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• What she had heard filled her with so eager a curiosity that she could scarcely wait for Whitsun-eve, although she took care to let no one observe it. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
• A long, long time ago, on a Christmas-eve, the Fairy-folk were having great sport. —  The Goblins' Christmas
• You are aware that this is Christmas eve, and all the officials of the Post-Office will be unusually busy. —  Post Haste
• On Christmas eve, the great hall of the palace being illuminated with a thousand lamps artificially disposed, the king and queen supped in it; the princess being seated at the same table, next to the cloth of estate. —  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
• The error arose from not bearing in mind that our forefathers began the day with the preceding eve, and ended it at sunset Phraortes= (3 syl._), a Greek admiral.--Sir W. Scott, Count Robert of Paris (time, Rufus Phry´ne= (2 syl._), an Athenian courtezan of surpassing beauty. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3

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