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Two weeks   /tu wiks/   Listen
Two weeks

noun
1.
A period of fourteen consecutive days.  Synonym: fortnight.






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"Two weeks" Quotes from Famous Books



... are so quickly apparent that I hope to get you to make the start and keep it up for two weeks, and then you will require ...
— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter

... her grandmother seldom permitted before eleven, it was with a sense of weariness that began to destroy sleep; still the dear girl thought herself happy, for I more than equaled her expectations, and she had latterly worked on me with so much zeal as to have literally thrown the fruits of two weeks' ...
— Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief • James Fenimore Cooper

... 'Two weeks!' cried the single gentleman gruffly, eyeing him from top to toe. 'Two years. I shall live here for two years. Here. Ten pounds ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens

... rapid than Russia's allies could have hoped for and it wholly confounded the Germans. While the Battle of the Marne was still two weeks off Russian forces were sweeping west from the Niemen and approaching Koenigsberg, a second army was striking north from Warsaw. East Prussian populations were fleeing before the invaders and a German disaster ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) - Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers • Various

... SIR,—The picture of Lord Lawrence is in my possession, and the engraver may have it for two weeks in May or June. Of course he is trustworthy! The picture being one of those I have made over to the nation, I lend it with a certain hesitation, as I do not consider it belongs to me. I am flattered by the opinion of the young men, especially ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al


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