working-days

The old, working-days way of waking up involved leaping out of bed at the screech of the alarm clock, but not actually waking up until I was in the shower.

Duncan’s Sleep Guidelines « knitnut.net 2009

England, no class can show a parallel: and these, be it remembered, are not only qualities for holidays, but for working-days too, and add to the enjoyment of human life as much as good clothes, good beef, or good wages.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

No, my lord, unless I might have another for working-days: your grace is too costly to wear every day.

Much Ado About Nothing 2004

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be shewing the relicks of learning, as monks do the relicks of their saints — without working one — one single miracle with them?

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be shewing the relicks of learning, as monks do the relicks of their saints — without working one — one single miracle with them?

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Israelite will deny himself even the necessaries of life during the six working-days, that he may live well on the Sabbath.

Rabbi and Priest A Story Milton Goldsmith

Allowing three hundred working-days to the year, this would be four hundred and thirty eimers, or twenty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty masses, per day, and would pay to the government, at one kreutzer per mass, one hundred and eighty dollars of our money for each of these working-days, or fifty-four thousand dollars yearly.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various

They pay, on an average, ten dollars per month for rent; there are twenty-six working-days to the month, and they often lose at least five of these, on account of weather or lack of work, making an income of only twenty-one dollars per month.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 09, September, 1889 Various

From her old working-days she had retained in the depths of her memory the names of public balls, of famous restaurants, where she was eager to go now, just as she took pleasure in causing the doors to be thrown open for her at the establishments of the great dressmakers, whose signs only she had known in her earlier days.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

But the aprons, the red shirts, and the grime of working-days were off, and the whole were in holiday rig, -- as black and smooth and shiny from top to toe as the members of a Congress of Undertakers.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various