Twenty minutes later he took his place in the sleigh that slid away from the Grange, which lay a league behind it when the sunrise flamed across the prairie.
Witham took up a journal, and laid it down again twenty minutes later.
It was twenty minutes before Graham came out to them.
Did you ever spend a night, wet through, in a place that was ten to twentyunder freezing?
Twenty minutes later she watched Colonel Barrington cross the street with a bundle of letters in his hand.
The slope they thundered down was undermined by gophers and seamed by badger-holes, but they took their chances gleefully, sparing no effort of hand and heel, for the sum of twenty dollars and the credit of being first man in.
Ten minutes passed very slowly, lengthened to twenty more slowly still, and then it flashed upon her that there was at least something she could do; and, scraping up a little of the snow that sifted in, she melted it in the can.
In a second it disappeared and fell, in exactly eight minutes by the clock, from the ceiling, a distance of fully twenty feet from the table.
To the astonishment of everybody, the spikes were not removed by the ghost, but instead, became too hot to be handled with comfort, and a second afterwards were thrown by the ghost to the far end of the saloon, a distance of twenty feet.
But they must have felt a certain insecurity of tenure, to resort to the same mode of retaliation which their political adversaries had exercised, twenty years before.
Just so it is with parliamentary reform, a measure which I have been foremost in recommending for twenty years.
The distinction of classes, wantonly and unnecessarily proclaimed for twenty years past, was now confirmed; and the ten years of George the Fourth’s reign mark the period of conflict which was partly the result of this forced distinction.
Thus, for example, a village of twenty souls hires a transient man at two roubles a month to teach the children.
Accept this, for the sake of Christ," said Avdyeich, giving her twenty kopeks, with which to redeem her kerchief.
The scribe read: "The court has decreed that the peasant Gavrilo Gordyey receive twenty blows with rods in the township office.
But with the new arrangement: I assume that ten of the old schools are left intact; in these schools the teachers get twenty roubles per month, which, for the seven winter months, amounts to fourteen hundred roubles.
A pea dropped on the ground; the Monkey wanted to pick it up, and dropped twenty peas.
When hounds follow an animal's trail, they never run on the track itself, but to one side, about twenty paces from it.
Twenty Cossacks went there, and they frightened all the Tartars, and seized the whole town, and captured all the cattle.
Toward fall the shoemaker had saved some money: three roubles in paper lay in his wife's coffer, and five roubles and twenty kopeks were outstanding in the village.
In some sense, swiftly, the past seemed back again, its twenty years effaced, so that she thought in terms of other days.
I didn't know the boy was alive--she told me twenty years ago that he'd died, a baby.
Oh, if all this had happened twenty years ago, when I was young, I might have been weak enough to listen to what you say.
For twenty years--all my life--I have put that thought away from me.
It's been twenty years now that that woman has flaunted her vice in the face of this community.
Now, I take on those twenty years of yours when I take on this case.
You've had twenty years to think about this, and I've not had that many minutes.
They even tore up the little white bed--at which for twenty years nightly Aurora Lane had kneeled to pray.
This had gone on for twenty years, and not a soul in Spring Valley could have told the truth of it.
Let not the sluggish sleep Close up thy waking eye, Until with judgment deep Thy daily deeds thou try: He that one sin in conscience keeps When he to quiet goes, More vent'rous is than he that sleeps With twenty mortal foes.
He took good-naturedly the mocking hoot which the booky gave him for handing in twenty pieces of that kind of metal, and catapulted himself out to the rail just as the horses went away from the post.
The judges didn't observe, of course, that the seedy owner's horse was under twenty wraps, for they looked upon him as a dead one and paid no attention to his running.
I got two high-grade Fonsos for my boss, and they won themselves out for himtwenty times over in the next three years.
Donnelly needed a bundle of cigarettes and a few drinks pretty badly, but he was game when it came to sticking to his good things, and he slapped his twenty nickels down on Hush with a bookmaker he knew.
I don't get a hunch like this every day, or every week or month, for that matter, but I've noticed that these hunches of mine have gone through nine times out of ten during the past twenty years or so.
Besides, I figured it that you required some consolation for the loss of your twenty guineas.
So I had to plug along by shying a ten or twenty into the ring when I heard of something that looked nice.
Now, here was a game that you wouldn't think a man with the sense he was born with would bet twenty cents worth of zinc money on.
He stations about twenty or twenty-five rail birds, all of 'em stable boys out of a job, in the infield, and hands them out their yelling instructions.
He was under twenty wraps all the way from the flag-fall.
Twenty miles below Omaha, at a little handing, a gappy looking hog raiser that Cato had met before climbed over the rail, and Cato thought he saw a chance to recoup his drooping fortunes.
