Holidays

Examples

• These are my holidays. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He had his top-boots in his room, in which he used to hunt in the holidays. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• When his holidays are expired, I will myself take him back to school. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He had the feeling of unexplained excitement with which, on half-holidays at school, he used to start off into the unknown. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• However, I loved her faithfully; and one time I went home with her for the holidays. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And are human labourers to have no holidays, because of the bees? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Your working days must be stiff 'uns, if these is your holidays. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• What have YOU got to do with holidays? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Thus the holidays lagged away, until the morning came when Miss Murdstone said: 'Here's the last day off! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He was a schoolfellow and friend of her brother's, and usually spent a part of the holidays at the mansion of the duke her father. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is not uncommon to find an outdoor laborer consuming one pound of beans per day, and taking meat only on high days and holidays. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In the matter of holidays, her mood was that of horses who, when turned out to grass, enjoy looking upon their kind at work on the highway. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• People went on with their summer holidays; shops reassured their customers with the announcement, business as usual. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On Thursday afternoons (half-holidays) we now took walks, and found still sweeter flowers opening by the wayside, under the hedges. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Doesn't every girl like to come home for the holidays? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And I am sure, _my_ _name_ _was_ _Norval_, every evening of my life through one Christmas holidays. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• In the winter of 1838-9 I was attending school at Ripley, only ten miles distant from Georgetown, but spent the Christmas holidays at home. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You will come home in the holidays, and be a better boy. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There were holidays at school on other birthdays--none on mine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Ursula often wondered what else she waited for, besides the beginning and end of the school week, and the beginning and end of the holidays. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Fanny hadn't any friends in Paris, and Madame Olenska used to be kind to her and trot her about on holidays. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Studying hard in his holidays is carrying it rather too far. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There were a great many holidays at Plumfield, and one of the most delightful was the yearly apple-picking. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The anniversaries are recognized as national holidays. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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