Which preposition to use with dozens
The misty appearance had gone, and, now, I saw that it was crowded with dozens of bestial faces.
They have a keen scent for impressionable women, of whom a fellow of that sort has always half-a-dozen in tow.
" "I've half a dozen at your service.
I like a bit of exercise, and just for the gamble, I'll give you sixty cents a dozen for the lot, and keep all I can get over that.
For every pamphlet, paper, or article sent to me by English, French, Russian, and Italian organisations I get several dozen from German organisations.
So they panicked ingloriously, and sought spies everywhere, and hanged inoffensive natives by the dozen to the mango trees.
Publishers issue volumes by the dozen with such titles as "The Children's Reading" and "A Guide to Good Reading" and "Golden Books for Children."
He scribbles dozens like that.
I came back and took another pocket load and left about eight or nine dozen on the top of my clothes.
He did not say that he had already been in touch with the Scotland Yard officer at Devonport, and had arranged that a dozen out of his precious twenty-four counter-spies should be put among the chosen hundred and twenty.
But the Manatis usually only come in at night, to put their heads out of water and browse on the lowest mangrove leaves; and the Boas hide themselves so cunningly, either altogether under water, or with only the head above, that we might have passed half a dozen without seeing them.
This gentleman managed to eat thirty-two dozen within an hour, and would doubtless have got through more, but the person who opened them is described as not being very skilful.
" Dozens of similar instances might be cited, but for the sake of impartiality it is preferable to allow a German to generalize: "The rage of the populace has found vent not only against foreigners, but also against good German patriots, indeed even against German officers.
Iron pipes a foot in diameter ran by the dozens through the open spaces.
"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.
" As Captain Spinnet ceased speaking, the pirate luffed under the fisherman's lee-quarter, and, in a moment more, the latter's deck was graced with the presence of a dozen as savage-looking mortals as eyes ever rested upon.
Cut off all the lower leaves, leaving half a dozen near the top untouched.
"You can pick up a dozen along this side of the stream.
Reputations are mysterious things and not so easily forced, and even if it were possible for a section of the Press to limelight a dozen or so figures up to the legislature, they would still have, I think, to be interesting, sympathetic and individualised figures; and at the end they would be only half a dozen among four hundred men of a repute more naturally achieved.
Out of the whole lot there wasn't more than a dozen amongst them that were weally pwesentable.
I gave out about six dozen daily; earning, like the rest, fifty cents a day: unless I chose to do the stamping and pressing at night, and to embroider a dozen during the day; in which case, I earned a dollar.
Perhaps it will be enoughwho knows?" "There'll be half a dozen after you before you get through the gate," said Mr. Aiken dubiously.
Up jump half-a-dozen off the logs and baulkings, where they have been squatting, doubled up knee to nose, after the fashion of their class, and a volley of execrations, like a storm of grape, almost blows the two offenders off the wall.
He had more fear of one man of six two than a dozen under five ten.