How To Use Twelve In A Sentence
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Does a father react angrily when his tired, overwhelmed twelve-month-old flails out and hits him on the nose?
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The orbit of the earth (or the circle which the sun seems to describe round the earth), is called the ecliptic, which is divided into twelve equal parts, called signs, and are distinguished by the following names and marks, [again, the symbols for the signs can be seen in the
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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Every so often a rabbit would make a desperate, lung-bursting bid for freedom, only to provide an easy target for the twelve-bores.
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The building will house twelve boys and eight girls.
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Hotel guests are requested to vacate their rooms by twelve noon.
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The houfes of the town of Puna are built on pofts ten or twelve feet high, into which they go up by ladders, and are thatched with palmeto-leaves: the like contriv - ance I have feen among the Malayans in the Eaft Indies.
A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America
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The hard labor of the farm was mostly done by them, and on the floor of the big kitchen, toward sundown, would be squatting a circle of twelve or fourteen "pickaninnies," eating their supper of pudding (Indian corn mush) and milk.
November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
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He describes himself sitting in a room with five children, aged ten to twelve, showing them a Taiwanese water dipping bird toy -- the little chotchke that tips back and forth into a well of water as though it's drinking.
Susan Stiffelman: Education, Seth Godin, Factory Workers and the Taiwanese Water Bird
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We always knew twelve-stepping was the best substitute for booze.
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Children aged twelve or under must be accompanied by an adult.
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Twelve hundred cases of dengue and 101 cases of dengue haemorrhagic fever have been confirmed.
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The twelve-panel front door is surmounted with a transom window and framed by fluted pilasters supporting an open pediment.
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Victor's authority is appealed to by those who deem the last twelve verses of S. Mark's Gospel spurious, it would of course be inferred that his evidence is hostile to the verses in question; whereas his evidence to their genuineness is the most emphatic and extraordinary on record.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established
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It's just coming up to half past twelve.
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The Church defines Christmas as the twelve days from Christmas Day until the eve of Epiphany.
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They worked ten or twelve hours breaking rocks and stones for roadmaking and repairing, carrying heavy loads, performing superhuman tasks.
Rebecca Sieff.
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When I mentioned that I couldn't quite see that it was the lack of thrift, the intemperance, and the depravity of a half-starved child of six that made it work twelve hours every night in a Southern cotton mill, these sisters of Judy O'Grady attacked my private life and called me an "agitator" -- as though that, forsooth, settled the argument.
Revolution, and Other Essays
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After being a supernumerary for twelve years, M. Popinot would no doubt die a puisne judge of the Court of the Seine.
The Commission in Lunacy
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In the US, many people do this by making 26 fortnightly payments of half their mortgage repayment, instead of twelve monthly payments.
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Twelve inches is equal to one foot.
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The first edition had twelve pages, and the incredible figure of 200000 copies rolled off the second-hand presses.
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I would dread to think that a scene such as the one I witnessed at the age of twelve could happen in a playground now.
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At my hearing, I was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment in a maximum security jail.
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The influences of twelve amino acids on S - adenosyl - L - methionine ( SAM ) production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae were investigated.
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But it is not all about square-bashing - in that sense the programme has changed remarkably in the past ten to twelve years.
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The stone is about twelve feet in height and four in breadth with the hole near the top.
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Jacob's dying blessing focusses on the distant future, when the descendants of these twelve will occupy the promised land.
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Twelve political parties and three coalitions are fielding candidates in the election, organised just six months after a bloodless coup toppled the president.
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FRED GOLDMAN, FATHER OF RON GOLDMAN: Twelve years ago, Ron and Nicole were murdered, murdered by a man whose name I still to this day refuse to use.
CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2006
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But, even car buffs will admit that carnaubas are moderately difficult and time consuming (up to twelve hours to cure!
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Twelve distal femoral condyles, proximal tibial condyles, and patellae were harvested; all soft tissue was removed.
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I sot up till the clock was gone twelve last night, a-lookin at em, I did, till they stared at me out o the picturs as if theyd know when I spoke to em.
III. A Voice from the Past. Book IV—The Valley of Humiliation
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Twelve months constitute a year.
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This was huge, but the play kicked off at twelve noon, right in the middle of my radio show.
