Careful Words

eleven (n.)

eleven (adj.)

  Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 3.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

Colley Cibber (1671-1757): Woman's Wit. Act i.