Months Sentence Examples
He spent thirty-one months in a coma.
It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.
I hired her as a housekeeper a few months ago.
It was the first time in months Quinn would attempt to position Howie back more than a day or two.
She turned twenty-four two months ago and started having all these issues, like she's a vamp.
I haven't had any female company in months.
A few months ago she wouldn't have realized that forgiving her father was important to her marriage – but then, a few months ago she didn't know Chauncey.
It's still two months away, though.
For the first time in months we were temporarily out of business.
Dusty didn't know if a few months of Darian having his own mind back were enough to erase thousands of years under the control of another.
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Everything almost blew up a few months ago.
I am six months pregnant.
In just eighteen months from now, we will have duplicated that again and effectively doubled our computation power.
I have plans too, you know - and they don't include dropping out three months short of graduation.
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A lot had happened in the last few months.
You've been working for me for almost three months now and this is the first time I've ever seen you sick.
Howie lived with them for a few months but they eased him into an apartment nearby.
We've been as close together as kernels on a cob for months.
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You know what I've been doing for the past few months?
Whatever her disease, it had eluded the doctors for months.
His hand lingered on her arm, and she rested her forehead against his fingers, comforted for the first time in months.
We'd discussed this point among ourselves numerous times over the past months.
AdvertisementHer headache had been gone most of the morning for the first time in months, until the monster in her head started clawing at her mind.
We rotate every twelve months or so, Han explained.
Sofia hung up the phone, feeling as if she were emerging from a stupor for the first time in months.
I've been living in the bachelor pad with the guys for three months now.
How many days, months, years had she prayed for a miracle like the one in her hand?
The ten-year-old girl had resided at Bird Song with David Dean, his wife Cynthia, and Dean's seventy-seven-year-old stepfather, Fred O'Connor, for the past six months.
She only lasted eight months before the big C got her.
Her soul had been sentient only since she died-dead, about six months ago.
In time the trees began to thin and patches of old snow appeared in ever increasing numbers, tucked in dark crevices, left over from winter storms of months long past.
The notices given in the historical synaxaria are summaries of those in the great menologies, or collections of lives of saints, for the twelve months of the year.
Dean explained, as succinctly as possible, their concern for this child who'd spent six months in their care.
Back on the pavement, Dean pedaled past Tom, a well-known wild turkey who'd in past months adopted a location on the highway from which he never seemed to stray more than a few hundred yards.
There was a question of jurisdictions and when Weller volunteered that Martha was safe and comfortable at Bird Song where she'd spent the last six months, no one seemed to protest.
In the course of a few months, the old understanding between Immortals and demons – that humans were off-limits – crashed to the ground.
The highest ranking of his death dealers to defect, Harmony had been Gabriel's lover for months and his second-in-command since he took over the underworld.
A diplomat by nature, he had long served in the peacekeeping capacity among his brothers, before he was rendered dead-dead seven months before.
Maybe Darkyn is still pissed at me for breaking into Hell to rescue our friends a few months ago.
She'd done something today he didn't expect and uncovered something he and all his dealers had overlooked for months.
Until you took my soul a few months ago, I was there because I loved you and for no other reason.
At 14 months, she was already getting difficult to lift.
I mean, if she was going to try, she should have come back before the six months was up... right?
For her, the last fourteen months had been nothing short of heaven on earth.
They hadn't done that in months, and the kids were excited.
They wanted to shove her away for the last few months of her life?
You've been more than a patient for months now.
Got word the inevitable is coming in three months or so.
She'd bought her casket months ago and was on a payment plan.
As much as she cared for him, he was driving her crazy the past few months.
She'd passed through that stage after a few months and decided to make – and fulfill – her bucket list.
He reached out to rest a hand on her belly, as he did every time they met the past few months.
It was past dark, and she'd come to his cabin most nights for the past two months.
The past few months, I've come close to breaking it hundreds of times to keep the underworld from shutting down.
He'd watched over Katie every night for months while she and Rhyn struggled to find their paths.
Somewhere along the past few months, he lost his way.
With a soul compass in one hand and his dinner in the other, Darkyn was satisfied for the first time in months.
Unless I'm dead in three months.
You extended my life over three years after the others said I had a few months.
I gave her three months, but it's probably generous, given her sunny nature.
Hopefully, I'm dead in three months.
It left her depressed, when she wanted to be happy the last few months of her life.
You'd have to find them a new home in a few months anyway, when I die.
I guess at least he'll be able to get a new mate in a few months.
So I'll just die slowly over the next few months.
I'm going to give you a piece of advice you gave me a few months ago.
She wasn't sure why she expected either from him, except that she still held half a hope that she might live beyond three months.
She didn't believe for one minute he was going to find a way to prevent her from dying in three months.
My offer is good whether you expire in three months or an eternity.
Whether I have three months or an eternity, I'm not going to stop fighting to live on my terms.
No. Wynn, I couldn't even dump Logan, and I'd been meaning to for months.
For the first time in months, he had confirmation that he was headed the right way.
Her mood improved, Deidre returned to her penthouse with newfound resolve to enjoy the last few months of her life.
I want to hear the woman who lives by the motto of no apologies, no regrets, who told me once that her own soul searching taught her to live, doesn't want my help turning that three months into eternity.
The experimental surgeries I performed the first six months were not geared towards curing you at all.
One percent now is better than zero percent in three months.
Perhaps he feared getting close to her if she was going to die in a few months, seeing as how past-Deidre crushed his heart, too.
McGillen's, like you have for the past few months.
She sat in the general manager's office of the fast food joint where she'd worked for six months.
It was three months' salary, though Hannah had added it to the black AmEx her fiancé paid in full every month without a second thought.
She hadn't been able to keep a job or a boyfriend for more than a few months, let alone an eternity!
He said he only needed two months of my time, and even if he didn't do what he needed to at the end of it, he'd let me have my life back.
Two months is all Kris asks, and I'm free.
You said you're giving Kris two months.
If, at the end of those two months, I haven't fixed things, you'll go back to your world.
I can probably get close with a few years of research, but not in two months.
I guess when you stop counting hours and days and just count months or years—
Romas had tossed her in bed more than once over the past three months, though he had stopped lecturing her on how unbecoming a lush was to a man looking for a wife.
But … you've only known each other for three months!
Evelyn had been so happy the past few months, and having Romas around was not that bad.
Kiera had suspected Romas to be independently wealthy by his complete lack of concern for being anywhere but with Evelyn for the last three months.
After Kiera's three months of tormenting him, he would find turning the tables satisfying.
I guess I shouldn't be snoopy either, but we've had a lot of guests in the last six months and I've never felt this uncomfortable about any of the others.
The two had shared Dean's bachelorhood for fifteen years until Dean, an ex-Pennsylvania police detective married Cynthia Byrne seven months earlier.
Perhaps that's why many of the citizens of the picturesque town decided they might as well enjoy mother nature's offerings rather than remain locked indoors for six or seven months.
The trio was far more comfortable now, six months later, with enough money in the bank to keep the wolves away, and expectations, if not of prosperity, of at least a reasonably comfortable coming season.
Six months without a mystery and I'm still in top form.
Then she died a few months later.
He served eight months in jail.
While the independent woman had only been to Ouray once in the six months the Deans had been married, she and her son-in-law got along spectacularly.
We go months with normal, pleasant guests, then all of a sudden we pick up a conflated collection of crazies!
The past half-year was the best six months of his life.
Now, six months later, in spite of the windshield pockmarked from the gravel roads of Ouray County, it felt like an old friend.
But Monday, the dance master played a different tune—a beautiful Viennese waltz of warm air and sunshine that teased of spring, still months in the future.
Jackson had lost count of the times she found 'The One', only to have her heart broken months or years later.
They had been in New England for a mere three months, but Sarah had fallen fast and hard for Connor.
What do you call deceiving me for two and a half months?
Jackson told her that he and his sister moved back to Fairhaven three months ago, and their home had been in the family for generations.
Then a few months later she had sent the first letter, saying that she had a roommate and was working on a farm.
Well, she would turn 21 in a few months and her inheritance would be available.
Feeling better than she had in months, she nagged the doctor to discharge her from the hospital.
Hadn't she been drifting from Josh for the last few months - before she knew anything about Alex?
They said he'd been a basket case for almost two months by the time he jumped.
If someone told her a few months before she'd be here, now, hearing this, she'd have thought them insane!
She paused to look around again, caught in the surreal sense that everything that happened the past few months hadn't touched the condo community.
The longest I had lasted in one foster home was six months.
Sackler and DeLeo were packing up, off to follow a lead on the whereabouts of a forger of Social Security checks who had been working overtime in recent months.
Dean also asked Mayer about the one day Byrne had been absent—a Thursday the fourth of March—about two months earlier.
That's two months ago.
Just because Byrne might have gotten a quickie two months ago doesn't mean he faked his drowning and skipped.
Let's go back three months, she said with a twinkle in her eye.
A check of the records listed 22 individuals who had ordered the paper from out of town over the last three months.
I'd have blown my brains all over the wall months ago if I didn't have him to give me a hard time.
He had spent his career in the city, the last seven months investigating the crime family as a part of a special task force.
They've been running errands for the family for quite a few months now.
It was two months ago.
Like I told you, when the twins found out half the state was after their ass, they laid low—for a long time, couple of months.
She wouldn't normally have rented on that basis but he sent her three months payment, in cash, and she left a key in an agreed location.
There hasn't been any mail for quite awhile but the rent is still paid—for another two months.
He could kill me and no one would find my body—for months!
Fred wanted to drive the extra 30 miles or more and visit the rest stop drop location but Dean put his foot down, pointing out that it was two months earlier when the money disappeared.
That was two months earlier.
They moved into a brand new building a couple of months back.
Dean figured it hadn't rained in Pagosa Springs in months but she began to spread out her sleeping bag in the narrow space next to him, nudging him closer to the side with her hip.
In the months since he had come to know her, she had grown from a beautiful face to a beautiful woman.
Josh had only been married to Lori a few months.
So much has happened in the last three months.
That's less than five months away.
He'll turn thirty in a couple months.
Would they have been married months ago if she had acquiesced?
Oh, and Princess is seven months pregnant.
The gestation period for a horse is eleven months, so this can't be Ed's foal.
You've only been married a few months.
It had been staring her in the face for months.
In a few months, cold weather would be moving in again.
Tim and Jim were thirteen months old going on three years.
Both had been walking for a good four months, and they were already saying short sentences.
It was 5 months old.
At least things were better than they had been for the last four months.
She was four months late doing so, but it was done now, and at last the haunting feeling was laid to rest.
Considering the way she had been acting for the last four months, he probably thought she'd get hysterical.
Lori had six months to change her mind.
Yesterday was the first day we've spent together since you mated with her months ago.
Our hunting trip was the first time in months, wasn't it?
We used to spar every day, until a few months ago, when I took a mate.
He'd mated with Claire five months ago.
They'd left the human world alone until several months ago.
For months, he'd black out several times a day and wake up somewhere else, usually with the room around him in shambles.
The pregnancy had not been an easy one, especially not with the excitement of the past few months.
The woman in her screamed for her to leave, to find Damian and have their son in the place they'd planned in a few months.
This much has been clear for months, since the Oracle made her appearance.
She's not due for another four months.
She felt very alone as she realized his plotting was not the result of a few months of planning but the maneuvers of a calculating, patient man.
The Sanders had been gone almost two months now and she had made no attempt to rent the house.
No wonder she had felt so harried for the last few months.
I have carried Morino's child for two months.
In the summer months, it would be nice to have her here as well, but I have to face the fact that eventually she'll be getting a job and moving away.
She should have broken it off months ago.
At the hotel, for the first time in months, she slept soundly.
Wasn't there supposed to be something between "nice to meet you" and "I love you" - like six months of courtship?
Why had it taken her months to tell him?
In the last year you've changed considerably, but in the last few months you've been unbearable.
Had it actually been six months ago that things had begun changing so dramatically?
Yes, life had changed in the last six months, but they were fortunate that those changes had been for the good.
Ingrid hired an interior decorator when he leased the condo a few months ago.
Maybe the teen god was figuring things out on his own, after the godslayer floundered for months with the responsibilities that came with leading his army of vamps.
Months ago, she argued unsuccessfully for him to buy rather than lease the condo.
Damian, the White God, had tried to task him twice in the past few months.
The others he hoped had died when the immortal world was destroyed months ago by the Grey God.
After the months he spent making sure no one killed the new Black God before Jonny found his footing, Xander began to think he might've …forgotten something.
The trainee months ago made a horrible mistake by choosing to target Ingrid, and Xander didn't think twice about lopping off his head.
Six months ago, they lost their ability to move between worlds, mainly because the immortal world was destroyed.
You told me months ago I was in for a surprise that would answer a question I didn't know needed asking.
I've been telling you for months he was a jackass.
You took care of the Grey God's issue before the immortal world went up in flames a few months ago.
The only vamp that could change someone without them following the normal rite requiring human sacrifice, Xander had once created an army in months.
Exactly. We're due to move our headquarters, but his wife had a baby six months ago.
Months ago, I foresaw you coming here today.
Jenn fingered the necklace around her neck, the one Darian gave her months before, when they became an official couple.
We didn't know the Originals like him were still alive until a few months ago.
The message was from Jonny, who had texted only once, before their ways parted months ago.
Exact information in regard to the period of gestation of the female is still lacking, the length of the period being given from eighteen to twenty-two months by different authorities.
During some months young Garfield served as bowsman, deck-hand and driver of a canal boat.
In 1798, when the French occupied Rome, Consalvi was imprisoned in the castle of St Angelo, together with other papal officials, in retaliation for the murder of General Duphot; a proposal to whip him through the streets was defeated by the French general in command, but, after three months' confinement, he was deported with a crowd of galley slaves to Naples, and his property was confiscated as that of "an enemy of the Roman republic."
A few months after her return from Spain her father was killed by a fall from his horse.
Hinds states that the hibernating individuals live for more than six months.
Auvergne after a few months' imprisonment was released, chiefly through the influence of his half-sister, his aunt, the duchess of Angouleme and his father-in-law.
At all the other stations the difference between summer and winter months is conspicuous.
