half-holidays

It is one of our town half-holidays — our Tir — but my people will be back directly.

No Thoroughfare 2007

Buckle knew this, but respected him; never called him up to read Greek plays; passed over all his blunders, which were many; let him go out of half-holidays into the town as he pleased: how should any man dare to stop him — the great calm magnanimous silent Strength!

Mens Wives 2006

Oh, that sunshiny bench on half-holidays, with Claverhouse or Ivanhoe for a companion!

Roundabout Papers 2006

Wednesdays and Saturdays (half-holidays), at a private school where

The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

O you sweet meditations of half-holidays, here you are realised for half-an-hour!

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

Seven or eight hours of lessons every day except half-holidays, and football or cricket in addition.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

Seven or eight hours of lessons every day except half-holidays, and football or cricket in addition.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

Surely you remember he used to fetch you from school on half-holidays, and often took you back again after dinner.

Pierre And Jean 2003

Seven or eight hours of lessons every day except half-holidays, and football or cricket in addition.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

They played at merry games in the fields round the house: on Saturday half-holidays they went long scrambling walks down mysterious shady lanes, then climbing the uplands, and thus gaining extensive views over the country, about which so much had to be told, both of its past and present history.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002