muster-day

• “For some time previously to muster-day, the stock-keepers have been very busy drawing their herds by degrees as near the stock-yard as possible; and when the day arrives, the whole are driven into the yard to be inspected.”

  Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.

• “He had felt so confident of the office in advance of muster-day, that he had rummaged through several country tailor-shops and got a new suit of the nearest approach to a captain's uniform that their scant stock could furnish.”

  Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings

• “He obtained liberty to preach the next day, but I recollect that my mother was very uneasy that he came at that time, because it was muster-day in one or our old fields, when two captains met together with their companies on Saturdays.”

  Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.

• “It was Saturday, the 12th of April, and was a general muster-day for the conscripts over the whole country; but as soon as the news of our raid was received, drill was suspended, and every one turned out in search of us.”

  Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure

• “A very great day indeed was the muster-day, when sometimes an entire brigade would be called out for drill.”

  Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2

• “The auspicious muster-day arrives, and the people collect from Stewart's Creek, Ring's Creek, Beaver Dam, Big Fisher's and Little Fisher's Rivers, from the "Hollow," "the Foot uv the Mounting" -- from the Dan to the Beersheba of that whole country.”

  Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters

• “Who forgets the great muster-day, and the collision of the classic with the democratic forces?”

  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

• “Like a dramseller on the mall at muster-day, I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents and at the very tiptop of my voice.”

  Twice Told Tales

• “a child, I loved to see the colors of the holiday-soldiers flapping in the wind and flaunting in the sun on "muster-day.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864

• “Yesterday, being our muster-day, he came again to me to dinner; but such foolish and vain-glorious paradoxes he burst withal, without any cause offered, as made all that knew anything smile and answer little, but in sort rather to satisfy men present than to argue with him. ”

  History of the United Netherlands, 1588d

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