It will be noticed that the difference between the greatest and least hourly values is, in all but three winter months, actually larger than the mean value of the potential gradient for the day; it bears to the range of the regular diurnal inequality a ratio varying from 2.0 in May to 3.6 in November.
In the cases where the observations were confined to a few months the representative nature of the results is more doubtful.
The beds remain in bearing for six or eight months, and then the spent manure is taken to the surface again for garden and field purposes.
At the end of 1709 he went to Dresden for twelve months for finishing lessons in French and German, mathematics and fortification, and, his education completed, he was married, greatly against his will, to the princess Charlotte of BrunswickWolfenbiittel, whose sister espoused, almost simultaneously, the heir to the Austrian throne, the archduke Charles.
For the next twelve months Alexius was kept constantly on the move.
Macaulay imputes this reduction to Hastings as a characteristic act of financial immorality; but in truth it had been expressly enjoined by the court of directors, in a despatch dated six months before he took up office.
In 1815, while living at Saint Clairsville, Ohio, he organized an antislavery association, known as the "Union Humane Society," which within a few months had a membership of more than five hundred men.
In the early months of the Boer War of 1899-1902 Aliwal North was held by the Boers.
He was released after some months of imprisonment, without trial, by the intervention of his friends.
After a severe struggle this proposal was accepted; but the academic discussion on the constitution continued for weary months, and on the 20th of May, realizing the hopelessness of coming to terms with the ultra-democrats, Gagern and his friends resigned.
In the debate abolishing the court of wards he spoke, like most landed proprietors, in favour of laying the burden on the excise instead of on the land, and on the question of the restoration of the bishops carried in the interests of the court an adjournment of the debate for three months.
The,, king and the government reside for at least three months in the year in Nish, where also the national assembly, before the constitution of 1g01, was regularly held.
He withdrew on this to England and resided there for several months.
At four or five months they are lovely, as generally they retain their baby whiteness, which contrasts well with their almost black ears, deep-brown markings, and blue eyes."
He reappeared for a few months after General Pavia's coup d'Nat in January 1874, to join a coalition cabinet formed by Marshal Serrano, with Sagasta and Ulloa.
Within four months the population was 1200; by 1873 it was 2500; in 1880 it was 3086; and in 1890 it had reached 26,178.
I I, 13), occupied Edom for six months and devastated it; it was garrisoned and permanently held by David (2 Sam.
With " very hard " water this deposit may require removal every three months; in London it is usual to clean out the boiler every six months and the cylinders and tanks at longer intervals.
Not many months later a weakly lad knocked at one of the gates of Berlin.
Within a few months of the same age, the two became brothers in intellectual and artistic cameraderie.
Conscripts of 20 years of age have to serve two years, three months each year.
Compulsory attendance of young men at national guard drills is enforced for at least two months of the year, under penalty of enforced service in the Line.
In 1906 the president announced that permission had been given by the German emperor for 30 Argentine officers to enter the German army each year and to serve eighteen months, and also for five officers to attend the Berlin Military Academy.
Obstruction met his well-meant efforts to promote the general good, and before twelve months of the presidential term had run public affairs were at a deadlock.
During the last months of President Uriburu's administration, matters had reached a climax, especially in connexion with the delimitation in a district known as the Puna de Atacama.
This body consists, according to the population of the commune, of from 10 to 36 members, elected for four years on the principle of the scrutin de liste by Frenchmen who have reached the age of twenty-one years and have a six months residence qualification.
The expenditure of the government has several times been regulated for as long as six months upon this system.
At this period the religion of Mahomet was spreading over the east, and in 637 the caliph Omar marched on Jerusalem, which capitulated after a siege of four months.
During the last two years of his life Ruiz Zorilla became less active; failing health and the loss of his wife had decreased his energies, and the Madrid government allowed him to return to Spain some months before he died at Burgos, on the 1 3 th of June 1895, of heart disease.
Calendars exist for other months which make no such regulations for any days.
For it is obvious that if each 7th day during the year was observed as above, it would, like our Sunday or a Jewish Sabbath, fall on a different day of the month in different months.
The enormous number of dated documents has induced some scholars to attempt a statistical research into the observance of the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th and 19th days of the months as Sabbaths.
The winds are liable to little variation; they blow from the west, often with great violence, for nine months in the year, and at other times from the north; and they moderate the summer heats, which are chiefly felt during the months of July and August, when the hot winds blow from the coast of Anatolia.
During the colder months these reptiles remain in a torpid state.
Young children are often not buried for months, but are carried about by their mothers.
Skirting the low shores of this gulf, all the way round its upper half to the Roper, Leichhardt crossed Arnheim Land to the Alligator river, which he descended to the western shore of the peninsula, and arrived at Port Victoria, otherwise Port Essington, after a journey of 3000 m., performed within a year and three months.
On the first day of the next year, 1861, Mr Stuart again started for a second attempt to cross the continent, which occupied him eight months.
Forrest traversed seventeen degrees of desert in five months, a very wonderful achievement,.
Working westerly along the line of the 30th parallel, Giles reached Perth in about five months.
After resting in Perth for a short time, he commenced the return journey, which was made for the most part between the 24th and 25th parallels, and again successfully traversed the desert, reaching the overland telegraph line in about seven months.
After a few months' rest it started on the return journey, following Sturt Creek until its termination in Gregory's Salt Sea, and then keeping parallel with the South Australian border as far as Lake Macdonald.
The distance travelled was 5000 m., and the actual time employed was eight months.
Whilst under the first of these tutors, in nine months he read all Thucydides, Sophocles and Sallust, twelve books of Tacitus, the greater part of Horace, Juvenal, Persius, and several plays of Aeschylus and Euripides.
At all events, during the first months of the reign of Artaxerxes I., he was the ruling power in the state (therefore the chronographers wrongly reckon him as king, with a reign of seven months), until Artaxerxes, having learned the truth about the murder of his father and his brother, overwhelmed and killed Artabanus and his sons in open fight.
According to some accounts he was unconscious ` of the disastrous events that took place during the closing months of his life.
In 1863 he moved in the House of Commons a resolution of sympathy with the Poles, and two months later was made a junior lord of the admiralty.
Her marriage four months later to Maximilian of Austria was the beginning of the long domination -of the house of Habsburg.
A few months later Philip unexpectedly died at Burgos (September 25th).
A few months after the disaster of Jemmingen, Orange, who had now become a Lutheran, himself led a large army into Brabant.
Within three months of the capture of Brill, Amsterdam was the only town in Holland in the hands of the Spaniards.
Here he bravely defended himself against the attacks of the Pompeian commander, Marcus Octavius, but in a few months died of illness (48 or the beginning of 47).
After several months of desperate fighting, Saigo and a small remnant of his followers made a swif t retreat to Kagoshima, and fell fighting (September 14) within sight of their homes.
We already hear of them as attacking Babylonia in the 9th year of Samsu-iluna the son of Khammurabi, and about 1780 B.C. they overran Babylonia and founded a dynasty there which lasted for 576 years and nine months.
At this crisis, in January 1138, Anacletus died, and a successor elected by his faction, as Victor IV., resigned after two months.
