The fact is that it suffered a slight accident a few days ago, but a week or a fortnight ought to see it finished, and if you wish to make arrangements for its reception you may count on its delivery in that time.
A fortnight ago you heard his speech on the liveries of scarlet and gold, and look!
A fortnight elapsed before he was able to resume work.
Within a fortnight a second stroke carried him off, and all the village mourned.
Henry Slocome's services were therefore secured, and notices of the coming meeting were posted on the church doors and in the neighbourhood for a fortnight in advance.
Within a fortnight after my punishment began, little Tom brought me word that two of my children, Jack and Lucy, were dead, and that Fanny was not expected to live.
In about a fortnight we shall have enquiries for Number 4, hardly before then.
You see, Senator Burton, the man was madly in love; he had persuaded poor Nancy to be married at once--and by at once I mean within a fortnight of their engagement.
But a fortnight has passed now, and still she makes no sign.
It was in this fortnight of common peril that we saw how truly we shared everything, even life itself, and how good it was to work for as well as to fight for one another--each for all, and all for each.
In all we were likely to gather together in this regiment one hundred and thirty men, and this was better than a fortnight ago had seemed possible.
Some few, indeed, like General Arnold, to whom I recounted the affair a fortnight later when he marched up the Valley, frankly said that I was a fool for my pains, and doubtless many others dissembled the same opinion.
It warms my old heart still to recall the earnestness and calm courage of that summer fortnight of preparation.
But in some senses it was to me the most vexatious fortnight of the whole spring, for no hour of it all passed in which I was not devoured with anxiety to be among my own people again.
Philip Cross asked her to be his wife a fortnight ago.
You should have seen him stand Walrath the blacksmith on his head at the races a fortnight ago!
After he had been in bed a fortnight the doctors allowed him to see visitors, and several distinguished men called and were admitted by Jean.
For the past fortnight her husband, whose clothes had now become very shabby, had given her only a few francs each day, just sufficient with which to buy food.
But for a fortnight he remained in bed--or, at least, he was in bed whenever anyone came in.
A fortnight after leaving Bulawayo Selous and Wood reached Linquasi, where they began to hunt, and two days later they killed two fine bull elephants.
We got some eggs which were taken a fortnight earlier.
But, as I wrote you before, during the last three seasons I have been able to get out West but once, and then only for a fortnight on my ranch, where I shot a few antelope for meat.
A fortnight ago, just before General Smuts reached this country, an attack was launched against a German position not far from Taveta, by three regiments of South Africans, supported by a regiment of Baluchis and some Rhodesians.
A few days later, after hunting lechwes in a swamp, Selous himself became ill, and for a fortnight both the travellers experienced all the trials of malarial fever.
At the end of April, 1872, Selous and his two friends trekked north and only got as far as Kuruman, a delay of a fortnight being caused through the horses running away.
His destination was the Island of Mull, where for a fortnight he enjoyed the chase of the seal, the otter, and the wild goat, on the estate of Loch Buie, at the invitation of the Maclaine of Lochbuie.
For a fortnight he toiled up and down its steep and parched cliffs, and then at last he saw and got a shot at one of the patriarchs with long horns.
One day soon after the Easter holidays, and during his second year at the big school, Leroux paid a visit to the Pilton Range grounds, to look at a magpie's nest which he had found building a fortnight before.
We shall have them in frigates in a fortnight from to-day, and then, mon Capitaine, affairs shall move briskly.
And that was no further gone than a fortnight ago.
I have put my fat on a trap for a fortnight back to catch my captors and never a rat of them will come near me, but pass with sniffing noses.
She's very careful of her young till they're about a fortnight old, though soon afterwards she lets them 'fend' for themselves.
On a dark, wet night rather less than a fortnight after they had completed their preparations, when Brock returned to his home for shelter from the driving storm, three little cubs were lying by their mother's side.
After a fortnight of rapid marching, fighting and reconnoitering, CortA(C)z and his men returned to Tezcoco.
A fortnightelapsed after the occurrences we have just detailed, and that daring officer had already delivered his prisoner at Vera Cruz, and returned to Mexico.
Why could not the idiot have lived a fortnight longer?
He reviewed the situation as calmly as he could, when a fortnight or more had passed and he had seen her a dozen times at her step-father's house and in the world.
Later on she was to become famous for her exploit in spending a fortnight investigating in the guise of a tramp the London of down-and-out women.
I fear it may be at least a month before we meet; for the journey takes a fortnight and may be prolonged by a friend ill in Paris; and I must work the moment I return to keep a contract.
October, another rise possible but undefined in January, 10 per cent royalty for the Paris book and expenses for a fortnight in Paris.
This was a splendid start for them and it made them so contented that it was upwards of a fortnight before they undertook another expedition to the west beach.
They laughed at the ridiculousness of my undertaking, but punished me by depriving me of my light and bed, which, however, in a fortnight were both restored.
Her majesty, the day before we left Windsor, gave me to understand my attendance Would be yet one more fortnight Page 402 requisite, though no longer.
I heard this with a fearful presentiment I should surely never go through another fortnight in so weak and languishing and painful a state of health.
When the Redmains went to Cornwall, Sepia was left at Durnmelling, in the expectation of joining them in London within a fortnight at latest.
A fortnight and a day," answered Tom, with a laugh.
For a fortnight George endured this treatment, then he went to the adjutant of the regiment, the only one who during the whole time had treated him as a friend and a comrade.
For the last fortnight he had only had one officer attached to his company, for a short time ago his lieutenant had been thrown while riding and had broken his arm.
A fortnightafter this conversation, Denis arrived at his uncle's house.
These burglars made a considerable haul at Sydenham a fortnight ago.
They did a job at Sydenham a fortnight ago and were seen and described.
He went on to observe that he made it his whole study to betray the daughters of such as received him to their houses, and after a fortnight or three weeks' possession turned them out unrewarded and abandoned to the world.
Thus in less than a fortnight I had formed them into something social and humane, and had the pleasure of regarding myself as a legislator, who had brought men from their native ferocity into friendship and obedience.
Near a fortnight had passed before I attempted to restrain their affliction; for premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.
About a fortnight since, I found myself in a certain district or province (but little known to Europeans) called Kattiawar.
Before Sir John had been a fortnight in his grave, the future of his daughter had been most wisely and most affectionately provided for.
William Penberthy came home; but in that fortnight his father and mother have aged ten years.
Because I used to know a Johnny Fortnight that wore one in these parts; and I thought it might be he, belike.
For a fortnight I had only seen her sad, melancholy, and thoughtful.
It was a fortnight after my refusal to Cordiani, that I unfortunately spent an hour with you in that loving nonsense which has naturally given you ideas until then unknown to your senses.
I was delighted, and was still more gratified when, after a fortnight had elapsed, I found that M.
During the fortnight that she had passed under my protection, the countess had shewn me no curiosity whatever to know anything about me, but it did not prove that she was not curious on the subject.
Yet we remained a fortnight in Venice; did we not, uncle?
A fortnight in Venice, that is nothing; you ought to live there at least six months.
I could not conceive how such a lovely girl could have spent a fortnight in Venice without finding a man to marry or to deceive her.
For a fortnight I was the lover of a young Venetian girl, very handsome, whom her father, a certain Ramon, exposed to public admiration as a dancer at the theatre.
Of Froude's favourite recreations at this time the best account is to be found in his two Short Studies on A Fortnight in Kerry.
In the first of his two papers describing a fortnight in Kerry he went out of his way to depreciate the fame of Daniel O'Connell.
