Word: half-dozen
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...Before the Courier comments on any other sheet, let it show a cleaner face and more intelligence than can be shook out of the aggregate calibre of the half-dozen human puppets who form its editorial staff...
FIRST and foremost, a word to some half-dozen Exchanges in the West, who have just received our first issue of the year, and think to fill up their attenuated sheets by an attack on the style of matter in ours. Did it never occur to these children of the prairies that we do not depend absolutely on our exchange-list for support? Let them accept with thankfulness the food furnished them, remembering that even muscular literature is better than that of the whining stamp...
Stone took the lead at the start, closely followed by Weld. He lost somewhat at the bend, but made it up in turning the stake. From this point to the winning stake he gained steadily on Weld, and crossed the line some half-dozen lengths ahead. The winner deserves great credit, both for the good rowing he showed and the pluck he exhibited in entering a race against a man whose previous record as a single sculler has been so good...
...find. The thoughts of very young men are usually crude, and to every one but themselves almost worthless; besides, it is hard to find more than half a dozen interested in the same subject at once. It appears to us quite out of the question to speak to the half-dozen and neglect the hundreds. Let those who think differently consider well this line from Byron, that served as the motto of one of our predecessors...