In the following six monthsone hundred and fifty thousand Moors were hounded out of the land which their ancestors had possessed and enriched for centuries.
It is not three months since Abbas Khan slew Elias, and Eyn-ool-Moolk was then at his busiest.
Indeed she only lived with her husband six months from her virginity, and then he died of the 'Ammonia,' as the village children call it.
It has been ever since that time I stood beside the fire doubting the love of God, and, oh, for months before.
But there's only three inches between you, and he is six months older.
But how he reconciled that remark with his Christian conscience I don't know, seeing there was only six months difference between the eldest and the youngest--but those boys would always grow so.
The girls who had been there formonths thought I was such a fool.
It's been the most wretched five months I ever remember, and this cottage is appalling.
After months of city food her bread, pies, and cookies were ambrosial.
The Rhoda of six monthsor a year ago would have bitterly resented such a slight, but to-day she found no reason to blame others for following her own example.
On the slope over which the new students had gaily tobogganed two monthsbefore the primroses were showing their dainty, yellow faces, and the girl gardeners were eagerly watching the progress of their bulbs.
So Erley Chase was bought, and little Mrs Chester furnished it, as we have seen, to her own great contentment and that of the tradespeople with whom she dealt; and in the course of a few months the family moved into their new abode.
Her thoughts went back to her first coming to Hurst Manor eighteen months before, and dwelt sadly on her own ambitious hopes.
Then they would go to work again until a new debauch, looked forward to months beforehand.
During the three monthsthat he remained in our court-yard he never came out of his corner.
In less than two months the Siberian had got from him all his town practice, for he cured in a very short time horses Koulikoff had declared incurable, and which had been given up by the regular veterinaries.
At last the convicts remembered him, after two months of complete forgetfulness, and then they showed a sympathy I did not expect of them.
He would deprive himself of the necessaries of life for six months rather than not be in a position to swallow half a pint of vodka before the flogging.
He had been working like a negro for many months in order to save up, kopeck by kopeck, a small sum which he was resolved to spend all at once.
As for me, I was sent to one of the shops, or else to pound up alabaster, or to carry bricks, which last job I had for two months together.
It would be famous, first because it takes six months to get to Nertchinsk, and the life on the road is a hundred times preferable to the convict prison.
With this book alone, without an alphabet, Ali learnt to read in a few weeks, and after a few months he could read perfectly.
Ali had bought paper at his own expense, for he would not allow me to purchase any, also pens and ink; and in less than two months he had learnt to write.
For several months together, he will weary himself out while looking forward to such a debauch as the one which has now disappeared in the past.
She gave me to understand all the same that he scarcely ever worked, and that he remained for months together without opening a book or touching a pen.
I then learned that he kept carefully in his box his new clothes which had been given to him four months before, and that he had not put them on once, in order that he might wear them for the first time on Christmas Day.
Cissy was now nearly seventeen, being (as before) a year and three months older than Hugh John.
It was several months ago that he first noticed on the back of a check passing through the Clearing-House the following cipher, written in a symmetrical Gothic hand: Dear Sir: Herewith find payment for last month's butter.
In due time we sailed to Ebo's island, where we found that the captain of the prahu on board which we had come, had been, and sailed once more, so that it would bemonths before we could see him again.
Five months later he was an orphan, and Jasper Tudor, his uncle, began his long, exemplary, and singularly fortunate guardianship.
A few months after, the king stabbed Douglas at a conference at Stirling, and Grey avenged Maclellan by killing the wounded man with a pole-axe.
A few months ago, Eleanor and he had been strangers to each other .
A few months ago, had Mr. Clotworthy told him that leave to go to his wife was denied to him, he would have sent Mr. Clotworthy to blazes .
You're forgetting, aren't you that she's been here more than three months already.
To shut themselves up in Granite House, to be besieged there, to remain there for weeks, for months even, since they had an abundance of provisions?
As the Bonadventure no longer existed, six months at least would be required for the construction of a new vessel.
Before two months I want our new Bonadventure--for we shall keep the old name, shall we not?
Instead of doing this he kept them prisoners, and during seven months they were enabled to behold all the wonders of a voyage of twenty thousand leagues under the sea.
But do you know," returned Pencroft, "that it will take at least five or six months to build a vessel of from thirty to forty tons?
During the seven months which had passed since the last researches made round the mountain, and during the month of September, which brought back fine weather, nothing was heard of the genius of the island.
