It was a palmy year for the town's resorts and restaurants. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective, : the palmy days of yesteryear. ,palmy islands. From Dictionary.com.
It had evidently been the ballroom or reception-room of the defunct Marchesa in palmy days. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference
But, for the rest of it -- Reed, I knew you in what you are pleased to call your palmy days. From Wordnik.com. [The Brentons] Reference
The remainder of the crew of 125 were quartered in the main surgery, a larger room, where there had been four operating tables and a cast room in our "palmy" days. From Wordnik.com. [Sasaki] Reference
In greeny garden and in palmy maze. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
"'A scene of excitement that recalled the palmy days of '49 was witnessed last night at the Arcade Saloon. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Light and Shadow] Reference
Archdeacon Nares 'judgment that "palmy" here means "grown to full height, in allusion to the palms of the stag's horns, when they have attained to their utmost growth.". From Wordnik.com. [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference
B.C. For during the palmy days of the Maccabean dynasty the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
"The palmy days of the drama, I suppose," interjected Handy. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
I never in my palmy days disturbed a meeting, drunk or sober. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Ranney] Reference
The old horse had been gray in his palmy days; he was now a dingy white. From Wordnik.com. [Baby Pitcher's Trials Little Pitcher Stories] Reference
There is an almshouse (which Mr. Griggs has drawn), in which in its palmy days a. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Greece in its palmy days was the greatest dancing nation the world has ever known. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
His court vied with that of the Bourbons in their most palmy days for its magnificence. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Of course we paid a visit to Seraglio Point, whose palmy days, however, have passed away. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
ARCHIEPISCOPUS DISPENSATOR, well hast thou inaugurated the palmy days of this Opera Season. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 28, 1892] Reference
I thought of my fashionable companions, who had pampered me, and courted me, in my palmy days. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
He seemed a man born after his time, and worthy to have lived and acted in the high and palmy days of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
Brownsville was at the head of navigation on the Monongahela River in the palmy days of the old "pike.". From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
In its palmy days the festival of the Boy-Bishop was favoured not only by the people, but by the monarch. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
The palmy and triumphant days of the British army in the Peninsula could then hardly be said to have begun. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Now and then he would obscurely refer to days more palmy and prosperous than those spent on board the Julia. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
They date from the palmy days of Appenzell industry, before machinery had reduced the cost of the finer fabrics. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
So far as commercial affairs were concerned, the Philippine merchants passed very easy lives in those palmy days. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
He played sandlot baseball growing up and had grand dreams of a palmy sports career while attending Central High School. From Wordnik.com. [George E. Catloth, 91, was sports lover and Redskins' scorekeeper for 61 years] Reference
The Charlton Hunt had two palmy periods: before the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, and after the accession of William III. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
In its palmy days people were only speculating upon the borders of an abyss which had not yet opened visibly before them. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Although you never saw this place in its palmy days, still, you are too well acquainted with its situation to need a description. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
Had "Mother Bailey" lived in the palmy days of ancient Roman glory no matron in that mighty empire would have been more highly honored. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Scarlatti, for example, and few in the era when the early conventional opera saw its palmy days in the hands of Cimarosa and his compeers. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
The once powerful confederacy of the Six Nations, occupying in its palmy days the greater portion of New York State, now number only a little over 3,000. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
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