Citations:twelvemonth

English citations of twelvemonth

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• 1811 - Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

  Mrs Dashwood took the house for a twelvemonth; it was ready furnished, and she might have immediate possession.

• 1814 - Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

  Such were its immediate effects, and within a twelvemonth a more important advantage to Mrs. Price resulted from it.

• 1922, A. E. Housman, Last Poems, XVIII, lines 13-14

  The skies, they are not always raining

  Nor grey the twelvemonth through;

• 1937 - H. S. Bennett - Life on the English Manor

  Then they were moved away from the field that had stood fallow for a twelvemonth and there a third and last ploughing preluded the planting of the wheat . .

• 1994 - John Burnett - Useful toil

  She was ill very nigh a twelvemonth altogether; and I had to nurse her . . .