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of fifteen days

The corpse of Julian was transported from Nisibis to Tarsus, in a slow march of fifteen days; and, as it passed through the cities of the East, was saluted by the hostile factions, with mournful lamentations and clamorous insults.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

of festal day

Then uproar wild and misarray Marred the fair form of festal day.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

or four days

Had Sir Thomas applied to his daughter within the first three or four days after Henry Crawford's leaving Mansfield, before her feelings were at all tranquillised, before she had given up every hope of him, or absolutely resolved on enduring his rival, her answer might have been different; but after another three or four days, when there was no return, no letter, no message, no symptom of a softened heart, no hope of advantage from separation, her mind became cool enough to seek all the comfort that pride and self revenge could give.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

of foreign debt

And therefore I think it of very little advantage to a man, whose affairs are well enough, to seek a wife who encumbers his estate with a very great fortune; there is no sort of foreign debt that brings more ruin to families than this: my predecessors have ever been aware of that danger and provided against it, and so have I.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

other far does

And though thine in the centre sit, Yet when my other far does roam, Thine leans and hearkens after it, And rows erect as mine comes home.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

of fearful disorder

It was a strange thing, and one which made d’Artagnan tremble from the sole of his foot to the roots of his hair, to find that this soft light, this calm lamp, enlightened a scene of fearful disorder.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

or feeling differently

In its interferences with personal conduct it is seldom thinking of anything but the enormity of acting or feeling differently from itself; and this standard of judgment, thinly disguised, is held up to mankind as the dictate of religion and philosophy, by nine-tenths of all moralists and speculative writers.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

of fifty dogs

The pack of Actæon is said to have consisted of fifty dogs.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

of further delay

By this event the testimony of Tullius was certainly confirmed with the dictator; and the matter not admitting of further delay, a proclamation is issued that they were to fight on the day following.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

of five degrees

Northward of Arica, I know nothing of the coast for about a space of five degrees of latitude; but near Callao, the port of Lima, there is abundant and very curious evidence of the elevation of the land.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

of five dirhems

[140] my desire, and now, O Sheik, I give thee a peçeta of five dirhems for the use of thy nose-bag, take it, and go in peace, lest ill-luck befall thy horse.'
— from The Arab's Pledge: A Tale of Marocco in 1830 by Edward Ledwich Mitford

over four different

The four symbolical crowns on the count’s hearse were possibly, then, meant to be simple reminders that the Bourbons claimed sovereign rights over four different countries; and in the days of Louis Philippe they indeed reigned in France, Spain, Naples, and Parma.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

or fifth Day

I have seen however one true Quintan, or fifth Day Ague, the Patient having three clear Days between two Fits; and one regularly weekly Ague, as it may be called, the Visitation of every Return happening every Sunday.
— from Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

on foot declared

"No, there's something crooked on foot!" declared Sam.
— from The Call of the Beaver Patrol; Or, A Break in the Glacier by V. T. Sherman

of four days

On the Wednesday that followed his birthday party—the mere mention of which, after the lapse of four days, was enough to send Sissy into hysterics—that young lady was seated in the parlor, ready for her guest.
— from The Madigans by Miriam Michelson

of France depended

" He then proceeded to set forth how entirely, the salvation of France depended on the King of Spain.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

of frailties due

Few biographies have been published within a century calculated to make so deep an impression as this of Dr. Channing, and few could have admitted the reader to so close a communion with the subject, without sacrificing that delicacy in the treatment of frailties due to the character of the departed.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Various

of food during

This made a total of twenty-five dogs to be provided for, and twenty-five big wolf dogs will consume a vast amount of food during a winter.
— from Bobby of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace

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