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There is an article in the se’nnight Examiner on Godwin’s Mandeville, signed E. K.—I think it Miss Kent’s—I will send it.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

If you have them, I shall be glad to receive them at Monticello, where I shall be on this day se'nnight.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Our people dwindle daily; they who were well a se'nnight since are ill to-day, and may be dead to-morrow.

From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)

I think to return home Thursday shall be a se’nnight; and, your leave granted, I would fain carry Pan with me.

From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.

And I had hoped on this day se'nnight to have received the congratulations of this chamber.

From The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Trollope, Anthony