But in those long twelve months I found out some things. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Just on twelve, sir, but my mama only give me ten dollars.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Old Gym. A quarter past twelve. Latecomers will receive a week’s detention. Absentees will be expelled. That is all.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Over the next two days, I open my mouth at least twelve times to tell my mom that I’m entering the pageant. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The first thing I did was to make some ten or twelve pencil sketches. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The twelve men of the platoon pitched in to unload the truck. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t eat again until after Mass on Sunday, and he used the twelve flights of stairs he climbed by Bri’s side to meditate on the twelve stations of the cross. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The detective division of the Las Vegas City Jail contains two interrogation rooms—fluorescent- lighted chambers measuring ten by twelve, with walls and ceilings of celotex. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to bring his birth certificate in to the League director to prove he was only twelve. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “I wouldn’t have to guess! One hundred twelve!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Come back, boy!” she shouted, but Neville was rising straight up like a cork shot out of a bottle — twelve feet — twenty feet. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

My all-time record was five wins and one hundred and twelve losses. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I was twelve, my parents had two talks with me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It was twelve o’clock before I got any satisfactory hint of such a building, and this I got at a coffee-shop, where some workmen were having their dinner. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It’s been twelve years since my last wife passed away. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At twelve, she started keeping steady company with a lad of twenty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A vivid image of the shrieking, spitting portrait of Sirius’s mother that hung in the hall of number twelve, Grimmauld Place flashed into Harry’s mind. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Apart from her arm travelling with the cigarette holder up to her lips on average every twelve seconds, she was still. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a mat in front of the door which said Welcome in twelve different languages. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At twelve, David was the oldest of the children. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stepping away to widen the space between Uma and me, I concentrate on the rhythm of the music, the thump of feet, the jangle of silver, and the story the twelve of us are telling. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Over the six months of the fair an average of twelve thousand people would attend each of Cody’s 318 performances, for a total attendance of nearly four million. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Seven hundred twelve utensils on the table,” James repeated, this time looking at Anna and me and swaying a little as he stood. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The Basque established their secret sacred fishing grounds off the coast of Newfoundland twelve hundred years back. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In my phone, favorites four through eight and twelve through fifteen. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My voice hadn’t changed either, but I was twelve, so I still had hope. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He emptied another twelve- pack of soda and three more Happy Meals into the grave, then began chanting in Ancient Greek. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The shack was approximately ten feet by twelve feet. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

At ten minutes after twelve on the night of the killing he heard loud noises in the apartment upstairs. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fourteen days passed, three hundred and thirty-six hours flew by, twenty thousand one hundred and sixty minutes whistled past, twelve million ninety six thousand seconds roared away.... Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

With twelve minutes to go, the Lightning drew within a goal, on a penalty kick. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She might be twelve, but she wasn’t stupid. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Among the more lasting errors in his report was the assertion that Einstein had found a publisher daring enough to publish a book that only twelve men "in all the world could comprehend." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tear this note across twelve times and scatter the four thousand and ninety-six pieces to the wind! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the tall tree that took the first lightning strike at twelve o’clock, but every sector has a similar tree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since Jack was only twelve, his name was not on the list. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Can I trust the twelve of you to keep a secret? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

If there were twelve names involved, and if each name was a piece in a very big puzzle, did any of those twelve fit together in other ways? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were about twelve Tombs, each with a low arched doorway that opened into absolute blackness. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Depending on the time of day, eight to twelve porters were as-signed to the gym. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In exchange for a ride north, I had only to take regular turns at the helm—a four-hour wheel watch every twelve hours—and help tie endless skates of halibut gear. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They can live over twenty years—feed on large rodents or other mammals—average about twelve feet but can reach nineteen—” He groaned loudly and spoke even faster. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I guess she's twelve or thirteen—a bit older than me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Louis Borgenicht, for example, left the impoverished home of his parents at age twelve to work as a salesclerk in a general store in the Polish town of Brzesko. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I stretched my voice from twelve to twenty-one and said, “Operator, I need the number for Ming’s in Oakland on Magnolia.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There were other divinities in heaven besides the twelve great Olympians. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the first time I’d visited Mount Olympus, back when I was twelve. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then I minus that from the twelve dollars. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was a fairly exposed position, the distance between bench and gunnel being about twelve inches. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He walked down the twelve flights slowly, not wanting to waste more strength than he had. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Summer was twelve weeks long, which meant that by the end of vacation I would have made over seven thousand five hundred dollars. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Wait a minute, he said—he had a new, fast probe test for Ebola virus that would work in just twelve hours. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In its heyday MGF Drilling had had about twelve hundred people working for it and about fifty-five rigs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was twelve years old, his father had taken him aside. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Open your book to page twelve,” she said, without allowing her eyes to acknowledge me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m twelve going on thirteen and I might be too old for angels. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now that she was twelve, she’d be placed in her coven, but like every ceremony before, tonight three witches would be left over: Spares. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

From the time I entered prison until I married, about twelve years later, because of Mr. Muhammad’s influence upon me, I had never touched a woman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story of Bors, allowing the twelve supposed gentlewomen to be hurled from the castle turret rather than save them by committing a mortal sin, had shocked her to the heart. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now I am twelve, and expected to go it alone out to the stop. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

We ran twelve extractor loads through the whole system—all the way from the uncapping knife to the bottling tank. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was twelve years old, old enough to separate from my family and live with the Huangs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were allowed out on our terrace all day long, except between twelve and two when the warders had their lunch. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the run Brian lost twelve pounds, mostly in fluids, though he drank river water constantly to make up for it, and his hands became infected from bacteria in the water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was nearly twelve bells, and the Exchange was deserted but for the guards who patrolled the perimeter and the rooftop. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I had been waiting for twelve long years for this to happen. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

"He pulled twelve g's on the ascent. Give him a few minutes." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

What buys a full meal on day one buys a cracker on day twelve. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It worked, and he saw Jesus when Jesus was only twelve years old. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you three hundred thousand, four hundred and twelve times, girl: you must stop keeping the splendor within you for so long!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Bill Ferny’s price was twelve silver pennies; and that was indeed at least three times the pony’s value in those parts. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

For a few days, she walks off to work with a little more life in her step and even twelve hours later the glimmer of a smile is still on her face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been absent from our lives far longer than the twelve days we’d been gone, and I was thankful for the comfort of her love. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And now he had found himself at loose ends, having no family of his own to help support and being twelve years of age, finished with school. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she slept for twelve hours in a row. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Every twelve,” Nico corrected, though he didn’t explain how he knew. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They only had twelve days before Gaia planned to wake, on 1 August, the ancient Feast of Hope. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Now I’m twelve and can stay home if I want, but I still like to come. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was twelve, and could handle a horse as well as a plumbago pencil, the doctor set me off to neighboring parishes each Sabbath to copy other rectors' sermons. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their droppings speckled the gargoyles that rose twelve feet tall on either side of him, a hellhound and a wyvem, two of the thousand that brooded over the walls of the ancient fortress. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Exactly twelve years ago to this day, January 30, he was appointed chancellor of Germany. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Flitwick told me in secret that I got a hundred and twelve percent on his exam. 'They’re not throwing me out after that.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

So he took Beowulf's hands between his own and blessed and thanked him as the queen had, his voice trembling with sincerity, and gave him twelve jewels—burning stones, the most precious things he owned. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mansion itself has been converted to twelve comfortable rooms of various sizes, all quite luxurious, with two full baths on each floor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's going to take twelve hours to recharge, after all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, she was American, born twelve years ago in Columbus, Ohio, and she had never lived anywhere else. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It was a crushing disappointment for Vishniac, who had invested twelve years in its development. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was twelve years old at the time.... Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“It had split and then resplit—you had twelve thousand shares at four dollars a share. I must point out that this kind of growth is unprecedented.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Also not the right age: everyone in here is twelve. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had two sinus surgeries and missed ten of the first twelve weeks of school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t wake up after twelve minutes like Dev, or even twenty. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

On my first day in this new school, the fifth-grade teacher, Miss Buschkowsky, asks the twelve of us in her class to introduce ourselves and list one or two of our hobbies. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

For the next twelve years lived abroad, in Paris, Rome, and elsewhere, composing the first volume of Dead Souls, the novel considered to be his finest work. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah was happy when she died: her grandson Little Alfred was now twelve, headed into the eighth grade, and doing well in school. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I moved the decimal point without using pencil nor paper and said, “One tenth of a hundred and twenty-two years comes to twelve full years and two-tenths of a year, sir.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

As massive as a twelve- story building, it loomed over our heads, leaning 30 degrees past vertical. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Another mother, Belinda Caceres, twenty-nine, prays that her children, ages twelve, nine, and two, will have enough to eat and will not get sick while she is gone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Freud was absolutely fascinated and played with the baby and carried him, just as Fifi had done with her little brother twelve years before. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew until I was scoring twelve points a game. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from two television appearances right after Reykjavik, it had been almost twelve months since Bobby had made any statements or, for that matter, been seen in public. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He buys two beds, one for each of their bedrooms, twelve chairs, a table for the kitchen. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s eleven prescriptions,” she told me once, “maybe twelve. I can’t keep track, they change all the time.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I smile as I grab one, two, four, six, twelve. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Marlena needs another because twelve horses are more spectacular than ten, and spectacular is what it’s all about. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give you a thousand for him, sir, a thousand, sir—twelve hundred, sir.” The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

My last seven arrows -of the twelve I sacrificed three in the explosion, two at the feast -rattle a bit too loosely in the quiver. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She tells Mam that Mikey has more sense than twelve men drinking pints in a pub. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Each had brought a tail of fighting men—five for Old Flint, twelve for The Norrey, all clad in ragged skins and studded leathers, fearsome as the face of winter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My grandmother always had wonderful stories to tell me about her childhood and what it was like raising twelve children alone. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Right. I got there the night before and waited in line for like twelve hours.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

By the time they had their first burst of success in 1964, in fact, they had performed live an estimated twelve hundred times. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He assigned each of the twelve notes in the scale a different colour, based on Opticks, Sir Isaac Newton’s 1704 study of light, colour and diffraction. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“What is your best estimate of the number of Indochinese that we will kill, pursuing your policy in the next twelve months?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“One hundred and twelve students began the course at the same time I did.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one ever guesses eleven going on twelve on their first try. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sister and Brother were terms I used in speaking to my teachers for twelve years. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peek into the bag at my feet: a paper cutter, white card stock, and a tin of forty-eight colored pencils, twelve more than the set I have. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The referee grabbed the ball and placed it on the penalty line, twelve yards in front of me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Griswold had also moved to the Bay Area when he was twelve? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The day I was twelve and woke up with the rose-petal stain on my panties. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, this branch of the cult only traveled in groups of seven or twelve, as per musical mathematics—but they were willing to break the rule and add her to their number. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Since I was only twelve, it might seem that I was young to be working full-time, but I didn't think of myself as a child anymore, nor did anyone else. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was twelve, so he would go on the bus to town. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s nearly twelve now, and I put on my shoes and head for the library. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

All twelve bombers have already turned and climbed and realigned high above the Channel before roof slates blown into the air finish falling into the streets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Practically all. Of course when it is all gone, maybe we could eat the twelve penguins for a while.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another follows with “A hundred and twelve!” and again the others double over. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I spent most of the first twelve years of my life playing with Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

By age twelve, I was a devotee of the political columnist Mary McGrory and the muckraker Jack Anderson. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her daughter and grandchildren lived in a mean little place called Rome, twelve miles north of the town she’d left. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hell, it’s your gun. One shot. Aim overhead, twelve o’clock.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I was assigned here, to the country’s top university, at twelve, four years ahead of schedule. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I’d been expecting her to say twelve, so eight seems like a victory. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe because I was the loud one, the tall one, the one who seemed like the leader, even though I was only twelve. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the past twelve hours, I've felt everything I could possibly feel. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If getting Mommy’s undivided attention for more than five minutes was a great feat in a family of twelve kids, then getting a midnight snack in my house was a greater thrill. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thrust into vases they became dank and listless, and to see them at their best you must walk in the woods in the morning, about twelve o’clock, when the sun was overhead. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I told her all about how they put me on a psychiatric hold when I was twelve. Girls love that story. Especially the pretty ones.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Someone must keep pressing the UP button for twelve minutes, or the journey will not finish.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For twelve years, he knew, he had waited. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now a young girl, probably twelve, was drawing figures in the sand, carving out big, crude faces with a piece of driftwood. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outer ring of candles was complete, twelve white columns burning exactly as they had when Will was last in the hall. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when he was as old as ten or twelve, sometimes his mother would pull Tiller onto her lap and rock him, saying, “You’re never too old to be rocked.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The men fell out for the parades early each Sunday afternoon and groped their way into ranks of twelve outside the barracks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Aru had never gotten sunburned, and she really didn’t need to find a husband at age twelve. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In addition to its statement of purpose, the Declaration of Sentiments listed twelve resolutions intended to promote female equality. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It feels like I have twelve fingers instead of ten. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Only twice in the day’s march had they rested for a brief while, and twelve leagues now lay between them and the eastern wall where they had stood at dawn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He lathered and spray-rinsed, lathered and spray-rinsed, maybe ten or twelve times, each time gradually closing the hot- water faucet, until the rinse was cold, and that helped some. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps we would find that if we twelve men took the same tests, one or two of us might be discovered to have unconscious desires to kill, and the potentiality of carrying them out. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now listen to the same phrase played by an electric guitar, an acoustic guitar with twelve steel strings34 and an acoustic guitar with six nylon strings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

One wall was lined with high-backed leather booths opposite a long counter with twelve stools. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you’re trying to prove that site to other archaeologists and you find an unequivocal stone artifact in situ in a site that’s twelve thousand years old, everyone should run over with a camera. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I raced toward the commons area, where the twelve cabins—one for each Olympian god—made a U around the central green. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And as Cade dragged me the twelve feet from the doorway to the counter, I glanced around in terror, taking in as many details of my environment as possible. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

There are twelve elements named after people, and plenty of stars, comets and asteroids—but no planets or planetary moons. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’d spent so much time at the hospital that up until I was about twelve, I had the largest single file of any patient at Mater Children’s Hospital. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Everything changed when I had been on the island for twelve years. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He is twelve years old and only stands as tall as Ma’s shoulders, but he knows he is strong. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, every paper, pamphlet, document, book, notebook, letter, magazine, and clipping that the police had accumulated in the last three years of searches was produced and numbered; twelve thousand in all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I turned twelve and reached grade eight, I’d given up on the idea of playing a competitive team sport. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

His newest schedule was to work for ten to twelve hours, then eat and sleep a few hours at the hatchery, and then get up and work six hours. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Like I'm eleven going on twelve and I know what I'm doing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All had died from some mysterious cataclysm just under twelve million years ago in the time known to geology as the Miocene. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In a little over twelve hours, they were sneaking the orphans out of the city. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I brush past the gaping Avoxes who guard the elevators and hit the number twelve button with my fist. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“But if he does not show up by Tuesday at twelve noon, at the drawing of lots, he loses all of his rights as challenger,” Euwe said. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A walking model of all the various styles of fine hand sewing and it didn’t worry me that I was only twelve years old and merely graduating from the eighth grade. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time his case reached the Supreme Court, sixteen people had been killed by police use of the chokehold, twelve of them black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know what she thought about me turning twelve. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Violet and I just watched the trilogy for twelve hours of Aragorn. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he’s twelve years old, helping his father clean their church on Saturday morning so that it sparkles before Saturday evening worship. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the brown landscape, like a dark stain, were three black old-fashioned cars and twelve army trucks strung out behind. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the prisoners underwent the examination in groups of twelve; they merely recited a sort of confessional and catechism, got their anti-kemmer shot, and were released to work. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Angel, who was now twelve, was thin and shy. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had rehearsed this speech for twelve years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story of how I went twelve rounds with an evil spirit and won. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We decide to head to the beach at twelve o’clock. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Together we scrutinized the twelve lemon cakes from the delicatessen shop. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And if her directions were accurate, he might make it there and back before twelve. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been twelve years since his father had died, and his mother had come to spend two weeks with him and Shoba, so they could honor his father’s memory together. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I found myself floating slowly down toward the ground,” Heiberg recalled, “with all our equipment, twelve huge containers, floating down through the moonlight behind us, and the plane disappearing westwards.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only for twelve days, and for some of them at least, there would be electricity during the day. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The woman had four children all under the age of twelve, and a jealous, controlling husband. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Shakers had indeed left the land that would become Shaker Heights long before, and by the summer of 1997 there were exactly twelve left in the world. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All three of them crashed in front of the television when they got home, and watched a sitcom about a family with twelve kids. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The packing company owners, the governor’s staff, and the deputy chief of police met to put together a return-to-work plan for the twelve thousand black employees. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My life changed completely when I was twelve, the summer the heavy rains came. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had already lost thirteen points, all because she had to come helling in there at twelve, worrying me about that letter. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning this kid came to school and was greeted by anything from three hens to twelve drummers drumming. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I had to put twelve stitches in his forehead,” Doc reported. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi’s moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s why he had to go into the forest for twelve years. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Remind me to tell Papi that twelve B has a plumbing problem, okay. And go to bed. Whatever the emergency is, it’ll be gone by morning.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And, yes, I did get arrested in Boston when I was twelve. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Seventy-seven million, five hundred thirty-seven thousand, four hundred twelve,” Luke reminded us. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“Why, I suppose you have not done such a thing these twelve months.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Przemyśl had given me an education since that cart ride when I was twelve. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Matthew, Mark, and Luke were twelve, ten, and nine, old enough to keep themselves loudly amused. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figure there will be maybe twelve people at the auditions. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Fluky about her own name at twelve, how much more fluky she’d become since then Macon could only guess. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s working in his uncle Anthony’s pub twelve hours a day, twenty-five shillings a week and every day soup and a sandwich. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“She used to sail the boat, didn’t she? Were you on the beach when she sailed the boat the last time? One evening, over twelve months ago. When she didn't come back again?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Come to think of it, do we have to pay for everything we need for the impossible task? I’m only twelve,” said Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I told her I was going out with Lexie and she said I could stay out until twelve. I’m only a little late.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All but twelve ships had finally regrouped behind the sheltering spine of Massey's Hook, in the calmer waters of Blackwater Bay, but not before they had lost considerable time. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And every time Bernabe drove over those twelve white stripes, he flinched and, shaking his head, muttered to himself: “It beats me how a handful of white stripes can fool cows like that.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twelve of us that showed up had been able to put away only two or three feet of the pair of six-foot-long grinders wrapped in blue cellophane. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit in the sagging seat of the Ford Leroy’s still paying his boss twelve dollars every week for. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ophie had only once talked back to her father in her twelve years. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In his time, my lord could line them up, all twelve, at intervals like a ship’s ribbing; then he’d back away a long way off and whip an arrow through. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run through the twelve steps of recovery in my head. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They end each year with failure, but hope that when the clock strikes twelve, they can begin the new year with a clean slate. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He hated the thought of climbing the twelve flights of stairs, but he hadn’t taken the bottle of aspirin with him and he had to get it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

At around twelve thirty, word came from the far side of the mountains that sentinels had seen the capsule flying past. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

We sat at a table with twelve elves, who knew only a little Kyrrian. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the decade, there were over twelve thousand freedmen in the state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Some states have no minimum age for prosecuting children as adults; we’ve sent a quarter million kids to adult jails and prisons to serve long prison terms, some under the age of twelve. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I wept—strong monster with teeth like a shark’s—and I slammed the earth with such force that a seam split open twelve feet long. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this position he lay in a stupor of half-sleep for about twelve hours. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The circle of engines around the fire had been broken, but Williams managed to organize the twelve available engines into three groups. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline continued at my mother’s breast for another twelve months. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bloom told us to look on either side of us—one of the two people we saw would no longer be in the Department in twelve months’ time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s twelve And a weight lifter in his garage. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At twelve,” Kaisa said, “to the huntress near my family’s home.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twelve of us fit into four categories. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They were often joined by other Order members for dinner now, because the Burrow had replaced number twelve, Grimmauld Place as the headquarters. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep awake, and succeeded for a while; but when the clock struck twelve it waked me from a doze, so I must have been falling asleep. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When the clock strikes twelve, we go through what feels like an obstacle course of traditions: first everyone eats twelve grapes and drinks a cup of homemade cider. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I might find time to slip her a piece of my prime Grade A twelve incher.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By seeming to be friendly with Pilkington he had forced Frederick to raise his price by twelve pounds. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Now I could see cannons, each of them about twelve feet long and drawn by two horses. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Septa Mordane says most . . . most highborn girls have their flowering at twelve or thirteen." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After several days, it is no longer noon when the clocks say twelve. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The twelve guardians went elsewhere, leaving through a side door, probably to a private eating place. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why twelve?” asked Kyle, who was already trying to figure out how many games his team would need to win to keep its title. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Good, then you won’t mind that the game is being taped, and that twelve colleges called and asked for copies of the tape,” Goldy said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She is fifteen and looks no bigger than a twelve- year-old. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys stayed only until grade four, then headed to Iona, a combined middle-grade and high school that catered to students from grades five to twelve. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A few articles from over twelve years earlier popped up at the top of the list. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The current Butler had been guarding young Master Artemis for twelve years, since the moment of his birth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He was no older than twelve, and his scraped knees, tattered shoes, and windblown hair spoke of a life spent dodging wagons. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, you’re twelve. That’s old enough to know your own self, I expect. I’m not about to go messing with that. So all right.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"He definitely was. But I didn't know it at the time. I mean, I was twelve, and couldn't figure out how to deal with the fact that my mother wasn't the same, y'know?" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

But oh, what wouldn’t I give to be twelve years younger so I could b’lieve him! Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The first tier of seats was twelve feet above the arena floor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The interlocked bushes ranged from ten to twelve feet tall, and they looked really thick. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

So I told the hardest ten or twelve things on my list all in one outburst. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have twelve people to feed,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“A group of about twelve arrived a week ago and moved out the day before yesterday.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Outside Seoul, I talked to a North Korean defector who had paid twelve thousand dollars to a broker to smuggle out her eleven-year-old son in 2002. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“If you add up all the players in the prophecy, two over, two under, two fliers, two crawlers, two spinners, one gnawer, and one lost, you have twelve,” said Vikus gravely. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No child of twelve, thirteen, or fourteen can defend him- or herself in the adult criminal justice system. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I knew every family in each of the twelve houses that lined the road. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And today Livotny & Associates is a growing firm of twelve full-time people, which specializes in thematic restaurant design, what I still like to call “theme eating.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin says, “Me? Heck no. I’d stink at that game. But I’m asking you. Sure you can send a ball through a twelve- or fourteen-incher. Easy. But what about that eight over there?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I’m twelve years old and I have aspects. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I had not only read The Diary of Anne Frank, but when I was twelve, my parents took me to the house in Amsterdam where she hid from the Nazis. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ve waited twelve years, I’m not going to wait much longer.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

At twelve hundred it was unexpectedly announced that all workers in the Ministry were free till tomorrow morning. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At lunch they went through three hundred two-foot loaves of bread, 150 gallons of milk, and twelve hundred cups of ice cream. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The summer I turned twelve, Dad and I took a shuttle from Santa Fe to Rockhound State Park, which was exactly what its name suggested, and also Dad’s version of heaven. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The twelve equipment crates were scattered in the deep snow, and it took the men two days to find them. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twelve syrettes of morphine had been stolen from their case and replaced by a cleanly lettered note that said: “What’s good for M & M Enterprises is good for the country. Milo Minderbinder.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

That seems like a long time of working at something, since the medical definition of infertility is twelve months of well-timed physical union without any results. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Most of this region has an altitude of twelve thousand feet or more. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some weeks, between our family and theirs, there were twelve people living and sleeping in a room intended for two. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone was let off from work at twelve o’clock to practice for the Singing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Where was God when kids were selling rocks at twelve years old, and their parents encouraged it because the kids were the main breadwinners in the home? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Inside the two-story manor house there were twelve rooms, some of which had been converted to better serve the school. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“I would say fifteen and twelve, but no matter, I need some help here. Do you speak any English?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Joe had been brought to court and adjudicated on a single occasion, when he was twelve years old. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When he got off the Manhattan, he weighed twelve pounds more than when he’d gotten on nine days earlier. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, by the time we were twelve or thirteen, the Norfolk thing had become a big joke. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mother says I can drive the moped when I am twelve.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She tucked a curl behind her ear, feeling that pinch of realization again, just like when she was twelve. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Now, I knew nothing about D.C., but I didn’t see how their whole subway system could be less than twelve years old. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

California would be the ninth state for Emily in her twelve and three-quarters years, all part of her parents’ quest to live once in each of the fifty states. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

California would be the ninth state for Emily in her twelve and three-quarters years, all part of her parents’ quest to live once in each of the fifty states. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

From the time he was six until he was about twelve, Bobby spent almost every summer at camp somewhere in the tri-state area around New York City. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the floor was covered with excrement, and all twelve bowls were erupting like a row of tiny volcanoes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was only twelve, but he looked much older and sadder. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, good. You do see. Now here’s what I propose: a twelve o’clock strike. What happens exactly at noon and at midnight?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when I was twelve, I was just as much of a nobody as you are now. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“No, James is telling us that there are seven hundred twelve utensils on the table,” Miss Kelsey said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I had three hundred and twelve dollars in my wallet. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, the first twelve blacks who were tried were found guilty of murder and executed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

"The stripped-down MAV will get up to twelve g's during the launch. He could be unconscious and may even have internal bleeding." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were eleven or twelve new faces now, a regular stampede to glory. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m twelve years old now,” I said with pride. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the floor there was a table twelve feet high and a chair to match. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy felt exactly like he had at twelve years old, battling Ares on that beach in Los Angeles, when the shadow of the Titan lord had first passed over him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When they got back to the house, some ten or twelve guests were still there. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They squish and squash, and twelve miles was a long way to walk in squishy shoes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time that I was touched by war I was twelve. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The only other time I tasted beer was when I was twelve and secretly took a sip of Apá’s Old Style when he was in the bathroom. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sexers worked for twelve hours in a row, and then they slept while a new batch of eggs warmed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Any time I say something is stressful, my mama rolls her eyes and says, “You’re twelve, Shenice. You have no idea what that word means.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

A huge chocolate cake with twelve candles sat on the coffee table, waiting for later. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Ben took the card and, holding it close to the candle, read aloud: “‘Here’s twelve roses for the prettiest girl at the hop. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The place is packed. Everybody was invited! All twelve of the original players.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The time is twelve ten on the nose. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taken collectively, they are not simply twelve million people; in reality they constitute a separate nation, stunted, stripped, and held captive within this nation, devoid of political, social, economic, and property rights. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In just over three years, she solved a staggering twelve thousand secret messages for the Coast Guard and its allies in the Rum War. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s twelve minutes long, and I want to edit it down to ten minutes, but I think it’s pretty good. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was only just gone twelve, they were much earlier than I expected. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

What actually happened is this: the boy stayed home, had another fight with this father, stabbed him to death with the knife at ten minutes after twelve and fled from the house. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the answer, though- For twelve days now the ship had floated becalmed in the Gulf of Grief. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

People cursed at Frank in about twelve different languages. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Beans were twelve and a half cents a pound and hard to find. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

However, when they found six black-mustached seals, sitting barking in the middle of the room, with twelve penguins parading gaily around them in a square, they felt better. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the Manhattan, though, he could play twelve hours a day, seven days a week. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But Maureen was only twelve, and I worried that she might be too young to leave home. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘The fellow in question first came in here twelve days ago and he was a stranger in the town. The first week he gave us twenty dollars’ worth of trade. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Wilkerson not only rectifies the world’s ignorance about the Great Migration, but with twelve hundred interviews and crystalline prose she makes us understand it in its full human reality. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Chad has twelve living units, only nine of which are currently being used. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The girl was pretty, small and slender, about eleven or twelve years old. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

One minute I was twelve years old and wondering where I could get enough money for an inner tube for my old used ten-speed. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will stop along the way in twelve cities and pass through 444 communities. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She received twelve hundred dollars from the sale of the book. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men and women in those days probably worked from dawn to noon two hundred days a year, which works out to about twelve hundred hours of work annually. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

This is what she was doing when, a little before twelve o’clock, she looked up to see Doon running toward her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The parley room was a comfortable place with a big fire, sideboards laden with silver and porcelain, and a heavy table darkly polished by the years, at which twelve chairs were drawn up. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Piper had heard that each giant was born to oppose a particular god, but there were way more than twelve giants gathered in the Parthenon. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But he was a good architect; Quentin knew the house, twelve miles from Jefferson, in its grove of cedar and oak, seventy-five years after it was finished. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one day, the blood travels a total of twelve thousand miles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“They’re ten and twelve. I don’t know their parentage, but they’re strong. Were running out of time, though. I need help.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I guess she misses us. Or else she’s waiting for something. I don’t know what. It’s been twelve years.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then he turned north and descended into the Washington scablands, a tortured landscape shaped by a series of cataclysms between twelve and fifteen thousand years ago. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ma returns to the field, working twelve to fourteen hours a day and leaves Geak behind with Chou. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not so. You see, this crime, it was most probably committed by a woman. The man was stabbed no less than twelve times. Even the chef de train said at once, ‘It is a woman.’ Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In 52 percent of crashes, the pilot at the time of the accident has been awake for twelve hours or more, meaning that he is tired and not thinking sharply. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I was not being disrespectful, but it made me think back to when I was twelve years old and my father died of AIDS. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

His twelve years of British schooling had failed to give him spleen, which was considered a gentleman’s most attractive trait. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our shifts were twelve hours, with no breaks for meals. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We use a different form: eleven, twelve, thirteen, and fifteen. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The hall clock began chiming, and she counted twelve strokes before it fell silent. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The first assignment is on page twelve, numbers one through twenty-one.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chapter Eleven, twelve years old, does not join the boys and girls at the table but instead stands back against the wall, drinking punch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And this little girl didn’t look any older than me, and I was only twelve. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Garikayi married Chipo when she was only twelve, but she didn’t get pregnant till now. You can bet he’s anxious about it. He doesn’t have any children. It’s considered a disgrace.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Of the twelve passengers in that coach, nine have been proved to have had a connection with the Armstrong case. What next, I ask you? Or, should I say, who next?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet I still act sometimes like I was only about twelve. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She was small and pale, with the frightened air of an ill-used child, but her scrawny, underfed body did give off a hint of woman, so perhaps she was twelve or thirteen. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think almost twelve years. Why do I want to bother with flying, anyway?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were also ten or twelve jugs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yours truly, Your Friendly Neighborhood Nemesis The reply came twelve minutes later. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Jankowski. I have twelve other patients to take care of. Now please take your pills.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He stopped at the bottom of the stairs and walked up twelve steps, counting as he went. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

"They put twelve soups on the tray by mistake and Lenny and I stuffed down so many hotdogs while we were waiting for the rain to stop I couldn't eat another mouthful." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Charged with picketing for better hours and working conditions at a cotton mill in Newnan, Georgia, sixteen women and one hundred and twelve men were imprisoned. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The mile was four laps of the track; the 5,0 was more than twelve, what Louie would describe as a “fifteen- minute torture chamber,” well over three times his optimal distance. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I have four sons. Would you consider one of them instead? Ben is twelve and thirsty for adventure. He could squire for you if it please my lord.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She may not even be twelve, he thought, as she squirmed between a pair of old men, but he was not about to turn away his only recruit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The hospital spans the first twelve floors of the building, but I'm only interested in the one without windows. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She was home one night with her mother and brother Lionel when some ten or twelve soldiers burst into the house. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

His idea was to offer the Russians a two-year moratorium on nuclear testing, with compliance to be verified by eight to twelve monitoring stations on each country’s territory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The twelve members of the Court looked through the dim afternoon light at the cleric on the stand, their last witness. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A couple lay twelve feet off the ground, their seat back stuck in a horizontal position, staring up at the sky as if undergoing some kind of examination. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been looking for you everywhere. The Bulgarians are insisting we add another twelve seats to the Top Box.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I set before you the bow of godlike Odysseus. He who strings the bow and shoots an arrow straight through twelve rings in a line, I will take as my husband.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Going by her, you might be as old as twelve. That’s still a shocking age to get married.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly across the street stood a small one-room shack about seven feet wide and twelve feet long; it was made of unpainted wood, with large gaps between the wallboards where vines and weeds grew. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They found that among fourth graders, the oldest children scored somewhere between four and twelve percentile points better than the youngest children. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She get to twelve and I got to take over. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A slim one, but better than he’d had twelve hours ago. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It was with great anticipation that I went to sleep on Friday, knowing that I was now twelve and that the next day I would have both the party and the presents. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The next twelve hours were a whirling blur of confusion. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday twelve more died; thirteen died on Thursday. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Next summer, Nathan thought, he was going to be twelve, and then thirteen. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I looked at the clock in the recess yard, and it was only twenty to twelve, so I had quite a lot of time to kill before I met old Phoebe. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Echevarri didn’t begin formal dance training until the age of twelve, but once she did, there was no looking back. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Gina, seeing that she hasn’t died yet, has cut down her daily calls from ten or twelve a day to two or three. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Carver School is twelve blocks from our apartment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We had twelve students in my class, and everybody was friends. Everybody!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s only about twelve miles and there’s a full moon tonight. I’m on my way.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lifeboat came equipped with twelve solar stills. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I explained my role of the previous twelve years, of helping to organize and to build the Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been working out since he was twelve; he was all muscle and virtually no body fat, and I knew this because he liked to update me on his body-fat percentage on a regular basis. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids were my size or smaller, but there were ten or twelve monster dudes. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Around the unlit cauldron that will hold the bonfire, twelve archers are taking their positions. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In twelve hours I’ll be in my cap and gown getting ready to walk, and the minutes can’t go any slower. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Of course he’s new, he looks like he’s about twelve,” retorted Matthias. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But they couldn’t use the Doors without someone manning the controls for twelve long minutes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Still, he lived more than twelve hours, a feat which amazed the doctors. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was only twelve then, but he could have been twenty-two: his quick-fire intelligence was already being cooled by gravity, the brittle self-assuredness of adolescence already annealing into the self-confidence of adulthood. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

One of the four, Bruce Martin, I met on the first day of seventh grade, at twelve years old. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

With twelve grains he’d go for a jog afterward, laughing and singing “Tinker Tanner.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Since break is only twelve minutes, we don’t have time to waste, and we’re already starting late, so I blurt out, “You’ll never guess who my lab partner is.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Excellent nosh, Petunia. It’s normally just a fry-up for me of an evening, with twelve dogs to look after....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes, so any one of these paths could lead to twelve o’clock,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

An innocent boy is now twelve years of age, and finds himself locked up in a human-sized cage. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The glossy pages of succeeding months blossom around it: landscapes of fluted mountains for 1964; a curious collection of Irish setters and pugs in 1969; twelve varieties of jasmine for each month of 1973. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mommy’s house was orchestrated chaos and as the eighth of twelve children, I was lost in the sauce, so to speak. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then would come six or seven pretty good years of twelve to sixteen inches of rain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As each boy reached the age of twelve, he had to leave school to go out to earn a few pennies. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had broken her toe and been promised twelve days’ bed rest, and had had only seven. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I nursed a worthless pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I’d never marry one. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At the end of twelve minutes Dev would open his eyes as if he’d been awake all along, smiling at her, full of a contentment she wished she felt herself. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Drink twelve cups at about eleven P.M., and you’ll really notice the difference between going to bed and going to sleep. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the winter’s long darknesses, during what they called their “maximum nights,” they might make twelve to eighteen bombing runs in a single evening. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My mother didn’t see her family again for twelve years. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The farthest may be ten or twelve or more billions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The defense lawyer had filed no written pleadings and uttered no more than twelve transcript lines at sentencing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Families sat crowded on the hot little porches, cotton lint from twelve hours in the mill still clinging to their hair and overalls and dresses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She had ten dollars in her pocket and twelve hundred in the bank. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The rug on the floor, with its Cincinnati Reds logo, had also been Mike’s when be was twelve years old. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Next month I will be twelve years old, and I hope I’ll be five feet tall by then. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first twelve years as a student were spent in Catholic schools where I could look up to the front of the room and see a crucifix hanging over the clock. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been Mrs. Obama for the last twelve years, but it was starting to mean something different. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Why is this happening? I’m twelve now and ready to know everything.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So if I was at twelve o'clock, he was at six. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When Chris was twelve, he printed up a stack of flyers and started a neighborhood copy business, Chris’s Fast Copies, offering free pickup and delivery. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began: Hi, my name is Caitlin, I’m twelve years old. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“When he twelve, she cry all time because he grow too fast.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was young—probably the youngest of any in the group he’d seen so far, maybe twelve or thirteen years old. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“There’s no need for that! You’ll be home after Idaho, in, what, twelve days?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

However, two cloaked men had appeared in the square outside number twelve, and they remained there into the night, gazing in the direction of the house that they could not see. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He suspected that dying twelve times at the hands of scythes would be a lot worse than splatting. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

President Lincoln has just twelve days to live. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

StaffSergeant Max Mayhem and Private Jasper Jacks awake in a dark, empty room approximately twelve feet square. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Now they only dance on New Year’s Eve, when we all stay up late and eat our twelve grapes, one for each month of the new year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He teaches social studies, grades seven to twelve, and he never tires of talking about the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold still and count to twelve before it flutters and falls to the ground. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

For the first twelve years of the Alexandriaville seventh graders’ lives, school media centers were the only libraries they had ever known. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were twelve names, and twelve letters in each name. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She’s been dead so long and Diana’s only twelve like me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Down the center of the room twelve toilet bowls were arranged in six pairs, back to back, with no partitions. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gangling, towheaded youngster, a girl of about twelve, stood looking in the doorway. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He wrote a letter to the twelve men he’d chosen to serve as its board of trustees, outlining his wishes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He watched twelve rats falling over each other and bumping heads as they chased his friend around the common land. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And Ben had taught me about the Alar, the riding-crop belief, back when I was twelve. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After reading twelve pages, she looked to the end to see how many more pages there were to go: more than two hundred. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m about twelve miles down the road,” I said. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You offer just one massage? What if you stay on as my personal masseuse for twelve years?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At one in the afternoon, for the second time in twelve hours, Zahra bursts through his bedroom door. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I remember my grandfather had an Axminster that could seat twelve — but that was before carpets were banned, of course.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I might as well have been twenty-one and not twelve. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the authorities believed that Adele, who was twelve years older than my grandfather and had been his live-in companion for two years by that time, would make sure that nothing happened to us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Where could Western music go once - as it seemed at the end of the nineteenth century - all possibilities of the existing system of twelve notes and key-families had reached saturation point? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

All twelve of us were sitting at the long table on the lawn outside Clairmont. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Luz, older by twelve minutes, usually speaks for the two of them. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously, a footsoldier of the Fourth would have left Boston that morning with Percy, would have mucked about for twelve hours shooting and being shot at. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were in all the Shire only twelve of them, three in each Farthing, for Inside Work. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Catarino, who did not believe in magical tricks of strength, bet him twelve pesos that he could not move the counter. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His parents must’ve had the talk with him when he was twelve. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Of the twelve members of the committee, five were elsewhere, flogging some or another piece of legislation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

During the first twelve hours I thought of Mrs. Reed in her last moments; I saw her disfigured and discoloured face, and heard her strangely altered voice. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There are only twelve months in a year,” she says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Catherine had a little over twelve hundred lire. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Little parrot or not, I am almost twelve and have to learn some manners. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Theoretically, we should have a full twelve hours of safety from the jungle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He drew his sword and showed it to her; a longsword adroitly shrunken to suit a boy of twelve, gleaming blue steel, castle-forged and double-edged, with a leather grip and a lion's-head pommel in gold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because of everything that had happened in those twelve weeks. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He drove all twelve miles like that, cackling as if it were a game, as if we were both in on it, as if my teeth weren’t clattering. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Fifteen on Thanksgiving Day, ten on the Saturday after, and then up to twelve on Sunday—“a regular heat wave,” said my father. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“The oldest of the three kidnapped siblings, Rochester Charles Gustano, who goes by Rocky, just turned twelve last Tuesday...” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

For characters like Skeezie and me, a town this size is a perfect fit; at least, that's the way it feels to me at the age of twelve. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the West it took another century of experiment and debate before this evenly spaced solution for twelve, not nineteen, notes emerged as the front-runner solution. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I know because I’m twelve in it too. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

There were ten or twelve rats patrolling it, some distance away. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A thin boy, a little sallow, and a tad short for his twelve years. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Usually there would be ten or twelve monkeys in hatboxes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fire devours books,” he always said, but she was twelve years old, she surely could be trusted to keep an eye on a couple of candle flames. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I turned, and there he was in the night sky, flying in from twelve o’clock with his winged shoes fluttering, Grover, holding a tree branch the size of a baseball bat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Conor stood there until the second hand glided around and reached the twelve. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

After all, there were twelve trays of foe things. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Three rounds of discussion took place in the space of twelve minutes, and questions were posed regarding the extent of the emergency. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They had heard the words repeated a hundred and fifty times every night for twelve years. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only had to be better than twelve other guys. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Dedicate myself to bringing the drinking age down to twelve.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But there was one part in all this that he could not think through, one indistinct shape that the shambles twelve miles outside Dunkirk could not reduce to a simple outline. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I came here with my friend Bitsy Cohan’s family when we were twelve,” Immie said, gesturing at the island around them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Besides, anybody who started for church at nine in the morning on Sunday and didn’t get home until after twelve thirty had to be peculiar. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She has been hurt far worse than I had at the age of twelve. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Across the pool stood a brick wall twelve feet high, with iron spikes along its top. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In less than twelve years they baptized with the name Aureliano and the last name of the mother all the sons that the colonel had implanted up and down his theater of war: seventeen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She was twelve years old but already so beautiful and womanly that her father, the Emperor, had issued a protective edict that no man might be alone in her presence without his express permission. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

That year I was twelve years old, in sixth grade. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In September of grade twelve, the matric dance was coming up. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s the best sexer in Georgia. He won the national competition in Japan before he moved to the States. He can sex twelve hundred chicks an hour with one hundred percent accuracy.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of them, nesded in the woods by the lake. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

About ten or twelve seconds, maybe. 3RD JUROR: What’s all this for? 8TH JUROR: I’d say that was a fair guess. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between bench and gunnel there was twelve inches, and the side benches were only one and a half feet wide. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

After ten months on Maxwell Street and over twelve months in an attic before that, I expected mornings to smell like dust and mildew. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The fair’s engineers conducted the first test twelve feet from the lagoon on ground intended to support the northeast corner of the Electricity Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Papa Acevedo—Mauricio—he was my teacher before he died. I was just a kid, twelve, when I met him, but he knew I had something in me...and he trained me.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Richard is looking at the kitchen clock, waiting for the second hand to get to the twelve. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The voyage was supposed to take from twelve to fourteen days. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

No “you guys” for me; everyone over twelve is “sir” or “ma’am.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And how many make the team, like twelve?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The elevator takes us to the roof of Batalla Hall, twelve stories high, where the shadows from surrounding buildings don't protect us from the sun. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Now that you have turned twelve,” she started, “I know you’ll appreciate what I have to say about birthday gifts and gift giving. My mother taught me this and it is the old Norvelt way.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Now on to my next task: sitting around with nothing to do for twelve hours. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about ten after twelve or so then, and so I went back and stood by the door and waited for old Phoebe. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

If they haven’t already lost interest by the time they are twelve or so, their education is over and out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demons we met would have been grateful now for a crust of bread or a cup of water—things they would have turned their backs on just twelve hours ago. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The East Bay bus leaves in twelve minutes. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be delighted to, but I must leave now tonight. I’m expected by twelve.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next twelve days, American bombers struck Hanoi and Haiphong with twenty thousand tons of explosives. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In an instant the world knew that Jenny Terranova was safe from gleaning for the next twelve months. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I ate twelve French toasts, two omelets, and I was fixing to eat yours.. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t looked at this picture in almost twelve years: it’s a throwback to the worst day of my life. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“See if Lice will take my bonefish skiff. It’s worth ten or twelve grand at least.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, Mr. D. My max is about twelve bowls of spaghetti.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When Margaret was twelve years old, my mother was one of her mother’s graduate students. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to relax with Hermione next to you reciting the twelve uses of dragon’s blood or practicing wand movements. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Steak, for instance—the very best steak shouldn’t have been more than ten frogs a pound but Lee set it at twelve and a half. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the front door of the yellow house, about nineteen steps forward, and twelve steps to the right. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They died quickly, “the way a hero sandwich dies in the garment district at twelve o’clock in the afternoon,” as the poet Pinero put it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I've been with a dead person only twice before, at my grandparents' funerals when I was eleven and twelve, and then there was dim lighting and music. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Though it was created in defiance of nature's musical laws, the new, interlocking, standardised system came with huge benefits, not least making all twelve key-families compatible. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Leaving me twelve, which is not impossible, but not the best way to spend your first evening after three months on brandy.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“If we meet no winds, we shall be over Svalbard in twelve hours or so.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was when the first one hit twelve or thirteen. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In moonlight, neatly stacked, twelve wooden crates gleam. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the last twenty strokes, and particularly in the final twelve gorgeous strokes, they simply powered past the British boat, decisively and unambiguously. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But secretly, I bet it’s easier not to care what people think of you when you’re Gram’s age than when you’re twelve. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Like the black boy, he looked about twelve years old. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In front of them were twelve rows of chairs—for journalists, teachers, invited friends. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I suppose the moral is,” said Arthur, “that you must not commit mortal sin, even if twelve lives depend upon it Dogmatically speaking, I believe that is sound.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could barely stand each other at nine and twelve. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

His name and the number twelve were printed on the front. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I mean, hers isn’t twelve feet tall. But she imports stuff...from China. We’re Chinese.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It sounds simple, but the whole procedure took double the time expected, clocking in at more than twelve hours. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Since nobody seems to have done any serious research in anatomy for the next twelve or thirteen centuries, Galen’s work was regarded as the last word in human anatomy until well into the sixteenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

At nine p.m. on Friday, as he did every week, Habib dialed the number given to him by the U.S. consulate in Peshawar, where it was nine in the morning, exactly twelve hours ahead. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Finally, at twelve fifteen, a lone Union officer and his Confederate escort arrive to see Lee. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The portrait of a young boy, no more than twelve years old, stared back at me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She and Loretta have planned a shorter run today, twelve miles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His continual fear of being arrested, killed, accosted, or insulted fatigued him, and that may be one of the reasons he slept ten or twelve hours every night. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was a year older than I and was in my class for twelve years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of coming back from Oxford after those twelve weeks, she’d stayed on to do a summer course, explaining that a professor she admired would be retiring after that. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

During election time he sent out a list of endorsements to a secret mailing list of twelve hundred registered voters. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If their friends had made it to the Doors, if they were really going to show up here in twelve minutes... The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I have been with my brain for twelve long years. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The barn was divided into twelve smaller pens, each with a thick layer of fresh straw for them to bed in. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Meetings were banned; printing presses were seized; and legislation was rushed through Parliament permitting the police to detain charged prisoners for twelve days without bail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twelve golden angels — including this year’s new one—one for every year of my life. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

"And Joffrey . . . Joffrey is ..." She finished for him. ". . . crown prince, and heir to the Iron Throne. And I was only twelve when my father promised me to your brother Brandon." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Then at twelve thirty-seven, to put it formally, M. Ratchett was alive. That is one fact, at least.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like, in the next twelve minutes”—she points to a wristwatch that isn’t even there—“I have a baby. Or I don’t. Ever.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I know you know what happened today at 6:00 a.m., twelve years ago. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I got twelve Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and two were full-size! P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He said now that maybe if he’d set off at twelve, he would have ended up staying in California instead of going to Iowa with his family. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not sorry. I knew somebody like you once—hung him twelve years ago in front of the county jail. We used to do that here.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I guess I still look like I’m twelve going on eleven. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Indeed, a famed Chinese scholar had once named twelve small wonders of the world; eleven of them were Chinese, and the twelfth was the color of Korean celadon pottery! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Hairwoman: “Do you tell your math teacher you don’t believe that three times four equals twelve? Well, Hawthorne’s symbolism is just like multiplication—once you figure it out, it’s as clear as day.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This is what you’ve been writing about for the past twelve months? Not.. .Jesus Christ?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

L was also the twelfth letter in the alphabet and one of the twelve pentominoes. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

All we had was the twelve bucks I had left after buying the soap and the watch and the Tic Tacs. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

After twelve months at Head Office, we trainees were all sent away to various Shell branches in England to study salesmanship. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around them, too, were signs that the Antarctic winter was fast approaching: there were now twelve hours of darkness, and during the daylight hours petrels and terns fled toward the north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The fence is maybe twelve or fourteen feet high with three strands of barbed wire run across the top. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the American soldiers took the captured boys to Dachau, a liberated concentration camp located just twelve miles outside Munich. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I access Justin and find out he moved to town when he was twelve. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Seaborg had accepted an appointment at Berkeley as a full professor, with the authority to hire four assistant and associate professors and twelve salaried graduate fellows. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

People were lined up along the road, shouting and waving at us, and one young man, perhaps twelve years old, ran along behind us for several miles. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was twelve and a half, I learned some more from Jacque, who wasn’t as ignorant as I was. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There turned out to be one hundred and twelve of these notched letters scattered throughout the book. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her loafers were standing at attention where she had stepped out of them twelve hours ago. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This lad was near twelve, and the steward praised his wits and courage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"It was Tina, I was twelve, I didn't even like girls yet. . . ." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Kabuo remembered trolling for cutthroat with Carl— they were twelve years old, long before the war—in a borrowed, weathered rowboat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m only twelve. But going on thirteen. I'll be thirteen in December. December fourth.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A girl who couldn't be much older than twelve or thirteen approached his window. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

During his twelve years in the community, he had never felt such simple moments of exquisite happiness. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Number twelve was visible to them, for they had been told of its existence by Dumbledore, its Secret-Keeper, and they rushed toward it, checking every few yards that they were not being followed or observed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You turn twelve and you forget all about us. How come you never came by?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most were sent packing at the age of twelve—right when they had begun to get comfortable. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I looked in the mirror at our reflection, at the twelve girls, sleek and shiny, pirouetting blurs of black, white and pink. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The only child of immigrant parents, orphaned at the age of twelve, self-educated, hard-working Samuel Westing saved his laborer's wages and bought a small paper mill. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may only be twelve, but I’ve already fallen in love once—with music. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Around half past twelve there was a great clattering outside in the corridor and a smiling, dimpled woman slid back their door and said, “Anything off the cart, dears?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Six X over six equals X. X equals twelve was the answer. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

By age twelve, I was traveling an hour and a half one way to junior high school by myself, taking two buses each direction every day. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a messenger on a bicycle came teetering up the jungle path bringing us twelve vials of antivenin, individually wrapped in tissue inside a woman’s jewelry box—an astounding treasure whose history we couldn’t guess. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, and there was Mr. Prescott that she knew right well and he was going to tell the twelve men to kill her for shooting Tea Cake. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“That will take me twelve trips to the third floor,” I said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Papa hadn’t hugged me I don’t reckon since the day I was twelve years old. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He’s been in thirty-eight dramas, twelve crime pictures and comedies, eleven thrillers, eight action films, seven Westerns, six war movies, four documentaries, three horror flicks, two sci-fi films, and a musical, among others. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the great clock on the roof of the court-house struck twelve. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten or twelve of us women got up and formed a cordon around our priest. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we find number twelve, Mr. Allen makes a left and we drive on a dirt road so narrow, branches whack the car. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she still felt like she was twelve, and if you looked at her, she seemed somewhere in between. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The pictures at Thurmond were identical to this one, and I had never thought of him as anything older than eleven or twelve. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He had twelve dragons on him, and this filing too.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Two students, girls of twelve or thirteen, look up when I walk past their classroom. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the age of twelve he asked Úrsula what was in the locked room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

So that’s a twelve out of ten on the awkward scale. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It’s true that I’m small for twelve, but I’m wearing Lucinda’s hand-me-down patent leathers with the little heels that bring me up to almost five feet. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In less than twelve hours they would be in a taxi, headed toward Jalalabad. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The explosion in the mortar pit that had killed twelve of his buddies played out in his head again and again, grotesque and graphic. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And teosinte, unlike wild wheat and rice, is not a practical food source; its “ears” are scarcely an inch long and consist of seven to twelve hard, woody seeds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Have you ever had a song stuck in your head for twelve years? Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

In his own arms—and Matty was strong—he could have carried no more than ten or twelve at a time. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Michael was fine for my sisters, but I was twelve. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He built Mammachi a Bauhaus dining table with twelve dining chairs in rosewood and a traditional Bavarian chaise longue in lighter jackwood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the 352 men who worked on the bridge’s notorious east caisson, pressure-related illness killed twelve, left two crippled for life, and injured sixty-six others, a casualty rate of over 20 percent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Even though General de Wet and General Kemp had led a force of twelve thousand and occupied towns and caused many deaths, they were both released soon after their convictions for high treason. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conveniently, Mrs. Brenner had omitted that by the time I was twelve, we were left destitute. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The grandchildren ranged in age from four to fourteen, and one of them, Violet, was twelve years old when True Belle arrived. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recently, in Texas, an armed robber was electrocuted one month after his conviction; but in Louisiana, at the present writing, two rapists have been waiting for a record twelve years. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of them all together, forming a large circle around the solitary tower. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And Henry was mostly gone, often working twelve- and sixteen-hour shifts for days in a row until his team hit oil and they moved on to look for a new site. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

With one syllable Matthew disposed of the sacrifice, only a little less sharp than Grandfather’s loss, of the little African slave who had been her shadow for twelve years. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But the library’s demolition also meant that those of you who are now twelve years old have lived your entire lives without a public library.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She had a good big laugh, and Mother had to put the telephone twelve inches from her ear or it would’ve popped her eardrums. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Its opening theme, albeit not instantly hummable, consists of twelve notes: it uses all twelve notes of the Western scale without repeating any of them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When he was twelve, the body of Russell Charley, a black man from Monroe County, was found hanging from a tree in Vredenburgh, Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The door of number twelve was ajar and Percy was shouting. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

For twelve school years, every morning, she had turned left out the front door to get to work. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

By the end of day twelve, I breathed in deeply, and I exhaled. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The guys in twelve B said we could use their place,” Alex said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had no girl crushes, as is usual at twelve and thirteen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “Let’s see, eighteen pounds, twenty minutes to the pound— that’s eighteen times twenty—that’s three hundred and sixty minutes, six hours even—eleven to twelve, twelve to one—” He counted on his fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Parker says when everyone from room twelve arrives. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

A shearing had brought a veritable mountain of gray wool to be washed and bleached and dyed, enough to keep Mercy carding and spinning and weaving for the next twelve months. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her pulse seemed to be whispering, twelve, twelve, twelve, twelve. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually Luke, who was twelve, asked if we could help. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Answering questions about her personal history did not jibe with Mommy’s view of parenting twelve curious, wild, brown-skinned children. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday I only had twelve, and most of those were from my mom. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They went through twelve magic doors, until they reached the armoury, and there was all his armour bright and ready. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of those twelve men had already finished their seventy missions.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And on some nights, between the hours of twelve and five o’clock, not a customer would enter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He married her and made the baseball team his own, adding four more kids to make it an even twelve. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we’d be walking twelve miles to school in the desert too, right?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“When I was twelve,” he said again, “this family adopted me. The Buchanans.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Does a man who commits suicide stab himself in ten—twelve—fifteen places?” he asked. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared a couple of moments at my brother, now twelve years old. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to rent one of the deluxe rigs for twelve hours,” I said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He looks about twelve or fourteen years old, has a round face, black wavy hair, and a small, dark sinewy body. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the sealed bookcase, Charles saw twelve book covers. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He lasted them another twelve days, until it was time to draw again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

One the size of a rhino tried to kill me when I was twelve. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He slept in the room where I had slept from the time I was about twelve. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sun wouldn’t go down again until around seven at night, which gave me twelve hours—plenty of time if I walked along swiftly. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost like she didn’t want to remember what she was like twelve months ago, and she certainly didn’t want the boys to know that she knew me and used to be my friend. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Parker tells me that twelve girls from high schools throughout the city have been selected to participate in Woman to Woman. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Black had proved twelve years ago that he didn’t mind murdering innocent people, and this time he had been facing five unharmed boys, four of whom were asleep. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I was twelve but had never been alone like that before. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your best kicker gets an unobstructed shot at the goalie from just twelve yards away. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This Jones goes out to lunch from twelve to twelve- thirty. So you come around about twelve-forty-five.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he was a college senior, he had become the national champion, an honor he would repeat twelve more times over the course of his career. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My Roman soldier stood in the schoolyard one morning when I was twelve. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Principles of Geology went through twelve editions in Lyell’s lifetime and contained notions that shaped geological thinking far into the twentieth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They had transferred me to another Kommando, the construction one, where twelve hours a day I hauled heavy slabs of stone. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within twelve months its membership doubled and contributions to the organization skyrocketed. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

At twelve o’clock the parade of friends, relatives, and acquaintances began to file in to express their sympathy to the family. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I killed a man at twelve. You can be sure it was not with a blunt sword." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Between her murmurs of appreciation during Chaol’s brief tour of her rooms, she’d counted the windows—twelve—the exits—one—and the guards posted outside her door, windows, and balcony—nine. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As her new stepsisters climbed out of the carriage, Ana, who was twelve — “just your age; she will make a wonderful playmate for you,” her father had written hopefully — complained of hunger. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the skip started bowling, there were already twelve bowls on the green. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The summer I was twelve, I traveled to Ohio with my mother’s sister, who lived in Columbus. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You wrote a musical when you were twelve?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t explain how he felt to a grown man, though—what it was to remember when he was twelve and found he’d never go to school again. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s been in and out of our station since he was twelve, the poor brat. Looks like he finally got what was coming to him and pickpocketed the wrong man.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He moved boulders around his yard on weekends, ate twelve ears of corn in one sitting, and kept barrels full of oysters in his garage so he could shuck and eat them anytime he wanted. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Okay, so, you know Ruby Willow, the girl who wrote the cookbook Trevor gave me, is twelve like me,” I said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They also had an adopted son, Matthew, who was about twelve; Luke; and a foster baby named Keisha. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He twelve years old, blind, and got a hit on the radio. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Two months and twelve days till your birthday. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He pushed some buttons at least twelve times; others I stopped counting at five. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this demand were granted, you would need only eleven points out of twenty three but I would still need twelve and a half out of my twenty three. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of the Blacks that I had met in those twelve weekends were there. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he let Bob make this sacrifice, how could one Titan defend himself against so many for twelve minutes, all while keeping his finger on a button? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She runs off in the direction of the ticket booth while Bailey watches the clock tick closer to twelve. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

What I’ve always found ironic about Sweet 16 is that they don’t go above a size twelve. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The average farmer grew enough food to feed twelve other Americans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the first wave of his attack, Van Riper had fired twelve theater ballistic missiles at various ports in the Gulf region where Blue Team troops were landing. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The inhabitants of number twelve were never seen by anybody in the surrounding houses, and nor was number twelve itself. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At step twelve I planted my right hand down on one of the playing cards strewn across the stage by the previous act. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve been begging him to let me, since I’m turning twelve in five months, but he hears too many stories about air-bag disasters from the trauma team he works with at the hospital. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For many African Americans, the use of wholly discretionary peremptory strikes to select a jury of twelve remained a serious barrier to serving on a jury. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I can hear the twelve Hogan Songs that began the evening, those songs that Talking God sang about the home of Changing Woman, those songs that were sung around the Mountain Where Traveling Was Done. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were assigned two of these for the twelve people in our family group; and our official family “number” was enlarged by three digits—16 plus the number of this barracks. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

When there were twelve against you, you made certain moves, tried certain holds, acted in certain ways. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

By the age of twelve, the boy is essentially fending for himself. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If she hadn’t written the note, she could have gotten back to the building, taken the elevator up to twelve, and been in their apartment before the electricity went out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

At twelve thirty several men come out from the inner office. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Instead he bought a spring in the town of Big Bend, twelve miles south of Waukesha, just inside the Waukesha County line. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I recalled what I could of how I had been educed, at age twelve. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The duration of each lesson was measured by the clock, which at last struck twelve. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Lev, how is that possible? What were you, twelve?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

By the time I finish, remember, I’ll have done twelve years of this, and it’s only for the last six they’ve let me choose. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all depended on how much overtime; anything over twelve hours a day was a little extra. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three pieces of toast must become twelve, and so on. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting for something to begin is harder than waiting for something to end, so I give waiting for Nikki to track a twelve. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They file through eight locked metal doors to arrive at the E pod, where immigrant children as young as twelve are held. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I paid special attention to our mail delivery for three days, and figured out that our mail carrier always came to our house between twelve and twelve thirty p.m. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Russia bordered twelve other countries these days, and some of those countries bordered some of the world’s wealthiest. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Home,” “school,” and “work” were there, but there was also “traveling,” “lost,” “hospital,” “prison,” and, in the position where the number twelve would be on a normal clock, “mortal peril.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

So out the window I went, sweeping the twelve sand-dollar birds I keep on the sill into my sweatshirt pocket. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

At twelve o’clock the work crew put down their tools and ambled to the river’s edge to eat their brown-bag lunches. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I tried hard to stay up but Papa knew I’d turned twelve before I did. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

There are normally twelve girls in the house, counting the old ones, a Greek cook, and a man who is known as a watchman but who undertakes all manner of delicate and dangerous tasks. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked both blacks and whites and children from both wealthy homes and poor homes, zeroing in, ultimately, on twelve families. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It consisted of a one-rail fence with twelve buckets underneath it. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kingdom of the dead was ruled by one of the twelve great Olympians, Hades or Pluto, and his Queen, Persephone. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ten plus one plus one equals twelve years, sir.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

This boy was about twelve and his name was Arnold. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smallpox has an incubation period of about twelve days, during which time sufferers, who may not know they are sick, can infect anyone they meet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was fifty-two years old, a different generation, the last child of eight, who spent his first twelve years on an orchard farm where his family raised sheep and chickens. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the doctors could extend a flexible probe twelve inches from the bullet hole down the pus channel. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Besides where she grew up, I’ve gotten a total of twelve words. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The Croteau daughters are the only ones among twelve first cousins who made it to college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The one who easily handles and strings the bow and shoots through all twelve axes I shall marry, whoever he may be—then look my last on this my first love’s beautiful brimming house. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is how many of them had passed through twelve years of grammar and high school, in the end still needing to be considered culturally disadvantaged. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not exchange another word with Jefferson for twelve years. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The natural lifespan of wild chickens is about seven to twelve years, and of cattle about twenty to twenty-five years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, at half past twelve, the receptionist came out and told me the doctor had gone to lunch. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You can make ten, twelve dollars a dance for yourself if you work everything right,” Freddie said, before I got out of the car in front of Ella’s. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far, we had twelve kids signed up. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

As I see the bighand about to hit the twelve, I am all set to say, “I’m going for a break,” when it occurs to me Mr. Kellerman is nowhere in sight. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t flown a kite in a quarter of a cen­tury, but suddenly I was twelve again and all the old instincts came rushing back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t taken in any boys for almost twelve years. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

How had he lived twelve years and never known this about sunsets? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She’d secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean, I’ll be home after Idaho in twelve days?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They consist of twelve sheets of gray paper with narrow lines that slant across the page. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Few had reflected that Malcolm X, upon becoming a Black Muslim minister, had signed an oath of poverty, so that for twelve years he never acquired anything in his own name. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve had a loverly afternoon for your drive, dear,” said her mother, as respectfully as if the whole twelve had come. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Chairman, this boy’s obviously going to be a musician, he slept until twelve- thirty today, so I propose that we call him Sleepy.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you ever get tired of being twelve, Diana?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Marina is twelve years old, and she figures that in six years she can find Chayanne and make him fall in love with her. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reward offered for her capture was twelve thousand dollars. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll need these to pay for music and food,” he explained, signing the first twelve checks on the spot. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He remained comatose for more than twelve hours. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Kelsey poured the utensils on the table and James said, “Seven hundred twelve.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

"Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The score, after ten of the twelve games of the first Library Olympiad’s duodecimalthon: Pacific, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Mountain teams—one medal. The Midwest team and the Hometown Heroes—three medals.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Over the course of twelve years, Virginia Tucker, the labs Head Computer, had ascended from a subprofessional employee to the most powerful woman at the lab. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

By twelve an uneasy sense of isolation took hold of me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sequence first started appearing profusely in the late seventeenth century, the norm was to cycle through just three or four chords rather than the possible chain of twelve. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Six days after the first Macon Dead died, his children, a twelve- year-old Pilate and a sixteen-year-old Macon Dead, found themselves homeless. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flashed back to when I was twelve. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I miss my family and see them only briefly each night when they return exhausted from working twelve to fourteen hours in the field. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sharpe tried putting the pieces together for a few minutes, mumbling “twelve pieces” under her breath again and again. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems that Sirius knew what he was doing. You are the rightful owner of number twelve, Grimmauld Place and of Kreacher.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I go overseas for twelve months and I come back to my boys all talking like grits.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time it pulled up in the courtyard there’d be a crowd waiting—mainly Juniors, because once you were past twelve or thirteen it wasn’t the thing to be getting so obviously excited. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of us at the hotel. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“That’ll be great” She wound up trading twelve packets of SpagBol for another sleeping bag, and six for a handmade sweater, which left her with eight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And twelve more white men had stopped whatever they were doing to listen and pass on what happened between Janie and Tea Cake Woods, and as to whether things were done right or not. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I gave up askin’ him questions when I was twelve years old. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us review the case as it stands at this moment. First, there are certain indisputable facts. This man Ratchett, or Cassetti, was stabbed in twelve places and died last night. That is fact one.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It listed the twelve players who were invited—Bobby included—and detailed who’d play whom on which dates, and what color each player would have in each round. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because when Peeta and I each pull a twelve, we make Hunger Games history. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because I’m only twelve and I’m just passing through. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was Sung Guo, also called Seneca Gracchus, who fought twelve Roman dragons and sixteen Chinese dragons in the western deserts of China. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“No, sir, I ain’t. I once plowed for twelve hours with a two-mule team, and I wasn’t but ten year old, sir.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The twelve jurors had argued over the meaning of the word doubt, then over the meaning of the term reasonable, then over both put together. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fathers and sons followed paths down the bluff to the nearby coal mines in Brackenridge, where they worked twelve hours a day, six days a week. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Deep down, I do think I’m smarter than those twelve NO votes in humanities class last week. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Of course, of course you aren’t. What can I help you with instead?” he said, winking, like, twelve times. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was about twelve feet tall—a respectable height for a Cyclops, but only half as tall as other giants Percy had dealt with. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He notched an arrow to the string and drew, and not moving from his seat he sent it straight through the twelve rings. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he is only twelve his eyes have the look of an old man. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snaps dried to candy in ten or twelve sleeps. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Seventy-three to register. Two hundred and twelve unable.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

One week, after a lecture by the foreman on increasing productivity, Lefty speeded up his work, grinding a bearing every twelve seconds instead of fourteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Now, the homework for tomorrow can be found on page twelve of your Words Alive book. ...” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the slates, a block away and thirty yards below, twelve German officers smile for cameras. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Right, so this is the top of our clock,” he says, and quickly scratches the numbers one through twelve around the clock face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At twelve stories, it was one of the tallest buildings in the nation, certainly it towered over any structure in the south. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And nestled between the woods and the creek were the same cabins—a crazy assortment of twelve buildings, each representing a different Olympian god. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Well, the merger triggered more interest, so the stock jumped to forty dollars a share. You have twelve thousand shares at forty dollars a share....” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He felt as if he were twelve again, cartwheeling across the supper table in easterly Rock’s great hall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Doña Charito took the lot of us native children in hand Saturday mornings nine to twelve to put Art into us like Jesus into the heathen. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But the truth is, it barely even gets you twelve years. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One baby dead, one born with a caul, and one trying to grow twelve fingers—it was enough for all the would-be mothers to go to Charity. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was twelve years old at the time, small for my age, and it was startling to find myself locked in a windowless room with a man who barely reached my chest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But it was only as he fell the last five hundred feet, as he heard the clock strike twelve, that he realized two things. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Bren hates all girls who aren’t at least a size twelve. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Out a window, and straight down to the godswood. I was twelve the first time my brother took me raiding south o’ your Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To distract himself from thinking about the agony of walking up twelve flights of stairs, he concentrated on what might have happened to his sister. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Tally nodded, trying to remember what being twelve was like, what the dorm had looked like on her first day there. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

One Sunday at a camp-meeting, when Gabriel was twelve years old and was to be baptized, Deborah and Florence stood on the banks of a river along with all the other folks and watched him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

As Ben fed him passes from under the basket, Bull made eight out of twelve set shots, moving in a semicircle outside the scratched-out foul line. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The journey will be difficult. The prophecy warns that four of the twelve will lose life. It may be wisest to leave Boots here.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

By twelve thirty, the streets were jam-packed as people took advantage of the unusual weather. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“You have twelve minutes to complete this challenge.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Now, for the first time in his twelve years of life, Jonas felt separate, different. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

They have pictures on them, of the things they can be exchanged for: twelve eggs, a piece of cheese, a brown thing that’s supposed to be a steak. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible to find twelve white men who would convict one of their own for murdering American Indians. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Just like Percy had seen in his dreams, the Big F was small by giant standards—about twelve feet tall—but he had tried to make up for it with his loud outfit. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then it extended the twelve joints of its aerial and spoke past him into the blue. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just twelve hours ago, he had still been alive. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Every semester, the faculty elected twelve students, three from each class, to serve on the Jury. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Admittedly, he'd only known her for twelve days, but the whole idea of the Theorem was that you didn't have to know someone intimately in order for it to work. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

And I had saved money from my twelve years’ work as a telephone operator. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you realize we lose twelve days already? Twelve days! And all this time the roof open like that! We going to sue!” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixteen thousand and twelve in this Centre,” Mr. Foster replied without hesitation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he corrected the exam, I removed another booklet from the pile and did that one in twelve minutes and 7 seconds. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I told you twelve plus two was bad,” quipped Mr. Lemoncello. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Lying on the dirty ground inside the circle was a huge wooden sign, at least twelve feet long. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bowls protectively covered thirty-five toy-size, decorated figurines and twelve small, painted clay discs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I often think of “twelve angry men,” in a hostile room, all trying to decide the fate of my brother. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“There are three thousand four hundred and twelve books here,” Gordy said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Who sends an arrow through iron axe-helve sockets, twelve in line? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get straight A's, and my mom's had me taking the SAT since I was twelve, just for practice. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I looked up and figured that the door was six feet tall, and the hut was twelve feet tall at its highest point. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At twelve, when the selections were made and the future jobs assigned, the children's education took different paths. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Shavuot had come and gone, and Anya turned twelve and became a bat mitzvah, which meant she was responsible for her own actions and had to answer for consequences as a result of them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I walk into room twelve and take a deep breath. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere in this very area, around 1855. He was twelve or thirteen then, and still called Light Hair.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

His advice may have been superfluous, for when it was fully assembled, nine of the Lawrence panel’s twelve scientists were from Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“It says here I must not contract matrimony. After all, when a man is twelve...” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I should feel lucky that she stuck around the twelve lousy years she did. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

My sense of belonging in this ceremonial Church was dearest when I turned twelve and became an altar boy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blinked, like he was realizing I was twelve, not six, and walked ahead of me. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

If only twelve guys showed up we’d probably all be on the team. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Any twelve white men in this state will have already condemned you; we can’t trust a jury. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“When my uncle was twelve he went totally bald after getting too close to an African lighting bird nest during his tour.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I can’t go to choir anymore,” I say when Mr. Fabian realizes I am still in room twelve. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

But if we see an object twelve billion light-years away, we are seeing it as it was twelve billion years ago in time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was twelve and watching the original Captains Bodacious on TV. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They were about the same age and size, perhaps eleven or twelve years old. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They take me to Mercy Hospital because I am a twelve- year-old girl and they don't want me to have facial disfigurement. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

From New York City came an offer of help, twelve hours after Stanton had asked its chief of police to send his finest detectives to Washington to help track the president’s killer. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he’s so young. After all, I’m twelve and he’s only eleven. Isn’t he?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In almost twelve years, this is the first photo Scoob’s ever seen of the guy. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He reached home between twelve and one in the morning. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The royal apartments were in Maegor's Holdfast, a massive Square fortress that nestled in the heart of the Red Keep behind walls twelve feet thick and a dry moat lined with iron spikes, a castle-within-a-castle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had not been back to Africa since I was twelve years old, but when you have encountered Africa in childhood, it becomes a section of your mind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One belonged to a boy aged about twelve or thirteen, and the other to a girl of about nine or ten. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The object was a painting on a wooden panel about twelve inches square. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The truth is that my book doesn’t say how old Meg is, but I am twelve, so she feels twelve to me. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Looking back, I thought it started not when I had been cut, but when I’d turned twelve. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s okay, Mother. I’m getting too old for this any”—he swallowed a lump in his throat—“anyway. I bet you weren’t still tucking Matthew or Mark in when they were twelve.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you mean to put twelve for your age? Because the numbers are reversed, here—it says ‘twenty-one’—and I think that might not be true.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In total, Radar’s parents owned more than twelve hundred black Santas of various sorts. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

One can chug twelve beers as Enrique drives him home from work. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She only started working at the school when I was twelve. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dad thought that any pet which didn’t lay eggs was an extravagance that a man with twelve children could ill afford. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sahil took another bite of his chewy candy and then said, “Hmm. Did you hear that I once ate twelve doughnuts in one sitting?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then the clock strikes twelve and the king yawns. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Not quite two years later, when Nat was twelve, Granny died. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the hazards, there is stiff competition among Sherpas for the twelve to eighteen staff positions on the typical Everest expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were twelve thick granite panels on the walls inside the circular monument. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Two dollars times twelve minutes equals twenty-four dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The recruiter was looking for twelve volunteers from Moscow University. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Two months after we moved to Blythe, when Mom said she was twelve months pregnant, she at last gave birth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He has straight sandy hair and pale blue eyes and is twelve or thirteen, from what I can tell, though his manner seems older. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I had seen them, photos of Mama when she lived in Spokane, twelve years old and her round face blanched with rice powder. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slept for over twelve hours and missed school entirely. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I was only twelve. They shouldn’t have skipped me.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And Joe can help. He’s twelve, isn’t he? That’s just the age Grandma used to say kids stopped being a nuisance and started being useful.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then Salim’s pod got to its highest point, twelve o’clock, and we both said, ‘NOW!’ at the same time and laughed again, and this time I meant the laugh. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will and Anna, thirteen and twelve, could stay in touch with their mother and father. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The challenges of managing the prison—which was designed to hold twelve hundred inmates but instead had three times that number—were overwhelming. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When the water boils, I set the timer for twelve minutes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Been twelve years since they tore down the old one. Listen to this, boys: Dr. Yanina Zinchenko, the new public library’s head librarian, promises that ‘patrons will be surprised’ by what they find inside.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“And we got to twelve. But hey, at least you didn’t drag it out just to show off, like you did last time.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A large, scarred table is center with twelve chairs around it. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m Abilene. I’m twelve years old and a hard worker,” I said, like I had a hundred other times in as many towns. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There are twelve spokes, each with two tributes balanced on metal plates between them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

That meant they were all going to the dinner party, while the O-Hall boys would be the only twelve kids eating in the mess hall and then going home. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The loving cup of strawberry ice-cream soma was passed from hand to hand and, with the formula, “I drink to my annihilation,” twelve times quaffed. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aged about twelve, she may have protected Smith, but not, as he wrote, by interceding when he was a captive and about to be executed in 1607. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was more akin to a wild animal than a boy of twelve. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are twelve steps to the attic floor. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Some days he works twelve hours and comes back home looking like someone beat him with a bat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

So, at the age of twelve, I had my name entered four times. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

On the way home April decided that since there was still plenty of time before twelve o’clock, she might as well explore the store she had seen from the balcony. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried a single volume for the journey, a hardbound collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, which his grandfather had given him when he’d graduated from class twelve. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Mr. Potter, We have received intelligence that a Hover Charm was used at your place of residence this evening at twelve minutes past nine. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

After a month, the incoming casualties from the Tet Offensive slowed, and the hospital went back to its usual shifts: twelve hours on, twelve hours off. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He dropped dead of blood poisoning less than a year ago and the boy was only twelve years old.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d taken stuff to Harvey’s for barter, and even though he hadn’t gotten much in return, he still had to carry it up the twelve flights again. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A march was brutally repulsed by police; twelve miners died. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You become eligible for the reaping the day you turn twelve. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He gasped in utter amazement at the fantastic sight of the twelve flights of planes organized calmly into exact formation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At twelve he was bitten by a rattlesnake, went into a coma, survived. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dressed quickly, wrote a note for his sisters saying he was going out to see how conditions were, then walked down the twelve flights of stairs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It rises perhaps twelve meters and then unfolds as if by magic into a simple T. A high house on the edge of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

From the time he first saw her, when he was twelve and she was seventeen, he was deeply in love with her, alternately awkward and witty in her presence. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They added four more children to make it an even twelve and he cared for all of us as if we were his own. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my credit readout now displayed a number twelve digits long. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Like eleven or twelve. I was just disappointed I wouldn’t get the chance to press my ear up to their wall to hear something good later.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He also often spent up to twelve hours a day in his third-floor office constantly telephoning various parts of the town, county, state, and nation. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A little show. Why not in daylight? After all, the young lady’s only twelve years old. She should be in bed at eight o’clock.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Somehow the twelve of us in my group have to find a space in here. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Before I was twelve, I would have committed all three of those crimes. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

As a rule, fencing is only allocated ten medals during the Olympic Games, even though there are technically twelve events. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was in Mason, Michigan, about twelve miles from Lansing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of the wagon, supported by sacks of squash and hills of pumpkins, Shadrack began a struggle that was to last for twelve days, a struggle to order and focus experience. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve of them ready to be made one, waiting to come together, to be fused, to lose their twelve separate identities in a larger being. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

All twelve toilets, six back-to- back pairs, were filled up near to overflowing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she said twelve hundred dollars, I almost fell over. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Next week I’m thirteen but thirteen looks way worse than twelve. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In order to successfully transition from twelve years old to being a teenager and then to an adult, will I need to be able to move my hips to a song? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Since I was not yet twelve, I didn't wear the armband identification; when I was old enough to wear it, I made up my mind not to. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

One day Mr. Kugler wanted to be extra cautious, so at twenty past twelve he put on his coat and went to the drugstore around the corner. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Some sixty feet long, stripped to the deck, keeled over in ten or twelve feet of water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I paused, and then added, “I mean, twelve seems old enough to watch a movie with only my friends.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She might be having a conversation like this with some other half-blood long after I was dead, but Bianca would still look twelve years old. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Ever since backpacks were invented, no one—ever—in the entire school system, grades K through twelve, carries a book bag, especially a leather one. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harry Sneider, Fischer’s former physical trainer, accompanied Ellsworth to the auction and Sneider’s son subsequently traveled to Budapest with twelve boxes of material. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Last time he did that, it took twelve hours. I was going to sneak home for some sleep if that's okay." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the first Thursday of July, at twelve noon, Miss Celia gets up from the bed for her cooking lesson. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The oldest of the boys—I guessed his age at about twelve—rocked back and forth, his gaze glued to my wrist. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Parcel Day, the first of twelve, in which food packages were delivered to every person in the district. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Others said boys as young as twelve were being conscripted, carrying guns taller than they were. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

On Saturday I wrapped Erlan’s present myself and then walked across the hall right at twelve o’clock, right when it said on the invitation that his party was going to start. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I inflated all twelve cones with air and I filled each buoyancy chamber with the req­uisite ten litres of sea water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Children respond to pointing gestures by the time they are twelve months old,” Klin said. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She was about twelve or so, he thought, and seemed to him pitifully unattractive. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And if you had struck me, even by accident, you could spend twelve years in the dungeons. Did you know that?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He recalls sleeping for maybe twelve hours, then stirring and trying to sit. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I guessed she was probably eleven or twelve years old. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was twelve, sitting on my rock alone, as was my way, when he first arrived. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Quite suddenly, it seemed to him, he was at the creek again, but upstream where the crossing—about twelve feet here and so shallow he could see the stony bottom—was laid across with boards. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

PIH brought in engineering teams to stabilize the capital’s badly damaged general hospital, restoring its water and electricity; when medical supplies were trucked in, twelve operating rooms were quickly up and running. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And that is the story of how my father fought twelve men and won. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Behind him came a hefty, brisk-looking rabbit something over twelve months old. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was no more than twelve or thirteen, dressed in rough calico with ill-fitting boots. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was fast relapsing into stupor; nor did her mind again rally: at twelve o’clock that night she died. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The entire network kept in touch by radio, using not one code, but twelve—each for a different part of the system. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He passed the test and was released to go home, where he collapsed into bed and slept for twelve hours. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

On the day of the execution, Tom, who was twelve years old, stood on a tier inside the jail. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Accompanied by a CBS television crew that filmed the tour, she visited twelve countries, singing in concert halls, meeting heads of state, and making informal visits to schools, churches, and local organizations. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

When I was twelve, I fell in love with an Indian girl named Dawn. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

First, the collar on the pink robe is turned up; second, there's a bath towel wrapped around her head; and third, the real Aunt Ethel is about twelve hundred miles southeast of here. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I want to remind Momma that I’m only twelve, but I know she would just think that is too funny. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

What was worse, even when Francis stopped thinking about coiled coils or I about bacterial genetics, we still remained stuck at the same place we were twelve months before. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I had just turned twelve and he said I was growing up into a young lady. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When everything had been sold or given away, Milton drove my grandparents’ remaining belongings in a rented truck the twelve blocks to Seminole. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The group of twelve new teammates trooped down to the crosswalk, where they waited for the light to change. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

From Niflheim twelve rivers poured which flowed into the chasm and freezing there filled it slowly up with ice. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dropping twelve pounds wouldn’t be easy, even for somebody as committed as Luke. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Western music, being more orientated towards harmony than its non-Western counterparts, gradually formed hierarchies among the twelve notes, so that the listener's ears latched on to a 'home' in the sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The presence of the Death Eaters outside increased the ominous mood inside number twelve. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The boy—a stocky, sharp-eyed, talkative towhead of about twelve—was exuberantly grateful, but the old man, whose face was seamed and yellow, feebly crawled into the back seat and slumped there silently. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was very angry when he saw the Popper Performing Penguins opening wide their twelve red beaks, as if they were laughing at him. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was not certain of the date, but he could not have been less than ten years old, possibly twelve, when it had happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Behind him Merry rode on Stybba with the errand riders of Gondor, and behind them again twelve more of the king’s household. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Van Ness claimed to have revisited the ledge the following day and found the severed branch of a cedar tree about twelve feet high and four feet to the side of where Burr had stood. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In Mecca, too, I had played back for myself the twelve years I had spent with Elijah Muhammad as if it were a motion picture. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt thought it must be sometime after twelve o'clock, but he wasn’t exactly sure—his watch wasn’t working anymore. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I was like someone who for twelve years had had an inseparable, beautiful marriage— and then suddenly one morning at breakfast the marriage partner had thrust across the table some divorce papers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Greek gave him so much trouble, he’d actually studied it far longer than any of the rest of us, since he was twelve, a circumstance about which he perpetually boasted. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Team USA’s men and women won twelve medals overall, making 2013 a very good year for our country. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Only twelve years ago, the rebels were at the height of their power, allying themselves with the Tribes and the king of Marinn. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And suddenly my own twelve years felt like a long time, as if I were young and old at once. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s because of what happened to the tsar twelve years ago. The assassination.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

That’s why she didn’t remarry after Grandpa Louis died, and that was when Pa was twelve and Uncle Darnell had been just born. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I ain’t disputing that I’m a whole lot smarter than most other children who’re near ’bout twelve years old, but I couldn’t for anything see how come a river made so much difference. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Harry’s stomach started rumbling when the clock showed half past twelve. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I can tell that most of these people are tourists, with their sea of Cape Cod T-shirts bought from that famous “buy one, get twelve free” place. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Every day they bestowed upon the statue of Bel twelve bushels of flour, forty sheep, and fifty gallons of wine.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of its most ardent partisans, Haynes among them, publicly conceded that an archaeological dig in southern Chile had turned up compelling evidence of human habitation more than twelve thousand years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Princesse was sixteen but because she was very short and thin could easily pass for twelve. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I was still ranked number two in the country and number twelve in the world after the Olympics. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

State Department took her to twelve Asian countries. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m practically twelve. Really. You can hardly tell the difference.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Once when he and his twin brother were twelve, they were sitting in a car with their father as he read a newspaper story about the Korean War. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

For twelve years, I had taught that within the entire Nation of Islam; my own transformation was the best example I knew of Mr. Muhammad’s power to reform black men’s lives. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

People used to do that, too— have twelve or fifteen kids because they figured some would die, some would turn out rotten, and a couple would be hardworking, honest farmers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he stayed there, fully clothed and inert, for twelve or thirteen hours. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The twelve members did not vote or render a verdict. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

With these long legs I’m taken for twelve or thirteen, even a litde older. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All in all, Wallace made twelve trips down the Eternal Creek before some folks from Fry fished him out. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

So did most of the Indian laborers, felled by being worked to exhaustion in a hot, humid land twelve thousand feet below their cool mountain home. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter whether they volunteered or were drafted, if they were ordered to Vietnam, they would be there for twelve months. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At twelve forty on April 8, Shackleton gave the order: “Launch the boats.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The air temperature sat at about twelve degrees, with a light breeze blowing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The cover showed a painting of a white boy, maybe around twelve or thirteen years old, sitting at a desk doing homework. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Here, the small group of the Refined lived with all the luxuries of the day—lush, well-kept lawns and gardens, and a garage leading to ten to twelve gracefully decorated rooms. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They said that essentially the drug is twelve hours of schizophrenia, and if you already have a lot of this brain transmitter, you don’t get out of it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Most bands today don’t perform twelve hundred times in their entire careers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

After all, that meant only twelve more guys had to be cut. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday I had twelve texts on my phone. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes on Saturdays Elvio goes along. How long did you go to school in Mexico? We go for twelve years.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

There are twelve beds total: a row of eight crammed together along the far wall, and two pressed together on each side, leaving a huge space in the middle of the room. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were no crowds, no ordinary citizens, only the Council of Guardians: twelve men who sat facing her across a long table at the foot of the stage. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen the old ladies in years, since Id witnessed them snip a life thread at a roadside fruit stand when I was twelve. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He came to this country when he was twelve, from the town of Gallarate, province of Varese, in northern Italy. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There were five practice exams in the book, and after I did them all, I was thrilled to discover an ad at the back for twelve more Bernard Lutz test-prep books. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And a guy whose name was maybe Zeep Creep came in wearing the same green pajamas as the nurse but twelve sizes bigger. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the corners of the room, dozens of yellow- spruce oars stood on end, each ten to twelve feet long and tipped with a white blade. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Of the twelve landing zones, our beach, Blue Beach One, was the worst. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m twelve. And I want to know where my father is.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was noble that the scythes saw fit to pay homage to the gleaned, but if they only had twelve hours to complete three months worth of business, she didn’t see the sense of it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I will pretend that I am in the dining room of the house on Egypt Street, waiting for the little hand to move to the three and the big hand to land on the twelve. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Grown people did their work, and younger people, until they reached the age of twelve, went to school. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was the most feverish Friday night of the season: Odessa against Midland, the grudge game to settle bragging rights between the two towns for the next twelve months. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a local Jackson show, and it come on in color, right after the twelve o’clock news. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Here they were, on Mercury exactly twelve hours—and already up to the eyebrows in the worst sort of trouble. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“You act like I’m a baby. I’m twelve now, practically a teenager.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her youngest daughter, who was about twelve, had reduced most of our staff to tears because she refused to let go of her mother the entire time she was in the office. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Let me drink openly as early as twelve years old, because she figured I’d outgrow it, which didn’t really happen. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of them and each one was all but impossible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back when I was twelve, I was in bed reading, and the lights flickered, except they didn’t. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“When I was twelve,” he said before he could stop himself, and then he couldn’t start again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She spends the twelve minutes of our ride to school humming, and I spend the rest of the day peeking around corners and flinching at every unexpected sound. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

