She had not for weeks heard so many words, not to say words of such strength and reason, from her father's lips: day by day he had been growing weaker and more lethargic.
Weeks elapsed, and the idlers who waited about the woodland paths where they knew that she was once wont to walk with her companion, never saw her, watch for her as patiently as they might.
A few weeks after his decease, his wife married again.
The subspecies luteola is adapted to the more rigorous and arid environment of the southwestern United States, where activity may be possible for only a few weeks in the year.
One of them, judged to be approximately two weeks old, was found in a burrow nearby.
One turtle left the den for approximately two weeks and then returned to it for the rest of the winter.
Warm weather in early November permitted an additional two weeks of activity.
Size and Appearance at Hatching The proportions of the shell change somewhat in the first few weeks of life.
Under favorable conditions hatchlings would be able to feed and grow eight weeks or more before hibernation.
Information gleaned from records of gravid females and known dates of nesting suggests that eggs are retained in the oviducts two to three weeks before laying.
Activities in the first few days or weeks of life influence the length of time that the caruncle is retained; turtles that begin feeding soon after hatching probably lose the caruncle more quickly than do those that remain quiescent.
For weeks before it she despoiled the garden, keeping her plans miraculously secret, and storing her treasures away in a waste-basket, in lieu of the cornucopia.
So at the end of the three weeks he abandoned the lever and, bringing Murdock in from the stable, definitely transformed him into his chauffeur.
Everything is three weeks early this year, and that makes it about the middle of May.
For three dreadful weeks he ran it in agony or apprehension.
I myself was summoned back to Italy on pressing business; she was too unwell to journey with me as rapidly as I was obliged to travel; indeed, illness detained her several weeks in England.
During all these trying weeks he appeared perfectly serene and contented.
Weeks passed and I woke again one day to breath as it were new air.
After two hazardous crossings of the ice-caked and tumultuous Arkansas, and after several weeks of unsuccessful placering when they could not separate heavy black particles from the gold, they arrived in California Gulch.
I was five weeks in crossing and cooked for my board.
They camped there for two weeks because the cattle were footsore, and then moved to a site near Golden.
In a few weeks ten thousand men were crowded in the gulch, and a mail and express office was needed.
Then he and Augusta went East for six weeks while he made further investments, notably land in South Chicago.
Traveling by way of Russell Gulch, it took them three weeks to reach Payne's Bar, now Idaho Springs.
Ten weeks before the Germans had invaded Belgium, and in the fateful and anxious time which followed, the Belgians had been pressed slowly back, those who had not been utterly crushed.
For weeks there had been a lull in the artillery fire, which is generally heavy in this sector.
Imlac was forced to observe them with great vigilance, lest they should betray their rank by their unusual behaviour, and detained them several weeks in the first village, to accustom them to the sight of common mortals.
And when it came to three weeks after Christmas, he sent these men into the land of Roumania to help those at Adrianople and Demotica; and the latter, being now in force, grew bolder and rode abroad with the greater assurance.
Positively I had lived three weeks beside it before it grew quite clear to my perception which way the current flowed.
Earlier in some years than in others; sometimes even in the first weeks of July.
We did get more sometimes when you made a great haul, or when a cargo was run, but then, more often, when times were bad, we had to live on fish for weeks together.
I saw its effects on land, however, for we spent some weeks ashore in consequence of it.
The wound healed rapidly, thanks to Will’s abstemious habits, and in six weeks after entering the hospital he was discharged as fit for duty.
Three weeks after being commissioned the complement of the Jason was complete, and she was ordered to proceed to the West Indies, to which place they made a fast passage.
My son is a fisherman who is sometimes weeks from home, and our supply of turf is running low.
He lost his boat and nets three weeks ago, and though he has a little money saved up, it is not enough to replace them.
No, sir, he is not yet sixteen, and he was only promoted from being a ship’s boy to the quarter-deck three weeks ago.
Then her head was turned more westward, and threeweeks later the Furious anchored at Port Royal.
