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Then they turned to travelling in quest of the two lost daughters and stinted not their wayfare for a space of twenty days, when they drew near a city lofty of base, and, finding a spacious camping plain, thereon pitched their tents.
In short, O our lord the Sultan, we ceased not dwelling together, I and she, in joyaunce and enjoyment, laughter and disport and delicious converse for a space of twenty days.
Now when the maiden heard these words she was abashed before her parent and kept silence, being ashamed to speak; nor would she return any reply for the space of twenty days.
The modern Turkish post from Constantinople to Baghdad, a distance of 1100 miles, is done in twenty days by four Tartars riding night and day.
And being all alone, and not able to leave His Majesty the Cham, I could not go to visit the church above-mentioned, which is twenty days' journey distant.
The distance mentioned, twenty days' journey from Peking, suits quite well with the position assigned to Tenduc, and no doubt the Roman Church was in the city to which Polo gives that name.
A Chinese trader, who has come annually to Singapore in junks for many years, tells us that he has had as long a passage as sixty days, although the average is eighteen or twenty days.
Metternich, with good reason, prides himself on the skill with which he gained from Napoleon the exact time, twenty days, necessary for the concentration of the Austrian armies.
Siam likewise, according to him, is a good port, and nearer the court than Patane: Those who go to the city in which the king resides land always at the port of Siam, whence the royal residence is twenty daysjourney by land.
It agrees well with our English constitutions; for, though we had ninety or an hundred sick when we got there, they were all as well intwenty days as when we left England, except one.
Goods, may be carried from Agra on camels in twenty days to Bucker on the river Indus, and thence in fifteen or sixteen days aboard the ships at the mouth of the Indus.
At the end of twenty days we found ourselves back on the Republican.
Soon after the departure of General Sheridan's party, General Carr started out on a twenty days' scout, not so much for the purpose of fighting Indians, but more for the object of taking some friends on a hunt.
Seeing and realizing that my efforts were useless, I concluded to ask for a twenty days' leave of absence, to accompany Mrs. Sherman to our home in Lancaster, and to allow the storm to blow over somewhat.
After his return here, I gave him a leave of absence of twenty days, for the benefit of his health.
If you can whip Lee and I can march to the Atlantic, I think Uncle Abe will give us a twenty days' leave of absence to see the young folks.
Give me your solemn promise, old fellow, an answer in twenty days--if you have to send a Kafir on horseback.
The duration of typhus is from ten to twenty days; that of typhoid is rarely less than twenty-one.
We have already stated the average duration of {394} relapsing fever to be eighteen or twenty days, while the extreme limits are from eighteen to ninety days.
It follows that the total duration of the morbid process varies from the average of about eighteen or twenty days, in cases with a single relapse, to forty, sixty, or even ninety days.
At length, after the constant labour of twenty days, the fort began to assume a formidable appearance, and received the name of Fortaleza de San Jorge da Mina, or Fort St George at Mina.
So swift is the current at times that twenty-four hours is enough to take a boat from Tete to Sena, whereas the return journey may take twenty days.
It is twenty days' journey to Verdun, which is the commencement of Alamannia, a land of mountains and hills.
The extent of their land is twenty days' journey, and they have cities and large villages in the mountains; the river Gozan forms the boundary on the one side.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twenty days" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
