Translation for "number of prisoners" to german
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Because of the number of prisoners, the games were to surpass in greatness anything seen up to that time.
Infolge der Anzahl der Gefangenen sollten die Spiele an Großartigkeit alles bisher Gesehene übertreffen.
     But to return to our Business; the Gunner, when he saw the Service I had done in the Fight, and heard my Proposal for keeping a Number of Prisoners for our March, and for carrying our Baggage, turns to me before them all, Captain Bob, says he, I think you must be our Leader, for all the Success of this Enterprize is owing to you.
Um aber auf unsere Sache zurückzukommen: Nachdem der Geschützmeister gesehen hatte, welche Dienste ich während des Kampfs geleistet, und meinen Vorschlag gehört hatte, eine Anzahl von Gefangenen für unseren Marsch zu behalten, damit sie unser Gepäck trugen, wandte er sich vor den anderen an mich.
Sharon’s cousins were employed constructing a makeshift jail to hold our small but growing number of prisoners, and they set happily to work, singing while they hammered.
Sharons Cousins bekamen den Auftrag, ein provisorisches Gefängnis für unsere wachsende Zahl an Gefangenen zu errichten. Sie machten sich vergnügt an die Arbeit und sangen wie immer beim Hämmern.
that there had been a great battle between them and their next king, of whose subjects, it seems, he had been one, and that they had taken a great number of prisoners; all which were carried to several places by those who had taken them in the fight, in order to feast upon them, as was done here by these wretches upon those they brought hither.
Bei einer großen Schlacht zwischen jenen Wilden und deren Nachbarkönig, zu dessen Untertanen er zu gehören schien, sei eine große Zahl von Gefangenen gemacht worden, welche sämmtlich zu verschiedenen Plätzen geschleppt seien, um verzehrt zu werden.
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