Sevens
[sevnz]
Examples
- Everything is so at sixes and sevens. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The least they pretended was that they were going to cut Lowick Parish into sixes and sevens. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Years ago she had said that when she married she would braid it in sevens. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They won't give 'em up, said the man; there's a regular shinty in the house, and everything at sixes and sevens. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She had braided it in sevens today. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They were seventy-sevens and came with a whishing rush of air, a hard bright burst and flash and then gray smoke that blew across the road. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Typed by Kate