1 There was universal rejoicing in that holiday season, rejoicing and thankfulness that the tide was turning.
2 There were women in the mob near Decatur Street, garishly dressed women whose bright finery and painted faces gave a discordant note of holiday.
3 And so he had leisure to muse on all its exquisite details, as a hard worker, on a holiday morning, might lie still and watch the beam of light travel gradually across his room.
4 At dinner his hearty voice, his holiday enjoyment of everything, turned into nervousness in his desire to know a number of interesting matters, such as whether they still were married.
5 Nevertheless, ere long, the warm, warbling persuasiveness of the pleasant, holiday weather we came to, seemed gradually to charm him from his mood.
6 I had only one holiday that summer.
7 The weather was warm and sultry and put us both in a holiday humour.
8 She said possibly she might, and he negotiated with her for some Parisian studies to reach him in time for the holiday trade in December.
9 The forewoman was especially severe with Ona, because she believed that she was obstinate on account of having been refused a holiday the day after her wedding.
10 It was the holiday rush that was over, the girls said in answer to Marija's inquiries; after that there was always a slack.
11 At first she thought it was the old-time mistake she had made in asking for a holiday to get married.
12 It was October, and the holiday rush had begun.
13 The friends looked out at us with the tragic eyes and short upper lips of south-eastern Europe, and I was glad that the sight of Gatsby's splendid car was included in their somber holiday.
14 As her mother still kept beckoning to her, and arraying her face in a holiday suit of unaccustomed smiles, the child stamped her foot with a yet more imperious look and gesture.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE 15 On this public holiday, as on all other occasions for seven years past, Hester was clad in a garment of coarse gray cloth.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY