From its appearance it might have been built a century ago; decay and rottenness were apparent from roof to base: but in reality it was barely a dozen years old.
All those things were over a dozen years ago, and he is married again, to a spare, unattractive woman, who looks after his food and clothes, and makes him in her way a very excellent wife.
Just at first the United Irish Society had been quite the fashion, and held no more rebellious than the great volunteer movement of a dozen years earlier.
Long ago in comparative youth she had disappeared for a half-dozen years.
If I do anything at all, though I may do it but once in a dozen years, I like to do it well, Dr.
Possibly the Elterwater Terrier is no longer to be found, but some few of them still existed a dozen years or so ago in the Lake District, where they were used in conjunction with the West Cumberland Otterhounds.
It has taken at least ten or a dozen years to eradicate the mischief, and even yet the cure is not complete.
A generous expenditure may be incurred once even by poor people, but cannot possibly be maintained over a dozen years.
Then Mary Masters, who had lived for more than a dozen years at Bragton, went back to her father's house in Dillsborough.
Having listened to you on these subjects for a dozen years at least I ought to have got rid of all that.
The allusion to his half-brother, dead nearly a dozen years, seemed to carry him back into a past so remote that he could hardly remember it.
A dozen years ago he was one of the most promising men about.
Frank Bliss came over from Hartford, and Clemens arranged with him for the publication of 'Pudd'nhead Wilson', thereby renewing the old relationship with the American Publishing Company after a break of a dozen years.
Goodman, like MacFarlane in Cincinnati, half a dozen years before, though by a different method, discovered and developed the deeper vein.
It was also undoubtedly true, although Helen had not herself reflected upon this phase of the matter, that her half a dozen years' residence in Europe had softened and broadened her views.
Half a dozen years before, when Fenton had proposed Peter Calvin for membership, even the social influence of the candidate did not save him from a rejection so marked that Arthur had threatened to resign his own membership.
For more than a dozen yearspast he has foreseen the present crisis.
The problem of that Eastern road of a dozen years ago is to-day that of virtually every trunk-line of the Northeast.
Yet it was ten or a dozen years before it penetrated to this side of the Atlantic--to be exact, it was just twenty years ago.
Lagrange in the principal rôle, but the score was already a dozen years old, and it is not likely that the composer's state of health would have permitted him to undertake the writing of a new opera even if he had been so disposed.
It was evident that the animal had gone into the shoal water at exceptionally high tide and had stranded during the ebb; while the condition of the bones suggested an exposure to the weather of perhaps half a dozen years.
Now, I had been on nodding terms with Dainton a dozen years in and out of the House, but we had never attained greater intimacy, as I am temperamentally unable to suffer bores gladly.
This--this is the very thing that my uncle Bertrand and I spent half-a-dozen years trying to avert!
I shook hands with Maitland and was trying to see whom else I knew, when she returned and remorselessly introduced me to Vincent Grayle, with whom I have sat in the House for a dozen years.
It was more than a dozen years ago, when Twombley-Crane was still actively interested in the railroad game.
Of this he gave brilliant proof a dozen years afterwards in the unrivalled ballet music of "Guillaume Tell.
When Weber was passing through Paris, in 1826, on his way to London, he called on Rossini, but hesitated before doing so on the ground that a dozen years before he had published a hostile criticism on "Tancredi.
One or two Westminster reviewers, and two or three Manchester manufacturers, reversed the commercial policy of England in less than a dozen years.
I prefer to say that if there were not one man of genius left of the Irish race, there are already materials sufficient to furnish useful and delightful books for half-a-dozen years.
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