Reportedly battled with 1 dn, say, for some days

Usage examples of fortnight.

Watts, who was invited by Lady Abney to pass a fortnight at her home, and remained for forty years.

A month before the wedding, during a spell of several weeks when they were unable to see one another because of illness, Adams wrote to her: Oh, my dear girl, I thank heaven that another fortnight will restore you to me--after so long a separation.

My stay lasted for a fortnight, during which time I was able to examine the manners and customs of the Aragonese, who were not subject to the ordinances of the Marquis of Aranda, as long cloaks and low hats were to be seen at every corner.

The aunt, instead of going to the nearest call-box or telegraph office, broke it to the Wynns in a letter that her niece had left on her way back to Aylesbury a fortnight previously.

Only a fortnight ago some of those bloody bastards captured a Tyroshi merchantman in the straits.

Now here is Boswell, who is come up upon the election for his own county, which will not last a fortnight.

Within a fortnight General de Gaulle was enabled to establish himself at Duala, in the Cameroons, which became a rallying-point for the Free French cause.

At Carlsruhe, my lad was shut up in the old caserne, where he remained for a fortnight.

But in the end, what saved them all was that Selenay finally got around to declaring a fortnight holiday for all three Collegia, which at least solved the problem of keeping absent minds on study and would-be truants in their seats.

The latter enterprise must wait upon the former, so for a fortnight all operations were in abeyance while the flying columns of the British endeavoured to run down their extremely active and energetic antagonist.

I got up and walked away, and it hurt me so much that I went over to West Bourke and went to the dogs properly for a fortnight, and lost twenty quid on a game of draughts against a blindfold player.

By the end of the month the British and Americans had reached the Rhine at several places north of Duesseldorf, and a fortnight later they had firm possession of the left bank from the Moselle River northward.

London with the Kirkbanks directly after Easter, and that directly they arrived she would set off with her maid for Fellside, to spend a week or a fortnight with her dearest grandmother, before going back to Arlington Street for the May campaign.

A fortnight after Easter I was delivered from my troublesome Israelite, and the poor devil instead of being sent back to his home had to spend two years in The Fours, and on his gaining his freedom he went and set up in Trieste, where he ended his days.

Bragadin and my other friends, had been in Vienna and had left it a fortnight before my arrival to return to Venice.