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Sentences starting with days

Days grew to weeks and weeks to months and we had no tidings, no word from our pilgrims, for good or for evil. [10]
Days upon days, they travelled with incredible labour, now portaging over a stubborn country, now, placing their lives in hazard as they shot down untravelled rapids. [11]
Days afterwards, Lali read her father's letter to Mrs. Armour. [11]
Days and weeks passed, until one morning came the cry of "Land! [11]
Days and weeks passed when I scarcely saw them, and then some little incident would happen to give me an unexpected wrench and plunge me into unhappiness. [9]
Days before she had wondered that Adrian had tried to discourage her invitation to Al'mah. [11]
Days and weeks had passed, July was followed by sultry August, and that, too, was drawing to a close. [10]
Days would perchance elapse before I could find the man in such a great city as London; he might be out of town at this season, Easter being less than a se'nnight away. [9]
Days wore away, but he neither spoke nor moved. [11]
Days passed--and nights; and then the beautiful Bermudas rose out of the sea, we entered the tortuous channel, steamed hither and thither among the bright summer islands, and rested at last under the flag of England and were welcome. [5]

Sentences ending with days

But I was young an' wild them days. [13]
But I tell you, sir, that it will not be over in seven times ninety days. [9]
That's immoral, if you like--especially in these days. [9]
Now, then, do you know what the margins would foot up, to buy it at sixty days? [5]
They may leave you in the bright days, not in the dark days. [11]
Rustem had not yet quitted Memphis, for the first caravan, which he and his little wife were to join, was not to start for a few days. [10]
There, once a year, one caravan comes, and, at the outskirts of the place unclean, leaves food and needful things for another year, and returns again to Egypt after many days. [11]
Of the wonders wrought by "the great earthquake," these were all that came under my eye; but the tricks it did, elsewhere, and far and wide over the town, made toothsome gossip for nine days. [5]
Don't believe no wrong of nobody, not till y' must,--least of all of them that come o' the same folks, partly, and has lived with yo all their days. [6]
Clara and Jean would never enter again the New York hotel which their mother had frequented in earlier days. [5]

Short sentences using days

She died in three days. [11]
They hurried in those days. [5]
Remember, these are terrible days. [11]
Little Grapnel in ten days! [11]
How short those summer days? [9]
Some days exceedingly so. [4]
Three days went round. [11]
Many days passed quietly. [11]
Three days of paradise. [5]
Two days in one day! [5]

Sentences containing days two or more times

There are days which count in space for years, and years for days. [9]
Two of them were hanged last week; the other, caught but a few days since, is to hang within three days. [11]
Those latter days were days of bitter worry and trouble for the harassed Reformers. [5]
For days he was never near the Foreign Office, and then for days he was there almost continuously; yet there was scarcely a day when he did not see Jasmine. [11]
The man who uses trust-money for three days, to acquire in those three days a fortune, certain as magnificent, would pull up short beforehand if the issue of theft or honesty were put squarely before him. [11]
Like a mistress upon whom we have lavished the days of our youth and the strength of our days, she has deceived us; she has stricken us while we slept. [11]
You will give up your pay for the whole time you are absent,--portions of days to be caounted as whole days. [6]
We were failing under the accumulated fatigue of days and days of ceaseless marching. [5]
I am going to spend a few days with the Langdon's in Elmira, New York, as soon as I get time, and a few days at Mrs. Hooker's in Hartford, Conn., shortly. [5]
In three days to forget everything and so..." "Three days? [2]

