at that Stage of the water the Salmon must pass up which abounds in Such great numbers above—below those falls are Salmon trout and great numbers of the heads of a Species of trout Smaller than the Salmon.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The skill of a government, the good sense of the community, and the natural fondness which men entertain for their country, may suffice to maintain peace in the interior of a district, and to favor its internal prosperity; but a nation can only carry on a great war at the cost of more numerous and more painful sacrifices; and to suppose that a great number of men will of their own accord comply with these exigencies of the State is to betray an ignorance of mankind.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

We saw there a great number of trees which bore mattocks, pickaxes, crows, weeding-hooks, scythes, sickles, spades, trowels, hatchets, hedging-bills, saws, adzes, bills, axes, shears, pincers, bolts, piercers, augers, and wimbles.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

It is a curious fact connected with slang that a great number of vulgar words common in England are equally common in the United States; and when we remember that America began to people two centuries ago, and that these colloquialisms must have crossed the sea with the first emigrants, we can form some idea of the antiquity of popular or street language.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

The Indian king or chief “discharged a pistol close to his son’s ear, who immediately fell down as if killed, upon which all the women of the house set up a most lamentable cry, tearing handfuls of hair from their heads, and exclaiming that the prince was dead; at the same time a great number of the inhabitants rushed into the house armed with their daggers, muskets, etc., enquiring the cause of their outcry.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The capital of the country would be the same, though a greater number of pieces might be requisite for conveying any equal portion of it from one hand to another.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

That it was said that a great number of swords had been conveyed to his house.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

When Silva saw this, he thought it best to endeavor the taking of this wall by setting fire to it; so he gave order that the soldiers should throw a great number of burning torches upon it: accordingly, as it was chiefly made of wood, it soon took fire; and when it was once set on fire, its hollowness made that fire spread to a mighty flame.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

I feel somewhat ashamed to have to borrow from the Greeks any statement in reference to Italy; Metrodorus of Scepsos, however, informs us that this river has obtained its name of Padus from the fact, that about its source there are great numbers of pine-trees, which in the Gallic language are called “padi.”
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

It happened one evening when we went on shore, that a greater number of their people came down than usual, but all was very friendly and civil.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

I had not patience to stay till my sisters were dressed to go along with me, but went ashore in the boat myself; and making directly to the gate of the town, I saw there a great number of men upon guard, some sitting and others standing, with batons in their hands; and they had all such dreadful countenances that they frightened me; but perceiving that they had no motion, nay not so much as with their eyes, I took courage, and went nearer, and then found they were all turned into stones.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

It must be supposed that a great number of them did not know all the value of liberty; that they did not always conduct themselves, in their new state, according to the dictates of reason and the exigences of justice; and that, newly entered on the possession of the rights of freemen, they did not know how to fulfil all their new obligations.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

Thus, for example, when we have measured the stature of a boy of ten, we have undoubtedly gathered an individual anthropological fact; but in order to interpret it, we must know what is the average stature of boys of ten; and the average will be found established by previous investigators, who have obtained it from actuality, by applying the well-known method of measuring the stature, to a great number of individuals of a specified race, sex, and age, and by obtaining an average on the basis of such research.
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori

Nor do his reasons, sir, however modestly offered, deserve less regard than his experience, for he has shown that a greater number of officers naturally contribute to preserve discipline, and excite courage; and it is not necessary that a man should be much a soldier to discover, that discipline and courage united, must generally prevail.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Samuel Johnson

Upon a carefully measured base-line, various points of the upper and lower 375.png 310 margin of the crater were accurately laid down by means of the Theodolite, and the whole island submitted to a geometric network of angles.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

There was in a very short time a great number of religious; his order extended itself to all parts with astonishing rapidity, and it has multiplied itself so wonderfully for seven centuries, that it may be looked upon as a representation of the birth and progress of the Church.
— from The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Candide Chalippe

It was written probably about 1760, by Rev. John Berridge, from the text, “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord,” The first line of the second stanza— Released from sorrow, toil and strife, —has been tinkered in some of the older hymn-books, where it is found to read—, Released from sorrows toil and grief , —not only committing a tautology, but destroying the perfect rhyme with “life” in the next line.
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth