Christ's compassion for them, and so introduces the mission of the Twelve (which again occurs later according to Mark's order, viz.
The chief ceremony, as kept from the early middle ages onwards--the washing of the feet of twelve or more poor men or beggars--was in the early Church almost unknown.
It is inconceivable that one of the Twelve should have proceeded in this way in giving an account of Christ's ministry.
It follows that the smallest pinion of a set in which pinion the flanks are straight should have twelve teeth.
His military training proceeded under the eye of his father, whom he began to follow on his campaigns when only twelve years of age.
In France election is for four years, in Holland for six, in Belgium for an indefinite period, and in Germany usually for twelve years, but in some cases for life.
It appeared that the mischievous spirit of one Biddie, an Irish Miss who died whentwelve years old, had kicked over the water-pail.
Senter was at the battle of Tippe-ca-noo, scalped twelve Injuns and wrote a treatise in Horse-shoeing!
We were twelve hours on the boat, and we had an exceptionally rough crossing, during which nine-tenths of the battery were sick.
Outside, his six guns were firing steadily, each concussion (and there were twelve a minute) shaking everything that was not a fixture in the little room.
To be mounted and at the head of a column of twelve six-horse teams is a very different thing to being alone and ready to slip behind a wall or into a trench if occasion calls for it.
And so down through the centuries to the crossing of the Alps in 1800 and the grim tragedy of Moscow twelve years later.
You have known each other for twelve years, and can make no mistake.
I went when about twelve years old to a pottery at Burslem.
At twelve o'clock on a bright summer day Mr. Brook drove up in his dog-cart, with two gentlemen, to the Vaughan mine.
Great excitement was caused in the village when ten or twelve young women were served with warrants to appear on the following day.
I should widen the airways, and split the current; that would raise the number of cubic feet of air to about twelve thousand a minute.
At a quarter before twelve Jane Haden, who had been sitting quietly at home, went up to the "Chequers" to look after her husband, and to see about his being brought home should he be incapable of walking.
For shame, Bill Haden, to match thy old dog, twelve year old, wi' a young un.
A great grave a hundred feet long by twelve wide had been dug in the churchyard, and in this the coffins were laid two deep.
The first time was when He was but twelve years old, when His parents found Him in the temple, hearing the doctors and asking them questions.
They were a matter of ten or twelve days doing it, and in the meantime I kept pretty close in the trade-room listening to Antoine's interpretations of their needs, and memorizing the words.
At the base the corral was about twelvefeet in diameter.
At the present time, there are some twelve or more principal Buddhist sects in Japan, several of these being subdivided.
There are now twelve missionary clergy at work, and twenty-one female missionaries; together with seven native clergy and nineteen unordained workers and preachers.
It will be too late for weddings, for the tide turns at twelve o’clock.
It became the summer headquarters of the Panjáb Government twelve years later.
But the weary soldiers insisted that this should be the bourn of their eastward march, and, after setting up twelve stone altars on the farther side, Alexander in September, 326 B.
The money spent from imperial funds on Panjáb canals has exceeded twelve millions sterling, and no money has ever been better spent.
The rainfall of the district is scanty averaging eleven or twelve inches.
Twelve weeks only were allowed for the voyage, which compelled the navigators to content themselves with a cursory survey.
The trial of civil issues was confided to the judge, and two justices of the peace chosen by the governor; the right being given to either party to apply to the court for a jury of twelve freeholders.
Twelve bales sold in London, the entire wool export of the colony, for 7d.
It is also remarkable that twelve out of the twenty-six animals are peculiar to this small island, and have not yet been detected elsewhere.
The names were twenty-four: from these both parties struck out six, and the remaining twelve were the jury.
Some months before, he had been informed by the secretary of state, that "having continued him in his government for the unusual period of twelve years, the crown intended to name his successor.
His labors were fatiguing and minute: he read the scriptures to "four persons in one place, and addressed twelve in another; chiefly old people and young children.
At twelve years of age he entered the royal navy: by Admiral Byron he was made lieutenant, and holding that rank in the Sirius, he attended the expedition of Phillip in 1788.
In that battle it was said that he charged twelve times in one hour, took eight flags and thirty-eight cannon, and made 5,000 prisoners.
More than twelve years had still to elapse before their exile was ended, and then, for a brief period, on the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire, the Bourbon Monarchy was restored in France.
No steamer has yet returned with more than twelve or fifteen passengers, and nearly every one of these had come down to obtain supplies for himself or his party left behind in the diggings.
Three men just arrived from Sailor Diggings have brought down 670 dollars in dust, the result oftwelve days' work.
Lots, which a few months ago were sold by the Hudson's Bay Company at twelve pounds ten shillings, are now selling at over 250 pounds.
So they brought twelve oxen roasted whole, and as much bread as could be baked in forty ovens, and the companions had scarcely sat down to the meal before the Eater had finished the lot.
In a month it was two yards long; in two months it was twelve feet long; in three months it was raging up and down the river like a tempest, eating the bream and the perch, and all the small fish that came in its way.
And so it was settled that Vanya and Maroosia were to go to the christening of their new cousin, who was only twelve hours old.
Let you and your companions eat at a single meal twelve oxen roasted whole, and as much bread as can be baked in forty ovens!
For twelve years he lived unmarried in Novgorod, and every year made voyages, buying and selling, and always growing richer and richer.
