Forty Hours

noun

a Roman Catholic devotion in which the Blessed Sacrament is exposed for veneration for 40 hours by the churches of a diocese sequentially for two-day periods.

Why would you not work a full forty hours if the hours were available?

You have been informed how artfully the conspiracy was carried on, and how I arrived eight and forty hours after I came.

As many of them were loaded, the concussion set them off, so that dropping shot never ceased for about forty hours.

Forty hours later, Arcot was running the ship smoothly at top speed once again.

He might be in Italy, in France, in England, anywhere within eight and forty hours' journey.

Our captain received important despatches in the night We shall be afloat before forty hours.

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