Usage examples for twelvemonth
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My
family
were
in
great
doubt
what
to
do
with
so
prodigious
a
wonder;
one
said
the
law,
another
the
church,
a
third
talked
of
diplomacy,
and
a
fourth
assured
my
mother,
that
if
I
could
but
be
introduced
at
court,
I
should
be
lord
chamberlain
in
a
twelvemonth.
– Pelham, Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009
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She
died
of
grief
in
less
than
a
twelvemonth;"
the
tears
gushed
from
Jerome's
eyes,
on
whose
countenance
a
thousand
anxious
passions
stood
expressed.
– The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
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In
its
young
way
this
hedge
has
been
handsome
from
infancy;
though
still
but
a
few
years
old
it
gives,
the
twelvemonth
round,
a
note
both
virile
and
refined
in
color,
texture
and
form,
and
if
the
art
that
planted
it
and
the
care
that
keeps
it
do
not
decay
neither
need
the
hedge
for
a
century
to
come.
– The Amateur Garden by George W. Cable