Our familiarity with the larger domestic animals tends, I think, to mislead us: we see no great destruction falling on them, and we forget that thousands are annually slaughtered for food, and that in a state of nature an equal number would have somehow to be disposed of.
A large number of eggs is of some importance to those species, which depend on a rapidly fluctuating amount of food, for it allows them rapidly to increase in number.
Introduced to Number Fourteen, the doctor looked round him with a certain appearance of interest which was noticed by everyone present.
The next day, a gentleman and his wife (perfect strangers to the Montbarry family), returning to England by way of Venice, arrived at the hotel and occupied Number Fourteen.
But the chief reason for not carrying out his intention to enter the army lay in the vague idea that he was L'russe Besuhof who had the
number of the beast, 666; that his part in the great affair of setting a limit to the power of the beast that spoke great and blasphemous things had been predestined from eternity, and that therefore he ought not to undertake anything, but wait for what was bound to come to pass.
Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior
number, is a shilling saved to their own pockets.
It is also absurd to render property equal, and not to provide for the increasing
number of the citizens; but to leave that circumstance uncertain, as if it would regulate itself according to the
number of women who [1265b] should happen to be childless, let that be what it would because this seems to take place in other cities; but the case would not be the same in such a state which he proposes and those which now actually unite; for in these no one actually wants, as the property is divided amongst the whole community, be their
numbers what they will; but as it could not then be divided, the supernumeraries, whether they were many or few, would have nothing at all.
The remarks made in a former
number, which have been alluded to in another part of this paper, will apply with conclusive force against the admission of the House of Representatives to a share in the formation of treaties.
In the case of the parts of a
number, there is no common boundary at which they join.
As before, when Sing had threatened to filch his new possession from him,
Number One held the girl with one hand while he met the attack of this new assailant with the other; but here was very different metal than had succumbed to him before.
'In a little community like ours, my dear,' said Fagin, who felt it necessary to qualify this position, 'we have a general
number one, without considering me too as the same, and all the other young people.'
This promising beginning was soon overcast with a cloud of adversity; for upon the tenth day of October, the rear of our company was attacked by a
number of Indians, who killed six, and wounded one man.