hours

At the best, toiling as only picked men could toil, they made no more than three miles an hour. This meant longer hours of travel, and Daylight, for good measure and for a margin against accidents, hit the trail for twelve hours a day.

Without allowing himself even to think of what was to come, of how it would end, judging from his inquiries as to the usual duration of these ordeals, Levin had in his imagination braced himself to bear up and to keep a tight rein on his feelings for five hours, and it had seemed to him he could do this.

Now, for thirty-six hours we have been hidden under the water, and already the heavy atmosphere of the Nautilus requires renewal.

We did the escort duty; then we came back and struck for the plain and put the Rangers through a rousing drill - oh, for hours! Then we sent them home under Brigadier-General Fanny Marsh; then the Lieutenant-General and I went off on a gallop over the plains for about three hours, and were lazying along home in the middle of the afternoon, when we met Jimmy Slade, the drummer-boy, and he saluted and asked the Lieutenant-General if she had heard the news, and she said no, and he said:

As I interpreted the writing of the apparition, I had still some hours at my disposal.

"Two hours and a quarter -- that is nothing; we are well mounted, are we not, Porthos?"

It was too early yet to tell anything-- the bank would not open for nearly three hours. So in a frenzy of despair Marija began to claw her way toward the doors of this building, through a throng of men, women, and children, all as excited as herself.

"My departure is to be," said he, "at break of day, three o'clock in the morning; I have then fifteen hours before me.

Were your friends, the Allens, still in Bath, you might go to them with comparative ease; a few hours would take you there; but a journey of seventy miles, to be taken post by you, at your age, alone, unattended!"

Before many hours elapsed it would be necessary to start on my journey to Cumberland.

The earth was but a day old, having been new the night before at twelve; and two days must elapse before its crescent, freed from the solar rays, would serve as a clock to the Selenites, as in its rotary movement each of its points after twenty-four hours repasses the same lunar meridian.

One sees so many students abroad at all hours, that he presently begins to wonder if they ever have any working-hours.