Either what womanhaving ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep thehouse, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke15:8^10.

Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve Strokes of havoc unselve The sweet especial scene Rural scene, a rural scene Sweet especial rural scene.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Binsey Poplars'.

Quand il y a a'   manger pour huit, il y en a bien pour dix. When there is enough food foreight, there is enough for ten.

-Molie'  re,Jean Baptiste Poquelin
  L'Avare, act 3, sc.1.

In ten thousand years the Sierras Will be dryand dead, home of the scorpion. Ice-scratched slabs and bent trees. No paradise, no fall, Only the weathering land The wheeling sky, Man, with his Satan Scouring the chaos of the mind. Oh Hell!

-Snyder, Gary Sherman
  Riprap,'Milton By Firelight (Piute Creek, August1955)'.

Consider: only one bullet in ten thousand kills a man. Ask: was so much expenditure justified On the death of one so young and so silly Stretched under the olive trees,Oh, world,Oh, death?

-Spender, Sir Stephen Harold
  'Regum Ultimo Ratio'.

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

-Wordsworth,William
  'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published1807).