jubilee

• A song was written therein, perhaps a song of triumph: I could now silence the clamorous tongue of our sea-monster, who was glutting us with tales of horror, for a jubilee was at hand, and here was the first note of its trumpets I read Beyond the parting and the meeting I shall be soon Beyond the farewell and the greeting Beyond the pulse's fever-beating I shall be soon I paused. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
• The "Week of Prayer" at Marash was described as a jubilee. —  History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II.
• I had made preparations to start on May 14, and the dates set for this jubilee were arranged on the eve of my farewell. —  T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him
• From that comes the jubilee, which is a day of great rejoicing, because all debts and offences are forgiven. —  Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
• In the late jubilee, the titled, the wealthy, and the hangers-on of government were given the prominent positions, and the scientists ignored; as Nature said: "England is not represented, but only England's paid officials and nobodies But it is too soon for scientists to demand an honorable position. —  Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7

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