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  • His earliest new-year's gift to the play-goers of Bergen was St. John's Night, 1853, a piece which has not been printed; in 1854 he revived The Warrior's

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • His earliest new-year's gift to the play-goers of Bergen was St. John's Night, 1853, a piece which has not been printed; in 1854 he revived The Warrior's

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • It's my new-year's resolution to use this sentence in all conversation.

    Previously on Dave's Long Box... David Campbell 2007

  • When asked about my new-year's resolutions, I was taken by surprise, and answered with a cliche: "I want to work less."

    Less is more Torill 2006

  • When asked about my new-year's resolutions, I was taken by surprise, and answered with a cliche: "I want to work less."

    Archive 2006-01-01 Torill 2006

  • A young man attended the new-year's reception of the municipality of Nijmegen, and held up a banner protesting against the policy to evict asylum seekers.

    B2fxxx 2005

  • He published an edict against the practice of people's kissing each other when they met; and would not allow new-year's gifts [333] to be presented after the calends [the first] of January was passed.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • They likewise, on the calends [first] of January, presented for his acceptance new-year's gifts in the Capitol, though he was not present with which donations he purchased some costly images of the Gods, which he erected in several streets of the city; as that of Apollo Sandaliarius, Jupiter

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • He likewise gave public notice, that he would receive new-year's gifts on the calends of January following; and accordingly stood in the vestibule of his house, to clutch the presents which people of all ranks threw down before him by handfuls and lapfuls.

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • He likewise gave public notice, that he would receive new-year's gifts on the calends of January following; and accordingly stood in the vestibule of his house, to clutch the presents which people of all ranks threw down before him by handfuls and lapfuls.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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