous wall, like a giant patchwork curtain of stone, surrounded the thousands of houses of the city. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Stuck in war-torn France, four thousand miles from home, he missed Elizebeth terribly. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It happens to so many thousands of black youth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden keep was gone entirely, rotted away a thousand years past, with not so much as a timber to mark where it had stood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“And for thousands of years,” Annabeth said, “no one has managed.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Fifty thousand people made their way to Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Over time, William’s team ended up with a stash of about a thousand Purple messages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Swaying her hips, she all of a sudden dropped her skirt and was stepping out of it when the engine hit and exploded her into a thousand pieces. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Most stars he saw were tens or hundreds or thousands of light-years away. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But over those thousands of years none of the Moneekrom kings or queens had been able to solve one big problem.... The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We talked about how the little coral animals might have been building the foundations of the cay for thousands of years. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dreams had been noise, the birdscream of thousands, a shrill wail that came on like day itself until his own voice was swept away with it. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Together the two books ran to nearly a thousand pages and were, remarkably, worse than even his most pessimistic friends had feared. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We were thousands of miles from Long Island, hundreds of miles inland. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Below them is a dimmed arena of fifty thousand screaming fans, illuminated by sweeping spotlights of red and blue. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They seemed to be good people. Sometimes, Abra, the strangest medicines are effective. I wonder if it would help if they knew Aron has just inherited over a hundred thousand dollars.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The goal of Project VOTE! was to sign up new Illinois voters at a staggering pace of ten thousand per week. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Spring spread her vine-covered arms, and a cube knitted from a thousand flowers floated in front of her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because there were thousands of adventures still to be had, and only a limited number of days left to have them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Seventy-seven million, five hundred thirty-seven thousand, four hundred twelve,” Luke reminded us. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of British troops quartered in New York, and British sailors, too, besides the regular population of 25,000. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she could buy Drogo's life with the death of a horse, she would pay a thousand times over. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’ve spent thousands on him. Thousands,” he said to me, taking a careful sip from the trembling brim of his glass. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But a tiny number— about one in eight thousand—bounced back at a sharp angle, some even ricocheting directly back at the source. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And here we were now opening the lid of a sealed jar, and all the anticipation of a tomorrow planned a thousand yesterdays ago came skittering to our feet like slick-shelled beetles. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Two hundred thousand civilians killed by atom bombs,” said Julia, “and two million more incinerated by firebombs is hardly what I would call 'Scot-free.'” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“More than a hundred, but not, like, in the thousands,” Greg said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

What we had was a burned White House and ten thousand widows on the public pension list. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I add them to my personal list of kills that began in the arena and now includes thousands. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human civilization, and this city, which had stood for thousands of years, was saying back to her: You wanna dissolve this city, Dirt Face? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t make a single one of the thousand thoughts racing around my head stay still for even a second. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When these amateurs heard that the ancestors of Indians must have come to the Americas thousands of years ago, a surprising number of them decided to hunt for the evidence that would prove it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There had to be thousands of words crisscrossing the walls, even the ceiling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

If sold individually—there were thousands of games, according to Bobby—or as one large cache to a collector, the value of these score sheets alone would have totaled somewhere around $100,000. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Seventy-eight thousand fans going absolutely crazy, including this announcer!” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are only about twenty-three thousand people living in Arles, a huge change from the two million or so he just left in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To the east, a fence and shed of James Dalton’s went up in flames; to the west, a barn smoldered for a few minutes, then flared up into a thousand yellow-orange fingers. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had one thousand five hundred pages and managed to convince his father and brother Jaime to pay for it, against whatever profits its sale might bring. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long white buildings in the back are stables for thousands of horses. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were six thousand Redcoats stationed there, and they’d taken over the city. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was soon up over five thousand feet. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The prospect would be of a thousand, or thousands of incarcerated nights, sleeplessly turning over the past, waiting for his life to resume, wondering if it ever would. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He knew what the jitters of the season opener could do, how the most talented kid could come unglued in the sea of all those lights and those thousands of fans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice rumbled like a thousand trains all heading to the same place. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t make watching television bad for the kids,” he says, but adds: “There are probably a thousand better things to do any given time than watching any given television program.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was drama here, I can tell them—thousands upon thousands of us crossing the Rappahannock with banners flying, drums rolling, and our instruments of death gleaming in the sunlight. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like when places have those Guess How Many Jelly Beans Are in the Jar? games and I guess something like fifty but it’s really four thousand and fifty. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I blink as the Tokyo Dome itself comes back into view, as well as fifty thousand spectators screaming wildly at the top of their lungs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Three thousand? What manner of men are these?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were followed by thousands of women marching in groups representing college students, doctors, nurses, lawyers, business leaders, artists, educators, librarians, actresses, and musicians. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Spies reported that there were now more than 430 British ships anchored off nearby Staten Island, and at least forty thousand soldiers. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of releasing it, his hand only seemed to clamp down harder, frozen in place as thousands of volts of electricity sent his body into a frenzied fit of shuddering. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The stars are bright tonight, a thousand sparkling jewels sewn into a dress only fit for a goddess. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Over two centuries,” he pressed, “there had to have been thousands of children.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His theft had become a one-of-a-kind world event, and he was a hero to thousands of people. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Two thousand frames a second, recently developed by Industrial Light and Magic for specialized nature shoots, hummingbird wings, and such. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Two hundred men were not an army, but you didn't need thousands to hold a castle as strong as Winterfell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The twenty-five thousand international fans in the stands—a good portion of them Americans—rose and cheered them as their bow knifed across the line a full twenty feet ahead of the British shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As many as five thousand cultivars may exist in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“September fifth is Amazon Rainforest Day. But so far this summer, sixty thousand fires have been detected. Fire season doesn’t end until December.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In Mexico, for thousands of years corn was honored as a source of life. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The shortcut shaved off nearly eight thousand miles for ships traveling from New York to California. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They are the really evil people, making money out of the suffering of thousands of live animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Oh man, I counted eight hundred thousand links for nothing. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He killed his senses, he killed his memory, he slipped out of his Self in a thousand different forms. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

One way to describe Pena’s goal would be to say that he was trying to bring back a people who vanished thousands of years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the end of it all, sixty thousand people were dead and virtually every building for miles reduced to rubble. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Golden Company was ten thousand strong, Seasoned and disciplined. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A handful of men cannot seize power over thousands. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they could not deny that two thousand pregnant BDM girls applied for support from the National Socialist People’s Relief Administration. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just about every flying club in the kingdom joined in, and so many thousands of people applied—free flight training!—that they could only take about a tenth of them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They rose above for several thousand feet, looking like giant caterpillars crawling out of the ground. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Park Forest, it turns out, was one of America’s first fully planned communities—not just a housing subdivision, but a full village designed for about thirty thousand people, with shopping malls, churches, schools, and parks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"But there are still thousands of slips," I wish I could whisper to him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But she was a thousand leagues away, in the clutches of the Lannisters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I mean, this store is like a thousand years old, man. Who shops in here anyway?” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds, perhaps even thousands of people have seen Mr. Evans in the streets of Harlem. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here in their thousands they carpeted the earth waiting to lie on their backs on the platters of America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the four thousand rooms of the Centre the four thousand electric clocks simultaneously struck four. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were at least a thousand people waiting in line to see things in the Hall of the Italian Renaissance. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like thousands of other people, he was on his way to De Koven Street to watch the fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

