An inane twelve-year-old; that's what I've become. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
Audrey whispered anxiously, the twelve-year-old again. From Wordnik.com. [Frost at Christmas]
The twelve-year-old had looked at him with serious eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
Less than any twelve-year-old girl who goes out to service. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
A twelve-year-old boy asserted that he had seen a one-eyed man. From Wordnik.com. [Stan the Killer]
"Where did you learn about the forest?" the twelve-year-old asked. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
"A man is never afraid," answered twelve-year-old Hushiel, stoutly. From Wordnik.com. [The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country] Reference
Felix Simonson, a twelve-year-old schoolboy, took it into his head on. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Joe watched Shapiro anxiously balance on a twelve-year-old mare named Dixie. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
He saw twelve-year-old girls selling their bodies for half a crust of bread. From Wordnik.com. [Counting Up, Counting Down]
Only a nasty character would have taken advantage of his twelve-year-old niece. '. From Wordnik.com. [No Laughing Matter]
Other mothers sell their twelve-year-old son's bed when he goes to a long scout meeting. From Wordnik.com. [Motherhood, The Second Oldest Profession]
He wiped his mouth with a napkin and cleared his throat, feeling like a twelve-year-old. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
Once we believed that inherent moral degeneracy sent a twelve-year-old girl to the courts. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and Her Religion] Reference
He was her big twelve-year-old half brother, and he figured he knew everything she didn't. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
It went to twelve-year-old Susan on the condition that she divide her earnings with Hannah. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
"Mother," said a twelve-year-old of Baltimore, "did you tell father I wanted a new bicycle?". From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
They must have wondered who was this strange twelve-year-old girl, hanging around truck-halts. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
In the backseat, one very unhappy twelve-year-old, me, arriving under duress for an interview. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Guided by a compact mirror, she powdered, painted every vestige of twelve-year-old out of her face. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast At Tiffany's]
We painted all of the rooms in that house, except for the one that had belonged to a twelve-year-old. From Wordnik.com. [Baby Love] Reference
Venters Drane, the elder's twelve-year-old boy, going to school in the village, fell ill of diphtheria. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Now he had left us with a twelve-year-old boy to rule us, and powerful families attempting to take power. From Wordnik.com. [The Reluctant Queen]
I had a mug of strong black coffee and he had a bottle of the twelve-year-old Irish that is his regular drink. From Wordnik.com. [A Dance at the Slaughterhouse.html]
His instructor was a twelve-year-old boy, whose cold voice didn't conceal his contempt for the soft off-worlder. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
Espinosa in company with a small twelve-year-old boy, ripping the hind quarter out of a beef steer he had killed. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
Sadie Crane hated the new teacher with all the might that her pinched little twelve-year-old body could bring to bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
He turned a frowning face toward Keineth, as though from this twelve-year-old girl he expected help in his perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [Keineth] Reference
Two unknown men lost their lives while trying to save a twelve-year-old girl from a raft floating near Greenlawn Avenue. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
Kwan and his wife, along with the twelve-year-old Ang and his older brother, stood speechless before the seething crowd. From Wordnik.com. [The Stone Monkey]
She had been carrying the three-year-old Prince Obas and clinging to the hand of his older brother, twelve-year-old Periklos. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
When she was only seven years old her mother had betrothed her to Federico, the twelve-year-old son of Raimondo Farnese; this was. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
PROFESSOR KEITH, of the Royal College of Surgeons, reporting on the skeleton of a prehistoric twelve-year-old boy recently discovered near. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914] Reference
And in March of this year, twelve-year-old Boy Scout Michael Aubrey survived three freezing nights lost in the mountains of North Carolina. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2007] Reference
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