In 1894 a more serious rebellion in the mountainous region of Sassun was ruthlessly stamped out; the Powers insistently demanded reforms, the eventual grant of which in the autumn of 1895 was the signal for a series of massacres, brought on in part by the injudicious and threatening acts of the victims, and extending over many months and throughout Asia Minor, as well as in the capital itself.
War followed, in which Turkey was easily successful and gained a small rectification of frontier; then a few months later Crete was taken over "en depot" by the Four Powers - Germany and Austria not participating, - and Prince George of Greece was appointed their mandatory.
Water communication is afforded by Lake Champlain to the south, for seven months of the year, by way of the Champlain canal, via Whitehall, New York, to Troy and the Hudson river and the Atlantic coast, and to the north by way of the Richelieu river and the Chambly canal to the St Lawrence.
Returning to France without having effected anything, Tone served for some months in the French army under Hoche; and in June 17 9 7 he took part in preparations for a Dutch expedition to Ireland, which was to be supported by the French.
If these were not at hand he might adjourn the case for their production, specifying a time up to six months.
He kept up the communication for six months, in all weathers, and found that ordinary commercial messages could be transmitted at the rate of 15 to 20 words a minute.
The remaining months of his life were passed in great bodily weakness and suffering, and he became almost blind.
The female carries her young for fully eleven months, and produces only one calf at a time, which she suckles for a year.
In all the upland valleys of the Abruzzi snow begins to fall early in November, and heavy storms occur often as late as May; whole communities are shut out for months from any intercourse with their neighbours, and some villages are so long buried in snow that regular passages are made between the different houses for the sake of communication among the inhabitants.
The average expectation of life at birth for the same period was 52 years and II months, 62 years and 2 months at the age of three years, 52 years at the age of fifteen, 44 years at the age of twenty-four, 30 years at the age of forty; while the average period of life, which was 35 years 3 months per individual in 1882, was 43 yearf per individual in 1901.
This shows a considerable improvement, largely, but not entirely, in the diminution of infant mortality; the expectation of life at birth in 1882, it is true, was only 33 years and 6 months, and at three years of age 56 years I month; but the increase, both in the expectation of life and in its average duration, goes all through the different ages.
In pure leasehold the landlord demands at least six months rent as guarantee, and the forfeiture of any fortuitous advantages.
The total imports for the first six months of 1907 amounted to 57,840,000, an increase of 7,520,000 as compared with the corresponding period of 1906.
Parliaments are quinquennial, but the king may dissolve the Chamber of Deputies at any time, being bound, however, to convoke a new chamber within four months.
The recruits due to join in November were not incorporated till the following March, and thus in the winter months Italy was defenceless.
Even in the summer and autumn a large proportion of the army consisted of men with but a few months servicea highly dangerous state of things considering the peculiar mobilization conditioss of the country.
The men classed in it have to train for six months, and they are called up in the late summer to bridge the The 2nd category of the 1875 law had practically ceased to exist.
Parma revolted from him, and he spent months in 1247-1248 vainly trying to reduce this one time faithful city.
Two months later Ferdinand of Naples sought for an armistice, the central duchies were easily overrun, and, early in 1797, Pope Pius VI.
The peace negotiations after the dragged on for several months, involving two changes of ministry, and DAzeglio became premier.
The new kingdom was recognized by Great 1 tam within a fortnight, by France three months later, and the sequently by ptber powers.
On the 12th of July 1871, Articles 268, 269 and 270 of the Italian Penal Code were so modified as to make ecclesiastics liable to imprisonment for periods varying from six months to five years, and to fines from 1000 to 3000 lire, for spoken or written attacks against the laws of the state, or for the fomentation of disorder.
For a few months after the occupation of Rome pressing questions incidental to a new change of capital and to the administration of a new domain distracted public attention from the real condition of Italian affairs.
The dissensions which broke out among them within a few months of the accession of their party to power never afterwards disappeared, except at rare moments when it became necessary to unite in preventing the return of the Conservatives.
They hastened Mancinis downfall (17th June 1885), and prepared the advent of count di Robilant, who three months later succeeded Mancini at the Italian Foreign Office.
The crisis dragged for three months, and before its definitive solution by the formation of a Depretis-Crispi ministry, Robilant succeeded (I 7th March 1887) in renewing the triple alliance on terms more favorable to First re- Italy than those obtained in 1882.
Eighteen months later a party of Italian sailors and explorers under Lieutenant Biglieri and Signor Giulietti were massacred in Egyptian.
Within four months the death of Depretis (29th July 1887) opened for Crispi the way to the premiership. Besides assuming the presidency of the council of ministers and retaining the ministry of the interior, Crispi took over the portfolio of foreign affairs which Depretis had held since the resignation of Count di Robilant.
During the first six months of 1901 the strikes numbered 600, and involved more than 1,000,000
Expected or not, the primacy was forced upon him within a very few months of his marriage.
Nothing, however, was done during the remainder of the year, and John, feeling his position had grown stronger, went abroad early in 1214, and remained for some months in France.
He obtained his release after four months, and again devoted himself to pamphleteering, but had speedily to retire for a time to London.
At such a time the encampment is deserted for three months.
At the sack of Canterbury by the Danes in 1011 ZElfheah was captured and kept in prison for seven months.
The penalties which the spiritual court could inflict, in the period between the edict of Milan and c. 854, were properly excommunication whether generally or as exclusion from the sacraments for a term of months or years or till the day of death and (in the case of clerics) suspension or deposition.
Deprivation, or imprisonment for more than two months, requires the approval of the king (ib.).
Marcus was three months old when his father died, and was thereupon adopted by his grandfather.
But after three months Cassius was assassinated, and his head was brought to Aurelius, who with characteristic magnanimity, persuaded the senate to pardon all the family of Cassius.
The Theriaca prepared at Venice had the highest reputation, probably because in Venice the component parts were exposed to the inspection of wise men and doctors for two months, to determine whether they were or were not fit for use.
The period of study is eighteen months in Denmark or Norway, and two in Austria, Finland, Germany, Portugal, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland, three in Belgium, France, Greece and Italy, four to six in Holland, and five in Spain.
Passing through the New Hebrides group he touched at Batavia, and arrived at St Malo after an absence of two years and four months.
He carried out the wishes of the new sovereign and after the intrigues of a few months he had the satisfaction of securing the dismissal of Lawrence Hyde, earl of Rochester, from his post as lord treasurer.
In the last months of James's reign he was obviously uncomfortable.
Unable to bear up against the Dominican's fiery denunciations, the sovereigns, three months after the fall of Granada, issued a decree ordering every Jew either to embrace Christianity or to leave the country, four months being given to make up their minds; and those who refused to become Christians to order had leave to sell their property and carry off their effects.
He acted in the same spirit a few months later, when (about July 1839), understanding that the authorities intended to prevent the despatch of emigrants to New Zealand, he hurried them off on his own responsibility, thus compelling the government to annex the country just in time to anticipate a similar step on the part of France.
She survived her marriage but a few months and her husband then obtained the wardship of her Dacre offspring, a son who died young, and three daughters whom the duke, with the true Howard eye for a rich inheritance, gave as brides to three of his sons.
