182 Verbs to Use for the Word weeks

I was livin' over on the Au Sable then, and came over to these parts to spend a week or so, and lay in a store of jerked venison and trout for the winter.

After passing a week among this singular and fortunate people, whom we every where found equally amiable, intelligent, and hospitable, we returned to Alamatua in the same way that we had come; that is, in a light car, drawn by four large mastiffs.

We could only deal with the smaller planters, who were not thirled to the big merchants, and it took us three weary weeks up and down the river-side wharves to get our holds filled.

Let us be thankful that my wife's whim to visit her aunt has given us, at least, two perfect, golden weeks.

The newspapers published sensational accounts of the accident and announced that it would require several weeks to repair damages.

" After her arrival she was still obliged to wait some weeks for the advent of her staff, consisting of twelve Nightingale nurses and four probationers.

Their second mistake was the rejection in 1908 by a body of Peers at Lansdowne House of the Licensing Bill, which had occupied many weeks of the time of the House of Commons.

Then followed a week of lesser department stores as she worked her way down-town, of offices tucked dingily behind lithograph and small-ware shops, and even an ostrich-feather loft, with a "Curlers Wanted" sign hung out.

Superman; release the week of Jan. 2, 1950.

The rainy season commences in the latter part of August and lasts two or three weeks.

They settled down to enjoy a peaceful thirteen weeks of work and play.

It recognizes a distinction between the severity of work in textile factories and in non-textile factories, assigning a working week of about fifty-six and a half hours to the former, and sixty hours to the latter.

"Th' Ramblin' Kid's got nearly two weeks to get the maverick in shape.

The main body were thus absent from their homes not less than three weeks each time, making nine weeks annually.

General Penrose had left this post three weeks previously with a command of some three hundred men.

He had endured a week of the third degree, practised upon himself.

But it is a tedious cut out of a life of fifty-four, to lose twelve or thirteen weeks every year or two.

'Having prayed, I purpose to employ the next six weeks upon the Italian language, for my settled study.'

"If you had been in Dartmoor three years," I said, with a rather well-forced laugh, "you would find several excellent reasons for wanting a week in London.

My clerk died two or three weeks since and I haven't got another yet.

I saw nothing in him: it was my fault, not his, that I missed so many weeks of his friendship.

Meanwhile Byron had again retired to Newstead, where he invited some choice spirits to hold a few weeks of farewell revel.

For, as I ought to have mentioned sooner, he had taken Mona into his confidence, and she had kept Agnes out of the way for now nearly a whole week of evenings.

Colonel Oswald had wasted weeks in the study of the occult evolutions of the battalion; they were still a maddening mystery to him that fatal day.

"I'll pay a week in advance," said Mr. Hatchard, putting his hand in his pocket.

182 Verbs to Use for the Word  weeks