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... the shovel and tongs and a dish of cucumber across him and a mercy it was summer-time. “Caroline” I says “be calm,” but she catches off my cap and te... ... a delightful street to lodge in—provided you don’t go lower down—but of a summer evening when the dust and waste paper lie in it and stray children p... ...and grew and went to day- school and continued under the Major too, and in summer we were as happy as the days were long, and in winter we were as hap... ...hey played as I 30 Mrs. Lirriper’ s Lodgings had heard and what length of holidays, to all of which he listened bright and clear. And so it came that... ...sed clap. “Now you are in a way out of moping Major!” “Between this and my holidays—I mean the dear boy’s” says the Major turning up his other cuff, “... ...ear and eminently remarkable boy, on the occurrence of his first Christmas holidays. Suffice it to observe that when he came flying into the house wit...

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...d down the dreary thoroughfare. “Other cities put on their best clothes in summer, but New Y ork seems to sit in its shirtsleeves.” Her eyes wan- dere... ... days of interminable unpacking; semi-annual dis- cussions as to where the summer should be spent, grey inter- ludes of economy and brilliant reaction... ...him that he was dining out, and he would hurry away with a nod to Lily. In summer, when he joined them for a Sunday at Newport or Southampton, he was ... ...ew feet off. Generally, however, Mrs. Bart and Lily went to Europe for the summer, and before the steamer was half way over Mr. Bart had dipped below ... ... the moment, took the shape of as- suming a dress somewhat more rustic and summerlike in style than the garment she had first selected, and rustling d... ...us- tomed to pass from one country-house to another, till the close of the holidays brought her friends to town, that the unfilled gaps of time confro... ...c devotion she announced her intention of remaining with her aunt till the holidays. Sacrifices of this nature are sometimes received with feel- ings ... ...e an escape from Trenor’s importunities. 112 House of Mirth Meanwhile the holidays had gone by and the season was beginning. Fifth Avenue had become ... ...tement of week-end parties to the restrictions of a dull season. Since the holidays she had not urged Lily to return to Bellomont, and the first time ...

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...tal tenderness, too, for he is, no doubt, back at school by this time; the holidays are over; and Doctor Birch’s young friends have reassembled. Queer... ...t as the milestones flew by, for the wel- come corner where began home and holidays. It is night now: and here is home. Gathered under the quiet roof ... ... in the bath-room), comes to say he is going away to spend the rest of the holidays with his grandmother — and I brush away the manly tear of regret a... ...), I too cast up a little ac- count of our past Christmas week. When Bob’s holidays are over, and the printer has sent me back this manuscript, I know... ...or of I don’t know how many hundred glori- ous pantomimes — walking by the summer wave at Margate, or Brighton perhaps, revolving in his mind the idea...

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...herself could name the bank of smoke, when looking North-eastward from her summerhouse, the flag of London: and she was a person of the critical mind,... ...fellow. He asked her where she was to be met, where written to, during the Summer, in case of his wishing to send her news. She replied: ‘Copsley will... ...ll come to stay in the Winter?’ ‘Certainly. But I am speaking of one of my holidays.’ They kissed fervently. The lady mounted; the grey and portly lor... ... whip, and Emma was left to brood over her friend’s last words: ‘One of my holidays.’ Not a hint to the detriment of her husband had passed. The stray... ...- exercise, and no place in the world was like them, fair weather or foul, Summer or Winter, and snow ten feet deep in the gullies. The grandest air i... ...e exclaimed. ‘Or any point along the ridge. Emma and I once drove there in Summer, with clotted cream from her dairy, and we bought fresh-plucked wort... ...only don’t tell it me. Now I understand why you always used to choose your holidays in November.’ She thrilled him with her friendly recollection of h... ...next Ministry.’ No more of him. A new work by Antonia was progressing. The Summer in South T yrol passed like a royal procession before young eyes for...

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...efore, he had played poker at Vergil Gunch’s till midnight, and after such holidays he was irritable before breakfast. It may have been the tre- mendo... ... like millionaires! And I like an open car, so you can put the top down on summer evenings and go out for a drive and get some good fresh air. Besides... ... York—wants me to see him about a real-estate trade— may not come off till summer. Hope it doesn’t break just when we and the Rieslings get ready to g... ... had found in Vancouver. She promised to meet him in Deauville, the coming summer, “though,” she sighed, “it’s becoming too dreadfully banal; nothing ... ... his life when he had queried his eternal excellence; and he perceived the summer night, smelled the wet grass. Then: “I don’t care! I’ve pulled it of... ...es twenty-two hundred—well, any- way, with restaurants and everything, say summers be- tween eight and fifteen thousand a day. Every day! I never thou...

