sennight

• "Furthermore, I give you fair warning that should I ever find you on such a horse's back again, you have my promise you'll not sit a saddle for a sennight." —  A Lady of Expectations
• It was agreed between the King & the Earl that Tyri should have the estates in Wendland which had belonged to Queen Gunnhild, and that she should be given other great lands in dowry Tyri wept sorely and departed very much against her will; but natheless when she and the Earl were come to Wendland was she wedded, & so King Burizlaf had Queen Tyri to wife But ever so long as she was among heathens would she take neither meat nor drink from them, and in this wise was it for a sennight. —  The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)
• On Saturday sennight, Robert Powell was brought before the magistrates, charged with being a rogue vagabond, and imposter, and obtaining money under fraudulent pretences, from one Thomas Barnes, a footman in the service of Surgeon Blair, of Great Russell-street Bloomsbury, and taking from him 2s. —  Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)
• The usage survives in our "sennight" and "fortnight." —  The Religion of the Ancient Celts
• Keep a front unconcerned and free, though thy heart rap hard against thy chest-bones, and, in good faith, within a sennight or twain thou wilt be back in the isle, with Duke William at thy tail And it is well for thee, good lad," said Augustine, "that thou art better suited than this rogue to figure harmlessly as a priest that men trust. —  The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven

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