“I disbelieve,” he said, taking up two ten-sided dice and rolling them. “87,” he said. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
Even a Master of Arts in our University of Wentbridge has been known to confuse a ten-sided with a twelve-sided Polygon; and there is hardly a. From Wordnik.com. [Flatland: a romance of many dimensions] Reference
To the west lies Tarabon, with a ten-sided civil war, brigands sworn to the so-called Dragon Reborn, and rumors of Aes Sedai and the false Dragon himself to frighten Ailron. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
Dwarves from Thoradin, Ergothian merchants, and a kender from Hylo gath-ered around a circle scratched on the cobblestone, the kender's hands tied in front of him according to the house policy of any establishment frequented by the little folk, and the ten-sided Calantina dice flick-ered through torchlight according to some obscure Ergothian rules. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
A couple six packs, some ten-sided dice, and a character sheet does not constitute family time. From Wordnik.com. [Skippy's List] Reference
There's a ten-sided bed with a royal blue fake-crushed-velvet bedspread with two stuffed penguins poorly stitched onto it. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Standing out from the concrete surfaces and benches of New York's Collect Pond Park is a ten-sided wooden structure entitled "A Clearing in the Streets.". From Wordnik.com. [Latest Marketing News On Marktd] Reference
The tomb is still a very solid affair, -- a rotunda built of solid blocks of limestone, and resting on a ten-sided base, each side having a recess surmounted by an arch. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
Switching the six-sided dice for eight - or ten-sided dice might eliminate this problem, at the risk of increasing the difficulty of the deduction element, but cautious players could still run out of dice options before they run out of game. From Wordnik.com. [Boardgame News] Reference
In the introduction to his Annals as found inscribed on his great ten-sided cylinder in the British Museum he tells us how he took up his abode in the chambers of the palace from which Sennacherib and Esarhaddon had ruled the Assyrian Empire, and in describing his own education he says. From Wordnik.com. [The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh] Reference
I'd do this for no other reason than the fact that I and my Band of Brothers would almost certainly emerge victorious against an army of acne-addled kids and latter-day metalheads who had to stop fighting every few minutes to masturbate or roll a set of ten-sided dice to determine their next move. From Wordnik.com. [Deus Ex Malcontent] Reference
Even a Master of Arts in our University of Wentbridge has been known to confuse a ten-sided with a twelve-sided Polygon; and there is hardly a Doctor of Science in or out of that famous University who could pretend to decide promptly and unhesitatingly between a twenty-sided and a twenty-four sided member of the Aristocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated)] Reference
Thank goodness I still have my ten-sided dice!. From Wordnik.com. [Scholars & Students: A Compendium of Professorial Magic] Reference
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