By 1000 a.d., trade relationships had covered the continent for more than a thousand years; mother-of- pearl from the Gulf of Mexico has been found in Manitoba, and Lake Superior copper in Louisiana. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At least three of the thousand or so ads I scanned promised “fun, casual” workplace environments, and I pictured flannel- shirted teams bantering on their afternoon cider-and-doughnut breaks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He dumped you four thousand years ago! You are so not good enough for him.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looked like he wanted to ask a thousand questions all at once. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Even though she’s three thousand miles away, the sadness in her voice flows into me, making my eyes prickle. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“But I have to tell you, Tommy, there might be thousands of these knocking about.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand Charlies are drawing something in the steam on the window. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Census figures put the black population, among Levittown’s fifty-four thousand residents, at 2 percent. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And then I think of all those thousands of dots Seurat used to paint the picture. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Through the end of April and into May, a team of sixteen editors, reporters, and secretaries worked twelve-plus-hour days going through the thousands of pages Sheehan had brought back from Boston. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And he’s lived there ever since, with two deep freezes packed with food to last him one hundred years, and enough cigars to last ten thousand days, and a good bed with a soft mattress. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The treasures of ten thousand years ago were not the treasures of today. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He knows he's “privileged above a thousand others in that you remove so many barriers in my way.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Could I drive all the way to Calcutta? How long would that take, Eliot? Ten thousand miles, at fifty miles per hour?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was Earth and there the coming war, and there hundreds of thousands of mothers or grandmothers or fathers or brothers or aunts or uncles or cousins. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blast wave arrived a second later, disintegrating everything in its path—our avatars, the floor, the walls, the castle itself, and the thousands of avatars gathered around it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Spassky ensconced himself in the Caucasus while Fischer settled in the Catskills, more than seven thousand miles away. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the streets leading to the Mall in Washington, D.C., were jammed with thousands of people heading for the Lincoln Memorial. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Horrible sounds floated to us across the waves: a thousand sufferers moaning and crying out. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In 1995, the leader of a commercial expedition absconded with tens of thousands of dollars of his clients’ money before the trip even got off the ground. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We shall leave them ruined and wasted, broken and shattered, torn in a thousand pieces and scattered to the four winds. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I’d dragged his desk into my room, and while the choir sang I would settle into his chair and study, just as I’d seen him do on a thousand nights. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For those who don’t believe me: I’m assuming that after more than two thousand years the exhaled molecules are uniformly spread about the world and the vast majority are still free in the atmosphere. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He sounds rich. And lonely. I bet he does these broadcasts from a huge mansion, big as this whole colony, a house with a thousand rooms and a thousand servants.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ho consolidated power by arresting anyone suspected of disloyalty to his regime, executing many, and sending thousands more to prison camps. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Of the eighty-eight thousand residents, sixty-six thousand were white, while twenty-two thousand were black. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“For you, a thousand times over,” I heard myself say. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve read it to him a thousand times, but this will be the last if he doesn’t remember me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were at least fifteen of them, at ten thousand feet, little dots in the blue, circling above the road. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were surrounded by Inka satrapies; their economy was enmeshed with the imperial machinery; they had hundreds or thousands of people doing the empire's bidding. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You got a thousand dollars extra for it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Yes; he would ask for ten thousand dollars. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cahokia represented the first time Indians north of the Rio Grande had tried to feed and shelter fifteen thousand people in one place, and they made beginner’s mistakes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were just seventy thousand Americans left in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We can do nothing about this! Seven thousand people will be deported! But we can choose who will go and who will remain.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The idea was you were buried with all your favorite things and in a thousand years a relative would dig you up and sift through your rotted remains and stuff. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The night sky was an inky blue-black blanket strewn with thousands of crystal-bright stars. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Anyone tempted by those thousand sovereigns had better find a place neither on land nor on water. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, and every one a life; and dogs to eat them, and cats too. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But for some reason tens of thousands of those people suddenly stopped committing crimes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could fly in space, however, there were still a thousand things I had to learn. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the flight home, twenty thousand feet above clouds that were ten thousand feet above the ground, Gus said, “I used to think it would be fun to live on a cloud.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

No scary movie, failed experiment, or broken cell phone came close to the fear now pumping my heart at a hundred thousand beats per minute. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Only then would her womb quicken once again... ... but Daenerys Targaryen had other children, tens of thousands who had hailed her as their mother when she broke their chains. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They’d been fishing, in short, the same waters, with Carl a bit farther toward the north and down current: a thousand yards closer to the shipping lanes that gave Ship Channel Bank its name. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll believe it when I see them ten thousand rockets arrive with the one hundred thousand Mexicans and Chinese on them.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carla says my face was worth a thousand bucks as the family rushed forward and locked us in their arms. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Why instead did the West slumber through a thousand years of darkness until Columbus and Copernicus and their contemporaries rediscovered the work done in Alexandria? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t break again until we had sliced a thousand holes in a thousand spots. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you apply for one thousand?” he said, bringing his pipe to a standstill and glancing at me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

This photograph was taken in the United States Capitol, where thirty-seven operators answered thousands of calls every day. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Never get used to it, the mind of headquarters, not if I live a thousand years. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s still able to read me, even from thousands of miles away. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

More than a thousand letters were mailed out to American Legion posts and other civic and fraternal organizations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

According to the Independent Electoral Commission, there would be ten thousand polling stations around the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Allied planes dropped tens of thousands of White Rose leaflets over Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She sped into the wind and covered the thirty miles to the one mountain among thousands in less than ten minutes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In just the first two seasons, 100,000 pounds of ancient bones were excavated from the site, and tens of thousands of pounds more came in each of the half dozen years that followed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The best speeds yet achieved by any human object are those of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, which are now flying away from us at about thirty-five thousand miles an hour. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We had thousands of thumb wars, and I won every single one, even the ones I was trying to lose. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But Mr. Greenbaum is going to pay us five thousand dollars for a week at the Regal.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

But because he got thirty thousand pesetas and people had stayed in line all night to buy tickets to see him, the crowd demanded that he should be more than very good. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was now thirty thousand dollars in the hole, and soon officially out of business. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As a result, domestic animals did not reach sub-Saharan Africa until thousands of years after they began to be utilized by emerging Eurasian civilizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each year, thousands of children cling to the tops and sides of trains as they journey north in search of their parents. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And for thousands of students, that initial disadvantage is the difference between going to college—and having a real shot at the middle class — and not. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He thought of the tens of thousands of Americans who’d lost their lives. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The boys follow his pointing finger across the jutted rooftops where fireworks explode—blue red yellow white—a thousand points of brilliant light. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

In August 1861, he became a colonel in the Union army, taking charge of a regiment of about a thousand Ohio soldiers, some of whom were students from the Eclectic Institute. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ask him why algebra and he launches into a thousand and one stories why algebra. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was located in Hwaseong, a city of about five hundred thousand people in the low plains of the central Korean Peninsula, near the Yellow Sea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I cover my mouth, even though I’ve snorted in front of him a thousand times. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In an optical photograph of a dense star field, there are hundreds of thousands of stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The full moon hung low, a fresh coin that threw its silver grandly on the water in a ribbon that dazzled for a thousand miles. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent for ever. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a thousand feet or more above the frozen sea. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

With more than five thousand students, it was a factory of learning. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Confident in the devices, the British army had already distributed eleven thousand of them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“In the distance, I could hear the voices of thousands of people. They were all shouting at me and running toward me: ‘Coward! Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five years after its inception, Public Allies is still going strong, with chapters in Chicago and two dozen other cities and thousands of alumni around the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Over the six months of the fair an average of twelve thousand people would attend each of Cody’s 318 performances, for a total attendance of nearly four million. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She sang quietly to herself as she cooked, in a voice like a thousand old women all singing at the tops of their voices at once. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And in fact, over thousands of years, people in every corner of the globe built a large body of food knowledge. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She felt like if she put her hand against his chest, his heart would be beating a thousand times a minute and so would hers and maybe they’d both explode. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“So it might be possible for hundreds of Sixers to joust for the Copper Key at the same time. Or even thousands.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The only reason I held together was because my thousand pieces were all leaning together. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I mean, you see these guys in these kung-fu movies getting hit on the head a thousand times, and they keep on fighting. Right?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the dozens, then hundreds, then thousands, they began to assemble at the border crossings between East and West Berlin on the evening of November 9. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As maize swept in, Indians burned and cleared thousands of acres of land, mainly in river valleys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

About five thousand Permian fans were already in the stands even though the game was an hour off, and at the sight of the Pepettes they started yelling their familiar chant. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where could you hide a book better than among ten thousand others? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Leon needed at least twenty thousand dollars to draw even with the school. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We reach the mess hall, and the cacophony within hits us like a wave—laughter and boasts and the raucous talk of three thousand young men on the verge of leave or graduation. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We’re the headline article of the Sunday newspaper, which is still dropped off at thousands of homes in Cincinnati. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My parents were a city girl and a village boy, but they still found each other thousands of miles away in America. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

