Months

Examples

• 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.
• You had left it, months before, and were supposed to be in London, but no one could tell where. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suffer me to continue no longer. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Accordingly, a few months after your departure for Ingolstadt, Justine was called home by her repentant mother. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Author of HEAVY GAME OF THE WESTERN HIMALAYAS (1881); THREE MONTHS IN THE JUNGLE (1884). Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• By not letting the brine get old, or by keeping plenty of salt on it, the meat could be kept in this way for several months, but would be available for use at any time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Ah, well; he was looking for the earth some months afore he went. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• There are sixty-three pages, and some patient monk has spent months, aye, perhaps years, in making it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The treaty will cease to be secret in a few months. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• What can I recall of her during the past six months, before I close my journal for the night? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She would, therefore, by this arrangement, become Sir Percival's wife about three months before she was of age. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And the first six months passed away pretty easily, old Sedley still keeping up with the notion that his shares must rise and that all would be well. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then our regimental fund had run down and some of the musicians in the band had been without their extra pay for a number of months. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It didn't last long, though: I heard of her a few months later living alone in Venice. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Why I didn't look for you these two months; how do you find yourself? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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