Barton's men cut the telegraph wires in half a dozen places, carrying away whole sections to make repairs more difficult.

At least a dozen men, some armed, are never far away from him.

Casualties have been running about a dozen men a day.

A dozen cows mooed sadly and regarded us as if we were insane, as perhaps we were at that moment, with the crazy excitement of our first encounter, the yelling and shooting still continuing up at the road, and the thirst of some of the men, which was so great that they waded into the muddy water and scooped up handfuls of it.

The men of our company had a dozen fights defending your name.

Only a dozen or so schools send as many as six students, and there are seldom more than fifteen men in any single delegation.

Young men in school could look forward to playing ball for money in a dozen different places, even if they failed to make the major leagues.

Since 1927, fewer than a dozen men have made serious runs at Babe Ruth's record and each, in turn, has been thwarted.

He bellowed orders and watched the alert response of some of his men and watched, too, the way a dozen or more turned their heads questioningly toward the shackled figure as though for further instruction.

He theorizes such a saw could have been attached to a wooden trestle and used in conjunction with possibly vegetable oil, cutting sand, or emery or pounded quartz to cut the blocks and would have required at least a dozen men to operate it.

* Acts 19: 6, when a group of approximately a dozen men spoke in tongues in Ephesus as they received the Holy Spirit while the apostle Paul laid his hands upon them.

A recent Sioux raid had killed 75 Omaha men, burned 40 lodges, and taken four dozen prisoners.

The Taliban's first major military activity was in 1994, when they marched northward from Maiwand and captured Kandahar City and the surrounding provinces, losing only a few dozen men.

One such plot occurred in 1656 when a dozen Black men, led by William Force, a free Black man plotted to murder their English masters.

Upon hearing that Sherman's men were advancing on corduroy roads through the Salkehatchie swamps at a rate of a dozen miles per day, Johnston " made up his mind that there had been no such army in existence since the days of Julius Caesar.

Captain William Trammell responded with a party of some two dozen men to help.

In 1862 Confederate Guerrillas from nearby Missouri led by William Quantrill raided the Johnson County communities of Olathe and Spring Hill, killing half a dozen men and destroying numerous homes and businesses.

The small town of Wizna near Jedwabne saw several dozen Jewish men shot by the invading Germans under Hauptsturmführer Hermann Schaper, as did other neighboring towns.

2, 163 Airborne men, 160 Poles, 75 Dorsets and several dozen mixed other men were evacuated but about 300 were left on the northern bank when the operation was ceased and 95 men were killed overnight.

The party of about three dozen men set out from the Rio Grande valley in October 1604.

As Castellano and Bilotti exited the Lincoln, the roughly half dozen shooters moved in and opened fire, killing both men in a barrage of bullets.

Soon after, he and several dozen men each paid a fast-talking promoter five dollars.

With an unbelievable number of political entities and institutions piled up on a small territory of 30, 500 square kilometers, Belgium holds the European record of the most costly political system: no less than 57 ministers and state secretaries spread across six different governments, which are surrounded by seven parliaments and a dozen provincial governments.

Each island is at least a dozen square kilometers in size, and is surrounded on all sides by ocean.

* In the first type of generator ( MK-1, 1951 ) developed by Robert Lyudaev, the magnetic flux produced by a wound conductor is confined to the interior of a hollow metallic tube surrounded by explosives, and submitted to a violent compression when the explosives are fired ; a device of the same type was developed in the USA a dozen years later by C. M.

Shortly after dawn Monday, July 16, 2007, five helicopters, two planes and more than a dozen heavily armed DEA and Haitian anti-drug agents surrounded Philippe's yellow, two-story gated home in the hills above Les Cayes, on Haiti's remote southern peninsula.

The forest that remains has been isolated into stands of a few dozen acres ( a fraction of a square km ) each, surrounded by fields and pastures.

Liège was surrounded by a dozen forts, designed and built by Henri Alexis Brialmont, the leading engineer of the latter nineteenth century.

Brinkley boasted a stable of a dozen Cadillacs, a greenhouse, a foaming fountain garden surrounded by 8, 000 bushes, exotic animals imported from the Galapagos Islands, and a swimming pool with a diving tower.

The Nez Perce surrounded the dozen soldiers defending the supplies, took what they wanted and burned the rest.

As they exit the mine, not being able to find Emma, they become surrounded by a dozen of the children.

While the Regulators at various times consisted of dozens of American and Mexican cowboys, the main dozen or so members were known as the " iron clad ", including McCarty, Richard " Dick " Brewer, Frank McNab, Doc Scurlock, Jim French, John Middleton, George Coe, Frank Coe, Jose Chavez y Chavez, Charlie Bowdre, Tom O ' Folliard, Fred Waite ( a Chickasaw ), and Henry Newton Brown.

In the McSween house were Alex McSween and his wife Susan, Billy the Kid, Henry Brown, Jim French, Tom O ' Folliard, Jose Chavez y Chavez, George Coe, and a dozen Mexican vaqueros.

