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Example sentences for "certain days"

  • Large bags can, of course, be made on certain days in the may-fly season; but I do not know of any better than one hundred and six fish in three days, averaging one pound apiece.

  • Though on certain days there is but little scent, in favourable seasons during recent years wonderful sport has been shown in this country.

  • He can undertake nothing whatever unless the sorcerers have declared the omens favourable; he may not eat warm food: on certain days he may not quit his hut; and so on.

  • The Fire-festivals in general ALL over Europe the peasants have been accustomed from time immemorial to kindle bonfires on certain days of the year, and to dance round or leap over them.

  • The Reed-Mace is, on certain days, put by Catholics into the hands of statues of Christ.

  • The sap of the Ash, tapped on certain days, is drunk in Germany as a remedy for the bites of serpents.

  • The same Reed is, on certain days, put into the hands of the Roman Catholic statues of our Saviour.

  • All over Europe the peasants have been accustomed from time immemorial to kindle bonfires on certain days of the year, and to dance round or leap over them.

  • For more evidence of the use of fire to burn or expel witches on certain days of the year, see The Scapegoat pp.

  • The Lenten Fires [European custom of kindling bonfires on certain days of the year, dancing round them and leaping over them.

  • M88) All over Europe the peasants have been accustomed from time immemorial to kindle bonfires on certain days of the year, and to dance round or leap over them.

  • M88 European custom of kindling bonfires on certain days of the year, dancing round them and leaping over them.

  • For more evidence of the use of fire to burn or expel witches on certain days of the year, see The Scapegoat, pp.

  • Of special interest are the prohibitions regarding food on certain days.

  • It is quite evident that such reports must have been sent in response to royal orders asking for the meaning of existing conditions or of conditions that may be observed on certain days.

  • Or again, on certain days, they rush down into the depths to light up that immense obscurity; they terrify us and leave the soul dejected.

  • On certain days he would not give them a sou Parisis; on the morrow he would offer them enormous sums, always at a high rate of interest and on good security.

  • Letters to parents were obligatory on certain days, so was confession.

  • And if we went to see him on certain days only, that was because on the other days ladies might come whom his family could not very well have met.

  • On certain days, however, though these came seldom, she would call upon him in the afternoon, to interrupt his musings or the essay on Ver-meer to which he had latterly returned.

  • But though on certain days, and under fixed regulations, the outside public were admitted to the college gardens, the assemblages were always pervaded by the tone and humor of the law.

  • Before the writer of this page was called to the bar by the Masters of the Society of Lincoln's Inn, he, like all other students of his time, had to go through the form of putting a case on certain days in the hall after dinner.

  • Until Robert Henley held the seals, Chancellors continued to hold after-dinner sittings in the Court of Chancery on certain days of the week throughout term.

  • But to drop the Allegory before I have tired it out, there is no Species of Scriblers more offensive, and more incurable, than your Periodical Writers, whose Works return upon the Publick on certain Days and at stated Times.

  • As for the Pamphleteer, he takes place of none but of the Authors of single Sheets, and of that Fraternity who publish their Labours on certain Days, or on every Day of the Week.

  • The gift is an accession to the place, and a pavilion has been erected, in which the band plays on certain days of the week.

  • For example, certain days found me in an unexplainably aggressive state of mind and my anger begged to be given reign over rationality.

  • Certain days, however, I elected to prance through the house without it; the wig was tiresome and hot, and my head needed to escape its smothering imprisonment during the day in addition to its nightly freedom.

  • When he had finished lunch, his next priority was a walk, which grew quite lengthy on certain days; this was an indulgence which I never thought to impede or discourage, for he needed a reprieve from anxiety much more than I.

  • My eating was sporadic; on certain days I wouldn't recall having eaten at all.

  • The religious laws of Egypt obliged families on certain days in the year to present offerings to deceased parents.

  • With these glorious blossoms," says Mr. Niebuhr, "the peasantry retain the ancient custom of crowning themselves on certain days of joy and festivity.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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