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1 I, I | have recognized it among a thousand. His ears, to be sure, had
2 I, I | the light of the lusters a thousand pieces of most beautiful
3 I, II | single wire more than eight thousand versts in length, alone
4 I, II | number nearly four hundred thousand “tents,” or two million
5 I, II | provinces, perhaps two or three thousand versts distant. Now, except
6 I, II | two million five hundred thousand inhabitants, an army of
7 I, II | inhabitants, an army of sixty thousand men, trebled in time of
8 I, II | time of war, and thirty thousand horsemen. It is a rich country,
9 I, II | by a population of twenty thousand souls. Protected by its
10 I, II | time to traverse the five thousand two hundred versts between
11 I, III | the foggy atmosphere, a thousand circumstances which are
12 I, IV | Michael Strogoff, was three thousand four hundred miles. Before
13 I, IV | in getting over the first thousand miles, the distance between
14 I, V | from thirty to thirty-five thousand inhabitants, contained at
15 I, V | more than three hundred thousand; that is to say, the population
16 I, V | the crowd of three hundred thousand strangers. But on this occasion
17 I, VI | number, they had nearly a thousand versts to go before they
18 I, VII | Europe, is almost three thousand miles in length. Its waters,
19 I, VIII| Nine hundred, out of seven thousand!” murmured the girl.~The
20 I, X | in a length of over two thousand miles between Europe and
21 I, X | not being more than five thousand feet. Eternal snow is there
22 I, X | with the road torn up by a thousand mountain torrents, in these
23 I, XII | population is usually ten thousand inhabitants, then contained
24 I, XIII| after a course of four thousand miles.~At this time of year,
25 I, XIV | of Omsk, reduced to two thousand men, resisted valiantly.
26 I, XV | sprinkled everywhere with a thousand flowers remarkable for the
27 I, XV | forward as if the rowels of a thousand spurs had pierced his flanks.
28 I, XV | since his departure.~One thousand miles still separated him
29 I, XVI | small Russian force of two thousand men, reported to have reached
30 I, XVII| rides a race! ’Tis for a thousand pound!’” And Blount turned
31 II, I | the invaders. Of the two thousand men who had engaged with
32 II, I | the distance rose several thousand of the Turcoman tents, called “
33 II, I | least a hundred and fifty thousand soldiers, as many foot as
34 II, I | Doctors have taken six thousand years to discover that!
35 II, I | discover that! Yes, six thousand years in round numbers!”~“
36 II, I | Ogareff, followed by several thousand men, made his entry into
37 II, VII | command two hundred and fifty thousand men, to which the Russian
38 II, VII | population is about twelve thousand souls, he depended upon
39 II, VIII| to the number of fifty thousand, had now quitted it to take
40 II, X | the long journey of four thousand miles for the Czar’s courier
41 II, X | one of the six hundred thousand popular pastors which the
42 II, XII | in ordinary times, thirty thousand inhabitants. On the right
43 II, XII | Cossacks, consisting of two thousand men, and a body of police
44 II, XII | and he told me that fifty thousand Russians under General Kisselef,
45 II, XII | will keep them back. Fifty thousand good men, taking the Tartars
46 II, XII | the father, exiled eight thousand versts from his native town.
47 II, XIII| battle.”~“A battle?”~“Twenty thousand Russians, from the frontier
48 II, XIII| with a hundred and fifty thousand Tartars, and, notwithstanding
49 II, XIII| At about four hundred thousand men.”~Another exaggeration
50 II, XIII| these barbarians six hundred thousand strong, I will never give
51 II, XIII| relax. At any rate, several thousand Tartars were kept in readiness
52 II, XIV | guns at random. Several thousand Tartars rushed to the assault
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