Fast-day

In the Ghetto footsteps became audible; here and there the grating noise of an opening street-door was heard, while from round the corner resounded, ever and anon, the hammer of the watchman, calling the people to morning service; for it was a Fast-day, which commenced at sunrise.

Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2 Various

In the _Ghetto_ footsteps became audible; here and there the grating noise of an opening street-door was heard, while from round the corner resounded, ever and anon, the hammer of the watchman, calling the people to morning service; for it was a Fast-day, which commenced at sunrise.

A Ghetto Violet From "Christian and Leah" Leopold Kompert

Accordingly, it is now the custom in the Church to bring the little ones to the Fast-day service in the several wards, at which they are received one by one into the arms of the elders, and blessed, names being given them at the same time.

Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

And so truly had this preacher kept the Fast-day that the Communion-day was down upon him before he was ready for it.

Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878

The preaching of that Fast-day was with great authority also.

Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878

Fast-day, and made the one elaborate toilette of the year on Saturday evening, when they shaved in turns before a scrap of glass hung outside the bothy door, and the foreman, skilled in the clipping of horses, cut their hair, utilising a porridge bowl with much ingenuity to secure a round cut.

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

Fast-day, and sat out with the children during the Sacrament with as becoming an expression of penitence as her honest, comely face could accomplish.

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

His colleague, accordingly, whose sense of sin was less acute that day, took the public worship, while the Fast-day preacher still lay sick in his closet at home and wrote thus on the ground: 'I am no more worthy to be called Thy son,' he wrote.

Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878

Let us believe that the form of the Fast-day has been removed out of the way that the spirit may return and fashion a new form for itself.

Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878

In the first place, the preaching of that Fast-day was 'pertinent' and to the point.

Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878