Just as the supposed number may differ from the true number by fully 100, 150, or even 200 in a flock of 600 sheep, so may I be even more out of my reckoning in the case of these very little animalcules.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.
Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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