Three hours later he came to the river again, and swimming it he turned on his course, but kept to the southern side.
Now I reckon I'm fifty, an' ef things go well I'll be back to my own nateral age in two or three hours.
One hour, two hours, three hours, four hours, still and dark, passed in the forest before he roused himself from his covert.
We're generally a long way from home, an' you know we sent word back from Pittsburgh to Wareville that we wuz stayin' a while here in the east on mighty important business.
There was a slope coated with two feet of snow, and swinging far back on the heels of his snowshoes, he shot downward like one taking a tremendous slide on a toboggan.
It was now eleven, and he had, therefore, three hours of leisure.
Three hours by sea to Sarzeau, three hours by road from Sarzeau to Vannes.
In three hours D'Artagnan had touched the continent, two hours more sufficed for his ride to Vannes.
These two or three hours finished, we and the tired horses could have rest and sleep as long as we wanted it.
At the end of three hours of boding suspense, they came back and said the Emperor would receive us at noon the next day --would send carriages for us--would hear the address in person.
They work two or three hours at a time, but not hard, and then they knock off and catch flies.
They told us the ship had been lying at anchor in the harbor two or three hours.
I suppose I did nothing else for two or three hours; till, the fit wearing off, I fell asleep, and did not wake till far in the night.
That's the very reason why he would be better for two or three hours a day with some one who knows how to teach a child of his age.
The two racked their brains for three hours; and Postmaster Burrows, who was the fortunate possessor of a pass, offered to go down to Ripton in the interest of his liege lord and see what was up.
In 1853 the 'Eclipse' made the same trip in three days, three hours, and twenty minutes.
He died from his injuries in the course of two or three hours, and his was the only life lost.
We rowed down the river, and then across the bay for three hours, against wind and tide, bow on to heavy rollers, and at last reached the mouth of the bay, where is the Fort.
After parting with our friends, we resolved to visit the Patriarch, Primate of Antioch and of all the East; and escorted by a priest and the shaykh we travelled by way of a short cut and terrible descent of three hours.
This being the first day, we made only a three hours' march; it cleared us of Damascus and its environs, and we camped early on the edge of the desert.
The battle of Champion's Hill lasted about four hours, hard fighting, preceded by two or three hours of skirmishing, some of which almost rose to the dignity of battle.
Two or three hours of pursuit on the day of battle, without anything except what the men carried on their persons, would have been worth more than any pursuit commenced the next day could have possibly been.
Three hours of up-hill marching and climbing had been followed by as long a period of bloody battle, and it was almost noon.
Feeling the net drawing about him, Morgan gave his men but two or three hours' rest near Harrison, and then took the road toward Cincinnati.
After severely trying my eyes for two or three hours, I was obliged to make an application for gas, which, after some hesitation, was granted.
I was confined in my cell twenty-three hours out of every twenty-four, and during the first week my one hour's exercise was mostly taken in the corridor instead of in the open air.
Will you be able to leave this place in two or three hours, notwithstanding your fatigue?
I will call again in the course of two or three hours," said Dr.
After that I shall be engaged professionally for two or three hours.
The police have been on the lookout for the last two or three hours, but can't find any trace of him," said the officer.
After this duologue John was absent for a space of three hours, and they thought he had gone back to barracks.
And yet, by some perversity of the heart, she was as eager now to make light of her faintness as she had been to make much of it two or three hours ago.
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