So the King issued a royal decree that he should have three birthdays every year, in order to be on the safe side; and whenever he happened to think of it he put in an odd birthday or two for luck.
The King's birthdays came to be regarded as very joyful events, for on these occasions festivities of unusual magnificence were held, and everybody in the kingdom was invited to participate.
On birthdaysmen made offerings to their Genius, women to their Juno.
I took a handful of sand and, holding it forth, said, 'Grant me to see as many birthdays as there are sand-grains in my hand.
Birthdays and holidays are also strong factors, by means of which the library can interest the mothers.
The current report of the Cincinnati public schools gives a full account of the celebrations of authors' birthdays in the last two years, and the superintendent, the Hon.
On some of the holidays such as Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays the lecture is naturally devoted to the national hero, whose birthday is thus commemorated.
Both of them, as we know, celebrated with no ordinary festivities the birthdays of the Bruti (Juv.
Susie was five birthdays while I was at home vacation.
He would let Lucinda, but he says Dolly is too short; she must be ten birthdays when she comes.
On royalbirthdays and on great festivals they also required largess.
I want every one of hisbirthdays to be so nice and pleasant.
It was its birthday, too--there are more babies in the world than we think for whose birthdays might be celebrated on the same day.
He comes out on birthdays in a blaze of shirt-pin).
You are growing up so fast that by the time I come home again I expect you will be almost a woman; and in a very few years we shall be saying to each other: "Don't you remember what the birthdays used to be in Russell Square?
Louisa kept the birthdays of November, though with saddened heart.
Expositions are found in these registers of the motions of the planets, their revolutions and their stations, and, moreover, the relation which each bears to the birthdays of animals, and its good or evil influence.
Brave birthdays of the long ago when Death was not a fact but a fiction!
And the birthdays--the birthdays that the man had learned to forget--how could he have learned to forget them!
Whatever it was, the man slipped back into his Yesterdays when birthdays were ages and ages apart and, more than anything else in the world, the boy wanted to grow up.
We always get a great many things and very nice ones at Christmas and on our birthdays and name days (of course Protestants don't have these last), but we don't give one another such splendid things as the Bs.
She sends me a belated birthday greeting (last winter we told one another when our birthdays were), and she sends me a great pressed forget-me-not.
I fear me I shall want no birthdays in the convent," said she, sadly.
He flew into a rage; he had had too much ofbirthdays and bridegrooms, and determined he would be a party to no more of either.
During these changes of nature, everything that had been affected by the unnatural birthdays returned to its former state.
The New Year There is something "tonic" about the New Year which there isn't about Christmas, and Birthdayscertainly do not possess.
No, as I said before, Christmas Days and Birthdays are failures so far as festivity goes.
Above all, like the primal society, they gathered on the birthdays of the revered dead to whom they owed duty and remembrance.
Brightening our busy months with golden glints of romp and mischief and caress, he kept his run of birthdays like festivals which brought no warning with them.
But after that people don't think so much of birthdays until their seventieth or so, when they become very proud of them once more.
A neighbourly friendliness already existed between the households, and as the two birthdays fell so near together, it seemed fitting that the girls should have their gifts alike.
By common consent the real birthdays were ignored, and the fifteenth of June accepted as the right anniversary for both.
And May birthdays always make one think of cowslips.
There are some birthdays one should remember more than others.
Whole holidays were given on thebirthdays of the four upper masters.
I hope their birthday presents did not drop through because his Majesty George the Second had let eleven birthdays slip out of that year's calendar, to get the Clock and the Sun to work comfortably together.
Jack and I have dozens of bright spots to remember because she made gala days of all our birthdays and holidays, and it's no more than right that we should do it for Mary and Holland and the baby, now that she is so busy.
That is Holland's idea, and part of our way of keeping birthdays is to let the one who celebrates choose what he would like to do.
There was never much money to spend in entertainments in the little brown house, but birthdays never passed unheeded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "birthdays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
