nine days' wonder
Example Sentences
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The rapidity with which Nyoda got a project under way was a nine days’ wonder to Sherry, who usually spent more time in deliberating a course of action than she did in carrying it out.
From The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
On "the street" it was a nine days' wonder how so colossal a scheme could be foisted upon them and carried so near a successful culmination, and then, as usual, it was forgotten.
From Rockhaven by Charles Clark Munn
But Kenyon and Bramsdean knew that the achievement would be but a nine days' wonder.
From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The affair had exceeded the time of the proverbial "nine days' wonder," and it was only in the City or to those deeply interested that the good news became really known.
From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by H. B. Paull
Was it not enough to make the world stare? to furnish something to the gaping crowd, even though it were but a nine days' wonder?
From The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
