He must have been a very rapid worker to have painted five portraits in eight days; but, perhaps, on account of the very modest price he received, these were more in the nature of quick sketches.
The record of those terrible fifty-eight days, carefully set down in his journal, reads like an Odyssey of misfortune and almost of disaster.
We were twenty-eight days also in going down this river to Basora, though we might have gone in eighteen days, or less, if the water had been higher.
He fell sick immediately after, and departed this life in eight days illness, having nominated, before he died, Mr Anthony Bate to succeed him as consul for the English nation, who laudably executed the office for three years.
Having set up a pinnace which we brought with us, and remained in waiting for our consorts during twenty-eight days, we proceeded to the port of Baldivia in lat.
Its limits may be stated as varying from two to six weeks, with an average of from twenty-one to twenty-eight days.
Ligation of the aorta has so far been unsuccessful, but in one case operated upon by Keen the patient survived forty-eight days.
It fell every twelfth year, when the planet Jupiter was in retrograde motion in the sign of the Crab, and it lasted twenty-eight days, culminating at the time of the eighth lunar asterism in the month of Makaram.
It is one hundred and eighty-eight days to-day since we ran the blockade at New Orleans, and of this time we have been one hundred and thirty-six days at sea.
Thirty-eight days out, and in all that time but two vessels spoken and one solitary prize!
We have thirty-eight days of water on board, allowing a gallon to a man; but still I have put the officers and crew on the allowance of three quarts per day.
The women do so as well as the men, and this mode of proceeding takes place at night, and the masquerade continues seven or eight days.
There came out to us some canoes, informing us that one of our pataches had been in the harbor for a month, and that three vessels had arrived eight days before.
Then we agreed to go in eight days, hoping that in the end they, finding they would lose no money, would allow us to gain time.
Later the sheikh sent to say he would send twenty soldiers, and make them take us in eight days.
They had now been asked to name their stages; kafilas can go in seven or eight days.
Poor Mr. Ritchie, after having been confined to his bed for fifty-eight days, was now able to sit up a little, and by the 20th August had tolerably recovered.
Faustus was carried through the Air, up to the Heavens to see the whole World, and how the Sky and Planets ruled; after the which he wrote a Letter to his Friend of the same to Liptzig, and how he went about the World in eight days.
If the number and magnitude of the different commercial failures were to be taken into account, there appeared as much necessity for the government measure when it was withdrawn, as when, twenty-eight days before, it was introduced.
It was at the same time notified by the envoy, that if the ultimatum were not complied with, he would leave Constantinople in eight days.
Anne of Austria believed that Louis XIII knew all, and that the cardinal had persuaded him to employ this long dissimulation of seven or eight days, which, likewise, was characteristic.
For the rest, as he reckoned upon returning by the same route in seven or eight days, if Porthos were still at the Great St. Martin, he would call for him on his way.
In the whole course of my life I cannot recollect an interval more perfectly exempt from care, than the seven or eight days I was passing from Annecy to Turin.
No, sire, I bring you the tragedy complete, and I wrote it in eight days.
In eight days, your excellency, I will return with them, and you will have a clear profit of eleven thousand thalers.
I worked unceasingly, and in eight days I had finished!
And here is a woman, weighing only one hundred pounds when she started fasting, claims she began to eat after thirty-eight days of starvation, and had more energy and took more exercise than in years.
Then for twenty-eight days he absolutely abjured all food.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eight days" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
