Several hours before, our entire camp had moved and we were to join them at a prearranged spot out on the Athi Plains.
After a hunt of several hours we found two of them together out on the slope of a long hill.
Then the rest of the passengers went ashore and spent several hours at the custom house.
The paper, cut in slips and previously soaked in distilled water, is placed in the mixed iodide and starch for several hours; and lastly, slowly dried in a cool dark place, the slips being hung horizontally.
Simultaneously with the constitutional symptoms local distress is usually manifested, but either set of disturbances may precede the other by several hours or by an entire day.
It may be withdrawn at once or be permitted to remain for a few minutes to several hours.
I remained in the Duke's apartments till he woke, which did not take place for several hours, and I then found him refreshed and easy, so that all apprehension was at an end.
At the end of a few days, however, a change was wrought in the Duke himself, apparently by the exhortations of his confessor, who was frequently with him for several hours at a time.
From him I received every sort of kindness and attention, till the Prince himself returned to the camp, which did not take place for several hours.
The business which had taken him to the provincial capital detained him for several hours, but was ultimately settled to his satisfaction, and he returned homeward in a happier mood than any I had lately witnessed.
Fahrenheit, a brisk exhalation of sulphur fumes rises, but, at the end of several hours, the loss does not amount to more than one half of the sulphur present.
The stop-cock being partially turned, all the thin gelatinous liquor is run off into a deep boiler, immersed in a warm-water bath, so that it may continue hot and fluid for several hours.
As fine a colour is produced by ebullition during five or six minutes, as is obtained at the end of several hours by mixing the two boiling solutions, and allowing the whole to cool together.
Weary after a ride of several hours over a very irregular country, and not expecting any chance that night, I enjoined my spahi to keep a good watch, and lay down.
It appeared to her that she must have slept several hours, when she awoke with the consciousness that there was somebody stirring in the room.
Several hours a day he devotes to the composition of his memoirs which are rapidly advancing under the hand of his secretary.
At least thrice a week excursions of several hours' duration are made into the neighbouring woods and hills, accompanied by a teacher for each class, and during these excursions all kinds of object-teaching are pursued.
We did not come up with the advance-guard at all; they had rested here about noon, but had gone on several hours before we arrived, in order to keep ahead of us.
In order to do this, the advance-guard had to precede us several hours, or even several days, according to the character of the country.
Soak the tapioca over night or several hours in a little water, boil the milk and turn over the tapioca and when it is blood-warm, add the sugar and the eggs well beaten, flavor the pudding with lemon or rose water.
If the fish is salt, pour boiling water over it, soak it several hours; butter and pepper, and broil; serve in the same way as the fresh.
After the goose is dressed, soak it several hours in salt and water.
I have sent old Peter for the doctor," said she, returning "but it may be several hours before he returns.
She was outside of that horrible prison, old Haidee was locked in, and could not pursue her, old Peter could not return for several hours.
But it was not safe to extinguish the lights, and not until the lapse of several hours, when the town had become quite quiet, did we at length get the rest we so much needed.
After the tourniquet has been removed, the patient must rest quietly for several hours.
Several hours of firing may be necessary to gain fire superiority.
However, if the instruction and training be theoretical and the time available each day be several hours, better results can be obtained by studying two or more subjects simultaneously.
And while he stood at the bottom step looking up at her, she vanished into the darkness of the house, leaving him out in the cool moonlight, a fate very different from what she had been planning for him for several hours.
It will take me several hours, and you stand by every second of the time.
Several hours later a very interesting scene was enacted in two tiny adjoining rooms under the roof of the Y.
Several hours passed, and nothing interrupted the monotony of the journey.
Even supposing you can endure a slow death of several hours, will you expose your daughter to it?
Several hours later, as his luck was vacillating, he felt a heavy hand on his shoulder, and was overjoyed at seeing Buck and Red, the latter grinning as only Red could grin, and he withdrew from the game to enjoy his good fortune.
Several hours later he stood dripping wet on the American side of the Rio Grande and shouted advice to a score of Mexican cavalrymen on the opposite bank.
Several hours up, the river narrowed and entered a rocky gorge, four or five hundred feet wide and a thousand feet deep, with almost perpendicular sides.
It would be a trip of several hours, Mercer said, and would take us around to the other side and partly behind the Dark City.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "several hours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
