On the contrary, you may pass days and weeks in our northern woods without seeing more than half a dozen species, of which the partridge is pretty sure to be one.

Writing on April 12 he observed, that a marked change had taken place within the last few weeks in the tone both of the press and of the leaders of the party, some of whom had given him to understand, through different channels, that they regretted things had gone so far.

Two weeks in that vast Babel,then, ho! for Paris!

Uniformly with Three Weeks in Palestine and Lebanon.

We had been seven weeks in the island.

What is more significant is the fact the raid had been carefully planned weeks in advance.

He ran over in his mind, with a sense of anger against himself, the miserable wasted weeks in Calcuttathe nights in the glaring bars and halls, the friends he had made, the depths in which he had wallowed.

She stayed several weeks in Munich and must have furnished Mozart grateful diversion from his humiliation.

It isn't, of course, an ideal way of workingnot like putting on a hat and strolling out to war, as one sometimes could do in the early weeks in Belgium and France.

My hope was to have spent some weeks in New York, but it will now depend on the time of the healing of my leg.

A residence of nine weeks in the island gave us no small opportunity of testing the reality of its boasted security.

Thus was I cut off, for ever, from all that existence has to bestowfrom all the high hopes I had so often conceivedfrom all the future excellence my soul so much delighted to imagine,to spend a few weeks in a miserable prison, and then to perish by the hand of the public executioner.

Hugh had been absent a couple of weeks in Montana and Wyoming, whither he was drawn by a yearning of many years' standing to engage in the cattle business.

"I'm just admitting that at present I'm in your handshelplessand many long weeks in before us," she went on.

" The dream of every vaudevillian is to be booked for fifty-two unbroken weeks in the year, but few attain such popularity.

It took us 27 days to reach the Pole and 21 days backin all 48 daysnearly 7 weeks in low temperature with almost incessant wind.

Three months were passed in Munich, six weeks in Dresden, while Salzburg, Vienna and Prague were also visited.

We were quite uncertain whether after a week we should find ourselves in the Gy-Parana, or after six weeks in the Madeira, or after three months we knew not where.

Josephine, now the wife of General Bonaparte, had but a few weeks in which to enjoy her new happiness, and then remained alone in Paris, doubly desolate, because she had to be separated, not only from her husband, but from her children.

With four trips a day from the caves to the cove, taking time for rests, for regular meals, and for sleep, and not working on Sundays,for he kept a diary and an account of days,the captain succeeded in a little over three weeks in loading his bags of guano, each with a package of golden bars, some of which must have weighed as much as fifteen pounds.

No man who has spent weeks in pursuit of a royal treasure, in a vessel that at times seemed hardly to creep, could fail to be anxious and excited when he is compelled to pause within a few miles of that treasure.

But six weeks in grim, gray, yellowish, unplastered, limestone walls, that are so thick and so high and so rough that they are always looking at you in suspicion and with stern threat of resistance!

Philosophers may assert that a rightly constituted mind will rise superior to all outward circumstances; but two weeks in a Korak tent would do more to disabuse their minds of such an erroneous impression than any amount of logical argument.

In March following, the Official Board granted me leave of absence to engage for six weeks in the service of the Christian Commission.

There had been constant fear for weeks in the city that a massacre and conflagration would be attempted.