Use fortnight in a sentence
Sentences ending with fortnight
- I go to York to-morrow, to be back this day fortnight. [9]
- The wear and tear of settling the house broke her down, and she has been growing weaker and weaker for a fortnight. [5]
- I may, perhaps, stay here a fortnight. [14]
- He hasn't had sleep for a fortnight. [11]
- The case was set for the Monday fortnight. [5]
- When the Marquis of Wells was going to Arlington Street once every day, she sent him about his business in a fortnight. [9]
- I used to like the sea, but I was young then, and could easily get excited over any kind of monotony, and keep it up till the monotonies ran out, if it was a fortnight. [5]
- Nay, Gabriel had left at home on his little farm near the village a young wife of a fortnight. [9]
- He hasn't been home--at Newport, I mean-for a fortnight. [9]
- Princess Mary, in her position as absolute and independent arbiter of her own fate and guardian and instructor of her nephew, was the first to be called back to life from that realm of sorrow in which she had dwelt for the first fortnight. [2]
Sentences containing fortnight two or more times
- My splendid Kipling himself hasn't a more burnt-in, hard-baked, and unforgetable familiarity with that death-on-the-pale- horse-with-hell-following-after, which is a raw soldier's first fortnight in the field--and which, without any doubt, is the most tremendous fortnight and the vividest he is ever going to see. [5]
More example sentences with the word fortnight in them
- It was warm work, all the way, and the last fortnight of it was suffocatingly smoky, for in Oregon and Columbia the forest fires were raging. [5]
- You'll be famous within a fortnight, Laura. [5]
- He was familiar with the routine of the business, he had adaptability, he was a quick worker, and for a fortnight things went swimmingly. [11]
- Margaret was not with her at St. Barnaby in the fatal fortnight she passed there, and never saw the Leightons till she went to call upon them. [8]
- In regard to which I humbly submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left in it by spring. [2]
- We staid three weeks in Venice, a week in Florence, a fortnight in Rome, and arrived here a couple of weeks ago. [5]
- I spent a week with Mrs. Gaskell in the spring, and a fortnight with some other friends more recently, and that includes the whole of my visiting since I saw you last. [14]
- A fortnight ago we left America in mid-summer, now it is midwinter; about a week hence we shall arrive in Australia in the spring. [5]
- We tried all we could to fill him so full that he would have no room to spare for a fortnight, but it was a failure. [5]
- At Stratford there was by royal charter a Court of Record sitting every fortnight, with six attorneys, besides the town clerk, belonging to it, and it is certainly not straining probability to suppose that the young Shakespeare may have had employment in one of them. [5]
- She was horrified to think how near she had come to being guilty herself; she had been saved in the nick of time by a revival in the colored Methodist Church, a fortnight before, at which time and place she "got religion. [5]
- He read it through to the last letter, and when, a fortnight later; he asked me at his house to remain after the others had left, he looked pleased, and confessed that he had found something entirely different from what he expected. [10]
- The thrill of the voices shows that the love of Shelley and Mary was already upward of a fortnight old; therefore it had been born within the month of May--born while Harriet was still trying to get her poem by heart, we think. [5]
- Within a fortnight the most of them took ship for San Francisco; that is, if my dates have not gone astray in my memory. [5]
- She still appeared the most desirable of beings, and a fortnight after my repulse, without any excuse at all, I telegraphed the George Hutchinses that I was coming to pay them a visit. [9]
- A fortnight after the letter Prince Vasili's servants came one evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. [2]
- In spite of the fact that every moment of his time during the past fortnight had been absorbed by the cares, responsibilities, and trials thrust upon him, he reproached himself for not having gone oftener to Dalton Street. [9]
- Within twenty-four hours the delegations began to arrive, and from that time onward for a fortnight they kept coming. [5]
- My entrance into the campaign was accompanied by a blare of publicity, and during that fortnight I never picked up a morning or evening newspaper without reading, on the first page, some such headline as "Crowds flock to hear Paret. [9]
- And so when the burglar-alarm made a fierce clamor at midnight a fortnight ago, the butler, who is French and knows no German, tried in vain to interest the dog in the supposed burglar. [5]
- And each of the brothers at different times during the next fortnight did the same, differing scarcely at all in details, or choice of phrase or meaning, and not at all in general facts and essentials. [11]
- The remembrance of that fortnight has ever been an appalling one. [9]
- But we knew that a great English Excursion party, and also the Viceroy of Egypt, in his splendid yacht, had been refused an audience within the last fortnight, so we thought it not safe to try it. [5]
