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Then they thought this funny, and all three began to laugh; the servants who were bringing in the breakfast also broke out laughing, so amused was the household at the idea that mademoiselle had been sleeping for twelve hours right off.
This was six or seven sous profit a day, and sometimes twelve on Sundays.
They might well tighten their belts for a week, when they had been swallowing fire and water ever since they were twelve years of age; and their devotion was thus augmented by the pride of soldiers, of men proud of their profession, who in their daily struggle with death had gained a pride in sacrifice.With the Maheus it was a terrible evening.
For the prisoners it was the beginning of the twelfth day; twelve times over had they passed twenty-four hours without bread, without fire, in that icy darkness!
So in 1867 this company owned twelve ships, eight with paddle wheels and four with propellers.
What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the water?
But this stubborn Canadian spent eight hours out of every twelve reading or sleeping in his cabin.
We were being swept westward, and I estimate that our comparatively moderate speed reached twelve miles per hour.
The Nautilus kept to an east-northeasterly heading, a speed of twelve miles per hour, and a depth between fifty and sixty meters.
The latter divide into two groups, dive in rotation, and descend to a depth of twelve meters with the help of a heavy stone clutched between their feet and attached by a rope to their boat."
Accordingly, our speed was twenty-five miles (that is, twelve four-kilometer leagues) per hour.
Swept along at the rate of twelve to thirteen meters per second, he could hardly make use of the skiff.
Dogfish known as topes, twelve feet long and especially feared by divers, were racing with each other.
Twelve miles away, Cape St. Vincent was hazily visible, the southwestern tip of the Hispanic peninsula.
Several times ten or twelve of them teamed up, trying to crush the Nautilus with their sheer mass.
Meanwhile, after twelve hours had gone by, we had removed from the outlined surface area a slice of ice only one meter thick, hence about 600 cubic meters.
Assuming the same work would be accomplished every twelve hours, it would still take five nights and four days to see the undertaking through to completion.
Some of these jellyfish were shaped like very smooth, semispheric parasols with russet stripes and fringes of twelve neat festoons.
Ten or twelve devilfish had overrun the Nautilus's platform and sides.
When he was twelve years old his mother had her own way; he began lessons.
She found him one—the widow of a bailiff at Dieppe—who was forty-five and had an income of twelve hundred francs.
By his side on a chair stood a large decanter of brandy, whence he poured himself a little from time to time to keep up his spirits; but as soon as he caught sight of the doctor his elation subsided, and instead of swearing, as he had been doing for the last twelve hours, began to groan freely.
Another had gone one hundred and fifty miles in a straight line, and swum four rivers; and his own father had possessed a poodle, which, after twelve years of absence, had all of a sudden jumped on his back in the street as he was going to dine in town.
Lheureux ran off to his shop, brought back the money, and dictated another bill, by which Bovary undertook to pay to his order on the 1st of September next the sum of one thousand and seventy francs, which, with the hundred and eighty already agreed to, made just twelve hundred and fifty, thus lending at six per cent in addition to one-fourth for commission: and the things bringing him in a good third at the least, this ought in twelve months to give him a profit of a hundred and thirty francs.
He would send her a black barege, twelve yards, just enough to make a gown.
But the next day at twelve o'clock she received a summons, and the sight of the stamped paper, on which appeared several times in large letters, "Maitre Hareng, bailiff at Buchy," so frightened her that she rushed in hot haste to the linendraper's.
When everything had been sold, twelve francs seventy-five centimes remained, that served to pay for Mademoiselle Bovary's going to her grandmother.
He was about to fall from a height of twelve or fifteen feet, among the moving machinery, which would have crushed him, but his father caught him with his left hand as he fell.
'This very instant, damn it!' cried M. de Renal, blind with rage, and yet happier than he had been at any time in the last twelve hours.
That man who took refuge on your roof ...''What I think is that you have neither respect nor affection for me,' shouted M. de Renal with all the bitterness that such a memory aroused, 'and I have not been made a Peer!''I think, my friend,' put in Madame de Renal with a smile, 'that I shall one day be richer than you, that I have been your companion for twelve years, and that on all these counts I ought to have a voice in your councils, especially in this business today.
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