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Example sentences for "six days"

  • In six days, Don Alexandro, the year of probation is over, and I have promised my daughter's hand to your son.

  • If I do not prove him an impostor at the end of six days, believe me one, and not your true friend and servant, Concho.

  • Julian was conducted into a private apartment of the baths of the palace, and beheaded as a common criminal, after having purchased, with an immense treasure, an anxious and precarious reign of only sixty-six days.

  • His aged father, whose reign had not exceeded thirty-six days, put an end to his life on the first news of the defeat.

  • As the works of the creation had been finished in six days, their duration in their present state, according to a tradition which was attributed to the prophet Elijah, was fixed to six thousand years.

  • Gather it six days; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.

  • Genesis Chapter 1 God createth Heaven and Earth, and all things therein, in six days.

  • And she shall remain in the blood of her purification sixty-six days.

  • Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day, because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be called holy.

  • Five or six days afterwards, Herr von H--- returned my call, and invited me to an excursion to Vatne.

  • The consequence of this carelessness on a journey of five or six days was, that the rain and the high waves of the lakes frequently put the after-deck several inches under water, and then the luggage was wetted through.

  • I had a letter brought me from my Lord to get a ship ready to carry the Queen's things over to France, she being to go within five or six days.

  • The King's guards and some City companies do walk up and downe the towne these five or six days; which makes me think, and they do say, there are some plots in laying.

  • To amuse his men, Parry and his officers got up a play; Miss in her Teens was performed on 5th November, the last day of sun for ninety-six days to come.

  • Everything ends at last, and, having spent ninety-six days out of sight of land and sailed some four thousand five hundred miles, they drifted on to the south-west coast of Africa.

  • But all these interesting discoveries paled before the famous land of Thule, six days' voyage north of Britain, in the neighbourhood of the frozen ocean.

  • They reached Korosko in twenty-six days, and crossed the Nubian desert on camels, a "very wilderness of scorching sand, the simoon in full force and the thermometer in the shade standing at 114 degrees Fahr.

  • February 1595 found him ready and leaving England with five ships and, after a good passage of forty-six days, landing on the island of Trinidad, and thence making his way to the mouth of the Orinoco.

  • Margaret was no less happy in indulging her, and in opening much more of her heart to her than she could to any one else since Hester married--which now, at the end of six days, seemed a long time ago.

  • From his lips, and the epistle which I confided to him five or six days ago, you will learn all that your affection for me may make you wish to know.

  • Now that the chain is established, Colonel Dickering says, that in six days I may receive your answer at the head of Elk.

  • In the afternoon I played with him, and continued doing so for five or six days.

  • I had waited for five or six days when an unfortunate incident obliged me to take a hasty departure.

  • In five or six days time, perhaps, the opportunity may recur again, but that will be all.

  • He heard this report in the evening; and in the morning he left his house, determined if possible to meet me at Bambakoo, a distance of six days travel.

  • I staid at Montogou about one month and a half, or forty-six days.

  • God it is who hath created the Heavens and the Earth and all that is between them in six days; then ascended his throne.

  • Verily your Lord is God who hath made the Heavens and the Earth in six days– then mounted his throne to rule all things: None can intercede with him till after his permission: This is God your Lord: therefore serve him: Will ye not reflect?

  • And He it is who hath made the Heavens and the Earth in six days: His throne had stood ere this upon the waters,3 that He might make proof which of you4 would excel in works.

  • We created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six days, and no weariness touched us.

  • Why, it takes twenty years to build a little island in the Mississippi River, and that man actually believed that God created the whole world and all that's in it in six days.

  • It is six days or seven days ago that I lived through that despairing day, and then through a night without sleep; then settled down next day into my right mind (or thereabouts) and wrote you.

  • Six days sufficed to carry the British squadron from its present position to Alexandria, which Nelson was already inclined to think the destination of the French.

  • Out of six guns in the battery which he calls "ours," five were disabled in six days.

  • It will be dirty, but will cost little and take me out of this dreadful cold weather in five or six days.

  • Olagnier waiting for me, and Omar, of course, and am installe at Ross's till my boat gets done which I am told will be in six days.

  • I shall leave Luxor in five or six days--and write now to stop all letters in Cairo.

  • I went afterwards to my boat, which I hope will be done in five or six days.

  • On to Minieh another five or six days--walked about and saw the preparations for the Pasha's arrival.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being come; easily recognized; gray squirrel; internal combustion; six hundred; six months; six weeks; sixteen dollars; sixteen feet; sixteen hundred; sixteen shillings; sixth century; sixth dynasty; sixty dollars; sixty feet; sixty miles; sixty millions; sixty pounds; sixty thousand; sixty years; slightly arched; sometimes made; steps leading; take measures; taking their; truly national