they would not go back to the seven
days for all they could see.
They plodded
days upon
days and without end over the soft, unpacked snow.
In journeying eastward he had gone towards the sun, and the
days therefore diminished for him as many times four minutes as he crossed degrees in this direction.
It's just a week," I said, three
days later, to Arthur, "since we heard of Lady Muriel's engagement.
From Gibraltar, running along the coasts of Spain and France, Marseilles will be reached in three
days.
Observe all this until the year is ended and you have nights and
days of equal length, and Earth, the mother of all, bears again her various fruit.
One
day, when he was away hunting, the woman fell ill, and in a few
days she died.
In the course of the three following
days they made about sixty- three miles, generally in a northwest direction.
The Indians plundered us of what we had, and kept us in confinement seven
days, treating us with common savage usage.
Which is to say, he had a curiosity to know what prison life was like; so he made a breach in some law and got three
days for it.
If news was received one
day that the enemy had been in a certain position the
day before, by the third
day when something could have been done, that army was already two
days' march farther on and in quite another position.
After the coming of freedom there were two points upon which practically all the people on our place were agreed, and I found that this was generally true throughout the South: that they must change their names, and that they must leave the old plantation for at least a few
days or weeks in order that they might really feel sure that they were free.
days - the time during which someone's life continues; "the monarch's last days"; "in his final years"