The boys, together with John and a half dozen of the natives, went along the shore, and mounted the point C, and from that place selected another point in a southerly direction, and again made the same calculations.
All but a half dozenof the immediate followers of the Chief turned and darted back to the village.
When they were returning from the beach, they saw three of the natives, together with their wives and children, with their hands bound, and in charge of a half dozen warriors.
Two heavier crashes showed that the cannon were also coming into play, and one shell striking within the fort, exploded, wounding a half dozen men.
Then," said Langdon, "just as soon as they get that belt of steel stretched we'll break it in two in a half dozen places.
After a few questions, it passed him by a half dozen interruptions, and he became so bold that he stopped and bought food for his noon-day meal at a little wayside tavern kept by a woman.
Harry made a half dozen of these molds, and the mint was ready for operation.
He was in search of copper, and taking a half dozen of the natives with him, and one of the teams, a load of copper ore was brought in.
Then put down my order for a half dozen plows, to be delivered as quickly as possible.
George and Jim were set to work, with a half dozen of the men, at building chairs and tables for the houses, and the work of weaving the cloth goods was not interrupted for a moment.
Before long, he had her order, and a half dozen more, and Slim was enthusiastic.
He mounted the steps, which were perhaps a half dozen, and asked for her.
I loaded and emptied it a half dozen times, and shot away twenty-five shells.
I am not advising that you bull ahead into the long grass, or that alone you open fire on a half dozen lions in easy range.
In due order our M'ganga brought up one of our best trade blankets, to which we added a half dozen boxes of matches and a razor.
In the grass bottoms were lions, rhinoceroses, a half dozenvarieties of buck, and thousands and thousands of game birds such as guinea fowl and grouse.
Immediately, a detail of men were designated, and a half dozen of John's warriors, under the leadership of Muro, were requested to proceed to the landing.
I would say that a half dozen attempts on a trial and error basis of going through such an operation, perhaps making an error, finding how to correct it, doing it again, achieving more success, would certainly be enough.
There was only about a half dozen of us altogether there, I don't recall who all was there.
Well, the ordinary case, perhaps we have two or three or maybe a half dozen reporters, we have a room for them on the third floor where they normally on assignment at city hall they stay in this room.
Presently a half dozen of them leaped overboard and swam to the mass of tangled spars and rigging which littered the beach.
Number Thirteen was striking heavy blows with his giant hands upon the face and head of his antagonist, while the long, uneven fangs of the latter had found his breast and neck a half dozen times.
He saw the haste with which a half dozen of the warriors leaped down the companionway and heard their savage shouts as they pursued their quarry within the bowels of the ship.
I brought four dozen with me, and not over a half dozenof them are worth the snell tied to them; they are too clumsy in size, of coarse material, and bad in color.
I went up and down the little stream a half dozen times, never going into the wood, but merely fishing from where the stream came out of the wood to where it hid itself again beyond the field.
He at length found a half dozen pieces of board, about a foot long, and from six to eight inches in width.
By the time that he had found a half dozen of these, and had brought them back to his hearth-stone, it had grown too dark to search for any more.
His body, from the breech-cloth to the shoulders, was splashed and daubed with a half dozen kinds of paint, while his black, thin hair straggled about his shoulders and was smeared in the same fashion.
His first hope was that some of the saplings around him were lofty enough to permit him to use them as a ladder; but the tallest did not approach within a half dozen yards of the top.
Each year, also from the point where the trunk ended the year before, there starts out a whorl of little branches, a half dozen or so of them, some of which will by and by become the main limbs.
The green pulp, in turn, is a rather loose pile a half dozen thick, of roundish brick-shaped cells, each containing scattered grains of green coloring matter.
After a half dozen trials, however, he will begin to take in the blotting paper somewhat less rapidly than the meat.
Beyond a few grouse and rabbits, with a half dozen coyotes, they saw no game except wild fowl on the sloughs.
He couldn't talk, so he told it in beads, and jockeyed along till he got a half dozen to start back with him.
Around it lay a half dozen or so recumbent shapes wrapped in blankets.
The gambling tables, a half dozen in number, were arranged in the open floor space in the centre.
This man carried only a very neat black morocco satchel and a net bag containing a half dozen pineapples, the last of a number he had brought from the Isthmus.
If you'd had as much of this as I have you'd talk of something else," he growled, after a half dozen attempts at conversation.
After a moment he nodded his head a half dozen times, very slowly as he framed the question: "What became of--?
He sent a half dozen guineas, advising they were "chicken-house sentinels.
Alfred declared it would be the proper thing to do to invite a half dozen or more friends to witness the ascension.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half dozen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
