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  • Bar receipts always picked up sharply for the duration of her stay and fell off when it was over.†   (source)
  • Am I going to be blessed with the pleasure of hearing your voice, or have you resolved to be silent for the duration of our journey?†   (source)
  • Larry Lish, and everyone in possession of a fake draft card, was put on disciplinary probation—for the duration of the spring term.†   (source)
  • There was one surprise; maids had disappeared "for the Duration," a new phrase then.†   (source)
  • I worked in three hospitals in the duration—Alder Hey and the Royal East Sussex as well as St. Thomas's—and I merged them in my description to concentrate all my experiences into one place.†   (source)
  • All 25 of the courses take 414 days, and vary only slightly in thrust duration and angle.†   (source)
  • Except for the short duration of a fishing trip, things with Mother were touch and go, or smash and dash—she would smash me, and I would dash to the solitude of the basement/garage.†   (source)
  • Ashima registers, answering questions about the frequency and duration of the contractions, as Ashoke fills out the forms.†   (source)
  • "It can in no way replace your losses, but as a token of our thanks we'd like for each of the tributes' families from District Eleven to receive one month of our winnings every year for the duration of our lives.†   (source)
  • The government has decreed that we are to be relocated for the duration of this war.†   (source)
  • For the duration of the plumber's visit, canning jars were put into service during the daytime to hold our calls of nature.†   (source)
  • No Journeys of Longer than Five Hours in Duration.†   (source)
  • I'm not talking about onset or duration.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, in the absence of your regular duties, I appoint you Eragon and Saphira's guide for the duration of their stay.†   (source)
  • Meat market closed for the duration of this drought, no rain and still no rain.†   (source)
  • He carried no implant and his ancient condog had been in his luggage for the duration of the trip.†   (source)
  • So I requested that I be assigned kitchen detail for the duration of my stay.†   (source)
  • We hunkered in for the duration.†   (source)
  • She had come to Chicago for the duration of the fair and was renting a mansion near the mayor's.†   (source)
  • That's a lot of freight for a disease which is really just about transmission, incubation, and duration—which is what all diseases have always been about.†   (source)
  • It'll collect data on your heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol, heat flux, caloric intake, sleep duration, sleep quality, digestive efficiency, on and on.†   (source)
  • If you say another word to one of the work-duty prisoners, it will be kalte kost for the duration of your sentence!†   (source)
  • One correspondent dubbed her the Dragon Lady, and the name stuck for the duration of the trial.†   (source)
  • Mr Silvers, however, had remembered the significance the visit would have for my father, and had thus called him in to offer him the option of taking several days' leave for the duration of the General's stay.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, our joy was of short duration.†   (source)
  • Unlike his brother, Leo XII Loayza had enjoyed a stable marriage of sixty years' duration, and he was always proud of not working on Sundays.†   (source)
  • Stomach viruses were rare on Phoenix, and anyone who seemed vaguely contagious was required to spend the duration of their illness in quarantine.†   (source)
  • Approximately 800 mills of amperage at durations of 0.†   (source)
  • The next morning I shoveled a narrow path out to the far spruce tree on the corner of the property for him, and Marley adopted the space as his own personal powder room for the duration of the winter.†   (source)
  • These. performances are always of pretty short duration.†   (source)
  • Zanmi Lasante had put the movie away for the duration.†   (source)
  • Subdued, resigned, Papa's life—all our lives—took on a pattern that would hold for the duration of the war.†   (source)
  • In the days leading up to Christmas, he not only increased the duration of his rides on the mechanical bull by five minutes a day, but added strength training to the program.†   (source)
  • And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive.†   (source)
  • "Once she recovers from her substantial injuries, she will be transferred to our prison and will spend the duration of her life there," she says.†   (source)
  • On one trip that took place in the winter I remember that we each were assigned to a truck for the duration of the problem.†   (source)
  • Lewis and Lacy had not been allowed into their own home for the duration of the search.†   (source)
  • We stood at attention as he told us that the work we would be doing would last six months and afterward we would be given light tasks for the duration of our terms.†   (source)
  • Let there be parades through every city in the land and a gala carnival of three days' duration, consisting of jousts, games, feasts, and follies."†   (source)
  • But since this contest is meant to weed out the weak, I have proposed to our holy men that you remain at Blackcliff for the duration of the Trial.†   (source)
  • Then they were stripped and given a prison uniform to wear, with a number on the front and back that was to serve as their only means of identification for the duration of their incarceration.†   (source)
  • And I know it was necessary that you had to cease to exist as my son to me for the duration of the emergency.†   (source)
  • TOP SECRET 102200Z38976 NSA SIGINT BULLETIN REDNAV OPS MESSAGE FOLLOWS AT 083145Z NSA MONITOR STATIONS [DELETED] [DELETED] AND [DELETED] RECORDED AN ELF BROADCAST FROM REDFLEET ELF FACILITY SEMIPOLIPINSK XX MESSAGE DURATION 10 MINUTES XX 6 ELEMENTS XX ELF SIGNAL IS EVALUATED AS "PREP" BROADCAST TO REDFLEET SUBMARINES AT SEA XX AT 090000Z AN "ALL SHIPS" BROADCAST WAS MADE BY REDFLEET HEADQUARTERS CENTRAL COMMO STATION TULA AND SATELLITES THREE AND FIVE XX BANDS USED: HF VHF UHF XX…†   (source)
  • Adam's task unit was transferred to SEAL Team TWO, also based at Little Creek—a highly unusual move since a SEAL would generally remain on the same numbered team for the duration of his career.†   (source)
  • "And then probably back to France, as I'm still enlisted for the duration.†   (source)
  • He studied Cindy for what seemed an interminable duration, a deep, assessing stare that kept her on edge.†   (source)
  • So I'm turning my bombsight in for the duration.†   (source)
  • What is its average duration?†   (source)
  • I've asked Aldous to book me at the same place as the rest of the band, not just for the festival but the duration of the tour.†   (source)
  • Heaven hath decreed that tottering empire Britain to irretrievable ruin and thanks to God, since Providence hath so determined, America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons….†   (source)
  • With the same people seeking him who were searching for Rose Tucker, he could not go back to the apartment and would have to live out of motels for the duration.†   (source)
  • For the present there was an impasse, and it looked like an impasse of indefinite duration unless we should do something to force the situation.†   (source)
  • "And for the duration of this war…?" he asked.†   (source)
  • Only for the duration of the national emergency.†   (source)
  • My apologies for the duration, but we've never had to sterilize one of her kind before.†   (source)
  • She brushed out her hair, cut in a becoming style that never touched the collar of her suit jacket, and fastened her jaunty cap, which she had to leave on for the duration of the flight, not that she minded.†   (source)
  • You could judge the force and duration of the current by the intensity of Pearce's screams.†   (source)
  • If it was going to happen, it would happen in moments, the duration brief.†   (source)
  • It is an important rule that, excluding all other circumstances, the greater the power, the shorter ought to be its duration.†   (source)
  • The Capitol was an obvious artillery target during the war, so the gas lamps atop the dome remained unlit for the duration.†   (source)
  • "Well, every night I'd collect the ashtrays and I'd put them inside of my washing machine for the duration of the night.†   (source)
  • Someone she put in a cage for the duration would have the strongest revenge ratio.†   (source)
  • "Propofol is a short-duration anesthetic," lectured the woman pedantically.†   (source)
  • They weigh about a half a pound and have a duration of seventy-three years.†   (source)
  • I do know, however, that a series of properly conducted wolf-naps is infinitely more refreshing than the unconscious coma of seven or eight hours' duration which represents the human answer to the need for rest.†   (source)
  • No Patton rushing for the Rhine, no beachheads to storm and win and hold for the duration.†   (source)
  • Within a few more days the dollar, in Fort Repose, would be banished entirely as a medium of exchange, at least for the duration.†   (source)
  • The whole event could not have been of more than thirty seconds' duration when finally the loathsome paw withdrew and she stood trembling in a suffocating darkness which it seemed would never know light again.†   (source)
  • No one now outside of the War Department knew the quality and duration of his service.†   (source)
  • Contracts could be as complex as a corporate merger, specifying duration, purposes, duties, responsibilities, number and sex of children, genetic selection methods, whether host mothers were to be hired, conditions for canceling and options for extension—anything but "marital fidelity."†   (source)
  • She thought that she had realized all that was in her soul to realize in the event, and when at length the time came to put on her veil, leave the bedroom she had shared with her husband, leave their home, and go down to see him for the first time since his death and to see the long day through, which would cover him out of sight for the duration of this world, she thought that she was firm and ready.†   (source)
  • On the evening when he was to preach, he and Deborah walked together to the great, lighted lodge hall that had but lately held a dance band, and that the saints had rented for the duration of the revival.†   (source)
