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Meanwhile, I took the advantage of every play-day to present myself before my grandfather, to whom I seldom found access, by reason of his being closely besieged by a numerous family of his female grandchildren, who, though they perpetually quarrelled among themselves, never failed to join against me, as the common enemy of all.

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

He answered, "Let all the boys and girls have a play-day on the anniversary of my death."

Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

The Faun may smile, although life is only one long play-day in green fields and woods, because he is a Faun.

Mae Madden Mary Murdoch Mason

At any hour of day or night in the most distant part of your house, you have but to turn a stop-cock and your red dragon sends you hot water for your needs; your washing-day becomes a mere play-day; your pantry has its ever-ready supply; and then, by a little judicious care in arranging apartments and economizing heat, a range may make two or three chambers comfortable in winter weather.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

He was immediately surrounded by a crowd of foxes and doomed in accordance with an old custom, which demands that whosoever disturbs the peace on the great play-day must go into exile.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

Nicholas Bishop, went "to the Theatre upon a play-day to stand at the door that goeth up to the galleries of the said Theatre to take and receive for the use of the said Margaret half of the money that should be given to come up into the said gallery."

Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913

But first I want my play-day in the sunshine you have promised me -- the sunlight of a comrade's kindness.

The Hidden Children 1899

Down in his heart, he knew that she loved him: it was not a play-day folly with her.

The Man from Brodney's George Barr McCutcheon 1897

She never knew what he saw in hers, for all in a moment he was kneeling beside her; his arm was across the back of her chair, his head was on her shoulder and his face was laid against her neck, as the face of a child, tired with a long play-day, is laid against the neck of its mother.

The Incomplete Amorist 1891

Had they ended so miserably as did this play-day with Jeanne?

The Story of a Child Pierre Loti 1886