A few weeks after this conversation the Hawke received orders to sail for Portsmouth, and after a long and wearisome voyage arrived home late in the summer of the year 1793.
As the Jason will not be ready for two months I can grant you six weeks leave.
He is said to have written it in six weeksat Christmas time.
Well, here it is: Why can't we strike out these seven weeks and three days from his memory--as if they never had been?
Have you altogether forgotten that I betrothed you myself to my niece--my own dead sister's child--when she came visiting from the church school at Fonwhary some weeks ago?
For weeks he had been studying every weather sign.
Dumail," he said, "put it this way: Suppose you were within three counted weeks of your final release from this hell of an island.
It is now three weeks since I bribed the night guard to get these same nippers.
The sufferings of the citizens during the later weekswere terrible.
Vittoria Colonna indeed found the convent at Viterbo a pleasant retreat for a few weeks at a time.
Private memoirs of courtiers tell us that in his last weeks of fever he had frightful dreams by day and by night.
Nay more, one document has descended to us which bears testimony to the teaching of the Anabaptists within the beleaguered city only a few weeks before the proclamation of polygamy.
Eight weeks ago I dreaded the weary monotony which awaited me in this forsaken spot!
Contrasted with the biting winter only a few weeks back, it was something to exult the heart and uplift the soul.
I began my chronicle to-night by saying it had been two weeks since I talked with the dryad in the glade.
A young man belonging to this Inn had disappeared eight weeks before (it was winter-time), and was supposed to have had some undiscovered love affair, and to have gone for a soldier.
Lecamus, had during the last few weeks been wholly occupied with the long-ago; and undoubtedly, if that had gone on, I should soon have been reduced to a state dangerously near to that of madness.
The young birds do a great deal of perching before they gain the marvellously rapid wing-motions of maturity, but they are ready to fly within three weeks after they are hatched.
A certain ornithologist tells with complacent pride of having shot over fifty-eight rose-breasted grosbeaks in less than three weeks (during the breeding season) to learn what kind of food they had in their crops.
And then, there were lines and lines of sweet love-words, sweeter perhaps, certainly sweeter to her after weeks of supposed bereavement than any he had ever before penned.
It was weeks since Warren had brought her the news of his sad and violent death, and yet here were lines penned by his own hand but seven days ago.
When we crashed here five weeks ago, there were an even thousand natives in the village, plus or minus a few babes in arms.
We've been here for five weeks without seeing a trace of Hymenops, and from what I've read of them, they'd have jumped us the minute we landed.
Marching rapidly to Giurgevo with his handful of men, he managed to detain the Turkish army for weeks on the south side of the Danube, destroying their bridges and preventing them from crossing the river.
Twice in three weeks the provisional government had fallen, first through an audacious coup de main, then through a spontaneous act of weakness.
Columbus got into it on his way to America, and hundreds of ships have been becalmed for weeks in it since the days of that great discoverer.
As weeks passed by and no sail appeared, their hearts began to fail them, for the small stock of provisions was rapidly diminishing.
VII "Within twelve weeks at farthest their camp will onward go; If you've good friends to aid you, 'twill soon be time to show.
XVI In the weary journey three toilsome weeks they spent.
That's why you stayed three weeks at Coton Manor when you needn't have stopped three days.
The two weeks had gone he knew not how; and yet he had taken count of the procession of the days.
Those three weeks in Coton Manor had disgusted him with the country, another three weeks in London had more than satisfied his passion for town.
The second volume is announced as to appear in three weeks after the first.
But little important business has yet been accomplished in Congress, though numerous bills have been introduced, as is usual in the early weeks of the session.
Only five weeks before his death we find him express a cold approbation of the "system of morals" bequeathed to us by "Jesus of Nazareth.
Many weeks elapsed ere the Lady Adelaide was convalescent; and some more before she ventured to join in the gayeties and festal meetings of the land.
Crowther and Levi Weeks were both confined in this debased prison because of high crimes, and many were incarcerated for debt.
Meanwhile he made an excursion of three weeks to London, where his kinsman, the Marquis de Noailles, was ambassador.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weeks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
