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Sentences ending with dozen

For every happiness turned out in the one department the other stands ready to modify it with a sorrow or a pain--maybe a dozen. [5]
I have not told how many cups are commonly on the board, but by using the plural I have implied that there is at least one other talker or listener beside myself, and for all that appears there may be a dozen. [6]
At any rate, there was an early breakfast, luncheon was put up, and by half-past seven we were riding up the Caney,--a half-cloudy day,--Big Tom swinging along on foot ahead, talking nineteen to the dozen. [4]
Princess Mary will take her there and show her over, and they'll talk nineteen to the dozen. [2]
The relics of St. Anne, up in Canada, have now, after nineteen hundred years, gone to curing the sick by the dozen. [5]
First and last she had as many as half a dozen. [5]
In Paris you pay twelve dollars a dozen for Jouvin's best kid gloves; gloves of about as good quality sell here at three or four dollars a dozen. [5]
Where I give one unfortunate a little private lift, you do the same for a dozen. [5]
I have heard it said that some of our fellow-citizens have two distinct families, but you speak as if you had a dozen. [6]
It is the equivalent of the thirteenth roll in a 'baker's dozen. [5]

Short sentences using dozen

Were there a dozen claimants? [5]
A dozen others came on. [11]

Sentences containing dozen two or more times

Suppose one of your journeymen goes out and buys the following articles: "1 pound of salt; 1 dozen eggs; 1 dozen pints of beer; 1 bushel of wheat; 1 tow-linen suit; 5 pounds of beef; 5 pounds of mutton. [5]
It will arraign two or three dozen of its members, or maybe four or five dozen, for taking bribes to vote for this and that and the other bill last winter. [5]
They began about May or April or March 1886--along there somewhere, and have always kept from a dozen to two dozen master-hands on the machine. [5]
I haven't examined half a dozen hands in the last half dozen years; you see, the people got to joking about it, and I stopped to let the talk die down. [5]
Here, too, side by side in the same great camp, are half a dozen chaplains, representing half a dozen modes of religious belief. [6]
There ought to be six dozen orange-skins round on the plates, and there a'n't one dozen. [6]