More example sentences with the word days in them

A sample: a youth staked out a claim and tried to sell half for L5; no takers; he stuck to it fourteen days, starving, then struck it rich and sold out for L10,000. [5]
The days of your education, as pupils of trained instructors, are over. [3]
You can lengthen your days if you do not brood on fatal things --fatal to you; if you do not worry yourself into the grave. [11]
You must subdue your curiosity for a few days longer, and then it may easily happen that the man whose very aspect makes you feel dirty--the bat, the toad--" "Let that pass now," cried Polykarp. [10]
Here were this young lady and his friend, who had known each other for three days, perhaps, in the most casual way, and her friends had her already as good as married to him and off on a wedding journey. [4]
In those days young ladies did not "come out" so frankly as they do now. [9]
In nine days you will fetch me the letter. [5]
In those days you were not a Federalist or a Democrat, you were an Aristocrat or a Jacobin. [9]
But I promise you that one of these days I will present to you the very finest comedy imaginable. [11]
As I told you once, the days of useless martyrdom are past. [9]
Here or anywhere you must scour your head every two or three days or it is full of grit. [5]
Since last March, you know, I am carrying a mighty load, solitary and alone--General Grant's book--and must carry it till the first volume is 30 days old (Jan. 1st) before the relief money will begin to flow in. [5]
The immense sufferings you endured from the first days of September till the middle of February you never tried to conceal from me, and I well understood. [7]
I hope, however, you can spare me half an hour on one of those days, as I like to get as much of this bracing air as I can. [6]
Three days before you came I got a packet of letters, not by the usual yearly mail. [11]
It appears that you all will rebuild my house and rejuvenate me by sending me in my old days abroad on a young man's excursion. [6]
I will give you a specimen of Hipponax's Poetry: "There are but two days when a wife, Brings pleasure to her husband's life, The wedding-day, when hopes are bright, And the day he buries her out of his sight. [10]
We been expecting you a couple of days and more. [5]
It absorbed New York gossip for two days, and then another topic took possession of the mercurial city; but it was the sort of event to take possession of the country mind. [4]
Phaon had not yet returned from a nocturnal excursion, and for several days had not reached home until just before sunrise. [10]
Now, for many years our international relations have been uncommonly smooth, oiled every few days by complimentary banquet speeches, and sweetened by abundance of magazine and newspaper "taffy. [4]
For the three years I was in the mounted police, I could count a story for all the days o' the calendar --and not all o' them would make you happy to hear. [11]
Six days after writing his letter Shelley and his wife were together again for a moment--to get remarried according to the rites of the English Church. [5]
Rummel, a well-known writer of the same school, speaks of curing a case of jaundice in thirty-four days by Homoeopathic doses of pulsatilla, aconite, and cinchona. [3]
I'll take and wring your neck for you one of these days, Noel Rainguesson. [5]
Tom said it would take him days to get so he wouldn't forget he was a deef and dummy sometimes, and speak out before he thought. [5]
And yet I would rather that he should arrive in fourteen days than in eight. [10]
She said she would finish them in the morning, and then her little French friend would arrive from New York--the surprise would follow; the surprise she had been working over for days. [5]
A few days would end it, for good or ill. Madame Chalice heard the news with consternation, and pity would have sent her to Valmond's bedside, but that she found Elise was his faithful nurse and servitor. [11]
I said he would be happy the rest of his days, and he will, for he will always think he is the Emperor, and his pride in it and his joy in it will endure to the end. [5]
So did it work upon me that, after many days, I got for the lad his own again, and there he is happier, and his mother happier, than the Governor in his palace. [11]
We want to work three days more; if we don't find anything, we won't bring in no bill against you. [5]
If they could work constantly it would complete the machine in 21 days, of course. [5]
As the days wore on, and I attended to my cases, I thought of Maude a great deal, and in those moments when the pressure of business was relaxed, she obsessed me. [9]
As the days wore into months, Monsieur Vigo's place very naturally became the headquarters for our army, if army it might be called. [9]
I've added 60,000 words in the month that I've been here; which indicates that I've dictated during 20 days of that time--40 hours, at an average of 1,500 words an hour. [5]
