WADE, HAROLD H. A dozen a day in spelling and punctuation, by Harold H. Wade and John E. Blossom.

WADE, META B. A dozen a day in spelling and punctuation.

Ali Jan is in a boat full of carved-wood rubbish on the starboard side, while Samad Shah, Sabhana, and half-a-dozen other robbers line the river bank opposite our port windows and clamour for custom.

Here some dozen or so of visitors had already selected little clearings, and the flicker of white tents, the squealing of ponies, and the jabber of native servants banished all ideas of loneliness.

We watch a narrow space between two bushes some dozen yards away, and see that the Mannlicher across our knees and the smooth-bore, ball loaded in the right and chokeless barrel, lie handy for instant use.

Picnics of all sorts and sizes, from the little impromptu gatherings of half-a-dozen congenial young souls (always an even number, please), who ride off into the romantic shades to nibble biscuits and make tea, to the dainty repasts provided by a hospitable lady, whose official hut overlooks the Ferozepore Nullah, and who, in turn, overlooks her cook, to the great gratification of her guests.

While I was sitting below the verandah sketching, with a dozen lovely peaches spread by me on the hoards to obtain their final touch of perfection in the sun before lunch, the cow strolled up.

Give him a fire in the open, screened by stones and a mud wall, a batterie de cuisine limited to one or two war-worn "degchies," and let him have a village fowl and half-a-dozen tiny eggs, and he will in due time serve up, with modest pride, a most excellent repast.

Also he wondered if it was any Open-and-Shut Certainty when a dozen other Men, some of them Younger and more Gallus, were after her in Full Cry.

As Colonel Dodge remarks (213): it is customary for as many as a dozen persons of both sexes to live in one room, hence there is an entire lack of privacy, either in word or act.

Bancroft cites half a dozen authorities for the assertion that among the Indians of Northern California "boys are disgraced by work" and "women work while men gamble or sleep" (I., 351).

Many had six, eight, and some more than a dozen.

"Almost everyone has read it a dozen times, and always differently told."

It is needless to say that a story told in a dozen different ways and embellished by half-breed guides and white collectors of legends has no value as scientific evidence.

Sometimes a dozen are thus rejected, and the number may rise to three hundred before superstition is satisfied and a suitable match is found!

Every last man with a water right will be there, sure, and Foy's got a dozen.

It commandeered the V H Saddle horses in the corral; it searched for sign in the soft earth of the wandering draws between the dozen low hills scattered round Big Thumb Butte and Little Thumb Butte; it rode circles round the ranch; the sign of Christopher Foy's shod horse was found and followed hotfoot by a detachment.

The story of the strike, the causes that led up to it, and the bitter injustice which followed it were rehearsed in a dozen speeches.

A dozen women promised influence and personal service in behalf of the strikers.

We've wired 'em all three, and a dozen other ports of the kind.

As far as I understand, he has been allowing me two hundred and fifty pounds a year for the last dozen years.

He saw half a dozen little Prospers occupying half a dozen little cradles, and a whole suite of nurseries established at the Hall.

He saw half a dozen little Prospers occupying half a dozen little cradles, and a whole suite of nurseries established at the Hall.

" Mr. Whedell smiled, twirled his double eyeglass a few dozen times round his forefinger, and said: "My darling daughter, listen, and you will appreciate the advantages of this match.

The cursed place, just a huddle of blind, mud huts under a dozen sickly trees, had been swept clean some time ago by the passage of a swarm of those voracious locusts known as jarad Iblis (the locusts of Satan).