I am going up with my rents, my neighbour Weston will share the horses with me, and thou shall see the Tower and Mr Salmon's wax-work before thou art a week older.
Many prominent ladies of those cities passed week after week in the hospitals or on the transports, doing every thing in their power, and giving their attention to friend and foe alike.
Within a week the new channel became the regular route for steamboats.
A week after the lessee took possession, he was frightened by the near approach of a company of Rebel cavalry.
General Halleck arrived a week after the battle, and commenced a reorganization of the army.
I could only obtain a small fraction above seventy cents, and within a week the same quality sold for sixty.
We had planted about eighty acres of corn during the first week of April, and arranged to commence planting cotton on Monday, the 18th of the month.
During the first week after opening the Southwest Branch, the company ran a daily freight train each way.
A week afterward, all were commanded to leave the country.
Of these, not over six or eight thousand had borne arms more than a week or ten days.
On every plantation, one day in the week is set apart for grinding a seven-days' supply of corn.
On the following week we increased the number of planters, but soon reduced them, as we found we should overtake the plows earlier than we desired.
The Rebels admitted that many of their regiments were unable to produce a fifth of their original numbers, until a week or more after the battle.
In the first week of April an insurrection burst out in the eastern provinces of Greece, Attica, Boeotia, and Phocis.
The stud of hunters was first-rate and extensive; and the whole scene, at closing the stables for the night, was so splendidly arranged and illuminated, that Lady Carbery would take all her visitors once or twice a week to admire it.
For a week he spent his days in the unaccustomed but truly royal occupation of field sports.
Desirous of anticipating his foe in opening the campaign, he spent a week of fruitless endeavor at that place, and then started for Erfurt to obtain a nearer view.
When all was completed to his satisfaction he left for Compiègne to supervise the arrangements made for the reception of his new consort, and spent the last week of waiting there.
A week later he notified Alexander that he was aware of the movement of Russian troops toward Poland, and declared that he himself was likewise preparing.
Should he choose for me a place and use his influence to secure it, perchance the next week the noble lord might be fleeing, and all in his service, under the hatred of the king.
The king had thought to spend a week of pleasure at Clipstone, but the intelligence brought by the spy changed his plans.
This was one morning less than a week after the unsuccessful midnight excursion.
In 1867 the Saturday Review tried week by week to inflame the mind of the public against the National Reformer and Mr Bradlaugh, and other Tory journals followed the example so worthily set them.
His earnings were required to help in supplying the needs of the growing family; and at twelve years old he was made office boy with a salary of five shillings a week at Messrs Lepard's, where his father was confidential clerk.
On the tenth of November, a week before the polling day, my mother, my grandfather (Mr A.
He had arranged to lecture at Plymouth for five days during the first week in December 1860.
One of the results of this week of disturbance was the arrest of several "good men and true," amongst whom was Mr Nieass, whose recent death his friends and co-workers have good reason to mourn.
It will be remembered that the Company agreed to pay their editor L5 per week in full discharge of his duties.
These were a few of the more prominent points of difference, and they seemed to increase and magnify week by week, although my father's Malthusian advocacy and his hatred of Louis Napoleon were made the principal grounds of friction.
During the spring-time he lectured week after week in London and the provinces, not only bearing his own expenses, but on one occasion, at least, actually paying for tickets for his wife and friends.
Discussions on every possible subject were held; on the week evenings the topics were mostly political, but on Sundays theological or anti-theological discourses were as much to the fore as politics.
Poor Eliza wouldn't last more than a few days; a week or two at most, and he was not going to keep on the cottage after he'd buried her.
I needn't be away above two or three days, or a week at most.
She longed for Arden Court and perfect rest; and then she remembered, with something like a shudder, that there were people invited for the autumn, and that Lady Laura Armstrong had promised to spend a week with her dearest Clarissa.
It was Sunday; and Clarissa had been nearly a week in Brussels--a very quiet week, in which she had had nothing to do but worship her baby, and tremblingly await any attempt that might be made to wrest him from her.
It was the last week in August when Lady Geraldine went up to London, and George Fairfax hurried northward to his Friend's aerie.
She even promises that she and Mrs. Armstrong will come over for a week or two, while we are there.
Amongst the cases and packages which had been perpetually arriving from London during the last week or so, there was one light deal box which Lady Laura's second maid brought to Clarissa's room one morning with her mistress's love.
He was a collector of rare editions of the Classics, and would dawdle over a Greek play, edited by some learned German, for a week at a time, losing himself in the profundity of elaborate foot-notes.
I shall have a houseful of people in a week or two, and you shall have a peep at the gay world.
The child had only begun to droop a week ago, had been positively ill only four days.
