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Example sentences for "five days"

  • His listeners were grouped about one of the small tables in the smoking-room of the Moldavia, five days out.

  • On another occasion Joe again stood by my side when, with hat off and with body in a half kotow, I sat before the Pasha, who was acting chief of police after that stormy Armenian week--it was over really in five days.

  • I was in the steerage, of course, four or five days, and helped on a bad case, but I didn't notice anybody but the few people immediately about me.

  • Deborah was much excited, and I was not less so, for it is such a complete novelty to take a five days' ride alone with natives.

  • There is a plan, too, that I should take a five days' trip to a remarkable valley called Waipio, but this is only a "castle in the air.

  • When we parted, five days after, we missed them very much.

  • Out of the twenty-five days we were away, it was only possible to sledge on twelve days.

  • I made a swag of five days' provisions, and, taking a direct route, attacked the three miles downhill in lengths of one hundred and fifty yards.

  • Making up for lost time, we did a few miles short of one hundred in five days.

  • Five days of wind and drift followed, and for the next two days we remained in camp.

  • You may depend on our return to North Shingles in four or five days at furthest.

  • Vibrating perpetually from one violent extreme to another, she had now passed from the passionate despair of five days since to a feverish exaltation of spirits which defied all remorse and confronted all consequences.

  • Five days later, the vessel was in the river, and was towed into the East India Docks.

  • The disease, which probably is a variety of cholera, was described to me as being a severe diarrhoea accompanied by vomiting, paralysis, and fever, the crisis occurring in three to five days.

  • When about to undertake a journey of more than four or five days' duration one must abstain from eating snake or turtle, and if a pregnant woman eats these reptiles the child will look like them.

  • A woman blian died after an illness of five days, and the next forenoon a coffin was made from an old prahu.

  • The total ruin of the city of Caracas preceded this explosion thirty-five days, and violent oscillations of the ground were felt both in the islands and on the coasts of Terra Firma.

  • Those of the river Amazon take nearly forty-five days to flow from Tomependa to Grand Para.

  • But after forty-five days, the king was killed by his own sons.

  • Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh unto a thousand three hundred thirty-five days.

  • But we sailed from Philippi after the days of the azymes and came to them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.

  • After a resistance of twenty-five days, they surrendered at discretion.

  • Hence a five days' march brought them to the eastern branch of the Euphrates.

  • From thence they proceeded in five days to the river Zabatus, or Greater Zab, having previously crossed the Lesser Zab, which Xenophon neglects to mention.

  • Upon arriving in the city, Gylippus sent a message to the Athenians allowing them a five days' truce to collect their effects and evacuate the island.

  • Five days went by, and the youth had not failed to send the amount of money required.

  • Five days more, and I shall surely be married!

  • The child was born at the appointed time, and grew wonderfully fast, for in five days he was a full-grown youth.

  • Guido, the abbot of Vaux de Sernay, in the name of the pope, interdicted the attack on a Christian city; and the immediate surrender of the town was thus delayed for five days of fruitless resistance.

  • While resolving, during his first four or five days at the castle, that he would throw Lily Dale overboard, he had contrived to quiet his conscience by inward allusions to sundry heroes of romance.

  • Sailing westward with a light and pleasant easterly breeze, in twenty-five days we ran eight hundred leagues.

  • The letter reads as follows: "On the 17th of last January we set sail from a desolate rock near the island of Madeira, and sailing westward, in twenty-five days we ran eight hundred leagues.

  • The guide, when he came, said that he would take them in five days to a place whence they should see the sea; if not, he would consent to be put to death.

  • Zama is distant from Carthage a five days' journey.

  • As it took Fa-hien twenty-five days to reach it, it must have been at least 150 miles from Khoten.

  • Fa-hien and the others went forward to the kingdom of Tsze-hoh, which it took them twenty-five days to reach.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    amicable settlement; five books; five bushels; five centimes; five cents; five centuries; five drops; five fathom; five hours; five members; five millions; five minutes; five months; five oceans; five pieces; five seconds; five shillings; five states; five tablespoonfuls; five times; five volumes; five were; five yards; iron sword; lawful wife; repeated the following verses