twenty-four-hour

Updated: May 28, 2025

By getting a twenty-four-hour leave we could manage to spend almost forty-eight hours in the city. On a pass dated, for instance, January 13 we could leave camp immediately after reveille and return in time for reveille on the fifteenth.

Edward Alexander Moore - The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson : In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia

For one twenty-four-hour day the ex-speculator in Mr. Colbrith held out against the sharp attacks of the reawakened lust of conquest.

Francis Lynde - Empire Builders