38 Metaphors for week

But the next week was Thanksgiving week; and when Thanksgiving Day came, what do you think those little things did,for they were quite little things then,what do you think they did but bring in just before dinner the half-blind old apple-pedler who had a stand on the corner of the street?

a week was a good wage, and that Nixon's Book of Prophecies was an infallible guide; but not before he planted in the locality a body of hand-loom weavers did it show signs of commercial vivacity, and begin to develope itself.

Surely that wonderful white week was a good omen.

The week that followed was heaven and hell, mixed together, for Old Heck and Skinny.

Writing to Sarah Douglass of this illness, she says: "The first two weeks are nearly a blank.

Your one week has become the length of four, and the letters to anxious friends at home have been characteristic of briefness, unwilling to steal a moment's time from the enjoyment which will furnish a topic for the unemployed hours of longer days to come.

The week that followed was a big bright blurthe wildest vividest moment of her life.

All the week was one happy season of anticipation.

Let washing-week be not the excuse for having everything in a muddle; and although "things" cannot be cleaned so thoroughly, and so much time spent upon them, as ordinarily, yet the house may be kept tidy and clear from litter without a great deal of exertion either on the part of the mistress or servant.

The weeks immediately following Dicky's departure are almost a blank memory to me.

She understood, now, why these long weeks had been a delight rather than a torment; why her fears for him had gone so straight to her heart.

The forty-eight hour week is the standard, although as yet some of the help work over that time.

I reproached myself with having made my mother's death-bed a place of happiness; for my conscience told me that those two weeks had been, in one sense, the happiest of my life.

The first fortnight is rapture, the third and fourth weeks are calm content, the fifth is weariness, the sixth a fever to be gone.

And that week was a turning point in ma life, tae.

Yet our best comfort is, his chimeras live not long; a week is the longest in the city, and after their arrival, little longer in the country, which past they melt like butter, or match a pipe, and so burn.

The last week has been the hardest on pa of any week since we have been out with the circus.

The week following there were meetings of weavers and others, and volunteers were enrolled in defence of king and country.

Meanwhile the Conciliation Committee of the Labor Council, after many conferences and much effort succeeded in arranging a compromise, the working week to be fifty-one hours, with a sliding scale under which the eight-hour day would be reached in April, 1910.

The week was a lively onethere were occasional encounters in which canes and sabers were crossed, and in one of these Basilio distinguished himself.

The week in which this happened was such a scene of hurry, confusion and misery, that I will not attempt to describe it.

The German attacks followed one another so fast and so furiously that the weeks of fighting became one prolonged battle, and a description of one attack will almost serve for all.

During the spring of 1831, mother said to me: "Sabbath week is our communion, and I thought you might wish to join the church.

That week is the second in the month.

I am afraid to make promises, even to myself; but I hope that the week after the next will be the end of my present business.

38 Metaphors for  week