You’d never know it living here, but Jackson, Mississippi, be filled with two hundred thousand peoples. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She crosses over Georgia 400, the clogged artery that pumps hundreds of thousands of commuters into Alpharetta’s glass and brushed-metal office parks and, an hour’s drive south, into downtown Atlanta. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

With me, it’s regular checkups, new filter every fifteen hundred miles, and new oil every three thousand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once I sat down and crossed my hands on my lap and struck my remorseful, thoughtful, and bright-eyed pose, the woman looked up and asked, "What happened to the ten thousand dollars?" Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Worn smooth on the end, where it had been held by a thousand hands. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Many thousands of gallons of chemicals have been discharged along roadsides in the name of ragweed control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“No. I’ve heard that we have over eight thousand already and we are still boarding.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Socios en Salud continues to support nearly fifteen hundred MDR patients, as well as provide clinical, nutritional, and psychological support for more than a thousand people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

At exactly four forty-five, sunset, the warship Michigan fired one of its cannon and continued to fire twenty times more as one thousand men quietly took up positions at each of the exposition’s flags. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The humans sit on balconies, about a thousand of us. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Scads of new laborers were needed to churn out nearly eighteen thousand engines in two years. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand, eighty minutes to turn in the perfect shot to Ms. Bethune. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Even though General de Wet and General Kemp had led a force of twelve thousand and occupied towns and caused many deaths, they were both released soon after their convictions for high treason. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"At a thousand duros apiece," he said to me in Spanish. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Two buzz-cut heads, four smiling green eyes, and ten thousand freckles. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Right, but there’s so many possible accomplices. Pickett has, like, thousands of employees. And who knows how many people working on that property. I mean, they have a zoologist.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

For C.P., as for tens of thousands of other poor whites in North Carolina and beyond, Jesse Helms was simply a steady beacon of truth in uncertain times. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a thousand times more fun to haul real chips for old lame Susie’s real fire than to drag painted blocks along the banquette on Esplanade Street! The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The total was over three thousand dollars and growing. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

With thousands of spectators appraising each player’s sartorial—as well as strategic—style, the match moved from Bled to Zagreb and ended in Belgrade. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas to me it was a bombshell, exploding in a thousand fragments. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever you said he would bring up something from a thousand years ago that nobody ever heard about. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colored paper say thousands a people came to the service, but you could count the whites on one hand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Dad had taught us how to count the seconds between the lightning bolt and thunder—one thousand, two thousand, three thousand—to figure out how many miles away a storm was. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

These are mas-sive human warehouses, two of the largest prison housing units in the world, containing over a thousand inmates between them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How we all fit together even though Cecile was thousands of miles away. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Never in a thousand years could Tony Chavez have imagined it turning out this way. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since “independence” was foisted on the Transkei, the tens of thousands of Xhosas living in Crossroads were to be stripped of their South African citizenship and deported to the tribal reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a camp rule against junk food, so she’d wrap a bag of M&M’s in brown paper, cover it with a thousand pieces of tape, and label it thumbtacks or something. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

But I know the thought alone makes me feel like I’m going to burn up in a thousand fires—especially if I tell another of Sandy’s secrets. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“In fact, that move’s all I got, really, and believe me, I rehearsed that like six thousand times.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

As if he didn’t know that from the last three thousand times she’d visited. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Keller looks about a thousand, years old. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The turkeys—well, they sound like three thousand Grandpa Eds gargling Listerine. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The one mountain among thousands of mountains, the one tree among millions of trees, and somewhere there, the one boy. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

All I knew then was that even though my body was two thousand miles away, my mind was still trapped in Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All told, nearly eighty thousand Seattleites—far more than Washington’s football stadium could hold—had taken an early start to a gorgeous weekend and come out to watch the races. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One example of the use of the weak anthropic principle is to “explain” why the big bang occurred about ten thousand million years ago—it takes about that long for intelligent beings to evolve. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their faces we read a thousand insights about character which no amount of historical data can satisfy nearly as well. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1957, when I was fourteen years old and first began to build my rockets, there were nearly two thousand people living in Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, in these days of microphones and loudspeakers, we all know that a group meeting is no way to resolve issues for a group of thousands of people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be doing something for me. You see, your little mistake with Diko cost me thousands in damages to this zoo that you cannot repay because you are already indebted to me.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He remembered the thousands of skeletons in the Chapel of Bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The study reviewed seven hundred thousand criminal cases that were matched by crime and criminal history of the defendant. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Not one shot had been fired and it was all too late when the alarm had been spread and thousands of armed farmers had arrived. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Olfatrix smell tower in the corner was capable of generating over two thousand discernible odors. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I’d just gained fifty thousand experience points, enough to raise my avatar all the way up to tenth level. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When you're little, a piano can look like it has a thousand keys. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The hour hand on a clock moves about ten thousand times faster than the "flowing" rocks of the mantle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

After that, hounded by what happened in a Philippine jungle and the ghosts of a thousand men who didn’t escape it, his steadfast disdain for cowardice turned to obsession. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm prepared to spend thousands of spintria for the trouble. And you don't want to run me off to the Silk Teahouse, because I will go and take all my rich friends with me." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A never-ending line of carts brought the raw material in—thousands of skins, goat, calf, lizard and snake skins—and took them away again tanned, dyed and finished. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have bested a thousand monsters with my bare hands.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

That part of the world was not new to the people who had lived there for thousands of years when the Europeans arrived. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Through a pigeon’s eye he looked down from the sky upon the field, the thousands of upturned faces, and saw nothing at all to fear. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It was about a hundred thousand miles, I guess, since the last time I kissed a girl.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But I think it is in the thousands. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The yield of the Hiroshima bomb was only thirteen kilotons, the equivalent of thirteen thousand tons of TNT. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand years ago, not more than a few million sheep, cattle, goats, boars and chickens lived in restricted Afro-Asian niches. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the noon sailing time approached, more than ten thousand spectators crowded onto Pier 60. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then there was the time he fixed a broken sluice gate on the Hoover Dam and saved the lives of thousands of people who would have drowned if the dam had burst. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the help of teachers around the state, Terman chose some seven thousand gifted children, who have now been followed for almost sixty years. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A chunk had fallen off a corner and lay shattered into a thousand pieces on the ground. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Air temperature falls by about 2.5°F with every thousand feet of elevation, so it would have been chillier at this height anyway, but now it was positively uncomfortable. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a thousand possibilities, no one of them any more likely than the other. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bishop Ambrose Reeves of Johannesburg took the extreme step of closing his schools, which had a total enrollment of ten thousand children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote at least seven thousand letters and received as many. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some milpa areas have been farmed for thousands of years— time in which farmers in Mesopotamia and North Africa and parts of India ruined their land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even Mozart—the greatest musical prodigy of all time — couldn’t hit his stride until he had his ten thousand hours in. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Back in Montana you had steep craggy mountains that rose ten thousand feet into the clouds. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like I have done this a thousand times before. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A thousand balloons with glow sticks in their bellies were released into the night air. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Let me say in advance that in over ten thousand miles, in thirty-four states, I was not recognized even once. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

White sheets of water, knocked high in the moonlight by his churning feet, gleamed like thousands of tiny white stars. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it’s what the Church has taught for thousands of years. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a real possibility that tens of thousands faced starvation and disease. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons never explained, Shin was transferred to the camp’s garment factory, a crowded, chaotic, stressful work site where two thousand women and five hundred men made military uniforms. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

This means it will take about a thousand million million million million years for the earth to run into the sun, so there’s no immediate cause for worry! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the thousands of foul shots I had taken while practicing for this moment, my mind had learned where the rim was. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her sequins flash in the spotlight like thousands of little mirrors. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when they came out of the woods at the top they could see thousands of lights in the valley down below them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Completely unarmed, the Florentines engaged ten thousand French soldiers to take Pisa: such a plan endangered them more than any of their previous predicaments. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the tens of thousands of Violet orbs in the city, their work was going more slowly than planned. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I try to wrap my mind around how much twenty thousand dollars really is. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You? Why would I want you? Bianca’s soul is worth a thousand of yours! Now, can you help me, Geryon, or not?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Would the chicken come home automatically at nightfall, like a homing pigeon or one of those movie dogs that walked a thousand miles by secret radar? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand drawers, ten thousand whispers inside ten thousand shells. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

