There are about a score of soap-works in Rome, but the soap manufactured in these establishments is abominable.
In this way a score of women may do in a week what a farmer in our country could do easily in a couple of hours.
Peter must have been a man with some dozen of heads; with a score of arms, and a hundred fingers or so on each arm; in short, a perfect realization of the old pagan fable of the giant Briareus.
A cart-load of grain is poured out on the barn-floor; some dozen or score of women squat down around it, and with the hand separate the chaff from the wheat, pickle by pickle.
These pecans are judged by the same score cards as are the northern pecans which is the one used for hickories.
A careful study of the nuts sent in to the contests, it was thought, would point out most parts of the score card where improvement could be made, and this has already proved to be so to a considerable extent.
It will be noted that the White Aveline hazel has been placed higher than the Barcelona when judged by the score card used.
Lake's score card, the characteristics which it pointed out, and the reason shown for changing some of them.
These difficulties are not with thescore card but in its use.
It was early found desirable, however, to change the score card in one or two respects, and it has since been changed two or three times as the experience gained in judging nuts saw it was desirable.
The same score card and tables therefore are used for each of these species.
The beginning of improved methods of judging any of the above, is the establishment of a score card, as it is called, which is nothing more than an enumeration of the characteristics and a decision as to the relative value of each one.
There were at least a score of them, and the boys realized that the encounter could have but one end.
Alexis, wounded in a score of places, his giant body hacked and hewn, hurled himself forward in one last desperate attack.
Leather footstools were placed one on the top of the other by a proud papa and the company made to watch this lovely little boy score big breaks; excited and exhausted, he would go to bed long after midnight, with praises singing in his ears.
To win without work, to score without an effort and to delight without premeditation is given to few.
I had a kind of feeling that he could always score off me with such grace, good humour and wit that I would never discover it.
A few dilapidated seats, and a score or two of trifling contusions, made up the sum total of the damage.
And then--but every boy has rehearsed this familiar piece a score of times.
I stifled my wrath, knowing that in order to score properly it was necessary to keep a cool head.
While I was with him he disposed of St. Paul with an epigram, shook my reverence for Shakespeare in a neat antithesis, and fell foul of the Almighty Himself, on the score of one or two out of the ten commandments.
And as the authentic clue to such a labyrinth and change of scene, do you offer me these two score words?
I would she had but one or two, such as the worst of half a score be here.
I saw him last Saturday playing sogers down at Thirlston with a score or more of idle lads like himsel'.
Again he was lifted in air, held there in the grip of a score of lean, long-fingered hands.
Only when a score of the white things threw themselves out into space did he know the truth.
Spud crossed the control room as he had done a scoreof times to look through a glass port at the world outside.
Only moderately tall, clothed in ill-cut garments which he wore as uneasily as possible, his immature young figure was not one to call out much admiration on the score of its virility.
Still, the toys were prettier and vastly more refined than were the old-time goblins of his mother's day, the goblins marched to and fro persistently by half a score of Parson Wheelers in their time.
Moreover, in that aged town where, aside from a few score new professors and their callow young assistants, everybody's grandparents had played dolls and tin soldiers together, Dr.
Measured by the value to the corporation, his one brain was worth a dozen score of miners' lives.
Someone of the score of half-breeds who hung around the livery stable where the car was kept?
By the time the prairies proper were reached more than a score of oxen had died.
There were a scoreof Helens driving wagons--reasons in plenty for the futility of all attempts to enforce an arbitrary rule of march.
Wingate brought up all these matters at the train meeting of some three score men which assembled under the trees of his own encampment at eleven of the last morning.
The shallow and fickle stream, fed by the June rise in the mountains, now offered a score of channels, all treacherous.
Crouched now, advancing under cover of the shallow cut-bank, the headdresses of a score of the Western tribesmen could be seen.
A score of paralled paths it might be at times, of tentative location along a hillside or a marshy level; but it was for the most part a deep-cut, unmistakable road from which it had been impossible to wander.
Oh, he would pay the score that lay between himself and those two who had betrayed him.
But it is for your own convenience that I suggest it, though I appreciate your considerate concern on the score of what may happen to me afterwards should it come to be known that I was your opponent.
Indeed, one of my reasons for being present is to ensure that nothing on that score shall transpire.
O'Moy with a great deference made haste to reassure him on the scoreof the intrusion, whilst the ladies themselves rose to greet him.
A grave was dug for Sigurd on the brow of Observatory Hill over which he had so often sped in the splendor of his strength, and there, under the pines, some score of his closest friends and ours gathered the following morning.
There was one evening, in particular, when Sigurd jumped up on our living-room lounge some scoreof times, keeping all the while a challenging eye on her, and just as many times was ignominiously tumbled off.
A score of stout hands rose between The hunter and the flying: Age clenched his staff, and maiden eyes Flashed tearful, yet defying.
Agatha who, in those days when they first met, had been a beauty with a score of admirers.
He had sometimes felt aggrieved that the cheque had not been bigger, but at this moment he could find a score of reasons why there should have been no cheque at all.
Only at the end of the narration did he glance up, and that was but momentarily, when Mordaunt said, "It transpires that this Rodolphe had an old score to pay off.
Tell you what, though, if you want to satisfy yourself on the score of Chris's happiness, we will get them to put us up for a night when we leave here for town three weeks hence.
Not Werther, not the Nouvelle Heloise, have been assailed with such a storm of indignation as the first-named of these works, on the score of gross immorality.
In my first half score of years of acquaintance with his works, he was repulsive to me, as well as attractive.
It is an excellent piece of writing, and on that score to be prized as a specimen of the powers of the black race, which prejudice persists in disputing.
Still he did have helpful ideas in a score of directions daily and these told.
The train threaded its way through long lines of cars coming finally into an immense train shed where arc lights were spluttering--a score under a great curved steel and glass roof, where people were hurrying to and fro.
Her sister Marietta was surrounded by a score of suitors who were as eager for her love as a bee is for the honey of a flower, and Angela could see that they were already looking upon herself as an elderly chaperon.
He liked to think of himself as the captain of a score of men, having a handsome office desk, being hailed as chief by obsequious subordinates and invited here and there by Summerfield, who still liked him.
At this time Eugene still retained that rather ultra artistic appearance which had characterized his earlier years, but he began to suspect that on this score he was a little bizarre and out of keeping with the spirit of the times.
As it was, there were a score of men already who would have given an eye to attract Suzanne's attention, but Suzanne would none of them.
But now White thought it would be a fine thing to stir him up on this score if he could--to arouse his jealousy.
With these came fifty vessels; and in each Were six score youths, Boeotia's noblest flow'r.
We have not thought it necessary to defer the praise which some great French writers have deserved on the score of their language for this chapter.
Wars undertaken only on this score are commonly suspicious.
Yet they have been severely censured by later critics on the score of their morality, which is, no doubt, that of the stage, but considerably purified in comparison with the Italian and French of the sixteenth century.
Grotius has been as obnoxious on thescore of Socinianism as of Popery.
