thousand (n.)
thousand (adj.)
- billion
- considerable
- grand
- heap
- many
- million
- multifarious
- multiple
- multitudinous
- myriad
- numerous
- thou
- trillion
- zillion
I have mark'd
A thousand blushing apparitions
To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
In angel whiteness beat away those blushes.
Stately and tall he moves in the hall,
The chief of a thousand for grace.
He left a corsair's name to other times,
Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes.
And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Those graceful acts,
Those thousand decencies that daily flow
From all her words and actions.
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.
Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not;
In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.
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.
Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils.
The cattle upon a thousand hills.
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
I have mark'd
A thousand blushing apparitions
To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
In angel whiteness beat away those blushes.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.
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.
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!
One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
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.
To be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long!
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
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.
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
Earth with her thousand voices praises God.
A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
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!
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state:
An hour may lay it in the dust.
