This fête lasts four days, but the people generally manage to make a whole week’s holiday of it, and give up themselves to hearing masses and perfect idleness.
During this season, which lasts for about a quarter of a year, the country is a paradise, until at length comes summer with its burning heat.
The Summer Day lasts while the black dot on the earth travels from C to D--more than half-way round.
Illustration: The Winter Day lasts while the black dot on the earth travels from A to B--less than half-way round.
The most worthy thing is that which endures longest; therefore music, which is continually dying as soon as it is born, is less worthy than painting, which lasts eternally with the colours of enamel.
A motion tends to be continuous; a body set in motion continues to move as long as the impression of the motive power lasts in it.
I exclaimed; "then the bear has a sleep that lastsfive or six months, and even more?
He replied: "The vadmal is very durable, and a tent lasts about twenty years, but it has to be patched very often during that time.
As the fighting often lasts all day, and great suffering is caused from thirst, =don't throw away your canteen when the fight commences=.
As long as the fight lasts every available rifleman must be kept in the firing line.
Lasts and Boot Trees of every description Manufactured on the Premises.
The Shape of the Feet taken andLasts Modelled on the most approved, anatomical principles, and kept exclusively for each customer.
So long as the world lasts so long will there be differences of opinion; but it is not because such exist that ill-feeling should creep in, and Christian charity become a thing of nought.
This lasts about two hours, first teaching the young then the older persons .
Song and dance are alike extremely energetic and often, when the shout lasts into the middle of the night, the monotonous thud, thud of the feet prevents sleep within half a mile of the praise-house.
Official memory seldom lastsso long as seven years.
Nothing," she proceeded, "nothing lasts so long in the recollection as a pleasant mystery.
A wind that rises in the daytime lasts long, but a night breeze soon falls.
But it is surely false economy to grudge a comparatively trifling amount for this purpose, when every day that the war lasts eats up an incalculably greater sum.
Musick playing at the same Time, they prick him with those Instuments; this usually lasts for 10 or 12 Minutes, which is as long as the miserable Man can support himself.
As the winter comes on the real hunting begins, andlasts until late in March.
There are households in America where many servants are kept in order by a very clever mistress, but it is rarely an order which lasts for long.
According to Jaeschke the interval of the intermediate state only lasts for forty days.
The whole process is often merely formal, and sometimes only lastsfor seven days.
In the Laguna there is a virgin patroness, whose festival lasts eighteen days, and immense crowds of all races come to drink the waters, and join the processions in her honour.
But this saturation, so to speak, of colour only lasts in the individual for a few years, and as the birds grow older they become mottled with white, though as long as their reproductive power lasts they "breed true.
So the King's daughter told Minnikin that the Troll was out trying to get hold of someone who could brew a hundred lasts of malt at one brewing, for there was to be a feast at the Troll's, at which less than that would not be drunk.
When Minnikin came, the Troll asked if it were true that he could brew a hundred lasts of malt at one brewing.
Then the Princess asked if he had got hold of anyone who could brew a hundred lasts of malt at one brewing.
Mazin' big horse and cattle fair in autumn--lasts a week--just over now.
You see all my tin's been gone this twelve weeks, it hardly ever lasts beyond the first fortnight; and our allowances were all stopped this morning for broken windows, so I haven't got a penny.
The sugar harvest commences late in January, and ends in May, the planting season taking place during the breaks in the wet season, which lastsfrom June to the end of November.
The sowing-time lasts from June to October; the harvest begins in December and goes on till May.
The harvest is usually in June, and lasts for about six weeks; sometimes it begins in May.
The Beni Szakher are most dreaded by them, on account of their acquaintance with the country, and peace seldom lasts long between the two tribes.
During coitus, which lasts for periods of minutes, the female moves forward slowly, dragging the passive male, tail-first behind her.
The rest of us do our little bit of the great work which lasts on through the ages, and, having inherited unfinished tasks, transmit them to those who come after us.
Could we separate these flashes we should find that each of them lasts less than a thousandth part of a second.
The period of fusion lasts from four to eight hours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lasts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