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...ckings,” said his sister, Nunziata; “we never wear them but on Sundays and holidays.” Lucy was not sure that she might, but the children looked so joy... ...ing with the rifle.” “But what do you do up here?” “We girls go up for the summer with the cows to the pas- tures, the grass is so rich and good on th... ...een foul winds and icebergs up into a fiord near North Cape, right at mid- summer, and I’ll never forget what we saw there.” Lucy was not likely to fo... ...orseman has not driven us away, and where the reindeer find their grass in summer and moss in winter.” “Oh! have you got reindeer? I should so like to... ...rsation. “Y es; my father is the hetman of the Stantitza, and these are my holidays. I go to school at Tcherkask the greater part of the year.” “Tcher...

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...lares of light and a rumbling sound of pas- sage, they kept up a perpetual summer lightning and thun- derstorm in the street below. Presently the Engl... ... look-out for him, in spite of all his clamour, when about six o’clock one summer morning the doors of the big shed in which he had been putting toget... ...WILL BRITAIN DO? IS IT WAR? This sort of thing was always going on, and on holidays one disregarded it as a matter of course. Week-davs, in the slack ... ...unge filled Bert with a haunting sense of boundless waters below. It was a summer’s night, but it seemed to him, nevertheless, extraordinarily long. H... ...ved moving about in the car. 5 5 5 5 5 Late in the afternoon of a pleasant summer day in the year 191-, if one may borrow a mode of phrasing that once... ...P THE EPIL IL IL IL ILOGUE OGUE OGUE OGUE OGUE IT HAPPENED that one bright summer’s morning exactly thirty years after the launching of the first Germ... ...inds of whiskey and wine in Londoners’ cellars that gave Bun Hill its only holidays. He taught this doctrine on Sundays, and on weekdays he was an ami...

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...ad ever before him the dark amphitheatre of the Atuona mountains and the cliffy bluff that closes it to seaward. The trade-wind moving in the fans mad... .... As we stood across the lagoon for the town of Butaritari, a stretch of the low shore was seen to be crowded with the brown roofs of houses; those of... ...ed on the south by a pier or causeway with a parapet. At the far end the parapet stops, and the quay expands into an oblong peninsula in the lagoon, t... ...ributary rule of Little Makin: he was installed, he proved a puppet and a trem- bler, the unwieldy shuttlecock of orators; and the reader has seen the... ...stinction. Indeed, it seemed to us they swag- gered in the town, like plaided Highlanders upon the streets of Inverness, conscious of barbaric virtues... ...ng of hounds in a distant kennel. The slaves are certainly not overworked—children of ten do more without fatigue—and the Apemama labourers have 225 ...

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...here a peculiar air of home seems to reside, whether seen in the middle of summer, all its large windows open to the garden, or, as when our story com... ...her brothers were whis- kered men, with all the cares of the world, and no holidays; the school-girls went out to service, and were as a last year’s b... ...nt times, chiefly as they walked round the gar- den in the twilight of the summer evenings, talking over the many subjects mentioned in the letters wh... ...s Maurice de Courcy himself, though not so wild. V ery pleasant were those summer days—reading, walking, music, gardening. Did not they all work like ... ...ves that you are superior to such things. Laura, what I fear is, that this summer holiday may entangle you, and so fix your fate as to render your lif... ...e only laughed at him for expecting to be able to go to balls, and spend a summer of gaiety, while he studied as much as at Oxford. Thursday morning w...

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...r worth the money than some shares I have paid for in my time. In the same holidays the line was made and worked and opened and ran excursions and had... ...ds called with the beautifullest Plymouth Twins—it was the day before Mid- summer Day when Winifred Madgers comes and says to me “A gentleman from the... ...out railroads and steamboats, as our boy was coming home for his Midsummer holidays next day and we were going to take him somewhere for a treat and a... ...ore me crushed in body and in mind. Surely the miserablest sight under the summer sun! “O blessed Heaven,” I says a crying, “teach me what to say to t...

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...hat flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose— When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush—the flower is dry. There... ...variously shaped out-buildings. There were kitchens, wash-houses, dairies, summer-house, green-houses, hen-houses, turkey-houses, pigeon-houses, and a... ...nd old trees, ornamental and primitive, which afforded delightful shade in summer, and imparted to the scene a high degree of stately beauty. The grea... ...as literally cramming her own. Want of food was my chief trouble the first summer at my old master’s. Oysters and clams would do very well, with an oc... ...t crash towels are made of; one pair of trowsers of the same material, for summer, and a pair of trowsers and a jacket of woolen, most slazily put to-... ...ONCERN—MY ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY—ABILITY TO READ A CAUSE OF PREJU- DICE—THE HOLIDAYS—HOW SPENT—SHARP HIT AT SLA VERY—EFFECTS OF HOLIDAYS—A DEVICE OF SL... ...The days between Christmas day and New Year’s, are al- lowed the slaves as holidays. During these days, all regular work was suspended, and there was ... ...xpected to see to the cattle, and attend to incidental duties at home. The holidays were variously spent. The sober, thinking and industrious ones of ... ... and other game. But the majority spent 166 My Bondage and My Freedom the holidays in sports, ball playing, wrestling, boxing, run- ning foot races, ...