The Sun
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In the last twelve months the place has got absolutely filthy.
The Sun
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He received a twelve-month jail sentence.
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The two ships were brought into such a situation that the muzzles of their guns came in contact, and in this manner the action continued with the greatest fury for two hours, during which time Jones, who had far more men than his opponent, vainly attempted to board, and the "Serapis" was set on fire ten or twelve times.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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She allowed her gaze to flick up every time the hand passed the twelve.
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The amounts of seed required per acre for the different kinds are about as follows: mammoth fifteen to twenty pounds; red (medium) twelve to fifteen pounds; crimson twelve to fifteen pounds; and alsike ten to twelve pounds.
Apple Growing
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The study showed that one in twelve women is likely to develop breast cancer.
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In the beginning of time, we are informed, a world existed in the north called Niflheim, in the centre of which was a well from which sprang twelve rivers.
The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
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An important development of the early sixteenth century was the Apocalyptic image of her, standing in front of a sunburst, crowned with twelve stars, with at her feet a crescent moon.
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Twelve years ago: A US frigate fired warning shots across the bow of an Iraqi oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman -- apparently the first shots fired by the United States in the Persian Gulf crisis.
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In no other country has the price impact arising from introduction of a broad-based consumption tax washed out of the economic system within twelve months.
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The children were still wide awake, when the clock struck twelve for the New Year's Day.
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To Madame Hanska he revealed more the cankering disappointment, just as he had a twelvemonth previously, after the mishap of the School for Husbands and
Balzac
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In all likelihood, the debt was incurred on Lord Petre's ‘iorney to Axminster’ exactly twelve months earlier, a year being a round term for a loan.
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All lights have to be out by twelve.
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This was a fine adjustment, for by working hammer-and - tongs through a twelve-hour day, after freight had been deducted from the selling price of the wood in Los Angeles, the wood-chopper received one dollar and sixty cents.
Chapter V
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A senior penguin aquarist at the time of the oil spill, she had been working with penguins for twelve years.
The Great Penguin Rescue
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The Athenian war fleet was reduced to twelve ships - barely enough to protect her shipping.
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In this article, I shall not attempt to deal with all of the areas covered by these differences, nor with the essays of all twelve contributors to Meyer's symposium.
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The business has had a bumpy ride over the last twelve months, but profits are growing again now.
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Our cars carry a twelve-month guarantee.
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Stems from twelve to fifteen inches high; leaves lyrate, the terminal lobe round; flowers small, in erect, loose, terminal spikes, or groups; the seeds are small, wrinkled, of a grayish color, and retain their vitality three years.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
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Have you got smarter in the last twelve months or has the year taken its toll on your brain cells?
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Of rails, or ralline birds, there are ten or twelve, ranging from a small spotted creature no bigger than a thrush to some large majestic birds.
The Naturalist in La Plata
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Having spluttered vigorously into double-handfuls of water from the little stream and put the towel back on its bush, he turned his attention to his twelve-dollar boots -- for in the country of boots and saddles the leatherwork is the soul of appearances.
The Wrong Woman
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We can believe in the resurrection as a fact because eleven out of the twelve disciples died as martyrs testifying to the resurrection and deity of Christ.
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You can look at the social atlas of Sydney and see twelve bright red dots on the map.
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The church clock struck a quarter to twelve, and still the bride did not come.
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Heinrich attended school in Mulhouse, receiving a reasonably good education up to the age of twelve, studying French and Latin in addition to elementary subjects.
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Tests in Puerto Rico using direct applications of picloram to soil at rates four to six times greater than those employed in Vietnam had shown that only the most sensitive plant seedlings, soybeans, suffered ill effects six to twelve months later.
Operation Ranch Hand
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In a second the G-force shot up into the ten to twelve range, the blood pooled near Captain Alezio's chest, and she lost consciousness.
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Eight and a half years ago, when the oncological bookmakers gave my father three years to live, we sat together in his hospital room and vowed that, if he survived, the two of us would take a trip each year to celebrate his outliving his expiration date by another twelvemonth.
Joshuah Bearman: Travels with Wells Tower, or Another Reason Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers
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I think that it's probably not appropriate for the generality of 12 year olds, but that it would also depend on the twelve year old in question.
