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Example sentences for "ten days"

  • Commence to add skim-milk after a week or ten days, adding a small amount at first and increasing it daily until the calf is on an entirely skim-milk diet.

  • Retarding of growth is possible in this way for a period of six to ten days, which, of course, in some cases might be of value, but the lengthened dormancy is probably too small to constitute it of general value.

  • The treatment should be applied pretty well over the body to cover all the affected parts, and needs to be repeated in ten days to destroy the younger generation.

  • It should be treated by two or three applications, ten days apart, of a hot solution of creolin, well scrubbed into the skin.

  • Make a general cleaning up of the hogs and quarters, using a dip and repeating in ten days.

  • The distance from Donkia pass to Jigatzi is said to be ten days' journey for loaded yaks.

  • But, from the wandering tribes of savages whom they had occasionally met in their path, they learned that at ten days' distance was a rich and fruitful land abounding with gold, and inhabited by populous nations.

  • But, from the wandering tribes of savages whom they occasionally met in their path, they learned that at ten days' distance was a rich and fruitful land abounding with gold, and inhabited by populous nations.

  • To-morrow we pursue our journey by land to Nashville in Tennessee, and thence down the Cumberland to Eddyville, where we expect to find our boat, and intend to go from that place to Orleans in ten days.

  • Here you may freeze out all your "miasmata" and surplus bile in ten days, and go to Columbia with nerves well strung and blood well purified.

  • So you arrived on the 24th, after a passage of ten days; you and the Charleston packet on the same day.

  • Great part of the summer I shall be off eight or ten days at a time, but no long journeys.

  • Furthermore, they fed the mendicants and Fakirs and held high festival for the space of ten days, and the lady Shamsah joyed with exceeding joy whenas she saw this.

  • As we took her into the house, I made the necessary apologies for the miserable condition of the lean-to, and assured her that, ten days later, she would have found it perfectly ready to receive her.

  • Under these circumstances, the first, the all-important necessity was to prevail on her to prolong her stay beyond the allotted six weeks by ten days.

  • Robert left the letter, and called again and saw the doctor, who said his patient was getting better, and would most likely be up again in ten days or a fortnight.

  • The fellow was an ingenious workman, and by my instructions, in ten days, finished a pleasure-boat with all its tackling, able conveniently to hold eight Europeans.

  • The wind continued in our favour, and we reached the Dardanelles in eight or ten days; the Turkish barges met us there to carry us to Constantinople.

  • I had thus been playing the petty king with success for a week or ten days, when, towards ten o'clock at night I heard the sentinel's challenge.

  • I do not say so, but it may be true, quite as true as my having been with the Spanish army ten days ago.

  • He sent Joseph over to Lake Bourget to engage a boat and a boatman for a ten days' trip down the river Rhone.

  • It is ten days' work and unless something breaks it will be finished in five.

  • On the 5th of this month I received a cable, "Expect good news in ten days.

  • It was forwarded from the Tribune office, New York where it had lain eight or ten days.

  • In ten days or a fortnight from this I'm going into training for the Foot-Race at Fulham.

  • But she was not prepared to own that the lady's facility had (in spite of all attempts to conceal it from discovery) made the conspiracy obviously successful in ten days' time.

  • Instances on record of women who have been wooed and won in ten days are--to speak it with all possible respect--not wanting.

  • That knowing man sat down for ten days in the school of meditation, and how much so ever he turned over the leaves of the volume of his mind from the preface to the epilogue, he could hit upon no plan.

  • So they spread the bride-feast and bade thereto all the tribes of the Arabs, men of tents and men of towns, and the banquet continued for the space of ten days.

  • Give me ten days' delay, that I may study the book of expedients and stratagems, when mayhap somewhat will occur to me.

  • I expect to make a junction with General Schofield in ten days.

  • Ten days' rations, with a supply of forage and ammunition were taken in wagons.

  • The movement of troops from Milliken's Bend to New Carthage will be so conducted as to allow the transportation of ten days' supply of rations, and one-half the allowance of ordnance, required by previous orders.

  • The break in our railroad at Big Shanty is almost repaired, and that about Dalton should be done in ten days.

  • Engraved invitations are sent a week or ten days in advance, by mail or messenger.

  • The invitations to a formal afternoon tea are sent a week or ten days in advance by mail or messenger.

  • If AT HOME card was left, the call should be made only on the days specified; if an ordinary card, call at any time within three to ten days.

  • If I had stayed eight or ten days longer in Paris, I could have paid my own journey, and made it comfortably.

  • I know well how this is, though I'm in ten days off to Paris.

  • She added that as the bishop was away, and she was unable to send the lay-sisters without his permission, they could not start for a week or ten days.

  • Yes, and that will give you another ten days.

  • I am obliged to you for having shewn me this letter, but be pleased to tell me if I may visit you for the next week or ten days, without doing hurt to your conscience; for I must tell you I am a man.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about her; fever bird; name given; nature herself; never expected; peculiar acid; seeded raisins; single bound; small hole; ten days; ten dollars; ten feet; ten miles; ten minutes; ten thousand; ten years; tenant right; tender conscience; tender heart; tender notes; tenement house; tensile strength; tenth century; that what; this poem; worth living