Sennight

'_a Month_,' and perhaps 'sennight' is better than 'week.' ❋ Edward FitzGerald (1846)

Even more fortunately, he and Idalia had been in Sentarshadeen less than a sennight, and his bedroll (and other camping equipment) were still tucked away in the corners of his room, along with his share of the traveling packs. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

Today's emergency Council session could only mean that the Council was meeting to review the reports from the field, admit what each of them had known a sennight ago, and fix the blame. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

By the end of their second sennight of travel, Idalia informed Kellen that they were unlikely to encounter any more dwelling-places, for though they were still far from the borders, they were close enough to them that no one was likely to settle there for fear of encountering Elvenkind. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

It was in a quarter inhabited by the poorest workers, the street-sweepers, the scullery-help, the collectors of rubbish, the sewer-tenders-people who had a vested interest in allowing those merchants of detritus to camp on their doorsteps twice a sennight. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

He thought of the dryad's lightning-struck tree back in the Wildwood, and what would have happened if the Wild-wood had been as tinder-dry as the country he and Idalia had ridden through for the last sennight. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

It was already late summer, and in a sennight-a fortnight at the most-he would have to turn eastward again, lest winter catch him far from Nerendale's comforts. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

In their third sennight of travel (as far as Kellen could tell; he was actually starting to lose track of how long they'd been on the road, he discovered), he started to wonder if maybe the smallholders had a good reason for not wanting to encounter Elves. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

And Kellen had been with Perulan in the last sennight of his life. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

"WILD Magic is especially good for healing-almost anything is a Healing Spell when you come right down to it," Idalia told him a sennight after his arrival, as she used Wild Magic to heal the ankle he'd strained while fishing in a rocky-strewn brook, explaining to him that she was also going to strengthen it so that he wouldn't repeat the injury. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

He'd spent a sennight here, and if he spent a dozen sennights, if he read every book in the Great Library cover to cover, he knew he wouldn't find anything different. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

He didn't think they'd been missed in the last sennight, and as long as they were back now, there shouldn't be any trouble about them having been gone in the first place. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

At last, after a whole sennight of fruitless searching, he set the book he'd been looking at back in its place on the shelf with a disgusted sigh. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

And it wasn't much more than a sennight since she'd called upon the Elves to lend power to the forging of the keystone she'd sent off with Kellen. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

But as one sennight, then two, passed without sign of him, or Kellen, or Shalkan, her hope for their survival dimmed. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

Idalia and Canderil spoke easily and companionably about people Kellen didn't know, very much as if they'd last seen each other a sennight ago instead of after an absence on Idalia's part of what must be several years. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

Chapter Seventeen Into Elven Lands THEY KEPT NORTH and west, and by the end of the first sennight, Kellen and Idalia were able to ride side by side. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

He agreed to this, and went to their houses and each of them entertained him for a night and a day; nor did they cease to do thus for a whole sennight, being seven in number. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They went out early one day, and were absent from us a sennight and hunger was sore upon us; but on the eighth day they returned, both weeping, and we asked them the reason of their absence. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There were only four of them, and a dozen slave traders or more, and that was assuming that the traders had moved so slowly that the dragons could catch up with them-with more than a sennight of head start. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2006)