I stepped silently in and sat down, and the metal man pushed off, and rowed without stopping for
nine days, after which land appeared on the horizon.
She had been wandering round and round for
nine days, and she came at last to the iron case.
And yet those two gallons of water, expended in vain, would have sufficed for
nine days' halt in the desert.
This
nine days past the immortals have been quarrelling about Achilles waster of cities and the body of Hector.
Part of this sum I shall expend upon a half-pound of tobacco--for I cannot live without tobacco, and it is
nine days since I last put a pipe into my mouth.
M'Dougal in all the bustle of preparation; having about
nine days previously announced at the factory, his intention of breaking up the establishment, and fixed upon the
Nine days after the abandonment of Moscow, a messenger from Kutuzov reached Petersburg with the official announcement of that event.
Five days, six days, seven days, eight days,
nine days.
Nine days after leaving the Charente, pale with fatigue and vexation, Milady saw only the blue coasts of Finisterre appear.
He dressed Jim up in King Lear's outfit -- it was a long curtain-calico gown, and a white horse-hair wig and whiskers; and then he took his theater paint and painted Jim's face and hands and ears and neck all over a dead, dull, solid blue, like a man that's been drownded
nine days. Blamed if he warn't the horriblest looking outrage I ever see.
The following conversation, which took place between the two friends in the pump-room one morning, after an acquaintance of eight or
nine days, is given as a specimen of their very warm attachment, and of the delicacy, discretion, originality of thought, and literary taste which marked the reasonableness of that attachment.
Our greatest Champion, Overman-Anu, once climbed the spiral stairway and fought
nine days with the Gargoyles before he could escape them and come back; but he could never be induced to describe the dreadful creatures, and soon afterward a bear caught him and ate him up."