On Saturdays and eves of the eight public holidays the 11-hours' day is reduced to 10.
Zurich canton has fixed the working day for women at 10 hours generally, and 9 hours on Saturdays and eves of holidays.
I knew that, but somehow we Adams will go to our Eveswith anything that goes wrong.
That is the question today and I am quite sure God and the devil stand now as then, and while the Adams are divided, the Eves are nearly all on one side.
There are few Eves but whose dominant passion is to rule a husband.
They deck all the forefront or eves of their howses betymes in the mornyng with greene bowes, in remembrance of his resurrection.
They decked all the eves of their howses this mornyng with flagges and mugwort, in honer of the great feast which is held to morrow, being the 5th day of the 5th month.
On stormy eves from cliff and head We saw the white spray tossed and spurned; While over all, in gold and red, Its face of fire the lighthouse turned.
On these eves a line of tar-barrels, relieved occasionally by large bonfires, is seen in the centre of each of the principal streets in Penzance.
The faint perfume that slowly permeated the stuffy atmosphere of the lodgings, should have reminded Mrs. Courteen of her youth, of long June eves and blossoms plucked awhile ago by fingers now wrinkled and stained with years of snuff.
Such sights, as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
The foolish Adams and Eves fret and strain against these processes of development, and bewail their "mistake" in marrying; not seeing that the association is really benefiting both.
But the Sages say, “in Judah they did work on the evesof the passovers for half a day, and in Galilee they did nothing.
On the eves of the passovers near to the time of evening prayer a man must not eat till it be dark.
The knowledge that Spring could not linger always was the only consoling certainty she now possessed, and from the window-seat she greeted with a passionate welcome each dusky azure minute that on these lengthening eves was robbed from night.
The rest of that February went by with lengthening eves that died on the dusky riot of blackbirds in the rhododendrons.
Those gusty eves were almost preferable to this protracted and luminous melancholy in which the sinking crescent of the moon hung scarcely more bright than ivory.
For several Christmas Eves past, this tinker’s boy and a little pal have walked some miles from a neighbouring town to sing carols at my Rectory door.
Often on bygone summereves have I loitered about the old inn gleaming white amid its guardian trees, but best of all I loved to see the beechen boughs drop their fiery leaves upon its mossy roof in the fading of the year.
Daisy fixed her eves on the pleasant, handsome, mild face.
Deftly set to Celtic music, At his violin's sound they grew, Through the moonlit eves of summer, Making Amphion's fable true.
When the winter eves are early and cold, The firelight hours are a dream of gold.
The birds that sing on autumn eves Among the golden-tinted leaves, Are but the few that true remain Of budding May's rejoicing train.
Or when we hark't to nightingales that sang On dewy eves in spring, did they entice To gentler love than winter's icy fang?
And then its form began to fade, Began to fade, Its gentle echoes faintlier played At eves upon my ear Than when the autumn's look embrowned The lonely chambers here, The autumn's settling shades embrowned Nooks that it haunted near.
I ran at eves Among the piled-up sheaves, Dreaming, "I grieve not, therefore nothing grieves.
Haste where thy spicèd garden blows: But in bare Autumn eves Wilt thou have store of harvest sheaves?
His judgment, however, is clear and convincing in regard to the tinted Eves and Venuses of Gibson.
O congenerate hearts, Octogenarian Eves o'er whom is stretched God's awful claw, where will you be to-morrow?
Ah, and we said imperishable things, Those eves illumined by the burning coal.
The eves illumined by the burning coal, The balcony where veiled rose-vapour clings-- How soft your breast was then, how sweet your soul!
That was the part of it which even to-day makes us veil our eves before the nobility of such women as Emma Willard and Mary Lyon.
The little girl with skin like white cotton cloth rolled her big, gray eves toward the tray and asked listlessly, "What you got for dinner, ma?
For the half of a second he held her against his breast; then, as she released herself, he drew back and lifted his eves to meet the serene composure of her expression.
He drew back, closing his eves to shut out her face; but the next instant, as she stirred slightly to hold down the rippling leaves, he bent forward and laid his hand upon the one that held the open book.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
