dozen-to

Updated: May 13, 2025

But we all know that the law can be made subordinate; and it must be made subordinate to party ends. The man who has not nerve enough to make citizens by the dozen-to stuff double-drawered ballot-boxes, is not equal to the times we live in; this is a great moral fact." This is said by the Judge, who, having risen with an easy air, sits down and resumes his glass and cigar.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life