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Fast-Day Sermons; or the Pulpit on the State of the Country.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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"Fast-Day, Madam," mildly suggested Colonel Prowley.
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Fast-Day_, -- it was a remnant of the Old Mythological Religion.
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Fast-Day, in Boston, was operatically fêted with 'the light and melodious _Martha_,' by that arch-thief of melodies, Flotow.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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I _did_ wish, to be sure, that we might have our Fast-Day in quiet; but Miss
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Ay, truly; for in the very letter that brought the news I was begged to spend the approaching Fast-Day in
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"Sir Joseph Barley would be a foolish chronicler to commit himself to any such statement," said Dr. Burge, who seemed to feel it his duty to speak the moral _tag_ to our little Fast-Day interlude.
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In his Fast-Day sermon Dr. Burge delivered himself of much weighty testimony against those thaumaturgical incantations of heathenism which had been revived among us.
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On Fast-Day of that year, two Irishmen knocked at my door and asked to see the strong man.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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Lamb tells Hazlitt in February, 1806, that he meditates a stroll on the Fast-Day.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Charles Lamb 1804
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