Upon these two words he stamped, through them he perspired mightily, and with them he clenched his stubby fingers--such fingers as dug trenches, or snatched lewdly at soft flesh, in days of barbarian battle. [11]
I hope you won't mind my saying so, under the circumstances, but I've always rather liked you, admired you, even back in the Cambridge days. [9]
Thus a young woman affected with jaundice is mentioned in the German "Annals of Clinical Homoeopathy" as having been cured in twenty-nine days by pulsatilla and nux vomica. [3]
Nay, he interrupted Wolf with the assurance that, on the contrary, the Emperor on such days frequently relied upon solemn hymns to transport him into a fitting mood. [10]
After two days without food or drink, I managed to get out through the barred window. [11]
My days they withered like rootless things, And the sands rolled on, rolled wide; Like a pelican I, with broken wings, Like a drifting barque on the tide. [11]
A kindly note, withal, if non-committal,--to the effect that he had received certain communications, but that his physician would not permit him to return for another ten days or so. [9]
Our soldiers fight with weapons, such as are pictured on the walls of Theban tombs, wearing a newly invented head-gear as old as the days of the Pyramids. [6]
The Newcastle Guardian, with unconscious irony, proclaimed the golden era; and declared that its columns, even in other days and under other ownership, had upheld the wisdom of Jethro Bass. [9]
They did so with those they took from a boat that was aground in the Tennessee River a few days ago. [7]
Indeed, it was with this plain statement of the facts that the second military officer of the duchy had some days before been sent to the Court of St. James to secure its intervention for Philip's freedom by exchange of prisoners. [11]
He had wrestled with the Lord in prayer; he had been a class-leader and a lay-preacher; he had exhorted and denounced; he had pleaded and proscribed; yet never in all his days of professed religion had a heart for others really moved Joel Mazarine. [11]
Rosalie busied herself with the letters and papers for a moment before she answered Mrs. Flynn's greeting, for there were ringing in her ears the words she herself had said a few days before: "It is good to live, isn't it? [11]
Here we are with the convention only two days off, and we don't know where we stand, how many delegates we've got, or whether this upstart at Leith is going to be nominated over our heads. [9]
She was astir with the birds of a morning, and near the last to retire at night, and happy as the days were long. [9]
Hilary's grown up with that way of doing things, and in the old days there was no other way. [9]
She tortured herself with questions, and the less peace her aunt gave her, the more unendurable her headache became, the more plainly she felt that the fever, against whose relaxing power she had struggled for days, would conquer her. [10]
I saw him with my father's eyes, and with my mother's, and as my grandfather had seen him in the old days when he was strong. [9]
My friend stayed with me a few days in the early part of January; she could not be spared longer. [14]
He had danced with many a one, and kissed a few in the old days among the flax- beaters, at the harvesting, in the gaieties of a wedding, and also down in Massachusetts. [11]
Tom had struggled with his pride a few days, and tried to "whistle her down the wind," but failed. [5]
Medallion was much with him in these days. [11]
They clenched there with a power like that of three men; for this was the kind of grip which, far away in the country of the Yang-tse-kiang, Li Choo had learned in the days when he had made youth a thing to be remembered. [11]
For some days, with a certain sense of isolation and a tinge of envy which she would not acknowledge, she had been watching a group of well-dressed, clean-looking people galloping off on horseback or filling the six-seated buckboards. [9]
She came on with a calm and cheerful countenance, stopped once, and casting her eyes upwards, said, 'Why have they kept me five days from thee, my husband? [5]
Now ye shall wit that that very duke and his six sons are they whom but few days past you also did overcome and send to Arthur's court! [5]
Clemens also, that winter, met William Dean Howells, then in the early days of his association with the Atlantic Monthly. [5]
And if the wine to lip she raise, With morsel of my bread; Then as we loved in ancient days, These lands of ours shall wed. [11]
While the west wind blew its tidings, filling his heart full, teaching him a man's part, the days passed, the purple clouds changed to white, and the storms were over for that summer. [13]
Mr. Brice, people will tell you that the war will be over in ninety days. [9]
Besides, your recovery will progress without my professional aid; and, moreover, I shall leave Ratisbon with my illustrious master in a few days. [10]
