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Example sentences for "forty hours"

  • You will see how I will manage these fellows, and I will come and dine with you every day until you are out: you shall not be here eight-and-forty hours.

  • He attacked it so vigorously, that the garrison was obliged to capitulate in four-and-forty hours.

  • The Jubilee of Forty Hours consists in the public exhibition of the consecrated host during the whole day, enclosed in a custodia, which has already been described.

  • Among these, the most notable are the Jubilee of Forty Hours, and the Pilgrimages (romerias).

  • He has done wonders in the last eight-and-forty hours.

  • If things go on for the next eight-and-forty hours as they are going now, my lord's recovery is considered certain.

  • THE interval of eight-and-forty hours passed--without the occurrence of any personal communication between the two brothers in that time.

  • I shall do nothing in the business, of any sort or kind, until eight-and-forty hours after Mr. Tennant has been found guilty.

  • Within eight-and-forty hours of the jury bringing in a verdict of guilty against Mr. Tennant.

  • The eight-and-forty hours will be up this afternoon at five.

  • It was getting on for seven o'clock by this time, and Joseph Wilmot had had eight-and-forty hours' start of him.

  • Oh, was I in love, was I really in love at last, with a young lady whose face I had only looked upon eight-and-forty hours before?

  • I know what it is to be shut up in desolate, dark places alone, out of reach of succor; and even for eight-and-forty hours or so it is terrible.

  • Hark at this: 'If the wind be favorable, we shall be at Grothenburg in forty hours.

  • Evidently she had forgotten Swedish, and such remarks as "If the wind be favorable, we shall be at Gothenburg in forty hours.

  • Even with an American cook, if such a being exist, you could still continue to ask for venison steak in Swedish, and to look forward to arriving at Gothenburg in forty hours.

  • Within eight-and-forty hours, a reward of One Hundred Pounds was proclaimed, together with a free pardon to any person or persons not the actual perpetrator or perpetrators, and so forth in due form.

  • In eight-and-forty hours or so one of the chief provinces of England would be blazing with the celebration of his legal accession to his high estate.

  • I wish you could have met him, but he would only stay eight-and-forty hours.

  • There are yet eight-and-forty hours to elapse.

  • Upon which Loudon goes home half mad; and has a colic for eight-and-forty hours.

  • This is what Loudon had done, without any Russians, except Russians to give him eight-and-forty hours colic, and put him on his own shifts.

  • The poor fellow caught the yellow fever the very next day, and did not live eight-and-forty hours.

  • Besides, he supposes the Dawn will be at Plymouth in eight-and-forty hours, as will certainly be the case should this wind stand.

  • Eight-and-forty hours ahead of her, I should not have feared much from her account of us.

  • Hark at this: 'If the wind be favorable, we shall be at Gothenburg in forty hours.

  • Or this supplementary labour is forced; and if so, the law of forty hours is shown to be merely a fraud.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    clad figure; clear glass; could spare; drain well; ecclesiastical property; exemption from; forty acres; forty days; forty days and forty; forty dollars; forty feet; forty hours; forty millions; forty minutes; forty pounds; forty rods; forty thousand; forty weeks; great quantities; horse race; many species; much interested; none former; warrant officer; white rock; woman shall