Once or twice she was encored five and
six times in succession, and received with hisses when she appeared, and discharged with hisses and laughter when she had finished--then instantly encored and insulted again!
You are a philosopher, Thrasymachus, I replied, and well know that if you ask a person what numbers make up twelve, taking care to prohibit him whom you ask from answering twice six, or three times four, or
six times two, or four times three,
Suppose two children in a school, both of whom are asked "What is
six times nine?" One says fifty-four, the other says fifty-six.
Six times he had returned to the treasure chamber, and
six times Werper, the Belgian, had cowered in the black shadows at the far end of the long vault.
if weight on the moon's surface is
six times less than on the earth?" said Michel.
He shook his head about
six times, and I was in despair.
It seems as innocent of a destination as a boy on an errand; but, after taking at least
six times as long as any other road in the kingdom for its amount of work, you usually find it dip down of a sudden into some lovely natural cul-de-sac, a meadow-bottom surrounded by trees, with a stream spreading itself in fantastic silver shallows through its midst, and a cottage half hidden at the end.
Charles VI relapsed
six times into madness during the year 1399, sometimes during the new, sometimes during the full moon.
I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to
six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever.
Hence, the stopcock of my cylinder, when fully open, expends 27 cubic feet per hour, with a flame at least
six times as strong as that of the large lamps used for lighting streets.
My silver plate, which is perhaps a little worn, but which ought to weigh from a thousand to twelve hundred pounds, for I had great trouble in lifting the coffer that contained it and could not carry it more than
six times round my chamber.
suppose this weapon to be
six times stronger and the animal ten times more powerful; launch it at the rate of twenty miles an hour, and you obtain a shock capable of producing the catastrophe required.