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Usage examples of holiday.

When we went on holidays, we called it going pink-eye, my Aboriginal father carried me on his shoulders when I was tired.

Lord Althorp stated that the house would adjourn for the Christmas holidays.

On the 20th of December the house adjourned for the Christmas holidays, and did not meet again until February.

I was prepared to stay placidly in Agios Georgios, under his eye, until my holiday came to its natural end.

With John interested only in Yoko and his own music, and with George Martin often busy elsewhere or on holiday, Paul had inevitably taken charge of the album, at different times alienating both George Harrison and Ringo.

Anyway, it seems that one of their innumerable holidays was about to conclude on Amado III when the climate controller monitoring equipment took itself off-line to go hunting for this mythical suprahuman intelligence.

The cotton dress with its broderie anglaise trimmings was made specially for this holiday, but the dressmaker had not calculated on the spell of cold weather.

Further letters exchanged between him and the Archdeacon had led to an agreement that he should spend the first Sunday of his holiday at the Rectory, arriving for lunch on the Saturday.

In Bradwell, Jane returned to her day school after the Easter holiday, Gerald continued to regard me with mute adoration, and spring flowers and shrubs began to bring great splashes of color to the green and brown gardens of Silverwood, first the daffodils, then the tulips, the aubrietia tumbling over dwarf walls, and the camellias with great blossoms of pink and red.

Obediali admitted with regreLike I A CAPITAL HOLIDAY 285 Young Brian cocked his head, awondering curiosity rounding his dark eyes.

He examined Mijnheer Beek, declared him to be fit enough to do without a nurse, suggested most strongly that he and his wife should take a short holiday and then present himself for a further check-up, refused the coffee offered him and invited her coldly to step into the dark little sitting-room with him.

Mijnheer Beek, rather to her surprise, expressed regret at her going, although he was quick to point out that just as soon as he returned from his holiday he would expect her to resume her lessons and, what was more, study hard while he was away.

But through this he got behindhand with his school work and his bad reports, which had to be initialed by his father, were kept back until the last day of the holidays.

The day Hillela returned from the holiday a woman was sitting with Pauline under the dangling swags of orange bignonia creeper that made private one end of the verandah.

Additionally, Boa had twice spent the holidays with Miss Marspan at her Chelsea flat, being taken about to operas, concerts, and private musicals every night of her visit.