More example sentences with the word dozen in them

I shall need your assent and the assent of about a dozen other authors. [5]
A Numidian, the youngest of the legion, a beardless youth, had pinned the terrible conqueror of lions and men to the bed with his spear, and then, with the same weapon, had released at least a dozen of his fellow-sufferers from their pain. [10]
In the cities you will see a dozen civilians for every soldier, and as many for every priest or preacher. [5]
Among the sediment you will find half a dozen yellow particles no larger than pin-heads. [5]
I have heard you say so a dozen times. [9]
For a dozen years, by operations, various, secret, untiring, he had been laying the foundations for his success, and in the maturing of his schemes it became apparent how vast his transactions had been. [4]
Not a dozen yards from where we camped was a rose-tree-think of it, Belgard, a rose-tree on a rag-tag island of Lake Superior! [11]
Stand where you would, or change your position as often as you pleased, you were always a centre from which radiated a dozen long archways and colonnades that lost themselves in distance and the sombre twilight of the place. [5]
But the captain would have none of the precautions he urged; declared he would walk the deck as usual, and vowed he could cope single-handed with a dozen cowards like Maxwell. [9]
It was tedious work struggling up to a position of influence with bloodless hands; but when a man came with the blood of half a dozen men on his soul, his worth was recognized at once and his acquaintance sought. [5]
It was a wonder that the horses' legs were not broken a dozen times. [4]
A name credited with a dozen murders, a hundred forays, and a thousand stealings of cattle. [13]
I used to wish sometimes that I could turn fast enough to make the stone fly into a dozen pieces. [4]
According to Houzeau, who paid particular attention to the subject, the domestic fowl utters at least a dozen significant sounds. [1]
A dozen persons who had business with Pierre were awaiting him in the drawing room. [2]
There were people who had accepted her invitations, to whose houses she had been, who had a dozen ways of making her feel that she was not of them. [4]
In a letter which Mark Twain wrote to his brother Orion at this period we get the first hint of a venture which was to play an increasingly important part in the Hartford home and fortunes during the next ten or a dozen years. [5]
A dozen schemes which he had in hand, any one of which might turn up a fortune, all languished, and each needed just a little more, money to save that which had been invested. [5]
To Mr. Brinsmade's, when the day's duty was done, the young Union officers used to ride, and often there would be half a dozen of them to tea. [9]
And yet there were some reviews of a different sort, half a dozen in all, and half of them from Western journals, which took the book seriously, saw its pathos, its artistic merit, its failure of construction through inexperience. [4]
All the flags were sent aloft except half a dozen that were needed to decorate portions of the ship below, and in a short time the vessel assumed a holiday appearance. [5]
The facts reported were scrutinized, the standing of the parties was discussed, the dozen different theories of the motive, broached in the newspapers, were disputed over. [5]
The cattlemen's stations were scattered over that profound wilderness miles and miles apart--at each station half a dozen persons. [5]
A dozen members were on their feet shouting to the chair. [9]
At the Swannanoa were half a dozen bridal couples, readily recognizable by the perfect air they had of having been married a long time. [4]
The Colonel's headquarters were dark, but in the kitchen a dozen tall men were waiting. [9]
If my plan were carried out, and another series of a dozen English trees photographed on the same scale the comparison would be charming. [6]
Before twenty-four hours went round, a dozen people knew it. [11]
For a whole week after her instalment Honora was in a continual state of excitement and anticipation, and the sound of wheels and voices on the highroad beyond the hedge sent her peeping to her curtains a dozen times a day. [9]
I said likely we wouldn't, because I had heard say there warn't but about a dozen houses there, and if they didn't happen to have them lit up, how was we going to know we was passing a town? [5]
This huge document was carried to the castle the next day, March 27th; and there, before a dozen carefully selected judges, the new trial was begun. [5]
Around the court-house was a familiar, buzzing scene,--the backwoodsmen, lounging against the wall or brawling over their claims, the sleek agents and attorneys, and half a dozen of a newer type. [9]
I have long wanted a good chance for getting acquainted with the social sphere several grades below that to which I am accustomed, and I have no doubt that I shall find matter for half a dozen new stories among those connections of mine. [6]
If I wrote verses I would try to bring it in, and I suppose people would start up in a dozen places, and say, "Oh, that bee-hive simile is mine,--and besides, did not Mr. Bayard Taylor call the snowflakes 'white bees'? [6]
So in one vast space--say a third of a mile wide and two miles long--were collected two thousand gondolas, and every one of them had from two to ten, twenty and even thirty colored lanterns suspended about it, and from four to a dozen occupants. [5]
He said he usually kept a dozen or two on hand, but he only had three now. [5]
I felt how useless it would be to try the straightening of matters there, though had we two been alone a dozen words would have been enough. [11]
A sudden call upon Mr. Bolton for a large sum of money, which must be forthcoming at once, had found him in the midst of a dozen ventures, from no one of which a dollar could be realized. [5]
So we took up the anchor and moved outside, to lie a dozen hours or so, taking in supplies, and then sail for Constantinople. [5]
Ordinarily when an unsigned poem sweeps across the continent like a tidal wave whose roar and boom and thunder are made up of admiration, delight, and applause, a dozen obscure people rise up and claim the authorship. [5]
A dozen held tremblingly to the pirogue's gunwale, lest they fall and drown. [9]
In 1620 it took a new start and grew fast until 1714 then for the most part slowly until 1786, when it started again and grew pretty well and uniformly until within the last dozen years, when it seems to have got on sluggishly. [6]
I am curious to see what sort of a sugarplum face, turned out by the dozen, he will stick on my torso--which will please me, at any rate, for a couple of days. [10]
Philip Sterling used to say that if he should seriously set himself for ten years to any one of the dozen projects that were in his brain, he felt that he could be a rich man. [5]
One may have to read it a dozen times before the whole magnitude of it rises before the mind. [5]
It was six to one and half a dozen to the other--both no good at all. [11]
He went up to Mrs. Horn for a moment's hail and farewell, and felt himself subtly detained by her through fugitive passages of conversation with half a dozen other people. [8]
McChesney has spoken to me about this wild notion of yours of going to Vincennes, and Cowan and McCann and Ray and a dozen others have dogged my footsteps. [9]
I had hoped to hunt up and talk with a hundred steamboatmen, but got so pleasantly involved in the social life of the town that I got nothing more than mere five-minute talks with a couple of dozen of the craft. [5]
