| 单词 | holiday |
| 例句 | She said he could come out on a holiday sometime and she’d find tasks for him to do. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Abuela is admiring the palm trees that are strung with white lights for the holiday. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Maria Teresa was home from school for the long holiday weekend in honor of El Jefe’s birthday, so she came along. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ahh, yes. The American holiday celebrating colonialism with a bland, dry bird.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z This would have been during the holidays, five months earlier, because I remembered the porch banisters all decorated with pine boughs and an enormous, sweet-smelling bayberry wreath that hung on the front door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Celebrating the Easter holiday was a big event in our family. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The captain sends word that he is thrilled with their progress; he promises holiday leaves, steaks, brandy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The substitute Laborers, who would be given a different holiday, took over all the necessary tasks: nurturing, food delivery, and care of the Old; and the community was free. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z But the holidays were only half the trouble. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I am come to see how you are spending your holiday,” he said. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But the efforts were not very successful; and between the soma- holidays there were, of necessity, intervals. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Even at Swanburne the girls would get cinnamon toast and sausage on holidays. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Easter was just such a drifting holiday, so every few generations a monk was drafted to calculate the dates when Easter would fall for the next few hundred years. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I love Christmas—the tree with its ornaments, visiting relatives with their houses decorated for the holiday, and carols on the radio, which Mom sings along to as long as Dad’s not in the car. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I should have been relieved when January rolled around and put an end to my hellish holiday season. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z When I was a boy, Jewish holidays meant a day off from school for me and that was it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the teenagers took off, and all the little kids lined up to have their pictures taken by Lovey, a thing they apparently did every holiday. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z At the end of the day, Mr. Fabian gives us a little extra homework to do over the Thanksgiving holiday. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time of year. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z His folks have just gone on holiday Prior to going to Ritchie’s, I head over to Henry Street and have a look for Thomas O’Reilly. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “I remember we went once for the girl’s holidays, and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. The walks are delightful.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I don’t know what they are, but apparently he and his daughter go on holiday looking for them.…” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z For me, Halloween is the best holiday in the world. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Grub and I were together every holiday, except for the time he spent with his father. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The two young men shared almost all of the major holidays together, usually at the Collins home. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Ben and Matthew were serving Mass in red cassocks worn only on feast days and special holidays. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nixon’s Christmas bombings were still awaiting their holiday season. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Altogether, about three thousand Black Muslims from their mosques in most sizable cities were in Chicago for their annual “Saviour’s Day” convention, regarded by them as similar to the holiday of Christmas. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z After my holiday, I returned to school early in the new year feeling strong and renewed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When work ended for the day he wandered through the scorching streets, blind and deaf to the spirit of holiday already sweeping the crowds around him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I thought about Christmas and felt sad, recalling living in tent labor camps in Corcoran during that holiday and seeing families struggling to make ends meet. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z She did not have the heart to tell them the bad news about the holiday ball right away—new party clothes, honestly! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z They normally do this only within Europe, but for this particular holiday they have decided to chase it around the other side of the Atlantic. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The Franklins’ house was pristine, perfect, and sterile, right down to the tasteful white holiday lights that lined the edge of the roof, and the festive wreath hanging from the front door. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The best part of the holidays is being out of school for two weeks. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Now I would be with my family every weekend and every holiday. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “They get holidays, don’t they? And — and sick leave, and pensions, and everything?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z That was the last peaceful moment of my holiday. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Compared to the preceding perilous weeks, this was a veritable holiday. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z We gathered in each other’s shacks to reminisce about the holidays in Lithuania. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Grammy is yelling up the stairs to me, saying it’s Lobster Roll Sunday, which is a holiday that Henry made up once where we all go to Chatham Pier for lobster rolls. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z By the last week of school before the holiday, he was growing desperate. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The day of the Singing was a holiday for the entire city; all the stores and other businesses were closed. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Captain Stewart was still saying that the VC were trying to get into place in time for the Tet holiday. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the courtyard outside my recovery room window is ablaze, the entire space filled with the twinkling holiday lights from the park, twisting around the lampposts and the trees. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “We saw each other once more, when he came home for holiday. I went to see him at Nampally Railway Station just when he was leaving to go back to school.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z New Year’s is the biggest holiday of the year for the Japanese. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z A halfforgotten holiday has unveiled every knife that sticks inside me, every cut. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Their family tree, where they’d lived, holiday trips, and happy memories. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z ‘Well, you do want looking after and no mistake: your party might be on a holiday!’ said Butterbur. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The next day was the last day of the holiday vacation. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I don’t like it when he bums around the house on holidays. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes when we had to go to my aunt’s for holidays.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Whenever I spend holidays with my grandparents, I stay in my old bedroom. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I was disappointed to find that the day was a holiday; no children were there, and Biddy’s house was closed. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The next morning after my father and Lin Nai-Nai had left, my mother suddenly announced that we’d have another school holiday. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was my staple thank-you, get well soon, any holiday, and most often goodbye card and could be modified to almost any animal. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “You’ll form small groups and work to create a center focused on a certain holiday. It might be Christmas, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, or Hanukkah.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Since the holidays were over, my mom asked if I would like to have Sam and Patrick over for dinner like she promised after I told her they said she had great taste in clothing. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Charles and Emma remained involved and loving parents—to the boys in person on school holidays and through the mail the rest of the year. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to El Paso. Staying with my aunt for the holidays.