number

So she chose a number of the Winkies who looked as if they knew the most, and they all started away.

SOME DOGS famished with hunger saw a number of cowhides steeping in a river.

A DOVE shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young ones which she had hatched.

The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison-house.”