  • "Ah, do keep it to yourself then, for the duration of the journey, and not go bragging, will you?" the young wife cried at him.†   (source)
  • Unhappily the danger it poses promises to be of indefinite duration.†   (source)
  • I arbitrarily picked eight hours for the test duration, so I was trapped in the rover until then.†   (source)
  • Duration between said stolen books: 463 days†   (source)
  • "I know what the word 'duration' means," Klaus said.†   (source)
  • It isn't even June yet and we've already got two men sidelined for the Duration.†   (source)
  • At least for the duration of my time on the Ramp.†   (source)
  • Most became friends for the duration of the trip.†   (source)
  • Max had been banned from the observatory for the duration.†   (source)
  • You may stay and watch for the duration of this lesson.†   (source)
  • The cycles are very irregular in their duration, strength, and direction.†   (source)
  • "Neither of us appear built for duration," she wrote.†   (source)
  • The only person strong enough to sustain an illusion of that size and duration-†   (source)
  • But it's only for the duration of the emergency!†   (source)
  • And conversely, the smaller the power, the more safely may its duration be lengthened.†   (source)
  • The violence and duration of the storm appears to have left Adams in better spirits once it passed.†   (source)
  • Number 71: Duration: President's Term in Office†   (source)
  • The second requirement for energy in the Executive is duration in office.†   (source)
  • To have energy, the executive needs: unity, duration, guaranteed compensation, and enough powers.†   (source)
  • And so I went into a bizarre religious convulsion, brief in duration but intense.†   (source)
  • It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever.†   (source)
  • Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on.†   (source)
  • The duration?†   (source)
  • For the duration of the attack, citizens are to stay in their assigned areas unless otherwise notified.†   (source)
  • Of course, you might let meout of the house for brief periods now and then, too," I continued — only jokingly; I knew I was on lockdown for the duration of the school year.†   (source)
  • "Your maids will escort you to the rooms you'll use for the duration of your stay, and they will get you properly suited for your visit, as well as for the celebration tomorrow night."†   (source)
  • He thought about the strength of the storm, its duration, how oddly minimal the damage had been to this house.†   (source)
  • Germaine could not possibly pay attention to the subject—she was so intent on keeping herself alive for the duration of the reading.†   (source)
  • He considered bringing it up after closing when she dragged him into her home office to show him the new chart Layla had generated that listed the time, place, approximate duration, and involved parties in all known incidents since Quinn's arrival.†   (source)
  • Whereas in my duration of diplomatic service in Brazzaville, French Congo, the worst I ever had to do was fuss at the servants to cut back the scraggly hibiscus on the lawn, and clean the mold off the crystal.†   (source)
  • But she must present her paper at the end of the week, and he knows she will not be roused from her task of reading it aloud, timing its duration, making small marks in the margin.†   (source)
  • During periods of extreme stress, transient psychotic symptoms may occur, but they are generally of insufficient severity or duration to warrant an additional diagnosis.†   (source)
  • So I had my shopping list and the cash from the jar in the cupboard labeled FOOD MONEY, and I was on my way to the Thriftway. that I be assigned kitchen detail for the duration of my stay.†   (source)
  • So while dueling may have begun as a response to high crimes—to treachery, treason, and adultery—by 1900 it had tiptoed down the stairs of reason, until they were being fought over the tilt of a hat, the duration of a glance, or the placement of a comma.†   (source)
  • Today I will begin to instruct you on conduct and protocol, a process that will continue for the duration of your stay.†   (source)
  • But the rest of the team, he said — the MaddAddamite contingent — was confined to base for the duration.†   (source)
  • By means of some talisman or potion, or with the help of the gods themselves, the corporeal presence of the hero is rendered insubstantial, and for the duration of the spell he may wander among his fellow men unseen.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, he dug himself in at Martha Graham as if into a trench, and hunkered down for the duration.†   (source)
  • And only for its duration is their grief slightly abated, the enforced absence of certain foods on their plates conjuring his father's presence somehow.†   (source)
  • And so the incident rested with Owen Meany receiving the punishment of disciplinary probation for the duration of the winter term; aside from the jeopardy this put him in—in regard to any other trouble he might get into—disciplinary probation was no great imposition, especially for a day boy.†   (source)
