"It is my belief that he'd shoot down a round dozen before consentin' to give us all over to death; but there's no knowin' what a man may be forced into when pressure enough has been brought to bear upon him.

Thus we face to-day a new Balkan Peninsula, consisting of half a dozen little independent nations, all thoroughly democratic, except Turkey.

Choralist's double dozen; vocal book.

Then there was one on each side, and he should judge by the clatter of hoofs that there could not be fewer than half a dozen behind.

Lake's Daily dozen.

So happy were their combinations, scarce a dozen were absent or declined.

Their two horses, surviving the shells and famine of Vicksburg, had been among the mere half-dozen of good beasts retained at the surrender by some ruse, and The orderly brought Bartleson a document and Mandeville a newspaper

It is strange enough that there are a dozen dozen of these curious dozens!

He was said to have drunk whisky, glass for glass, to the claret of Mr. Maule and the Laird of Skene for a whole evening; and in those days there was a traditional story of his despatching, at one sitting, in company with a character celebrated for convivialityone of the men employed to float rafts of timber down the Deethree dozen of porter.

The number of representatives chosen in a senatorial district varies from one to half a dozen, dependent upon population.

"Item, for two doss (dozen?) di bocse (box) garlands for prestes and clerkes on St. Barnabe Day, j's.

Mrs. Ormonde is so charming, she is a great favourite with men, and is always surrounded when she goes anywhere by about half a dozen eager for her smiles.

When at last Dawson was summoned to the sitting; of the War Committee, he found himself in the presence of some half a dozen elderly and embarrassed-looking gentlemen arranged round a big table.

A dozen or more proprietors owned two or more estates each, some of which were on the largest scale, while at the other extreme several dozen farmers who had no mills of their own sent cane from their few acres to be worked up in the spare time of some obliging neighbor's mill.

The gallant half-dozen having reported to the 156th Brigade that Askalon was open to themthe Brigade occupied the place at noonrode across the sand-dunes to the important native town of Mejdel, where there was a substantial bazaar doing a good trade in the essentials for native existence, beans and cereals in plenty, fruit, and tobacco of execrable quality.

"We done got a haff dozen laid diss mornin', suh, but de bishop's comin' down hyar in August, suh, and we's savin' all de fresh aigs for him, suh.

To "notice" such a work is ten times more (we had almost said) trouble than to despatch half a dozen dull books, or a dozen harmless, well-meaning satires on human nature.

From the open door of the pool hall the marshal saw a thin, black streak of smoke curling far out on the horizona dozen milesnortheast of Eagle Butte.

It came back to me, in a dozen, horrible, throaty tones, mockingly.

By a fatality so unerring that it has ceased to be wonderful, it happens that you can never enter a Washington restaurant and find it partially empty, without being instantly followed by a dozen or two of bipeds as hungry and thirsty as yourself, who crowd up to the bar and destroy half the comfort you derive from your lunch or your toddy.

The business is not entirely left, as in some churches, to worn-out old men and sacredly-snuffy old womento a miserable half-dozen of fogies, nearly as ignorant of the vital virtues of the sacrament as the Virginian old beldame who took it to cure the rheumatism.

Below them in the grassy courtyard, a dozen indolent, sensuous Persians were congregated, lying about in the shade with all the abandon of absolute security.

For a minute perhaps he watched them seething about the entrance, disposing of an ineffectual dozen of policemen who barred their way, before he fully realised his own importance in the affair.

The boy brought to the innkeeper six dozen eggs.

Many dozens of flakes, invisible to the naked eye, were revealed when the laser beam pierced the near-perfect sphere.