Meanings of the number twelve in English

Another computation, which ignored Abimelech, reached the number twelve by adding Shamgar, iii.

After an image of a weird, gamey-looking badger, the number twelve flashes on the screen.

I brush past the gaping Avoxes who guard the elevators and hit the number twelve button with my fist.

For neither in the representation of seven, nor of five, nor of the composition of the two numbers, do I cogitate the number twelve.

When any body mentioned the number twelve before him, or called any thing the twelfth, Bernard would immediately cry out, 'And I am the Thirteenth!'

The long hand threatened to touch the short hand at the number twelve, without any appearance of Ingeborg's noticing it.

'She has some recent association with the number twelve?'

1-4 are almost or quite extinct, and the number twelve is therefore sometimes made up as follows:

The number twelve, Your Majesty....

(11) Twelve lunar periods, making up approximately the solar year, gave peculiar importance to the number twelve also.

"Suppose the number three represents a chicken, and the number twelve the Rings of Saturn-whatthen is three times twelve?"