half-score

On the present occasion, he witnessed with wonder and awe the approach of some half-score of riders, sober men upon sober palfreys, muffled in their long black garments, and only relieved by their white scapularies, showing more like a funeral procession than aught else, and not quickening their pace beyond that which permitted easy conversation and easy digestion.

The Monastery 2008

Sub – Prior and some half-score of attendants be in readiness tomorrow after matins — we would ride to Glendearg. —

The Monastery 2008

We were none the less satisfied that there should be still a half-score of their carpenters busy about the show-cases; their looks, their motions, their speech, their dress, amidst the fantastic forms of those bedeviled arts of theirs, affected one like the things of a capricious dream.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

I warrant, my Lucy, if the truth were known, al-though Sir Charles has at Canterbury, or at one place or other, his half-score ladies, who would break their hearts if he were to marry, yet he knows not anyone of them whom he loves better than another.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Not distinguishing aright my bash-ful gratitude, and down-cast eye, he might be afraid, lest I should add one to the half-score, that his sister says will die if he marry.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

I left a half-score of general officers and brigadiers drinking round the

The Virginians 2006

Fred Spring, of the Navy Pay Office; Hulker, who is rich, and I knew took lessons in Paris; and a half-score of other bachelor friends, who might be considered as VERY ELIGIBLE — when I was roused from my meditation by the slap of a hand on my shoulder; and looking up, there was the Mulligan, who began, as usual, reading the papers on my desk.

Mrs. Perkins's Ball 2006

At least, let me stand this one visit of tomorrow: and then if I find reason to think I cannot stand it, I will take the kind advice, and fly for it; rather than add another hope-less girl to the half-score that perhaps have been long sighing for this best of men.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

She had been engaged to be married a half-score times in Ireland, besides the clergyman at Bath who used her so ill.

Vanity Fair 2006

His mother, inside the vehicle, with her maid and her furs, her wrappers, and her scent bottles, made such a to-do that you would have thought she never had been in a stage-coach before — much less, that she had been turned out of this very one to make room for a paying passenger on a certain journey performed some half-score years ago.

Vanity Fair 2006