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Sentences starting with weeks

Weeks passed in which she scarcely spoke a word. [9]
Weeks had been spent already in trying to get her to surrender--time wholly wasted; what was to persuade her now? [5]
Weeks dragged by, she watching, waiting, hoping, her mind going slowly to wreck under the burden of her misery. [5]
Weeks had grown into months, and no news came--none save that which the Cure let fall, or was brought by the irresponsible Notary, who heard all gossip. [11]
Weeks and months elapsed. [10]
Weeks elapsed. [10]

Sentences ending with weeks

No letters but yours must reach the camp for the next few weeks. [10]
He added that you were expected to arrive in two weeks. [7]
Nuremberg had been witnessing this sort of experience a couple of times a day for about two weeks. [5]
She immediately disappeared with a delicacy rare in an invalid, and was not seen for two weeks. [4]
He called on us next day; the day after that we left Venice, after a pleasant sojourn Of 3 or 4 weeks. [5]
All this gave us matter for thought, and also gave us good heart; only it weighed upon our souls that our departing was not to be yet for some weeks. [10]
Now I'm willing to do this: I'll straighten everything up, get matters in smooth running order, and day after to-morrow I'll go to bed sick, and stay sick three weeks. [5]
The trial is to commence on the 8th of September, and probably will last two or three weeks. [7]
He had no time to lose, and Benjamin could hardly be expected to return within three weeks. [10]
I haven't seen them for three weeks! [5]

Short sentences using weeks

So the weeks went on. [11]
This was two weeks ago. [5]
Master Weeks turned pale. [6]
Twenty weeks, and nothing comes! [11]
Oh, dear, dear George--three weeks! [5]
They were weeks gathering. [5]
That will take four weeks. [5]
How many weeks ago? [12]
Three weeks passed. [9]
Three weeks later. [5]

Sentences containing weeks two or more times

We staid three weeks in Venice, a week in Florence, a fortnight in Rome, and arrived here a couple of weeks ago. [5]
And so for weeks and weeks we played hide-and-seek with each other. [11]
Days grew to weeks and weeks to months and we had no tidings, no word from our pilgrims, for good or for evil. [10]
It seems strange to write of a few weeks before as the past; but so much had occurred that the days might easily have been months and the weeks years. [11]
Pierre had gone to Petersburg on business of his own for three weeks as he said, but had remained there nearly seven weeks and was expected back every minute. [2]
And it takes them weeks and weeks and weeks, and for ever and ever. [5]
The manager, told Mr. Brad that the increased sales of the two days permitted the establishment to give him a vacation of two weeks on full pay, and during these weeks the manager himself set up a neat and modest brougham. [4]
Two weeks ago," he continued slowly, "two weeks ago I had a letter from Mr. Lincoln about matters here. [9]
We lived from hand to mouth-lived on the coarse fare of unwilling charity, and for weeks and weeks together not a morsel of food passed my lips, for its character revolted me and I could not eat it. [5]
I was gone five or six weeks, so that I got the letters only a few weeks before Butler started to your country. [7]

