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Updated: June 16, 2025
A woman was roasted to death for eating flesh on Fridays.
During Lent, each brother had eight shillings paid to him instead of commons, and on Palm Sunday the Brethren had a "green fish, of the value of three shillings and fourpence, and their pot of milk pottage with three pounds of rice boiled in it, and three pies with twenty-four herrings baked in them, and six quarts and one pint of beer extraordinary". On Good Fridays they had at dinner "in their pot of beer a cast of bread sliced, and three pounds of honey, boiled together, which they call honey sop". Beneath the hall is a fine vaulted cellar, of ample proportions, a worthy resting-place for the stock of St.
He pulled from his hip pocket a tattered wallet and produced a hundred-dollar bill. "Mr. Dunstan, how much expert legal advice can you give me for that?" Dunstan's manner underwent a swift metamorphosis. "Oh, put back your money, boy. I have an hour to spare this morning, and for your father's sake my advice to you will always be given gratis on Mondays and Fridays."
Chicot looked astounded; he had so often seen Gorenflot feast in a different manner during Lent. "Our souls!" said he; "and what the devil have herbs and water to do with them?" "We are forbidden to eat meat on Wednesdays and Fridays." "But when did you breakfast?" "I have not breakfasted, my brother," said the monk. "Not breakfasted! Then what have you done?"
'I was not later than I am usually on Fridays, said Miss Mildmay. 'No, thank you, I am not tired. Will you have some more tea, Jacinth? 'Yes, please, said the elder girl. She was growing more and more nervous, and yet her anxiety to know if Lady Myrtle really had written already made her remain near her aunt as long as possible.
Why, good heavens, just fancy, at your age, having to be told what the smart places are in Paris! What do you expect me to say? Well, on Sunday mornings there's the Avenue de l'Imperatrice, and round the lake at five o'clock, and on Thursdays the Eden-Theatre, and the Hippodrome on Fridays; then there are the balls..." "What balls?"
And Fridays I make up a sort of chowder for the Kanucks; they're Catholics, you know, and I don't believe in interferin' with any man's religion, it don't matter what it is." "You ought to be a deacon in the First Church at Equity," said Bartley. "Is that so? Why?" asked Kinney. "Oh, they don't believe in interfering with any man's religion, either."
Twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, about nightfall, I shall pass by your house; and, if I am lucky enough to have a glimpse of you, I shall return home fired with fresh energy. Should any thing extraordinary happen, beckon to me, and I'll wait for you in the Rue des Minimes. But this is an expedient to which we must only resort in the last extremity.
Betty received with Lady Mary on Tuesdays, and under that popular young matron's wing called on a number of women prominent in the official life of the dying Administration, whom she received on Fridays.
They had met him riding along, intent upon his psalter, in a lonely path of the Bruneswald, "Whereon your son, most gracious lady, bade me stand, saying that his men were thirsty and he had no money to buy ale withal, and none so likely to help him thereto as a fat priest, for so he scandalously termed me, who, as your ladyship knows, am leaner than the minster bell-ropes, with fasting Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the year, beside the vigils of the saints, and the former and latter Lents.
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