dizen
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Ye think ye've a hard time o't, but there's waur things than sewin' jackets at thirteenpence the dizen.'
From The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. (Annie Shepherd) Swan
Ye had five cogs, a dizen o' bickers, twa dizen o' piggins, three bowies, four cream dishes, and twa ladles, besides the wooden spoons that I packed up mysel.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various
I dinna consort wi' shoplifters, an' idiots, an' suckin' bairns—wi' long nose, an' short nose, an' pug nose, an' seventeen Deuks o' Wellington, let alone a baker's dizen o' Queens.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
To-morrow, when the masks shall fall That dizen Nature's carnival, The pure shall see by their own will, Which overflowing Love shall fill, 'T is not within the force of fate The fate-conjoined to separate.
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the worth o' anything to me, puir auld deevil, that ha' no half a dizen years to live at the furthest.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
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