Abbott's advice to his boys--to "read half a dozen de-vulgarizing books before leaving school.
They circled overhead for about five minutes, dropped a dozen or so bombs, then cleared off hurriedly before our own men had time to get away.
A goat that wanders around the aerodrome risking life a dozen times daily from aeroplanes getting off and landing.
A dozen or so stiff-back wooden chairs, and one solitary easy-chair.
A single typical instance of a prevalent custom or regulation is as significant as a list of a dozen local variations, and far easier to remember.
With the growth of capitalism during the reign of Elizabeth the control exercised by the Leathersellers' Company became almost nominal, some half a dozen wealthy members of the company getting the whole trade into their own hands.
The rate appears to have remained fairly constant, as in 1416 William Randolf made four dozen chargers and eight dozen dishes of silver for King Henry V.
Meanwhile, with the exception of a dozenwho were old adherents of the Ti-ping king, the foreigners were in a great state of ferment, for they fully expected the momentary appearance of executioners to cut off their heads.
Cheering vigorously, or rather yelling, the defenders maintained a well-directed fire for some little time, killing the French Admiral with a ball through his heart, and wounding about a dozen other of the assailants.
The supplies soon proved inadequate to last one half the distance to be traversed; consequently, this retreat proved more terribly destructive to the army than a dozen bad defeats would have been.
Directly the first detachment appeared on the beach, I sailed over to help them with all my vessels, and getting a dozen Europeans on board the lorcha, worked her against the enemy with considerable effect.
Within half a dozenlines of the last quoted passage Mr. Harvey audaciously protests:--"I repeat I have no bias one way or the other.
The leader and half a dozen of his men, with twice that number of horses, were quickly rolling on the turf, for at that short distance the difficulty would have been to miss them with our rifles.
Before I had turned the angle of the fort and got within sight of my vessel, half-a-dozen officers with drawn swords came running after me, calling upon me to stop and return with them to the mandarin.
When their charge was entirely repulsed we ceased firing, a dozen men came forward on foot and carried off their fallen comrades and chief, and then they all slowly disappeared in the direction of Nankin.
This also was the only spot where our fishermen had any success; in a few hours several dozen of a species of small red bream being caught.
Fitzmaurice and Keys had firearms lying on the ground within reach of their hands; the instant, however, they ceased dancing, and attempted to touch them, a dozen spears were pointed at their breasts.
At 8 a chief came off from the village in a large canoe pulled by about a dozen men, with a tom-tom beating in the bow.
Out of a sugar bag, with a little water, they manage to extract a liquor sufficient to make half a dozen of them tipsy; and in this condition, as I have observed, they most frequently presented themselves to my view.
At the right in an open space around the piano a dozen or more couples danced while a marine kept the keys warm with his nimble fingers.
This morning she felt like someone who had picked up half a dozen pieces of a jig-saw puzzle out of which she could make no sense at all.
The drive to the beach carried them over a half dozen bridges, spanning marshy inlets.
While Kitty was still talking to him Vera came in with half a dozen girls.
He bought twelve hundred dozen fat mice of the best quality, all the Purveyor had in stock that were home-grown, and flew on with them to the castle.
His manner was not very gentle as he asked us half a dozen questions about our departure from Ligny, the road to Quatre-Bras, and the battle.
But he has had time to answer a dozen times, Mr. Goulden.
At the same moment we could hear the steps of the retreating column rolling over the bridge, while a dozenmore such explosions made us draw back in spite of ourselves.
Take, say, a dozen needles and draw them several times in the same direction across the ends of a magnet so that they become magnetized.
And, if you were to cut it into two or half a dozen pieces, each piece would have the same effect.
A romantic dozen of adventures, but all strictly true.
I will mail you, postage paid, one dozen boxes of Hawley's Corn Salve for you to sell among your friends at 25c.
Then a dark form filled the orifice about a dozen feet above his head, and something moved down among projecting stones, and then Kolina stood by him.
A few days sufficed to collect a heap greater than they could take away on the sledges in a dozen journeys.
Ivan, as, after selecting two dozen of the finest, he abandoned the rest to the dogs.
But at the end of a dozen miles they found themselves in a narrow gorge between two hills; at the foot of a once foaming cataract, now hard frozen.
She was assisted in her repast by about a dozen jackals, which were feasting along with her in the most friendly and confidential manner.
About ten days after their arrival in the great island, Sakalar, who was always the first to be moving, roused his comrades round him just as a party of a dozen strange men appeared in the distance.
No doubt you have heard of his curious new religion, of his dozen wives of noble birth who live together far away in Pokrovsky!
In consequence, at a dozen points along the Russian lines the troops were defeated and hurled back.
Empress, while her daughter Olga and a dozen ladies of the Court sat agape and eager.
Indeed, a dozen of the best medical men in the capital held a consultation, but opinions differed regarding the cause of the haemorrhage, and the Empress again sent wild telegrams urging her pet Saint to return.
The occupants of the place numbered a dozen women, mostly young, garbed as nuns and performing daily religious observances.
Of about a dozen animals—horses and mules—with which we entered the woods, some of them used for the saddle and some for baggage, there remained only two horses and two mules.
I called to about a dozen of my old companions, whom I saw and recognized; and, on hearing my voice, they hastened towards me.
