pay-days

Here were no ill-fed, whiskey-poisoned men, such as the rest of the sailors, who, having drunk up their last pay-days, had starved ashore until they had received and drunk up their advance money for the present voyage.

CHAPTER V 2010

Red John and Axel did not send their pay-days home to the old country.

Chapter 17 2010

Prairie — and by eleven in the evening they were again so lively that they went to a Chinese restaurant that was frequented by clerks and their sweethearts on pay-days.

Main Street 2004

She never has large parties, -- great general pay-days of social debts, -- but small, well-chosen circles of people, selected so thoughtfully, with a view to the pleasure which congenial persons give each other, as to make the invitation an act of real personal kindness.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

This man comes to the office on pay-days like other _employés_ to draw his wages.

Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready

They were tired by three in the afternoon, and dozed at the motion-pictures and said they wished they were back in Gopher Prairie -- and by eleven in the evening they were again so lively that they went to a Chinese restaurant that was frequented by clerks and their sweethearts on pay-days.

Main Street 1920

They were tired by three in the afternoon, and dozed at the motion-pictures and said they wished they were back in Gopher Prairie -- and by eleven in the evening they were again so lively that they went to a Chinese restaurant that was frequented by clerks and their sweethearts on pay-days.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

Of course, he would always take a few drinks with the men around pay-day, but after Mother died, he began taking his drinks between pay-days.

The Valley of the Giants 1918

Here were no ill-fed, whiskey-poisoned men, such as the rest of the sailors, who, having drunk up their last pay-days, had starved ashore until they had received and drunk up their advance money for the present voyage.

Chapter 5 1914

Red John and Axel did not send their pay-days home to the old country.

Chapter XVII 1913