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Example sentences for "four days"

  • It is not easy for a man of catholic tastes and healthy appetites to exist for twenty-four days on fifty shillings.

  • You're lucky if you only have it four days out of the seven.

  • Four days out of the seven I'm not fit to speak to.

  • Well, three or four days passed, and all was as sweet and happy as a spring day.

  • In all of those three or four days he did nothing but enjoy himself with might and main.

  • Well, the Fiddler lived with the old man for maybe three or four days as snug and happy a life as ever a mouse passed in a green cheese.

  • In fact, he was never very far off; but Bernard, for three or four days, had the anomalous consciousness of being still nearer.

  • Three or four days of it have been so charming.

  • But no door will open for them--unless it Le four days hence, one evening at the end of the rest, to return to the trenches.

  • The 18th company was foremost and has been cut up, eighteen killed and fifty wounded--one in three less in four days.

  • But the mountaineers must send out, at intervals of four days, spies to ascertain the state of affairs in other parts of the country.

  • When the Bavarians, four days ago, intended to cross the frontier near Windisch-Matrey, Anthony Wallner and John Panzl went to meet them with four hundred sharpshooters whom they had gathered in great haste.

  • But in four days, there'll be other obstacles besides the Dutch.

  • I now lost Lopez for three or four days, and suffered dreadful anxiety on his account, apprehending that he had been shot by the Carlists.

  • I arrived there after a journey of four days.

  • In addition to this, we were only three or four days out, when the sailmaker, who was the oldest and best seaman on board, was taken with the palsy, and was useless for the rest of the voyage.

  • Thus I escaped three or four days of very uncomfortable service.

  • A thousand miles in four days and a half!

  • Three or four days later he asked me to dine with him, and I met at his table M.

  • Three or four days after, Helen told me briefly that Hedvig was to sleep with her that night, and that she would leave the door open at the same time as before.

  • Three or four days after d'Ache's death, his widow wrote me a note begging me to call on her.

  • It had been otherwise more than the work of four days (which elapsed between the adoption and murder) so completely to infect them as to cause a general revolt.

  • It took us four days before we could get clear of the land, having to pass along narrow straits beset with reefs and shoals, and full of strong currents, so that an unfavourable wind stopped us altogether.

  • Before daybreak we left our anchorage, and in an hour reached the village of Har, where we were to stay three or four days.

  • If he escapes unhurt, we return to the war again and fight for three or four days.

  • The little matter of being at his office desk at nine o'clock in the morning began to seem a hardship after the first three or four days.

  • The first of the scattered fleet of Gates and Somers came in on the 11th, and the rest straggled along during the three or four days following.

  • After I had been in Port Jervis three or four days I matured a plan that had long been forcing in my mind, and that was, to try and see Sarah Scheimer once more, or at least to find out something about her and about our son.

  • There was a most exciting trial of four days duration.

  • For our stay at Saratoga, three or four days, was one wild revel.

  • Consequently, in three or four days, my hands were terribly blistered, and as the Warden happened to come into the shop, I showed them to him, and quietly told him that I would do that work no longer.

  • I stayed three or four days in Windsor, finding it really a charming place, and I was almost sorry to leave it.

  • The American Witch of the Wave had a ninety-day voyage to her credit, and the Comet ran from Liverpool to Shanghai in eighty-four days.

  • The schooner might bowl down to Norfolk from Boston or Portland in four days and be threshing about for two weeks in head winds on the return voyage.

  • The Lord of the Isles finished loading and sailed four days ahead of the Maury, and after thirteen thousand miles of ocean they passed Gravesend within ten minutes of each other.

  • There are a great number of such monasteries in the realm, and the Emperor's Majesty rideth oftentimes from one to another of them, and lieth at them three or four days together.

  • He remembers, however, that he stayed there waiting for a western wind, or a point to the north, and sailed thence eastward by the land as far as he could in four days.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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