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Example sentences for "twenty hours"

  • I have for me Belgium and the Rhenish provinces, and with a tricoloured flag and a proclamation I could revolutionize them in four-and-twenty hours.

  • The operation usually lasts four and twenty hours; and the following signs shew that it will succeed, provided the retort resist the fire.

  • Mix all these solutions together, and let them stand four and twenty hours, that the gross and earthy parts may settle to the bottom; or else filter the liquor: then evaporate till it will bear a new-laid egg.

  • In four-and-twenty hours he could know everybody; in two days everybody knew him.

  • There was a rush to enlist beneath his banners, and within four-and-twenty hours he was at the head of fifteen hundred men.

  • It was just four-and-twenty hours since he had left his victim in the bowels of Wheal Danes.

  • He had been in this state for four-and-twenty hours.

  • Mrs. Dethridge very reluctantly, consents to give him four-and-twenty hours.

  • Before she had been four-and-twenty hours in the cottage it had come to that.

  • The last four-and-twenty hours to both had been a life-time.

  • Barnes request was granted, and it will not be wondered at, that after so much fatigue of mind and body, he slept profoundly for four-and-twenty hours.

  • He would give them most beautiful money, at least to look at; but in four-and-twenty hours it would be all gone, or changed to mere dirt and rubbish.

  • In England this is soon accomplished; here things are very differently managed, and it took us four-and-twenty hours.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    address them; after pausing; its highest; minutes east; much smaller; not think; other references; twenty acres; twenty days; twenty dollars; twenty fathoms; twenty feet; twenty four; twenty francs; twenty leagues; twenty marks; twenty miles; twenty million; twenty millions; twenty minutes; twenty times; twenty yards; twenty years; wrote them; young mistress; your presence