Days
[deɪz] or [dez]
Definition
(noun.) the time during which someone's life continues; 'the monarch's last days'; 'in his final years'.
Editor: Paula--From WordNet
Examples
- I knew Mrs. Reed had not spoken for days: was she reviving? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For those days this was an enormous sum. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I passed to the altered days when I was so blest as to find friends in all around me, and to be beloved. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It cannot have been upward of three hundred and seventy or eighty days. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The pouring of the entire house is accomplished in about six hours, and then the molds are left undisturbed for six days, in order that the concrete may set and harden. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A few days before she had done a dreadful thing, and it weighed upon her conscience. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- For ten days after this repulse the Duke of Brunswick hesitated, and then he began to fall back towards the Rhine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You'll go on as you begin, and Amy will rule you all the days of your life. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was filed in the Patent Office a few days later, but was not issued as a patent until August 30, 1887. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On succeeding days longer flights were made, one of two miles at a speed of forty-six miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- All these great walls are as exact and shapely as the flimsy things we build of bricks in these days. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I did not like to work; but I did as much of it, while young, as grown men can be hired to do in these days, and attended school at the same time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The fighting continued through three days. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It might be for a day or for two days, but I must be lost sight of on landing, or there would be recognition, anticipation, and failure. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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