Seven or eight hours more of resistance on his part at Brighuega would have enabled Staremberg to come up to his assistance, and all the resources of Spain would then have been annihilated.
Before the Marshals took leave of the Emperor Alexander they solicited an armistice of forty-eight hours, which time they said was indispensable to negotiate the act of abdication with Napoleon.
During the seven or eight hours he passed at La Calade a considerable number of people had gathered round the inn, and manifested every disposition to proceed to some excess.
Bonaparte took Malta, as is well known, in forty-eight hours.
The air hadn't been renewed in forty-eight hours, and its life-giving qualities were considerably weakened.
In another forty-eight hours, our reserve air will be used up.
Then he related how the Minister had written to him, and how in a brief interview he had stated that Barthes must cross the frontier within forty-eight hours if he did not wish to be arrested.
But it now seemed that the good fortune which had hitherto attended us had deserted us, for after crawling for four days in sultry weather, there fell a dead calm, and we lay like a log upon the sea for forty-eight hours.
It was imperative that within forty-eight hours at farthest he should be on his way to the peninsula.
In forty-eight hours I could raise twenty thousand pounds, but forty-eight hours is too long.
These things take a day or two, say forty-eight hours.
The bank is rotten, and can't last forty-eight hours.
If you do, in forty-eight hours I shall be married to my Julia, and that dumpling-faced girl will be cured.
For forty-eight hours I labored at the bedside of my poor burned and bruised but uncomplaining brother, and then the star of my hope went out and left me in the gloom of despair.
As long as I remember anything I shall remember the forty-eight hours of that homeward voyage.
This was within forty-eight hours of the time he was to appear.
Within forty-eight hours, therefore, using the railway, it would be possible to strengthen Johnson in time to protect Staunton, and to prevent the Federals uniting.
The next morning saw the armies in the same positions, and the Federal wounded, many of whom had been struck down nearly forty-eight hours before, still lying untended between the hostile lines.
In the succeeding twenty-four hours I had gone from Fort Larned to Fort Hays, sixty-five miles, in eight hours.
In the forty-eight hours since he had been cut off from his command De Rudio had undergone all the horrors of Indian warfare and a hundred times had given himself up for dead.
We were to hunt one day of eight hours, beginning at eight o'clock in the morning.
Altogether I had ridden and walked three hundred and sixty-five miles in fifty-eight hours, an average of over six miles an hour.
But can we travel forty-eight leagues in eight hours?
I took a week to go, another to return, four days of quarantine, and forty-eight hours to stay there; that makes three weeks.
The whole journey was performed with equal rapidity; the thirty-two horses, dispersed over seven stages, brought them to their destination in eight hours.
But, viscount, since we cannot perform the journey in less than seven or eight hours, do not keep me waiting.
This was made in forty-eight hours; the interval was spent mainly in concocting lies to be incorporated with the number of minute facts he had gained from Staines's letter, and in making close imitations of his handwriting.
Staines could have possession in forty-eight hours, by paying the premium.
In forty-eight hours more a brougham waited at Mrs. Staines's door.
The distance from New York is about a hundred and fifty-five miles, and is frequently performed by the steamers, on the noble river Hudson, in nine hours and a half up the stream, and in eight hours down.
I know that I trembled as I walked away, and that I went to bed, where I remained forty-eight hours, restless and feverish, haunted by skeletons that danced around me and threw their bleeding hearts at my head.
He himself spent forty-eight hours at the castle, but met with no success.
He examined the bolts, watched the servants, and, during the next forty-eight hours, he became almost persuaded that his fears were groundless.
The jury must pass sentence within the forty-eight hours.
Some of the men have not slept for forty-eight hours.
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