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Sentences starting with twelve

Twelve years before, while still sharing the tent of the Walloon captain Grandgagnage, it had been given her, she could not say how or by whom. [10]
Twelve hundred men were landed at Beauport, in the mud and low water, under one Major Walley. [11]
Twelve barrels of water? [5]
Twelve of the twenty men were rescued. [11]
Twelve at noon; twelve at night; the light and the dark--which will it be for us, Ian? [11]
Twelve youths bore the framework, covered with a richly embroidered blue cloth, on which the coffin rested. [10]
Twelve days hence she will die; her mother would save her life if she could. [5]
Twelve or fifteen people constituted the audience. [5]
Twelve hundred francs' pension for life. [2]
Twelve sharpshooters with muskets stepped out of the ranks with a firm regular tread and halted eight paces from the post. [2]

Sentences ending with twelve

It is in these last chapters that you struck twelve. [5]
As I "raised the hill" overlooking the town, it lacked fifteen minutes of twelve. [5]
Presently a clock struck twelve. [9]
We laid in some provisions for the trip, engaged carriages to take us to Annunciation, and then moved about the city, to keep awake, till twelve. [5]
She did it so deftly that she and Ian and Adrian Fellowes were the only ones left behind out of a party of twelve. [11]
But the night remained clear, and Huck closed his watch and retired to bed in an empty sugar hogshead about twelve. [5]
There'll be h---to pay before half past twelve. [4]
Here is his pantograph at the age of twelve. [5]
After an age of this, another sound--far off, and coming smothered and faint through the riot of the tempest--a bell tolling twelve! [5]
You watch for noon, all of you, and we'll stand up, and when we can't cast a shadow we'll find that this Grinnage clock is coming mighty close to marking twelve. [5]

Short sentences using twelve

Ten or twelve thousand crowns. [5]
Twelve days--only twelve days. [5]
And twelve hours! [9]
Twelve or fifteen. [5]
It's twelve miles. [11]

Sentences containing twelve two or more times

It was ordered that a warm dinner should cost twelve shillings, a cold dinner nine shillings, and a good breakfast twelve shillings. [4]
Blood of my soul, I have waited twelve years-- twelve years. [11]
But when the old clock on the stable was striking twelve, he opened his eyes wide, and when it had stopped, he said: 'It is always twelve by the clock that stops at noon. [11]
At the end of ten seconds each man had struck twelve or fifteen blows, and warded off twelve or fifteen, and no harm done; then a sword became disabled, and a short rest followed whilst a new one was brought. [5]
Then we have Muscatine, ten thousand; Winona, ten thousand; Moline, ten thousand; Rock Island, twelve thousand; La Crosse, twelve thousand; Burlington, twenty-five thousand; Dubuque, twenty-five thousand; Davenport, thirty thousand; St. Paul, fifty-eight thousand, Minneapolis, sixty thousand and upward. [5]
The amount of hard swearing which twelve packages of religious literature will command when impartially divided up among twelve raftsmen's crews, who have pulled a heavy skiff two miles on a hot day to get them, is simply incredible. [5]
I turned the hands around twelve hours, according to instructions, and this took off the alarm; but there was another hitch at night, and I had to set her ahead twelve hours once more to get her to put the alarm on again. [5]
If at the end of the twelve hours any still seems to be difficult, give him another twelve. [11]
The shop always closed from twelve till half-past twelve. [11]

More example sentences with the word twelve in them

Tomorrow morning early you shall receive twelve Attic talents in gold, and, with the help of my son, later in the day I will take up the picture, pack it, and when it grows dark, carry it away. [10]
By the figures you send, which I presume are correct, the twelve districts represented fall into two classes of eight and four respectively. [7]
Judge Tileston died, you remember, within a month after he had his great ball, twelve year ago, and some thought it was in the natur' of a judgment. [6]
Now, no doubt you know the names of all the twelve disciples. [5]
What is it you have to do before twelve o'clock to-night? [11]
Bless me, if you had gone along there some such nights after twelve you might have seen as many as fifteen of us roosting on one limb, with our joints rattling drearily and the wind wheezing through our ribs! [5]
She came there yesterday evening at eight o'clock and remained with my wife and myself until twelve o'clock. [11]
From the Twelve Years' Truce to the Peace of Westphalia. [6]
It was twelve years since, during the plague. [10]
I thought I would have twelve dollars to, begin life with in America, but the American Consul took two of them for making a certificate that I was shipped on the steamer. [5]
Them di'monds is worth twelve thousand dollars. [5]
They're willing to work twelve hours on end, for the war, they say, but they'd want to be consulted. [9]
To write the word "thru," then pen has to make twelve strokes--a good saving. [5]
There was no wife in the general's house, as he was a widower; and his daughters, of twelve and fourteen, under a faithful old housekeeper, had no knowledge of the woman's life. [11]
But twelve bitter white men looked down upon this scene from the scrub and rocks above, and their teeth were set. [11]
When these twelve white jurymen rode away from the ravine there was not one but believed that justice had been done by the High Court of Budgery- Gar. [11]
They would cross where the twelve stones were placed in memory of that great event. [5]
And what wonder, when there are twelve hundred pictures by Palma the Younger in Venice and fifteen hundred by Tintoretto? [5]
That is exactly what I wanted--precisely what I wanted--when I was describing to myself Joan of Arc, after studying her history and her character for twelve years diligently. [5]
Ulrich now knew what death the doctor had met, and that his father had gone to Antwerp and lived there as an armorer for twelve years. [10]
You might as well tell me that if one horse weighs more than another horse he is worth more,--a cart-horse that weighs twelve or fourteen hundred pounds better than Eclipse, that may have weighed a thousand. [6]
I served two weeks in the beginning of our Civil War, and during all that tune commanded a battery of infantry composed of twelve men. [5]
The twelve long weeks dragged slowly by, and the day of deliverance came at last. [5]
For one thing, weather permitting, they would all breakfast at twelve on the yacht, and then sail about the harbor, and come home in the sunset. [4]
About twelve o'clock we turned out and went along up the bank. [5]
Before twelve o'clock we had found a good position for the tent, at a height of eleven thousand feet. [5]
From the cistern we descended twelve steps into a large roughly-shaped grotto, carved wholly out of the living rock. [5]
When they camped, we camped right over them, ten or twelve hundred feet up in the air. [5]
It was my watch below till twelve, but I wouldn't a turned in anyway if I'd had a bed, because a body don't see such a storm as that every day in the week, not by a long sight. [5]
This faithful man was so ill and weak that it was thought he could not recover, yet notwithstanding the stormy weather, the factions on board, and although his home was almost in sight, only twelve miles across the Downs, he refused to quit the ship. [4]
Henceforth the spot was sacred, and I am sure it stands there as when last I saw it twelve years ago, but worn away by rains and winds. [11]
One of them was put in the dungeon and the other sent to recover the pistol within twelve hours, in default of which his brother would be hanged. [4]
The utmost caution was enforced, and although, as I have already remarked, we handled our own guns when we were only lads of twelve years old, I can not recall a single accident which occurred. [10]
About twelve he was carried once more to the house for eating, into which his head entered, while his body was in the dwelling house immediately adjoining. [5]
Suddenly, as Oshondonto was about to speak, Silver Tassel sprang to his feet, seized in his arms a lad of twelve who was standing near, and running to the bank, dropped him into the swift current. [11]
They surmount a wall about ten or twelve feet high. [5]
A twelve months' voyage at sea would make of an ordinary man a very miracle of meanness. [5]
These are the voices which struck the key-note of my conceptions as to what the sounds we are to hear in heaven will be, if we shall enter through one of the twelve gates of pearl. [6]
If you move up the valley of the Shenandoah, not more than twelve or fifteen thousand can be sent you. [7]
Not always and unvaryingly, but about one hundred and forty-three months out of twelve years, perhaps. [5]
The cart stood untended in the street; and selecting a large orange, which would measure twelve inches in circumference, I turned to look for the owner. [4]
Between twelve and two o'clock, as the day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the clavichord. [2]
For twelve years two novels a year regularly: that makes twenty-four. [6]
It wanted but two minutes to twelve when Hume came from his house, dressed also in the white blanket costume, and followed by his dog, Bouche. [11]
The clock struck twelve, the nurse told me, as he drew his last breath, and then, without any known cause, stopped, with both hands upon the hour. [6]
When she was twelve, she said something to a cardinal for which her mother made her keep her room a whole day. [9]
A quarter to twelve, and they had run their canoe into the bank beyond which were the smokestacks and chimneys of the mine. [11]
The watch struck twelve, and stopped its silvery chiming. [11]
He's only about twelve years older than my son, but, like my son, there's no holding him, there's no control of him that's any good. [11]
She is nearly twelve years of age, and is sufficiently well grown for her years. [4]
He was then twelve years and a half old, but might easily have been taken for fourteen. [10]
In all those twelve weeks of that most trying of all sessions he had not once gone into the street, and he had been less than ever common in the eyes of men. [9]
If Laura at twelve was beginning to be a beauty, the thought of it had never entered her head. [5]
Another of the Twelve says she claims that she has never committed any sin. [5]
Get there by twelve o'clock, and warn them. [11]
No sleep since twelve o'clock last night, you say? [6]
Distance, by guide-book, twelve miles; by pedometer seventy-two. [5]
It was called twelve miles, straight out to the islands--a long pull and a warm one--but the morning was so quiet and sunny, and the lake so smooth and glassy and dead, that we could not resist the temptation. [5]
It is called twelve miles from Roan Station to Roan Summit. [4]
She is about twelve miles away, and so we cannot see her hull, but the sailors think it is the Comet because of some peculiarity about her fore-top-gallant sails. [5]
Two hundred and twelve marks the boiling point. [6]
The sentence of twelve lines, commencing at the top of page 252, I could wish to be not exactly what it is. [7]
Throughout the long twelve hundred miles there was never a page that was void of interest, never one that you could leave unread without loss, never one that you would want to skip, thinking you could find higher enjoyment in some other thing. [5]
During the next twelve hours we had the general appearance, somehow, of being at a funeral, where every body was sorry the death had occurred, but glad it was over--where every body was smiling, and yet broken-hearted. [5]
He chose the twelve disciples, and sent them abroad to preach the new gospel. [5]
And when the twelve damsels saw Sir Marhaus they fled into the turret as they were wild, so that some of them fell by the way. [5]
A man grows twelve and a woman thirty-six months older every year. [10]
When I was twelve and a half years old, my father died. [5]
Venters noted that Tull and the line of horsemen, perhaps ten or twelve in number, stopped several times and evidently looked hard down the slope. [13]
I have been trying for the last ten or twelve days to get a pair of drawers dry enough to put on, and to-day at last succeeded. [5]
As the silent troops reached the neighborhood of Allertssohn's house, the clock in the church-steeple slowly struck twelve, and directly after the alarm-bell began to sound from the tower of Pancratius. [10]
Here is a town of twelve or thirteen thousand population, with electric lighted streets, and with blocks of buildings which are stately enough, and also architecturally fine enough, to command respect in any city. [5]
The day he took his degree he had to be dragged from a huge grandfather's chair, and forced along in his ragged gown--"ten holes and twelve tatters"--to the function in the convocation hall. [11]
One would have to travel far before he would find another town of twelve thousand inhabitants that could represent itself so respectably, in the matter of clothes, on a freight-pier, without premeditation or effort. [5]
From the peak to the Widow Patten's, where we proposed to pass the night, is twelve miles, a distance we rode or scrambled down, every step of the road bad, in five and a half hours. [4]
In his letter to Queen Anne, written in 1616, he speaks of her as aged twelve or thirteen at the time of his captivity, several months before this visit to the fort. [4]
He went directly to Nuremberg, which the old man praised as the high-school of the smith's art, and there remained twelve years. [10]
We are expecting to move to Florence ten or twelve days hence, but if this hot weather continues we shall wait for cooler. [5]
He went on to his platform at eight in the morning, and left it at twelve at night, sixteen hours of continuous labor every day in the week. [4]
It's twelve miles to Beauharnais," he replied. [11]
The Twelve were to be submitted first to the learned doctors of theology of the University of Paris for approval. [5]
I was pained to be informed this morning by the Provost-Marshal-General that New Jersey is now behind twelve thousand, irrespective of the draft. [7]
The sum amounted to a little over twelve thousand dollars. [5]
I maintain the title by the annual payment of twelve pound sterling for a certificate. [12]
Well, about this time he was found in the river drownded, about twelve mile above town, so people said. [5]
The money they thus earned served to help maintain the poorer scholars, and to be sure, my brother was ready to forego his share; nay, and a great part of his own pocket-money went to those twelve, for among them were comrades he truly loved. [10]
We now made three night marches of twelve or thirteen leagues each, riding in peace and undisturbed, being taken for a roving band of Free Companions. [5]
But why didn't those twelve men ask the One Man who knew, and why didn't the One answer? [11]
And then, besides, they save in that other little detail, you know--repudiate their own tickets, and collect a poor little illegitimate extra shilling out of you for that twelve miles, and----" "Well, in any case----" "Wait--there's more. [5]
On that expedition they murdered a fakeer and twelve beggars. [5]
By and by they judged that twelve had come; they marked where the shadow fell, and began to dig. [5]
In this respect they are at the same stage of development as infants, between the ages of ten and twelve months, who understand many words and short sentences, but cannot yet utter a single word. [1]
It had remained there, only twelve feet underground, for a matter of twenty-five hundred years or thereabouts. [5]
So he sits there through those twelve weeks while the session slips by, while his opponents grumble, and while even his supporters, eager for the charge, complain. [9]
The dinner-party, where there are ten or twelve at table, is a favorite chance for this exercise. [4]
But he liked them; liked that mad driving at twelve miles an hour, liked upsetting a driver or running down a pedestrian, and flying at full gallop through the Moscow streets. [2]
Only twelve of them were soldiers, of whom seven have since died. [7]
The eldest among them were not more than twelve or fourteen years old. [5]
They paid in their twelve dollars, and straightway began to draw out twenty-five dollars a month, and calculate their burial bills. [5]
I stepped into the West Ende Halle the other night, having first surrendered twelve kreuzers to the money-changer at the entrance,--double the usual fee, by the way. [4]

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