Do we say sics or six

sics 1 occurrences

"Of course all them grand things would please our feelings, but they take a woman's mind off of the Lord, and she neglects her work in the field, and then pretty soon the Lord gets mad and sics the Gentiles on to us again.

six 22920 occurrences

Most of us grew up in the belief that there was but one, the well-known mountain sheep (Ovis canadensis), but seven new species and sub-species have been produced from the systematic mill within recent years, six of them since 1897.

Now it is further true that each one of these types is represented today in the mature antlers of existing deer, from the small South American species with a simple spike, up to the wapiti and red deer carrying six or eight points, and still more significant is it that the whole story is recapitulated in the growth of each individual of the higher races.

The sub-genus Dorcelaphus contains all the forms of the United States; of these, the deer belonging east of the Missouri River, those from the great plains to the Pacific, those along the Rio Grande in Texas and Mexico, those of Florida, and those again of Sonora, are each rated as sub-species of virginiana; to which we must add six more, ranging from Mexico to Bolivia.

Some of them were as large as any existing cat and had upper canines six inches or more in length.

For this reason we took with us from Seattle sufficient provisions to last us six months, and from time to time, as necessity demanded, added to our stores.

Ignati at once started out to avenge his brother, and killed in quick succession six bears, allowing their bodies to remain as a warning to the other bears, not even removing their skins.

He was a fair sized bull, six feet two inches in a straight line along the vertebrae, and stood exactly three feet at the shoulders.

It was six o'clock when we again made a start.

We paddled steadily, stopping only once for tea, and at six o'clock that evening were back at the little fishing hamlet of Malina Place.

He strongly advised my leaving my present camp and coming to the country which he had just left, having got six excellent heads.

Up to five years, the age of a sheep can always be determined by the incisor teeth; a yearling has but two permanent incisors, a two-year-old four, a three-year-old six, and a four-year-old or over eight teeth, or a full set.

My success with the white sheep had come only with the hardest kind of work, but I now had five really fine headswhich I later increased to six, my limit.

What still remains unexplained is the native one-sided method of paddling; that is to say, in a two-hatch baidarka, both natives make six or seven short strokes on one side together, and then change to the other side.

They are much larger than a land otter, a good skin measuring six feet in length and three feet in width when split and stretched.

The men placed themselves on some high limbs, where they could watch, and I stood in deep grass, some six or eight feet from a well-traveled path used by the bear in fishing the stream.

A small bunch of six were observed for a considerable time feeding.

Six times six several brigantines he boarded, And in the greedy waves flung wounded Turks; And three times thrice the winged galley's banks (Wherein the Soldan's son was admiral)

As was her custom, between six and seven, before the busy hours of the evening, she had her dinner fetched to a table near by.

In event of his death being established or of failure to find him within six months, the Princess Sofia is to enter without more delay or formality into possession of her mother's estate.

The six who had anticipated Thirteen at this bizarre rendezvous hailed him as a familiar, according to their several idiosyncrasies, brusquely, indifferently, or with some semblance of cordiality.

"It was sent at six o'clock.

" In confounded silence the six resumed their seats, while the seventhwho had not movedlighted a cigarette, inhaled deeply, and through a veil of smoke continued to regard Number One with insolent eyes.

Then overhead the lamp burned bright again, discovering six frightened men upon their feet and one who, still seated, did not stir, and never would again.

Men lived blindly and did blind things, like this "justice" which the six riders were bringing on an innocent man.

" Larsen kicked open the door and at the same moment drew his six-shooter.

Do we say   sics   or  six