Ten months in the Tower under strong suspicion would have warned another man, but Norfolk was unstable and false.
The result was a revolt in which he was killed after a reign of ten months.
Six months after the assassination of Aurelian he was chosen by the senate to succeed him, and the choice was cordially ratified by the army.
There are two clearly defined seasons, a rainy season from March to June, and a dry season for the remaining months.
From Switzerland he passed in six months to England, where he formed acquaintances with other French exiles and with prominent British statesmen, and imbibed a lasting admiration for the English Constitution.
It is the distributing point for the gold mines of the district, and during the summer months steamboat communication is maintained on the lake.
Enfantin was released in a few months, and then, accompanied by some of his followers, he went to Egypt.
Many trees offer magnificent displays of flowers at certain seasons of the year; perhaps the loveliest effect is derived from the bushes and trailing creepers of the Combretum genus, which, during the "winter" months from December to March, cover the scrub and the forest with mantles of rose colour.
The climate is generally unhealthy during that period and the months following.
Owing to the forced abstention from agricultural labour in the winter months the peasants of central Russia, more especially those of the governments of Moscow, Vladimir, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Tver, Smolensk and Ryazan have for centuries carried on a variety of domestic handicrafts during the period of compulsory leisure.
Out of these have grown large factories, employing as many as 10,000 to 12,000 men each; but when harvest comes round, these men leave the factories and repair to their fields, and meantime the factories stand still for two or three months.
A few months later occurred in Moscow a great fire, which destroyed nearly the whole of the city, and a serious popular tumult, in which the tsar's uncle was murdered by the populace.
Within a few months of her accession, having heard that the publication of the famous French Encyclopedie was in danger of being stopped by the French government on account of its irreligious spirit, she proposed to Diderot that he should complete his great work in Russia under her protection.
In the last months of his life, under the influence of a great national disaster, the conscientious, persistent autocrat began to suspect that his system was a mistake, but he still clung to it obstinately.
After a few months of life it was blown up, its attendant, annoyed by the sound of the escaping steam, having fastened down the safety-valve.
As some months must elapse before they could sail for Palestine, Ignatius determined that the time should be spent partly in hospital work at Venice and later in the journey to Rome.
After five months' voyage the ship reached Mozambique, where the captain resolved to winter, and Xavier was prostrated with a severe attack of fever.
He spent five months in Goa, and then turned his attention to the "Fishery Coast," where he had heard that the Paravas, a tribe engaged in the pearl fishery, had relapsed into heathenism after having professed Christianity.
He laboured assiduously amongst them for fifteen months, and at the end of 1543 returned to Goa.
He sent a missionary to the isle of Manaar, and himself visited Ceylon and Mailapur (Meliapur), the traditional tomb of St Thomas the apostle, which he reached in April 1544, remaining there four months.
At Malacca, where he arrived on September 25th, 1545, he remained another four months, but had comparatively little success.
Gulls and amphibious birds abound in large variety; three kinds of penguin have their rookeries and breed here, migrating yearly for some months to the South American mainland.
It was only a step from the conquest of Mexico to that of Peru, and scarcely three months elapsed before he began to break ground on the latter subject.
With a portion of this sum he obtained release from the last six months of his apprenticeship, and with the rest he purchased a glass-polishing machine.
At seven he was committed for eighteen months to the care of a private tutor, John Kirkby by name, and the author, among other things, of a " philosophical fiction " entitled the Life of Automathes.
He remained at Magdalen about fourteen months.
I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life."
The last eighteen months of this residence abroad saw the infusion of two new elements - one of them at least of considerable importance - into his life.
The first two years after his return to England he spent principally at his father's country seat at Buriton, in Hampshire, only nine months being given to the metropolis.
The fourth volume, partly written in 1782, was completed in June 1784; the preparation of the fifth volume occupied less than two years; while the sixth and last, begun 18th May 1786, was finished in thirteen months.
For some months he found amusement in the preparation of the delightful Memoirs (1789) from which most of our knowledge of his personal history is derived; but his letters to friends in England, written between 1788 and 1793 occasionally betray a slight but unmistakable tone of ennui.
A residence in the state of six months and in the district or county of thirty days preceding the election is required of all voters.
An independent local government was formed a week later, and this lasted for several months, until the Utah authorities intervened.
Lord Byron resided at Ravenna for eighteen months in 1820-21, attracted by the charms of the Countess Guiccioli.
For a few months he worked as a legal reporter for the Cincinnati Times (owned by his brother C. P. Taft), and then for the Cincinnati Commercial.
Phelan disobeyed the injunction and on the 13th of July 1894 was sentenced to jail for six months for contempt.
The anarchy of the last months of the commonwealth converted him to royalism, and he showed great activity in bringing about the Restoration.
Louis died a few months after Charles's birth and was succeeded by his son Louis IX.
The last-named author was condemned to four months' prison; his work wasreprinted in 1871.
According to Ross, it should be given promptly, in sufficient doses (up to 30 grains), and should be continued for months.
Within two months he was again in the field, and on the 14th of August he destroyed an English force under Bagnal at the Yellow Ford on the Blackwater.
Eight months after the battle of the Yellow Ford, the earl of Essex landed in Ireland to find that Tyrone had done nothing in the interval to improve his position.
In 1841 Edward Moxon was found guilty of the publication of a blasphemous libel (Shelley's Queen Mab), the prosecution having been instituted by Henry Hetherington, who had previously been condemned to four months' imprisonment for a similar offence, and wished to test the law under which he was punished.
In Austria, whoever commits blasphemy by speech or writing is liable to imprisonment for any term from six months up to ten years, according to the seriousness of the offence.
In 1747 he was accredited to Copenhagen as Russian minister, but a few months later was transferred to Stockholm, where for the next twelve years he played a conspicuous part as the chief opponent of the French party.
Elected deputy in 1880, he distinguished himself by trenchant criticism of Magliani's finance, and upon the fall of Magliani was for some months, in 188 9, under-secretary of state for the treasury.
In1608-1609it withstood a sixteen months' siege by the Poles; at a later date the monks took a lively part in the organization of the army which crushed the outbreak of the peasants.
The violent personalities of a pamphlet entitled Marie Joseph Chenier et le prince des critiques (1844), in reply to Jules Janin, brought him a six months' sojourn in La Pelagic, in the cell just quitted by Lamennais.
After three months' tenure of this office he was returned by the department to the Constituent Assembly, where he voted with the Mountain, and brought forward the celebrated motion for the abolition of the presidential office.
After lingering for a few months he died on the 29th of July 1832.
He was criticised by the vestals of constitutional tradition for having declared war without consulting Parliament and for not having summoned it until several months later.
Zechariah was slain after six months by Shallum ben Jabesh in Ibleam; but the usurper fell a month later to Menahem, who only after much bloodshed established his posi tion.
The Judaeans made Jehoahaz (or Shallum) their king, but the Pharaoh banished him to Egypt three months later and appointed his brother Jehoiakim.
His young son Jehoiachin surrendered after a three months' reign, with his mother and the court; they were taken away to Babylonia, together with a number of the artisan class (596).
There they held out for three months, succumbing finally because in obedience to the Law (as interpreted since the time of Antiochus Epiphanes) they would only defend themselves from actual assault upon the sabbath day.