The original series has spawned: several successful novelty western / folk albums from 1962 – 1965 ; three dozen Dell and Gold Key comic books from 1962 through 1970 ; Jim Beam Whiskey Ponderosa Ranch decanters 1964 – 1966 ; a series of " Big-Little " books from 1966 – 1969 ; Revel Bonanza model character sets from 1966 – 1968 ; a chain of Bonanza and Ponderosa steakhouses from 1963 – present ; the Lake Tahoe-based " Ponderosa " theme park from 1967 – 2004 ; a line of American Character action figures in 1966 – 1967 ; Aladdin lunch buckets and thermos bottles in 1966 – 1968 ; View Master slide sets from 1965 – 1973 ; Ponderosa tin cups from 1967 – 2004 ; a series of Hamilton collector plates in 1989 – 1990 ; and most recently, Breyer Fiftieth Anniversary Ponderosa Stable sets, with horses and Cartwright figures in 2009 – 2011.

When St. Louis lawyer Sidney Redmond, one of the three dozen African Americans then admitted to the Missouri bar, informed Charles Hamilton Houston, who was leading the NAACP's legal effort against the segregationist Jim Crow laws, that Gaines was willing to be a plaintiff, Houston at first asked him if he could find someone else.

In December 1968, Jim Tucker sent out the first issue ( volume 0, number 0 ) of The Birdwatcher's Digest to a dozen friends, suggesting a group to exchange birding information and publish their list totals.

Jim Ward, being interviewed by Andrea Juno in the 1989 book Modern Primitives, stated " I've been in the business for over 10 years and I haven't done more than half a dozen clit piercings.

Half a dozen Regulators, including Bonney, Jim French, and Frank McNab, carried out the reprisals.

Blue ribbon for one dozen white eggs was taken by Nyberg.

The colony's slaves, who outnumbered their white masters by a ratio of 20: 1 in 1800, mounted over a dozen major slave conspiracies ( the majority of which were organized by Coromantins ), and uprisings during the 18th century, including Tacky's revolt in 1760.

At a time when most white fighters adhered to the so-called " color-line ", refusing to fight African Americans, Burns had half a dozen contests with black boxers prior to his clash with the legendary Jack Johnson.

Inside the fruit, about a dozen round or square seeds can be found in a white seed shell.

The-area is located on a rocky plateau exposed by the Bretz Floods and now named after the camas which bloom there in spring ; it hosts about 300 other species, including the white rock larkspur, a species located in only a half dozen other places in the world.

* Two dozen " marking stones ", half white and half black.

Approximately 4 to 7 white eggs are found in a typical clutch, but clutch size can reach up to a dozen eggs in years when voles are abundant.

" Dr. Bell, sometime bishop of Worcester, was buried with due respect August 13, at Clerkenwell, with a sermon preached by Nicholas Harpsfield ; he was put into his coffin, like a bishop, with the mitre and other pontificalibus ; his funeral was illuminated with two white branches, two dozen staff torches, and four great tapers, the altar " < sup >( Strype, Memorials, Vol.

The programmes were transmitted ' live ' in black and white, and a dozen still exist in the BBC's Archive as telerecordings ( see also Wiping ).

Stuart set out from John Chambers ' station Oratunga, taking as companions two of Chambers ' employees ( a white man named Forster and a young Aboriginal man ), half a dozen horses, and rations for six weeks, all provided by Chambers, a pocket compass and a watch.

There are about a dozen black centered white spots on the hind wings, nine on the forwings.

Although Dix shows no overt sympathy for the dead victim, he anonymously sends her a dozen white roses.

Black Hawk worked to establish a barrier to white expansion and actually succeeded in collapsing the line of Mormon settlement, causing scores of villages in over a half dozen counties to be abandoned.

True white coat coloring can be produced by at least half a dozen known genes, and some are associated with health defects.

Sales of white ankle socks went up by 200 dozen in the area and I had only sent 10.

Since it takes up to 3 liters of whole blood ( the amount of a dozen blood bags ) to generate a dose of platelets, white blood cells from one or several donors will also be collected along with the platelets.

The latter play appears to contain jokes about Lucy's name similar to the " lousy " ballad, when Shallow and his dim-witted relative Slender discuss the " luces " ( pike ) in their coat of arms, which unintentionally becomes literally lice-ridden when this is misinterpreted as a " dozen white louses ".

The decorations included a forest of ten young birch trees in the chandelier room, a dining room table covered with Finnish tulips, a lawn made of chicory grown on wet felt ; an aviary made from fishnet filled with pheasants, parakeets, and one hundred zebra finches, on loan from the Moscow Zoo ; and a menagerie of several mountain goats, a dozen white roosters, and a baby bear.

Despite the defeat, however, Santee raids continued in 1863, resulting in more than a dozen white deaths in Minnesota.

The Special Edition 1. 9 JTDm 16 ( painted in a new red or white ) was then assembled for the United Kingdom's Market, following specific orders from the British dealers ; the Run Out Edition 2. 0 JTS ( only black ), was built in a dozen of pieces, with a modified engine ( a revised version of the Pratola Serra 2000 JTS ) and specific parts ( audio system bose connected to the USB, multimedia and bluetooth devices-an integrated approach then used in the Giulietta-lowered absorbers, specific alfa romeo grey leather-red signed seats, bigger matt rear view mirrors ) assembled only for the Dutch dealers.

Over at the new McDonald's there are a half dozen glass-enclosed exhibits arrayed around the tables including red and white tiles from the original restaurant and string ties worn by employees from the 1950s to the early 1970s.