nine days' wonder
Example Sentences
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At the college it was a nine days' wonder, but I let them wonder.
From In Accordance with the Evidence by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
The engagement had been a veritable nine days’ wonder.
From An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
As they had come, so they had gone, and the matter remained a nine days' wonder.
From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles
His mysterious disappearance had been a nine days’ wonder some ten years ago.
From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Blackwood, Algernon
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 Paull, H. B.