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The e-nose predicted whether twelve odorant receptors from Drosophila would respond to 21 new odorants with roughly 75 percent accuracy.
"MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader
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The breadth of the contiguous zone is twelve nautical miles.
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After twelve years of marriage, they began to draw apart.
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Reaching this skill in what Piaget would later dub in his characteristically dry fashion “the fourth sub-stage of the sensorimotor stage” typically between the ages of nine and twelve months was an essential precursor to more abstract and sophisticated thought.
The Truth About Grief
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The principal veins are from twelve to twenty-four inches wide, and carry besides gold, sulphurets, pyrite, galenite, &c.
North Carolina and its Resources.
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Went to a lecture on Linear B; the lecturer was Italian and impressed upon all twelve students how difficult a syllabic script (such as Linear B) is.
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It recounts, in twelve expansive books, a story line that occupies only a few verses of the book of Genesis.
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Schoenberg created twelve - tone music.
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If we go swimming together I do six lengths to her twelve.
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Like an Escher print, this is music that seems to ascend infinitely over a nearly twelve-minute span.
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The Army wanted the aircraft carry the stunning armament of either eight 20 mm cannon or twelve .50-cal Brownings and fly at over 450-mph - truly amazing requirements for the time.
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Twelve students were told off to do the cleaning.
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The images were transferred lithographically or hand-painted on to glass using transparent pigments and then issued in sets of eight or twelve.
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It will not stop them from assuming that, as the clock strikes twelve, you want them to take hold of your face and plant a smacker on your lips.
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When I was twelve I began sprouting my first pubic hair, and I was aghast.
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Life in the French chateaux continued more or less unchanged by the French Revolution, during which only about twelve hundred members of the nobility were guillotined, leaving the vast majority lying low but alive.
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Take the water ere the clock strikes twelve.
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If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty. Chris Rock
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The book has twelve chapters, organized into three sections with loosely connected themes.
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There is a farm on a neck of land belonging to this town (Marblehead, Mass.), which has peculiar advantages for collecting sea kelp and sea moss, and these manures are there used most liberally, particularly in the cultivation of cabbage, from eight to twelve cords of rotten kelp, which is stronger than barn manure, and more suitable food for cabbage, being used to the acre.
Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop
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During his twelve years in Congress he has tussled with the chemical, drug and power companies on behalf of the ordinary person's right to breathe clean air.
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For twelve bells, the largest number used for change-ringing, the total number of possible sequences is 479,001,600 and would take 37 years and 355 days to ring at a normal ringing rate.
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He sallied forth from his house to relish the novelty of walking behind no less than twelve togate lictors who carried on their shoulders the bundle of rods ritually bound with red leather thongs.
The Grass Crown
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Between twelve and one that Sunday night Katharine lay in bed, not asleep, but in that twilight region where a detached and humorous view of our own lot is possible; or if we must be serious, our seriousness is tempered by the swift oncome of slumber and oblivion.
Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
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The fact of the matter was that her brain was reeling about, punch-drunk after the twelve-round contest of this interminable day.
LAST SHOT
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Thankfully, I was never a Twi-hard though … (is immediately bayoneted by psychopathic twelve-year-olds who think Edward loves them.) # The ReTARDISed Whovianon 03 Apr 2009 at 4: 34 pm
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The amount of water used to put out the twelve minute bonfire proves this assertion.
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The author found that 100 grammes of a Bucholze's solution for the propagation of bacteria, charged with 0.20 g. of chinoline hydrochlorate, had remained perfectly clear and free from bacteria after standing forty-six days exposed to the air, while a similar solution, placed under the same conditions, without chinoline, had turned muddy and contained bacteria after only twelve days 'standing.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
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Cheap Books, we hope, will never be an evil; for, as "the same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas, would give bread to a whole family during six months;" so the expense of a gay volume at this season will furnish a moderate circle with amusive reading for a twelvemonth.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829
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Of the foot, it was said that the Lacedæmonians advanced with each enomoty drawn up three deep, this arrangement making them not more than twelve deep in all.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece
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Ever since Goody, our twelve-year-old bichon frise, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, I have been compelled by pity and fear to do his bidding.