I think it will please the sorrowing woman, when she lands, to see your familiar face, which will remind her of happier days. [10]
Our council, which will meet in a few days, can only determine how, and not whether we shall fulfil his command. [10]
The Emperor's last will had a codicil, which concerned a son of his Majesty; but, a few days before his end, Charles had also remembered Barbara, and commissioned Ogier Bodart, Adrian's successor, to buy a life annuity for her in Brussels. [10]
However, if you will examine every thought that occurs to you for the next two days, you will find that in at least nine cases out of ten you can put your finger on the outside suggestion--And that ought to convince you that No. [5]
A few days will determine its success. [10]
Such a man will be likely to put his garden in complete order before the snow comes, so that its last days shall not present a scene of melancholy ruin and decay. [4]
But perhaps you will ask, why did not the Redeemer come down among our fathers in those glorious days? [10]
She hath a wicked heart, and worketh evil all her days. [5]
Now she understood why she had shrunk from Gaston that first night and those first days in Audierne: that strange sixth sense, divination--vague, helpless prescience. [11]
Men were wondering why it was that the Postmaster and the Little Milliner, who went to Magari ten days before, to get married by the parson there, had not returned. [11]
We would spend whole days on the wharves, all bustle and excitement, sometimes seated on the capstan of the Sprightly Bess or perched in the nettings of the Oriole, of which ship old Stanwix was now captain. [9]
He owns the whole concern thereabouts, and passes his time there frequently, on sultry days "laying off. [5]
To Ephraim Prescott, who, as the days went on, found it more and more difficult to sew harness on account of his rheumatism, Jethro was not only a great man but a hero. [9]
There are, those who would like to live in this free fashion forever, taking rain and sun as heaven pleases; and there are some souls so constituted that they cannot exist more than three days without their worldly--baggage. [4]
Our Venetian, Busino, who went to Oxford in the coach with the ambassador in 1617, was six days in going one hundred and fifty miles, as the coach often stuck in the mud, and once broke down. [4]
Toying with her, who so quickly understood and so gratefully accepted the gifts of the intellect which he offered, was so sweet, but in these days it must not be permitted to impair mental repose, keen thought. [10]
The pious youth, who so lately had punished his flesh with the scourge to banish seductive dream-figures, had in these few days become quite another man. [10]
It was Nancy who managed the economy, who accomplished remarkable things with a sum they would have deemed poverty in former days. [9]
O friends, we who live in peace and plenty amongst our families, how little do we realize the terror and the misery and the dumb heart-aches of those days! [9]
According to Smith, who is probably correct in this, the fire did not occur till five or six days after the arrival of the ship. [4]
Shall a man who in his younger days has written poetry, or what passed for it, continue to attempt it in his later years? [6]
A young lady, who had listened to a solemn sermon of Dr. Posthelwaite's, slipped out of Church before the prayers were ended, and hurried into that deserted portion of the town about the Court House where on week days business held its sway. [9]
They could go whither they pleased, but must not take arms against France again under ten days. [5]
For a little while we are going to gallop through the years as before we have ambled through the days, although the reader's breath may be taken away in the process. [9]
In a little while he would sail, and the days were overfull. [5]
In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the "pony-rider"--the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days! [5]
During the days which succeeded the mass for the dead the Ortlieb mansion was very silent. [10]
The house in which she lived, and for which she felt a passion of ownership, was for two days a rented house. [9]
He said, "That which I have seen, in that one little moment, will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the nights, till I die. [5]
The hapless city which dark Hades ingulfed really belonged to Antony, for in the days of its prosperity he was its founder. [10]
Away with everything which can cloud her intellect in these decisive days! [10]
You have hung where you are for two days, and now I shall have you whipped. [11]
At a place where there was a standin' stone I broke loose from three of 'em and come here over the mountains, and I ain't had nothin', stranger, but berries and chainey brier-root for ten days. [9]

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