Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 9, 2025
Yes; Little Peter thought that no bad plan; so he bought himself a fine horse and a load of butter and cheese, and set off to the town; and with the money he got for his goods he bought brandy, and wine, and beer, and as soon as ever he got home again it was one round of holiday-keeping and merry-making; he treated all his old friends and neighbours, and they treated him again; and so he lived in fun and frolic so long as his money lasted.
And Howard and Philip their holiday-keeping Metropolitan clubs were shallow artificialities surely compared with a home-keeping reunion about the Yule log.
I mean real good works, works of kindness, charity, mercy, and public spirit; not holiday-keeping, sermon reading or hearing, performing church ceremonies, or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised even by wise men and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.
Then she did go to the Hendees', although it was dark; and Maria Hendee, who seldom went out to parties, promised to come. "They would divide," she said. "Fanny might go to Olivia's. Holiday-keeping was different from other invites. One might take liberties." Now the Hendees were people who could take liberties, if anybody. Last of all, Rosamond went in and asked Pen Pennington.
To tell you the truth, my wife believes me to be brushing off the cobwebs in the Kyles of Bute." "Are there any cobwebs in the Kyles of Bute?" asked Dalmahoy, in a tone unnaturally calm. "A figure of speech, sir as one might say, holiday-keeping there. I paid Mr. Byfield five pounds in advance. I have his receipt.
They come! they come! these Tuscan peasants, a trifle too fond of holiday-keeping, like their betters but what would you have? The land is fertile, and corn and wine and oil and rosy flowering almonds grow almost as of themselves. They come tens and tens of miles away, from out the deep shadows of primeval chestnut-woods, clothing the flanks of rugged Apennines with emerald draperies.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking