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Example sentences for "nine days"

  • Soda and magnesia were administered without avail; and after death, at the end of nine days' suffering, the stomach and intestines were found much inflamed.

  • The nitrate or magistery of bismuth has caused death in nine days, after a dose of two drachms.

  • He died in nine days, after suffering from a burning pain in the abdomen, great thirst, and obstinate constipation.

  • Of the males, only one lived as long as twenty-nine days.

  • Cockchafers, which I kept in an airy cage with fresh food and abundant moisture, did not in any case live longer than thirty-nine days.

  • Rough, stormy weather prevailed during the greater part of the month and the wind reached the force of a gale on nine days.

  • Gales were experienced on six days and strong winds on nine days, but several quiet periods occurred.

  • The War of the Carolinas' took the Hut by storm, but it was a "nine days' wonder" and left no permanent impression on the thinking community.

  • The bulk of that epidemic was a fever of short periods--three, five, seven or nine days, most of the attacks ending on the fifth or seventh night of the fever.

  • That he never knew this disease extend itself in the highest degree to the udder, unless mortification had ensued; and that he can at all times cure the cowpox in eight or nine days[1077].

  • The five-day fever was more certain to relapse than that of seven days, the seven-day fever was more likely to relapse than that of nine days.

  • St. Sebastian in 1813 sustained a siege and blockade of nearly three months, with fifty-nine days of open trenches.

  • At length, after a siege of forty-nine days, want of provisions and the general dissatisfaction of the inhabitants, caused the garrison to surrender.

  • The besieging army was more than four times as great as all the garrisons combined; and yet the place held out forty-nine days, and at last was surrendered through the want of provisions and the disaffection of the citizens.

  • In any case our food will only last eight or nine days more, even at the present rate.

  • This should not take more than eight or nine days.

  • I suppose that the month Equos had regularly twenty-nine days instead of thirty, and that the attribution of thirty days to it is an error of the scribe or mason who engraved the calendar.

  • But the month Equos has attached to it the sign ANM, which is attached to all the months of twenty-nine days but to none of the months of thirty days except Equos, all of which, except Equos, are marked with the sign MAT.

  • Nine days did I drift but in the darkness of the tenth night a great wave bore me on to the Thesprotian coast.

  • This never can have been anything but very niggardly pay for some eight or nine days' service.

  • During forty-nine days he spent round the Bodi tree, Buddha never bathed, nor took any food, nor experienced the least want.

  • To consecrate, as it were, and perpetuate the remembrance of the seven spots occupied by Buddha during the forty-nine days that he spent round the tree Bodi, a Dzedy was erected on each of those seven places.

  • As John Wilkinson said of the first vessel of iron which he introduced, "it will be only a nine days' wonder, and afterwards a Columbus's egg.

  • It will be only a nine days' wonder, and afterwards a Columbus's egg.

  • It was, however, more than a nine days' wonder; for wood long continued to be thought the only material capable of floating.

  • The name signifies the tenth day, and prior to the festival a fast of nine days is observed, when the pots of wheat corresponding to the gardens of Adonis are sown and quickly sprout up.

  • The latter is a nine days' fast at the new year, preceding the triumphant entry of Rama into Ajodhia on the tenth day on his return from Ceylon.

  • During the period of nine days, called the Naoratra, the plants are watered, and long stalks spring up.


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