- I forgot to tell you that I invited him for a fortnight any time he chose, and he has just written to ask if he may come now. [9]
- His Majesty the Sultan has already sent in large orders for his new harem, which will be finished within a fortnight, and this has naturally strengthened the market and given Circassian stock a strong upward tendency. [5]
- He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he addressed an edifying exhortation to them. [2]
- It has been southerly a whole fortnight, and keeps back the galleys coming from the north. [10]
- Certainly there was something picturesque in the idea of the Missouri private who had been chased for a rainy fortnight through the swamps of Ralls County being selected now to join in welcome to his ancient enemy. [5]
- He was a smooth-faced young man whom a fortnight in the woods might have helped wonderfully--a clerk in the big department store. [9]
- Suffice it to say that we sailed for a fortnight or so in the West India seas. [9]
- On the first Saturday of June, a fortnight before her disappearance, Myrtle strolled off by the river shore, along its lonely banks, and came dome with her hands full of leaves and blossoms. [6]
- A desire constantly repulsed for a fortnight should die, then. [5]
- It was a poem Jasmine quoted to him a fortnight ago--Browning's 'Grammarian,' and he stopped me at these words: "'Thither our path lies; wind we up the heights: Wait ye the warning? [11]
- According to the ordinary and inaccurate method of measuring time, a fortnight may have gone by since the event last narrated, and Honora had tasted at last the joys of authorship. [9]
- The sculptor was ordered to avoid the dazzling sunlight a fortnight longer, then he might once more use his eyes without restriction, and appeal to the Muse to help in creating works of art. [10]
- After a fortnight one discovers that the variations are only apparent, not real; in the third week you get what you had the first, and in the fourth the week you get what you had the second. [5]
- My father died on the 14th of February, 1837, and on the 1st of March of the same year I was born, a fortnight after the death of the man in whom my mother was bereft of both husband and lover. [10]
- But sometimes the old craving for tramping would overtake him, one day his friends would find the house shut up, and he would be absent for a fortnight, perhaps for a month--one never knew when he was going, or when he would return. [9]
- The spiritual excitement of the last fortnight, working upon a system affected in no slight degree by the spirituous excitement of some years, proved a little too much for him. [12]
- But the postponement of her homecoming would only be for a fortnight at best. [9]
- If Virginia had not gotten angry when she had been teased a fortnight before, all would have been well. [9]
- Anne is now much better, but papa has been for near a fortnight far from well with the influenza; he has at times a most distressing cough, and his spirits are much depressed. [14]
- Within a week Moscow already had fifteen thousand inhabitants, in a fortnight twenty-five thousand, and so on. [2]
- Those who are more or less skilled in psychology may attempt to establish a sequence between the events and reflections just related and the fact that, one morning a fortnight later, Honora found herself driving northward on Fifth Avenue in a hansom cab. [9]
- A fortnight of more inactivity followed, and then we ventured out into the fields once more. [9]
- In a fortnight more I shall be in England. [11]
- Then with a little gasp: "They came to arrest him a fortnight ago, but I said they should not enter the house. [11]
- Dr. Munneche of Lichtenburg in Saxony is called to a patient with sprained ankle who had been a fortnight under the common treatment. [3]
- Had my father left me alone in our cabin for a fortnight, I should not have minded. [9]
- And before he left he gave poor Wetherell a fortnight to decide. [9]
- Ever since that leave of absence had expired, more than a fortnight before, Natasha had been in a constant state of alarm, depression, and irritability. [2]
- Visitors came to it in their carriages and unwieldy four-horse chariots, attended by troops of servants, making slow but most enjoyable pilgrimages over the mountain roads, journeys that lasted a week or a fortnight, and were every day enlivened by jovial adventure. [4]
- Junia had been in the City of Quebec, but she came back at the end of a fortnight, and went to his office to get a subscription for a local charity. [11]
- The new house in Hartford was now ready to be occupied, and in a letter to Howells, written a little more than a fortnight after the foregoing, we find them located in "part" of it. [5]
- Sometimes it goes in a gallop, and then again it will be as much as a fortnight passing a given point. [5]
- Manners hoped that, in a fortnight, she would be recovered sufficiently to be removed to one of the baths. [9]
- Within the fortnight I was getting cigars made for me--on a yet larger pattern. [5]
- A fortnight ago I found myself in the cars with one of the most sensible and esteemed practitioners in New England. [3]
- A fortnight ago he paid fifty florins out of his savings for half a sack of peas, and Heaven knows where he found them. [10]