My mother left us when I was twelve. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Besides, it doesn’t get easier with time, and twelve years later, when Vietnam presented much harder choices, some practice at being brave might’ve helped a little. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bill got twelve, too. If we’re not careful, we’ll have another Head Boy in the family. I don’t think I could stand the shame.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, she turned toward the window at about ten minutes after twelve, and, as she looked out, she saw the killing through the windows of the passing el train. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why would they live like this for salt beef, hardtack, and twelve dollars a month? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was only twelve years old, just like me. And he had suffered terribly. Try to put yourself in his shoes.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the backseat, one very unhappy twelve- year-old, me, arriving under duress for an interview. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Next it was announced that all the camps would be closed within the coming twelve months and that internees now had the right to return to their former homes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He counted them—twelve people—and saw phones raised in front of a few of them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Twelve layers of petticoats for the twelve months of the year. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had slept twelve hours, and her shoulders ached from weariness. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It is going to be driven by groups and individuals, but of a much more diverse background than those twelve scientists who made up Andreessen’s world when he created Mosaic. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

But when I was twelve, my mother fell in love with a man from California. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He never had a blown tire, never ran out of gas and needed twelve grinning raggle-tailed boys to help him push it up a hill or over to a curb. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

If an accomplished man had a son, Galton estimated, chances were one in twelve that the son would be eminent. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I went to bed early that night, around eleven; at twelve I was awakened by a loud persistent banging at the front door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And now that she was here, she had twelve weeks to find a rich boyfriend who would buy her lots of jewelry. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She sounded older than twelve now, older than Mama or Doc. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I counted all twelve by 4:56, plus the Eagle. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“But as all twelve of us have voted —” Hagrid leapt to his feet, his shaggy black head grazing the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It worked — the Disarming Spell made the spider drop him, but that meant that Harry fell twelve feet onto his already injured leg, which crumpled beneath him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But you, you twelve citizens of our state, of our city, can bring a measure of justice to his killers. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The pinnacle of German invention, can be kept in business by twelve little African boys and some elephant grass.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the number rolled adds up to ten, eleven, or twelve, I die on the operating table. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes. Boys under twelve stay across the street, in a different camp, but the older boys will go downtown, to the Cuban Home for Boys.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I remembered my first quest when I was twelve. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure it’s open on Sunday between twelve and four. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Just chats and talks and laughs at his jokes, which aren’t really funny She has lunch at five to twelve. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The two eldest Glass boys, Seymour and Buddy, had moved into it in 1929, at the respective ages of twelve and ten, and had vacated it when they were twenty-three and twenty-one. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

"It's all happening twelve light-minutes away. That means it takes twenty-four minutes for them to get the answer to any question they ask. The whole launch is twelve minutes long. They're on their own." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t played on a proper soccer team since I was twelve, but we played it in physical education sometimes, when we weren’t doing Net Sports or Whiffle ball or timed mile runs. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t say that. You know, you were only twelve when we met. And a real pain besides. I did have a life outside of hunting with you,” he says, loading up with firewood. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It's a cool morning, and even though I'm twelve now, I don't have a choice—it's cod-liver oil and Latin recitation and the endless, tedious Wohlfahrt viola etudes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, once she finally did turn twelve, Luna noticed that several changes had begun to occur—not all of them pleasant. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Eight to twelve inches of precipitation was expected. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the worst news was that the youngest of the hunters—a boy of twelve—had not awakened from his injuries. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I was twelve years old and beginning my time at the Littles’. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I invent a pill that will allow you to drink seawater, and another that will erase the effects of either twelve cups of tea or seven beers and two scotches. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You have twelve dollars in your pocket right now.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon it will be time for art in room twelve. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

On July 28, forty actors spent twelve grueling hours filming scenes in a burning wheat field. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Miranda, one of the moons belonging to Uranus, features a patchwork of ridges and cliffs, grooved structures called coronae, and massive canyons up to twelve times deeper than the Grand Canyon. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The stock market had dropped another twelve points. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

After losing our first game to Wellpinit, we won twelve in a row. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The journey would take Charles all day, about twelve hours. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Told that the boy was twelve, the agent refused to sell her a ticket. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Quicker than it takes to tell, Grandma was back, and already raised to her aproned shoulder was the twelve- gauge Winchester from behind the woodbox. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later, octave came to mean a choice of twelve notes, not eight, and we got saddled with the wrong descriptor for ever, but I’ll explain that development when it arrives. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The baleen only provided enough air for ten minutes, maybe twelve if they could keep calm, which he doubted they would. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Mom told Finn and me that sometimes kids start acting weird about the time they turn thirteen. Or even just twelve. Like you.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In 1811 and 1812 the largest earthquakes in U.S. history abruptly lifted or lowered much of the central Mississippi Valley by as much as twelve feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I count twelve exits and identify twenty potential weapons before I realize what I’m doing and force myself to relax. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Reporters asked Petrosian whether the match would last the full twelve games, the maximum that would be required if every game were drawn, with no wins or losses. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I figure it would take ten or twelve bucks to give Doc a party you wouldn’t be ashamed of.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his free hand, Conor reached up and pushed the minute and second hands forward from the twelve. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

But today, my third day being twelve, I whisper to Andrew: “I’ll help. At lunch, I’ll show you why numbers and letters mean.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was gay when I was twelve, too, but I didn’t have the words to understand it or feel good about it back then. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

She once calculated that she had traveled thirteen thousand miles and conducted 171 lectures over the previous twelve months, earning $4,318 in gross receipts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And now they were twelve steps to the left, putting them right around where Crab always parked. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I scrub my way through the morning, through the twelve o’clock news. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her voice shook so at first that she was hard to understand, but she got out that it happened when she was twelve years old. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

By twelve, of course, most of that evened out. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On average, twelve hundred Congolese had been killed every day since 1998. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood; and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Instead of leaving twenty-five thousand bucks, why not leave twelve thousand five hundred? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the next instant, a time out of my childhood flashed before me: the day Loma turned twelve. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I told her twelve—lie #59—because I wanted to be old enough for her to love me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she heard the twelve o’clock whisde she decided to get up and dress. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Now I see families from Mexico and Cambodia and countries I don't know, twelve people sometimes in one apartment. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meal was served by three novices, well-scrubbed girls of good birth between the ages of twelve and sixteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then you brought the minus five over to the other side, changed the signs, and made that a plus twelve. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Me and all the girls in room twelve does not sound fun. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The youngest one this time had been a little boy, an indentured servant no older than twelve, found alone. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I received my Assignment when I turned twelve. I was assigned Birthmother.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You are in a hurry to be twelve?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a hundred yards long—quite enough for twelve. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 8:13 both men had twelve fish, their daily bag. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also became known as the most assiduous and creative hunter of new elements in history, credited with the discovery or codiscovery of twelve transuranics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Now, in response to another noise he made, sawing at his lips with his square-tipped fingers, all the twelve hives came alive. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Yossarian woke up and went to see him, Doc Daneeka gave him another pill and a shot that put him to sleep for another twelve hours. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Our problem,” he continued to Harry, as if there had been no interruption, “is that Sirius also left you number twelve, Grimmauld Place.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She’d asked him if he minded if she applied, and though the idea of her being so far had made him queasy he’d said no, of course not, that twelve weeks would go like that. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The twelve treasure hunters made their way through the lobby and into the motel office. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

When he was twelve years old, his father died and his mother remarried. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scoob’s known G’ma going on twelve years and has never seen her drink anything other than water and unsweet tea with a quarter of a lemon squeezed over the top. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He generally sucks at this game, because he has about twelve Facebook friends total. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Papa’s life ended at Manzanar, though he lived for twelve more years after getting out. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Children, tonight an early supper,” Mami is saying, as if Mundín and I are six and nine instead of twelve and fifteen. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

After age twelve, the numbers didn't matter much, were rarely referred to. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Like I’m five years old instead of twelve. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

By the time I was twelve, things got so bad, we’d be nervous every day when we came home. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finish the first round ahead twelve points, and Mabel gets up to find us a pencil and paper. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She’d already been alive for a whole twelve and a half weeks, and she wanted to tell Brightbill about every exciting thing, and every boring thing, that had ever happened to her. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was almost true; I would be twelve in a matter of days. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Harry never wanted to set foot in number twelve, Grimmauld Place again if he could help it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Reading that letter, it was like I’d been tensing my whole body for all of my twelve years, and now I could finally relax. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Gwyneth was but twelve, a small, scrawny girl whose dark eyes and brown hair set her apart in that house of blue-eyed blondes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was twelve years her senior and glamorous in the way only an equestrian director can be. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

After lunch, back in room twelve, everyone keeps talking about music. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Luna, however, worried that she might never be twelve. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The Englishmen had known for twelve hours that American guests were on their way. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to tell that voice I’m almost twelve. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

That makes twelve gold stars hanging in Arlington’s windows. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t think adults expect that anyone who is twelve years old and shouldn’t have any worries in this world could think about something like that, but I wonder about it all of the time. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In response the excited citizenry had shelled out precious nickels and quarters and dollars, raising an astonishing twelve thousand dollars to send the crews east. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I think it was terrible that they might have questioned a little boy: I was only ten or twelve at the time.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In exactly one month, she would be twelve years old, and for the first time in her life, Papa wouldn’t be there to celebrate with her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We are all in place as the anthem begins to play and the annual recap of the reaping ceremonies in the twelve districts begins. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember once, the summer I was around twelve, teeing off and all, and having a hunch that if I turned around all of a sudden, I'd see Allie. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I may be only a girl of twelve, but I am a brave French explorer who has come to help you with your adventures.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My head is too heavy to carry by twelve thirty. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He leads twelve of us, including Roza, across the devastated breadth of Europe. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“That’s exactly what he said. So give me eight to ten or twelve weeks, and I’m going to be myself again. Not that being myself is such a great thing.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Another thing that happened after Luna turned twelve: she began to draw. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Daddy had given her twelve dollars to buy me a new dress, and the lime green one was eleven. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Since Lemos had little money, she went next door to her landlord’s house and asked for the twelve dollars she had given him for that month’s rent. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was accustomed to working from eight to twelve, sometimes fourteen hours in a day. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blades were made of dense iron, twelve inches thick and five feet across. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On September 3 he claimed that eight out of twelve patients had gotten better with just one treatment. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She might have been twelve or thirteen mentally now. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

At twelve, I was considered tall for my age; most folks thought I was fifteen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was trying to remember page twelve of his book: A Charm to Cure Reluctant Reversers. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I think there are ten to twelve, and they seem equidistant from one another. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Passengers ages twelve and over may travel with no adult supervision as long as they have a valid boarding pass.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Seems to me even the most fra-gilest child in the world wouldn’t be called a baby once he’s darn near twelve year old! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I am twelve years and twelve months old. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Already there are nurseries in twelve villages along the lake. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

His office was always full of children, and he often took two or three of us, and sometimes all twelve, on business trips. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

With only twelve exposures on a roll, she learned to be careful in composing her shots. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was twelve and capable of taking care of himself. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The top of the arch was about twelve feet off the ground, higher than was convenient for jumping. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m only twelve and still have a lot to learn. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

By age twelve, I was officially an eighth-grader and was madly in love with my life as a student at Dunbar Junior and Senior High. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The last time he had known his weight, he was twelve years old, was several inches shorter, and weighed 110 pounds. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

At twelve o’clock the next day he waited before the wall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’d be surprised if we had fifteen hundred. Probably more like twelve hundred.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Been trying to tell Harpo she crazy for twelve years. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waves vaguely at one of the waiters and as the clock in the hall begins to chime a low, heavy sound that reverberates throughout the house twelve times, the first course is brought out. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I took the pills and shoved them into the standard-issue sports bra the camp controllers had bestowed on us when they realized fifteen hundred teenage girls weren’t going to stay twelve and flat forever. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They were curious about me—they’d been hearing about me for twelve years, and finally they were seeing me with their own eyes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of us were still eleven while some had already turned twelve. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“My mother died when I was twelve. Cousin Lottie raised me, and she died last year. She was eighty-five. I’m my own last living relative, so to speak.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Some of them were large cards displaying all twelve months and on those she noticed circles drawn around dates. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odysseus started off to explore it with twelve of his men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to hear, inside a song I’d never heard before, the voice I had trouble remembering after twelve days. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The F.B.I. not long ago released a report of a shocking rise in crime each successive year since the end of World War II—ten to twelve per cent each year. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That gives him twelve, and brings Hazelwood within six. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come to a stop in front of bag twelve. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There are twelve velvet chairs arranged in a circle, and in each sits an official in full black uniform, his or her shoulders adorned with shining gold epaulettes, sipping from delicate glasses. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Only a month ago, puddles were everywhere when Mrs. Bowman called me over to say her house had been sold to a woman with a twelve- year-old daughter. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited as the clock first chimed eleven times, then twelve, watching the firelight and trying not to ponder. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

On June 25, the women picketed, and the police arrested twelve more protesters. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In twelve years of Catholic schooling, I learned, in fact, very little about the beliefs of non-Catholics, though the little I learned was conveyed by my teachers without hostility and with fair accuracy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He married her and made the baseball team his own, adding four more kids to make it an even twelve. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure, that was what I was going to guess. You did an...abstract thingie...for all twelve ideas?” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Sunrise, Eastern seaboard, August first. Timetables for Naval Meteorology. One hour and twelve minutes is more than one hour.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You jest about the biggest twelve I ever seed.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swiftly draws a circle and divides it into twelve wedges. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had only enough funds, it turned out, to buy one shell, not twelve. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I must have had about twelve of them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Coral Queen had gone down stem-first in twelve feet of water. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And that right there was the single greatest moment of my twelve years of life, seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me at last. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had, although the glow of victory remained intact for less then twelve hours. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a year bf joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor was I twelve or even ten years old. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He say he give twenty dollars to child under twelve who has best idea. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Because it’s so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wait for him to deny it, to erase the last twelve hours with just a few words. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

At twelve, though, Carla was at least a year older than most sixth graders, and she felt mortified at the thought of having to repeat yet another year. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Hab was twelve, now, and he stopped school to help Father make barrels. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And no less astounded would be millions whom I did not know—who had gained during my twelve years with Elijah Muhammad a “hate” image of Malcolm X. Even I was myself astounded. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex has never told—will never tell—anyone, but he saw Henry for the first time when he was twelve years old. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, I haven’t actually counted them to double-check, and no, it’s not always seven hundred twelve, but James has never been wrong before,” Miss Kelsey said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

We went twelve miles today, about five of them profitable, and the rim of the Gobrin is visibly nearer, north, above us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The twins had been responsible for preparing the family meal on Tuesdays since they turned twelve earlier that year. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I was only twelve and Arnold had sold twelve thousand shares of Walleye for four dollars a share. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“It was down twelve points at twelve oclock. Cleaned me out.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says the fall was twelve feet, and that Shawn began acting strangely as soon as he regained consciousness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At exactly twelve noon, I pulled out my blue suit from the closet, the suit that I had worn to Mike Costello’s funeral. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How are you holding up? This is a lot of pressure. Being on TV. Helping the Pentagon. Working with the FBI. You’re still only twelve, hon.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

But thanks in great part to the deft political maneuverings of Aaron Burr, all twelve of New York’s electoral votes went to Jefferson. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Surely Bon could not have corrupted her to fatalism in twelve days, who not only had not tried to corrupt her to unchastity but not even to defy her father. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outer ring of candles was complete, twelve white columns burning exacdy as they had when Will was last in the hall. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we were done, our brothers would hide twelve eggs for Adria and twelve for me to find on Easter Sunday. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo quickly counted twelve rice balls and handed out one each to her brothers and sister before hurriedly eating her own. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“And eight ten means eight ten, not eight eleven or eight twelve or eight thirteen.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Never had he seen a man change so many times in twelve days. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was between twelve and one o’clock when I reached the Temple, and the gates were shut. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been able to spell my name since I was twelve.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She hoped that turning twelve would solve this—build a bridge across the gap. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“She said we have to interview at least twelve maids for her to consider it,” I say. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When she talks about Stephen, he is never more than twelve years old. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That we’re playing an elaborate new-generation version of hide-and-seek where you get twelve hours to find a hiding space, anywhere in the neighborhood. And that it was your turn to hide.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He’d been traveling for twelve years between Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, the Philippines, Japan, Austria, and other countries, clearing customs and crossing borders without incident. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ten or twelve below zero every morning, and when it warmed up to zero or so in the afternoon, it snowed. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

In some circumstances, they can hold someone for an extra twelve hours, though. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nick’s report went on smoothly for twelve minutes. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Uh-huh, he was twelve. Is it fun to hop a train?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Reed rolled his eyes and finished his circuit of the ship, slapping the last sixteen-pounder—twelve—and taking the stairs to the quarterdeck two at a time. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In sneakers he passed beneath the twelve damply newspapered birdcages suspended from the rafters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

