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Example sentences for "two hours"

  • Two hours later a beautiful birch bark basket, strongly and artistically made, stood on her table.

  • Wesley told her it might be two hours, and she said she did not care if it were four, so they left her.

  • If that did not entail too much work, it could be completed in two hours.

  • Be what you like in two hours' time, but now go up to bed,' returned the locksmith, planting himself in the doorway.

  • In two hours more, we were in the train, on our way to England.

  • I must leave for England in two hours," he said.

  • It was dated at Liverpool, and it announced his embarkation for America in two hours' time.

  • Sicilian Vespers, and 'eight thousand slaughtered in two hours,' are a known thing.

  • Would a Chinese playwright or painter have stranger notions about the barbarians than our neighbors, who are separated from us but by two hours of salt water?

  • Rodin; not finding him at home, he had left with the portress his name written on a slip of paper, with the words, 'I shall return in two hours.

  • In it she saw Sleepinbuff, with one of the men who, two hours before, had been waiting on the Place du Chatelet.

  • Two hours after, Dagobert and the orphans had quitted the Castle for Paris, not knowing that Djalma was left at Cardoville, being still too much injured to proceed on his journey.

  • Two hours hence, it will be too late; ere then, this infernal girl will have seen Marshal Simon's daughters.

  • At the end of two hours, as Porthos did not come, not any news of him, they resumed their journey.

  • Wait quietly, then; in two hours, in four, in six hours at latest, Planchet will be here.

  • Two hours after, as midnight sounded, the sentinel was relieved.

  • Two hours after, all was over; we had done the business of both, admiring the foresight of our poor father, who had taken the precaution to bring each of us up in a different religion.

  • I shall want you this evening," he said "Return in two hours.

  • My lord," said D'Artagnan, "I have an appointment in two hours which I cannot miss.

  • Two hours later, thirty officiating ministers from the most populous, and consequently the most disturbed parishes of Paris had assembled there.

  • Two hours and a quarter--that is nothing; we are well mounted, are we not, Porthos?

  • Sixteen miles (two hours) by rail from Port Louis.

  • The pictures and the figures so impressed me, that I could see the beautiful colossus before me, and I kept on thinking about him for the next two hours; then I reached New York, and he dropped out of my mind.

  • It took me two hours, with my clothes tucked up under my arms, to get through them all; and many of them were so matted with weeds, that my feet sank down as though I trod in a bog.

  • In two hours more we reached a settlement called Madi, and found it deserted.

  • At last we made a move, but only of two hours' duration, through the usual forest, in which elephants walked about as if it were their park.

  • In two hours we reached the palace of Piejoko, a chief of some pretensions, and were summoned to stop and drink pombe.

  • In two hours a faint light began to show itself.

  • Two hours after he had taken refuge he heard a number of men come along the road at a run.

  • In two hours' time the girl, unaccustomed to exercise, acknowledged that she was tired; she therefore took her place in the wagon.

  • In thirty-five minutes it had mounted so high that it looked but like the smallest star, and in two hours it had flown a distance of forty-six miles from the place where it was thrown off.

  • This was about twenty-seven miles from Paris, and we had I reached this distance in two hours, although there was so little wind that the air scarcely stirred.

  • Two hours and a half after it had been let off it was found in a field about nine miles from Lille.

  • Minnes and Mr. Evelyn such a spirit of mirth, that in all my life I never met with so merry a two hours as our company this night was.

  • In two hours we were at Spessa, and alighted at a large house, with nothing distinguished about it from an architectural point of view.

  • The Venetian consul had heard of my return, and not having seen me concluded I was ill, and paid me a two hours' visit.

  • The harangue of the count's advocate would have lasted more than two hours if the court had not silenced him.

  • Two afternoons, two hours each, I studied the general theory of navigation and the particular process of taking a meridian altitude.

  • In two hours, even against the strong wind and sea, a man could have carried the letter and received in payment what he would have laboured half a year for on a plantation.

  • At the end of two hours, having come a mile into the bay, we dropped anchor in eleven fathoms.

  • The precious water came down in bucketfuls and tubfuls, and in two hours we caught and stored away in the tanks one hundred and twenty gallons.

  • So they rode together, and unhorsed other, and turned their shields, and drew their swords, and fought mightily as noble knights proved, by the space of two hours.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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