During passage through several thousand years it transformed into hail, hale, health, hallow, holy, whole, and heal, and all of these still move together through our minds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, with the sun beginning to decline behind the Olympic flame, a choir of thousands dressed in white rose en masse and began to sing the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“She died a thousand years ago, her bones lie afar under the Sea of Éa, and maybe there never was such a woman.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

At great Muslim rallies since then I have seen, and heard, and felt ten thousand black people applauding and cheering. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence was terrible, worse than a thousand voices. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“A hooded crane. The only one in Indiana. Maybe the only one in the United States. They winter in Asia, which means he’s about seven thousand miles from home.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Between the two cities lie eleven hundred miles, and a wall several miles high, and two or three thousand years. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet six thousands at the least shall ride behind me. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They reduced matters to such a state that in an army of twenty thousand troops, one could hardly find two thousand foot-soldiers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

King George had hired eight thousand German soldiers to fight alongside the British. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The new rulers of Mutal had aggressively thrown their weight around and by Sky Witness’s time controlled as much as eight thousand square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In this case, they would cut fifty-two thousand possible characters down to only a handful of likely candidates. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But after four thousand nights among them—in their homes, on their skin—Sarai knew humans in a way the others couldn't, and she'd lost that easy ability to hate. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He believed what was necessary was to mobilize thousands to make their case in the court of public opinion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For all of the messages that were posted or sent, thousands more never got through. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Olly’s lips against mine. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In 2001 researchers at the California Institute of Technology analyzed helium isotopes from sediments left from the later KT impact and concluded that it affected Earth’s climate for about ten thousand years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

After he had paid the Angolans two thousand pounds in cash, she told him that they had given her only five hundred pounds. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As far as she could see into that endless silence, more of these ghosts were coming, thousands upon thousands, like refugees returning to their homeland. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Which way did he roll the ball?...A thousand confusing ideas burst into his mind at the same time and he stands there smiling. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He, who staked ten thousand on the throw of the dice and laughed, became more hard and mean in business, and sometimes dreamt of money at night. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weeks later, she was still thousands of dollars short. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And as the number of migrants grows and the first mists of green appear in the woodlands, thousands of people listen for the first dawn chorus of the robins throbbing in the early morning light. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In less than twenty minutes a ship of three hundred thousand tons became a speck on the horizon. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My jeans feel a thousand years old as they wrap around my legs. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, as far as I knew, it hadn’t been done for two thousand years.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

My father and my brother Rowland knew all this; but they thought only of the thirty thousand pounds, and joined in the plot against me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Why does a snooty college in Massachusetts have an office more than two thousand miles away, in Chokecherry, Colorado? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“But she has spent twenty thousand pounds looking for you.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had five other optometrists working for him in the shopping plaza location, and netted over sixty thousand dollars a year. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having reached the optimal cultural level for their environment, she explained, Amazon Indian lives changed little, if at all, for at least two thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Michael says we’re up over sixty thousand links, and lengths of chain hang everywhere, doubled, tripled, and quadrupled up. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Without even thinking I picked up Mong’s file and ripped it into a thousand little pieces, got down on my hands and knees and dug a huge hole by the side of the road. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

On November 2, 1962, an encrypted message arrived at the secure communications center deep inside the newly constructed CIA headquarters on an enormous campus in Langley, Virginia, housing thousands of employees. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the story of three regiments of aviators, only three out of a thousand aviation units fighting for a common cause. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And when these were employed, the idea that the only human occupants of one-third of the earth’s surface had changed little for thousands of years began to seem implausible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the night of April 11, a torchlight parade of a few thousand people, with bands and banners, assembled on the semicircular driveway in front of the Executive Mansion. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Britten was familiar to him; he had met a thousand Brittens in his life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Your soul could live hundreds—maybe even thousands—of lives before you got out of the loop of life and death by achieving enlightenment. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are a thousand little movements on a human face every second, a thousand different quivers of a leaf on a tree, a million tiny things the real world has that the virtual world doesn’t. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

During the continuing Great Migration of African Americans from the South, Chicago had already received more blacks than any other northern city, a total that would grow to more than twenty-five thousand. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Angel’s voice sounds far away, and I am glued to my spot like Anna in the movie Frozen, which I’ve seen a thousand times with Charlie. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Midday on July 12, 1904 twenty-eight thousand men and women employed by meatpacking companies throughout the Stock Yard put away their tools and walked off the job. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The man had a look on his face that said a thousand things. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the back of his chair and dragged it out from under the table, like he’d been told a thousand times not to, but never remembered. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The one fact to remember was that eight thousand men, white men, with guns and gas, were out there in the night looking for him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now his works sell for tens of thousands of dollars because some rich person turned the media spotlight in his direction. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But I assure you, my invention is destined to bring peace to thousands—perhaps even millions—of troubled souls. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We sought to train over one hundred thousand people to assist with voter education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Bear in mind, this is the end result of thousands of hours of work, testing, and lateral thinking by all the best guys at JPL." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It contained thousands of simulated worlds where the keys might be hidden, and it could take a gunter years to conduct a thorough search of any one of them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"There is no other way to besiege Riverrun, yet still, that will be their undoing. Two or three thousand horse." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From an uncovered window high overhead, a little daylight made its way down the curved staircase, illuminating thousands of dust motes dancing in the dim air. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her sneakers are painted, one with an impossibly small chequerboard of a thousand colors, the other with yellow happy faces alternating with black skulls. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He finished sixty-ninth, beating more than one thousand adults, and was hooked. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was walking across the “Bread of Heaven” section of the cemetery, toward me, wearing her apron with a thousand pockets. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

How this longhouse dated back hundreds of years, while the gathering site at this village dated back thousands of years. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His presence surprised me, since it was against his character to seek the trauma of watching two thousand bread-and-butter biochemists pile in and out of badly lighted baroque lecture halls. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Fifty thousand people stood before him, waiting to hear his voice. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

So were the young stages of several thousand steelhead trout and other species of trout. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone had seen coffee ground a thousand times but on the stage it was a revolutionary thing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constructed at enormous cost, this porous architectural folly consumed twenty thousand trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The thousands of people had been weeded down to a few hundred, many of whom were still trying to find a way out. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some, when they stepped up to the line, shouldered the gun immediately and aimed at the box, as if this were a day to kill five thousand boxes. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

We had plenty of street crime, but all the actual warring in recent years had been way in the east of the country, a thousand miles away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But very different peoples may have occupied much of modern black Africa until as recently as a few thousand years ago, and so-called African blacks themselves are heterogeneous. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The best estimates put the number of victims at between four and five thousand men, women, and children. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

One man began singing “Nearer My God to Thee,” and immediately a few thousand people joined in. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"Your Boy King lost ten thousand men taking the place, and another fifty trying to hold it. Someone should have told him that war isn't a game." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The first spontaneous explosion took place in Soweto on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 16, 1976, where about ten thousand students marched through the dirt streets of Soweto protesting the Afrikaans decree. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of black men are unable to be good fathers for their children, not because of a lack of commitment or desire but because they are warehoused in prisons, locked in cages. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He drifted through its streets as if through an exhausted, dusty land, no detail of which had changed in a thousand years. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They burn like the fire of ten thousand suns,” Colin said, deadpan. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

There were thousands and thousands of books, no doubt banned or graffitied or stolen. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