- For a fortnight he paid as little attention to the young man as he did to the messengers who came with notes and cooled their heels in the outer office until it became the Judge's pleasure to answer them. [9]
- Say, he hasn't had sleep for a fortnight. [11]
- The horses also had been fed for a fortnight on straw from the thatched roofs and had become terribly thin, though still covered with tufts of felty winter hair. [2]
- They decided to go on, to the Fiji islands, wait there a fortnight for the next ship, and then sail for home. [5]
- I continued to go every week to Elkington, and in August, Maude and I spent a fortnight at the sea. [9]
- I could never get her to speak of you until a fortnight ago. [9]
- Denisov, now a general on the retired list and much dissatisfied with the present state of affairs, had arrived during that fortnight. [2]
- Was it a fortnight, as we now reckon duration, or only a week? [6]
- In the short fortnight that had gone since the day upon the Ecrehos, he had changed as much as do most people in ten years. [11]
- Through a whole fortnight she had, with a courage and a right-mindedness quite remarkable, fought her infatuation for this man, and as she fought she had imagined a hundred times what his wife was like. [11]
- Only the first fortnight of his existence was spent in peace. [9]
- One evening a fortnight later, while the lieutenant was holding forth in commendably general terms on the politics of the state to a speechless if not wholly admiring audience, a bomb burst in their midst. [9]
- But in a fortnight it was known that a petticoat did not make Isaac Worthington even turn his head. [9]
- And yet a fortnight ago this sylvan retreat was the scene of murder and sudden death. [9]
- Up to a fortnight ago they couldn't; they really hadn't manhood enough; but they were gaining it, and now I think they are safe. [5]
- But keep it for me, for a week, or perhaps a fortnight, will you? [11]
- It did more, for it gave Fielding five hours' sleep that night; and though he waked to see one of his own crew dead on the bank, he tackled the day's labour with more hope than he had had for a fortnight. [11]
- Thus it was, for a fortnight, Mr. Cooke maintained a most rigid seclusion. [9]
- This was the first public appearance of the chevalier since the sad business at the Vier Prison a fortnight before. [11]
- The tiger-sportsman must find a tiger at least once a fortnight or he will get tired and quit. [5]
- Everywhere toasted and feasted, Monsieur Genet did not neglect the Rights of Man, for without doubt the United States was to declare war on Britain within a fortnight. [9]
- The voyage to England occupied a short fortnight, without a stop except at Madeira. [5]
- During the ten days or a fortnight we staid there one paper was murdered and resurrected twice. [5]
- I should be content to walk from Boston to New York, and be a fortnight on the way, if everybody else was obliged to walk who made that journey. [4]
- But at the close of the fortnight they one day came upon the footprints of men in the mud of the western bank--a Robinson Crusoe experience which carries an electric shiver with it yet, when one stumbles on it in print. [5]
- The doctor who came to see her that day ordered her to continue the powders he had prescribed a fortnight previously. [2]
- Philippus had frequent business at the governor's residence, and a fortnight since he had plainly perceived what it was that had brought Neforis into this strange state. [10]
- My opponent, who belonged to the Brunswick Corps, lost, but as soon after I was attacked by illness, though not in consequence of this folly, which had occurred about a fortnight before, he could not give the breakfast which I had won. [10]
- If I had been two hours late a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster's clerk at Yukhnovna hanged," said Prince Andrew with a smile. [2]
- When Shelley had been dining daily in the Skinner Street paradise fifteen days and continuing the love-match which was already a fortnight old twenty-five days earlier, he forgot to write Harriet; forgot it the next day and the next. [5]
- So they have averaged but forty miles of northing a day during the fortnight. [5]
- I saw him at Jo Portugais' a fortnight ago. [11]
- I sometimes feel as if I had changed my religion half a dozen times in a fortnight. [4]
- Hold Cavendish off another fortnight and settle with him. [9]
- Fielding lay back and laughed--the first laugh on his lips for a fortnight. [11]
- A fortnight passed, and her mail contained nothing from him! [9]
- Several close ballotings already; adjourned for a fortnight. [6]
- About a fortnight after Tom's rescue from the cave, he started off to visit Huck, who had grown plenty strong enough, now, to hear exciting talk, and Tom had some that would interest him, he thought. [5]
- About this time a letter came, saying that Judge Hawkins had been ailing for a fortnight, and was now considered to be seriously ill. [5]
- She had spent a fortnight with Margaret after Easter, and she came back in a dubious frame of mind. [4]
- I go yachting a fortnight up north in a 20-knot boat 225 feet long, with the owner, (Mr. Rogers), Tom Reid, Dr. Rice, Col. A. G. Paine and one or two others. [5]
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