"Fortnight" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Harry, "if you lived in a hut by yourself for a fortnight, with nothing to drink but tea ...
— Harry Heathcote of Gangoil • Anthony Trollope
... dance with the peasant maidens. I certainly don't see that that is any reason why I should go there. Still, on the other hand, I don't see that it is any reason why I should not? I only want to find some thoroughly country place where the children and I can do as we like for a fortnight or so. It is really too hot to stay in a town, even ...
— Four Ghost Stories • Mrs. Molesworth
... may displease; and, as Hamlet says, "We must speak by the card." The Athenaeum a fortnight since drew forth a batch of these jests with antique humour richly dight, and here they are. The reader will recognise many old acquaintances, but he need not touch his hat, lest, his politeness weary him. These old stories are but "pick'd to ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 19, Issue 529, January 14, 1832 • Various
... resolved, before he opened a shop, to take his swing a little in the town; so away he went, with two of his neighbour's apprentices, to the play-house, thence to the tavern, not far from his dwelling, and there they fell to cards, and sat up all night—and thus they spent about a fortnight; the rest just creeping into their masters' houses, by the connivance of their fellow-servants, and he getting a bed in the tavern, where what he spent, to be sure, made them willing enough to oblige him—that is to say, to encourage him to ...
— The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) • Daniel Defoe
... to be married in a fortnight's time," she said. "And if you could undertake to be sensible, I would ask Alphonse to invite you to ...
— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick
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