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Example sentences for "few days after the"

  • A few days after the battle, King William conferred the Colonelcy on Lord George Hamilton (afterwards Earl of Orkney) from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

  • The transports which remained were all preparing to leave us, and in a few days after the Gorgon, the Matilda and Mary Ann sailed for the coast of Peru.

  • A few days after the arrival of the Francis, Mr. Rogers sailed for China, taking with him two women and three men who had received permission to quit the colony.

  • In a few days after the arrival of the Hope, the signal was again made at the South Head, and in a few hours the Chesterfield, the ship just mentioned to us by the American, anchored in the cove.

  • A few days after the fall of Fort Mifflin the British transports made their way up to Philadelphia, and to some extent relieved the distress that the scarcity of provisions occasioned.

  • Earl and Doolittle were soldiers of a New Haven company, which reached Cambridge a few days after the fight.

  • A few days after the taking of Philadelphia, the Rev.

  • A few days after the victory he had gained, a great number of vessels appeared upon the sea, directing their course towards the land.

  • Guy laid siege to Ptolemaïs, which had surrendered to Saladin a few days after the battle of Tiberias.

  • Conrad reached the coast of Phœnicia a few days after the battle of Tiberias.

  • A few days after the battle of Shiloh, General O.

  • To those who made an inspection of the situation a few days after the earthquake, the hills and beaches of San Francisco looked like an immense tented city.

  • They appeared around the entire equatorial zone in a few days after the eruption, this doubtless being due to the great rapidity with which the volcanic dust was carried by the upper air current.

  • Lee, in his memoirs says, “That in a few days after the infliction of this disgraceful punishment, the officer became convinced of the injustice of the charge, and made an ample atonement to young Morgan before the whole regiment.

  • General Meagher sent a request to Colonel Barnes to visit him at his tent a few days after the battle, and in the most pleasing manner expressed his high appreciation of the conduct of the Twenty-ninth.

  • Tighe of Company K had permission from his officers to remain at his home in East Boston for a few days after the departure of the regiment.

  • In the course of a few days after the return of the company to East Bridgewater, a reorganization of it was effected upon the basis of three years’ service.

  • A few days after the battle, a flag of truce was sent out from our lines, to discover the condition of our dead and wounded.

  • A few days after the assassination, Montgomery had a conversation with Beverly Tucker in Montreal.

  • A few days after the surprise of Paulus Hook by Major Lee, the long- expected fleet from Europe, under the command of Admiral Arbuthnot, having on board a reinforcement for the British army, arrived at New York.

  • Potemkin, who was a Pole by birth and had been raised from the position of a sergeant in the Russian army to princely rank with a fortune estimated at seven millions of our money, died a few days after the treaty.

  • A few days after the break-up of the Conference, Midhat Pasha was ignominiously dismissed from office.

  • Ahmed Kiuprili died a few days after the signature of this treaty from the effect of drink.

  • A few days after the success of Wilkes an act was passed, by large majorities in both houses, for disfranchising many corrupt voters of the borough of Crick-lade, and extending the right of suffrage to the freeholders of the hundred.

  • It now becomes our duty to conduct the reader to a magnificent hotel in the Faubourg St. Germain, and make him a spectator of a scene which occurred a few days after the conversation we have spoken of.

  • Mr. Webster, who had been detained at Dunkirk by the illness of his son, remained at Buffalo a few days after the departure of the Presidential party.

  • For within a few days after the minister's return to Valladolid, tidings reached the court that the invalid was no more.

  • Without delay he joined his regiment at Garysburg, where it remained drilling until ordered to Richmond, and arrived at Manassas only a few days after the victory at that place.

  • A few days after the conference at Hampton Roads, he informs us, a committee consisting of Messrs.

  • A few days after the funeral he should call again and leave his card.

  • The host should call upon the chaperone within a few days after the dinner.

  • When she was taken suddenly ill, a few days after the murder of the Duc de Guise at Blois, she asked the name of the bishop who came to assist her.

  • Old Lecamus, who by that time had got himself elected deputy of the /tiers-etat/ by the burghers of Paris, arrived at Orleans a few days after the arrest of the Prince de Conde.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    apart from; few days; few days before the; few feet above the; few hundred yards away; few inches; few lines; few men; few miles from the; few minutes; few moments; few more; few rods; few seconds; few steps; few years; few years before the; gradual development; president and general manager; roi des; small hole; thinks himself; volcanic ashes; whose life; wondering whether; wrought upon