More example sentences with the word weeks in them

But I've known you since you were so high, and I knew your father; he used to stay weeks on my plantation when we were both younger. [4]
To walk with you and talk with you for weeks together--why, it's my dream of luxury. [5]
Many of the wounds had not been tended since they were dressed on the field weeks before. [9]
And so matters would have remained, and in a few weeks, after passing the examination, I should have returned to my happy mother, had not a perverse Fate willed otherwise. [10]
The weeks again wore on, and autumn became winter, and then at last one day the Cure came, bringing his brother, a great Parisian surgeon lately arrived from France on a short visit. [11]
We tempted him with the delicacies of the season, but it soon became impossible for him to eat, and for two weeks he ate or drank scarcely anything. [4]
Our author wrote with great facility and rapidity when the inspiration was on him, and produced an astonishing amount of manuscript in a short period; but he often waited and fretted through barren weeks and months for the movement of his fitful genius. [4]
He was taken with a cold about three weeks ago, and I stepped over one evening, proposing to beguile an idle hour for him with a yarn or two, but was received at the door with whispers, and the information that he was dying. [5]
She was not wicked enough to wish that; yet in the past few weeks she had found herself capable of thinking things beyond the bounds of any past experience. [11]
The excellent gentleman whom I had the pleasure of setting right in a trifling matter a few weeks ago believes in the frequent occurrence of miracles at the present day. [6]
We ran that whole battery of nine blasts in a row, and it was certainly one of the most exciting and uncomfortable weeks I ever spent, either aship or ashore. [5]
A well-known writer, who had spent some weeks at Arrowhead Village, was generally suspected of being its author. [6]
The young people who come into Paris from the provinces are very apt--so I have been told by one that knows--to have an attack of typhoid fever a few weeks or months after their arrival. [6]
Four weeks ago, while making some necessary excavations upon the property, Signor Smitthe unearthed the most remarkable ancient statue that has ever bees added to the opulent art treasures of Rome. [5]
This desert, around which hovered gulls, sea-swallows, and sea-eagles, had been for several weeks the abode of the fugitives, Dion and Barine. [10]
During several weeks which he passed at Nahant, a seaside resort near Boston, I saw him almost daily. [6]
The long weeks which had passed since that night at Hamley, when she had told Eglington the truth about so many things, had brought no peace, no understanding, no good news from anywhere. [11]
With that ingenuity which always accompanies jealousy, he tortured every circumstance of the last few weeks so as to make it square with this belief. [6]
Three weeks later, when the army was resting at Napoleon, Arkansas, a self-contained man, with a brown beard arrived from Memphis, and took command. [9]
During those weeks when I was making my first desperate attempts at briefing up the law I was sometimes interrupted by his exclamations when certain figures went by in the corridor. [9]
During the weeks we've been at sea, bursting along, have I proved myself? [11]
You see, we were twins --defunct--and I--and we got mixed in the bathtub when we were only two weeks old, and one of us was drowned. [5]
But many weeks were to pass before she recovered; a severe relapse again endangered her life. [10]
As the weeks went on, the strain became intense. [11]
As the days went on, and the weeks, he was less and less at home, and in a worse humor--that is, at home. [4]
As the weeks went by, the relapses certainly became fewer. [9]
Meantime the days went along and the weeks, and the money in Harry's pocket got lower and lower. [5]
During the ensuing weeks, Senora Petra prepared Coello many bad days and still worse nights; but the painter persisted in his resolution to give Isabella to Ulrich, if in a year and a half he returned from Italy a skilful artist. [10]
What are two weeks, or at most three--and then. [10]
In these last weeks, in spite of his anger, I can see that he suffers terribly. [9]
After that, for weeks, he spent all his midnights in his magnificent mine, inspecting it in security, gloating over its marvels at his leisure, and always slipping back to his obscure lodgings before dawn, with a duke's ransom under his cloak. [5]
It lasted three weeks, and was the only time we were allowed to return home. [10]
Again whole days, weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him no time for reflection, as in Petersburg. [2]
They stayed four weeks, and during that time one of the crazy men died. [11]
In a few weeks you would in any case have left the college, and by the king's command have transferred your blooming life, health, and strength to the exercising ground of the chariot-brigade. [10]
But as the weeks wore away, Conrad's color came back to his cheeks and his old-time vivacity to his eye, and he administered the government with a clear and steadily ripening wisdom. [5]
The days and weeks went on. [11]
The days, the weeks went on, with Jean Jacques growing thinner and thinner, but going about with his head up like the gold Cock of Beaugard, and even crowing now and then, as he had done of yore. [11]
The days and weeks went by. [11]
During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its happenings. [5]
For some few weeks there had been an oppressive and fevered tension in the repose of night. [10]
It's only four weeks since you were court-martialed, and you escaped being reduced by the very closest shave; and yet you come and make love to me, and want me to marry you. [11]
Only a few weeks since you swore on my hands to guard the mysteries, and this day you have offered the great secret of the Unnameable one, the most sacred possession of the initiated, like some cheap ware in the open market. [10]
It is seven weeks since then, and it may be that the circle has been broken. [11]
Thus as the weeks rolled on Washington grew up, into an imposing lion once more, but a lion that roamed the peaceful fields of religion and temperance, and revisited the glittering domain of fashion no more. [5]
Yet, as the weeks passed, it seemed he must break upon this dangerous romance; and then suddenly she went to visit her sick aunt in the Far West. [11]
So the next weeks passed in a constant alternation of oppressive fears and aspiring hopes, the nights in torturing terrors. [10]
One evening, three weeks or so after the conversation with Ethel Wing just related, Honora's husband entered her room as her maid was giving the finishing touches to her toilet. [9]
In a few weeks or months or years I shall be out of it, I hope under a monument. [5]
After some three weeks of this life, Powhatan sent this guileless youth down to decoy the English into his hands, promising to freight a ship with corn if they would visit him. [4]
After a few weeks of this kind of life, he began to want some more fierce excitement. [6]
