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What all our names were, how old we were, if our girls had lots of beaus, and if there were many men in the neighbourhood, and dozens of things my mother never asked any one. She always inquired if people were well, if their crops were growing, how much fruit they had, and how near their quilts were finished.
Men and women in dozens, in pairs and singly; children, boys, big and little, and wee babies were there in among the awful confusion of water, drowning, gasping, struggling and fighting desperately for life. Two men on a tiny raft shot into the swiftest part of the current.
Now that the excitement of the discovery and launching of the boat was over, it all seemed to have been a kind of day-dream; and though I took my seat on a thwart, and got an oar over the side, I could hardly believe it real till I recalled that it was possible that our actions had all been watched, and that amongst the trees and bushes of the other side dozens of keen eyes might be aiming arrows at us, and the oar almost dropped from my hand.
On these occasions he would appear in the Reichstag in the dull field-grey of an ordinary private the only member so clad in a House of 397 Deputies, among whom are dozens of officers in uniform up to the rank of generals. I was particularly fortunate to be able to secure a card of admission to the Strangers' Gallery of the Reichstag on January 17, the day set for discussion of military matters.
"Good heavens!" exclaimed Dick, as the two creams came tearing along, with the reins trailing in the roadway, "the brutes will not only kill themselves, but dozens of people as well, if they are not stopped!" And before Earle could reply, or do anything to restrain him, the lad sprang into the roadway, close to the path of the runaways, and braced himself for a spring.
"Really?" "I am certain of it, and he has the thirty-seven of the gens Cassia, one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and twenty-one of the gens Cornelia, the eleven Farsuleia, and dozens of Numitoria, Pompeia, and Scribonia, all in perfect condition, as if fresh from the die.
"But is it like what one reads of?" "Exactly the very same." "But now really are there towers and long galleries?" "By dozens." "Then I should like to see it; but I cannot I cannot go. "Not go! My beloved creature, what do you mean'?" "I cannot go, because" looking down as she spoke, fearful of Isabella's smile "I expect Miss Tilney and her brother to call on me to take a country walk.
You can have no conception how we are still besieged and worried on this head, our time cut to pieces by personal applications, besides those contained in dozens of letters by every post.... I hope therefore that favorable allowance will be made to my worthy colleague on account of his situation at the time, as he has long since corrected that mistake, and daily approves himself, to my certain knowledge, an able, faithful, active, and extremely useful servant of the public; a testimony I think it my duty of taking this occasion to make to his merit, unasked, as, considering my great age, I may probably not live to give it personally in Congress, and I perceive he has enemies."
'Thanks, awfully, said Scremerston, but he did not seem very keen. Poor little Scremerston! Logan 'breasted the brae' from the riverside to the house. His wading- boots were heavy, for he had twice got in over the tops thereof; heavy was his basket that Fenwick carried behind him, but light was Logan's heart, for the bustard had slain its dozens of good trout.
This is pointed out again and again to them without effect. The sea throws its dead by dozens on our shores every gale that blows, crying out, `Look here at the result of economy and selfishness! Goods to the extent of thousands of pounds are destroyed annually, and the waves that swallow them belch out the same complaint.
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