In some places, such as Clatford Bottom, about a mile from Avebury, they lie still in numbers sufficient to erect a dozen Aveburys, and many are still to be seen in the Bottoms to the southward, and indeed in every place where they have not been utilized by modern civilization.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson
"I never saw to exceed a dozen on deck in a watch.
— from Gordon Craig, Soldier of Fortune by Randall Parrish
It took him a good hour to get the jam and the flour out of his hair and whiskers, and as Mrs. Hoskins said that he was in no state to enter a decent bedroom, and made him wash at the pump in the back yard, he found it a rather cold operation.
— from The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
On the horns Look therefore of the cross: he, whom I name, Shall there enact, as doth in summer cloud Its nimble fire."
— from Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise by Dante Alighieri
On the horns Look therefore of the cross: he, whom I name, Shall there enact, as doth in summer cloud
— from The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Complete by Dante Alighieri
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