When greetings with his brother, and the family at Pebbly Pit were over, Jim explained: "The Boss lifted his ban on using the horses, when he found his men grumbling all week over their wretched Sunday.
So many days that week had been wasted in riding about the country that the pantry was almost bare.
For a week we passed former camps near small abandoned clearings, once the home of little groups of Machigangas.
My first request a week before had so sharpened their memory that one of them related the story of his wrongs, a recital intensely dramatic to the whole circle of his listeners, including myself.
Like our Indian peons at Lambrama the week before, these had been taken from the village jail and represented the scum of the town.
He had come from the Cotahuasi Valley the week before and knew the trail.
In the last week of July or the first week of August the temperatures make an equally sudden rise.
We met the young man a weeklater at a mountain village, a day after a general amnesty had been declared.
Erving was obliged to leave on October 18th and Professor Bowman left a week later in order to carry out his plans for a physiographic study of the coast between Camaná and Mollendo.
But he had to work for a week to pay for the loan of the oxen and cart," said Vanya.
As soon as the week was over, he bought a forest and built himself a fine house, and began to live twice as richly as his brother in the town.
And at the end of the week his brother called him, and gave him a single loaf of bread.
Stay here and work for me, and at the end of a week you shall have the help you have earned.
He said it would be worth about two hundred a day, which is considerably better than the thousand a week that I named.
But a thousand dollars a week sure did sound good, and if the proposition was on the square-- He snuggled down and began to build an air castle.
They paid me on a sliding scale, beginning with fifteen hundred dollars a week and ending with two thousand that Cliff paid me this evening.
And he said to tell you he would add a hundred every week that you deliver the goods.
At the end of every week I'd be free to quit or go on, and you'd be free to let me out if I didn't suit.
For three quarters of an hour, perhaps longer, Johnny dismissed the thousand-dollar-a-week job from his mind and waited with rising indignation for Bland.
Thinking of him made Johnny wonder what kind of news gathering it was that could make it worth a thousand dollars a week to a man to have a swift, secret means of locomotion at his command.
In another week he could pay that note, and start right in getting rich.
He wanted to call up the ranch and see if she were there, and tell her where he was going, but that seemed foolish, after a week of silence from her.
Suppose we say a thousand dollars a week for you and your machine.
I'd want an agreement that I'd be paid a week in advance all the time.
VIII A week later Alec MacKenzie and George Allerton started from Charing Cross.
Of course he had only gone to Paris to tease, and in a week he would be back again.
The season was drawing to a close, and Lady Kelsey suggested that they should advance by a week or two the date of their departure for the country; but Lucy would do nothing to run away from her suffering.
Alec went up to Scotland to see his house and proposed afterwards to spend a week in Lancashire.
For a week he had wandered much in his mind, and more than once Lucy had suspected that the end was near; but now he was singularly lucid.
She had spent a week by herself to arrange things to her liking, and insisted that Dick should admire all she had done.
Didna I ask you to tell him that, dingoes or no dingoes, he is to come nextweek at the latest, to handle the colts?
In other words, they pled most vigorously for permission to camp out for a week or so, according to the programme concocted the night previously.
During the previous week drafting and mustering had been the all absorbing work on the run.
I shall be there to-morrow night, and Sunday, and for one long weekat least.
We all gasped when she brought Adelaide to recite from 'Romeo and Juliet' at an evening party, but all London did the same the week after.
But you see, we are getting on so fast now with this splendid weather, that I think we may well spare a week or ten days at wheat-harvest; and won't we go at that work then!
I like it; though I admit it is pleasanter the second week than the first.
Thus passed the week after the great meeting; almost as large a one was held on the Sunday, which went off peaceably on the whole, as no opposition to it was offered, and again the people cried 'victory.
Week afore last they was in her feet, and they've ben clear round her and goin' back agen since then.
Ef you want only one apartment, I can give you the one occupied last week by the Hon.
This musical composition had been rehearsed the weekprevious in the presence of a select party of amateurs and critics, and had been pronounced, by the sub-editor of a weekly paper, "remarkable for its breadth and color.
By an extraordinary piece of good fortune, the musicians had learned it, and played it at a silver wedding the week previous.
So you told me last week," growled Mr. Gilsum, "and the week before that.
It is a small amount, but will stave them off a week or two.
Overtop was happy in the contemplation of his marriage with that most sensible of girls, Miss Pillbody, which was set down for the week following.
A week later, I marked the familiar bloat in his cheeks, and suspected the truth.
But the next letter, a week afterward, brought a different story.
Educatrix" received fifty answers to her advertisement, and was busy more than a week calling at the houses of those who desired an interview with her.
Still, it is very well on the whole, and these flattened revers are an innovation that will be quite the vogue before the week is out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "week" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
