Threes
[θ'ri:z]
Examples
- The apes scattered by ones, and twos, and threes in all directions, but ever within sound of a signal of alarm. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I had not been long on the road, before I noticed that other people--by twos and threes--appeared to be travelling in the same direction as myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Houses in twos and threes pass by us, solitary farms, ruinous buildings, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, open country, avenues of leafless trees. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The police closed again round the doorway, and men stole out from among the crowd by twos and threes and stood behind them to be the first to see. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- On ordinary working-days she braided it in threes; on ordinary Sundays in fours; at Maypolings, gipsyings, and the like, she braided it in fives. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The three passed and then came nine more, flying much higher in the minute, pointed formations of threes, threes and threes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- After lunch, people strolled about, by twos and threes, through the house and garden, enjoying the sunshine without and within. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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