Knowing Jesse
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On July 15, 1874, at the Ackley House stables, Mr. John Waddle offered twelve cows and one bull at public auction, but prices ruled so low that they were soon withdrawn from market.
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This could be because my blog is the least popular of the twelve, but I like to think it's because people are so scared of my rapier wit that they dare not cast their vote for me.
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Approximately twelve thousand men lived in huts, and an outer and inner line of defensive earthworks were built.
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They meant the Boer War, recalled by Francis from boyhood, concluded twelve years earlier.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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Twelve men were killed in the ambush.
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I went over and checked the schedule of events on the easeled board near the revolving doors, registration and coffee, licensing laws, spent fuel storage, all the topics and speakers in movable white type, ten to twelve and two to five and on into the night, and I thought about the swingers and their arrangements.
Underworld
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Grail engineering employs forty people, and is currently training twelve apprentices.
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It looked like a size twelve boot had crashed through the screen.
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That the sequels continue after the critically disappointing Ocean's Twelve, only proves that these ganefs will try to get away with this theft as long as they can bring in the shekels.
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The result is charming: twelve short, funny, fast songs about English life with fuzzy guitars and good tunes.
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The arrobe of Castile contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the
Les Miserables
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She dares him to do it, and just then the clock strikes twelve.
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I was twelve years old when I started my periods .
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The latter is indeed the famous archer, one of the twelve constellations of the zodiac.
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The clock began to strike twelve.
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So a final of twelve people lasts twelve weeks - ten evictions, a final and then a show in which the result is announced.
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-- _Spigornel_ (for Adam): 'Sir, according to the custom of the town, he is of age when he knows how to count up to twelve pence, and he shall answer in a writ of Right at that age; and inasmuch as he would answer in a writ of Right at that age, he shall warrant at that age, or shall counterplead, &c.
The Customs of Old England
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I have walked London streets for twelve and fifteen hours together without even a thought of saving my legs or my time, by paying for waftage.
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
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Theo came back out with a twelve-foot square tent in an incredibly heavy box and hefted it between them into the car.
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Ninety-two percent of this acreage is now in the twelve western states, except Hawaii.
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She was the oldest, true, but she was also only twelve then.
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It was neatly folded and carefully done up, with various seals and blue ribbons, in a package about six inches wide by eighteen in length, and was guarded by the select half of the Faroese army and navy, being exactly twelve men, and delivered by the amtman of the island with a few appropriate and impressive remarks, after which it was hung up over the cabin gangway by the captain as a solemn warning to all future passengers.
The Land of Thor
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He then went at once and borrowed a waggon and twelve oxen, and during the night we packed the waggon three times, and took three loads across the Buffalo River to Degaza's kraal, which is on Natal ground, forty sacks of grain, 200 pounds in a box, with clothes and other things, also mats and skins, and four head of cattle and a horse.
Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
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It is supported by a steel diagrid and twelve angled mega columns.
Hearst Tower
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Five into sixty goes twelve times.
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In the hierarchy of local raja he was the most junior of the twelve in the Kei Islands, but he was able to approach the others and start a movement of customary reconciliation.
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Twelve of his daughters have produced foals that earned more than $1-million.
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With the large ones they catch bonnetos and albicores, by putting them to a bamboo rod, twelve or fourteen feet long, with a line of the same length, which rests in a notch of a piece of wood, fixed in the stern of the canoe for that purpose, and is dragged on the surface of the sea, as she rows along, without any other bait than a tuft of flaxy stuff near the point.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
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In this state, the walls of the organ are sometimes increased in thickness to the extent of ten or twelve lines, and are sometimes found also in a scirrhous or cancerous condition.
Select Temperance Tracts
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I'm leaving work at twelve-thirty on the dot.
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Building these three, giant, rolling, temple-like edifices new every twelve months is no small task.
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Julian's Bower, at Alkborough, Lincolnshire, is altogether more elaborate, having twelve concentric circles.
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Hassan and his twelve companions had reached the summit: the giant was precipitated from the rampart: he rose on one knee, and was again oppressed by a shower of darts and stones.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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How does this tie in with the twelve information centers?
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About twelve years ago, I researched a book, a suspense thriller that dealt with far-right extremist thought (which included Clinton hatred) that was encapsulated in the "survivalist" phenomenon.
