Meaning of twelvemonth | Babel Free

Definitions

A year.

dated

Examples

“But last⟳ February, almost a twelvemonth back, she suddenly disappeared.”

“Take⟳ the annals of the majority of hearths for a twelvemonth, and we should be amazed at the quantity of wretchedness that would be writ in them, if writ truly.”

“For, owing to the large number⟳ of whale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch⟳, to encounter a single news-telling sail⟳ of any sort⟳; […]”

“She was ill very nigh a twelvemonth altogether; and I had to nurse her as best as I could, and clean⟳ the house, and cook⟳, and make⟳ her gruel and everything, for we could not afford⟳ to pay⟳ a woman to help⟳ us.”

“The time of year a twelvemonth past, / When Fred and I would meet⟳, / We needs must jangle, till at last⟳ / We fought and I was beat⟳.”

“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 and other seed for the coming year.”

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