They did so, and picked a little twelve-inch mower.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Beach]

The system included a twelve-inch composite video monitor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Found While browsing: The Terak « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy] Reference

Each wants to capture the twelve-inch worm to raise money.    From Wordnik.com.  [EGGS by Jerry Spinelli] Reference

First week we were tacking forty-fives on twelve-inch flanges.    From Wordnik.com.  [a neck dote.] Reference

It has a skirt with nine gores and a twelve-inch headed ruffle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference

It has the general appearance of a twelve-inch phonograph record.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference

Cesare thirteen twelve-inch guns mounted on the triple-turret system.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

Rourke picked up the twelve-inch bladed knife, turning it in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arsenal]

There was a small twelve-inch television set on a table in the corner.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Laughing Matter]

Feb. 23 -- Germans use Austrian twelve-inch howitzers for bombardment of.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

A twelve-inch diameter turbine fan spun in the gases behind a jet engine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chickenhawk]

He strolled off as calmly as though walking along a twelve-inch ledge over.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference

I asked, turning a twelve-inch bowie knife with a serrated blade in my hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some by Fire]

It was a tiny truck, no more than four feet high and with twelve-inch wheels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space Platform]

It comes with a saw, a hammer, a twelve-inch ruler and a collapsible shovel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paid Programming: The Writer's Toolkit] Reference

The inner box, in size a twelve-inch cube, was of black leather with gold clasps.    From Wordnik.com.  [They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff] Reference

There was a highly polished, twelve-inch Bowie knife on a plaque over the mantle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doomsayer]

Inside was a twelve-inch gramophone record of Schonberg's 'Variations for wind band'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral In Berlin]

This was a double ten-inch set that was almost immediately issued as a twelve-inch album.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth]

It felt very comfortable to have her there, speed twenty-three knots and four twelve-inch guns.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference

I opened the fridge to find my twelve-inch chopping knife prominently displayed on the top shelf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing Justice]

"You move, I kill him," he said simply, and with his free hand threw a twelve-inch length of sisal toward her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modesty Blaise]

Tony's skin was a mottled blue color, and he had a freshly stitched twelve-inch incision across his skinny little chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 6th Target]

Stalinesque purge, possibly the same month as he bought his first Bauhaus twelve-inch or maybe his first can of hairspray.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away]

On the twelve-inch monitor a perfect image appeared of the immediate environs of the shale ledge six hundred feet below him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

He ran to the jumbled pile of bedding under the gunrack and came back with a six-inch leaf-shaped blade on a twelve-inch shaft.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fuzzy Papers]

When you're only twelve-inch high teddy bear, you're at a disadvantage, anyway, but Bear has more pressing worries on his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: December 14, 2003 - December 20, 2003 Archives] Reference

Crossing one of the quiet jungle spaces, where naught moved but a velvety, twelve-inch butterfly, they heard the sound of shots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 22] Reference

The grueling 17 hour surgery left a twelve-inch scar trailing down his right side and wrapping around his double-sided sunken neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [R. B. Stuart: Green Party Admits Soldiers Testing Positive to Depleted Uranium] Reference

We should not guess the force that lies in a twelve-inch shell if we had never seen one before or heard of its seismic destruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

This time it produced a bombshell; not just an ordinary bombshell, or even a twelve-inch projectile, but a shell of planetary size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

While they hid out in the boat, they watched Buddy's little twelve-inch TV and remained up-to-the-minute with the day's developments.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Darkness More Than Night]

It was a nice bedroom, a bit overdone on the frills and finery, but with a comfortable bed and a twelve-inch black and white television.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strip Jack]