"Dozen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... abroad, makes no sound, and in Mozambique there are no carriages and no horses. Two bullock-carts, which collect scraps and refuse from the white staring streets, are the only carts in the city, and with the exception of a dozen 'rikshas are the only wheeled ...
— The Congo and Coasts of Africa • Richard Harding Davis
... rings, or encircling bands of black, red and yellow—each band of the two former colors being bordered by yellow; in other words there are as many yellow stripes as there are both black and red together. Stress is laid upon the characteristics just mentioned, for the reason that half a dozen species of harmless serpents that greatly resemble them may, without exception, be differentiated from the true coral-snakes by the fact that there are as many black bands as both red and yellow. Where a snake has been killed, it is of course quite ...
— Health on the Farm - A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene • H. F. Harris
... of the prettiest, modest black women that ever I saw. I paid for a dozen of silver salts L6 14s. 6d. Thence with Sir W. Pen from the office down to Greenwich to see Sir J. Lawson, who is better, but continues ill; his hickupp not being yet gone, could have little discourse with him. So thence home and to supper, a while to the office, my head ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... ropes knotted till my hands and feet swelled, till the cords cut into my flesh. I was abused, my clothing torn till I was half naked. I was whacked and clawed till I was bleeding in a dozen places; I was reviled, jeered at and threatened. Trussed like a fowl to be roasted, I was half hustled half dragged, almost carried, down into the courtyard. From there, after no long wait, I was haled ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White
... taken scarce a dozen steps when I too dropped to the ground and followed them leisurely toward the shore. As I passed the guard-house the thought of all the good blades lying there gave me pause, for if ever men were to have need of swords it was my companions and I on the perilous ...
— The Gods of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
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