The land fell away rather precipitately in front, and beneath their eyes stretched, for several miles, a narrow, dark, and wooded vale.
No exclamation of surprise escaped the father, nor was any question asked, or reply given, for several minutes; each appearing to await the moment when he might speak, without betraying womanish curiosity or childish impatience.
This fit has been coming on, for several days; seclusion and the customary treatment will restore her.
For several minutes, a young priest had been listening to the reasoning of the Haudriettes and the sentences of the notary.
There was every probability that 'the family' would make a longer residence at the Towers than they had done for several years, during which time they had been wanderers hither and thither in search of health.
He suddenly disappeared from the neighbourhood of Stourbridge, and was not heard of for several years.
On several occasions when I was being forced to wear a new flax shirt, he generously agreed to put it on in my stead and wear it for several days, till it was "broken in.
For several years my mother had not been in good health, but I had no idea, when I parted from her the previous day, that I should never see her alive again.
After the question had been canvassed for several days, the directors voted unanimously to ask me to deliver one of the opening-day addresses, and in a few days after that I received the official invitation.
This advantage of having a cargo ready prepared, could not, for several years, be acquired by private adventurers; and without it there seems to be no possibility of trading to Hudson's Bay.
The sugar-mill occupied us for several days, and was made so much like our other mills that I need not now describe it.
Christian talked on, in low hurried tones, for several minutes, affectionately, encouragingly.
For several minutes he pursued this vein of invective, then took an abrupt leave.
We came at last to the steep banks of a salt-water creek densely covered with Cypress pine scrub, and followed it for several miles up to its head, when two kites betrayed to us a fine lagoon, surrounded with Polygonums and good pasture.
The consequences were that we could proceed only very slowly, and that, for several months, we had to keep a careful watch upon them throughout the night.
These creeks were too boggy to be forded in any part where the tide reached, and we had to follow them up for several miles, until their beds divided into lagoons.
For several years I had been subject to attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy, in default of a more definitive title.
I was seized and shaken without ceremony, for several minutes, by a junto of very rough-looking individuals.
I wandered on through itfor several hours, the sledge capsizing at times owing to the strength of the wind.
For several days in succession, about the middle of February, the otherwise continuous wind fell off to a calm for several hours in the evening.
On the afternoon of February 28 the weather cleared up for several hours, and we decided to leave on the following day.
The individuals of each party then talked among themselves for several minutes, after which two parties joined forces and marched off, leaving the third party staring after them.
This was expected, for several liners, travelling by the same route, and arriving in Australian waters a few days before, had reported exceptionally heavy weather.
The thing was dead when your bullets struck it; but it did not know it for several seconds--possibly a minute.
For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I.
And so on, and so on, and so forth, for several days.
But in serious truth, we have been drifting about, for several days, using our eyes and our ears more from a sense of duty than any higher and worthier reason.
For several ages no woman has been allowed to enter the cavern where that important hole is.
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