They were those of the convicts who, fourmonths previously, had landed on Lincoln Island!
At this time two months of spring had already passed.
Yes," replied Herbert, "two months and a half ago!
You must remember, dear friends, that February is one of our hot months in the southern hemisphere.
And now at last the six months had come to an end, and the exiles of Comoro flocked to the steamers which were to convey them back to the mainland.
He therefore had left her and his little son three months since, and they had only heard from him once.
Some months had passed since Horace Jackson's brief conversation with Ruby Grigg on the green at Bridgepath, and the good work was making steady progress in that hamlet.
Months rolled on, and no tidings--a year, and no tidings.
I couldn't feel more if I'd known youmonths instead of hours.
It was easy to see from the white, set look of her face as the monotonous months dragged on that she was no nearer to accomplishing that task than on the day of her arrival.
The pair had been so friendly and kind that the Nelson Smiths had asked them to Portman Square more than once during the three gay months which followed.
It must be six or seven months since he was here last," said Annesley.
But when weeks grew into months and the enemy never attacked the fortress her vigilance relaxed.
But it was only that he had been some months on the range, and freedom had gone to his head.
He does not seem to desire wealth for himself, however, for he well knows that he has but a few months to live, nor does he seem ever to have cared greatly for money.
Her unexpected meeting with Pratt Sanderson had brought to her heart and mind more strongly than for months her experiences in Amarillo.
No one longs for his letters like your Northern exile, and for two whole months we had not heard from the outside.
You saw that look, and it took you back to the dark and dirt and drudgery of the claim, the mirthless months of toil, the crude cabin with its sugar barrel of ice behind the door, its grease light dimly burning, its rancid smell of stale food.
For three months I've tried to conquer her, to win her love, to take her from you.
For two months I had been living in a dull apathy of pain, but this news galvanised me into immediate action.
There's a little over three months to do it in, leaving about a month to make sluice-boxes and clean up the dirt.
Then, as the months went past and the suspicion of his fate deepened almost to a certainty, I began to breathe more freely.
He told me of long months on the desert with only his pipe for company, talking to himself over the fire at night, and trying not to go crazy.
Oh, I'm not the sentimentalist I was six months ago.
You see, the boys get in after they've been out on the claim for six months at a stretch, and town looks mighty good to them.
But there was some unpleasantness some months ago .
When, about six months before, Mary and her mother had begun to be regular visitors at Harkings, Hartley Parrish had insisted on giving Mary a boudoir to herself.
It was after I had been only a few months with him," he began, "shortly after I was discharged from the army with that lung wound of mine.
Mr. Parrish made a clean break with the last of his lady friends about two months since; and, as far as our investigations go, there has been no blackmail in connection with any of his women pals.
Whatever gradual influence--the outcome of these few months of rest and repose--may have already been at work to dissipate his clouded fancy, he was only vaguely conscious that the laughing breath of the young girl had blown it away forever.
During themonths of September and October, 1854, stimulated by the promised reward, and often by the actual presence of her owners, he had shown zeal and hope in his scrutiny of the incoming ships.
In the eightmonths of their enforced intimacy and platonic seclusion he had learned to love this naive, insinuating woman, whose frank simplicity seemed equal to his own, without thought of reserve, secrecy, or deceit.
Singing was added to the Instruction, and in a few months the fame of the gracious Dona Leonor's pupils stirred to emulation even the boy choristers of the Mission.
Put me where I was a fewmonths ago--before I learned to love her.
When, eight months ago, you sought the shelter of that blessed roof, it was for refuge from a woman that had cursed your life.
But although Nature had not changed in the months that had passed since the advent of the Excelsior, there appeared some strange mutations in the town and its inhabitants.
But two months ago savage Afghan hordes had been camping in the neighbourhood, trampling down and laying waste everything, and behold!
Probably led by the dervish instinct, developed in me by months of devout pilgrimage, I found myself entering the Sahni Sherif, looking about me with unfeigned admiration.
A few months after our strange meeting he was robbed and murdered on the road.
For six months we had been sharing in all the dangers connected with travelling in the desert; we had in common defied robbers, borne the raging elements, and braved hunger and thirst.
Often he is but a poor Khan, weighted down with debts, who has been in the capital ante-chambering and begging for some office for months past.
For, truth to tell, the monthsof compulsory pilgrimage I had gone through had strangely palled my appetite for holy sights appertaining to Islamism, and I felt relieved when I was left to myself to continue my observations.
