"Ten thousand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "When the Ten Thousand, in their storied march, reached at last the blue waters of the Euxine, thrilled with joy they loudly cried: 'The Sea! The Sea!' So we, travellers likewise, reach at last the Western Ocean; and for a striking scene upon its waters, ...
— Five Hundred Dollars - First published in the "Century Magazine" • Heman White Chaplin
... at the south-west end of Tavai Poenammoo, or the Middle Island, as it is now called. This was on Friday, March 26, after having been one hundred and seventeen days at sea, and sailed over three thousand six hundred and sixty leagues, or nearly ten thousand miles, without having once sighted land. Only one man, and he of a naturally bad habit of body, had been seriously ill; and Cook attributed the excellent health of his crew, partly to the frequent airing and sweetening of the ship ...
— Captain Cook - His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries • W.H.G. Kingston
... one," said Agelastes. "There is not, I trust, a subject in the empire who knows better the ten thousand punctilios exigible from those of different ranks, and clue to different authorities. The man is yet to be born who has seen me take advantage of any more commodious posture than that of standing in presence of the royal family. But though I use those false scales in society, and so far conform ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... poet murmured. "To all ensuing time. First-rate epithet that. I go ten thousand, Sir ...
— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen
... like him; you will take him off my hands now and then. He must not be neglected; Bazalgette would murder us. Apropos, remind me to ask him to tell you Mr. Hardie's story, and how he comes to be looked up to like a prince in this part of the world, though he is only a banker, with only ten thousand a year." ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
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