twelvemonths

I have been miserably ill, or unhealthy, during the last twelvemonths, and quite as bad in spirits. —

Letter 352 2009

French watering-place — especially since our last visit to Naples within these twelvemonths, when we found only four conditions of men remaining in the whole city: to wit, lazzaroni, priests, spies, and soldiers, and all of them beggars; the paternal government having banished all its subjects except the rascals.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

There is a man at large, at the moment when this paper is preparing for the press (on the 29th of April, 1850), and never once taken up yet, who, within these twelvemonths, has been probably the most audacious and the most successful swindler that even this trade has ever known.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Sir Blount was attacked by dysentery and malarious fever, on the banks of the Zouga in South Africa, so long ago as last October twelvemonths, and it carried him off.

Two on a Tower 2006

In the following July, Darton went to his friend Japheth to ask him at last to fulfil the bridal office which had been in abeyance since the previous January twelvemonths.

Wessex Tales 2006

For the first twelvemonths he saw her occasionally, — though not indeed very often.

The American Senator 2004

It was easy to tell her that in a twelve-month she would be older; — but it was impossible to convince her that any number of twelvemonths would alter the disparity between her and her cousin.

The Way We Live Now 2004

With a son of the Bristol trader he remained twelvemonths; and, having no desire to resume his labours as a seaman, he afterwards sailed for Guadaloupe, where he continued in the employment of a merchant for three years, till 1763, when the island was ceded to the French.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

Before the close of twelvemonths, it passed through no fewer than fourteen editions.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

The strength of the arm was not completely recovered at the end of more than twelvemonths; and, after more than twice that time, exertion would excite the feeling of painful weariness, but no palpitation or other unpleasant symptom has occurred during the five or six years which have since passed.

An Essay on the Shaking Palsy James Parkinson