It takes sometimes two months before the dead body can reach its place of destination.
The Emir, whose seat of government is properly speaking in Bokhara, used to spend two or three months during the summer in Samarkand, owing to its more elevated position and more genial climate.
We returned, in forced marches, by the same way on which, three months ago, I had wearily plodded on at the slow pace of caravan travelling.
There has not been any rain to speak of since Mr. Gosse was here, nearly twelve months ago, as can be seen by the cart-tracks crossing the gullies.
He said he knew who we were, having heard about three months ago that we might be expected this way.
Even now, months after the time, sitting down writing this journal, I cannot but recall my feelings of anxiety at this camp.
Six months after Eyre had started from Adelaide, he was left with only four companions to continue the journey.
Nine months ago, within a day, they had undertaken a perilous journey across an unknown country, to accomplish what was believed by many to be an impossible task on account of the terrible nature of that country.
The gallant Captain Sturt had made Cooper's Creek his depot, and that place twelve months ago had been looked upon as a home by persons in search of country with a view of stocking it.
I should say Mr. Giles must have been camped here for two or three months at least.
A few months ago I happened to be a guest at a dinner party at which more than a dozen men prominent in New York business and professional life came together.
But after long monthsof wandering, and dreading to be overtaken by winter on the prairies, they retraced their steps to the Mississippi, where they pitched camp and spent six months building boats in which to go down the river.
Men who are paid only once a month or once in two months get advances from their employers in the shape of orders for family supplies upon stores in the vicinity, stores probably owned by the employer.
The country boy who goes to school only four or five months in the year knows quite as much as his city cousin who annually has nine or ten months of schooling.
So for months there was visible the astonishing spectacle of a lot of middle-aged men being taught their own business by a young woman who herself knew nothing whatever of their business.
He could keep a grievance alive for months by merely muttering over the heads of the offense against him--as a lover can thrill himself by murmuring the beloved's name.
After sixmonths of that desolation she would be free again.
It seemed that in Switzerland, at that date, proceedings for divorce on the ground of adultery had to be brought within six months of the knowledge of the fact.
The past two months shrivelled like a wisp of paper in a flame.
Now her mind bent itself to the task of redeeming some months of the year for her own use.
She was a small, slight but wiry woman of about thirty-five, and her curly black hair was still short, having been cropped some months previous during an attack of typhoid.
Perhaps the knowledge that this was his last swim for many months whetted his appreciation, but he had never felt more jocund a delight in the elastic clasp and purl of living water upon his naked flesh.
She could imagine the horror and loathing with which he looked back on those two months in the sanatorium.
Then as the months passed, and he grew more and more relaxed and slovenly of spirit under the ease of possession, she came to think that he had never been Endymion at all.
The greatest pang that Sophy felt at this time (and she had not a few) was the fact that Bobby was to be left at Sweet-Waters during these months of absence.
From the receipt of this letter until twomonths later, when she was settled at Breene, Sophy moved again in a world of unreality.
This is why Sophy ventured to ask her to share with her for six monthsthe abomination of desolation called on the map of the United States Ontowega.
She felt a vague, grey gloom rising about her at the thought of spending several months there, with Cecil in this strange, cold, forbidding mood.
Up until a few months before the campaign Tietzow was an unemployed electrical engineer who had difficulty paying the three-dollar weekly rent for his hall bed-room at the Aldine Ave.
And you worked with Dieckhoff for six months on the same warships and never met him?
A few months ago Sotanis, the Italian minister to Guatemala, and Ubico met in Guatemala City.
You went to Germany last year for a couple of months and before that you went to Germany for six months.
Shortly after Slap-Happy Eddie, as he was known around Boston because of his convictions on drunkenness, lined up with the Nazis, he got six months for a little stealing.
Besides this very strange procedure by a Committee empowered by the Congress to investigate subversive activities, the Dies Committee withheld for monthsdocumentary evidence of Nazi activities in this country directed from Germany.
In Czechoslovakia, especially in thosemonths before the Republic's heart was handed to Hitler on a platter, there was a tremendous increase in the numbers and activities of agents sent into the Central European country.
If I'm right in that, I was about five years and four months old.
Then sound again the bugles, Call the muster-roll anew; If months have well-nigh won the field, What may not four years do?
This species grows in woods, and is often found there during the months of autumn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "months" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
