Bhishma said, 'People do regard fast, measured by months or fortnights or days, as penance.
What is meant is that those who die during the lighted fortnights of the summer solstice attain to solar regions of bliss.
Those that die during the dark fortnights of the winter solstice, attain to lunar regions.
The ceaseless succession of the lighted and the dark fortnights is wasting all mortal creatures without stopping for even a moment in this work.
The twilights constitute its shoulder joints; The lighted and the darkfortnights are its two eyes of equal power.
The lunar fortnights are divided each into fifteen tithis or lunar days.
They who abstain from flesh by either months or fortnights at a stretch have the region of Brahma ordained for them in consequence of their abstention from cruelty.
In this Conversation, now of a Fortnights continuance, he had rendred himself so acceptable to the whole Family, that a great many favourable thoughts on all sides inclined towards him.
It can make no difference to her which of the twenty-six fortnights in the year the three vols.
Your essay on happy fortnights is highly ingenious, and the talobert skin made me laugh a good deal.
They had the lunarfortnights of 14 or 15 days from new to full and full to new moon.
The lunar month was divided into two fortnights called paksha or wing.
For time, say they, has counted fortnights many, Since his choice feature object was to any.
Then began for Bob Rainham one of the most strenuous fortnights of his existence.
His days were passed in alternate fortnights of travelling about the country with samples of ugly things incidental to the dressmaking art, and of conveying the same packages from shop to shop of his native town.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fortnights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