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z These were not a vacation from prison but a busman’s holiday. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Really. She hates my real mom, and by extension, me. The whole holiday ski trip, she was nagging. ‘ Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Jeffrey and I decided that making a trivia game about Ramadan was the perfect way for people to learn about our holiday and what we’d researched. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Papa had left just before Purim, which was normally Mama’s favorite holiday, but she had barely acknowledged it that year. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z In April, I was at my house in the Transkei on a brief holiday. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They are national holidays in North Korea, and even in a no-exit labor camp, prisoners get the day off. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A cheer from the class, as if the happy holidays were already here. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Over the holidays, his family and others who share the trailer move into a newer, three-bedroom duplex. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Dumbledore had convinced Harry not to go looking for the Mirror of Erised again, and for the rest of the Christmas holidays the Invisibility Cloak stayed folded at the bottom of his trunk. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z On holidays, there were festivals, and there were Saturday soup prayer meetings, and meals were prepared for the sick and then delivered. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In Cambodia, New Year’s is our biggest and most important holiday. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After we’re done dishing out turkey dinners with all the holiday fixings, we eat dinner at my house. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z A colorful strand of holiday bulbs dangled around her window, reflecting off the rain-flecked glass. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z All Egypt would make holiday in the streets, and the lowliest water carrier would feast at Pharaoh’s expense and drink barley beer free. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It would have been a happy, peaceful holiday had it not been for the stories of disappearances, odd accidents, even of deaths now appearing almost daily in the Prophet. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It was the 5th of November, and a holiday. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Up north, near San Jose. It’s only about 250 miles, so you’ll get a chance to come home on holidays,” he said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I plan to eat as many Pakistani Thanksgiving treats as possible, because we are not having a home-cooked holiday at my house. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She asked me if I wanted to invite Sam and Patrick over for dinner sometime after the holidays are over because my mom gets nervous enough as it is during the holidays. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z She’s never added one decoration to our snowman, but she does uncurl and seem to relax when a teacher puts on a CD of holiday music. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z But even a quiet celebration causes a stir in 13, where they seem to have no holidays at all. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Regularly Mary had six birthdays a year, and she organized costume parties, surprise parties, holiday parties. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d seen something similar on holiday, in the sand dunes of Death Valley, Nevada. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Leninci felt herself entitled, after this day of queerness and horror, to a complete and absolute holiday. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to stay there resting, eating mangoes, the breeze blowing on me, almost like I was on holiday, not fleeing the only home I’ve ever had. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z On the last Tuesday before the Easter holidays, all the kids who did bowls headed down to the Ex-Services Club as usual and had our practice. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It includes many different kinds of music: lullabies and children's singing games, tunes that everyone enjoys singing together or dancing to, songs for celebrations, ceremonies, and holidays. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Uniformed Boy Scouts moved through the festive holiday throng handing out programs. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Sam is trying to get her to sing along to the holiday music playing from the speakers, but her mood won’t budge. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z During the holidays, he does bring me gifts, but when I really needed him to provide for me, he would act like he couldn’t help me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Which is coming up: they'll be here for the Christmas holidays. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z From that post, he led the fight against creating a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Helms was appointed chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1995. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In Miss Penelope Lumley’s day it was the occasion for small boxes of holiday presents to be distributed to the servants, and that is where the name “Boxing Day” originated. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z They always take me to the mosque on important holidays; they fast during Ramadan; they sometimes close their office to attend Friday afternoon prayers. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Since the holidays were coming, I added: Have a wonderful and peaceful Christmas holiday and a prosperous new year. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They have come to rely on her, Gogol realizes, to collect them together, to organize the holiday, to convert it, to introduce the tradition to those who are new. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Her year started with the Fourth of July because it was the first holiday that came along after school closed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This is how it will be onstage during the holiday concert. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The day of his visit was declared a holiday by the school authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The other women who lived there—I knew they would be women because at BYU all housing was segregated by gender—had not yet returned from the Christmas holiday. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The weather was exceptionally mild that Christmas holiday and one amazing morning our whole family got ready to go for our first drive in the first motor-car we had ever owned. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z How in the world did their families survive the holidays without them? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Shackleton announced they would make a holiday feast on the seal's liver at lunchtime. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Dolly Parton, my dead aunt, our favorite holidays, best friends, and a handshake. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Christmas and then New Year’s and then Three Kings—so many holidays all at once! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was time now to think of the homework they had neglected during the first week of the holidays. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The holiday season is supposed to be a time of happiness that you can spend with your family, but this year turned out to be tragic. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Includes educational children’s songs, holiday songs, favorites, and songs for teaching English as a second language. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “We could go to the school—no one would be there today—or the library. It’s almost always open, even on holidays.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Let’s get together after the Christmas holidays and talk about how you managed. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the first day of school in January 1957, following the Christmas holidays, she accompanied her daughters to a meeting with the school principal. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Since this was an annual holiday, instead of working everyone attended the May Day celebration and fair at the cathedral. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z “Let me have another chance. I will be careful. I will never, ever, as long as I live, break another thing during the holidays. I promise. Please don’t send me away.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “Today’s dog walk is my gift to you! Happy holidays!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The days were getting shorter, the nights were perceptibly cooler, the year was turning toward the Christmas season and the long holiday which the entire countryside would celebrate— both the masters and the slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Deep down, I think my dad would rather spend the holiday with his family in Ohio. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The food I eat is Afghan, the music we listen to is Afghan, the gift-filled holiday I look forward to is Eid, not Christmas or Hanukkah. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Of course I will make you a dress! You can’t attend a holiday ball looking like that. The dressmaker jerked her head in the direction of Penelope’s plain frock and apron. “ The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Through holidays and Vineyard vacations, they have come to feel close not only to their stepbrothers, but also to Cate Woolner’s sisters’ children, whose pictures are on display in Lael’s house in Vermont. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “We love being American, celebrating holidays like Thanksgiving and July Fourth. But Halloween is a holiday with pagan roots, against the teachings of Islam.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It was a picture off a jigsaw puzzle, or perhaps a holiday brochure advertising a forgotten England. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “You on holiday too”—she spoke to me—“or d'you live here, like?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I'm familiar with life here—I've spent almost every holiday in our Manhattan flat since I was small. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When we studied the seasons, Mrs. Brush assigned us an essay describing a winter holiday with our family and said the best one would be printed in the school newsletter. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Every post office in Baltimore was closed for the holiday except the main branch downtown. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z At the holiday assembly, the words of the alma mater had wings. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Will things be awkward when I come home for holidays? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “No one will. They’ll love it. I wore one to Baba’s holiday party, and all the ladies said it was so elegant and commented on the fabric.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The picture they use isn’t a mug shot, it’s a candid shot: he’s on holiday somewhere, not quite smiling, but almost. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I read it the first or second day over the holiday.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Overtime was plentiful, and men jumped at the chance to work holidays, which paid double time. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The laughing man wasn’t on the comer—maybe he didn’t work holidays. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “Next summer,” I asked Mum, “will we all go on holiday again?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Luckiest girl I know. New dress and bonnet, train ride, holiday with a handsome man ...” She took the cloth from Rachel’s hand, tipped up the child’s chin, and began to wash her upturned face. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I love the way my neighbors celebrate their big holiday. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I did not think much of it until two days later, when summer school had resumed after the long holiday weekend. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z By the evening a kind of holiday spirit prevailed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z An important holiday in Mexico, it was the day when the family dead returned to their homes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “So Julian had this huge holiday party over winter break,” she said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z For he had said, ‘Today shall be a holiday,’ had told her firmly that she must rest and relax, and she had given way, after only a little, formal protest. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Pink and red streamers and a little Valentine’s Day banner decorate the sign-in desk, but if you’re coming in here to visit somebody, it’s hard to celebrate any holiday. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z A woman sang that the man she loved had betrayed her, so she would spend the holidays dreaming of what might have been. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z What else do you have to do over Christmas holidays?” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z From wall to wall, Bamberger’s is decked out for the holiday season. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Standing on the street in front of the Festival Theater in bright yellow tights and a blue floral cape covering white feathers on his butt—this was not an Ariel in a happy holiday spirit. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “It’s so close to the holidays—perhaps the judges were feeling charitable,” says a boy sarcastically. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Mother wore that same faded cotton saree every day—she needed a new one made of silk to wear on holidays. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z And they worried over early quizzes and passed whispered information about who was seeing whom—and who was no longer seeing whom—after the long holiday break. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z So far as Lupita was concerned, the rest of December was a sad time, a period of beloved Mexican holidays she missed observing. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I look to the holiday lights in the distance, twinkling like stars, calling out to me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The holiday it gave was perfect and, if the morning after was disagreeable, it was so, not intrinsically, but only by comparison with the joys of the holiday. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z That hurt, for Frank’s friendship with McMillan dated back to the mid-1950s, when they shared many companionable holidays camping and riding with Robert at his ranch in the New Mexico desert. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z ‘He’s the spit of our father. D’you remember? Dad in his suit and tie, even on holiday? Ted’s the image of him.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z They only looked different on holidays, when girls decorated their family’s paths and thresholds with painted patterns called alpanas, just as their ancestors had done for generations. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z That must have been where the families had their holiday apartments, and though I’d guess the interiors have changed a lot, the outsides look much the same. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s say I’m setting up our retirement house in advance. I’ll come back here for holidays, or when you really need me.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I was about to rattle off a few more holidays, but only the Abnegation celebrate them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Harry woke on the last day of the holidays, thinking that he would at least meet Ron and Hermione tomorrow, on the Hogwarts Express. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z On a holiday the usual rules of order could be disregarded. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Weirdly enough, when we got back home and Mom brought in the mail, there were holiday cards from both Julian’s family and August’s family. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The holidays were important, and the discipline needed to pay for the pleasure of annual generosity was relatively painless. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z It's hard to feel very festive on Christmas when our family has lost two loved ones on the holiday. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z There were no football games in the fall of 1958, but the band still took trips around the district on holidays to march through the various towns that invited us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z My father's visits always felt like a holiday. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The train was full of proles, in holiday mood because of the summery weather. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z John and Molly tried to steer Ernest toward rest and relaxation, but he had a habit of transforming even innocuous holiday pursuits into physical challenges. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The two calendars drifted with respect to each other, making it very difficult to predict when a holiday was due. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I caught her one day when I was home for the school holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He left Christmas holidays for Mother because it is her holiday, not his. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “And no work at all next weekend. Have a happy holiday, yo.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The place wasn’t crowded, just a few families and a couple of tour groups of kids, probably doing one of those holiday school trips. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I’m on holiday in France at the moment and I didn’t know how I was going to send this to you — what if they’d opened it at customs? — but then Hedwig turned up! Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I started a nature club with four members—my sister and me and the Cary children, who came to stay almost every holiday. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Are you returning to your post after your holiday?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not whip us up with holiday anticipation or explain. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When you wanted a holiday post it nearly always meant looking after a swarm of children—secretarial holiday posts were much more difficult to get. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Throughout Garfield's early years in Congress, the family lived in rented rooms in Washington, returning to their house in Hiram, Ohio, during Congressional holidays. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He had not dared to rebel, he had gone back into the Red Room every holiday, feigning interest, acquiring knowledge, disguising his fear. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I look in the direction of the holiday lights, knowing how far they are. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “Since we have Thanksgiving break this week, how about we go shopping on the weekend? Do you have any holiday plans?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The good news is that we have holidays coming up, which I love especially now because my brother will be coming home soon. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z While there are other not-quite holidays, though they are rare, the boy is not taken to see any other magicians. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There were twenty or more of them with teams and loads of logs, with saws and axes, and a barrel of cider to give their work a spark of holiday spirit. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you think of my meaning to take a holiday on Monday, Mr. Pip?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He promised me he was going to take me there one day, hut he said it would have to be on a holiday because I couldn’t miss school and he doesn’t work on the weekends. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “The elementaries have holiday pageants; the high school has Homecoming. Halloween is our thing! How can Mr. Kasigi do this to us?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z One chose getting a Christmas tree with his dad; another had decided on baking holiday treats with her mom; several were going to focus on vacations with relatives who lived up north. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baker was not in a happy holiday spirit. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Any parent of a child born on a major holiday knows that there’s already a certain line to be walked between an individual celebration and more universal festivities. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “It’s a special breakfast day? Is school canceled? Is it a snow day? Or a holiday nobody told me about?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z No elders to bake cookies with during the holidays, like Serenity. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Some folks got into an argument about whether the Fourth of July was a better holiday than Memorial Day, and they really enjoyed that, too. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Hints like the stories he sometimes told about the Colonies and their glittering cities, their advanced technology and festive holidays. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z By this time all the children were beside themselves with joy at the prospect of the oncoming holidays. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One year I got a brand-new bike during the summer holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I told Ashley that I thought this was a holiday, but she insisted.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z For the little while of the Christmas holidays, it had been almost like old times in the Nolan family. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever I went to my cousins’ house for the holidays, my mom would drop me off with a bag of tomatoes, onions, and potatoes and a large sack of cornmeal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He looked a straw man set out to announce some holiday. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z One night in November of his third-grade year, after it got cold but before his mom put up the holiday decorations, Katherine came over. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “Some holiday spirit! Let’s get a Christmas tree!” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Still, Mrs. Delaney’s holiday plans didn’t really revolve around her son. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I assume he’s joking about the Fijian holiday. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It was New Year’s, which is a two-week holiday, and nobody could get the papers to leave the country. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Once the holidays had started, Ron and Harry were having too good a time to think much about Flamel. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Identical smiles peek out from underneath thick wool scarves, the holiday lights at the park down the street twinkling above our heads just like the stars in her drawing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Thus the first names of places were saints’ names or religious holidays celebrated at stopping places. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When Luke went down to supper, he saw that Mother had set his two loaves of bread out on the china plate she used for holidays and special occasions. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Not even when she spreads around her own happy holiday greetings. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z It was a holiday just to have him home. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z August’s holiday card was of a cute old dog wearing reindeer antlers, a red nose, and red booties. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Only a letter bearing news of his return would gladden her, and she would celebrate his homecoming with all the ceremony of a holiday or saint’s festival. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Her hair is perfect, and she’s wearing a red holiday sweater, pearl earrings, and a matching pearl necklace. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z 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. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z He was traveling on the 83 Up Howrah-Ranchi Express to visit his grandparents for the holidays; they had moved from Calcutta to Jamshedpur upon his grandfather’s retirement from the university. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “What about when he comes home for the holidays? Christmas and spring break.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They are on what they call an extended circus holiday, following Le Cirque des Rêves around to as many locations as they can manage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We need more holidays to keep the social studies teachers on track. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The Dursley family of number four, Privet Drive, was the reason that Harry never enjoyed his summer holidays. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z And then afterward, they ask, "How were your holidays?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z It now seemed impossible that Ron and Hermione would make up with each other before the holidays began, but perhaps, somehow, the break would give them time to calm down, think better of their behavior... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Emergency laws added three hours to the workday and banned vacation days and public holidays. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He had this ironed-in frown and I thought how he needs a very long holiday. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z So the rockery rocks stayed on our driveway for two more weeks, until Mr. Broadwas got back from his holiday in Ilfracombe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “May I be excused now? The children are waiting in the nursery, and it seems we have much to accomplish before the holidays.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z There was a flurry of rumor about her disappearance when the rest of the school arrived back from their Christmas holidays, because of course everyone thought that she had been attacked. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I no longer believed in Santa, so I knew the holiday was all over. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “I always stay at Hogwarts for the Christmas and Easter holidays,” he said, “and I don’t ever want to go back to Privet Drive.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Flags were flying from all the windows, children had been given a holiday from school, and a parade was being organized in honor of the famous youth. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z El Patron banished Tom to a year- round boardingschool with no holidays. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My father had spent the last few days before the holiday trying to find a way to pay the rents, the utility bills, and the teachers’ salaries. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The holiday for the field slaves lasted as long as the Yule log burned in the fireplace at the Big House. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “My dear boy,” said Dippet kindly, “I cannot possibly let you stay at school over the summer. Surely you want to go home for the holidays?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The pipes were decorated with gold, red, yellow, and green threads and beaded like holiday clothes. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z “While everyone is away for the holidays. Easy money.