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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
Man
Mind
He
Knows
His
Wonderfully
Hanged
Fortnight
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
Henry David Thoreau
Plant
Half
Distant
Visited
Exactly
Opened
Particular
Know
Within
Five
Times
Often
Might
Fortnight
Miles
Dozen
Four
When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.
Tom Stoppard
Day
World
Free
Half
Not Talking
Out
Inside
Something
Ten
Could
Head
Days
Talking
Left
Five
Get
Just
Being
Anyone
Hold
Younger
Fortnight
Useful
Now
Need
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Samuel Richardson
Nowadays
Lasts
Honeymoon
Above
Fortnight
We make our own labor unions. We organize our labor into units of 300, and then the representatives of these 300 meet together every week. Then every fortnight they meet with the head men.
Charles M. Schwab
Together
Men
Own
Unions
Every
Meet
Our
Week
Head
Make
Labor
Representatives
Then
Fortnight
Organize
Units
It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges.
James Lind
Time
Others
Way
Indeed
Those
Except
Recovery
Had
Taken
Fairer
Courses
Sound
However
Were
Continue
End
Very
Than
Oranges
Different
Which
Length
Fortnight
Who
We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.
Sue Townsend
You
Library
Own
Our
Books
Those
Would
Would-Be
Could
Had
Days
House
Read
Eight
Them
Fortnight
Many
In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.
Peter Ackroyd
You
Once
See
London
Born
Spirit
Something
Within
Always
Least
Where
Happens
Place
Fortnight
Miles
Lived
I was a fortnight away from my 16th birthday when the fabled 2005 Ashes series ended. My hero-worship throughout it belonged to Ian Bell - though I don't think I've ever made that abundantly clear to him.
Jonny Bairstow
Birthday
Made
Think
Though
Throughout
Clear
Abundant
Him
Ended
Ashes
Fortnight
Series
Away
Ever
Bell
Belonged
In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
Joseph Chamberlain
Politics
Looking
Beyond
Next
Fortnight
Use
For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.
Graham Nelson
Me
Broken
Care
Thought
Emailed
Out
Posted
Follow-Up
Nobody
Anyone
Turned
Fortnight