With twelve years having passed, he figured that as long as he stayed away from the United States, he’d be safe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Your library cards will grant you access to all the rooms and areas where we will be playing our twelve games,” she explained. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A little over twelve hours ago that Death-Cast dude hit me up telling me I’m a goner today. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then a group of twelve workmen brought in the furnace, piece by piece, from the Dalton basement and mounted it upon a giant wooden platform. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He played at the colored park, not too far from the spot where the cross had been burned when he was twelve. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That winter he found a job teaching at a small community school for twelve dollars a month. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Each year, as soon as the first frost appeared, she made twelve identical white, camphor-filled bags for each of us. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ones who did, who accepted her invitations to tea and envied the doctor’s big dark house of twelve rooms and the green sedan, called him “peculiar.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that point forward, the old setup would be replaced with a series of matches of ten or twelve games each between the eight individual contestants, with the loser of each match being eliminated. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I lost with twelve years’ experience,” she said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night, regularly, at nine, at twelve, at three, they lifted a nocturnal song, a weird and eerie chant, in which it was Buck’s delight to join. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

With twelve Benefits under my belt, I’ve hardly seen so much as a bare elbow there, much less bosoms and shoulders. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Look, could you tell your dad there’s a problem with the plumbing in twelve B?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

By Pearl Harbor Day there were eight hundred and forty-three people of Japanese descent living there, including twelve seniors at Amity Harbor High School who did not graduate that spring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Piper studied the tattoo on his forearm - SPQR, the eagle of Jupiter, twelve lines for his years in the legion. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“But school in England is more advanced than here—so they're putting me in the ninth grade. At twelve.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

When you’re living through it, though,especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn’t the world, it’s you, no piece seems little. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, Edward,” she said to him after she was done winding the watch, “when the big hand is on the twelve and the little hand is on the three, I will come home to you.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Its theater contained more than four thousand seats, twelve hundred more than New York’s Metropolitan Opera House. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The grass has been scorched and the gray snow fell here as well, but the twelve fine houses of the Victor’s Village are unscathed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“And I won’t get my last week’s pay either. But I got another job...start tomorrow...twelve and a half a week. I’ll get a raise in time, I expect.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are no longer eligible for food stamps; you may be discriminated against in employment; you cannot vote for at least twelve years; and you are about to be evicted from public housing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got twelve cherry bombs left over from the Fourth of July,” I said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Trina Garnett was the youngest of twelve children living in the poorest section of Chester, Pennsylvania, a financially distressed municipality outside of Philadelphia. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She wanted to try to find a girl named Sophia, a girl her own age, a girl who had turned twelve when Claire did. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At the end of a couple of years of this, at twelve dollars a month, the girls were highly desirable wives for American boys. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just twelve; I just heard it strike. You must have flown home and back.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night when I was eleven or twelve years old, I locked myself in the bathroom and carefully regarded my reflection in the mirror over the sink. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can picture myself sitting on the riverbank as Dad pulls a hot-pink coho out of the water, even though Dad was all of twelve at the time. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Griswold had also moved to the Bay Area when he was twelve? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one, Like drops within the Social River; Oh, make us now together run As swiftly as thy shining Flivver. ” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t spend ten or twelve hours a day studying chess and another six to eight hours on Bible studies; and the constant surfacing of impure thoughts and other minor sins was plaguing him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In Block 28 we doubled our living space—four rooms for the twelve of us. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you’re that busy I’m sure. But it’s interesting, just the same. In keeping with what you were quoting there in your Romans, chapter twelve. You remember the third verse, do you not?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From eleven to twelve he planned to stand still and watch flies on the boards, watch bees in the clover, and watch swallows in the air. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then she went to singing a Nigerian grief song learned from her daddy, who was lured onto an illegal slave ship in 1848, when he was only twelve. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I swear, ever since I was twelve years old, whatever I needed, Dray always came through. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I’m not due at work for another twelve hours. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I lose count around twelve because the guns in their holsters are all I can see. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It might have bothered him at twelve years of age to be seen holding his mother’s hand, but he knew what would happen to her if he didn’t. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm not touching that. I'll get like twelve diseases if I hold it for too long.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time, I think back to that afternoon in Father Masego’s office when I was twelve, the day he told me I was extraordinary. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; ’tis almost faerie time ...” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Imagine ten or twelve orange chairs arranged in a circle, with the happy women from the flyer sitting at opposite ends. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Leaders from twelve different professional sports leagues, too, had agreed to promote a 60 Minutes of Play a Day campaign to help get kids moving more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When I got expelled from school in Lansing, I got removed from regular foster care and sent to live with the Swerlins, who ran a pre-detention foster facility twelve miles away in Mason. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going to pace off twelve feet, the length of the bedroom. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wish I could do that; maybe I could get back into a twelve. But it’s never going to happen now.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man from the Second Maine said sadly, “You ever hear about our flag? It cost twelve hundred dollars.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t really have twelve fingers, just baby skin that looked like it wanted to grow. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It had twelve hands but no numbers; instead, little planets were moving around the edge. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Ben had just turned twelve, and Richie said he was too old to share a room with girls and babies. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A young boy who was about twelve had wheeled him into the church, probably his grandson or a relative. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was dominated by twelve narrow wood bunks stacked in tiers of three, each with a thin bare mattress and a grubby bare pillow lumpily filled with shreds of Styrofoam. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I think she’s said it about eight million times in the last twelve hours. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Chicago is like the man who marries a woman with a ready-made family of twelve,” he said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I sit around for twelve hours with nothing to do. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Themselves, they had covered twelve hundred miles with two days’ rest, and in the nature of reason and common justice they deserved an interval of loafing. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant, according to the statistics, that eleven or twelve of them would be arrested again before they turned eighteen. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He would be speaking to him in just over twelve hours, for tonight was the night they were meeting at the common room fire — assuming nothing went wrong, as everything else had done lately. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He died in a car accident when he was twelve. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

And even at twelve Kabuo had understood that such a statement was out of character. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I can think of something else you could do with these. How many, oh, five-letter words, say, could you make using at least three of these twelve letters in each word? Ever done that?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The skeleton of one woman revealed twelve injuries. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I was twelve, I didn’t have much experience with motors. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Nearly half of all Smokies mussels species are endangered; twelve are thought to be extinct. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “We don’t have any money, but he’ll give you his flats skiff. It’s worth twelve thousand dollars.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My wickedness five years ago, or six, or twelve, has no existence except as now, mumbling, mumbling, sacrificing the slain world to the omnipotence of words, I strain my memory to regain it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are normally twelve girls in the house, counting the old ones, a Greek cook, and a man who is known as a watchman but who undertakes all manner of delicate and dangerous tasks. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is just it—it is impossible—quite impossible—that an honourable, slightly stupid, upright Englishman should stab an enemy twelve times with a knife! Do you not feel, my friends, how impossible it is?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, the business of running all of Philadelphia was, as Clarkson would write, “principally conducted by twelve only.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

No one would think I was just a girl going on twelve. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At twelve, my brother liked nothing better than to cut golf balls in half to see what was inside. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Somewhere outside the museum, a clock struck twelve. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The boys were a few years older than me, around twelve or thirteen. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She married two extraordinary men and raised twelve very creative and talented children, and I ought to list their names now. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her son, about twelve years old, peeked out from the window upstairs with a textbook in his hand. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Rachel, who sighted imaginary snakes at the least provocation, said, “Jeez oh man,” rolled her eyes, and announced her plan to pass the next twelve months in bed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that the way your father treated you when you were twelve?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ghost? Boy, what are you doing calling me at"—he paused, I guess to check the time—"at twelve twenty-two? Ain't you in school?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As a further punishment for concocting lies about a big hare and a young mouse, Redtooth ordered that the twelve be starved until further notice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Dad bought it when he and Mom split up, so when I was twelve,” Alex tells him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The twelve great Olympians were supreme among the gods who succeeded to the Titans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seven hundred twelve,” he said again, looking down at the table. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m not right for this kind of life. I don’t need a dinner table for twelve people to sit at. I couldn’t get twelve people to come over if I begged.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He had to make twelve calls before he found one with a room he could book for a few nights. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I had just swished twelve in a row. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next day we did seven miles, the next day twelve, and the day after that we came out of the rain, and out of the clouds, and out of the regions of mankind. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The gods set about repairing the throne room, which went surprisingly fast with twelve superpowerful beings at work. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“But here’s something I don’t get. I heard there was a limit of six tickets per customer. How did you manage to buy twelve?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Allyssa, twelve, a huge fan of music, composed an original piece about Joe Hill, the same labor activist who Taylor and Jayme had done their project on a few years earlier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

To provide an alibi, he ordered air strikes right up to the edge of the Vietnam-Cambodia border, starting twelve hours before they would cross into Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

During that same summer of the Americans’ annihilation by the Soviets, Bobby Fischer, now twelve, was engaged in his own battles on the board, playing in a tournament in Greenwich Village. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The judge then asked the twelve chosen jurors to swear that they would render a true verdict according to the law and the evidence—“so help you God!” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We set up on strip number one—there were twelve different strips on the floor—and Coach took me back through all of my best high school moves. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There were ten or twelve of the thick, octopus-like arms uncoiling from the ornate bronze, and silver, and gold mirror frames. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

For the next twelve hours, we waged a fierce and increasingly desperate battle to save the Cruz family’s trees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clock in a window across the street told him that it was twelve minutes to three. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of twelve children raised by a single mother, my father was the third eldest of the eight boys. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was a slow walk down the twelve flights of stairs, since they had to stop at almost every floor so Bri could catch her breath. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

For the last few weeks, she had been feeling as though Guy was lost to her each time he reached this point, twelve feet away from the balloon. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then Sor Milagros, who was in charge of the tens through twelves, took our smaller group upstairs into the dormitory hall we would share. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These crimes included the torture and murder of twelve million people—six million Jews and six million non-Jews who were deemed enemies of the Reich. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a seizure, I usually need to sleep for twelve hours or so, just to give my atoms a chance to settle in and hold hands again like good neighbors. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Did or didn’t the old man see the kid running out of the house at twelve ten? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just didn’t know. It never dawned on me that music was like this. I think I was eleven or twelve, and that was that. Music opened the door.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When school started in the fall, I, like every boy on Rass over twelve, was simply too busy to think of enrolling. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The zodiac is a band of twelve constellations seemingly wrapped around the sky in the apparent annual path of the Sun through the heavens. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Devan was a skinny lad of some twelve years, brown of hair and eye. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was Sunday, and only about twelve o'clock, but it was mobbed anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve lived twelve years of thirteen long months each and another twelve months besides, all of which living means I’m still one month away from the big birthday. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When his mom and the boyfriend split, Ocean was twelve. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Finish draining pod twelve,” a stiff voice says. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Behind them were about twelve guys from the yard crew. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My daddy, Benny Rachpaul, had bought me these sneakers when I turned twelve over the summer. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you, it is hard to care much about set theory when there are twelve trays of brown, light, perfect cream puffs cooling deliciously on a shelf back in your own classroom. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But the thought of climbing the twelve flights just to ram cold rice and beans into his mouth was even worse. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There’s always a sentence that says something like this: Airline policy clearly states passengers age twelve and over may travel with no adult supervision as long as they have a valid boarding pass. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Claudia was prepared to be the discoverer of great truths, Greenwich’s own heroine of the statue—and only twelve years old. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On the table where they’ll be sure to see it. We’re not moving far anyway. Just upstairs to apartment twelve B.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

One night at about twelve o’clock there was a loud crash in the yard, and the animals rushed out of their stalls. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I was only twelve years old when my grandmother died from severe burns that were allegedly inflicted upon her by my father. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The next day, I’m sitting in front of the television set watching the twelve o’clock news. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It is only half past twelve, and I am already back in my room. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I stand in the doorway of room twelve. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not here,” she says, “but where I come from there’s twelve.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

For major and minor scales, there are seven notes; for pentatonic, five; for a chromatic scale, twelve. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Now you must stay with me and be my guest eleven or twelve days more. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colin's backyard in Chicago measured twelve feet by ten feet; this backyard went on for football fields. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I turned around, saying, “No way,” then took a half step back when twelve fetterlings started clanking together, like metal rattlesnakes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

By the time they were twelve, they knew each other only as classmates. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

So there were twelve of us at the hotel, in the same wing on the same floor in single rooms, one after the other, and it reminded me of my dormitory at college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Zinchenko? Will you kindly help me pass out our first twelve library cards?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I had twelve to fifteen kids in that class, and they needed more than that. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thalia had gotten herself turned into a pine tree when she was twelve. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had left home early that morning to collect the twelve dollars owed her by the white family for whom she had worked the week before. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Festoons of holly and mistletoe hung all around the walls, and no less than twelve towering Christmas trees stood around the room, some sparkling with tiny icicles, some glittering with hundreds of candles. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Top of page one hundred and twelve. The description of the shield of Achilles.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood of Indian Village lay just twelve blocks west of Hurlbut, but it was a different world altogether. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“My smoothbore will blast a hole or twelve in each of you while you’re still fiddling with the ramrod of your grandma’s blunderbuss there.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

This was also black and it had twelve buttons down the front and two little waistcoat pockets on either side, one above the other. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was twelve years old when an exploding shell shattered his left arm and shoulder. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was slow moving—the water was about two or three feet deep and some twelve yards wide. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here we are. Youth. Ages six to twelve.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Croft reports that the boy was badly dehydrated by the time he was discovered, and that he had apparently been rowing without pause for more than twelve hours. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn't changed much since they had both been twelve almost three years before. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The other hand rested lazily at the twelve o’clock position on the steering wheel, pointing one finger up the road at an old splintered sign. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He's about twelve, and he's got some control problems with the thing, and he's got his head down and he can't see us because his helmet has a visor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had the arrangement been otherwise, we would use base eight or base twelve arithmetic and relegate base ten to the New Math. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So then you got to six X over six equals twelve. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Harmonics three and four; six and eight; nine and twelve; twelve and sixteen; and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But Iphitos had come there tracking strays, twelve shy mares, with mule colts yet unweaned. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was twelve years old, and I’d never done Valentine’s Day before. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I am twelve years old and already twice without parents. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The probationers and the second-year students worked twelve hours without rest. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Here,” he said, and with a wave of his wand he sent twelve full glasses soaring through the room to each of them, holding the thirteenth aloft. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Some things were good to add on when you turned twelve and some things were good to leave behind. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was an exceptionally bright student–so very bright indeed that at the improbably youthful age of twelve he was put in charge of the local Quaker school. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Granny’s home was a tiny, neat shack, measuring twelve by fifteen feet. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my birthday, Mami offers to invite Sam over, but I already told him I was twelve two weeks ago, so I don’t want to be caught in a lie. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

And then he leaned over toward Milo and whispered softly, “By the eight million two hundred and forty-seven thousand three hundred and twelve threads in my robe, I’ll say there are. Look here.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“See, I have this friend. And he was scalping tickets. We bought twelve tickets for your concert. I paid for the tickets, and he sold them, and we split the profit.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

After less than an hour of deliberations, the twelve men returned to the courtroom. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And more: twelve girls and six of their parents from Aberdeen High School, South Dakota, who cheered her with signs as she crossed the border from North to South Dakota. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

That evening—it was Saturday, the twenty-ninth of January—the Popper family and their twelve trained penguins, two of them carrying flags in their beaks, left the house to find the Palace Theater. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are twelve houses, each large enough to hold ten of the one I was raised in. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad doesn’t want me to see the burying part, but I make him walk to the cemetery with me, and he holds my hand for the first time since I was twelve. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Imagine a dump truck arriving once each year at the base of a mountain, filling up with a single load, and driving off, not to reappear for another twelve months. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It took twelve years and a ton of good luck for me to find the mysterious Frances. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the first campfire I’d ever attended, back when I was twelve, and how I'd felt so at home. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As I was tying on another jig, I heard an outboard engine—it was a johnboat, maybe twelve feet long, motoring along Snake Creek. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her: Yes, even though I had to close yesterday AND Saturday AND I had this calc stuff that is like reading Sanskrit AND I had to wear the Chuckle costume like twelve separate times. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

All twelve girls and all twelve mentors are here, and it doesn’t even feel crowded. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The salary was ten dollars for the first week and twelve thereafter. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I count to twelve, and then I count again, just to be sure. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It's only one room, about twelve feet square. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Upwards of twenty thousand, Jeth; mor’n twelve thousand of ’em was our boys.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hundred yards up there seemed to be a belt of thick, lower brush starting— about ten or twelve feet high—and that formed a wall he could not see through. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few seconds he was followed by his younger brother Billy, who at age twelve was noisier and had an annoying habit of skimming rocks across the grass at anything that moved. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He moved around the last ring of desks, tapping their tops, counting them off even though everybody knew his twelve was more than good enough to carry him to the finish line. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven twenty-eight twenty-nine... The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father wasn’t growing old: he had reached some kind of nadir ten or twelve years ago and now he was growing backward, aiming toward middle age, maybe youth. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After tea, Calder filled in Mrs. Sharpe on all the patterns of twelve he had identified. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a quarter before twelve o’clock when we got into the churchyard over the low wall. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He would not be shocked if, come morning, there was twelve, thirteen feet of water covering the neighborhood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’ve always pictured her the same age she was when I left—probably about twelve. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Max,” I say, “I have just made thirty-one thousand screws in twelve hours and walked five miles to find us dinner. This one is your problem.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, actually, I think she’s thirteen now, but she was twelve when she won the baking show.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was but a child of eight and Laertes was twelve when we moved from the village to Elsinore Castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

For some reason, knowledge of a solid called the dodecahedron having twelve pentagons as sides seemed to them dangerous. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? It’s a city of like twelve million people.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The beads click on my abacus: twelve ounces of hot chocolate = 400, but I am freezing. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

This tiny drumming, at first almost inaudible, mounts and swells, is repeated twelve . times in a continuous twelve-minute crescendo. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

From across the room he checks my form and instructs me to make adjustments—hands twelve inches apart, arms straight with elbows pressed against my knees, fingertips splayed—until I’m just right. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

About twelve people were lying on bamboo beds, on mats, on the floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Four years later, Dorothy Vaughan and her twelve fellow teachers were welcoming 301 education-hungry youngsters, urged along by parents who wanted more for their children than a life of work in the tobacco factories. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Essie’s mother was in service as a cook at the squire’s house, and, at the age of twelve, Essie began to work there, in the scullery. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The other solution was to reduce the number of divisions from nineteen to a more manageable twelve and to fudge the swallowing up of the pitches that were left; out. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t say that like I’m a little kid who can’t handle things. I’m old enough to understand this. In case you forgot, I’m twelve years old.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“The poison doesn’t take effect for at least twelve hours,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now, with juvenile incarceration rates sinking, only half of the twelve thirty-bed units were open, and each of those was only half full. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Though the trip is only twelve miles across land, it is much longer by boat. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When the ladders had been taken away, the manager had twelve ice-cream cones brought in for the penguins. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Are there really seven hundred twelve? Is it the same amount every day or something?” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. say, Yassur, us do know it Been trying to tell Harpo she crazy for twelve years. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked across the quad, Ms. Sandnes pointed out the six coed cottages, each housing twelve children, which were spaced around a circular drive. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The crew had beaten them off, at the cost of twelve lives. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We’ll start at eight and be finished by the time the Angelus rings at twelve. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She left the house for the first time at the age of twelve in a coach and horses that had to travel only two blocks to take her to the convent. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The minute hand on the alarm clock reached the number twelve and, at that precise moment, the streetlamp outside the window went out. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

On that same day in August, just a few minutes before twelve, Melanie Ross arrived at the door of Mrs. Hall’s apartment on the third floor. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the traveler adjusts the first clock to read twelve when it is noon where he is. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

At the age of twelve, gray bearded and teetering, Melina was a wonder of science. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I pace the perimeter, circling all six apartments at least twelve times with my hands on my head, squashing the top of my Belle-bun. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Even when the Stirling Wildcats were up by twelve with two minutes left, Felix’s cheering section still yelled and clapped for every basket. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because I was twelve, I had to sign consent to the adoption and select my name. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The morning of the interesting day arrived, and Mrs. Weston’s faithful pupil did not forget either at ten, or eleven, or twelve o’clock, that she was to think of her at four. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Two half-bloods crouched in the shadows—a boy about fourteen and a girl about twelve. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

At least there was room for twelve rabbits and the burrows were dry. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was twelve years old when it started.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then she was gone, and I was left alone with the twelve- year-old goddess. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

On Friday, no less than twelve letters arrived for Harry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I come home standing up straighter than I have since I was twelve, before my growth spurt. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For this assembly, the seventh graders, most of whom were twelve years old, were told to sit in the front rows,close to the stage. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Kids over twelve are allowed to fly alone. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I speak twelve languages fluently,” said Scythe Curie, a bit of pride in her voice. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And I thought, he either lives about twelve feet away from here or he started his walk during the Reagan Administration. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was about twelve, and we played on the beach together every day. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s take it into the Judge and let the kid take his chances with twelve other guys. 8TH JUROR: I don’t think the court will accept a hung jury. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

That brought the number down to one hundred twelve names. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Knowing these things came with having twelve candles to blow out, plus the extra candle to grow on. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

There were eight of them down at the river, four young boys about twelve years old—my age—two girls, a man, and a woman. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As one observer noted, “The Catholics of Chicago are ministered to in twelve different languages.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sometime between eleven and twelve every night, he would return from wherever he had been, have a glass of tea, spend a few minutes with me in my room, then go into his study. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Remember, Gregor, the prophecy calls for only four of the twelve to die. Think we can take them, you and I?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The guards on the wall were for people, not cats; and Tristran, who was twelve by this time, never saw the blue cat again. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Says the woman who worked twelve hours today.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I left twelve B a can of beans,” she said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She saw it wobble, then it tilted, then it toppled right over and fell with a tinkle on to the table-top not twelve inches from Miss Honey's folded arms. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to purchase a fleet, perhaps as many as fifty, but certainly no fewer than twelve, eight-oared shells. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I devein six hundred thousand million shrimp, and Dee chops broccoli and cauliflower into twelve million trillion perfect little trees. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

His grandmother’s house was a rambling gray stone mansion on twelve acres in North Vancouver. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“They have enough. It sounds like a good-sized group; I can hear at least twelve.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I could not summon enough courage while she sat there looking at me to reach over the yawning space of twelve inches and blot the wet ink on the envelope. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to know I was almost twelve so that he would stop treating me as though I were half that age. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon we expect there will be clubs in all of the twelve villages. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Altogether I was gone for twelve years, but in this room only an hour had passed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singer looked up at the clock and indicated the time—half-past twelve. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It became apparent when I was young, twelve or so. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the drawing, she was standing on a green lawn that looked exactly like the yard she’d spent the past twelve years playing in and running through. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Henry kept his eye on the revolution-counter; when the needle touched the twelve hundred mark, he threw the helicopter screws out of gear. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was smart, but she had to drop out of school when she was twelve because her parents could not afford the fees. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Pena had studied and worked for twelve years overseas, mainly in Canada and the United States. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrowed and he changed his mind about the twelve dollars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there came a point, maybe around the time I was eleven or twelve, when my mom stopped sitting in fitting rooms with me or brushing her teeth while I was in the shower. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

No Grammar School kids and nobody under twelve years old. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a lively, exuberant meeting attended by more than twelve hundred people, none of whom seemed intimidated by the presence of dozens of heavily armed policemen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if they had been dancing for twelve hours or twenty-four or for no time at all. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Then I looked at the carton of eggs on the counter and there were twelve eggs in the carton. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been twelve for only three weeks but it felt like forever. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t have much. Try to do some unpacking while I’m gone. Eleven, twelve and thirteen are all your stuff.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hike over land for about twelve miles. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

At eleven thirty that night, after talking for more than twelve hours, Dasch was finally ready to give Traynor his first lead in the case. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Every week, Lina—like all workers between age twelve and age fifteen—had Thursday off. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the Seven Kingdoms boys of twelve were often pages or squires; many had been training at arms for years. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jamie ended up with two aces and twelve cards more than I; the game cost me thirty-four cents. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each was ten feet by twelve feet wide and two feet high, with no floor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When she got to twice twelve is twenty-four she didn't stop. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had been twelve years since we moved to the States, and now the government finally knew I existed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They worked in teams, a man slashing the cane, a woman binding every twelve stalks into a bundle. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Like a greyhound coursing game, you take off from twelve yards out, winding for the kill. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He will stand at his desk folding and pasting and cutting until twelve o’clock at night. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d wait until he had ten or twelve, then tote them to a garbage can a few blocks away, because if Dad saw the empty bottles, he would get furious. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had about two hundred and fifty pupils aged from five to just under twelve years old. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are twelve rows of folding chairs, every one of them occupied. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her father, a mineworker, had died when she was an infant, and her mother when she was twelve. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had had a bunch of kids in her backyard running through the sprinkler, and now they wanted twelve cups of lemonade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was born in Braintree, twelve miles south of Boston, in 1735, the son of a farmer and shoemaker, who sent Adams to Harvard in the hope he might become a minister. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I had about twelve students and assistants then. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when we would go to San Francisco in the carriage, and pass by the square, there he was, a grown man no taller than me at twelve. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I left for college, Faizah had been a little girl of twelve. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There are ten or twelve gentlemen on board and they are leaving the twenty-five of us commoners behind to starve. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If I walked twelve miles instead of, say, five, what would it gain me after all? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed miraculous, as if some block of stone had fallen from the peaks above and landed upright in the brush, chiseled, solitary, twelve feet high. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He painstakingly searched for words like “hero,” “bravery,’’ and “rescue,” for all one hundred twelve names. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Jimmy never fought, because he was eleven and Jesse was twelve and bigger. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was out of my league, and even though I was only twelve, I knew that I’d be one of those guys who always fell in love with the unreachable, ungettable, and uninterested. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The magistrate gave the defense four months to sift through the eight thousand pages of typed evidence and twelve thousand documents to prepare its case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I’ve seen her without lipstick on since she was twelve. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And his mind could not contain the terrible stretch of time that united twelve men fishing by the shores of Galilee, and black men weeping on their knees tonight, and he, a witness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Do you realize that there are only twelve rhymes to ‘rod’ in the entire language? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Nick Farthing was twelve, but he could pass—and did sometimes—for sixteen: a large boy with a crooked smile, and little imagination. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Then twelve billion gallons of water molecules crowd for that initial escape vent, and they tear and chew at the structure until house-size chunks of it tumble down its disintegrating face. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was twelve years old, quaking as he stood with his mother and father on Bright Angel Point, at the rim of the Grand Canyon. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rose proudly out of the water, each with twelve sparkling white sails gleaming in the sun. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no way she was in her thirties when she had a tag sale twelve years earlier. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Thirteen,” I said, guessing he thought I was still twelve. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“This one’s about fourteen years old, this one’s twelve, this one just turned eighteen, this one’s...” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She'd been turned into a tree when she was twelve, but that had been seven years ago. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s amazing how much work it is to move just twelve blocks. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But in the past twelve hours, I’ve accepted a dangerous assignment. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The next day in room twelve, Mr. Fabian has on a Red Sox cap. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Ten? Oh I don’t believe it! The pearl earrings make twelve!” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just because I don’t get a headache on day ten doesn’t mean I won’t get a headache on day twelve. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a boy of twelve or thirteen, no older than Ranofer himself, though he was bigger. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It felt like I’d been holding in twelve billion gallons behind the sutures of my Lazarus Door scar. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then the baishakunin, whose work was to procure brides, showed them twelve acres of prime mountain land, which, he said, the potential bridegroom intended to purchase upon his return from America. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom’s job was teaching remedial reading in an elementary school in Davy, a coal-mining camp twelve miles north of Welch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A cockroach heart has twelve to thirteen chambers, arranged in a row. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There are twelve and they are named for songs: Stardust and Stormy Weather and In the Mood and Pistol-Packin’ Mama. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You’re saying I don’t really like Margo? After all this—I’m twelve hours inside this car already and you don’t think I care about her because I don’t— ” I cut myself off. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But, Mom,” I say, “it says no kids are accepted after the age of twelve!” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was taller than any guy in Aru’s class, but still looked about twelve years old. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The road was built up about twelve feet, so he was driving above the marshes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In all, the blaze killed twelve firemen and three workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His own handmills were there, and twelve maids had the job of grinding out whole grain and barley meal, the pith of men. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The interview was his shortest, only twelve minutes, but it created an international fury since it was picked up in its entirety online. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each monkey weighed between five and twelve pounds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that the whole lot of us, new prisoners and old, were divided up into squads of twelve. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had been subjected to twelve years of Nazi propaganda and indoctrination. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My daily budget was a quickly spent twelve dollars, and every extravagance called for a corresponding sacrifice. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Again he was a boy of twelve, sitting at the breakfast table, filled with bubbling joy because he was going to go back to school—he thought. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re not getting married, Kojo. Under current law, the minimum age of marriage in this state is eighteen. We’re both twelve. Case closed. Do you have your note from your mom and dad?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

‘That is not wholly true. Mr. Singer contributed a check for twelve dollars to be used for coal. And I have invited him to be present today.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He explained that he was quite sure there were more twelves involved. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were both twelve, and after school he used to carry her book satchel the mile separating the Holcomb school- house from her father’s farm ranch. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he realize he was facing twelve years in Azkaban, twelve years that would make him unrecognizable? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I held on to my breathing and threw at the twelve candles runged ’round the tent. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I gather the next two tapes, blue nail polish labeling them nine and ten, eleven and twelve, and hide them in my inside jacket pocket. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

And when he spent twelve hours a day sitting at a desk, far from his guitar and the inspiration of the people, he had few opportunities to feel happy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was crazy red and his eyes were too intense and he seemed about twelve feet tall and I didn’t know if he was going to kiss me or punch me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The entire circus is doused in color as the clock tolls, twelve deep chimes reverberating through the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had bought a small house in town for less than twelve thousand dollars, which is what she could afford. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was certain that she knew he’d been drinking, and she must have noticed that although we were away over twelve hours, we hadn’t brought one tortilla into the house. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boy, probably about twelve years old, turns to us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He did see, at George Freeman’s place, a Douglas fir that had toppled over so that its root wad now stood twelve feet high beside George’s mailbox. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"There's like twelve hundred people in the audience, Tiny," I say. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

In 1881, when he was sixteen, Rondon joined the army and earned a scholarship to the Military Academy in Rio de Janeiro, twelve hundred miles away from his home. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When I was twelve, she went on one of her tears and punched me from one side of the room to the other because I didn’t wash the dishes. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now twelve and a half, he still remembered his first day of school, at McClendon Elementary. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Saint Gabriel's bell rang eleven or twelve times; the crows made me too uneasy to keep count. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In front of the stools, wire mesh ran from a small ledge up to a ceiling twelve feet high. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The equation grew from six to twelve feet long before assuming a second line, at which point the fishermen took an interest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“There are forty of you. But we only have room for twelve on the varsity and twelve on the junior varsity.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Welch High had about twelve hundred students, but we sold only a couple hundred copies of the paper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She went to her final sleep most tranquilly, most sweetly at twelve o’clock today’ Dr. Gully had written up the cause of death as a “Bilious Fever with typhoid character!’ Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A school report from 1918, when she was twelve, noted that she was “very good” in “deportment and lessons.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

All in all, I think there are about twelve of us from different grades, now thrown together, learning addition and algebra, “Cielito Undo” as well as “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“During the last twelve months we have gone through a period of grim dictatorship.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were twelve, maybe thirteen, Luke had made the same walk. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were twelve monkey rooms in the monkey house, and they were designated by the letters A through L. Two of the monkeys that arrived on October 4 were dead in their crates. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planted them in the dirt, twelve in all. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“A Dodecahedron is a mathematical shape with twelve faces.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knows his stuff—after all, he did spend twelve years in the Marine Corps. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She and Peris had figured out how to trick the house minder back when they were twelve, when the three-month difference in their ages seemed like it would never matter. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Pod twelve—youth sector. Identify your role,” the Chancellor says, so close I can smell her sweet hyacinth breath. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They added more rooms as the family grew to include twelve children: nine girls and three boys. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

I’ve never gotten an F in my twelve years of schooling. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the plate there were eight eggs, twelve sausages, sixteen rashers of bacon and a heap of fried potatoes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pictures of me stop when I was twelve. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And twelve years from now, you’ll call to tell me that you want me to be the godfather to your first kid.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Hands twelve inches apart, elbows against your knees, fingertips splayed. Then slowly, slowly shift your weight forward onto your shoulders—get those toes off the ground—and then just push yourself up.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I once had a beer with my brother when I was twelve, and I just didn’t like it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then he saw a kid who couldn’t have been more than twelve, dancing in the stands. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"What can you have? Five entries? I had six when I was just twelve years old." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I took off the contraption and explained to Dad that, because my front teeth stuck out so badly, I needed braces, but they cost twelve hundred dollars, so I had made my own. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The school, I knew, had twelve guidance counselors. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The dress store was her best job—they had four big windows they wanted washed three times a week, so she earned twelve dollars a week from there. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Governor Wallace’s hard face and tightly knit brows, plastered on the front of Time magazine some twelve days later, covered the nation’s coffee tables and city newsstands. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Losing your mother at twelve probably isn’t easy. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Doc Daneeka gave him a pill and a shot that put him to sleep for twelve hours. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Eager to see what was inside the new library, the twelve essay contest winners quickly gathered behind Dr. Zinchenko. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Joffrey is but twelve, and Robert gave you the regency, my lofd. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Every second of my twelve years with Mr. Muhammad, I had been ready to lay down my life for him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been married to your father for twelve years. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She needed it to fall asleep when she got back from her shift over at the Uline Warehouse—twelve hours straight, so who could blame her? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

By now I was twelve years old and starting my second year of middle school. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I was twelve by now, and I had been weighing our options, doing some research at the public library and picking up scraps of information about how other families on Little Hobart Street survived. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Technically, apprentices were supposed to start their work at age twelve and gradually matriculate into higher roles, but Kamau—ever charming, ever likable—had appealed to Father Olufemi. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I had scored three points in the first half and my man, Brothers, had scored twelve. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was reinforced steel, and he was twelve. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

His laws were laws, and one of them was: Nancy—and Kenyon, too—must be home by ten on week nights, by twelve on Saturdays. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the twelve other members of the Mouse Council nodded their heads, too. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m only twelve. But in two years I’m totally going to audition. It sounds amazing.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Madoc gives me puzzles—twelve goblin knights to storm a fortress, nine untrained Gentry to defend one—and then asks for my answers each evening after dinner. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

War was declared officially on December 4, and twelve days later, the Pakistani army, weakened by having to fight three thousand miles from its source of supplies, surrendered in Dacca. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The number, which is between one and twelve, one being irredeemably bad and twelve being unattainably high, signifies the promise of the tribute. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Duodecimalthon. It’s like a decathlon, only with twelve games instead of ten.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was twelve years old when the wall began. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z