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But Pascagoula doesn’t offer to come in on her holiday and, assuming she’s with her own family, I don’t ask her to. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A note from the Residential Services Manager appeared under my door a couple days ago, saying the groundskeeper would be here throughout the holiday, giving me his contact information. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z And like an answer, Doon’s words came back to her: “The library. It’s almost always open, even on holidays.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I had last had a holiday in 1948 when I was an untested lightweight in the ANC with few responsibilities beyond attending meetings in the Transvaal executive and addressing the odd public gathering. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Last year, the fifth grade sang here near the holidays. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The neat writing within indicated salary, number of holidays, sick leave, and so forth. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Asking if I wanted to catch a movie during the holidays. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z For this reason, Egyptian religious holidays had a tendency to slip backward relative to the seasons. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It happened on the day that he finally rolled through to give me my holiday gifts. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I’d hoped to return to school after the holidays as a stranger, making my classmates wonder who the new kid was. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Tangy and cold, the taste of my first- ever holiday with Tom, a fishing village on the Basque coast in 2005. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A gigantic extended family squished into Lola’s for every holiday imaginable. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z There was a knock on her door, and her dad opened it, letting in the sounds of the Flush holiday album Matthew had been making the family listen to on repeat since Thanksgiving. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “All Jewish holidays are about remembering, Mama. I’m tired of remembering.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The highs and lows on that particular holiday had been intense. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It is like being in France, which is where we went on holiday sometimes when Mother was alive, to camp. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We ended up moving to Washington right after our traditional Christmas holiday in Hawaii so that Sasha and Malia could start school just as their new classmates were coming back from winter break. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Milkman used to wonder at her specificity and her acquisitiveness until he reminded himself that Pilate and Reba celebrated no holidays. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he spends half of the summer, every other weekend, Tuesday and Thursday nights and some holidays with his dad. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z On the day of Christmas Eve, I supervised the distribution of little holiday “gift boxes” containing useless toiletries and a few snacks, compliments of a charity. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Easter holidays came and went, and the Summer Term began at school. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Though not a true holiday, it had the same effect: I felt rejuvenated and ready to take up the fight once more. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the holidays, scruffy children would meander into our home, along with homeless people. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Since the Lilienthals were supportive of Bobby, he reciprocated with gifts: a television satellite dish, a vacuum cleaner, leather goods that he’d buy on trips to Vienna, and special gifts for birthdays and other holidays. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On Saturday morning, July 3, an enthusiastic crowd of four thousand people crowded along both sides of Twenty-Fifth Street in Newport News, kicking off their Fourth of July holiday weekend. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I think about studying, but it’s a holiday, so I park myself on the living-room couch and watch an old movie instead. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I went to Salt Lake and spent the rest of the holidays with Drew. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The holiday ball would be a disaster, and it was all Penelope’s fault. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z One Monday, I show up at a rehearsal after a holiday break and ask one of the younger kids in Volpe’s program how her weekend was. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It was on such a holiday that Robert Fumulani, the holy father of Malawian reggae music, came to sing at Dowa District Hall, and my father—then twenty-two years old—was determined to go. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “And then, once I had a nice chunk, I’d donate it to charity. Or use it to buy a holiday meal for a family in need.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The days of the holiday feel endless; all he can think of is getting back to New Haven and calling Ruth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead of breaking for the holidays, it went into a special session with the aim of pushing through to a vote before Christmas. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I was hating all of the Christmas cooking and tunes and dumb holiday specials...but this one Christmas gift had slowly grabbed hold of something inside of me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The strike was nationwide, and all her friends were home, even Kayode was home, back on holiday from his American university. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Mama and Baba will probably not even bother to celebrate the holiday because it’s not something they did “back home.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It was summer holiday, and the following morning I was supposed to travel to Dowa to spend time with my grandparents. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Cuba really was a holiday, by Farmer’s standards. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Columbus Day is the only October holiday that was on a Monday.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was near Christmas by the time all was settled: the season of general holiday approached. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Luke loved playing it when he visited our holiday. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z “Perhaps he’s having a holiday. He got all those shutters done, though, didn’t he?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “We don’t have enough money to even consider moving house, but we do have enough money for a holiday in Mauritius or Bali?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The only letters they opened without fear were the ones with red borders, the holiday letters that mustn’t carry bad news. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can go home to your mother for the holidays. If we need you, we can call.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Fred and George had had a great success with their Canary Creams, and for the first couple of days of the holidays, people kept bursting into feather all over the place. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z There are, however, several good holidays: the weeks that include the Fourth of July, Labor Day, and Columbus Day. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And the same guy had a brother who would give me a job selling Christmas trees until I could find a steady job after the holiday. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The banners were orange and blue, and maybe they were just for some holiday that existed in the alternate world but not in the world Chess knew. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z However, they did observe the major Jewish holidays, such as Passover, and they wanted Jack to have a bar mitzvah, the traditional Jewish coming- of-age ceremony, when he turned thirteen. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Actually, the whole school was in a happy holiday spirit, even before Mrs. Sidman’s letter. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z We kept it on the same shelf with Caitlin's letters and used it to listen to music on holidays and weekends. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He said, ‘I shall be away in London a good deal. I cannot live here the whole time, even in your holidays.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Sometimes before a holiday or a birthday party, I feel like I’m going to burst. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Once, it was filled with things she sewed, like holiday linens and napkins, crocheted baby blankets. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z There’s an outrage over making Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday into a federal holiday. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Waiting together, we look like the families I see at the mall posing with Santa, dressed in their holiday best, even though it’s only the first week of October. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Warmth,” Jonas replied, “and happiness. And—let me think. Family. That it was a celebration of some sort, a holiday. And something else—I can’t quite get the word for it.