nine days' wonder

Their immediate response tells an important truth about a police slowdown that has spread throughout New York City in recent days.

The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

In nine days he returned, bringing us the thanks of congress, and fresh orders.

Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

Fatigue he never knew, and on one occasion he was said to have spent thirteen days and nights in the saddle.

In the close relation and affection of these last days, the sense of alienation and antagonism faded from both their hearts.