  • In that plotters' glance all his doubts vanished, for Brinker the Lawgiver had turned rebel for the Duration.†   (source)
  • She has been instructed to time the duration of the contractions and so she consults her watch, a bon voyage gift from her parents, slipped over her wrist the last time she saw them, amid airport confusion and tears.†   (source)
  • But the war had modified even his standards; all forms of physical exercise had become conventional for the Duration.†   (source)
  • Tents—for the children—filled the small backyard of the dead warrant officer's home; there were two cars on cinder blocks in the backyard, and for the duration of the "picnic wake" some of the smaller children had been sleeping in these; and there was also a great boat on cinder blocks—a fire-engine-red racing boat with a gleaming chrome railing running around its jutting bow.†   (source)
  • Based on travel duration and the supplies their astronaut has remaining, any such probe would have to be launched within a month.†   (source)
  • Happiness had disappeared along with rubber, silk, and many other staples, to be replaced by the wartime synthetic, high morale, for the Duration.†   (source)
  • It occurs to me now that this suggestion was even less compelling to Hester than it was to me, and I could think only that Hester's snarling mouth was about as inviting as Firewater's; yet I think we both realized that the potential embarrassment of being mated to this conjugal position for any duration of time, while Noah and Simon observed our breathing and minor movements, would perhaps lead to even greater suffering than indulging in a single kiss.†   (source)
  • What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news—the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everything on it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my other interests are consumed by it, and whatever appetites and capacities I may have had for detachment and reflection are suddenly subordinate to this cheeseburger in my life!†   (source)
  • Arrayed around them were his twelve elven guards, as well as an equal number of Nasuada's guards, the Nighthawks, increased from her normal allotment of six for the duration of the battle.†   (source)
  • To defuse the connection, the most plausible way was to emphasize the short duration of that absence and to face the issue with a straightforward dismissal such as 'Incidentally, if you're wondering whether this has anything to do with… well, don't.†   (source)
  • Only for the duration of this trip.†   (source)
  • He was concerned about his wife and, like many in Congress, he continued to believe the war would be of short duration.†   (source)
  • I knew the duration of that relationship from Jamie–Sharon and Maggie rarely forgot when I was in a room with them, and their conversation was guarded.†   (source)
  • I watched them for the duration of their date, and it was immediately clear that Mary really liked John and John really liked Mary.†   (source)
  • The first summer he'd picked her up in Las Vegas and driven her back to Los Altos, where she never even met Adela, who'd had such a severe migraine she'd moved into her parents' house for the duration of Miri's visit.†   (source)
  • She had tried to convince the dwarves to appoint a regent for the duration of the war, but they were as stubborn as stone and had insisted upon carrying out their age-old ceremonies, though doing so meant abandoning the Varden in the middle of their campaign.†   (source)
  • And the biblical thunderstorm, four hours in duration, that threatened to wash away the can and its contents, not to mention the village itself.†   (source)
  • If I'm right — and I'm sure I am — Mrs Webb, Mr Conklin and Dr Panov are guests at the house in Victoria Peak for the duration.'†   (source)
  • During the balance of the daylight hours they slept — but in their own peculiarly wolfish way, which consisted of curling up for short wolf-naps of from five to ten minutes' duration; after each of which they would take a quick look about, and then turn round once or twice before dozing off again.†   (source)
  • I knew when the contractions came because her fingers dug into my arm and I could judge both the intervals and duration of the contractions by the pressure of her hands.†   (source)
  • Duration is nothing.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Knight knew all about Majorca, and so did Orr, because Yossarian had told them often of such sanctuaries as Spain, Switzerland and Sweden where American fliers could be interned for the duration of the war under conditions of utmost ease and luxury merely by flying there.†   (source)
  • Every soldier who enlisted for the "duration" of the war was to receive $20 and one hundred acres of land.†   (source)
  • And if none are willing to admit their misconduct, I move most strongly that we order all warriors, regardless of their clan, expelled from Tronjheim for the duration of the meet and that we immediately appoint a reader-of-law to investigate these doings and determine whom we should censure.†   (source)
