They are small affairs, suitable only to spend a few hours in on summer afternoons.
How different they had seemed to her a few hours ago!
And she had a shamed recollection of the way in which, a few hours since, she had felt the centripetal force of their standards.
Her real self had lain warm on his heart but a few hours earlier--what had he to do with this estranged and tranquil face which, for the first time, neither paled nor brightened at his coming?
She must shut them out for a few hours; she must take a brief bath of oblivion.
Why should she have to suffer for having once, for a few hours, borrowed money of an elderly cousin, when a woman like Carry Fisher could make a living unrebuked from the good-nature of her men friends and the tolerance of their wives?
But it was impossible to resist her entreaty to be allowed to attend on me, for a few hours daily, as assistant to the regular nurse.
Miss Restall had passed a quieter night, and had been able for a few hours to leave her room.
In a few hours more, they will assemble in their thousands, eager to hear me.
It's no great hardship to pass a few hours in this delicious summer air.
My shameful dismissal from this house may be a question of a few hours.
The confession I shall make will be the truth in a few hours, if it's not the truth now.
On the day when you went to Craig Fernie, had you not, a few hours previously, applied for my permission to marry my niece?
Take a good look at me, father; for in a few hours' time life will be over for me.
So it came to pass that Cerizet earned more by a few hours' work of an evening for the brothers Cointet than by a whole day's work for David Sechard.
Then he would go off to the station building in Pearl Street, throw an overcoat on a pile of tubes, lie down and sleep for a few hours, rising to resume work with the first gang.
A few hours, sir,' he returned in a sudden passion.
It is but a few hours, sir,' Clennam cheerfully urged upon him.
In a few hours, however, the purchase was effected, and a courier started for London.
On Market days a bookseller named Michael Johnson, the father of the great Samuel Johnson, came over from Lichfield, and opened stall during a few hours.
Immense sums have been expended on works which, if a rebellion broke out, might perish in a few hours.
Seven Sundays, and all of them broken up at one time or another, in the day or in the night, by a few hours of the awful storm of fire and thunder and iron.
Meat spoiled in a few hours in the fetid and pestiferous air, and turned black.
Those who had been loudest in their jeers gave up all their property for a few crowns, and set out with those they had so laughed at a few hours before.
It was only when he had approached within a few hours' march of that city, that he discovered the inadequacy of his army.
Perhaps he was right; but at all events he had scarcely left the house before Madame Leon again urged her dear young lady to take a few hours' rest.
The lady is no longer in the house; she only remained here for a few hours.
But we shall have horrors enough before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more cheerful.
Several of the officers and harpooners were allowed a few hours off, as their special duty of dealing with the head at daylight would be so arduous as to need all their energies.
In a few hours my strength will be utterly exhausted; besides, perhaps I have not been missed at the fortress.
A piece of biscuit and a small quantity of rum formed his supper, and he snatched a few hours' sleep, lying over the mouth of the cave.
He hired the apartment in which he lived furnished, passed only a few hours in the day there, and rarely slept there.
The sentence is passed, and, in a few hours, will be executed; it must be so, and I will not endeavor to prevent it.
A few hours before, I had been wishing that I might be rid of her, and now that she was gone I would have given my life to have her back again.
But I came to the water's edge before I noticed that anything was amiss with the party we had left there a few hours before.
The work upon the engines had progressed to such an extent that within a few hours we might expect to be able to proceed under our own power westward in the direction of Pan-American waters.
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