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z So Christmas Eve with us was Fang’s holiday highlight, and, having limited funds, he never brought over any gifts. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I was relieved he would not have another holiday at The Children’s Home. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z They were throwing bricks through store windows, laughing and jumping, thinking it was some kind of game, some kind of holiday. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Vivian told her stories about decorating the family store for the holidays, putting these ornaments on a real pine tree in the window. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Back when Mom worked, she was in the lab constantly, especially in those last few months with the Cobalt Blue Orchid, sacrificing late nights, weekends, even holidays. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Gogol, who had to work the following day because of a project at his firm, had spent the holiday with Maxine’s family in New York. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Gone! It’s the first day of the holidays, remember?” said Ron, watching Harry closely. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The object of the lesson was to match the holiday with the corresponding picture. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z We gathered each night to hear about someone’s holiday celebration. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The good cheer of the holiday season was in everyone. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z They had brought me out to celebrate the holidays and talk with me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “You know”—he groans as he sinks into his chair—“I really hate going back to work after holidays. It’s the worst feeling ever.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The deadline for choosing an academic team was the Tuesday following the winter holiday. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z A crowd of neighbors, including Mr. Jones the postman and Mr. Ritchie the Christmas tree guy, stopped in, along with Mr. Van Hooten, who pulled out his violin and started playing holiday music. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Theo and Dries decide to take their summer holidays at the same time, and spend part of the time together. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My mom also had a soft spot for strays; she’d always leave the door open for friends of ours who had nowhere to go, especially around the holidays. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The lie would insure that Mamá had a happy holiday, Lupita thought. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z From commercial music—pop and rock to jazz, from folk songs to national songs, religious and holiday songs, and multicultural music—children hear the rhythms, melodies, and harmonies that make up their musical environment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He had in these five years, the first holidays of his trouble-filled but unsuccessful life, put on a good deal of fat and thus had become really heavy. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z “I need to meet with Mr. Jackson about organizing a canned food drive for the holidays,” Ellie said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z When we got back to school on Monday, there were only three more days before the holiday break. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z During holidays, he brought me cassettes and taught my friends and me how to dance to what we came to know as hip-hop. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It was almost like a real holiday, and her husband actually seemed relaxed, like a regular person on an actual vacation. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They put on their most cheerful expressions, bring flowers and gifts for birthdays and holidays and are always ready to do what they can. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It looked like a neighborhood on a holiday, when the factories are shut down, but without the fun of a party. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Even in Ireland I never saw a table like this, except on a holiday—and this is an ordinary Tuesday. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Lee Lee and Sam come over to make holiday cards. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z If it’s a holiday, Maria is ready to celebrate. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z In the late summer of 1982, four youths and two men were on a canoeing holiday in Banff National Park when they failed to return to their base camp at the end of the day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In the school holidays Grace was allowed to bring her own six-year-old along. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z No one could wait for the holidays to start. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “They moved those to next week because of the Easter holidays.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Another Christmas comes and goes and the holiday feels gloomier than ever. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “Think about what you’ve done, okay? And have a great holiday. Happy Chanukah! Merry Christmas! Happy Kwanzaa!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z It seems silly to give someone a gift in July that’s wrapped in holiday paper, but it’s all there is and I’ve spent my candy and records budget on the fabric, buttons, and zipper. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If she pretended just a few holidays a year, that nothing had changed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But this is not one of those not-quite holidays spent in luxurious hotels. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In foster homes, holidays always had a way of making me feel like an outsider—and now the stakes were higher. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Lets go, soldiers, the holiday is over,” the corporal called out from the banks of the river. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I haven’t seen her since Thursday because of the holidays, but we’re meeting after school tomorrow to start working on our project. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I get real pumped ’cause I love holiday feasts. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z But this was an advert to make you go to Malaysia on a holiday. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z For every major holiday—Christmas, Easter—I would get a new outfit for church. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Harry had therefore seized his chance in the first week of the holidays. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It is our last day of classes before the holiday break and we linger over our English muffins. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Everything would be perfect if this really was a holiday, if all the day off meant was roaming the mountains with Gale, hunting for tonight's supper. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Ray wore a suit, even on holidays. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He often goes on holiday in France in the autumn, as he is a great lover of wine. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z While the two of us are gone, Mom will go pick up our holiday dinner. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z "So," she said, "what are your plans for the holidays?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I wait until after the holiday break to take the machine into school. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Instead of abundance it was a holiday of waste. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And Daddy’s family stopped having us over during the holidays years ago. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “It seems we have no authority here in Connecticut to declare our own holidays. His Excellency, the new governor, will declare a Thanksgiving when it pleases him.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z We would of course be glad to have Harry stay for the remainder of the summer holidays, and to see him safely onto the train back to school. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She was wearing her pink embroidered Mexican blouse, which she usually wore on birthdays and holidays. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z We lived in town, but I would spend weeks at a tinie with my grandmother in Soweto, often during the holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Harry had never been camping in his life; the Dursleys had never taken him on any kind of holiday, preferring to leave him with Mrs. Figg, an old neighbor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The Diamondsteins arrived on the Friday afternoon before the official start of the school holiday. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z And then I watched inmate representatives figure out how to distribute to every inmate the “holiday cheer” they had chosen: a can of Coke and two bags of chips. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Monet worked hard in the pump house during the week, and on his weekends and holidays he would visit forested areas near the sugar factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I am going home for a holiday. But first I go to Lausanne to stay with a sister for a week or so.