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Example sentences for "fortnight before"

  • I believe a fortnight before he died, then she said, Mr. Cranstoun had told her of that famous woman's opinion about music.

  • She who had cautioned the maid against it not above a fortnight before, who had declared that it had been prejudicial to her own health, is on a sudden grown mighty fond of it.

  • For a fortnight before Michaelmas (11th October, old style) the chief of the English Jesuits was being harboured at Great Harrowden, the house of the Dowager Lady Vaux and the young Lord Vaux.

  • In due time we reached and passed the valley of the Little Blue without seeing a Pawnee--they had all gone off a fortnight before to the Republican and Smoky Hill to hunt buffalo--and finally arrived at Fort Kearny in safety.

  • We heard of Apaches at one or two points, but it was always a fortnight before or several miles ahead, and we went through unmolested.

  • A fortnight before we reached Maricopa Wells, en route to Tucson, a party of them crossed the Salado and Gila, and stole ten head of stock from a ranch only three miles from the Wells.

  • About two miles after leaving Helmsdale we sighted the first railway train we had seen since we left Aberdeen a fortnight before.

  • Emperor Napoleon III, and his still more unfortunate son, who had been there about a fortnight before we arrived.

  • I could not but wonder to see these broad patches of white spread over the lakes, though, when I passed up the country but a fortnight before, I had not perceived the least appearance of even the herbage of the Ranunculus that composed them.

  • When the animal is two years and a half old, its owner, about a fortnight before Michaelmas, getting a person to assist him by holding it fast by the horns, places himself betwixt its hind legs.

  • Those who fish for salmon come to this place about a fortnight before midsummer, and remain till St. Bartholomew's day, August 24th, as during that space of time the salmon keep ascending the river.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also known; assist the; became emperor; bonne compagnie; butter sauce; conscious personality; correct them; drove back; faith must; former slave; fortnight before; fortnight later; fortnight since; fully aware; got him; greater importance; grey granite; its development; laid his; large portions; last night; said commission; seven year; social compact