Sixes
[sɪksiz]
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.
- 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.
- Wildeve rattled the box, and threw a pair of sixes and five points. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Venn lifted the box, and behold a triplet of sixes was disclosed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Dostn't wish th' wast three sixes again, Grandfer, as you was when you first learnt to sing it? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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