And he killed a snake with twelve heads and freed the Princess from her imprisonment.
The minimum rate of the 1640 crop was fixed at twelve pence.
In 1712 the proprietors received twelve pence for the first day or the first three months and six pence every month thereafter per hogshead.
In the early days of the colony, planters left twenty-five or thirty leaves on a plant, by 1671 the number had been reduced to twelve or sixteen in very rich soil.
Twelve years later warehouses were erected in only one additional county, Fairfax.
For goods stored in casks of sixty gallons in size, or bales or parcels of greater bulk, the owners of the storehouses received twelve pence for the first day or the first three months and six pence for every three months thereafter.
Sixteen new inspection warehouses were erected during this period, twelve of them near the Fall Line; in the meantime, ten of the old established warehouses far below the Falls were discontinued.
In 1446 Exeter College, Oxford, paid ten shillings and a penny for twelve quires and two skins of parchment bought at Abingdon to send to the monastery of Plympton in Devonshire, where a book was being written for the College.
Clare College was founded by the University as University Hall (1326), then refounded twelve years later by Lady Elizabeth de Clare as Clare Hall.
Abbot Godfrey of Malmesbury, partly to meet a heavy tax imposed by William Rufus, stripped twelve Gospels of their decorations.
The Testaments of theTwelve Patriarchs was also in Grosseteste's possession: the manuscript was brought home by John of Basingstoke, and still exists in the Cambridge University Library.
A year later a lock and twelve keys for the library were paid for.
Twelve months later John Grandisson arrived at Exeter to take charge of his diocese.
To Baldock's time probably belongs the reference to twelve scribes, no doubt retained for business purposes as well as for book-making.
Footnote D: Madame,--I had fancied for a moment that it was through error that your messenger had remitted me one hundred louis for copies which are charged but twelve francs.
Twelve months afterward, Don Josè della Ribera and his two sons attended at the consecration of the church of San Pedro, one of the prettiest churches in the environs of Seville.
He is a native of Berks county in Pennsylvania, is descended from one of the old Dutch families there, and was twelve or fourteen years of age before he knew a word of English.
The noise was generally heard betweentwelve and two.
Twelve years after Murray was called to the bar, he was appointed Solicitor-General by the Government which had risen upon the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole, and which knew how to estimate the value of so rare an acquisition.
Twelve years from this time, the curate of San-Pedro, then seventy years of age, was warming himself in the sun, in front of his house.
He evinced extraordinary precocity in his art, and when but twelve years old obtained of the Irish Academy medals for figures, landscapes and flowers.
In Venice, today, a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants, there are twelve hundred priests.
It is about five hundred years old, I believe, and stands on twelve hundred thousand piles.
They havetwelve small pillars, in St. Peter's, which came from Solomon's Temple.
In Paris you pay twelve dollars a dozen for Jouvin's best kid gloves; gloves of about as good quality sell here at three or four dollars a dozen.
The print of the face in the prison was that of a man of common size; the footprints were those of a man ten or twelve feet high.
They did not even dare to let me take my passport in my hands for twelve hours, I looked so formidable.
It was one of the twelve great cities of ancient Etruria, that commonwealth which has left so many monuments in testimony of its extraordinary advancement, and so little history of itself that is tangible and comprehensible.
And what wonder, when there are twelve hundred pictures by Palma the Younger in Venice and fifteen hundred by Tintoretto?
Fourth--Some twelve or fifteen canonized Popes and martyrs.
Meet me to-night at the Brig, at twelve o'clock precisely.
The stanchions are falling to pieces with rust," he whispered to Dirk, "the distance to the ground is not twelve feet, and the snow lies thick.
And after supper I sat yawning wide enough to swallow St. Enoch's Kirk, till twelve of the clock struck.
The whole district of the Lennox would be ravished if the Mac-Gregor were not set free within twelve hours.
But I have not come out at twelve o'clock of a Sabbath night to cast up to an unfortunate man his backslidings.
Striving for perfection, I made twelve bows before I was quite satisfied with the result of my efforts.
But once past the entrance the cave widened out until its interior was as spacious as that of half a dozen forecastles knocked into one, with head-room of ten or twelve feet.
We had been a whole year on the group, and, so far as we knew, not a solitary sail of any description had come within sight of the islands during the whole of those twelve months.
I accordingly decided to make and present to the plucky blacks twelve more bows, with a sufficient supply of arrows to enable them to resist successfully the incursions of their formidable enemies.
Along those meadows three weeks since there were the happy villages of twelve tribes of peaceful Indians; today those who yet live are fleeing for their lives.
Quebec that twelve thousand savages were living about the fort--ay!
It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds.
The diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune.
A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard.
English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter.
It had two or three masts rigged with lateen sails, carried guns at prow and stern, and a complement of one thousand to twelve hundred men, and was very efficient in mediaeval warfare.
There were twelve of them; three above, and three below on each side, and a little drawer that locked in the middle.
A friend of mine went, not twelve months ago, to a funeral at Brompton Cemetery; the ground was damp, and she caught a chill.
And then he laughingly added the information that Mr. Jacobson had imparted to him twelve months ago, in their mutual friendship--of the debts Sam had made in London.
Between its leaves she found three one-hundred-franc notes--twelve pounds in English value.
Ah, my dear," the Doctor replied, "she has not lived with me these twelve years without my finding it out!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twelve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
