week's-end

Updated: May 23, 2025

And so the Red Beadle's visits resumed their ancient frequency even as his Sabbath clothes resumed their ancient gloss, and every week's-end he paid over Zussmann's wages to him full Union rate.

Israel Zangwill - Dreamers of the Ghetto

Landlord Hull, of the White Hart Inn what an ideal Boniface is this same Hull, and what an ideal inn promised a boatman to pole the punt and look after my traps when the Henley regatta was over; and the owner of my own craft, and of fifty other punts besides, went so far as to say that he expected a man as soon as Lord Somebody-or-Other left for the Continent, when His Lordship's waterman would be free, adding, meaningly: "Just at present, zur, when we do be 'avin' sich a mob lot from Lunnon, 'specially at week's-end, zur, we ain't got men enough to do our own polin'. It's the war, zur, as has took 'em off.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Under Dog