Thesaurus / dozen
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A dozen or more fell into the boat, and were eagerly seized and killed by the famishing crew.
THE VOYAGE OF THE "STEADFAST"W.H.G. KINGSTON
In not over a dozen of these calls did any of the cases demand immediate attention from a medical standpoint.
THE EUGENIC MARRIAGE, VOL. 3 (OF 4)W. GRANT HAGUE
A request for whiskey addressed to a car containing a dozen men accustomed to wrest metals from the earth was not in vain.
THE PENALTYGOUVERNEUR MORRIS
Half a dozen times he rushed hither and yon, but at all times he felt the spring of the splendid toy in my hand.
MR. DIDE, HIS VACATION IN COLORADOLEWIS B. FRANCE
Before supper she found, by half a dozen telephone calls, that Fern had fled to the Minniemashie House.
MAIN STREETSINCLAIR LEWIS
The next place, a village of perhaps twenty or thirty houses and half a dozen stores, was soon reached.
YOUNG AUCTIONEERSEDWARD STRATEMEYER
They had not gone more than a dozen yards when a shot rang out from behind a tree, and a bullet whizzed past over their heads.
LINDA CARLTON'S ISLAND ADVENTUREEDITH LAVELL
The man on the grab replied that she lay outside, a dozen boat lengths.
IN CLIVE'S COMMANDHERBERT STRANG
Call a dozen coroners, by all means, and be the laughing-stock of the town.
CUPID'S MIDDLEMANEDWARD B. LENT
Half a dozen puffs of smoke spurted out of the cover, and as many bullets came singing overhead.
FOR FORTUNE AND GLORYLEWIS HOUGH