We had scarcely taken the rest of an hour, when we were again on our horses, on the road to Tosia, called a distance of twelve hours.
From Caraja to Gumuck Khonéh (a large town) is twelve hours, and thence to Trebisond ten hours, on a general bearing throughout the whole distance of N.
When the juyce hath been there twelve hours, draw it by the spigot (the fat inclining that way, as if it were a little tilted) into a barrel; which must not be full by about two fingers.
The sun was just rising, and as its rays touched the cliff from which, twelve hours later, Señora Rojas and her daughters would look toward Porto Cabello, they felt a thrill of possible adventure.
With a sea as flat as this is to-night you could make the run in the launch in twelve hours.
I was struck by the amount of character a man laid bare in twelve hours of common labor.
He had attended night school after working twelve hours a day in Pittsburgh.
It transforms the community where men live whose day is twelve hours long.
There was a work-rhythm that was neither a dawdle nor a drive; if you expected any comfort in your gang life of twelve hours daily, you had best discover and obey its laws.
The fumes from nitric acid have caused death from pneumonia in ten or twelve hours.
Still, the body, other things being equal, may be said to be quite cold in about twelve hours.
Death follows in eight to twelve hours, from exhaustion.
Usually nine to twelve hours; but in many cases, if life is prolonged for eight hours, recovery takes place.
We no sooner alight from the carriage than we mount on horseback, and sometimes remain in our saddles for ten or twelve hours successively.
On the other hand, some patients do better on a smaller dose once in twelve hours.
The most that should generally be given is one of these tablets in twelve hours.
They work from the sixth, seventh, or eighth year ten to twelve hours daily in small, close rooms.
Some of them employed two sets of operatives, each numerous enough to fill the whole mill, and let one set work the twelve hours of the day, and the other twelve hours of the night.
It is asking too much, that young workers who have been using themselves up twelve hours in the day, should go to school from eight to ten at night.
It is nothing unusual for three of them to pull a jinrikisha fifty miles in twelve hours, with only three halts of a quarter of an hour each, and they have been known to make sixty-five miles between sunrise and sunset of a long day.
By adding half an hour daily to his task, a traveler will soon be able to devote ten or twelve hours out of the twenty-four to the use of his feet.
Then strain, through a fine hair sieve and let it stand ten or twelve hours.
Lastly, dip them in Orange-flower Water, and let them remain in it eleven or twelve hours.
At the expiration of twelve hours, apply fresh flowers in the same manner, and continue so to do for some days.
Cut the Herbs small, infuse them ten or twelve hoursin Spirit of Wine, and then distil in a vapour-bath.
It was no longer a matter of twelve hours’ but of thirty-nine days’ fighting at twelve hours a day.
It is an ideal run,--this hundred miles between Fort Chipewyan and Smith's Landing, and we make it in twelve hours.
On the Bloody Portage we overtook five teams of oxen which had been more than twelve hours trying to make sixteen miles and were bleeding profusely from the fly-bites.
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