Armand Moncharmin at the moment when they were deciding "to look into that little matter of Box
Five."
Fire Eater gives Pinocchio
five gold pieces for his father, Geppetto; but the Marionette meets a Fox and a Cat and follows them
And to the entire commercial world it was for four or
five years a sort of scientific Billiken, that never could be of any service to serious people.
Now, with the given rapidity, the projectile will have traversed this in
five seconds, and the period is too brief for the resistance of the medium to be regarded otherwise than as insignificant.
In order to keep his affairs in some sort of order, he used about
five times a year (more or less frequently, according to circumstances) to shut himself up alone and put all his affairs into definite shape.
It was impossible for him to count more than
five, although he knew the fleeing population numbered many times more than
five.
So, the student of war who is unversed in the art of war of varying his plans, even though he be acquainted with the
Five Advantages, will fail to make the best use of his men.
Shall the qualifications be divided so that
five hundred rich should be equal to a thousand poor, or shall the thousand have equal power with the
five hundred?
At the head of the caravan rode some two hundred warriors,
five abreast, and a like number brought up the rear, while twenty-five or thirty outriders flanked us on either side.
But when a man betted a marker in a game and said it was worth
five hundred dollars, it was accepted as worth
five hundred dollars.
His
five friends of the Reform Club passed these three days in a state of feverish suspense.
"I have ten left," said the man, "for here are eleven, and I had twenty-one,
five more than last year.