After twenty or more years of comparative peace, the Indians suddenly left the Valley.
He believed they must be nearing their town after he had travelled for twenty days.
The following goods were brought by the said Mary Magadelena to Joist Hite: "1 In ready money, twenty two pounds seventeen Shillings and four pence.
So on the 28th the Stonewall Brigade set out towards Harper's Ferry and at Charlestown they met a Federal force, routing them within twenty minutes.
They too were brave, loyal, and devout; but were different from the first, being Lutherans and representing twenty families from Pennsylvania.
The work is performed by four die-presses, moved by levers, each of which requires ten men; and about twenty thousand pieces can be produced daily from each press.
The corpse remained there four and twenty hours, during which the monks performed the office of the dead with great solemnity.
This magnificent church is three hundred and seventy feet long and seventy high; the transept, including the Chapel of the Precious Blood, one hundred and twenty feet long; the tower two hundred feet high.
He travelled in considerable state, attended by a military escort of twenty men; and arrayed in the scarlet robe of a Roman Cardinal, with the brilliant "decoration" of the Legion of Honor conspicuous upon his breast.
The western facade of the cathedral was not finished till 1530, twenty years after his death.
After a lapse, however, of twenty years, the peasants of the neighboring country, aided by one hundred and four of the inhabitants, retook the place by assault.
Yet of those we have had here, twenty to one were Baptists, Presbyterians and Methodists.
The number of talesmen that passed through the mill each day ranged from twenty to thirty.
His persistence was finally rewarded by the bringing to light of a muddy, slimy piece of carpet about twenty inches square, and which looked as if it had been hastily torn from a longer strip.
Worming himself into the twenty inch sewer he went through the filthy main for a distance of twelve or fifteen feet, pushing the pike pole ahead of him.
Still, but twenty peremptory challenges remained to the defense on October 1st, and it was consequently certain that this stage of the case was nearing its end.
The evidence necessary to convince you beyond a doubt of the guilt of the men on trial should be just as strong as if there were twenty men on trial.
The lady was probably twenty to twenty-three or four years of age and wore a dark gray traveling dress and a turban hat.
About twenty feet north of the fire plug was a catch-basin into which the water from the ditch was supposed to flow, just as it flows into them in sections of the city that are paved.
I have known him for twenty years and cannot be mistaken.
It has over forty Americans and over twenty Chinese, make the room full of people.
For years it was a favorite school for English Catholics and it rejoices in having had twenty of its students die for the Faith.
Twenty years after the visit of Salmeron and Brouet to Ireland, David Wolff was sent there as Apostolic delegate.
Before us was a desert of snow, inaccessible for any living creature for ten months of the year, and which called for a twenty days' march, without shelter and without a bit of wood to make a fire.
With them were twenty "gentlemen adventurers," all of whom, with possibly one exception, were Catholics.
During one Lent, out of twenty of the great preachers, sixteen were Jesuits.
In 1567 Philip II asked for twenty Jesuits to evangelize Peru.
Oviedo continued to live there during twenty years of incredible suffering.
The manger and the leading facts of the Nativity were represented for twenty days consecutively, and numerous catechumens proceeded to the Church with palms in their hands to receive baptism.
Such was prison life in Portugal during the twenty years of Pombal's administration.
The "Gaulois" said of him that "in his first ten years he discovered more monuments than would have made twenty archaeologists famous.
Anhalt-Koethen is in Prussian Saxony, and there were only twenty Catholics in the entire duchy when Beckx arrived there.
Eleven times he visited every mission post on the Maranhon, which meant twenty journeys along the interminable South American rivers, on some of which he had to keep at the oar for a month at a time.
Oh, of different heights; some as many as five or six feet, others are twelve, and the largest are as high as twenty feet, and would easily hold a dozen men.
There will sometimes be as many as twenty stories above ground in the ant-hill, and as many below.
Here, when circuit closers, or small buoyant mines are used, both of which ought never to be more than twenty feet below the surface, long before low water they would be found floating on the surface in full view.
Robert Fulton, an American, following in his footsteps, some twenty years after, revived the subject of submarine warfare, which during that interval seems to have been entirely forgotten.
In August, 1801, Fulton completely destroyed a small vessel in Brest harbour by means of one of his submarine bombs, then called by him for the first time, torpedoes, containing sometwenty pounds of gunpowder.
Each gave his principal a pistol, and stationed him so that they stood some twentypaces apart.
And just because of his taking parts, he is likely to keep your girl's heart in a state of incertitude, for 't is only mortal for eighteen to fancytwenty more than forty-four.
Washington studied the face of the young fellow steadily for twenty seconds.
And if by chance you should not overtake us till to-morrow, I'll think of twenty years ago and spare you a reprimand.
