23109 examples of sixes in sentences

Now if he wins it, I'll swear he has a Fly indeed'tis impossible without Doublets of sixes Gay, Now Fortune smileand for the future frown.

Sir Cau.Humtwo sixes [Rises and looks dolefully round.

At sixes and sevens.

Man found out long sixes.

Two sixes, boyes!

They told me that we killed a great number of the Spaniards at Moosa, and that they were dying by fives and sixes a day after getting into the town; so miserably were they cut by our broad swords; yet by their great numbers they got the day; but were sadly mauled, otherwise they would have pursued me.

Adv. irregularly &c adj.; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down &c 218.

Among the Marquis of Worcester's celebrated "Century of Inventions," 12mo, 1663, is one "so contrived without suspicion, that playing at Primero at cards, one may, without clogging his memory, keep reckoning of all sixes, sevens, and aces, which he hath discarded."No.

For at the Court all is still at sixes and sevens, none of a very cheerful spirit, but all mighty anxious, save Moll, who throughout has kept a high, bold spirit.

Those four, when they meet and clapper their friendly old tongues, can hardly believe that once upon a time they were all at sixes and sevens,and that Ernest himself was once in that very place a Prisoner of War.

He never came near me, and everything seemed to be at sixes and sevens; people got cross because I mixed up their dances quite unintentionally, and, I don't know why, I did not enjoy myself a bit, in spite of Sir Hugh saying every sort of lovely thing to me.

" "I built the perch first, got it solid, and then I made a temporary walkway out of two by sixes, H shaped.

There he is leaving everything at sixes and sevens, and driving through the streets, and busying himself about those poison politics.'

CHAPTER XIII SIXES AND SEVENS

Every time we have held two pairs he has come in with one pair of sixes or a Winchester and raked the pot.

Nobody knew their calibre; the policemen who watched them could not say; the idlers who gathered about them disputed upon it: they were eighteen pounders; they were twenty-fours; they were thirty-sixes.

The Two Sexes, in Fives or Sixes A Dinner-party Study VII.

The Two Sexes in Fives or Sixes.

She had quarters, having been used once as a privateer, and mounted ten sixes.

The main battery of the ship was composed of guns of that description, while one of the brigs carried eight nines, and the other fourteen sixes.

40.When other parts of speech become nouns, they either want the plural, or form it regularly, like common nouns of the same endings; as, "His affairs went on at sixes and sevens.

Here it is affirmed, that the two sixes added together are twelve."Id.

The establishment was, as it is said, at sixes and sevens.

R100348, 30Sep52, Burges Johnson (A) PORTER, WILLIAM SYDNEY. Sixes and sevens, by O. Henry [pseud.

If chance is spoken of as an ingredient of the universe, absolutists interpret it to mean that double sevens are as likely to be thrown out of a dice box as double sixes are.

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