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...wears, And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” —Waller’ s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Common- w... ... how Orion glitters; what northern lights! Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasting conservatories; give me the privilege of makin... ...imes of everlasting conservatories; give me the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals. But what thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue han... ... and every night recklessly burn their lengths in sper- maceti candles. In summer time, the town is sweet to see; full of fine maples— long avenues of... ... New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight... ...ial, jolly brightness peculiar to his tribe; a tribe, which ever enjoy all holidays and festivities with finer, freer relish than any other race. For ... ...trading-ship Dey of Algiers, I was invited to spend part of the Arsacidean holidays with the lord of Tranque, at his retired palm villa at Pupella; a ...

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... recov- ered from them yet; but she has been very well, on the whole, this summer. But what of your school affairs, Fred? How did the examination go o... ... the door of the verandahed Gothic cottage, which looked very tempting for summer’s lodging, but was little fitted for a permanent abode. In spite of ... ...now what Grandmamma Langford would do if he cheated her of any more of his holidays than he bestows upon us. He is far too valuable to be allowed to t... ...e. I can just fancy you, mamma, sitting out on this lawn you talk of, on a summer’s day, and nursing your pinks and carnations, and listening to the n... ...without his mamma, and that most of his school fellows were spending their holidays in a very different manner, he would have been perfectly happy. Fo... ...r, but persuade him he did, and the wedding was at Knight Sutton that very summer.” “That’s right,” cried Fred, “excellent and glorious! A far- thing ... ... her usual spirits, and affairs proceeded in the usual manner; Frederick’s holidays came to an end, and he returned to school with many a fond lamen- ... ... suppose some one else should take it.” “A village house is not like these summer lodgings, which are snapped up before you can look at them,” said Mr... ... one party. Matters thus dragged on, till the space before the Christ- mas holidays was reckoned by weeks, instead of months, and as Mrs. Frederick La...

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...irls as they walked on before them. ‘There are only thirty-six days to the holidays,’ said Phyllis; ‘Ada and I keep a paper in the nursery with the ac... ...mamma being from home so long, the elder boys had no settled place for the holidays; sometimes they stayed with one friend, some- 44 Scenes and Chara... ...ogether, and Harry had been talked to and advised to take care; but in the summer and autumn he was well, and did not think about it. He went to Oxfor... ...l to his cost, The banished race of kings revered, And lost his land.’ THE HOLIDAYS ARRIVED, and with them the three brothers, for during the first fe... ...d labour on his native soil, On Andrew’s head had left no trace - The summer’s sun, the winter’s storm, They had but ruddier made his face, ... ...the window,’ said Emily. ‘No,’ said Claude, ‘no one ever found me out last summer, under these friendly branches.’ The old butler, Joseph, now showed ... ... heard your voices, and begged to see you, because they never saw you last holidays.’ ‘More’s the pity they should see us now,’ said Maurice. ‘I shall... ...Wednesday.’ ‘He never gave us so little of his good company as he has this summer,’ said Emily. ‘You will have them all in the autumn, to comfort you,... ...and I suppose he means to crowd all the Beechcroft diver- sions of a whole summer into those few days.’ ‘Emily ,’ said Mr. Mohun, ‘I wish him to know ...

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...oubles, I never but once heard my mother complain of our want of money. As summer was coming on she observed to Mary and me, ‘What a desirable thing i... ...s me for it: he says it is just what HE used to do when he was a boy. Last summer, he gave me a nest full of young sparrows, and he saw me pulling off... ...r- teen weeks of absence had been to me; how intensely I had longed for my holidays, how greatly I was disappointed at their curtailment. Yet she was ... ...rey wards the close of May, as I was rejoicing in the near approach of the holidays, and congratulating myself upon having made some progress with my ... ...stipulation I ventured to propose, was that I might be allowed two months’ holidays during the year to visit my friends, at Midsummer and Christ- mas.... ...changed their minds, and were still in bed; or, perhaps, if it were a fine summer morning, Brown would come to tell me that the young ladies and gentl... ...talk about the ball; and to tell you that you positively must put off your holidays till it is over.’ ‘Why so?—I shall not be present at the ball.’ ‘N... ...s, it would be gone as soon as the trying months of spring were over: when summer came I should be as strong and hearty as she could wish to see me: b... ...—as a treat for rare occasions: and, whether it was really the approach of summer or the effect of these good resolutions, or the lapse of time, or al...

