holiday-making

• “Upon resuming his legal practice in Nhill, J.W. Trumble set up the local Golf Club, having been bitten by that particular bug whilst holiday-making in France, of all places.”

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• “Professor/critic Ellen Handler-Spitz doesn't like "Horton Hatches The Egg" on the basis that the cute little Elephant Bird hatchling's birth-mother Mayzee is not allowed to reclaim custody, upon her return from holiday-making in sunny climes to retrieve the baby from surrogate mom Horton.”

  Who's Our Enid?

• “This, then, establishes a fact evident to the meanest comprehension — that any given number of thousands of individuals, in the humblest walks of life in this country, can pass through the national galleries or museums in seasons of holiday-making, without damaging, in the slightest degree, those choice and valuable collections.”

  Speeches: Literary and Social

• “Gardiner, at Winchester, and there was more holiday-making among the people; but they had their old distrust of this Spanish marriage, in which even the Parliament shared.”

  A Child's History of England

• “Though not so exacting as she since has become — though she allowed her disciples much more leisure, much more pleasure, much more punch, much more frequenting of coffee-houses and holiday-making, than she admits nowadays, when she scarce gives her votaries time for amusement, recreation, instruction, sleep, or dinner — the law”

  The Virginians

• “Fletcher, whose conceptions of holiday-making were severe, was visible through the jasmine about his window or through the open door (whichever way you chose to look), poised delicately on a plank supported on two chairs, and whitewashing the ceiling of his front room.”

  The Invisible Man

• “When they reached Joralemon she was radiant with holiday-making.”

  Main Street

• “All holiday-making is hard work, but holiday-making with nothing to do is the hardest work of all.”

  The Small House at Allington

• “For myself, I always regard May as the best month for holiday-making; but then no Londoner cares to be absent in May.”

  The Small House at Allington

• ““He has gone holiday-making into the country, to finish his recovery in the fine fresh air.””

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