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Example sentences for "fortnight later"

  • Their fears were only too well founded; for a fortnight later Fréron, the Commissioner of the Convention, boasted that two hundred royalists perished daily.

  • Of a similar tenor was his public declaration a fortnight later, that at St. Domingo and Guadeloupe everybody was free and would remain free.

  • A fortnight later, when as yet he knew not of the Oldenburg incident, Alexander himself broke that treaty.

  • The patient again improved, but a fortnight later a swelling and apparent signs of local peritonitis developed in the right inguinal and lower umbilical and lumbar regions.

  • A fortnight later after an attack of influenza the patient was not so well, and vision was apparently becoming more impaired.

  • A fortnight later a second operation had to be performed to improve the drainage, and the patient made a tedious recovery.

  • A fortnight later he writes to Hood: "Your Lordship knows exactly the situation I am in here.

  • The aspirations it contains were proclaimed a fortnight later to the world by President Krüger himself in the boast that his Republic would "stagger humanity.

  • A fortnight later, on the 13th of June, a proclamation was issued for the reconstruction of the civil government of Mississippi, and William L.

  • A heated controversy ensued a fortnight later on this point, leading to the exchange of angry letters between the President and General Grant.

  • A fortnight later he writes to Hanson, his agent, and talks of either marrying for money or blowing his brains out.

  • This substance was toxic, a lachrymator, and slightly persistent.

  • If research reveals the necessity for the latter course of action it may provide sufficient reason for abandoning the substance.

  • They are supremely significant at the present time and for the future, hence the chapters which follow.

  • The attack reaped the corresponding results in casualties and morale.

  • It was just a fortnight later that I received quite unexpectedly a telegram from Rome directed to me at my London lodgings.

  • A fortnight later, the wounds were healed, but the patient found himself unable to open his right eye.

  • A fortnight later, while working in the trenches, he had more epigastric sensations with vague discomfort.

  • He was transferred a fortnight later to a base hospital as “gastritis.

  • A fortnight later a Zeppelin raid turned his troop out in the middle of the night, and on the morrow the man’s neck was twisted around and inclined upon the left shoulder.

  • It is probable that the birds commence labor about the first of May, in this section of the country, and sitting, a fortnight later.

  • When fourteen days old, they quit the nest, but still remain under home influences for a fortnight later, when they are allowed to shift for themselves.

  • They are not, however, ready to seek their own fortunes until a fortnight later.

  • Both works were heard again in the Austrian capital a fortnight later at a concert given there by the Joachim Quartet party, with the co-operation of Brahms and Muehlfeld.

  • About a fortnight later, Mohammed Bey Tia returned to Dara with a large amount of plunder: exclusive of the quantities he had distributed on his own account, he brought with him no less than three thousand oxen and a few horses.

  • About a fortnight later, one hundred regulars duly arrived under Said Bey el Fula, a brave Sudanese, who brought me letters from Said Bey Guma.

  • A fortnight later, Beatrice roused herself from her grief to help her husband in the preparations for his niece Bianca Sforza's wedding to the Emperor Maximilian.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better class; bring her; cannot pretend; dear grandmamma; deck guns; eighteen inches; extensive view; five yards; fortnight before; fortnight later; fortnight since; historical novels; international commission; keep right; military organization; move about; our city; perfect silence; seemed likely; shirt sleeves; specimens from; sufficient quantities; whole world; young birds