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Thousand in sentence

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That you receive for your work on the estate a profit, let's say of five thousand roubles, while our peasant host, work as he may, cannot get more than fifty, is just as dishonest as my receiving more than my head-clerk, or Malthus getting more than a railway mechanic.
'You say it is unjust for me to receive five thousand while the peasant gets only fifty roubles: that's true.
One regrets Miss Elliot a thousand times – this one does not look after the children; she's only a machine...Figurez vous que la petite...'[Fancy! the child...]Dolly told Masha's crime.
I think it will cost more than a hundred thousand roubles.
But what would it mean?' said Anna, evidently expressing a thought she had considered a thousand times and knew by heart.
Take Snetkov...Whether we are good or bad, we have been growing for a thousand years.
Before I took to farming I was getting three thousand roubles a year in the Service.
You must have a thousand limes here, and each one of them would yield a good lot of bast, and at present bast fetches a good price.
What did Yashvin do?''He was lucky and won seventeen thousand.
This post was one of those, now far more numerous than formerly, carrying salaries from one thousand to fifty thousand roubles a year: soft profitable jobs.
The post carried a salary of from seven to ten thousand roubles a year, and Oblonsky could hold it without resigning his official position.
But as the work of the new institution was very complicated and his project covered a very extensive domain, he could not decide this immediately, and taking off his pince-nez said:'Certainly I could speak to him; but, really, why do you want the post?''The salary is good, up to nine thousand, and my means...''Nine thousand,' repeated Karenin, and frowned.
'Let's say a bank director gets ten thousand, – he's worth it, you know!
Or an engineer gets twenty thousand.
If that law is ignored when fixing a salary, as for instance when I see that, of two engineers who have passed through the same Institute and are equally well instructed and capable, one receives forty thousand and the other is satisfied with two thousand; or when lawyers or hussars who have no special knowledge are appointed Directors of banks or companies and receive gigantic salaries, I conclude that these salaries are not fixed by the law of supply and demand but by personal influence.
Bartnyansky, who spent at least fifty thousand roubles a year at the rate he was living, had the day before made a notable remark to him on the point.
'Very much: about twenty thousand roubles.'Bartnyansky burst into merry laughter.
Zhivakhov, whose debts amounted to three hundred thousand roubles, didn't possess a penny and yet he lived, and how he lived!
Petrovsky had run through five millions, continued living in just the same style, and even directed the Finance Department and received a salary of twenty thousand.
'Since every one has been attacking her – all those who are a hundred thousand times worse than she – I have thought she has acted splendidly.
'It seems he has won from Pevtsov all and even more than Pevtsov can pay – about sixty thousand roubles.''But why do you imagine,' said she, irritated at his intimating to her so obviously, by this change of subject, that he saw she was losing her temper, 'that this news interests me so much that it is necessary to conceal it?
If, without loving me, he is kind and tender to me from a sense of duty, but what I desire is lacking – that would be a thousand times worse than anger!
Malvinsky would not believe me.''More than eight hundred: counting those who did not go from Moscow direct, more than a thousand,' said Koznyshev.
'And the Princess Myagkaya, not Lisa but Bibish, is really sending a thousand rifles and twelve nurses!
'Clerks in district offices, schoolmasters, and one out of a thousand peasants, may know what it is all about.
and the salary is eight thousand.
And he is a truthful man, but one can't help believing in the usefulness of eight thousand roubles.''Yes, he asked me to tell Darya Alexandrovna that he has got the post,' said Koznyshev discontentedly, considering that what the Prince was saying was not to the point.
Ten thousand workers, concessions reaching over sixty-seven communes, an output of five thousand tons a day, a railway joining all the pits, and workshops, and factories!
It was like the gliding of a bird, noiseless, without a jar, this rapid flight, the continual come and go of a thread of enormous weight, capable of lifting twelve thousand kilograms at the rate of ten metres a second.
And he thought fiercely of those people Bonnemort had talked of, the crouching and sated god, to whom ten thousand starving men gave their flesh without knowing it.
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