...But how could it be seriously hoped that either pigeons or bottles couldcross the distance of twelve hundred miles which separated the islandfrom any inhabited land? It would have been pure folly... 
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
..."That's a matter of two hours and a half," said the sailor, "and weshall be off the Cape between twelve and one o'clock...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...Fearful, he waited, a perfect, living statuette, twelve incheshigh...
Various 「Astounding Stories, August, 1931」
...Every night,regularly, at nine, at twelve, at three, they lifted a nocturnal song, a weirdand eerie chant, in which it was Buck’s delight to join...
Jack London 「The Call of the Wild」
...The twelve duennas halted and formed a lane, along which the Distressed One advanced, Trifaldin still holding her hand...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...Verses of ten or twelve syllables, however, lend themselvesmore readily to rhythm from regularly recurring stress...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...Bartholomew,' one of the twelve apostles,deemed by some to be identical with Nathanael...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
... doleful musicians were followed by twelve duennas, in tworanks, clad in large mourning robes, with white veils of thin muslinthat almost reached to their feet...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...Well,Pizarro was a poor fellow like us, who crossed the sea with twelve orthirteen youths as ragged as himself, and entered a country finer thanParadise—a kingdom where lies Potosí—I need say no more...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...He had fulfilled his promise and there he was among twelve thousandpeople who did not know him, greeting the matador, who felt a certaingratitude for this display of confidence...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...Get out, and let thy bald-headed grandmother thatrode on a broom every Saturday at the stroke of twelve get on thatraw-boned, hard-gaited beast...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...It was half-past twelve in the morning, and though the wind was broken by the land, it was a cold night...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...They had soon, in this manner, placed twelve leagues between them and Vaux; they were then obliged to change horses, and organize a sort of post arrangement...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...The twelve rowers in the other did not, at first, perceive this maneuver, for they continued to urge on their boat so vigorously that it arrived quickly within musket-shot...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
... “An idea to which we shall owe our liberty within twelve hours...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...de Gesvres appeared, at the head of twelve guards, in front of the hostelry...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
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