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Example sentences for "twelve days"

  • In this form the duration of the disease may be from four to ten or twelve days.

  • The fever continues, however, when severe complications have taken place, ten or twelve days.

  • A continued, non-contagious fever, varying in duration from one to twelve days, and in temperate climates almost invariably ending in recovery.

  • Every possible effort was made to retake the position, but when called upon for this effort the Japanese were exhausted by twelve days of incessant fighting, and they failed.

  • And now for yourself--stay here some ten or twelve days longer, and I will then speed you on your way.

  • The direct road to Youri is only five days' journey; but on account of the rebellious state of the country, it was necessary to take a circuitous route of twelve days.

  • After they had remained about ten or twelve days, until the ship and its materials had quite disappeared, the Moors made preparations to depart, and divided the prisoners amongst them.

  • This was continued until the lines for the "twelve days" were said by every player.

  • The great mid-winter feast of Yule consisted of twelve days, and from the events occurring during those days it is probable that events of the future twelve months were foretold.

  • At Shurakhan, one leaves the Khanat of Khiva, and reaches Khodjend ordinarily in from ten to twelve days inclusive.

  • From Kashgar to Aksu, the distance is 70 miles; a karavan takes to perform it twelve days.

  • I accepted the invitation, and I went ten or twelve days afterwards.

  • There was not one girl in Cesena who could boast of possessing a finer pair, and with that present my conscience felt at ease, for it paid the expense I had occasioned during my stay of ten or twelve days at her father's house four times over.

  • It might possibly turn out, in ten or twelve days, that I have been entirely mistaken myself, but I should not consider myself a fool in consequence.

  • NOTE 7] It is twelve days' journey distant from any other sea, and into it flows the great River Euphrates and many others, whilst it is surrounded by mountains.

  • So swiftly and secretly were his preparations made, that no one knew of them but his Privy Council, and all were completed within ten or twelve days.

  • From Tauris to Persia is a journey of twelve days.

  • The distance of Talikan from Balkh is about 170 miles, which gives very short marches, if twelve days be the correct reading.

  • Incubation period of twelve days or less, marked at times by slight weary feeling.

  • Sometimes suffocation brings a sudden end to his sufferings and usually one or two days to ten or twelve days is the limit.

  • This period of the cough without a whoop, may last from five to twelve days.

  • After the birth of a child the mother remains impure for twelve days.

  • The period of impurity after a birth extends to twelve days.

  • Departing from Cambay, I came in twelve days journey to the city of Ceull[64], the land of Guzerat being interposed between these two cities.

  • Having finished our business at Tanaserim, we packed up all our wares and embarked for Bengal, distant 700 miles from Tanaserim, whither we arrived in twelve days sailing.

  • At the end of twelve days journey we came to the valley of Sodom and Gomorra, which we found, as is said in the holy scripture, to retain the ruins of the destroyed city as a lasting memorial of God's wrath.

  • Slight shocks of earthquakes were frequent for ten or twelve days, and the people were much alarmed.

  • After getting out of quarantine, and spending ten or twelve days in Beyroot to see the place, I came up to this village, where the mission families are spending the summer months.

  • The patient drank a good deal of water during the whole of the treatment, ate very little and only light food, principally water-soup or panada, and gruel, and kept in bed almost entirely the first ten or twelve days.

  • I have frequently had my patients out of doors in ten or twelve days, even in winter.

  • He claimed that his Mongol couriers made the journey to Pekin in twelve days, and that he could outstrip the Suez and Ceylon telegraph and steamers.

  • The ladies were to leave their vashok until their return to Irkutsk ten or twelve days later.

  • Couriers have passed from Kiachta to Pekin in ten or twelve days; but the rough road and abominable carts make them feel at their journey's end about as if rolled through a patent clotheswringer.


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