Sundays

Examples

• Hence she hated Sundays when all was at rest, and often said they would be the death of her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And her Sundays were a scandal--that I know. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But its sound had revived a long train of miserable Sundays, and the procession would not stop with the bell, but continued to march on. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• On Sundays, she went to church elaborated. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In the height of the season, Legree did not hesitate to press all his hands through, Sundays and week-days alike. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• That's a real flagstaff, you see, said Wemmick, and on Sundays I run up a real flag. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• For several Sundays he walked through different parts of New Jersey with two of his assistants before he decided on Menlo Park. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Yes; he is very good about dropping in on Sundays. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Lily flushed with the recollection of certain rainy Sundays at Bellomont and with the Dorsets. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• On Sundays he mostly lay all day on the sluice-gates, or stood against ricks and barns. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• On Sundays, of course, I was to rest also, and I considered these very easy terms. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Marie always made a point to be very pious on Sundays. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There was a legion of Sundays, all days of unserviceable bitterness and mortification, slowly passing before him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And so will ours; and we have always a hot dinner on Sundays. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Well, I shall answer in the good old words you used to teach me, Sundays. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I worked over one year, twenty hours a day, Sundays and all, to get the word 'specie' perfectly recorded and reproduced on the phonograph. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Except Sundays, half my time I take no heed of them, being a hard-working woman and no scholar. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They have three Sundays a week in Tangier. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Miss Ophelia busied herself very earnestly on Sundays, teaching Topsy the catechism. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Once or twice, on Sundays, she saw him walking with a girl, evidently his daughter, and, if possible, still more unhealthy than he was himself. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• On ordinary working-days she braided it in threes; on ordinary Sundays in fours; at Maypolings, gipsyings, and the like, she braided it in fives. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Was this the well-known, uneventful road, where holiday people strolled on Sundays? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Sundays were dreary days in that wintry season. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And you shall have a black satin dress for Sundays--a real satin, not a satinet or any of the shams. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• On Sundays, and at periods of a solemn nature, Mrs. O'Dowd used to read with great gravity out of a large volume of her uncle the Dean's sermons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I dislike English Sundays. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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