Celebration times

Usage examples of holidays.

Note 2: During major holidays, it was not unheard of for government officials to obtain pardons for certain prisoners.

Indeed, none of the Holidays knew that another daughter had been expected to join them.

The Taylors can spend their summer holidays in a real castle down in the south of England whenever they like.

Those holidays I take, with her blessing, are not spent exclusively in French provincial towns looking at cathedrals, although such towns are as amenable to adventures as any other place.

This was how I spent those not quite innocent holidays in cathedral cities, making opportunities for myself which now seemed to me equally shameful.

I made coffee, smiled pleasantly as various holidays were described for my benefit, and for his, as the legend was carefully reconstructed.

I was not apologetic about my holidays, or indeed my way of life, which I had chosen, but I was aware that it or they did not make for entertaining conversational exchange.

Now these holidays appeared to me in a morbid light, and I felt secretive, shameful.

And both, in their respective ways, would have known that the time for holidays was past, and only the grim present and the even grimmer future bound them together.

It was always a foregone conclusion that I would live here most of the time, that my parents would come for weekends when they could, spend the summer months and special holidays at the house.

Most malls begin decorating for the holidays on November first, replacing the Halloween displays with Christmas decorations.

And the shopping center associates its fun with the holidays of American life.

We would of course be glad to have Harry stay for the remainder of the summer holidays, and to see him safely onto the train back to school.

Fred and George had had a great success with their Canary Creams, and for the first couple of days of the holidays, people kept bursting into feather all over the place.

During all the Christmases of her youth, while joyfully celebrating with her parents, she had dreamed of someday sharing her holidays with a husband.