The nine Muses.
The seven wise men of Greece.
For twelve years he struggled manfully and the thirteenth year crowned his efforts with success.
Congress has now been in session two months and three weeks, lacking two days.
It is twenty-four years since the rebellion turned the two sections of our country into two armed bodies composed of two or three million men.
It is the twelfth hour which is dreaded most at night by superstitions mortals.
At eleven and a half o’clock.
In the thirtieth degree of latitude the thermometer reached the fifth degree above zero.
12. When a paper is divided into clauses numbered “1, 2, 3,” etc., in the copy, put in figures; but if written “1st, 2d, 3d,” etc., spell out.