Eustace, when twenty minutes later he entered the kitchen, to learn what delayed the general's lunch.
Thet 'ere talk duz fer the tavern and fer election times, but 't ain't worth a darn when ye've marched twenty miles on an empty stomick.
Twenty minutes were spent on the clearances and manifests, and then Mr. Cauldwell opened yet another paper.
In twenty seconds the rider, who was well coated with dust, and whose horse was lathered with the sweat of fast riding, had come abreast of the cart, and Janice gave a cry of joy.
We are a forehanded lot, and we've got twenty half-barrels of powder laid in against trouble.
In six months the generals have destroyed the work of twenty years of effort, of patience, and of genius.
For twenty years past every resource of science has been exhausted in the invention of engines of destruction, and soon a few charges of cannon will suffice to annihilate a whole army.
Twenty years ago, in a drawing room, I dared in the presence of forty persons to moot the proposition that war was incompatible with Christianity; I was regarded as an arrant fanatic.
A group of twenty men was no obstruction to anyone, but he had been standing there the whole morning, and he wanted to do something.
A little knot of some twenty men were collected together on the pavement, engaged in serious religious discussion.
The very first letter I opened was in reference to the advertisement; and before I had gone through the collection I found there were over twenty applications for the bunch of keys in my possession.
Twenty miles from Lima is Pachacamac, a sacred city of the Incas, where once stood a gigantic temple, dedicated to a deity of the same name, the supreme creator and preserver of the universe.
These will be followed by a history of the States from the Spanish Conquest down to contemporary times, and for this portion of the work it is thought that some twenty volumes will be required.
It is of easy access, being above twenty feet wide, and six feet high, at the mouth or entrance.
It is said, that there are more than twenty acres of land devoted solely to the cultivation of hyacinths, and a large portion to tulips, and other flowers.
When this is quite stale (baked since ten days) if it be put into the oven and left there for twenty minutes, it becomes fresh again, a very convenient property in long sea voyages.
A foreign gentleman, who had lived twenty years in Rome, told me that he had never heard of any scandalous conduct in any nunnery during all that time.
A young man of twenty who finds a ball stupid is past hope," he said.
Young men with twenty thousand a year do not steal.
He was just twenty when they returned home, at the commencement of the year; Lady Carruthers, worn out with travel and excitement, longing for rest.
Ogle observed for me in one of the London hospitals about twenty patients, just before they were put under the influence of chloroform for operations.
You leave it to us to act in accordance with our best judgment, whether it takes one year or twenty years.
They were to stand firm and resolute on their own judgment "and take time to settle the concern whether it need one year or twenty years.
Here Palmer lived and toiled for twenty years, washing the dirt and gravel of an ancient river-bed high up on the hill-top between Wolf Creek and the Middle Yuba.
The former came of a distinguished Democratic family, so that the old man's protection and loyalty had been bestowed upon him upon his arrival in the gold fields twenty years before.
Twenty-five years ago he was twentyand she was a little bashful girl.
They were both experienced in such affairs, and powerful with the spade; and they had scarce been twenty minutes at their task before they were rewarded by a dull rattle on the coffin lid.
At first, John was all thwarted affection and blighted hope; next bludgeoned vanity raised its head again, with twenty mortal gashes: and the father was disowned even as he had disowned the son.
There were twenty or thirty little sticks in it, each one barely larger than a lead pencil, of dirty gray color, and each one securely nested in a tube of flannel-lined papier-mache.
For twenty years my wife an' me have looked after the professor at The Grange.
The noise was tanks moving through the fog, not one tank or two tanks, or twenty tanks, but all the tanks in creation rumbling and lurching at their topmost speed in serried array.
The building fronted the river, but here on the garden side there was a broad doorway up an incline, twenty feet up and over a small bridge, spanning what seemed a dry moat.
I have not been in any of these rooms for twenty years.
A final backward kick of its leg threw the doctor twenty feet against the far wall of the cave.
There were twenty or more such isolated battles in progress, varying from single combats between single tanks to greater conflicts where twenty to thirty tanks to a side were engaged.
Judging from the sheep, the monster stood about twenty feet tall, and its frame was surmounted by a head resembling an overgrown frog.
Twenty paces, and the long meadow grass suddenly vanished from beneath their feet.
There were perhapstwenty or thirty people huddled in the room.
A'right," he conceded, "we give you twenty minutes.
The banks were not only steep upon this side, but they were twenty feet and more high.
A twenty dollar gold piece was not to be scorned; and the cowboys were earnest in their attempt to make that extra twenty over and above their monthly stipend.
The Rolling River Camp was twenty miles away in the direction of the mountain range.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twenty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dozen; eleven; fortnight; fourscore; octogenarian; score; teens
