Pay-day

Pay-day had always meant a spree, and Bailey was afraid.

The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter

So Pay-day went into the room where all the girls were grinding corn.

Taytay's Tales 1922

Pay-day was the event of the week in billets because it gave him the wherewithal to satisfy the promptings of his sporting blood.

Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army James Norman Hall 1919

Pay-day on many mortgages was coming due, and of the fifteen thousand dollars he checked out to pay Adrian Brownwell's debt, thirteen thousand dollars was money that belonged to the Eastern creditors of the company -- men and women who had sent their money to the company for it to lend; and the money checked out represented money paid back by the farmers for the release of their mortgages.

A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1906

Pay-day came at the end of the week, and when the envelopes had been given out the mill foreman took me aside.

Branded Francis Lynde 1893

-- He was as good as his Word, and the next Pay-day I found my Sallary of fifteen was then advanc'd to twenty Shillings a Week.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

"Pay-day has come at last," said Farmer Gray, good-humouredly, as the shoemaker presented his account.

Friends and Neighbors 1847

Pay-day came, the debtor did not pay, but neither could the serfs produce the one-third of the value of the land which they must disburse to him in order to be free.

The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished 1836

Pay-day was put at six months 'distance, and all was done in due form.

Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Pay-day lender takes interest in Centrelink A MAJOR pay-day lender is worried that

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