What despair there must be in thousands of feminine breasts. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Based around the Mississippi and its associated rivers, these societies scattered tens of thousands of mounds from southern Canada and the Great Plains to the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the weeks following the murder, several thousand people were arrested in Moscow and Leningrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“You mean you’re getting out on that balcony in front of fifty thousand crazy crackpots and try to talk sense to them—on a balcony like a medieval dictator?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I must have passed the statue of Atlas a thousand times going back and forth on the campus of the Hardcastle Public Schools. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The ticket would cost over a thousand dollars, even one way. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Generating an electrical charge of a few thousand volts was practical. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She pulls out the homework anyhow and asks me ten thousand questions about the math problems. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I know the thousand Charlies are there, calling me to the tree house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A half-moon floated in the sky above the city, attended by a thousand stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Say, Lee, I want you to read an article. It says they’ve dug up a mastodon in Siberia. Been in the ice thousands of years. And the meat’s still good.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She bought plants called philodendrons from a Japanese man who had one hundred thousand plants in his nursery. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"The Drowned God makes men," old King Urron Redhand had once said, thousands of years ago, "but it's men who make crowns." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There, they picked the best from among thousands of teenage boys fulfilling their compulsory labor service. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tally watched the fireworks, feeling a thousand times worse than she had before Shay had appeared at the window. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The garden had persisted through seven and a half years now, producing roughly two thousand pounds of food annually. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A year later, he was breeding maggots by the thousands, in milk bottles filled with rotting fruit in a third-floor laboratory at Columbia University.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Monte Verde, in southern Chile, is ten thousand miles from the Bering Strait. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There must have been fifty thousand dreams altogether up there on the shelves, but he seemed to know almost exactly where every one of them was. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The downtown area alone had six thousand masonry structures: homes, temples, palaces, and granaries, even an eighteen-foot-high defensive wall. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Down here the steps grew narrower and steeper, but the girl had run up and down them a thousand times and they held no terrors for her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wind screamed like a Super Bowl crowd or a hundred thousand souls let loose from purgatory. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only one religion—Islam—had the power to stand and fight the white man’s Christianity for a thousand years'. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was slaves that had stole four thousand dollars from the Tanners and run off with it! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Your father commands fleets. And thousands of half-men, I am sure. But would he risk himself to save a single one?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

One part of the rule is correct: it’s odd to use that with a nonrestrictive relative clause, as in The pair of shoes, that cost a thousand dollars, was hideous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And they didn’t eat tortillas ten thousand years ago, though tortillas are indeed ancient. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“All the suffering thousands your playing gives pleasure to—what about them?” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred thousand wizards gasped as the two Seekers, Krum and Lynch, plummeted through the center of the Chasers, so fast that it looked as though they had just jumped from airplanes without parachutes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I considered it weeks later, it seemed I had made a thousand mistakes, driven a thousand knives into the heart of my own family. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’d bet a thousand dollars that there were roaches on the floor of this shed, just waiting to crawl in someone’s ear. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Weirwoods that had stood three thousand years were cut down for beams and rafters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In this city of fifteen thousand shrines, each shrine was more splendid than the next, but he was pointing to the great mosque of Aurangzeb, where the city’s Muslims worshiped. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A west wind off the sea kept the temperature in the thirties, even here at three or four thousand feet of altitude. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The truth is that everything has a hundred thousand flaws. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As they approach he sees that after a certain expanse the yard falls away, and then he sees the lake, a blue a thousand times deeper, more brilliant, than the sky and girded by pines. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only five thousand to go—or four thousand, nine hundred and ninety to be exact, as Brother Leon pointed out in that fussy meticulous way of his. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faye spoke pleadingly, “Why don’t we go now? We could sell the house. With the business we’ve got, we could get maybe ten thousand dollars for it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

More than a thousand women journeyed from thirty states to take their turn on the picket line. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He had opened thousands of them over the years to blow his dreams into children’s bedrooms. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laila hoped to have a thousand afghanis or more stowed away, half of which would go to the bus fare from Kabul to Peshawar. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I say the name in my head one thousand times so that it remains stained in my memory. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Probably a thousand goblins, courtiers and diplomats and civil servants, were spread out around the courtyard, and all of them were dancing in strict rhythm in a great spiral. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He lived alone in this deteriorating, blind building of a thousand uninhabited apartments, which like all its counterparts, fell, day by day, into greater entropic ruin. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She’d only heard that voice once before, but she had replayed it in her mind thousands of times. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Though not always full, it could seat about a thousand parishioners. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There was always the possibility that the collegians would win, but statistically their chances would be much lower than a thousand to one. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“When you was out getting ’em shackles, he tolt the sheriff he wasn’t ’bout to let three thousand dollars walk out his life without no fight. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Sure. But you know that stuff Emily said last year, about her parents and the nine thousand things? It doesn’t seem like that could happen to your parents.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

A school with more than three thousand students will give you lots of options, Cassandra. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“That the army hemmed in and machine-gunned three thousand workers and that their bodies were carried off to be thrown into the sea on a train with two hundred cars.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

From the forests and fisheries and farmlands of an Arcadian state dawned a powerful military capital, a nerve center that had welcomed residents by the hundreds of thousands since the start of the conflict. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

That approach had raised Oak Ridge from an unpopulated valley in remote Tennessee; when national security hung in the balance, as it did now, who would begrudge a few hundred thousand kilowatts? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Scared the hell out of him so that when he was up again he joined the church and bought himself a Chinese missionary, five thousand dollars a year. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fastest object ever launched by the human species, it will still take tens of thousands of years to go the distance to the nearest star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least, for hundreds of thousands of ye; rs. Have you a different sort of sun in your work ?” “Yes, it’s smaller and yellower. And it gives a good deal more heat.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Three thousand bodies swing forward, three thousand pairs of boots snap together, three thousand backs jerk as if yanked straight by a puppeteer’s hand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Thousands of people—literally thousands—had left condolence messages for her. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There are thousands of cars speeding along the roads and the sun turns everything to gold. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As time went on his smile began to resemble the ferryman’s, was almost equally radiant, almost equally full of happiness, equally lighting up through a thousand little wrinkles, equally childish, equally senile. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His Grace has seen victory in his fires,” Foxglove said, “a victory that will be sung of for a thousand years in lord’s castle and peasant’s hut alike.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I imagine myself at a podium in front of thousands of people, arms in the air, declaring my answer. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The goods have been donated by members and local shops, and the auction is expected to generate more than six thousand dollars this year, five hundred more dollars than last year. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s nothing. That doesn’t do us any good. 1 thought we were going to get three thousand.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Friendly Connect is also donating ten thousand dollars’ worth of new technology to the school,” Tracey continued. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not for the fifty thousand dollars, just for me, for my mind. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each contained as many as ten thousand cells, and the cells themselves were split by the knife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It had split and then resplit—you had twelve thousand shares at four dollars a share. I must point out that this kind of growth is unprecedented.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Viserys had promised her a thousand times that he would take her back one day, but he was dead now and his promises had died with him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Consider the fact that Canada has taken in twenty-five thousand Syrian refugees, while Obama’s plan to bring in ten thousand refugees was met with outrage in Congress. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Um, I’m going to stalk you online a thousand times a day.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Where do those ninety thousand kernels wind up? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was up at five o’clock the next morning, closing the boarding house door behind him, joining thousands of immigrant men and women making their way through the streets toward the Union Stock Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"And flushing your ten thousand gallons of vomit." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The wind-driven sleet stung our skin like thousands of pricking needles. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arrived precisely at noon and the air rang with a thousand church bells. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Legally barred from employment, housing, and welfare benefits—and saddled with thousands of dollars of debt—these people were shamed and condemned for failing to hold together their families. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I have to take a shot and find the same bravery hundreds of thousands of Deckers before me have found. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Here are some figures, in thousands, for the production of individual copies of printed books: of necessity, they are merely sophisticated estimates. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At nearly one thousand feet in height, the tower remained the tallest structure in the world and an insufferable reminder of the triumph of the Paris exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe one kid in a thousand would have recognized the sound. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The place was huge, a thousand kids on sprawling grounds with tennis courts, sports fields, and a swimming pool. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five thousand body bags have been brought to the area, they noted. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It is a generic name for thousands of very different religions, cults and beliefs. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went out on a promotional tour to gather a cast of thousands, contacting four hundred friends, mostly movie people, and talking them into coming to the track to cheer his horse on. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Friday night came round on the last day of September, roughly four thousand of them were crammed into the visitor’s side for the biggest district showdown of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freedom Bay was a collection of one thousand brick homes designed by an architect with a passion for duplication. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given that the Ice Age made Europe north of the Loire Valley uninhabitable until some eighteen thousand years ago, the Western Hemisphere should perhaps no longer be described as the “New World.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a wonderful place for me, home to a hundred bottles and bundles, satu- rated with a thousand smells. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Wisdom Malliard believes we shall be able to provide a full ten thousand jars, as was promised the queen. I concur." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Similarly, the National Journal reported that between January 1997 and October 1999, the agency handled 3.4 million orders of Pentagon equipment from over eleven thousand domestic police agencies in all fifty states. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dimple's mouth was soft and small and full against his, her body was warm as it pressed into him, and the smell of her skin and hair flooded him like a thousand stadium lights. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When the union voted to strike, eight thousand men walked off the job. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

