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Example sentences for "feast days"

  • I spent the whole of the next month in my room, working assiduously, and only going out to mass on feast days, to dine with M.

  • She allows me to go by myself to mass because our confessor told her she might do so; but I dare not stay away a minute beyond the time, except on feast days, when I am allowed to pray in the church for two or three hours.

  • He shuts the church at noon on working days; on feast days he shuts it at evening, and he always opens it again at dawn.

  • The words, of the statute (which reappear in those of later colleges) seem to imply that even on winter evenings a fire burned in the Hall only on Feast days, and the medieval student must have suffered severely from cold.

  • It might be played to amuse a sick fellow on feast days, or without the plea of sickness, on the vigils of Christmas, and of three Holy Days.

  • He must hear mass and say matins and vespers every day, under pain of a fine of a penny, and attend certain services on feast days.

  • On feast days, when there were no regular lessons, these young clerics were to be set to learn the Matins of the Office of the Blessed Virgin; or to practise writing upon scraps of parchment.

  • He had to watch that the flour was of the proper quality, and on feast days he was supposed to give a better kind of bread and a different shape of loaf.

  • From his store he had to supply the church with all necessary lights for the altars, for the choir, and for illuminating the candle-beams and candelabra on feast days.

  • She cut her grey hair short, and went about in house, yard, garden with her head uncovered, but on feast days, or when guests were expected she put on a cap.

  • On feast days, on account of the hardness of their work, a glass of brandy was handed to the coachman, the menservants and the Starost.

  • They also had some brass mortars like quart pots, which are used for firing salutes on feast days.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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