  • Duration is short—only one hour-but the summoner is not required to maintain eye contact with the summoned being.†   (source)
  • For the duration of this seizure, he would be in two places at once: in the real world of the Honda and in the Nationwide Air 747 as it found its way down from the serenity of the stratosphere, through an overcast night sky, into a meadow as unforgiving as iron.†   (source)
  • BROADCAST FROM REDFLEET ELF FACILITY SEMIPOLIPINSK XX MESSAGE DURATION 10 MINUTES XX 6 ELEMENTS XX ELF SIGNAL IS EVALUATED AS "PREP" BROADCAST TO REDFLEET SUBMARINES AT SEA XX AT 090000Z AN "ALL SHIPS" BROADCAST WAS MADE BY REDFLEET HEADQUARTERS CENTRAL COMMO STATION TULA AND SATELLITES THREE AND FIVE XX BANDS USED: HF VHF UHF XX MESSAGE DURATION 39 SECONDS WITH 2 REPEATS IDENTICAL CONTENT MADE AT 091000Z AND 092000Z XX 475 5-ELEMENT CIPHER GROUPS XX SIGNAL COVERAGE AS FOLLOWS: NORTHERN FLEET AREA BALTIC FLEET AREA AND MED SQUADRON AREA XX NOTE FAR EAST FLEET NOT REPEAT NOT AFFECTED BY THIS BROADCAST XX NUMEROUS ACKNOWLEDGMENT SIGNALS EMANATED FROM ADDRESSES IN AREAS CITED ABOVE XX ORIGI†   (source)
  • The women would sit for the duration of the evening against the wall on the long, low couches that ringed the room, and the men would rotate from woman to woman, moving to the next woman whenever Kailynn rang a bell, signaling that the six minutes were over.†   (source)
  • He stopped unsteadily in the doorway when he saw the magus inside, bent over the papers on the table they'd agreed would be his for the duration of his stay in Eddis.†   (source)
  • When he finished, I knew from the silence in the room, the quality and menace and duration of the silence, that Jim Rowland had convinced at least some of the members of the court of that guilt.†   (source)
  • Thus, the army marched north to Somerset Courthouse and, in the days that followed, on to the comparative security of the hilly, wooded country near the village of Morristown for the duration of the winter.†   (source)
  • She stopped for the duration of a glance around her, as if to recapture the place, but there was no recognition of persons in her eyes, the glance merely swept through the room, as if making a swift inventory of physical objects.†   (source)
  • The recent battle had almost killed her, what with the combined agony of thousands beating upon her mind, even though one of Du Vrangr Gata had placed her in an artificial slumber for the duration of the fighting, in an attempt to protect her.†   (source)
  • "In the name of the general welfare," read Wesley Mouch, "to protect the people's security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that"Point One.†   (source)
  • Glaedr had excluded Oromis from his mind for the duration of the fight, but their bond ran deeper than conscious thought, so he felt it when Oromis stiffened, incapacitated by the searing pain of his bone-blight-nerve-rot.†   (source)
  • Her frame is so slender and her constitution so delicate that I have many fears that she will be of short duration.†   (source)
  • At this early day when neither our finances are arranged, nor our government sufficiently cemented to promise duration, his death would, I fear, have had most disastrous consequences.†   (source)
  • When the Varden hear that Eragon's own cousin, Roran Stronghammer-he who slew nigh on two hundred soldiers by himself-went on a mission with Urgals and that the mission was a success, then we may yet keep the Urgals as our allies for the duration of this war.†   (source)
  • On September 16, Congress adopted a new plan issued by the Board of War whereby every soldier who signed on for the duration was to be offered $20 and 100 acres of land.†   (source)
  • "I know it is high treason to express a doubt of the perpetual duration of our vast American empire," but a struggle between the states over slavery "might rend this mighty fabric in twain."†   (source)
  • Duration in Office: Good Behavior†   (source)
  • Duration includes: the executive's personal firmness in the employment of his constitutional powers and stable system of administration adopted under his sponsorship.†   (source)
  • But Ramsbotham began fiddling with the three greatest Einsteinian equations, the two relativity equations for distance and duration and the mass-conversion equation; each contained the velocity of light.†   (source)
  • I declare, effective at this moment, a moratorium on the payment of all debts, rents, taxes, interest, mortgages, insurance claims, and premiums, and all and any other financial obligations for the duration of the emergency.†   (source)
  • Miss Hattie brought rain by sitting a vigil of the necessary duration beside the nearest body of water, as everybody knew.†   (source)
  • TEST CONDITIONS: (a) ANY planet, ANY climate, ANY terrain; (b) NO rules, ALL weapons, ANY equipment; (c) TEAMING IS PERMITTED but teams will not be allowed to pass through the gate in company; (d) TEST DURATION is not less than forty-eight hours, not more than ten days.†   (source)
  • It would be misleading to emphasize my malfunction, either its duration or its effect on me, although such was its completeness that I recall resolving to commit suicide if it did not soon correct itself.†   (source)
