Shornstein's vacation last summer was spent in Wisconsin, where he spent much of his idling time in the vicinity of an Indian settlement near Green Bay.
The sculptor's vacation had done him good, and he plunged with vigor into his work again, the more so because the supply of wooden Indians at the time was hardly equal to the demand, and within a week he had produced a masterpiece.
It seemed mean and selfish in me to be taking a vacation while others were at work, and while there was so much that needed to be done.
During this first Christmas vacation I went some distance from the town to visit the people on one of the large plantations.
I economized in every way that I could think of--did my own washing, and went without necessary garments--but still I found my summer vacation ending and I did not have the sixteen dollars.
I spent nearly the whole of the first month of my vacation in an effort to find something to do by which I could earn money to pay my way back to Hampton and save a little money to use after reaching there.
With this disappointment I gave up all hope of getting out of the town of Hampton for my vacation work.
Before the end of the vacation she gave me some work, and this, together with work in a coal-mine at some distance from my home, enabled me to earn a little money.
The rooms were all in summer order; sweet with the fragrance of India matting, which covered the floors; cool and quiet in the strange stillness of the vacation time.
O we are always festive in vacation time," said Rotha joyously.
It's hard to be a boy in vacationunless you can go off in the country or down by the sea.
It spoils vacationwhen some one keeps saying, "Don't do that!
So you see a vacation for men and women is generally a vacation with its weight of responsibility.
But it is easy enough to see how fast a day of vacation will go by if you, Stephen, or you, Clara, have these several resources or determinations.
They put them away, and had a vacation of a year and nine months thereafter, before the school was open again.
Though it was a boarding-school, still the girls had just as "good a time" as they had at home, and when I found that some of them asked leave to spend vacation with her I knew they had better times.
She chose eight of the girls when vacation came, and told them they might get leave, if they could, to join her in Brattleborough for this tramp.
When Robert's nextvacation comes, after he has been at home a week, he will be glad enough to start.
In 1883, Susan surprised everyone by taking a vacation in Europe.
But I expect the busy summer vacation spent with my dearest and truest friends will give me new life and fresh courage to persevere in the arduous path of duty.
In anticipation of a vacation at home, she wrote her parents, "Sometimes I can hardly wait for the day to come.
Then a perfectly swell vacation plan won't be entirely thrown away.
There was the grand trip before them, and then the vacation itself, fishing, swimming, shooting.
It was at the beginning of this vacation that Bob whistled to Hal and called to him to come down to hear his wonderful news.
How does a vacation up in the mountains sound to you?
The friendship had weathered a summer, a school year, and was now entering the boys' summer vacation again.
They had always admired the fine old warlike Blackfoot nation, but never did they imagine when they set forth on this summer vacation trip to the Coast, that they would find themselves stalled among these people of their dreams.
So it was all arranged that Shag should spend the Easter vacation at the palatial home of the Benningtons in Montreal.
But the following Sunday saw him back again, and the first day ofvacation was not hailed with greater delight by the boys than by their old friend Peter.
Two in a Bungalow" describes the usual vacation sports of swimming, fishing, berrying, in an interesting and instructive way and gives a pleasant picture of a vacation outing among the mountains.
The Summer Vacation Series FOUR ON A FARM By MARY P.
It would only worry her, and ourvacation was to be a season of unalloyed delight.
It's going to rain again, and our vacation is up to-morrow, anyway.
We did not care to camp out any more that season, but thought it would be better to spend the rest of my vacation at the sea-shore.
We were off for a two weeks' vacation and our minds were a good deal easier than when we went away before, and left Pomona at the helm.
I told him that we expected to spend my two weeks' vacation here.
The banker was coming for his long-deferred vacation to the log house by the river.
A rainstorm thinned the attendance to the proportions of a fashionable church in the metropolis during summer, when the popular preacher is absent on vacation abroad, seeking after the health he never lost.
He was not so fortunate as to have country relatives with whom he might visit and spend a brief vacation down on the old farm, so he had to bestir himself to hit upon some scheme or other to bridge over the so-called dog days.
The rest of his vacation was spent in a way equally pleasant, and at seven a.
Rothsay gave his school a vacation and set out with Scythia to find the valley where they were reported to be in camp.
The long summer vacation had commenced, and the boys were let loose from school for six weeks.
You will have a vacation next week, and you may go every day then, if you want to.
You can afford to take a vacation of a week or two, I should think.
A serious calamity threatens the Silver Fox Patrol when on one of their vacation trips to the wonderland of the great Northwest.
This book is brimming over with thrilling adventure, woods lore and the story of the wonderful experiences that befell the Cranford troop of Boy Scouts when spending a part of their vacation in the wilderness.
They have all acquaintance here, in this Gloucester-row, and stroll from the terrace or the sands, to visit them during the tea vacation time.
I was very sorry to have no place to recommend her to, though I believe she may rather benefit by a vacation that carries her to her excellent father and Mother, who teach her nothing but good.
He had been invited by some classmates to spend a part of his vacation with them on the Maine coast, and his guardian had consented to his doing so; but the boy himself had something else to propose.
The frogging fleet included two canoes, that of young John Dudley who was doing his vacation with me, and my own.
So, hating to destroy the beast yet liking to eat the leg, about once in my summer vacation in camp I go frogging, and make the guides do it.
The subject weighs the more deeply and heavily on me because I am just back from a month's vacation in North Carolina, where I am going to build me a winter and old-age bungalow.
I had never seen a man on the paper--had never been in New York except for a day when I landed there on a return voyage from a European trip that I took during one vacation when I was in the University.
President Wilson, who used occasionally to spend his vacation in the Lake region, was one of his friends.
In his after life, amid all the excitements of journalism, Page could take a brief vacation and spend it with Ulysses by the sea; but actuality and human activity charmed him even more than did the heroes of the ancient world.
Edwards had been a pleasant enough fellow, and Oliphant had not objected to his loafing away a vacation about the old house at Quogue.
She could understand that he needed to accustom himself to his new freedom, to have his vacation first.
And yet she divined that the movement and stimulus of thisvacation was what Clayton needed most.
I am aware that, as you pass along the corridors, you think it isvacation time, or that every one is absent just now from their rooms, all is so silent.
Thither came one day a young student of the Normal School, Jouffroy, two years his senior, who in going home to pass his vacation in the village of Pontets, had paused a moment on the way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vacation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