She once calculated that she had traveled thirteen thousand miles and conducted 171 lectures over the previous twelve months, earning $4,318 in gross receipts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

According to the articles under the headlines, thousands of Americans thought that Martians had invaded. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Somewhere behind her Marie-Laure hears the tinkling sound of ten thousand keys quivering on ten thousand hooks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There are thousands of people in this camp. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was about five hundred thousand years in the life of this one old couple. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She imagined a colorful extravaganza with bands and floats and thousands of marchers from all over the country, an event so bold and beautiful that it would demand notice from federal legislators. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Five hundred thousand dollars was a sum she could not even imagine. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was instructed to have his search include not just their city, but all of MidMerica—which stretched nearly a thousand miles across the middle of the continent. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

At least 40,000 people were instantly killed, and tens of thousands more fatally wounded or poisoned with radiation. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty thousand people a day now rode the Ferris Wheel, 80 percent more than at the start of the month. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A single CFC molecule is about ten thousand times more efficient at exacerbating greenhouse effects than a molecule of carbon dioxide–and carbon dioxide is of course no slouch itself as a greenhouse gas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It was a well-kept secret by thousands and thousands of people. Including me.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I was only twelve and Arnold had sold twelve thousand shares of Walleye for four dollars a share. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“A hundred thousand views? Are you kidding me?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They had been seized from thousands of captured, imprisoned, and dead men. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, a trifle! Nothing of course to speak of—twenty thousand pounds, I think they say—but what is that?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the time, the ice pack extended two thousand miles south of the Bering Strait and was almost devoid of life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Copying seven thousand pages of top secret documents and giving them to the New York Times has a bad ring to it.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His arms stretched into wings, and his sight became a thousand times sharper. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

By 1880, some twenty-six thousand people lived in the neighborhood, and sixteen thousand of them were Irish. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

What if my movie made it into thousands of people’s houses on local TV channels? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He has played this out in his mind a thousand times. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“This Regiment was formed last fall, back in Maine. There were a thousand of us then. There’s not three hundred of us now.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could be ten feet or a thousand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She could hardly imagine the punishment given someone who had done something bad enough to be worth five hundred thousand. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their first target was a Cherokee town of about two hundred homes and two thousand people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Routed from their positions in total disarray, tens of thousands of South Vietnamese soldiers deserted. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She heard the symbolism in her own words, traveling thousands of miles to Nigeria, and she knew what her parents would understand. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It is a thousand years old, roughly contemporaneous with a report of an organ at Winchester Cathedral that boasted an extraordinary four hundred pipes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“So that just leaves—what? A thousand to go?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

While tens of thousands of mourners viewed Lincoln’s remains, detectives prepared to raid the Philadelphia home of the assassin’s sister, Asia Booth Clarke. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd of thirty-five thousand hushed, and the bell rang. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, thousands of people—at home over the breakfast table and on buses and trains coming into New York—read about Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don't have to die to collect. They get a thousand dollars each when they're eighteen. It's insurance to get them through college.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She deserved the chill, the loneliness, the drunks and the trash, a thousand worse punishments and tortures. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Yet, Sam Adams protested, this rising up of an army of a thousand from the very soil of New England had badly frightened General Gage. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our book is setting in five thousand houses, on they bookshelves, next to they night tables, behind they toilets? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The moon can't hear someone say good night; it is two hundred thirty-five thousand miles away. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And who better to sell it than the thousands of junior members of all those street gangs like the Black Gangster Disciple Nation? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There must have been a thousand or so students in that huge room. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the contrary, tens of thousands of law enforcement officers have received training that guarantees precisely the opposite. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There, stacked from floor to ceiling, were thousands and thousands of boxes of canned goods. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Soviet tournament registered more than seven hundred thousand players, in cities throughout the country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

More than a thousand Redcoats were killed or hurt that day. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Which is how long it took Mom to guess six categories and win ten thousand dollars. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the following year, Nevada’s ninety thousand residents alone obtained more than ten thousand prescriptions for “medicinal alcohol” from the state’s physicians. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He and his team cut roads, built bridges and telegraph stations, installed telegraph poles, and strung thousands of miles of telegraph lines. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Mosca gave Scipio a look of utter contempt: “They probably suspected the maid, or the cook, or another of your thousands of servants.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The laundry room was both one of the wars obscure crannies and a microcosm of the war itself, a sophisticated, efficient machine capable of processing eighteen thousand bundles of laundry each week. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but he’s got Hill’s whole Corps behind him. Maybe twenty-five thousand. And Longstreet behind that. And Ewell in the north.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one recent ten-year stretch, each of these names was given to at least two thousand babies in California—fewer than 2 percent of them black. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Imagine thousands of children and teenagers all in one place, with only a handful of adults. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of others had come to D.C. to perform in the many other events being held in the days leading up to the inauguration, and tens of thousands more had come to watch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Every idea seems to her connected to thousands of others by a tangle of pulsing nerves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In 2015, over one thousand unarmed black people were killed. It’s awful.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“We are going on a mission to drop a bomb different from any you have ever seen or heard about. This bomb contains a destructive force equivalent to twenty thousand tons of TNT.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who had lived here a thousand years ago on Mars? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eliot’s mother worked in an office fifty miles north, and his father, the last she had heard, lived two thousand miles west. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Pocock said the rings told more than a tree’s age; they told the whole story of the tree’s life over as much as two thousand years. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The North has those huge bloody cities and a thousand religions, and the only aristocracy is the aristocracy of wealth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the Libyan Desert, where nomads tend their camels as they did a thousand years ago. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hands of all the four thousand electric clocks in all the Bloomsbury Centre’s four thousand rooms marked twenty- seven minutes past two. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, we’ve been the only country in the world that condemns children to life imprisonment without parole; nearly three thousand juveniles have been sentenced to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A thousand memories press on me all at once, nearly suffocating me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, the information in our books is at most thousands of years old, and that in our brains is only decades old. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. 13-04 had a thousand questions upon my well-being and the well-being of those of the College of Lucidity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“I am not beautiful. I’ve told you that a thousand times.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately below my balcony, thousands of feet below, I could see a fence of spiked railings. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

A hundred thousand witches and wizards were taking their places in the seats, which rose in levels around the long oval field. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There are about seventy thousand accounting grads in India each year, he added, many of whom go to work for local Indian firms starting at $100 a month. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

For thousands of years after corn was domesticated in Mexico, it failed to spread northward into eastern North America, because of the cooler climates and shorter growing season prevailing there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The thousands of acrobats, singers, dancers, and guests froze at a shocked standstill. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Standing higher than its neighbors, at an altitude of about eight thousand feet, is a wide pillar of rock with a rounded, convoluted top that vaguely resembles the rounded, convoluted top of a human brain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“To register and board hundreds of thousands within a matter of days, I don’t think it’s possible, sir.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were already thousands, spread over the country, who carried his badge of a scarlet fist clenching a whip, and who called themselves Thrashers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t have your job, Sister, for a thousand a day,” said Beatrice sotto voce to the nurse. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“About ten thousand mice are hoping you build it loose,” Garvey said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He read that tens of thousands of Americans had their names changed each year. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I love you a thousand times, and a thousand times more. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the Soviet Union entered World War II in 1941, Marina Raskova took command of a thousand female aviators and trained them to fly in three separate bomber and fighter regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He just stared at her as she clenched her fists and thought of a thousand different ways to tie his mouth shut. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

