A sennight is one week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

If not this very eventide, then surely within a sennight. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Hearts and Three Lions]

And Kellen had been with Perulan in the last sennight of his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tran Siberian] Reference

Mr. Blowers, and another Meeting appointed next Fryday sennight, to consider of some.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Adams diary 13, 1 March - 31 December 1766, March 1767] Reference

They kept north and west, and by the end of the first sennight, Kellen and Idalia were able to ride side by side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference

But as one sennight, then two, passed without sign of him, or Kellen, or Shalkan, her hope for their survival dimmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tran Siberian] Reference

"We had not intended leaving anyway for a sennight, and, English weather being what it is, it may well be fair again by then.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frozen Heart]

"A sennight," repeated the Baron, in a low voice, and then to Master.    From Wordnik.com.  [Otto of the Silver Hand] Reference

This letter prophesies a visit to London on Friday or Saturday sennight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference

Know that Margaret Brandt died in these arms on Thursday sennight last. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference

"He'll be working at throwing you out, some of you, same as he did young Bobby on Sunday sennight.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference

On Sunday was sennight, when they came about for the Offering, she gave her Charity with a very good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spectator, Volume 2.] Reference

Chamber these Eight Days, Wednesday last was sennight in the morning I was taken lame however venturd out in my.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Robert Carter to [Mann Page], March 3, 1721] Reference

But ever so long as she was among heathens would she take neither meat nor drink from them, and in this wise was it for a sennight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)] Reference

"A sennight, my lord," said Master Rudolph, the steward, who had come into the room and who now stood among the others at the bedside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Otto of the Silver Hand] Reference

Mr. Lowther has told me, that he shall be ready by the beginning of next week; and on Saturday sennight I hope to be at Dover, on my way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)] Reference

She cannot see, and therefore I may venture to write that I intend to be in London if it be possible on Friday or Saturday come sennight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54]

She cannot see, and therefore I may venture to write that I intend to be at London if it be possible on Friday or Saturday come sennight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference

Then spake the royal Gunther:/"A sennight from this day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original] Reference

Gawain said: "A courier will be here within the sennight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wicked Day]

Surely a sennight among the Elves has not civilized you so much? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tran Siberian] Reference

I was starting to worry; it's been more than a sennight, "she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tran Siberian] Reference

Then spake King Gunther: "In a sennight I will tell you the tale of what.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied] Reference

"'Tis but a sennight I saw this same dull nonsense played by the Lord Chamberlain's players.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panchronicon] Reference

And do take a sennight or two to consider it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Night Arrant]

IT was over a sennight since they'd been gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tran Siberian] Reference

The courtyard hadn't been swept in a sennight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks] Reference

That this day sennight, and no longer hence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Potts (C)] Reference

But ere this day sennight, and no longer hence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Potts (C)] Reference

1505: if the interim be but a sennight, Times pace is so hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [As You Like It (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference

We desire a day of thanksgiuing 4th day sennight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference

A sennight strove ye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere] Reference

This day sennight brings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts] Reference