twelve

Phileas Fogg counted on gaining twelve hours in the same way.

Or if there be a man whose propensity to condemn is susceptible of no control, let me then ask what sentence he has in reserve for the twelve States who USURPED THE POWER of sending deputies to the convention, a body utterly unknown to their constitutions; for Congress, who recommended the appointment of this body, equally unknown to the Confederation; and for the State of New York, in particular, which first urged and then complied with this unauthorized interposition?

There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters.

The casting was to take place at twelve o'clock precisely.

Every year you must bring me from among your people twelve youths and twelve maidens, that I may devour them.

"Well they may," said one of the rowers, "they are twelve, and we but eight."

THE people of Madagonia had an antipathy to the people of Novakatka and set upon some sailors of a Novakatkan vessel, killing two and wounding twelve. The King of Madagonia having refused either to apologise or pay, the King of Novakatka made war upon him, saying that it was necessary to show that Novakatkans must not be slaughtered.

While he was hunting in the jungle for his breakfast he came suddenly upon Number Three and Number Twelve similarly employed.

If you meet a member of that select club, "The Twelve True Fishermen," entering the Vernon Hotel for the annual club dinner, you will observe, as he takes off his overcoat, that his evening coat is green and not black.

He meant to write a poem in twelve books, each book containing the adventures of a knight who was to show forth one virtue.

To each of the twelve lashings clung a brawny warrior with drawn short-sword.

And forge me first, twelve rods for its shank; then wind, and twist, and hammer these twelve together like the yarns and strands of a tow-line.