A peculiar feature is presented by the level upland basins which furnish abundant pasturage during the summer months; the more remarkable are the Omalo in the White Mountains (about 4000 ft.) drained by subterranean outlets (KaTa(30Opa), Nida (Eis T7)v "IBav) in Psiloriti (between 5000 and 6000 ft.), and the Lassithi plain (about 3000 ft.), a more extensive area, on which are several villages.
The chamber (1 30vX17), which is elected in the proportion of one deputy to every 5000 inhabitants, meets annually for a session of two months.
It soon became evident, however, that the Porte was endeavouring to obstruct the execution of the new reforms. Several months passed without any step being taken towards this realization; difficulties were raised with regard to the composition of the international commissions charged with the reorganization of the gendarmery and judicial system; intrigues were set on foot against the Christian governorgeneral; and the presence of a special imperial commissioner, who had no place under the constitution, proved so injurious to the restoration of tranquillity that the powers demanded his immediate recall.
This pope reigned only ten months; his successor, John XXIII., raised Pierre d'Ailly to the rank of cardinal (June 6, 1411), and further, to indemnify him for the loss of the bishopric of Cambrai, conferred upon him the administration of that of Limoges (November 3, 1412), which was shortly after exchanged for the bishopric of Orange.
The dry season lasts from October to May, the hottest months appear to be in March and April, when the heat is increased by the burning of the corn and henequen fields.
The sister of the new sovereign, Princess Alexandra, had a few months before (loth March) married the prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII., and his father succeeded to the crown of Denmark in the following November.
Francis being in captivity after the battle of Pavia (February 25, 1525), Faber was condemned and his works suppressed by commission of the parlement; these measures were quashed on the return of Francis some months later.
Nearly one-third of the rain falls in January, February and March; July, also, is one of the wet months.
Until 1905 the only grounds for an absolute divorce were 1 Under the Constitution of 1776 senators were elected by counties, one for each county, and representatives also by counties, two for each county - in addition, the towns of Edenton, Newbern, Wilmington, Salisbury, Hillsboro and Halifax each elected one representative; and a property qualification - a freehold of 50 acres held for six months before an election - was imposed on electors of senators.
The working of children under twelve years of age in any factory or manufacturing establishment is unlawful, the working of children between the ages of twelve and thirteen in such places is allowed only on condition that they be employed as apprentices and have attended school for at least four months during the preceding year; and no boy or girl under fourteen is to work in such places during night time.
In 870 Dumbarton was attacked and destroyed after four months' siege by the Scandinavian king Ivarr, and for some time after this the country was exposed to ravages by the Norsemen.
This diminution of pressure, which continues as the heat increases till it reaches its maximum in July soon after the solstice, is followed by the corresponding development of the south-west monsoon; and as the barometric pressure is gradually restored, and becomes equalized within the tropics soon after the equinox in October, with the general fall of temperature north of the equator, the south-west winds fall off, and are succeeded by a north-east monsoon, which is developed during the winter months by the relatively greater atmospheric pressure which then occurs over Asia, as compared with the equatorial region.
Among the more remarkable phenomena of the hotter seas of Asia must be noticed the revolving storms or cyclones, which are of frequent occurrence in the hot months in the Indian Ocean and China Sea, in which last they are known under the name of typhoon.
They occur in all the hot months, from June to October, and more rarely in November, and appear to be originated by adverse currents from the north meeting those of the south-west monsoon.
They are thus developed in nearly the same latitudes and in the same months as those of the Indian Sea, though their progress is in a different direction.
The arboreous forms which least require the humid and equable heat of the more truly tropical and equatorial climates, and are best able to resist the high temperatures and excessive drought of the northern Indian hot months from April to June, are certain Leguminosae, Bauhinia, Acacia, Butea and Dalbergia, Bombax, Shorea, Nauclea, Lagerstroemia, and Bignonia, a few bamboos and palms, with others which extend far beyond the tropic, and give a tropical aspect to the forest to the extreme northern border of the Indian plain.
The other cereals may be seen occasionally, where artificial irrigation is practised, in all stages of progress at all seasons of the year, though the operations of agriculture are, as a general rule, limited to the rainy months, when alone is the requisite supply of water commonly forthcoming.
Robespierre visited Marie Therese on the 11th of May, but no one, according to the legend, entered the dauphin's room for six months until Barras visited the prison after the 9th Thermidor (July 2 7, 1794).
He escaped after a few months and left the country, to return in 1840.
He was indeed taken in June 1673 while holding a conventicle at Knockdow, and condemned by the privy council to 4 years and 3 months' imprisonment on the Bass Rock and a further 15 months in the Tolbooth at Edinburgh.
For some eighteen months Ælfwyn seems to have wielded her mother's authority, and then, just before the Christmas of 919, Edward took Mercia into his own hands, and Ælfwyn was "led away" into Wessex.
In the Rockingham government that followed General Conway became commander-in-chief with a seat in the cabinet; and he retained office under Shelburne when Rockingham died a few months later.
The months he spent at Berlin were important in the history of Prussia, for while he was there Frederick the Great died.
He attended Phillips Exeter Academy about nine months in 1794, was further prepared for college by Dr Samuel Wood, the minister at Boscawen, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1801.
A few months later the Lesghians in Daghestan, who had risen in revolt, were defeated and their country once more reduced to obedience.
On the 14th of July of the latter year he became perpetual curate of Theydon Bois, Essex, and a few months afterwards curate and lecturer of Leyton in the same county.
The journey lasted ten months; and on the explorer's arrival in Peru, Acuna prepared his narrative, while awaiting a ship for Europe.
Then followed many months of unintermittent pressure upon both Petersburg and Richmond.
Forbes, as professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh, and this chair he occupied till within a few months of his death, which occurred on the 4th of July 1901, at Edinburgh.
The hot drought of 1893 extended over the spring and summer months, but there was an abundant rainfall in the autumn; correspondingly there was an unprecedentedly bad yield of corn and hay crops, but a moderately fair yield of the main root crops (turnips and swedes).
In one of these exceptional years, 1898, the average rose to 34s., but this was due entirely to a couple of months of inflated prices in the early half of the year, when the outbreak of war between Spain and the United States of America coincided with a huge speculative deal in the latter country.
Rye is perhaps more largely grown as a green crop to be fed off by sheep, or cut green for soiling, in the spring months.
In the British Isles wheat is, as a rule, sown in the autumn on a heavier soil, and has four or five months in which to distribute its roots, and so it gets possession of a wide range of soil and subsoil before barley is sown in the spring.
This result is partly due to their period of accumulation and growth extending even months after the period of collection by the ripening cereals has terminated, and at the season when nitrification within the soil is most active, and the accumulation of nitrates in it is the greatest.
In the fattening of animals for the butcher the principle of 2 Returns for only ten months were available for this year.
At the 1905 show, sheep of each breed, and also cross-breds, competed as (1) wether lambs under twelve months old, and (2) wether sheep above twelve and under twenty-four months old.
The only exception was in the case of the slowly-maturing Cheviot and mountain breeds, for which the second class was for wether sheep of any age above twelve months.
He wrote in the Examiner and made a public speech in favour of the association a few months before his death.
After spending four months at Autun, Napoleon entered the school at Brienne in May 1779.
After gaining a further extension of leave of absence from his regiment he returned to Ajaccio and spent six months more in the midst of family and political affairs.
Rejoining his regiment, then in the garrison at Auxonne, after a furlough of twenty-one months, the young officer went through a time of much privation, brightened only by the study of history and cognate subjects.
Thanks to the friendly intervention of the marechal du camp, baron Duteil, Bonaparte once more gained leave of absence for three months and reached Corsica in September 1791.
Napoleon wished to postpone the rupture for fully eighteen months, as is shown by his secret instructions to Decaen.
Thus the first months of the war served to differentiate the two belligerents.
The importance which he then assigned to naval affairs appears in many letters of the months May to June 1808.
For some five months past the two emperors had been exchanging their views as to the future of the world.
In the next months Napoleon promulgated a series of decrees for effecting the ruin of British commerce, and in December 1810 he decreed the annexation of the northwest coast of Germany, as also of Canton Valais, to the French empire.
There he spent eleven months in uneasy retirement, watching with close interest the course of events in France.
In the first months of his tenure of office he had to deal with the furious opposition to Wood's halfpence, and to counteract the effect of Swift's Draper's Letters.
The year is solar, and has twelve months of thirty days each, with five intercalary days between the eighth and the ninth month.
He was a schoolmaster for about two years, and then, after studying law for less than four months, was admitted to the bar in 1834.
A marked disproportion between the life-term of larva and imago is common; the former often lives for months or years, while the latter only survives for weeks or days or hours.
Thus, within four months of the opening of the campaign, the Polish capital and the coronation city were both in the possession of the Swedes.
The campaign of 1703 was remarkable for Charles's victory at Pultusk (April 21) and the long siege of Thorn, which occupied him eight months but cost him only 50 men.
Charles's departure from Saxony was delayed for twelve months by a quarrel with the emperor.
Delayed during the autumn months in Poland by the tardy arrival of reinforcements from Pomerania, it was not till November 1707 that Charles was able to take the field.
But, as Darius said, nobody had the courage to oppose the new king, who ruled for seven months over the whole empire.
However, Nitzsch had not as yet seen his way to proposing any methodical arrangement of the various groups of birds, and it was not until some eighteen months later that a scheme of classification in the main anatomical was attempted.
They all grow slowly, and it is not until the animal is about six months old that they are united into one firm bone.
For many months the siege went on; but Pisani gradually assumed the offensive as Genoese spirits and food ran low.
The interior, a basilica with nave and two aisles, contains columns said to come from a temple of Minerva and a fine mosaic pavement of 1166, with interesting representations of the months, Old Testament subjects, &c. It has a crypt supported by forty-two marble columns.
The expedition, after an absence of sixteen months, during nine of which the ships were ice-bound, returned without having found any trace of the missing vessels.
He was determined not to give up the search for Franklin, and in spite of ill-health travelled through the States lecturing to obtain funds, and gave up his pay for twenty months.
A floating hospital for women and children in the summer months, with permanent and transient wards, has been maintained since 1894 (incorporated 1901).
But Louis died in a few months, and Philip returned to the throne.
The names of the months were the same as those used by the Nabataeans, Syrians and later Jews, viz.
After the spawning the schools break up into smaller companies which are much scattered, and offer for two or three months employment to the hand-line fishermen.
A lease under the Settled Land Act 1882 must be by deed and must be made to take effect in possession not later than 12 months after its date; the best rent that can reasonably be obtained must be reserved and the lease must contain a covenant by the lessee for payment of the rent, and a condition of re-entry on nonpayment within a specified time not exceeding 30 days.
The common law doctrine of a six months' notice being required to terminate a tenancy from year to year of a corporeal hereditament, does not apply to an incorporeal hereditament such as a right to shoot.
Barely eight months after the restoration of the Bourbons in the autumn of 1875, Sagasta accepted the new state of things, and organized the Liberal dynastic party that confronted Canovas and the Conservatives for five years in the Cortes, until the Liberal leader used the influence of his military allies, Jovellar, Campos and others, to induce the king to ask him to form a Cabinet in 1881.
Cotton requires for its development from six to seven months of favourable weather.
Picking takes place normally during September and October, and during these months dry weather is essential.
When afterwards released, it lay for many months unsold, in consequence of the spinners doubting whether it could be profitably worked up.
Estimates are published of the area under cotton cultivation, and conditions of the American crop are issued by the American agricultural bureau at the beginning of the months of June, July, August, September and October of each year.
To-day a spinner who is asked to quote for deliveries of yarn for, say, the next six months, may obtain from a broker quotations for deliveries of the cotton that he needs, in quantities as he needs it, for the next six months, and upon these quotations he may base his own for yarn.
They are quoted as a rule for about ten months ahead.
Each group, it will be observed, except " current futures," culminates in two defined months.
The rule is that on the first of the two months the seller of " futures " may, and before the last day of the second month must, deliver cotton against them, or, what comes to the same thing, buy back the " futures " on the basis of the price of " spot " cotton of middling grade.
Egyptian futures, it will be observed, run out in single months.
It might be thought that the "futures" of different months, being substitutes in proportion to their temporal proximity to one another, should vary together exactly; but it would seem to be a sufficient reply that as they are not perfect substitutes they are in some slight degree independent variables.
After an interval of about eighteen months, however, he definitively betook himself to an academic career, "habilitating" in Heidelberg, where two vacancies had occurred in the theological faculty of the university.
Within a week Ranke received the promise of a post at Berlin, and in less than three months was appointed supernumerary professor in the university of that city, a striking instance of the promptitude with which the Prussian government recognized scientific merit when, as in Ranke's case, it was free from dangerous political opinions.
As in the north of China, the rivers are frozen up during the four winter months.
It flowed continuously, though in gradually diminishing quantity, for fifteen months; afterwards the flow became intermittent.
If the fishing operation is unsuccessful the well has to be abandoned, often after months of labour, unless it is found possible to drill past the tools which have been lost.
Some three or four months before the term fixed by Urban II., in April and May 1096, five divisions of pauperes had already collected.
The struggle lasted for some months, and helped to delay the further progress of the crusaders.
The sky is continuously cloudless from the beginning of May till about the end of October; during the summer months the nights as a rule are dewy, except in the desert.
Fourteen months later (February 1854) Great Britain renounced sovereignty over the farmers settled beyond the Orange, and Moshesh found himself face to face with the newly constituted Free State.
In defiance of an army which marched to the relief of the beleaguered city under Yusef the Almoravide, the Cid took Valencia after a siege of nine months, on the 15th of June 10 94 - the richest prize which up to that time had been recovered from the Moors.
In 107 Hadrian was legatus praetorius of lower Pannonia, in 108 consul suffectus, in 112 archon at Athens, legatus in the Parthian campaign (113117), in 117 consul designatus for the following year, in 119 consul for the third and last time only for four months.
Of his three children, two died before him; his wife survived him only a few months.
In 1527 he sailed from Cuba with about 600 men (soon reduced to less than 400), landed (early in 1528) probably at the present site of Pensacola, and for six months remained in the country, he and his men suffering terribly from exposure, hunger and fierce Indian attacks.
The meeting was held and ten months later Bourne was expelled by the Burslem Quarterly Meeting, ostensibly for non-attendance at class (he had been away from home, evangelizing), really, as the Wesleyan superintendent told him "because you have a tendency to set up other than the ordinary worship" which was precisely the reason why, fifty years earlier, the Anglican Church had declined to sanction the methods of John Wesley.
His personality drew a number of strong men after him, and a society meeting held in a kitchen and then in a warehouse became the nucleus of a circuit, a chapel being built at Tunstall in July 1811, two months after the fusion of the Bourne and Clowes forces.
He joined the Methodists, was soon employed as a class leader and local preacher, and continued to preach till a few months before his death.
After only a few months of wedlock his wife died, and Gallatin was once more alone.
The adults live in the nose of dogs, where they have been known to survive over fifteen months.
Several of the rescuers, notably Professor Henry Everard Peck of Oberlin College, were arrested and were imprisoned in Cleveland for several months.
In 1410 Jobst, margrave of Moravia, was made emperor of Germany, but died a few months after his election.
In 1548 Tartaglia accepted a situation as professor of Euclid at Brescia, but returned to Venice at the end of eighteen months.
Here began a series of heavy spiritual trials which assailed him for many months.
Four months later he was suddenly cast into prison; and, after seventeen days, he learnt that he was falsely accused of sending two noble ladies on a pilgrimage to Jaen.
Ignatius, now a priest, waited for eighteen months before saying Mass, which he did for the first time on the 25th of December 1538 in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
During the dark winter months work proceeds by the aid of electric light.
In the north, the driest and best months are October, November and December; in the south, December, January, February and March.
The Japanese were thus left to take possession as best they could, and some four months elapsed before they effected a landing on the south of the island.
He was also violently opposed by -the Agrarians because he advocated the reduction of corn duties, and in 1897 he resigned office, and a few months later was appointed German ambassador in Constantinople.
In the autumn months malarial fever is prevalent in all thickly forested tracts and also in the rice country; but on the whole the province is considered to be healthy, and as the rains break fairly regularly in June and produce an immediate fall in the temperature, severe heat is only experienced for a period of from two to three months.
Spohr, however, promptly discovered its merits, and produced it at Cassel some months later, with very favourable results.
Within a few months he was advanced to the post of secretary of the province of Georgia, and in about four years he was made under-secretary of state.
The months of maximum rainfall at Seathwaite are November, December and January and September.
Its surrender in 1625, after a ten months' siege, to the Spaniards under Spinola is the subject of the famous picture by Velasquez in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
In 1637 Breda was recaptured by Frederick Henry of Orange after a four months' siege, and in 1648 it was finally ceded to Holland by the treaty of Westphalia.
The addition of a little of the acid to glue renders it more tenacious; skins to be used for making leather do not undergo decomposition if steeped in a dilute solution; butter containing a small quantity of it may be kept sweet for months even in the hottest weather.
Its manufactures of yarn are on the largest scale, the spinning mills often working night and day for many months together.
Another, Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), who was, with one interval, a member of parliament from 1780 to 1818, and for a few months during 1806 and 1807 president of the board of control and first lord of the admiralty, is perhaps more famous as a book-collector than as a statesman; he bequeathed his large and valuable library to the British Museum.
The trial of Babeuf and the others, begun at Vendome on the 10th of February 1797, lasted two months.
It breeds from four to eight times a year, bringing forth each time from three to eight young; its period of gestation is about thirty days, and it is able to bear when six months old.
The original drawings for this map had to be done with exceptional neatness, the draughtsman spending twelve months on that which he would have completed in four months had it been intended to engrave the map on copper; yet an average chart, measuring 530 by 630 mm., which would have taken two years and nine months for drawing and engraving, was completed in less than fifteen months - fifty days of which were spent in " retouching " the copper plate.
Kilham's wife (Hannah Spurr, 1 77418 3 2), whom he married only a few months before his death, became a Quaker, and worked as a missionary in the Gambia and at Sierra Leone; she reduced to writing several West African vernaculars.
He succeeded his father on the 25th of December 1406 at the age of a year and ten months.
At the end of eighteen months his master returned, and, the moment his voice was heard, the wolf recognized him and lavished on him the most affectionate caresses.
The interruption of preachers when celebrating divine service rendered the offender liable to three months' imprisonment under a statute of the first year of Mary, but Friends generally waited to speak till the service was over.'
He commanded the fathers to disperse, and appointed Bologna as their meeting-place in eighteen months' time, his intention being to make the session of the council coincide with some conferences with representatives of the Greek church, which were to be held there with a view to union (18th December 1431).
The latter course was decided upon, and during the first months of 1910 the advanced posts were withdrawn and the British administration confined to the coast towns.
In every case the port is much exposed and unapproachable for months together.
He reigned only four months (in 294), and was succeeded by the pretender Narseh.
India thus passed again from the Afghans to the Moguls, but six months afterwards Humayun was killed by a fall from the parapet of his palace (1556), leaving his kingdom to Akbar.
This post he held for eighteen months only, but in that brief period he obtained a reputation as a social and municipal reformer.
But the jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887 and the pope's priestly jubilee a few months later were the occasion of friendly intercourse between Rome and Windsor, Mgr.
The female brings forth one young in the end of May or beginning of June, after a gestation of nine months.
He preached frequently in the churches near Oxford in the months succeeding his ordination, and in April 1726 he obtained leave from his college to act as his father's curate.
In the summer of 1729 he was up for two months.
A few months later he left Egypt for the East and never returned to his city; but his corpse was ultimately entombed there.
In 616 it was taken by Chosroes, king of Persia; and in 6 4 o by the Arabians, under `Amr, after a siege that lasted fourteen months, during which Heraclius, the emperor of Constantinople, did not send a single ship to its assistance.
Pursuant to this order, they were distributed among the public baths, of which there was a large number in the city, where, for six months, they served to supply the fires.
It is probably the latest of Bede's extant works, as it was written in November 73 4, only six months before his death.
Many lichens, such as the Verrucariae and Collemaceae, are found in the best condition during the winter months.
In the district that bore this designation, lying close to the Appian Way, the basilica of San Sebastiano was erected, and the extensive burial-vaults beneath that church - in which, according to tradition, the bodies of the apostles St Peter and St Paul rested for a year and seven months previous to their removal to the basilicas which bear their names - were, in very early times, called from it coemeterium ad catacumbas, or catacumbas alone.
Parker, " the catacombs were never intended, nor fit for, dwelling-places, and the stories of persons living in them for months are probably fabulous.
At the age of twenty he was fitted, in six months, for college, and in 1819, graduated with highest honours, from the Brown University at Providence, Rhode Island, having devoted himself so unremittingly to his studies as to weaken further his naturally feeble constitution.
First one man was trained for the work by himself, then he was sent to a district for six months, where, (for £8 a year) he taught gratis the children and young people (in fact, all comers) reading and Christian principles.
For a few months in 1830 he held office as minister of justice, but, finding himself out of harmony with his colleagues, he resigned before the close of the year and resumed his place in the opposition.