The tempest continued for nearly forty-eight hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

Bernard died, only forty-eight years old, March 6, 1850.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

I have seen persons lie in this state forty-eight hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

He was at the best period of life, being forty-eight years of age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

May 3 -- In the last forty-eight hours one Swedish steamer and three.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

In the afternoon it began to rain; and it poured for forty-eight hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

It is only necessary to add that, within forty-eight hours of that time.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference

"I think she is good for another forty-eight hours," said Ned that night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

One saw nothing else; and the Kaiserin opened its doors forty-eight hours before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

Boleslas on that same couch, at the same time of the day, forty-eight hours before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the fifteenth day of the month of Xanthicus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference

It is a terrible device, but she must be your wife, and that within forty-eight hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Successful Shadow A Detective's Successful Quest] Reference

A "part" consisted of some twenty-four or forty-eight pages, or more, in paper covers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

Dundee is an important coal-mining centre situated some forty-eight miles north-east of.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

It was forty-eight hours before his corkscrews returned to their original graceful curl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference

I envy you those days of battle, those magnificent deeds of 'forty-eight and' forty-nine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

This latter symptom was the most striking -- it remained from twelve to forty-eight hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

"I have been on duty for forty-eight hours; there was not even time to change my uniform.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

It is now forty-eight years since we first began to listen to the renewed will of our Creator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference

In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the four and twentieth day of the month of Dioscorus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference

In twenty-four hours, in forty-eight, in six months, what difference will there be, I pray you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

She was still a young woman, forty-eight, and she intended sending her resignation to Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Immigrant] Reference

For a period of from twenty-four to forty-eight hours after hatching, the chicks should receive no feed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

When I was retired in 'forty-eight, under a mean and cruel injustice they did me, I had not reached the age of exemption.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The enemy abandoned the place in the night, destroying the pontoons, running three locomotives and forty-eight cars into the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

It was an exhaustive forty-eight hours for the crew as Michael spent the day snuggling the title deed he won from Mr. Tanaka.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.9: A Day of Madness. What?! Get Out of Here! No Really, Go!] Reference

The whole expense was here shown to have been forty-eight minae, so that he charged them with what his whole expense had been.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Lysias] Reference

It seems highly irrational to have forty-eight independent authorities upon this subject within the limits of a single nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

At the end of forty-eight hours, the necessary aids to escape were in the proper place, hidden under the snow behind the bastion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

In the mare, this should be practised within a few hours after birth has occurred, and in other animals, from one to forty-eight hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

Lee acceded to this; but delays in transmitting the correspondence brought it to the 7th of June -- forty-eight hours after it commenced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

It was only after the meal was over that it was learned that this was the first square meal these men had had in over forty-eight hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference

"At a general assembly held at New Bern, the fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-eight.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference