It is easy to foresee that in ten or twelve years most of the regular bodies will be absolutely extinct, or reduced to a state of feebleness akin to death.
Twelve years of school had laid no foundations in her young mind, though it had loosened much that was firm within her.
But you mustn't let your little Louise sit for twelve years on a school form.
Of the Yircla Meening tribe (402): "Females become wives at ten and mothers at twelve years of age.
The males engross the privilege of disposing of their female relatives, and it often happens that an old man of sixty or seventy will add to his domestic circle a young girl of ten or twelve years of age.
Hottentot girls were not spared after the age of seven, nor were Bushman girls, though they did not become mothers till ten or twelve years old; while Kaffir girls married at eight, Somals at six to eight.
This commences at a very early age, perhaps ten or twelve years.
It was a girl, ten or twelve years of age, beautiful and lovely beyond description, so that I wished I had been a painter.
I especially noticed the drummers; they were all little lads of ten or twelve years old.
Here, as in Copenhagen, I noticed boys of ten to twelve years of age among the drummers, and in the bands of the military.
As I grew to the age of from ten to twelve years, nothing gave me so much pleasure as the perusal of voyages and travels.
Now he governed and presided over the people alone, after the death of Eli the high priest, twelve years, and eighteen years together with Saul the king.
Cesarea being here said to be rebuilt and adorned in twelve years, and soon afterwards in ten years, Antiq.
So this city was thus finished in twelve years; [18] during which time the king did not fail to go on both with the work, and to pay the charges that were necessary.
He declared that "he would ask no odds of Uncle Sam or the devil," and predicted that he would be President of the United States in twelve years, or would dictate the successful candidate.
On the way to Utah his wife died of cholera, leaving six children, from six to twelve years old.
At the age of twelve years, the royal birth of Theophobus was revealed, and his merit was not unworthy of his birth.
Under this usurpation, or regency, of twelve years, the two lawful emperors, Basil and Constantine, had silently grown to the age of manhood.
In the hope of a robust progeny, Lycurgus had delayed the season of marriage: it was fixed by Numa at the tender age of twelve years, that the Roman husband might educate to his will a pure and obedient virgin.
She now is twelve years old, when the bud swells, And the first colors of uncertain life Begin to tinge it.
Thus at twelve years of age a male may take the oath of allegiance; at fourteen both sexes are held to have arrived at years of discretion, and may therefore choose guardians, give evidence and consent or disagree to a marriage.
Twelve years later it was captured by Timur, who built a wall with the corpses of his prisoners.
Under the civil code of 1897 the earnings of a wife are her separate property, and it is provided that ``no woman, nor any boy under age of twelve years, shall be employed to work or labour in or about any mine in this state.
Here Dr Thorne lived for eleven or twelve years, all alone; and then for ten or eleven more with his niece, Mary Thorne.
But ten or twelve years' solitary confinement, although it mayn't sound much on paper, is enough to crush all the life and energy out of a man.
I do not believe that the Wingrave Seton of today would readily be recognized as the Wingrave Seton of twelve years ago.
A man who's just spent ten or twelve years in prison isn't likely to run any risk of going there again.
If thou wilt promise to give me the first thing that rubs itself against thy leg when thou art at home again, and to bring it here to this place in twelve years' time, thou shalt have as much money as thou wilt.
Then come the dog's twelve years, when he lies in the corner, and growls and has no longer any teeth to bite with, and when this time is over the monkey's ten years form the end.
The period of transition from serfage to freedom is set at twelve years; at the end of that time the serf is to be fully free, and possessor of his cabin, with an adjoining piece of land.
They are immediately informed that the Imperial mind is made up,--that the business of the Muscovite nobility is now to arrange that the serf be freed in twelve years, and put in possession of homestead and inclosure.
I counted the annual rings of some which were just one foot high, and as wide as high, and found that they were about twelve years old, but quite sound and thrifty!
The King, consoled as he was for the death of the Duchesse de Fontanges, did not, on that account, return to that sweet and agreeable intimacy which had united us for the space of eleven or twelve years.
One morning the little drummer-boy of twelve years of age marched into camp with seven men that he had taken prisoners, ragged and almost barefooted.
Mrs. Shears was very cruel to her slaves, and complained of the indolence of Jack, a boy of twelve years.
I, however, had presumed to call on him to see if I could secure transportation for myself and that little girl of twelve years.
Don't you think, that nigger spent all that day in bawling after his mother--a great booby, twelve years old!
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