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...ly inconvenient.” “Yes. First there was whooping cough here to destroy the summer holidays; then came the Milsoms’ measles, and I could not go and car... ...nvenient.” “Yes. First there was whooping cough here to destroy the summer holidays; then came the Milsoms’ measles, and I could not go and carry infe... ...ghtened us all very much. Next came influenza to every one. And these last holidays! What should the newly-come little one from India do, but catch a ... ...ink I should have asked you to consent to Vera and Thekla’s spending their holidays at Mr. Waring’s coun- try house.” “Very worthy people, you said. I... ...hey come, we ought to talk over means! Some- thing is owing for these last holidays. Oh! Sophy, I cannot find words to say how thankful I am to you fo... ...tning began, but I could not find her anywhere, though I looked in all the summer-houses!” “At Mrs. Henderson’s? or Miss Mohun’s? or the Sisters’?” as... ...You are so stupid! Oh! There 68 Modern Broods was a flash of lightning.” “Summer lightning.” “No such thing! There will be a storm, and we shall be d... ...ool career had been short- ened by failure in health, and headaches in the summer, and coughs in the winter made it needful to keep him at home, and t... ...gement with much regret, and should always regard it as having been a fair summer dream— but, though undeserving, he hoped still to retain Miss Presco...

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...e wears, And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” Waller’s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwea... ... how Orion glitters; what northern lights! Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasting conservatories; give me the privilege of makin... ...imes of everlasting conservatories; give me the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals. But what thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue han... ...e, and every night recklessly burn their lengths in spermaceti candles. In summer time, the town is sweet to see; full of fine maples — long avenues of... ... New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is peren nial as sunligh... ...ial, jolly brightness peculiar to his tribe; a tribe, which ever enjoy all holidays and festivities with finer, freer relish than any other race. For b... ...trading ship Dey of Algiers, I was invited to spend part of the Arsacidean holidays with the lord of Tranque, at his retired palm villa at Pupella; a ...

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...trious, and did not fail in his school work, but when he came home for the holidays there was a cowed look about him, and private revelations were mad... ...ch, when he was well out of the way, used to be exhibited on high days and holidays. It seems now like the boundary mark of the golden days of our boy... ...f railways. We were unusually devoid of kindred on both sides, my father’s holidays were short, I was not a very movable commodity, and economy 37 Yo... ...amsgate, where we claimed a certain lodging-house as a sort of right every summer. Real country was as much unknown to us as the back- woods. My fathe... ...farthest point, where some old London friends had borrowed a house for the summer, and had included me in their invitation. Here alone did I leave the... ...em off to foreign parts from Bristol. But the great crisis was one unlucky summer evening when Emily and I were out with the donkey, and Griffith, jus... ...out of his mouth.’ —Scott. CLARENCE HAD COME HOME free from all blots. His summer holiday had been prevented by the illness of one of the other clerks... ...re our friends, after our depar- ture, in letting Martyn spend Sundays and holidays with them, play with Anne as before, say his Catechism with her to... ... for him. When the Rectory was ready, and the family returned, it was high summer, and there were constant meetings between the households. No doubt t...

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...ngled itself with the scent of the elder-bushes which were spreading their summer snow close to the open window opposite; the slanting sunbeams shone ... ...ged gleams of the April noonday, the parting crimson glory of the ripening summer sun. And directly below them the eye rested on a more advanced line ... ...rrowed crops, and not yet deepened into the uniform leafy curtains of high summer, but still showing the warm tints of the young oak and the tender gr... ...care of the tall mansion which lifted its parapets and sent its faint blue summer smoke among them. Doubtless there was a large sweep of park and a br... ...e ambels of the hemlocks lining the bushy hedgerows. It was that moment in summer when the sound of the scythe being whetted makes us cast more linger... ...d for a light and a draught of water (beer was a thing only to be drunk on holidays), and Lisbeth ventured to say as she took it in, “Thy supper stan’...

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...lish country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left,... ...arest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the shadows were l... ...t common and glimpses of empty parks, between hedgerows made thick by mid- summer. When they reached home they usually found tea had been served on th... ... is very fond of Gardencourt and would be quite capable of living there—in summer—with a maid-of-all-work and a gardener’s boy. There’s one remarkable... ...l and wandered all over the place. It was lovely weather —a kind of Indian summer, only not so good. We just lived in that park. Oh yes; you can’t tel... ...elp me to decide whether my daughter shall return to you at the end of the holidays.” “I hope you’ll decide in our favour, madame,” the sister in spec...