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fortnight
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Definition:two weeks, viz. fourteen nights
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“You can’t imagine moral sufferings greater than what she went through in Petersburg in that fortnight ... and I beg you to believe it.”
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it cost us near a fortnight’s time to get her along, as it were inch by inch, upon great rollers into the water; but when she was in, she would have carried twenty men with great ease.
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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Blackadder: Mr. Brilliantly-Undervalued-Butler who hasn't had a raise in a fortnight?
George: Take an extra thousand? Guineas? Per month?
Blackadder: All right. What's your problem?
BBC. Blackadder, season 3: Sense and Senility
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And there is another thing which surprised me; I find, in settling accounts with the housekeeper, that a lunch, consisting of bread and cheese, has twice been served out to the girls during the past fortnight.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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it made the count quite ill and he would not see us for a whole fortnight.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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the members should dine expensively once a fortnight, to quarrel among themselves as much as possible after dinner, and to cause six waiters to get drunk on the stairs.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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Yet I was so weak and bruised in the sides with the squeezes given me by this odious animal, that I was forced to keep my bed a fortnight.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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One report from a Flemish painter who was in Rome in 1604 described [Caravaggio's] comportment this way: "After a fortnight's work, he will swagger about for a month or two with his sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or argument, with the result that it is most difficult to get along with him."
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