A locksmith was called in on the next half-holiday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

There was a half-holiday every Wednesday and Saturday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference

“We have a half-holiday on Saturday, you know,” said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phineas Finn] Reference

These half-holiday walks were the great events of the week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown's Schooldays]

To-day was a half-holiday, and I've been flying it on Beacon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference

Thursday, the half-holiday, came with a hard frost, and sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference

There were no hoops, no cricket-bats, as usual on a half-holiday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mens Wives] Reference

This afternoon had been a fair sample of Todd's usual half-holiday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acton's Feud A Public School Story] Reference

On Tuesday, November 6th, a half-holiday was proclaimed and Election.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference

Being a half-holiday, prayers were read at the end of morning-school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge] Reference

Ashfield House sallied forth to enjoy their half-holiday on the downs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference

It is in this way that a schoolboy hears of a half-holiday; but this was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference

It fell upon an ideal Saturday afternoon, a half-holiday at the Academy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference

Oh! for a half-holiday, and a quiet corner, and one of those books again!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roundabout Papers] Reference

Mars Brown, riding to Holbrook for a half-holiday, was almost within sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by American Authors, Volume 1] Reference

Thursday half-holiday as well as the Sunday, must be expected this afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference

On Saturday afternoon I gave the men a half-holiday, which they appreciated very much.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference

He compromised on a half-holiday for them; study in the morning, freedom in the afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference

This is the day of our rifle-club; there is little business to do; I grant a half-holiday.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Thoroughfare] Reference

A steady current of workers going home to their half-holiday rest poured along the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference

I had handed him quite large profits that morning; so I ventured to ask for a half-holiday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

It was Wednesday, a half-holiday, as everybody knows, and boiled-beef day at Slaughter House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mens Wives] Reference

The half-holiday must not be spent in shivering on a touchline and then crowding round a fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference

"It is he who has begged us the half-holiday," whispered the prophet of good to his neighbour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference

Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; joy is the uproarious labour by which all things live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orthodoxy] Reference

“One of my girls won a top scholarship to Leeds so the head announced a half-holiday for the sixth.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Absolute Friends]

Also, they expect the Saturday half-holiday to give work to one additional man for each eleven previously employed.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SCAB] Reference

There was no time for the doing of anything special, as there would be on the following day, which was a half-holiday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Wortle's school] Reference

‘And, as it is a half-holiday (the Duke’s birthday) we will settle among the long grasses, while they play cricket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waves] Reference

I remember once on a half-holiday he did his lessons in the school-room at my desk, and he had it open in the desk, and as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference

On every half-holiday I went dutifully to the B6 notice-board to see whether my name was down to play that afternoon or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprised by Joy]

Saturday was a half-holiday, and on that day he could be absent on condition of remitting the classical lessons in the morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Wortle's school] Reference

His Saturday half-holiday he spent in the wood with his book of fairy legends, and that other unwritten book of his imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

It was a fine summer day, and our little school had obtained a half-holiday, by the intercession of a good-humoured visitor. 3 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

As that afternoon was a half-holiday, he had some idea of paying a second visit to the spot, and continuing his examination of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

It was Wednesday and a half-holiday, and Mrs. Gresley had arranged to take the children in the pony-carriage to be measured for new boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Pottage] Reference

The illusions about a new world order were a half-holiday from realism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference