se'nnight

Mr. Bayle did not attempt to deny his being horrid, and made many apologies for it; he did not plead his having a drunken self, he talked only of a drunken foreman, &c., and gave hopes of the tables being at Steventon on Monday se'nnight next.

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

You will be interested to learn, my dear Sophia, that we are arrived at our new home a se'nnight since, having posted from London with every comfort.

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

This day se'nnight we left home, & called at Woolley, but Mrs

The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling

'And here,' writes Mrs. Austen on August 13, 1806, 'we found ourselves on Tuesday (that is, yesterday se'nnight), eating fish, venison, and all manner of good things, in a large and noble parlour hung round with family portraits.'

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

Thursday se'nnight looking beautifully cross at not having a man near her.

The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling

W. Bland and Betsy Yates are to be married Thursday se'nnight.

The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous

"Mr. and Mrs. Wolston, greeting, desire the favor of Mr. and Mrs. Becker's company to dinner, together with their entire family, this day se'nnight, weather permitting."

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

In the county paper for October 1st, 1798, I find the following florid reference to a coming event in the Grove: -- "The glittering Azure and the noble Or of the peacock's wings, under the meridian sun, cannot afford greater exultation to that bird, than some of our beautiful belles of fashion promise themselves, from a display of their captivating charms at the intended masquerade at Brighton to-morrow se'nnight."

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

In order to qualify the severity of the bill for regulating the government of Massachusets, Mr. Rose Fuller, on the 19th of April, moved that the house should, that day se'nnight, resolve itself into a committee for taking into consideration the question of a total repeal of the tea duty.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

The vestiges of this method of computation still appear in the English language, in the terms se'nnight and fort'night.

The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus