The very number of his volumes is a protest to the contrary.

For the very number of them will put a spell on you.

The very number of our assailants was in our favour, by hampering their sword-arms.

Yea, for their very number are toilers counted as beasts.

This very number five, indeed, has a more than ordinary significance belonging to itself.

The very number of the Turks told against them.

She suggested that their very number was an indication of sociability, excitement, noise, and mirth.

But was not my wife of their very number?

The very number of servants, when a place is open, in a rather effective way, police it.

Does not the very number of them imply that the nature of his art is not understood?

The very number of his foes had saved him so far from being rushed overboard or trampled down.

There are five of them, the very number we were told of, and one, the traitor, we have already got.

Now are not the points about which there has been, and is still, most dispute, just of this very number?

Verres had still one hope left; and this, strangely enough, sprang out of the very number and enormity of his crimes.

The very number of the opponents who interfered with each other trying to get at him was a guarantee of safety.

The very number of the Danes hindered their attack, for the tower was so small that comparatively few could approach at once.