kalends

• “The judgment or decree shall be given out and pronounced at the next Greek kalends, that is, never.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “I am informed by my better half that this would be the kalends of March.”

  The Ides of March

• “The first day of the month is kalends or Kalendae in Latin, from which we derived the word Calendar and was the day of the New Moon.”

  The Ides of March

• “On April 1the kalends of April, to the Romansa Capuan slave named Flaccus inspects a sack of coins.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Spartacus War

• “Wee tooke oure iourney therefore about the kalends of Iune, with fower couered cartes of our owne and with two other which wee borrowed of them, wherein we carried our bedding to rest vpon in the night, and they allowed vs fiue horses to ride vpon.”

  The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.

• “Also vpon their festiual dates or kalends they take forth the foresayd images, and place them in order round, or circle wise within the house.”

  The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.

• “He had an unconscious desire that it might be postponed to some Greek kalends, and yet he did not wish to injure Lily.”

  The Small House at Allington

• “There was the dies denominalis, which was the fourth of the kalends; nones and ides of every month, over and above the anniversary of every great defeat which the republic had sustained, particularly the dies alliensis, or fifteenth of the kalends of December, on which the”

  Travels through France and Italy

• ““What is the meaning of this word Scartaris, and what have the kalends of July to do with it?””

  Journey to the Interior of the Earth

• “After all, I thought, the kalends of July are a long way off, and between this and then many things may take place which will cure my uncle of his desire to travel underground.”

  Journey to the Interior of the Earth

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