Careful Words

thousand (n.)

thousand (adj.)

I have mark'd

A thousand blushing apparitions

To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames

In angel whiteness beat away those blushes.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Stately and tall he moves in the hall,

The chief of a thousand for grace.

Kate Franklin: Life at Olympus, Lady's Book, Vol. xxiii. p. 33.

He left a corsair's name to other times,

Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Corsair. Canto iii. Stanza 24.

And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 17.

Those graceful acts,

Those thousand decencies that daily flow

From all her words and actions.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 600.

Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!

What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!

What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!

Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks,

Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon,

Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,

Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,

All scattered in the bottom of the sea:

Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes

Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,

As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.

Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not;

In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.

Ali Ben Abi Taleb (600-661):

There was a sound of revelry by night,

And Belgium's capital had gather'd then

Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright

The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men.

A thousand hearts beat happily; and when

Music arose with its voluptuous swell,

Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,

And all went merry as a marriage bell.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 21.

Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils.

Du Bartas (1544-1590): First Week, Third Day.

  The cattle upon a thousand hills.

Old Testament: Psalm l. 10.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,

And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Guilt and Sorrow. Stanza 41.

I have mark'd

A thousand blushing apparitions

To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames

In angel whiteness beat away those blushes.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.

  A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.

Old Testament: Isaiah lx. 22.

So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity,

That when a soul is found sincerely so,

A thousand liveried angels lackey her,

Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,

And in clear dream and solemn vision

Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear,

Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants

Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 453.

The soul of music slumbers in the shell

Till waked and kindled by the master's spell;

And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour

A thousand melodies unheard before!

Samuel Rogers (1763-1855): Human Life.

  One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

Old Testament: Ecclesiastes vii. 28.

Return unto thy rest, my soul,

From all the wanderings of thy thought,

From sickness unto death made whole,

Safe through a thousand perils brought.

James Montgomery (1771-1854): Rest for the Soul.

  To be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night

Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard

Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air

Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe (1565-1593): Faustus.

Strange that a harp of thousand strings

Should keep in tune so long!

Isaac Watts (1674-1748): Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book ii. Hymn 19.

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,

And every tongue brings in a several tale,

And every tale condemns me for a villain.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.

But in vayne shee did conjure him

To depart her presence soe;

Having a thousand tongues to allure him,

And but one to bid him goe.

Thomas Percy (1728-1811): Dulcina.

  At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

Nathaniel P Willis (1817-1867): Necessity for a Promenade Drive.

Earth with her thousand voices praises God.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.

  A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Old Testament: Psalm xc. 4.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,

Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;

Ring out the thousand wars of old,

Ring in the thousand years of peace!

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): In Memoriam. cv. Stanza 7.

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state:

An hour may lay it in the dust.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 84.