Month

Examples

• His strength returned, and a month after the visit of Thomasin he might have been seen walking about the garden. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• How many times have you opened the door for me within this last month? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The fighting on the Bainsizza plateau was over and by the middle of the month the fighting for San Gabriele was about over too. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• On a fine Sunday evening, in the month of August, John Edmunds set foot in the village he had left with shame and disgrace seventeen years before. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• April came--the month of spring--the month of change. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Do you mean, Sir Percival, that I am to dismiss the indoor servants under my charge without the usual month's warning? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The 4th infantry went into camp at Salubrity in the month of May, 1844, with instructions, as I have said, to await further orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• About a month before this period, some ingenious Frenchman had completed the discovery in the manner originally proposed by Dr. Franklin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This action, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'is expected to come on, on the fourteenth of next month. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I am sorry to say it's no use asking me about days of the month, and such-like. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Upholsterers frequently let furniture by the month or by the year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I did not know, myself, until the sixth of this present month, when I went to look. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I think it will be a month or more. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• His labors, however, were interrupt ed by the death of his assistant Flemming, and by his own illness, which proved fatal in 1846, a few months before the actual discovery of Neptune. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• All in two months! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Three months comprised thirteen weeks. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He had only to describe himself as a seven months' child. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This had been going on more than five months, seven days a week, when I was called down to the laboratory to see him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The slim, bare, copper wire snapped on the least provocation, and the circuit was down for thirty-six days in the first six months. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She had the misfortune to lose her husband when she had been married a few months. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Central incisors 5 to 8 months Lateral incisors 7 to 10 months First molars 12 to 16 months Canines 15 to 20 months Second molars 20 to 36 months _Permanent Teeth. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Though war and danger were in store, war and danger might not befall for months to come. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Here you have been abroad nearly six months, and done nothing but waste time and money and disappoint your friends. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Another, Lucy Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few months. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We have all heard of certain animals sleeping through the long winter months and most of us have probably wondered what happens to them when they do this. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Not long ago a prominent senator remarked that he didn't know much about the country, because he had spent the last few months in Washington. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Within two months of this masquerade he was dead. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Winfred