Here's only three weeks of the three months gone, and it seems like three years. [5]
Consequently the closing weeks of that memorable visit melted away as pleasantly as a dream, they were so freighted for me with tranquil satisfaction. [5]
During his first weeks of pain and weakness, Ruth was unceasing in her ministrations; she quietly took charge of him, and with a gentle firmness resisted all attempts of Alice or any one else to share to any great extent the burden with her. [5]
We were some weeks longer together, but he never offered to continue his reading. [6]
For very many weeks it was a happy kingdom. [11]
I served two weeks in the beginning of our Civil War, and during all that tune commanded a battery of infantry composed of twelve men. [5]
The last few weeks had claimed his entire time and strength so rigidly and urgently that he would have been compelled to refuse Barbara's demands upon his love or neglect serious duties. [10]
The twelve long weeks dragged slowly by, and the day of deliverance came at last. [5]
But in six weeks at latest I shall be here again; then real life will first begin, and Eros will make the roses bloom for us. [10]
He stayed six weeks at Bordeaux to improve himself in the language, and then set out for the Mediterranean. [4]
Indeed, as days, weeks and months went on, his position became less valuable to himself, and his financial affairs suffered from his own and his agent's bad management. [11]
He idled away weeks and months in indolent enjoyment in the country; he indulged his passion for the theater when opportunity offered; and he began to be weary of a society which offered little stimulus to his mind. [4]
Well, during two weeks and a half we watched by the crib, and in our deep solicitude we were unconscious of any world outside of that sick-room. [5]
An' as the weeks an' months went by I growed into a strange sort of a man, I guess. [13]
It happened several weeks ago, and was followed by some additional solemnities. [5]
It was seven weeks after the first fall of the Empire, and poor Marie Louise, ex-Empress was a fugitive. [5]
Not quite two weeks after Paula's trial, on the day of Saint Serapis the miraculous, saving, auspicious ceremonial was to take place. [10]
At my sister's wedding, my brother-in-law's friend, a young nobleman, came from Germany and remained several weeks with us. [10]
I told Bentley we'd send him the slips, each time, 6 weeks before day of publication. [5]
For several weeks we played whist with him every evening, for Liebig, like so many other scholars, regarded card-playing as the best recreation after severe tension of the mind. [10]
Chief of all was the renowned Bend Or, a Derby winner, a noble and beautiful bay, destined in a few weeks to gain new honors on the same turf in the triumph of his offspring Ormonde, whose acquaintance we shall make by-and-by. [6]
Even while she was so ill these past weeks, she never asked for me; and when I came . [11]
Yet the impression was instantaneous, when I set forth in the streets of New York, that we had not fully measured the magnitude of our task--an impression that has been amply confirmed as the weeks have passed. [9]
Fortunately, a murder was committed in one of our suburbs, creating a mystery that filled the "extras" for some weeks, and this was opportunely followed by the embezzlement of a considerable sum by the cashier of one of our state banks. [9]
In short, she was charming and maddening in her defensive ruses, in her advances and retreats, for I pressed her hard during the four weeks which followed, and in them made four visits. [9]
The Theresien Wiese was a city of Vanity Fair for two weeks, every day crowded with a motley throng. [4]
In his early wandering days, when tramping over New England, he used unexpectedly to turn up at Dr. Ledyard's, the principal's, remain for several weeks and disappear again. [9]
Why had he--Captain Vidall--kept out of the way all these weeks, just when she needed him most, just when he should have played the part of a man? [11]
The eruption is usually about two or three weeks distant; and the hotel proprietors get this information from experienced guides, who observe the action of the water in the wells; so that there can be no mistake about it. [4]
Years ago, people used to saunter over the Atlantic, and spend weeks in filling journals with their monotonous emotions. [4]
She had often urged her, too, to think of old age, but Kuni--never cared for any one longer than a few weeks, though there were some whom she might easily have induced to offer her the wedding ring. [10]
Nothing further passed up to Mr Swiveller's dinner-time, which was at three o'clock, and seemed about three weeks in coming. [12]
So evanescent and unstable are men's works in this world!--the late good King is but three weeks dead and three days in his grave, and already the adornments which he took such pains to select from prominent people for his noble bridge are falling. [5]
She's been gone two weeks today. [5]
I gave myself two weeks to hear from you in. [5]
We expected her two weeks ago, and had given her up. [9]
Five months and two weeks ago McFarland asked John Morgan the time of day, and turned and walked rapidly away without waiting for an answer. [5]
In all those twelve weeks of that most trying of all sessions he had not once gone into the street, and he had been less than ever common in the eyes of men. [9]
After the first treatment, which occupied six weeks, the physician ordered an intermission of the baths. [10]
Mrs. Clymer Ketchum took advantage of the dispersion of the scholars to ask Myrtle to come and spend some weeks with her. [6]
We have got to wait six weeks, anyhow, for a dividend, maybe longer--but that it will come there is no shadow of a doubt, I have got the thing sifted down to a dead moral certainty. [5]
Every member had to vote 'Yes' or 'No' in person and before witnesses; so it took weeks to decide a candidacy, because many pilots were so long absent on voyages. [5]
This cheerful invitation to the tavern was the remains of a huge panther which had been killed in the region a few weeks before. [5]
We often went to the most distant parts of the globe with him, and stayed weeks and months, and yet were gone only a fraction of a second, as a rule. [5]
Letters had come to the Court at least once every two weeks from Gaston, and the minds of the Baronet and his wife were at ease. [11]
At this moment, to the astonishment of all, there appeared at the back of the platform between Jowett and Halliday the lawyer, the man with a tragic history who had been as one buried for weeks past, who had vanished from their calculations. [11]
It is astonishing to see what a change for the better in her aspect a few weeks of brain-rest and heart's ease have wrought in her. [6]
Then she turned to Pentaur and said: "For weeks he has had nothing but papyrus-pith, and lotus-bread, and now he brings me the cake which grandmother gave old Hekt yesterday. [10]
Rostov brought them to his quarters, placed them in his own lodging, and kept them for some weeks while the old man was recovering. [2]

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