He had picked up the first half-dozen pamphlets in his fiancee's home.
Behind him the Bechstein grand was surrounded by some half-dozen gentlemen explaining their preferences, laughing, whistling a few notes, and breaking into polite cries of wonder.
A number of suits hung in rows on one side and on the wall was a steel engraving showing Parisian Men's Fashions of a dozen years before.
Some half-dozen gentlemen were seated on chairs in the dusk about one of the balconies.
One could do that every day, right under the noses and beards of a dozen French naval officers.
If we only had half a dozen fellows like that in the Chambers, all talking at once!
Here there is barely room for a dozen persons, and when all the places are full the bottles and dishes are passed from the door by the guests themselves over each other's heads, for there is no room to move about in the narrow space.
Prom the hills, from the hills they are descending in thousands," cried half a dozen of the frightened women at once, the rest huddled together like sheep, moaning in their fear.
We might go out and buy half a dozen handkerchiefs, just to show him that we have begun.
Gianbattista simply laughed, and explained the matter away in half a dozen words.
Upon the pavement at one end were spread rich carpets, and half a dozen enormous cushions of soft-coloured silk were thrown negligently one upon the other.
I am afraid that half a dozen handkerchiefs would have a bad effect," said the priest.
After my wonted fashion I read half a dozen of these authors together, so that it would be hard to say which I began with, but I had really a devotion to Dante, though not at that time, or ever for the whole of Dante.
John thought one big one was better worth while than a dozen small ones.
Tam Dickson's that had kept them a week at an inn a dozen miles this side of Edinburgh.
With his horse he was taken by the fierce, bedizened dozen up a gorge to so complete and secure a robber hold that Nature, when she made it, must have been in robber mood.
Most of these words, madam, are not used more than a dozen times a year.
You threaten--you, who have had a dozen well-known affairs.
Isn't it a case of six of one and half-a-dozen of the other?
Oppenheim has over a dozen novels, books of poems and essays to his credit.
Of course I felt absolutely sure that in the intervening period he would fall in and out of love half a dozen times at least.
There I was introduced to half a dozen more leaders of the Party.
It was so like a man to do it; a woman would have had a dozen ways of disarming your suspicion, while he did the very thing to arouse it.
In a dozen strides he was out in the hail and on the stairway.
Love had rushed past him like a galloping horseman, and shooting an arrow almost without aim, had struck him full in the heart, that citadel that had withstood a dozen deliberate sieges.
A dozen hands stretched out to grip his in the darkness, and a dozen voices, gruff and deep, and sunk to a whisper, bade him good luck and good-bye.
In addition, half a dozen Fanti warriors sat on the thwarts waiting for the forward move.
Then he went in succession to some half-dozen tiny peep-holes, which he had diligently bored through the wattle wall of the hut.
They sat down on the tiny roof while Dick told how the bullet had struck his friend, and how the flash had showed him a dozen men rushing down upon them.
Hardly had the man fallen at his feet, when a series of shouts rang out, rifles blazed from the stockade, and ere he could move half a dozen natives were upon him.
There are a dozen of them, and I think their loyalty can be controlled by the prospect of gold.
There was a shout from the enemy, and half a dozen dropped their paddles and opened a hot fire, their slugs whistling over the launch.
There was a warning shout from the shore, and a dozen fingers pointed to his right.
It lopped the tops from half a dozen cotton trees, and brought two more crashing through the forest with it.
Of the huddled group in the centre of the native boat half a dozen had managed to gain the launch, while their comrades were already far behind struggling in the water.
Would it be wise to land, and perhaps have a dozen or more of the enemy upon him?
Sentence to the stocks was employed, and frequently the garrison displayed the ghastly spectacle of a dozen men with hands and heads projected through these cruel devices which compelled them to stand and gave them no support.
The money was piled on a table in front of the clerks, while a dozen armed Indians stood guard on either side, and the Indians came up as their names were called and received their shares.
Thomas perpetually forces a tender smile by his simplicity, but Catherine makes you laugh outright, though she can hardly say a dozen words, and she joins in the laugh, as if sensible of the drollery of her appearance.
At the University Club, where a dozen of us have met for luncheon every business day for many years, Barton's ideas on the subject of municipal reform were always received in the most contumelious fashion.
Before the evening was over, he had told his story a half-dozen times, each time with less repulsion, with a keener sense of its dramatic value.
Haeffle always did have a healthy appetite, and it transpired that on the way back he had eaten a dozen sausages, more or less.
A dozen questions rushed to my tongue, but I held them back, for he was looking me up and down with a wistful tenderness that seemed to prelude further revelation.
When Zadoc put his furred teeth into half the first apple, it was as if he had not tasted such since he left Cape Cod a dozen years before.
Three noble statues of honest patriots now adorn the boulevard, and half a dozen beautiful fountains have been distributed among the parks.
While Barton was fighting half a dozen injunction suits brought to thwart the further expenditure of Follonsby's money for memorials of men of notorious misfeasance or malfeasance, another city election rolled round.
Jerry sprang down the veranda steps, assuring himself that there might be a dozen comparatively harmless reasons for the shot, and that his terror was merely nightmare.
He narrated this anecdote in the same simple manner in which he had told a dozen others.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dozen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dozen; eleven; fortnight; fourscore; octogenarian; score; teens
