Crossword-Solution: DURATION 8 letters, 45 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Had the battle been of a few seconds’ longer duration the outcome might have been different, but it was all accomplished so quickly that the lion had scarce time to recover from the confusion of its surprise ere it sank lifeless to the ground.

Miss Strong had told him that she and her mother were to visit the latter’s brother there—they had not decided upon the duration of their stay, and it would probably run into months.

But incomprehensible as the whole affair was to her, and hard as she found it to understand why he paused enchanted before certain neglected and paintless houses, while others, refurbished and “improved” by the local builder, did not arrest a glance, she could not but suspect that Eagle County was less rich in architecture than he averred, and that the duration of his stay (which he had fixed at a month) was not unconnected with the look in his eyes when he had first paused before her in the library.

Even at the worst I have no intention of giving up Rome within six or eight years, and an engagement of that duration would be rather absurd.” “Miss Garland could hardly leave your mother,” Rowland observed.

Indecision had not hitherto been one of Newman’s weaknesses, and in this case it was not of long duration.