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Example sentences for "seven years"

  • I began to knit my own stockings when I ways six or seven years old, and kept on, until home-made stockings went out of fashion.

  • I saw it but once again, when, a child of six or seven years, I was lifted to a footstool beside his coffin to gaze upon his face for the last time.

  • It was never really home to me there, and my sojourn of six or seven years on the prairies only deepened my love and longing for the dear old State of Massachusetts.

  • Once a carpenter's axe slipped from his hand at this spot, and it took it seven years to touch bottom.

  • The salamander originates from a fire of myrtle wood[156] which has been kept burning for seven years steadily by means of magic arts.

  • The annals of the twenty-seven years of his reign would exhibit a repetition of the same inroads; and his hereditary troops were multiplied in each campaign by the accession of captives and volunteers.

  • After an exile of seven years, the first deliverer was again restored to his country.

  • The quarrel of the two Andronici was protracted, and suspended, and renewed, during a ruinous period of seven years.

  • From their account, the hardships of the prison and death of Bajazet are affirmed by the marshal's servant and historian, within the distance of seven years.

  • Yes, seven years: we had him cried--we went from house to house.

  • Seven years of his youth had been stolen from him, and what had he got in return?

  • Yes, indeed, seven years ago, though it seems but yesterday that my wife came back howling and crying, and saying the child had not come back all day.

  • Lived all alone here for seven--was it seven years?

  • It's seven years ago, Tommy, thet I was working one o' the Pioneer coaches over from Gold Hill.

  • For the first time in seven years it occurred to the hermit that his ordinary victual might be improved.

  • There is one of them twenty-seven years of age, and she has knitted since she was about eighteen.

  • I have been in business in Walls for about twenty-seven years.

  • I have bought it from Mr. George Laurenson for the last six or seven years.

  • I think it is about six or seven years since I was there last, but I was very often there before.

  • I tried it myself from the time when I could handle a boat oar, until I was twenty-seven years of age.

  • Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

  • Of two of them we know the duration, a second Kingdom of Ur containing four kings and lasting for a hundred and eight years, and another kingdom, the name of which is not preserved, consisting of only one king who ruled for seven years.

  • The people of Mecca deserved their pardon by the profession of Islam; and after an exile of seven years, the fugitive missionary was enthroned as the prince and prophet of his native country.

  • After a mission of twenty-seven years, Sylvanus, who had retired from the tolerating government of the Arabs, fell a sacrifice to Roman persecution.

  • He cheated me out of seven years of life.

  • A villain who died whilst I was under the Leads had passed thirty-seven years in The Wells, and he was forty-four when sentenced.

  • I know him from having spent two months with him at Padua, seven years ago, and what particularly attracted my attention was the admiration he professed for M.

  • She gave her up to me seven years ago, and I have given her an annuity of five hundred ducats, which she will bring to you, with all her diamonds and an extensive trousseau.

  • Here is the mark of the gash you gave me seven years ago.

  • Cipher it; you will see that it is a grand sum for a woman to earn in seven years.

  • She taught "over" four thousand students in seven years.

  • In seven years Mrs. Eddy taught, as she avers, over four thousand students in it.

  • Do you think that at thirty-seven years of age, fresh and pretty as you are, you can go and bury yourself at Chinon?

  • Is it Roguin, a notary, a man fifty-seven years old, twenty-five of which he has been in office?

  • Think what my first floor will be worth in seven years!

  • As for Madame Cesar, then thirty-seven years old, she bore so close a resemblance to the Venus of Milo that all who knew her recognized the likeness when the Duc de Riviere sent the beautiful statue to Paris.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and laughed; answer for; brown study; certain limit; come here; excuse himself; local tradition; many districts; original poetry; seven bells; seven books; seven degrees; seven eggs; seven hundred and fifty; seven months; seven ounces; seven provinces; seven sail; seven times; seven years; seventeen years; seventy pounds; seventy shekels; seventy years; stooped down; trained nurses