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Sentences starting with twenty-four

Twenty-four hours afterward these bottles would be still lying on the glassy water under our noses, showing that the ship had not moved out of her place in all that time. [5]
Twenty-four hours later the story was all over the village that Maurice Kirkwood was the subject of a strange, mysterious, unheard-of antipathy to something, nobody knew what; and the whole neighborhood naturally resolved itself into an unorganized committee of investigation. [6]
Twenty-four years after the publication of his first work, and six years before his death, his bust in marble was placed in the Hall of the College of Physicians, with a suitable inscription recording his discoveries. [3]
Twenty-four hours after the falling of the cliff, it seemed as if it had happened ages ago. [6]
Twenty-four hours had not passed from that moment when a collision did occur, just out of the city, where I feared it, by which at least eleven persons were killed, and from forty to sixty more were maimed and crippled! [6]
Twenty-four of the injured were lying in Holcomb's dry-goods store at one time, where they received every attention before being removed to more comfortable places. [5]
Twenty-four years ago, I was strangely handsome. [5]
Twenty-four young people have gone out to the Semmering to-day (and to-morrow) and Mrs. Clemens and an English lady and old Leschetitzky and his wife have gone to chaperon them. [5]
Twenty-four hundred millions, and all safely planted in Good Things, gilt-edged and interest-bearing. [5]
Twenty-four hours had accomplished a complete revolution in her attitude towards life and in her sense of things. [11]

Sentences ending with twenty-four

You would have your legs under the Round Table and a 'Sir' in front of your names within the twenty-four hours; and you could bring about a new distribution of the married princesses and duchesses of the Court in another twenty-four. [5]
For twelve years two novels a year regularly: that makes twenty-four. [6]
By managing in this way, I made out to improve every hour in the twenty-four. [5]
If they were a mind to allow it, they wouldn't ever have anything to do, year in and year out, but stand up and be hugged and wept on thirty-two hours in the twenty-four. [5]

Short sentences using twenty-four

Twenty-four hundred millions! [5]
Twenty-four years. [5]

Sentences containing twenty-four two or more times

For instance, my Heidelberg daily was always twenty-four hours old when it arrived at the hotel; but one of my Munich evening papers used to come a full twenty-four hours before it was due. [5]
I am informed by Dr. Zouteveen that there is a case on record of a man having twenty-four fingers and twenty-four toes! [1]

