After four years of trouble and tumult he looked forward to four years of quiet and normal work; after that he expected to go back again to Illinois and practice law.
During the twenty-four years of their marriage, her youthful husband abstained from the right of polygamy, and the pride or tenderness of the venerable matron was never insulted by the society of a rival.
In the space of four years, the harbor and fortifications of Alexandria were twice occupied by a fleet and army of Romans.
Hastings, three or four years later, described Impey as the man "to whose support he was at one time indebted for the safety of his fortune, honour, and reputation.
The native population looked with amazement on the progress which, in the short space of four years, an European adventurer had made towards dominion in Asia.
If he made a good speech in Leadenhall Street, or published a clever pamphlet in defence of the chairman, he might be sent out in the Company's service, and might return in three or four years as rich as Pigot or as Clive.
Already had we borrowed, in four years of war, more than the most skilful and economical government would pay in forty years of peace.
Four years before he had been driven from power by the intrigues of Sunderland and Stanhope; and the lead in the House of Commons had been intrusted to Craggs and Aislabie.
You will return after three or four years with a Russian princess for a bride, and no one will think more of what occurred yesterday than if it had happened sixteen years ago.
Twenty-four years ago I returned, proud and joyful, to my country.
With your talents you would make your fortune in three or four years.
Is there a single gentleman in the House who doubts that, if, four years ago, my noble friend the Member for the City of London had proposed this bill, he would have been withstood by every member of the present Cabinet?
Four years ago, Sir, we were discussing a very different bill.
Has one argument been discovered which was not, three or four years ago, urged twenty, thirty, forty times in this House?
Pizarro y Orellana, who, as a kinsman of the Conqueror, may be supposed to have had better means of information, says he was fifty-four years of age at the same date of 1525.
So reckless was the spirit of destruction after the Conquest, says Ondegardo, the wise governor of Cuzco, that in four years more of these animals perished than in four hundred, in the times of the Incas.
These hunts were not repeated in the same quarter of the country oftener than once in four years, that time might be allowed for the waste occasioned by them to be replenished.
But I had a relish-maker which my friends at table did not suspect--the remembrance of the forecastle dinners I ate here twenty-four years before.
Tuvache, fidgeting in his armchair; and he began shouting in her ear, "Fifty-four years of service.
Four years ago, when the French were holding the Marne, the wisest men in the world had not conceived of this as possible; they had reckoned with every fortuity but this.
Four years on the way; now that he was here, he would enjoy the scenery a bit, he guessed.
Because in 1917 I was twenty-four years old, and able to bear arms.
In three years, four years at the outside, all would be over with them.
I record an account of this function in my memoirs as one of the most curious things which I have seen in the course of my four years of sojourn in Paris.
Four years of constancy--that is something in Paris.
Four years ago he had been so confident; God's intention seemed then so plain.
Four years, he reflected; what were four years, after all?
Three or four years ago a fine-looking young fellow walked in upon me with a letter of introduction from his mother.
It was the same La Boulaye of four years ago, and yet it was not quite the same.
Through the person of your son, the Vicomte, as I asked for itfour years ago," said Caron.
Four years ago, Citizen Bellecour, you laid your whip across my face in the woods out yonder, and when I spoke of seeking satisfaction action you threatened me with your grooms.
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