  • It was a climb of no more than a few minutes' duration but one which was interrupted by two singularly memorable occurrences that seemed to fit with ghastly appropriateness into the hallucinatory fabric of her mornings, afternoons and nights at Haus Hoss … On separate landings—one on the floor above the basement and the other just below the attic—there were dormer windows that gave off on a western exposure, from which Sophie usually tried to avert her eyes, though not always…†   (source)
  • Her answer is a blur in my brain of imperfectly registered sounds, many minutes in duration, out of what I am able to salvage only the impression that Leslie, now deep into something called orgone therapy, will in the coming days be seated in some sort of box, there to absorb patiently waves of energy from the ether that might allow her passage upward to the next plateau.†   (source)
  • I had yet to meet a single author of a published book—unless one excepts the seedy old ex-Communist I have mentioned, who once accidentally blundered into my office at McGraw-Hill, smelling of garlic and the stale sweat of ancient apprehensions—and so that spring the Hunnicutt parties, which were frequent and of long duration, gave my imagination opportunity for the craziest flights of fancy that ever afflicted the brain of a lovelorn idolater.†   (source)
  • The starting times and durations of the various eras were not exactly as King Wen had predicted, but they were close.†   (source)
  • I could not help but think if what Mother said was true, she had in turn done the exact same things to me, but for far longer durations and in such obsessive, vindictive ways.†   (source)
  • He was under Communist discipline for the duration of the war.†   (source)
  • His clay is dreamlike in its duration, fluidity, and ambient power.†   (source)
  • He did not let his voice rise above that degree of loudness which Italian musicians would represent by the direction piano, but he frequently intermitted the sound trusting that if she were asleep it would insinuate itself into her mind as well by duration as by degree.†   (source)
  • It is noteworthy that our townspeople very quickly desisted, even in public, from a habit one might have expected them to formthat of trying to figure out the probable duration of their exile.†   (source)
  • The duration of the disease varied depending on the patient's constitution and the amount of radiation he had received.†   (source)
  • When a Southerner took the trouble to pack a trunk and travel twenty miles for a visit, the visit was seldom of shorter duration than a month, usually much longer.†   (source)
  • The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.†   (source)
  • So she gracefully evaded, for the time being, a definite answer as to the duration of her visit and slipped easily into the life of the red-brick house at the quiet end of Peachtree Street.†   (source)
  • So if you love this girl as much as you say you do, you had better love her very hard and make up in intensity what the relation will lack in duration and in continuity.†   (source)
  • He accepted their discipline for the duration of the war because, in the conduct of the war, they were the only party whose program and whose discipline he could respect.†   (source)
  • True, in the spring, when the epidemic was expected to end abruptly at any moment, no one troubled to take another's opinion as to its probable duration, since everyone had persuaded himself that it would have none.†   (source)
  • And it was in the midst of shouts rolling against the terrace wall in massive waves that waxed in volume and duration, while cataracts of colored fire fell thicker through the darkness, that Dr. Rieux resolved to compile this chronicle, so that he should not be one of those who hold their peace but should bear witness in favor of those plague-stricken people; so that some memorial of the injustice and outrage done them might endure; and to state quite simply what we learn in time of…†   (source)
  • At the same time, such emotion in him, though vivid, was of brief duration.†   (source)
  • I can't speak to the purpose today of the duration of these things.†   (source)
  • Seemingly there was silence of longer duration than all her former life.†   (source)
  • There was no size in infinity, and no duration or change in eternity, either.†   (source)
  • But this sudden flood was not of long duration.†   (source)
  • It has been most unconsciously done, however, and I hope will be of short duration.†   (source)
  • The duration of each lesson was measured by the clock, which at last struck twelve.†   (source)
  • The Doctor, in a low voice, asked, "Of how long duration?"†   (source)
  • It is quite edifying to hear women speculate upon the worthlessness and the duration of beauty.†   (source)
  • The hesitation of the squatter was consequently of short duration.†   (source)
  • Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.†   (source)
  • An interval of some duration elapsed, in which there was no bid for Mrs General.†   (source)
  • Still, the average duration of human life is proved to have increased of late years.†   (source)
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