In addition, Australia’s aridity, infertility, and climatic unpredictability limited its hunter-gatherer population to only a few hundred thousand people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As far as thousands of private citizens and a large number of government officials were concerned, these strikes were fostered by Communist agitators, eager to throw the United States into turmoil. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It was written that this devil white race would rule the world for six thousand years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus did she lie, without speaking of this rite to me, even some four thousand miles from her home. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fela slowly introduced me to the inner workings of the Archives and I spent what time I could spare skulking about, trying to dig up answers to my thousand questions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed a thousand years ago now, something that had happened to a different person in a different life ... to Arya Stark the Hand's daughter, not Arry the orphan boy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In addition, Indonesia itself was a cultural and technological backwater until a few thousand years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “There ain’t no place in here big ’nough to be hiding four thousand dollars; maybe it’s all been spent?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

But there had been no king for nearly a thousand years, and even the ruins of Kings’ Norbury were covered with grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The river worked against her: thousands of weeping voices whispering in her ears, getting inside her brain. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It owned a mother ship far out to sea, packed with tens of thousands of bottles, plus other vessels that were usually called “blacks.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

By now they were raining down by the thousands. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think their readership is much more than fifteen hundred, maybe two thousand, and half that is from out of state—you probably know that as well as we do.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of a thousand voices spread over the frozen traffic like a Noise Umbrella. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's about a thousand years old, and he says, "I guess you heard the ruckus? Your gramma gets so upset, bless her heart. Can't abide the idea of violence. Can't say I blame her." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

That figure, of course, does not include the thousands who avoid prison but are arrested, convicted, and sentenced to jail or probation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I should have known, then, that he would gladly trade thousands of GD memories—lives—for control of the experiments. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In a convent of thousands of Sun Maidens, such a selection was the greatest of honors. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The next morning, as another thousand children between the ages of six and eighteen gathered at a church to march, Connor unleashed a furious preemptive strike. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They thought there would be thousands of injured people. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In 1922 there were some five thousand of the illegal establishments. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He had helped bring Alba into the world and had sat her on his knee a thousand times; had taught her to read, paid for her schooling, and celebrated all her birthdays. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands upon thousands are on their way to hear the president. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He felt pierced in a thousand places, and he cried out. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It is over a thousand dollars each now, and we’ve spent it each month just to get our families food. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The oldest was more than three thousand years old; the youngest a mere century and a half. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She came roaring down like thunder, screaming like a thousand hurricanes, eyes as bright as dragonfire, and before she was within a mile of us, the creatures had leaped to their horses and galloped away. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

These and other considerations suggest that a time scale for a significant terraforming of Mars is probably hundreds to thousands of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shipping food thousands of miles and burning up fossil fuels went against his whole philosophy as a farmer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They had been flying at ten thousand feet. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In that great arena, so wondrously constructed that it could be emptied of its many thousand spectators in a few minutes, doors were easily opened. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I realized she had transported homemade food thousands of miles, all the way from Korea, and the stench of overripe kimchee shot up through the cardboard flaps and I nearly dropped the whole thing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Geography didn’t catch up to Eratosthenes until true oceangoing ships proved his calculations directly, almost two thousand years after he was born. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“A thousand times I say that I am sorry!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I devein six hundred thousand million shrimp, and Dee chops broccoli and cauliflower into twelve million trillion perfect little trees. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I could only wonder what was going on just then, thirty thousand feet below me, on the kill floor of the National Beef Plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Auk XXX vaulted off the pad similarly, its parabola drifting up to twenty-three thousand feet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The answer is a mystery lying at the bottom of thousands of feet of water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And in exceptional cases we can make one ovary yield us over fifteen thousand adult individuals.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks: I only want to sit here with her for a thousand hours. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of people waiting on the pier. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

A trucker requires many more thousands of miles of good service than a passenger-car owner. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up to applaud, along with two thousand other admirers. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

In the absolute blackness, his vision is webbed with a thousand traveling wisps of red and blue. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of such times of satisfaction. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

An overflow audience of more than five thousand people attended the ceremony and watched Anderson receive the prestigious medal from the hands of the first lady. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

‘And there are names among us that are worth more than a thousand mail-clad knights apiece. No, he will not smile.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Bombarded with thousands of intercepts a year, she was used to creating order out of cacophony. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, though, my father himself would shake his head and whisper, “Five thousand boys trapped. Good Lord. Five thousand.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was disorienting, sitting in a dark hotel room, thousands of miles from home, my body broken, calling the name of a boy I’d only met a few days ago. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Your face seems familiar, but there were hundreds at Lannisport and thousands on Pyke. And 1 am no lord. Bear Island was taken from me. I am but a knight." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By 1640, when Pernambuco was briefly ruled by the Dutch, its plantations sent some twenty-four thousand pounds of sugar to Amsterdam alone. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I draw a thousand fairies circling around a girl so that she can finally fly away. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She heard him crying out to the birds as they rose higher, like ten thousand hot sparkles, so many red-yellow fireworks in the heavens, tugging the canopy like a flower petal, burning through the wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d had a button and a pennant collection, a thousand pennies in a large mason jar, a fishbowl, and a model tin lizzie hung from a strand of wire in one corner. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jones constantly crisscrossed the state, attracting thousands of mostly poor whites with his message of white supremacy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And you couldn’t do that for four thousand nights without coming to understand, in spite of yourself, that the humans were survivors, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All I can think of is eight hundred thousand links lost. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She could see them more clearly this time: each current was made up of thousands of tiny specks, all drifting and swirling. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The celebrations were tempered, however, by the fact that Harrison had lost by the narrowest of margins, fewer than four thousand votes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In a giant, empty, decaying building which had once housed thousands, a single TV set hawked its wares to an uninhabited room. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Within six years, biplanes were flying for more than an hour and climbing to heights of one thousand feet. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“The Sixers have a huge advantage over all of us. They’ve got an endless supply of money, weapons, vehicles, and avatars. There are thousands of them, all working together.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There is a reward of one thousand sovereigns for giving her up to them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I had fifteen thousand more reasons to want Barack to win. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t help but think how many thousands of times he had done the same thing to people. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“There must have been three thousand of them,” he murmured. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He repented a thousand sins no more wicked than another’s and despaired of ever attaining salvation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leading an army of a thousand, 8-Deer threw up ladders, swarmed over the berm with his men, and entered the palace. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Desperate to get out, thousands of refugees headed to the airport and massed on the runway, making it impossible for planes to take off. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She had the same hard look in her eyes, as if she’d been used for the past two thousand years and was getting tired of it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before I could protest, a thousand scraps of garbage surged off the bottom and flew straight at me from both directions: broken glass, rocks, cans, tires. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When Lawes arrived in 1920, Sing Sing had a population of slightly over one thousand, all housed in the original cellblock. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just keep a running total—you know, three hundred here, five hundred there, two thousand in a carton. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“So the Lakota leaders, like Spotted Tail, knew the odds were against us. It was like one cricket trying to fight off a thousand hungry ants.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Shut up. We’re going to save thousands of animals. Like it or not. Right, Lucy?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet you saw my books and thought they’d fetch a big price, right? But you could sell a thousand of them and never make enough to pay off what you owe.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Some even said it was a thousand times as strong as that of a tarantula. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One thousand married couples who desire to have three children each are tracked for ten years, during which time 800 of them, assume, do manage to produce three children. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, most people of the time still believed in “spontaneous generation,” a theory put forth by the philosopher Aristotle in 330 B.C., almost two thousand years before Maria’s time. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They joined thousands of ordinary citizens who rallied in Moscow and around the country to support Gorbachev, and democracy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the decade, there were over twelve thousand freedmen in the state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The good news is that when he detonates, he shall probably take a few thousand of those filthy goblins with him. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The type of opportunity only a few thousand people have ever gotten. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There is some hint that the Virgo cluster contains tens of thousands of galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For a long time five thousand meant the number of pigeons you could shoot in one day, one by one. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he’s intelligent. He simply doesn’t mention them.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She thought of a thousand horrible things she wanted to say, but she couldn’t. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She might be able to turn a thousand scraps of fabrics into a beautiful dress on her sewing machine, but she can’t figure out how to take a picture like I can. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

