holy-days

You'll keep your biological family -- I speak to mine on holy-days and birthdays, or you won't.

Dr. Susan Corso: The Death Of The Final Parent 2010

Day then became, for me anyway, one of the most special and significant holy-days in all the year.

Ellen Whitehurst: Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend Martin? 2010

Put away the To-do Lists and make December's darker days and holy-days help enlarge your spirits.

Margaret Ruth: The Intuitive Life: How to En-Lighten Up This December 2009

Here's one way to give new meaning to the holy-days, and remember Art Buchwald while you're at it:

Dr. Susan Corso: Changing the Present 2009

To have the right of walking to church on holy-days, preceded by a phalanx of halberdiers, in habiliments fashioned as in former times, seems, in the eyes of many a guild brother, to be a very enviable pitch of worldly grandeur.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

In the Atlantic steamers, on the first day out (and on high-and holy-days subsequently), the jellies set down on table are richly ornamented; medioque in fonte leporum rise the American and British flags nobly emblazoned in tin.

Roundabout Papers 2006

The room was lighted by half-a-dozen candles, having wicks only a trifle smaller than the grease which enveloped them, in candlesticks that were never used but at high-days, holy-days, and family feasts.

Wessex Tales 2006

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be shewing the relicks of learning, as monks do the relicks of their saints — without working one — one single miracle with them?

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be shewing the relicks of learning, as monks do the relicks of their saints — without working one — one single miracle with them?

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

When shall I recall all which passed in those holy-days?

The Confessions 1999