More example sentences with the word twenty-four in them

I said that you would leave England within twenty-four hours, and that you would not return within three years. [11]
Do you think you could live with such a man twenty-four hours, even if he had his crown on? [4]
Kalamoun was hopeless; yet twenty-four hours earlier Fielding had fancied there was a little light in the darkness. [11]
We are twenty-four years of age, and twins--'" "Twins! [5]
We are twenty-four years of age and twins. [5]
The twenty-four sharpshooters with discharged muskets, standing in the center of the circle, ran back to their places as the companies passed by. [2]
At Easter the whole city learned that Don Luis d'Avila had eloped with the beautiful Anna Van Hoogstraten, after killing her betrothed bridegroom in a duel on Maundy-Thursday at Hals on his way to Brussels--scarcely twenty-four hours before the wedding. [10]
The distance at which the action took place [the letter was left on a shelf twenty-four feet from the place where I was sitting] shows this charge to have been of notable intensity. [6]
Before September forty-one were buried, says Wingfield; fifty, says Smith in one statement, and forty-six in another; Percy gives a list of twenty-four who died in August and September. [4]
Before twenty-four hours went round, a dozen people knew it. [11]
But this cold weather was too warm for us; so we started to Darjeeling, in the Himalayas--a twenty-four hour journey. [5]
My man boxed up, and we were off in twenty-four hours, and here I am. [9]
Result: it is twenty-four words per minute. [5]
De Soto had twenty-four with him. [5]
There were only twenty-four passengers, all told. [5]
And when at twenty-four I inherited the fortune my mother left me, I had only one idea: to live the life of a sporting gentleman. [11]
Seventy-four years ago twenty-four days ago. [5]
I finally concluded to visit San Francisco, and the, first day I got there a lady at the hotel told me to drink a quart of whisky every twenty-four hours, and a friend up-town recommended precisely the same course. [5]
And I need to know what is going on every twenty-four hours from the inside. [4]
His confinement was to endure twenty-four hours. [5]
He had gone through so much within the past twenty-four hours that the capacity for suffering had almost exhausted itself, and in the reaction endearing thoughts of Rosalie had dominion over him. [11]
When I measured this in 1837, it was twenty-four feet eight inches in circumference at five feet from the ground; growing larger above and below. [6]
In 1827, being then but twenty-four years old, he writes:-- "I bear in youth the sad infirmities That use to undo the limb and sense of age. [6]
I sailed in the packet ship Philadelphia from New York for Portsmouth, where we arrived after a passage of twenty-four days. [6]
No cold in the head can survive twenty-four hours' unmodified starvation. [5]
It was in the garden of the Tuileries, and twenty-four battalions of the Old Guard filed past our great chief. [11]
Twain, you are the fourth in twenty-four hours--and I'm going to move; I ain't suited to a littery atmosphere. [5]
Change positions with the enemy, and think you not he would break your communication with Richmond within the next twenty-four hours? [7]
Within twenty-four hours the delegations began to arrive, and from that time onward for a fortnight they kept coming. [5]
Mr. Lonsdale concluded that it had deserted its sickly mate; but after an absence of twenty-four hours it returned, and apparently communicated the result of its successful exploration, for both then started along the same track and disappeared over the wall. [1]
We changed horses ten or twelve times in every twenty-four hours--changed mules, rather--six mules--and did it nearly every time in four minutes. [5]
There was a temple devoted to prayers for rain--and with fine sagacity it was placed at a point so well up on the mountain side that if you prayed there twenty-four times a day for rain you would be likely to get it every time. [5]
He was very sullen about the matter for some twenty-four hours, but at last he began to soften little by little, and finally he said: "Well, it was not funny, and there was no sense in those gawks making themselves so facetious over it. [5]
We did not stir till all twenty-four were safe; then we made a dash for the tents of Lancy, which now showed in the first gray light of morning. [11]
On reaching Mr. Smith's, Charlotte put his own letter into his hands; the same letter which had excited so much disturbance at Haworth Parsonage only twenty-four hours before. [14]
In twenty-four hours she had grown to the full stature of love and suffering. [11]
The wind and sea were equally favorable to both galleys; but the Venetians outstripped the Spaniards and dropped anchor at Alicante twenty-four hours before the latter. [10]
Hadn't she been satisfied for almost twenty-four hours? [4]
He was a refined-looking stripling of not more than twenty-four, not tall, but well made, and with an air of breeding, intensified rather than hidden by his rough clothes. [11]
He begins, you recollect, with Adam, and has to work down five thousand six hundred and twenty-four years before he gets to the Pilgrim fathers and the Mayflower. [6]
The programme established provides for my presence in Harrisburg in twenty-four hours from this time. [7]
And what we propose to do with the American public is to give it twenty-four books like this a year--a complete library--for the absurd sum of six dollars. [8]
A thousand innocent privileges seemed to have been filched from her unawares in the past twenty-four hours. [5]
As it turned out, the old gentleman didn't turn over or show any signs of life worth speaking of for twenty-four hours. [5]
They have found out here what is disbelieved in America,--that the world will continue to turn over once in about twenty-four hours (they are not accurate as to the time) without their aid. [4]
The central committee or authority, or whatever it might be called, would be an extraordinary despotism, tempered only by the idea that it could be overturned every twenty-four hours. [4]
It was the only joy he had in life; these hours were the only ones in the twenty-four which he looked forward to with eagerness and spent in happiness. [5]
All at once, on a lull in the fighting which had lasted twenty-four hours, the heavy batteries from the Levis shore opened upon the town, emptying therein the fatal fuel. [11]
She would reel off the next twenty-four hours in six or seven minutes, and then stop with a bang. [5]
On the evening of this day of her destiny--carrying the story of her own fate within its twenty-four hours--she was in a mood of detachment from life's routine. [11]
These are twenty-four of the most respectable men in the State. [7]
On the 7th of October, 1571, the young hero, now twenty-four years old, as commander of the united fleets of Spain, Venice, and the Pope, gained the greatest victory which any Castilian force had ever won over the troops of the infidels. [10]
The battalion had not been moved till twenty-four hours after the order was given, or we should never have gained those heights; stones rolled from the cliff would have destroyed an army. [11]
