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Meanings of thirteens in English

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Examples for "baroness"
1
And it was not I who said it; it was the baroness.
A Roman Singer
2
The four voices rang together, even the baroness joining in the cheer.
Greifenstein
3
In the boudoir of the baroness he found Lenore, weeping and exhausted.
Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
4
The confederates sat there in a chilly state, waiting for the baroness.
White Lies
5
The baroness re-entered the room, and the two men said no more.
The Honor of the Name
1
The cases containing the books were then brought out into the atrium, and there stacked in five piles.
Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion
Usage of thirteens in English
1
He found a ten, several thirteens, a seven, a six, but no nines.
The Child Thief
2
Counting the corpse there were twenty-six of us, two thirteens.
The Left Hand of Darkness
3
I didn't know the thirteens at all.
The center of everything
4
Gethenians often think in thirteens, twenty-sixes, fifty-twos, no doubt because of the 26-day lunar cycle that makes their unvarying month and approximates their sexual cycle.
The Left Hand of Darkness
5
I remember one in particular who demanded "thirteens," but who did not stand more than five feet and five inches in his invisible stockings.
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. /...
6
"There're a lot of thirteens in here," I said to myself.
Changes
7
"Does she wear size thirteens?"
Running scared
Thirteens through the time