From inside her Davos saw green gushing from a thousand broken jars, poison from the entrails of a dying beast, glistening, shining, spreading across the surface of the river . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Handsome and appealing, he was instantly recognizable to thousands of fans in both the North and South. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine, my darling, your Alfred is saving two thousand lives. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

More than three thousand of those children qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a common measure of poverty within a school system. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Even if they didn’t find Skeleton Woman and her bones, there could be a bear, or a thousand rats. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the plains of the American west, where steer 534 was born, bison and the prairie grasses lived together in partnership for thousands of years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She loathed making small talk in general—a thousand times more when it was with someone as important to her as Dill. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Actions and feelings of men ten thousand miles from home helped me to understand the moods and impulses of those walking the streets of Chicago and Dixie. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There were a thousand Sun Valley people there. He had his own people to take care of him, his own coaches, his own teammates, his own cheerleaders’ laps. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“There is no law above the Sorrows, not for a thousand years.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A free concert at the Lincoln Memorial would attract thousands of people, far more than any auditorium could hold, and would send a powerful message of defiance against the injustice of bigotry and racial discrimination. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

For three thousand years, this little promontory has known sieges. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I have a thousand children, though I never carried one of my own. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As Harry shivered and drew his robes tightly around him, he heard what sounded like a thousand fingernails scraping an enormous blackboard. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

There was the rushing sound of seventy-five thousand voices and the tumbling motion of horses and the flight of wind and dirt and the airy unreal feeling of mass and gravity slipping away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was lit by thousands and thousands of candles that were floating in midair over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He had been in the cave a thousand times before when we played there, and now he ran around it sniffing everything, looking for David. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

So hard that roughly two thousand feet of steel disappeared every day from the bit ends of all the jackhammers and pneumatic drills at work in the canyon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The people of Santa Fe, a city of just twenty thousand, began to wonder why so many men with European accents were suddenly walking the streets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desert Ridge was more than three times that size—a thousand kids who had never seen me before. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Or ten-thousand-year droplets from the magic mountain, giving me my life’s direction and a thousand years of fame and immortality? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be worth at least five thousand—maybe fifteen thousand dollars. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But she would be just as happy if I were three thousand miles away in Boston. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Redeema's was one of a thousand beautiful brown faces I was the first to lay eyes upon. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He said cotton brought thirteen cents a pound in 1837, and when it was high, the slave traders paid as much as a thousand dollars for prime field hands. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Shirley understood why her father had brought her ten thousand miles to live among strangers. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Utter nonsense! The man was pulling your leg. Civilizations thirty thousand years old? Ha! Where is the evidence?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of people rushing north for this. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In Berlin thousands of celebrants gathered to watch and to cheer as Hitler reviewed a procession of more than fifteen hundred tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery pieces rumbling through the city’s massive park, the Tiergarten. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We have upward of two thousand strains of yeast in production and new strains are added monthly. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

When he came close enough to speak, he raised the lantern and held it to show his face: an old man with a broad, lined face, and eyes nearly lost in a thousand wrinkles. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, the marchers’ ranks were packed with thousands of newcomers carrying banners and placards telling where they were from and why they had come. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before hybrids, a farmer could plant eight thousand corn plants in an acre. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A thousand millions scrabbled the crust of the earth. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every sliding shadow, each creak and crack, sent her mind spinning off into a thousand horrible visions. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions, and the one Sam Gribley were pulling her home. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“If they do not slay us with their swords, they will do so with their mouths. Pray, how does the lord commander propose to feed Tormund and his thousands?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Over one thousand Panthers were jailed, many on false charges, as a result of informants, perpetual surveillance, and other law enforcement tactics that would later become defining features of the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He told us that this was written on the tombstone of some Egyptian guy that died thousands of years ago. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“They’ll raise the eyases and sell them for tens of thousands of dollars.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Cange, with a population of about thirty thousand, might be described as the most impoverished, famished, and disease-ridden place in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The rain was hitting my back like thousands of hard berries blown from air guns. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When part one left off, Professor Aronnax had traveled only six thousand leagues. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

President John Kennedy, elected in 1960, increased the number of American soldiers from a few hundred to over sixteen thousand. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Thirteen thousand students in the three cities that had moved forward with integration—Front Royal, Charlottesville, and Norfolk—found themselves sitting at home in the fall of 1958. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A thousand per day seemed like a lot of money, but it was a mere blip of the total they had to spend. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the menacing clicks of thousands of pincers around him, the rustling of the spiders as they scuttled across the underbrush, but he didn’t dare look back. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And this one, he was certain, would result in the capture of thousands, not hundreds, of those he suspected of being Reds. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Here, at first, it was silent, or he thought it was silent, but when he started to listen, really listen, he heard thousands of things. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We dipped our fingers in holy water, knelt, crossed ourselves like we’d done a thousand times, and I led Helena to a pew. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“When I see the box I shall open it and destroy the monster, though there were a thousand men looking on, and if I am to be wiped out for it the next moment!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I met her eyes, trying to ask her a thousand questions. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

You could stoop down and pick a fallen petal, crush it between your fingers, and you had there, in the hollow of your hand, the essence of a thousand scents, unbearable and sweet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She smiles, tired lines fanning out from her eyes in a way that seems like we are sitting at her kitchen counter and not three years and three thousand miles from who we were. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The scarred brick face of the school, three floors and a thousand sad stories tall. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

And now...now she who had never dared go even to the nearest market without a companion had taken charge of their journey of ten thousand miles. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Beneath my Vibram soles the wall fell away for three thousand feet to the dirty, avalanche-scarred cirque of the Witches Cauldron Glacier. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Africa has a thousand ways to get under your skin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train went as far back as you could see, there must’ve been a thousand boxcars, but everyone had stopped and was just standing there watching. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—in a way that cost them nothing. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just an ordinary knock, such as is given hourly by thousands of gentlemen, but it made the Professor’s heart and mine beat loudly. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In contrast, most big mammals of Africa and Eurasia survived into modern times, because they had coevolved with protohumans for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand miles away, in my house on the hill, I was casually flipping channels. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you spend years developing the perfect organizational system, which even has a convenient place for your historical-fictional-travelogue-memoir. You and the scrivs spend decades slowly identifying, sorting and reordering tens of thousands of books.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Shin was fifteen and working alongside thousands of prisoners. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was like the beat of a great drum, or a thousand drums, and the more I ran, the louder it became. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of people of color are swept into this system and released every year, yet we rationalize the systematic discrimination and exclusion and turn a blind eye to the suffering. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In August 1943, I marched with Gaur, and ten thousand others, in support of the Alexandra bus boycott, a protest against the raising of fares from fourpence to five. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After confusion I can go into the Prado in Madrid and pass unseeing the thousand pictures shout-ing for my attention and I can visit a friend—a not large Greco, San Pablo con un Libro. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sitting at this picnic table, thousands of miles away, beyond the power of Olympus, he’d never been so alone—except for Hazel and Frank. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the late 1980s, another group of outsiders took note of Clarkston: the nonprofit agencies that resettle the tens of thousands of refugees accepted into the United States each year. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He was a farrier, a certified maker of horseshoes, and his trailer carried all the tools of his trade, including nearly one thousand pounds of horseshoes, a gas forge, and a 150-pound anvil. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Well, the merger triggered more interest, so the stock jumped to forty dollars a share. You have twelve thousand shares at forty dollars a share....” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Charcoal residues from a fire can thereby end up close to the remains of a plant or animal that died and was eaten thousands of years earlier or later. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the mechanism that drove them, where panic had been woken and fear stalked prey, everything took a thousand years. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Thousands upon thousands of names were written on it. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He slashed right and left as the fallen banner was ripped apart, the thousand ragged pieces swirling away like crimson leaves in a storm- wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In modern Alexandria few people have a keen appreciation, much less a detailed knowledge, of the Alexandrian Library or of the great Egyptian civilization that preceded it for thousands of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love Vocab. It’s like spelunking in a cave you’ve been in your whole life and discovering a thousand new tunnels.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But he who had found, could give his approval to every path, every goal; nothing separated him from all the other thousands who lived in eternity, who breathed the Divine. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many neurons have thousands of connections with their neighbors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z