You may struggle nobly for twenty-four hours, maybe, if you are an adamantine sort of person, but in the mean time you will have been so wretchedly served, and so insolently, that you will haul down your colors, and go to impoverishing yourself with fees. [5]
It is a noble interior, having twenty-four marble columns of gray Cippolino, brought from Constantinople, with composite capitals, on each of which is an impost with Latin crosses sculptured on it. [4]
Everybody who has no official position or routine duty on a salary knows that the most trying moment in the twenty-four hours is that in which he emerges from the oblivion of sleep and faces life. [4]
They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. [5]
That very night, Mr Richard was seized with an alarming illness, and in twenty-four hours was stricken with a raging fever. [12]
Slowly the twenty-four men of the grand jury following him filed into place and sat themselves down in the shadows. [11]
Probably no twenty-four men could be selected in the State with whom the people are better acquainted, or in whose honor and integrity they would more readily place confidence. [7]
He waits too long-near twenty-four hours. [11]
But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty-four feet; at New Orleans only fifteen, and just above the mouth only two and one half. [5]
For twenty-four hours I've been saving up that two hundred and fifty dollars for you; been looking for you everywhere. [5]
His information about it was seldom twenty-four hours old. [5]
But I'll do it in twenty-four hours, and bring Mustapha Kali too--for a consideration. [11]
The flood here is rising about three and a half inches every twenty-four hours, and rains have set in which will increase this. [5]
If a physician is present at such autopsies, he should use thorough ablution, change every article of dress, and allow twenty-four hours or more to elapse before attending to any case of midwifery. [3]
All this, and infinitely more, showed itself to me during a single revolution of the sphere: twenty-four hours it would have been, if reckoned by earthly measurements of time. [6]
When the Light Infantry had landed, we twenty-four volunteers stood still for a moment, and I pointed out the way. [11]
One was, that in order to be a pilot a man had got to learn more than any one man ought to be allowed to know; and the other was, that he must learn it all over again in a different way every twenty-four hours. [5]
It'd be safer if he got lost on the prairie for twenty-four hours. [11]
With my vocabulary I would make sixty words out of those two hundred and five letters, and get four dollars and twenty cents for it; whereas for your inhuman twenty-four I would get only one dollar and sixty-eight cents. [5]
The next day I went down toward noon as usual, and found a note on my desk which had been there twenty-four hours. [5]
The Honourable Adam, however, decided that he could wait for twenty-four hours. [9]
The last twenty-four hours we staid in Damascus I lay prostrate with a violent attack of cholera, or cholera morbus, and therefore had a good chance and a good excuse to lie there on that wide divan and take an honest rest. [5]
He has twenty-four hours' warning; but what can he do? [4]
Worded right, if he's a man--got any of the feelings of a man, sympathies and all that, he'll be here inside of twenty-four hours. [5]
In one instance he stood on his feet twenty-four hours fighting for his life with these sharp agonies, and yet was as full of life and cheer and activity the next day as if nothing had happened. [5]
It must go hard with her, and twenty-four hours would see the end or a fresh beginning. [11]
If a poll had been taken of the judgment of the population twenty-four hours before, a great majority would have been found believing that there was no escape for the prisoner, who was accused of murdering a wealthy timber merchant. [11]
Indeed, the Governor had arrived but twenty-four hours after a meeting had been held under the presidency of the Seigneur, at which resolutions easily translatable into sedition were presented. [11]
Queer how he got his power began twenty-four years ago when I wahn't but twenty. [9]
Expecting the enemy from behind and not in front, the French separated in their flight and spread out over a distance of twenty-four hours. [2]
One rose up from among the twenty-four, and out of the dusk there came in reply to the Judge a squeaking voice: "We find the Prisoner at the Bar more Guilty than Innocent. [11]
He answered, 'The fourth littery man that has been here in twenty-four hours. [5]
And although Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke had been in town but a scant twenty-four hours, it seemed as if he knew more of its inhabitants than both of us put together. [9]
The little pale- faced man who had first held the position disappeared one night, and in another twenty-four hours a new one was in his place. [11]
Has any one ever tried to put upon paper all the little happenings connected with a dear one--happenings of the twenty-four hours preceding the sudden and unexpected death of that dear one? [5]
I was only endeavoring to show that there was at least as great a probability of any seven members that could be selected from this House being bribed to act corruptly, as there was that the twenty-four commissioners had been so bribed. [7]
The chance to do this thing was the reward he received for his gallant and very useful fight at Wortmann's Drift twenty-four hours before. [11]
The tail often differs remarkably in length within the same genus: thus in some species of Macacus it is longer than the whole body, and is formed of twenty-four vertebrae; in others it consists of a scarcely visible stump, containing only three or four vertebrae. [1]
The news editor could damn a mutilated dispatch in twenty-four languages. [5]
The little box contained a reaping machine, which gathered the capillary harvest of the past twenty-four hours with a thoroughness, a rapidity, a security, and a facility which were a surprise, almost a revelation. [6]
Then added, by command, that at some time during the twenty-four hours I would consummate the miracle, but would first give a brief notice; by flags on the castle towers if in the daytime, by torch-baskets in the same places if at night. [5]
It was the book which twenty-four hours ago he had promised to begin upon. [10]
One day, on board ship, the passengers made up a pool of $500, which was to be the property of the man who should come nearest to guessing the run of the vessel for the next twenty-four hours. [5]
Also Herdegen had bid him think of twice the twelve apostles, and of the twenty-four hours from midnight till midnight again. [10]
It would seem beyond belief to most folks, he said, yet it was indeed twenty-four thousand, and not hundred, sequins which that devilish Sultan has asked, as indeed we must know from the letter. [10]
He said that between ------fools and guide-books, a man could acquire ignorance enough in twenty-four hours in a country like this to last him a year. [5]
No time had been lost, for it was less than twenty-four hours since she had arrived in Cairo, and very soon she would know the worst or the best. [11]

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