The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. From LearnThat.org. [Lao Tzu (c.604-531 B.C.)]
“That is what I call a thousand-watt smile,” Laru said with a wink. From Wordnik.com. [One Season of Sunshine] Reference
"Four thousand is a good round number people can grab hold of," says Morten Ender, a U.S. From Wordnik.com. [A look at lives lost as U.S. deaths in Iraq near 4,000] Reference
I didn't see a lot of combat, but the guys who did had what we called the thousand-yard stare. From Wordnik.com. [Berks county news] Reference
Hitler bragged about what he called the thousand year Reich and it looks like he may bring it off after all. From Wordnik.com. [Is the internet declaring war on the vampire elites?] Reference
Flies from the wheel in thousand glittering stars. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor] Reference
"One among a thousand" is a man rarely to be found. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
You've heard the terms a thousand times by now: 'SEO', '. From Wordnik.com. [Shaister Miester Do Da] Reference
Four hundred and fifty thousand is a whole lot of people. From Wordnik.com. [Man and the Abyss] Reference
As if to say that even a few hundred thousand is acceptable. From Wordnik.com. [It’s Hard to Be an Anti-Zionist Jew « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference
Canada, and a new edition of twenty thousand is on the presses. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 43] Reference
Now, seventeen thousand is not a big army as we understand armies today. From Wordnik.com. [Gallipoli] Reference
The number of three hundred thousand is allowed for the whole body of the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Ordinarily, 400 thousand is the threshold for a shrinking workforce/economy. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Geithner on Nationalization] Reference
The seven thousand is yours if you'll guarantee that Gertrude does no more drudgery. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 44] Reference
Eight hundred and forty against twenty thousand is rather long odds, even for heroes!. From Wordnik.com. [Maria Edgeworth] Reference
And then, in thousand-dollar bids, as fast as they could be uttered, her price went up. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit of Porportuk] Reference
Philadelphia: What do you call a thousand economists chained together at the bottom of the ocean?. From Wordnik.com. [Minyanville] Reference
Even if only 1 in a thousand is successful that will still hurt established players in a big way. From Wordnik.com. [2006 October « The Paradigm Shift] Reference
Conservative voters are suckers who have been conned by flim-flam artists in thousand dollar suits. From Wordnik.com. [Massachusetts AG takes steps to run for Kennedy's seat] Reference
Certainly fifty thousand is a conservative estimate for the drummers or traveling men of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [What Communities Lose by the Competivie System] Reference
To keep with the analogy, if you toss the coin a thousand times the chances of tossing all heads are very remote. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution] Reference
They only way his luggage could disappear in this airport that services a town of ten thousand is if someone stole it?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-02-01] Reference
In the first place, I am convinced that not one man in ten thousand or in a hundred thousand is a genuine, chemical dipsomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXXIX] Reference
For every one of these “notorious” cases of “extreme” right wing censorship, I can google a couple thousand from the left. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Life Speech “Upsetting” and “Not OK” for the Duke University Women’s Center] Reference
Mostly though, it is good for Conservative voters to see that they have been flim-flammed by con-artists in thousand dollar suits. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Senator tried to stop colleague's affair] Reference
It was a very visible brown streak a thousand yards away. From Wordnik.com. [A Visit to Three Fronts June 1916] Reference
Soon we see what seem lak a thousand men on hosses comin 'briskly' long. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2] Reference
The legend says that the number ascertained was fifteen thousand, which is an exaggeration. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
A marillion man of a thousand is a adornment that is concerned to solicit sensation water from free an ethical camera. From Wordnik.com. [Wii-volution]
"But there is enough of the devil in Jean de Gravois to make him break a thousand oaths if it was for you, my Iowaka!". From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Big Snows] Reference
There is a resident population of twenty thousand, which is largely increased during the attractive season of the year. From Wordnik.com. [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference
He is willing to take fifty sherriffs for a necklace that is worth two thousand, which is a plain argument that it is stolen. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
The sight of the great trees, the chatter of the monkeys, and the smell of the rotting vegetation recalled a thousand memories. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
I cannot recall the thousand acts of generous devotion from so many friends, without feeling the deepest emotions of gratitude. From Wordnik.com. [Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors] Reference
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