It adds nothing to human knowledge, it solves none of the problems of life, it touches none of the questions of social science, it is not a philosophical treatise, and it is not a dozen things that it might have been. [4]
I was resolved to have you though I am forced to take a dozen watchet-blue mountebanks in the bargain. [9]
He should like to have a scamper of half a dozen miles with her some fine morning. [6]
I was glad to get away, and glad when we had walked through the grottoes where Eusebius wrote, and Jerome fasted, and Joseph prepared for the flight into Egypt, and the dozen other distinguished grottoes, and knew we were done. [5]
If she'd talked to a dozen syndicalist leaders, she couldn't have had it put more clearly. [9]
I can point to a dozen in my short life, every one as remarkable, if not as startling, as this. [11]
Half a dozen times I have wished I had sailed long ago in some ship that wasn't going to keep me chained here to chafe for lagging ages while she got ready to go. [5]
I stood some time by a group of a dozen seated in a corner of the church. [4]
He helped her thus in a dozen unobtrusive ways, never once recognizing her ignorance; but he made her feel the more that that ignorance was a shameful thing not to be spoken of. [9]
Thence we passed through an antechamber into a long, high, brilliantly lighted, saffron-papered room, in which a dozen card-tables were arranged, and thence into the receiving room. [6]
Out of the three hundred there are not half a dozen well-conditioned, filled out physically in comfortable proportions. [4]
John likes it, though; it soothes him, he takes about two dozen whiffs, and then rolls over to dream, Heaven only knows what, for we could not imagine by looking at the soggy creature. [5]
A triumph like this, over half a dozen antagonists was sufficient for one day; from that time forward he would patrol the decks beaming blandly upon all comers, and so tranquilly, blissfully happy! [5]
How sweet to think of him as he will be to us after we have outlived him ten or a dozen years! [6]
And he would think it was a great one, too, and he would say, "With three thousand I whipped sixty thousand and founded the Empire--and there is no monument; this other soldier must have whipped a billion with a dozen and saved the world. [5]
Lay out aloft, there, half a dozen of ye --foretopmaststuns'l! [5]
A figure appeared there whose aspect was familiar to hardly a dozen persons present. [5]
The world knows there was but one man on the planet at the time who was competent--not a dozen, and not two. [5]
Some years ago there was a famous belle here who had the Springs at her feet, and half a dozen determined suitors. [4]
I am sorry there is not room to put in a few dozen instances of the delicate art of the forest, as practised by Natty Bumppo and some of the other Cooperian experts. [5]
I've no doubt there are half a dozen things there that will do. [8]
A dozen of them are investments of English capital; and the companies that own them are at work now, trying to settle up and get out with a saving of half the money they put in. [5]
Other information, however, the young man has not; and when this is exhausted, he becomes sleepy again, and tries a dozen ways to twist himself into a posture in which sleep will be possible. [4]
There were at the utmost, I think, not more than half a dozen with whom I was on terms of intimacy. [10]
The storm barricaded the track with a dozen drifts while we dug one away. [5]
Nicholas, who, as the roads were in splendid condition, wanted to take them all for a drive in his troyka, proposed to take with them about a dozen of the serf mummers and drive to "Uncle's. [2]
A dozen of the rascal's servants sprang forward, and in a moment we were helpless, with our hands bound behind us. [5]
As he entered the place he was suddenly brought to a standstill, for not two dozen yards away at a counter was Jasmine Byng. [11]
In a turn the passage narrowed to scarce a dozen feet, and here was darkness of night. [13]
A Club is the next best thing to this, strung like a harp, with about a dozen ringing intelligences, each answering to some chord of the macrocosm. [6]
As to corn, the necessities of the case and pay being dwelt on, perhaps he could find a dozen ears. [4]
Tied up to the Manitou shore were a half- dozen cribs or rafts of timber which should be floating eastward down the Sagalac. [11]
Before I gained the Life Guard's House I met a dozen horsemen, amongst them Banks on a mount of Mr. Fox's. [9]
I tell you the honest truth when I say I could squander away as many as a dozen feasts like this and never care _that_ for the expense! [5]
I distinctly remember the first half- dozen puffs of that cigarette, the first taste of kava it had the flavour of soft soap and Dover's powder. [11]
When we borrowed the feeing fashion from Europe a dozen years ago, the salary system ought to have been discontinued, of course. [5]
I don't mind the exclamation of any old stager who drinks Madeira worth from two to six Bibles a bottle, and burns, according to his own premises, a dozen souls a year in the cigars with which he muddles his brains. [6]
The dwellings of the English residents are spacious and comfortable and commodiously furnished, and surely it must be an odd sight to see half a dozen guests come filing into such a place and dumping blankets and pillows here and there and everywhere. [5]
In answer to the dozen questions I showered upon her, she replied that Dorothy's malady was in no wise dangerous, so Dr. James had said, and undoubtedly arose out of the excitement of a London season. [9]
I had known the Captain in Louisville, for he had been stationed at Fort Finney, the army post across the Ohio from that town, and he had come to Pittsburg with a sergeant to fetch down the river some dozen recruits. [9]
They rode through the camp a dozen times a day, visiting every corner of it, observing, inspecting, perfecting; and wherever they appeared the enthusiasm broke forth. [5]
Don't you know that you could go out and gather together a thousand clerks and mechanics and put them on that deck and ask them to die for duty's sake, and not two dozen of them would stay in the ranks to the end? [5]
The only manuscript that we ever held of his, longer than to correct it, was one of perhaps a dozen pages, most of which we had composed. [5]
It was well that there were no tithing-men about on that next day, Sunday; for it shone no Sabbath day for the young men within half a dozen miles of the village. [6]
The Report shows that the travelers moved in exceedingly small groups --twos, threes, fours, as a rule; a party with a dozen in it was rare. [5]
It is true that I had said I might stop at any moment, but after one or two numbers it seemed as if there were an informal pledge to carry the series on, as in former cases, until I had completed my dozen instalments. [6]
I don't know that I can write a play that will play: but no matter, I'll write half a dozen that won't, anyway. [5]
If the labor that has been expended here, only to erect platforms for the soil to rest on, had been given to our country, it would have built half a dozen Pacific railways, and cut a canal through the Isthmus. [4]
Below him was that crowd of two dozen Socialists glaring up at him, shaking their fists at him, roaring imprecations and insulting epithets at him. [5]
She's more protection than a dozen men. [12]
A half dozen tents were pitched under the trees, horses and oxen were corraled at a little distance, and a group of men sat on camp stools or lay on blankets about a bright fire. [5]

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