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Her story was on ways to burn 3,000 calories over the course of the Thanksgiving-day weekend, ostensibly neutralizing the effect of the big meal.
Monica Reinagel, MS, LDN, CNS: Biggest Nutrition Traps, Part 3: Mean vs. Extremes Monica Reinagel 2012
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The next day was Thanksgiving-day, and my house was thronged with guests.
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They went home to their own dinner with a new idea of Thanksgiving-day; it seemed a better and a fresher feast; and after the day was done and the stars came out twinkling their thanks, and the children, tired with play and glad to rest, laid down their sleepy heads on their pillows, their angels whispered softly dreams of peace and joy.
Harper's Young People, December 9, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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Thanksgiving-day in her life, beside the Governor's appointments.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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Nevertheless the Court of Aldermen displayed its loyalty by resolving that the conduits in Cheapside and at the Stocks Market should run with claret on Thanksgiving-day.
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How would you like it, not to have a Fourth of July celebration, or a Christmas stocking, or a turkey on Thanksgiving-day?
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And what a merry, happy Thanksgiving-day they had on the morrow!
Patty Fairfield Carolyn Wells 1902
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As Thanksgiving-day was observed by preaching -- morning, afternoon and evening -- so also was the general fast day throughout the Methodist Connection observed in the New York churches of that denomination on Friday, February 27.
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On this present Thanksgiving-day, two of Gram's nephews and their wives were expected to visit us, as also several cousins of whom I had heard but vaguely.
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Mrs. Makely invited me specially to meet on Thanksgiving-day.
Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance William Dean Howells 1878
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