Deanie Mills: Dewey Wins
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Twelve men all equipped, having each his rest and his matchlock.
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Twelve people charged in connection with the alleged plot are in custody.
Times, Sunday Times
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Twelve million people in Great Britain are over retirement age.
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Twelve miles later, a tyre blew and the lorry careered off the road and into a tree.
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CARLOS WAS ABOUT TWELVE THE FIRST TIME HE WENT TO A witchdoctor in search of objects infused with supernatural powers, known as juju.
Spellbound
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And I confer upon you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
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I never tore my urethra, but Urethra Franklin tore me a new one after I accidentally ate one of her twelve ham sandwiches.
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE TORE HIS URETHRA
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She is a very young girl as young as twelve, who is not old enough to look after herself yet never mind a child of her own.
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All the prisoners were put into one great boat, and in another of the biggest they placed all the women, plate, jewels, and other rich things: into others they put the bales of goods and merchandise, and other things of bulk: each of these boats had twelve men aboard, very well armed; the brulot had orders to go before the rest of the vessels, and presently to fall foul with the great ship.
The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main
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The see was afterwards known as the bishopric of Lismore, and contained the following deaneries: Kintyre, with twelve parishes; Glassary or
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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No need for a twelve-step program or a sponsor or a little plastic chip that told me how many days it had been since my last shot.
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The officers to be armed with a sword or hanger, a fusee, bayonet and belt, with a cartridge box to contain twelve cartridges; and each private of matoss shall furnish themselves with good horses of at least fourteen hands and an half high, and to be armed with a sword and pair of pistols, the holsters of which to be covered with bearskin caps.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Supreme Court Agrees To Decide Whether the Second Amendment Applies to the States
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The ranch employed ten or twelve cowboys.
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Twelve MPs attended the meeting and four who were unable to be there sent votes by secret ballot.
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When the clock struck twelve, I marched majestically to the kitchen, threw open the door, revealed the octette in the enjoyment of a mound of ice-cream and
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)
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The twelve houses are divided into cardinal houses, also called anguli, succeeding houses (succedentes, anaphora) and declining or cadent houses (cadentes, cataphora).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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In ten or twelve days after the cocon is finished, the worm makes its way through it, in the form of a very ugly, unwieldy, aukward butterfly, and as the different sexes are placed by one another on paper or linen, they immediately engender.
Travels through France and Italy
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Papa would borrow a tiller from a friend and plow up the patch making room for two rows of twelve plants each.
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She is quite pleased with her knowledge about courts when she is able to pick out the jury, twelve animals and birds who are busy writing on their slates.
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I believe usual practise is to assume that if you got a nice early slide this time because of BST, you might get a kick in the rear end later in the year from the return to GMT; your twelve hour night shift magically morphing into a 13hr slog.
Policing Pledge Is A Lie SHOCK « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The doctor, a very small woman, no bigger than a twelve-year-old, looked up at me.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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For the past twelve years, I served as the pastor of a large parish in the heart of Chicago.
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Twelve men and women plucked at random off a metaphorical Clapham omnibus to hold her destiny in their collective hands.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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Adriana: How about twelve o'clock at the new sushi bar around the corner from my office?
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In the last twelve months the place has got absolutely filthy.
The Sun
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There are two narrators: Felipe and his anonymous friend who retells the story he was told at the age of twelve by Felipe.
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The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter and Dunphy was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
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They were often compelled to work eleven or twelve hours a day.
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We have twelve olive trees, four fig trees, one pomegranate and a couple of as-yet-unidentified trees.
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From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up.
Middlesex
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The paintings, twelve in number, are over 200 years old.
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My frazzled brain keeps on trying to master the fundamentals and yesterday I proudly completed my first ‘tough’ puzzle (four hours, twelve minutes).
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Snake breeder Okan Guney says the birth of twelve emerald tree boas was the most important event in his life. pro.
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Twelve years after German unification, unemployment in the east is still twice as high as in the west.
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During the last minutes before Telescope delivered the envelope, my friend (and one-twelfth of the Twelve Irish Tenors) Branden messaged me that Wikipedia had already recorded Crystal as the winner.
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He hears countless movie pitches, and is responsible for filtering out the twelve movie ideas that his studio will turn into features every year.
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Girls and boys play in mixed teams until the age of twelve.
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Aside from ‘The District School’ and the ingenious ‘Supplication to the People of the United States,’ which makes a supplementary chapter in the present volume, the author's works in this twelvemo are mild, contemplative essays of no particular value.
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A common man shall pay one denar (piece of money), but the merchants and people who own mines of gold and silver and are rich shall pay twelve denars.
SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
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The reader, by passing half a bushel of the common shells of our shores through a barley-mill, as a preliminary operation in the process, and by next subjecting the broken fragments thus obtained to the attritive influence of the waves on some storm-beaten beach for a twelvemonth or two, as a finishing operation, may produce, when he pleases, exactly such a water-worn shelly debris as mottles the blue boulder-clays of Caithness.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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Twelve of the inmates, however, were already free after being released earlier this year.
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One occurrence each of "bazar" and "twelve-month" have been corrected to read "bazaar" and "twelvemonth", to be consistent both with other mentions in the text, and with the most common usage.
Poems
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Twelve months ago when Graeme joined us I had hoped that we could generate enough business to justify an extra man.
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Twelve unknowing faces gazed back at me, not a smile or sign of brilliance on a one.
THE WIDOW'S TRIAL
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Carrà was born in Quargnento in 1881, at the age of twelve he left home to work as a mural decorator first at Valenza Po, and from 1895 in Milan.
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As the chimes of twelve rang out from the steeple at nearby St Michael's, hands were joined and a ripple of unity spread along the Wall.
WALL GAMES
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I think that I've been talking gibberish for approximately the past twelve hours.
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Twelve popular shellfish gathering beaches in Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Northland and Waikato are being surveyed to see whether current levels of cockle, pipi and tuatua harvesting are ecologically sustainable.
Latest Massey News
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Well, I know she's a size twelve but, you know, erm, how exactly does that relate to, well, bikini tops?
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The tower clock boomed out twelve.
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Twelve potential vaccines are currently being tested on human volunteers.
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Twelve enemy fighters had been brought down.
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Three Kings Day is celebrated on January 6, twelve days after Christmas.
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The event was an unprecedented one: Champagne's grand cru villages remained at twelve for almost forty years.
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Two quick twelve inch pulls then a huge head appeared quickly engulfing the frog, this was followed by a big boil and swirl.
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Imagine what sort of pianist a twelve-fingered person would be.
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We all know that these companies are taking a loss and that's not going to continue forever, " said Jonathan Karp, publisher and editor in chief at Twelve, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group.
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In other words, when the wind is blowing at 120 kilometers per hour, most waves will be about twelve meters.
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Twelve pence worth of leaf gold was an expensive amount.
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My predecessor worked in this job for twelve years.
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There was one great steer in particular, reckoned to be ten or twelve years old, quite a celebrity in fact on account of his unmanageableness, his independence and boldness, which we had frequently seen and tried to secure, but hitherto without success.
Ranching, Sport and Travel
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- Her "maid" is poor Kirkcaldy Helen, one of the notabilities, and also blessings here; who staid with us (thanks chiefly, almost wholly, to the admirable/management/) for nearly twelve years on a stretch.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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We, however, have followed the Twelve Tables in this department of law, and adhered to their principles: and, while we commend the praetors for their sense of equity, we cannot hold that their remedy was adequate; for when the degree of natural relationship was the same, and when the civil title of agnation was conferred by the older law on males and females alike, why should males be allowed to succeed all their agnates, and women (except sisters) be debarred from succeeding any?
The Institutes of Justinian
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Melvin's words, sweet as they are, are dripping with twelve-step rhetoric.
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Plenty large enough to begin with, not less than sixteen feet long by twelve wide, and at least eleven high, all wood, not papered or painted, which I like much, as the kauri is a darkish grained wood; no carpet of course, but I am writing now at 10 P.M., with no fire, and quite warm.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson
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Twelve jurors convicted you guilty of three felony counts beyond reasonable doubt.
The Sun
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Twelve hours after surgery, plasmapheresis was performed in the burn intensive care unit.
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The dark ages to come will endure not twelve, but thirty thousand years.
