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Usage examples of christmas.

The Christmas party was in full swing when Augusta boarded: a band played on the main deck, and passengers in evening dress drank champagne and danced with friends who had come to say good-bye.

Agatha Christie writes in her Foreword, in which she also recalls the delightful Christmases of her youth at Abney Hall in the north of England.

Katie had apparently been awake for some time, sucking absentmindedly on her bottle and playing with a set of educational blocks John and I had bought her for Christmas.

When, the week of Christmas, Abigail went off with the Smiths for a sojourn at Bath, Adams kept steadily at his labors.

Though the electoral vote would not be known until February, it was clear by Christmas that Washington was again the unanimous choice for President, and that Adams, for all that had been said against him, had won a clear second place, far ahead of George Clinton.

Christmas morning dawned clear and bright, and Adams succeeded in rousing his philosophy to a considerable degree.

JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Adams heard again from Benjamin Rush, who wished to remind him of a visit Adams had had the summer before from two young men from Virginia.

LA and New York, as well as Tokyo -- and in the weeks before Christmas when demand is running high, the dockside price for a big ahi in Kona can run up to five and sometimes ten dollars a pound.

On the day after Christmas, Verlin and Patsy went to the Museum of Modern Art to have a look at the Airstream turkey.

He had holly and mistletoe flown in and kept in the refrigerator until it was time to put them up, and Alberta entered into the spirit of the season by scouring cookbooks for traditional Christmas recipes.

Kona is so wretched these days that I could own every building on Alii Drive and still go bankrupt by Christmas.

But for Alyce, this time of preparation for the birth of the Christmas King also marked the necessary shift in her frame of mind.

By way of a joke he said that as it was Christmas Eve he supposed I should be going to rock the infant Jesus asleep, but I answered that I was come to keep the Feast of the Maccabees with him--a reply which gained me the applause of the whole family and an invitation to stay with them.

There are times when a well-informed dissertation on aphagia in the reptiles of South America can be of real benefit, and Christmas Eve in the year 1911 seemed to be one of them.

The Ardennes in winter has the look of an old-fashioned Christmas card-steep hills crowned with forests of fir trees, narrow winding rivers, and picture-book villages and quaint old stone castles tucked into deep valleys.