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, I fantasized about Papa joining us for the holiday. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The best part of our holiday centers day took place when our Collaborative friends visited. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z I ignore a small pang in my chest as I think about Tao, wondering if he’ll stop by our house like he normally does for holidays. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Since it was a holiday, he didn’t have to go to work, so he’d be the one to pick me up when I was done. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z When the holidays came around, the house grew glum. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z On this holiday, people slept late, and because the stores were closed, the streets were nearly empty. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z "You spending the holiday with some fellow troublemakers?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Because of the season, the train was especially crowded, especially raucous, filled with families on holiday. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Emily Brent thought to herself: "I shall begetting a free holiday at any rate." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Back home, we only had it on special occasions: birthdays and holidays and report card days, so long as I made a B average. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The remedy was to make the holiday continuous. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z With the exception of the one holiday when my grandfather passed out just after dinner, my cousins always have to go to the bathroom outside in the bushes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z And now, after helping clear the dining table of all its holiday dishes, that was what he decided to do—put on a sweatshirt and go for a run. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll learn plain cooking for my holiday task, and the next dinner party I have shall be a success.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end, the doctor had his way about the holiday, but not about the cigars. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Weekends and school holidays, they were hanging out with one another and I couldn’t visit. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I’d rather you didn’t ask me that," said Mo. “Let’s just act as if we were on holiday for a few days. This looks like a good place for a holiday, don’t you think?" Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The first was a conversation with the distinguished German quantum physicist Otto Stern, a future Nobel laureate who was stopping at Berkeley during the holiday. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Professor McGonagall had come around the week before, making a list of students who would be staying for the holidays, and Harry had signed up at once. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I felt a slight sadness at the thought of not seeing my friends for two months, the length of the Christmas holidays. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “My son, Draco, is home for his Easter holidays. If that is Harry Potter, he will know.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Please can we come and stay with you for one or two nights in the half-term holiday on our way to the airport? The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z How many times had she warned against breaking things during the holidays? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “Neither one of you appears to be having much fun on your holiday. You could have stayed in the halls of academe and looked evil.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that the Christmas holiday is passed, life seems on a more serious course. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She also ironed their clothes, which she rarely did except on the sacred holidays. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z In the corner, a shred of tinsel glimmered with leftover holiday cheer. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The days between Christmas and New Year’s day are allowed as holidays; and, accordingly, we were not required to perform any labor, more than to feed and take care of the stock. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z The students were all happily discussing their plans for the holidays. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The day after the birthday party the Starling, who had been away on holiday at Bournemouth, came back to Number Seventeen, Cherry-Tree Lane. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z For the parents, it meant two days’ holiday from work; they sat together in the huge hall. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z "If I don't get out, I'm going to die. I'm as good as a dead man on holiday." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But the holiday decorations weren’t nearly as prominent or glossy as they were in American cities. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z As we walked through the evening crowds, he was often distracted by activity, and countered my many holiday questions with enigmatical answers, as was often his wont. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Everybody has his holiday once a month; no one, whatever his position, is obliged or forced to work when in kemmer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Then the black mother raises the white children, seeing her own child only once a year at the holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long until Christmas, a popular English holiday. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. I’m going to take a holiday. More than that; I’m going to take a walk. More than that; I’m going to ask you to take a walk with me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z When my dad called a few weeks later, upset that I hadn’t called on a holiday they don’t even celebrate, I told him and I think she got into trouble. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z First Ladies showed up in the news, having tea with the spouses of foreign dignitaries; they sent out official greetings on holidays and wore pretty gowns to state dinners. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When your mom is only your mom on weekends and holidays, she’s just one step up from being a stranger. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Then he remembered Nala’s famous line from the Dog Squad holiday spectacular where the trio saved Santa from the angry polar bear: “Today is my tomorrow!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She hadn’t imagined that Diana would go on holiday as well, but when Diana told her she was going, she felt a little thrill. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z When I was eight, before the Depression, we had a holiday in Paris—I remember hits of it, we took a boat trip on the Seine, and we saw the Mona Lisa. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Here it is. Listen. ‘After his death, the Hasidim took vengeance upon him by dancing upon his grave, and celebrating the day of his decease as a holiday, with shouting and drunkenness.’” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Back to daily tasks after the excitement and holiday of the Handfasting, Tall Andras knelt in the field and meticulously tied together the thick branches that would form the body of the mommet. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I desperately needed the break that came with the Easter holiday. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like all the holidays in the world, all the birthdays there were. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess even teachers need to do holiday shopping. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z There was a knock on her door, and her dad opened it, letting in the sounds of the Flush holiday album Matthew had been making the family listen to on repeat since Thanksgiving. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I thought she would continue trying to trip me up, but instead she talked about her own holiday plans. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z My grandmother and I had already planned to take our summer holiday in Norway and we talked about almost nothing else every evening. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Will Mom and Dad be able to stop fighting long enough for us to enjoy Christmas, or any holiday, together? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Francie counted the year’s passing not by the days or the months but by the holidays that came along. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “And superstition. They are one and the same, anyway. We stop for good luck and because everyone enjoys an unexpected holiday.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I told Dad I would be staying with a friend for the holidays. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I was in the classroom working on my holiday center. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z I want a baby or a holiday and I’m going to insist on it. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z “I should feel inclined,” he said, not looking directly at us, “to get away for a bit. Take a short holiday. Go abroad perhaps.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z This, along with the annual Christmas bonus, would get us through the holidays in fine spirits, and throughout the year we would make weekly repayments. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “We’re going to have a holiday party like every other class, but it’s going to be different.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z “But if it was, I’d want to know what they’re thinking of, sending me children. Do you have any idea where you are, boy? This isn’t a holiday camp. This isn’t Disneyland.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He and Salim would visit us often, he promised, when Salim came home for the holidays. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I just let him blab away, but given the research I'd done over the Christmas holidays I already knew where he was coming from. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Early in January, when we had all just returned from the Christmas holidays, a recruiter from the United States ski troops showed a film to the senior class in the Renaissance Room. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I still want candy. I’m just taking advantage of the holiday to help the oppressed.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I laughed with the others, thinking: A holy holiday for Clifton. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom roasted a turkey for the holiday, but Dad ate little of it, still obviously upset from having to cut off his men. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We went to the mall and sat on Santa’s lap, and I wore my angel costume again in a holiday pageant at church. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z They made the most of the last few hours in which they were allowed to do magic before the holidays. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Last year we were asked to write essays about freedom for a contest sponsored by our local Rotary Club for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On Christmas Eve, the three of us took a bus to the Wilmington train station to meet Enrique, who was coming home for a few days for the holidays. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “On weekends I stay with him sometimes, and some holidays. I was there for Christmas. He gave me that Polaroid camera.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The word group, for instance, is a term used to describe everything from a basketball team to the Teamsters Union, from two couples on a holiday to the Republican Party. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z L. Einstein & Co. sold costume jewelry, and I worked there through the Christmas holidays and into the spring. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z But take a look at the following sets of elementary school test-score results, and see if your faith in the value of long summer holidays isn’t profoundly shaken. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When I was here last, with Bas’s family, a colorful banner hung from its face, advertising the holiday pantomime. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Done with all of the Christmas music, wreaths, ornaments and happy holiday shoppers. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He created a “memory chalet”—using as his background the layout of the chalet in Switzerland where he stayed on skiing holidays with his parents as a child. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “It isn’t a proper holiday until we’ve plumbed every available sewer.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z You’d think that Mrs. Baker would try to make up for the holiday disappointments of the Camillo Junior High kitchen over those three days. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Every Saturday during term time, and at least twice a week over the holidays, I went to a riding school in the country. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It was my favorite holiday because when we picked cotton in Corcoran I started school around that time every year. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z We ate for a while without talking, and I thought of a picture post-card I had bought once at a village shop, when on holiday as a child in the west country. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There were several girls of sixteen, voluptuous, happy creatures who thought school something of a holiday from chopping cotton and feeding livestock. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In spite of the fighting and blame, he comes to dinner and they celebrate the holidays together. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Her birthdays are often forgotten; she is an afterthought at holidays. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z And I will enjoy this lawn when I come home for the holidays. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z My friends and I had many activities planned, and I could not wait for Josh and Blake to come home for the holidays. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Lainie attempts to persuade Tara to join her for an extended holiday in Italy, but she refuses. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Shanti heads back to Harlem for weekends and holidays, but with both of her parents working at home, she likes studying and sleeping here better. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Oh,” we all say, because the Joneses don’t eat dessert unless it’s a holiday. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z It was the Helmholtz of daily life who forgot and forgave, not the Helmholtz of a half-gramme holiday. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact they had simply stopped remarking on the holiday because they had absorbed it into their thoughts, into their language, into their lives. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I told her that it was a school holiday and that Branwell was home, and I didn’t think she would want him walking in on her—naked as she was. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually we waited for the holiday sales to buy stuff like that, but Mom said that this year we’d be too busy changing diapers. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I did ask you to come to me here. You returned from your holiday last night, I understand.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He makes me feel like I’m not the only person in Mr. Yukht’s class who gets mixed up when our class talks about Jewish holidays. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Children from poor places had been taken on exotic holidays. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He’s not much for fun and holidays, which he says “impede student concentration and force him into the role of babysitter.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Printed in our textbooks was a list of major holidays accompanied by a scattered arrangement of photographs depicting French people in the act of celebration. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Can you imagine what it’ll be this month, what with it even colder? Maybe the holiday will save us.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There was an air of holiday that hardly paused for a blessing over the food and that erupted full blast before the echo of the “amen” died. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The religious holidays to which the exams coincide are observed by many of our students. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The place was doing a good holiday business. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, he moved out, got a job at GameStop, and now he only comes home for holidays. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He confronted those same foods at holiday parties and big events. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Within an hour or two, the holiday would come bounding down the stairs and squealing ’round the tinseled trees of Two Mills. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They piled so much homework on them that the Easter holidays weren’t nearly as much fun as the Christmas ones. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Minnie says there was a holiday in heaven the day this child was made. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In spite of the fighting and hurt, Gina invites him to dinner and to celebrate the holidays together. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z So I went to my room to prepare for our Freedom Writer holiday party that was taking place later that evening. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I was fourteen years old—and a well-content Hindu on a holiday— when I met Jesus Christ. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead of staying in a hotel, they stay in an apartment in the Bastille which belongs to a friend of Moushumi’s, a male friend named Emanuel, a journalist, who is on holiday in Greece. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The square's surrounded by shops, and on public market days, especially if there's good weather, it has a holiday feel to it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Maurice was told that Pauling was in his pasture when I passed through London on my way to Switzerland for a Christmas skiing holiday. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z And if the Dursleys were unhappy to have him back for the holidays, it was nothing to how Harry felt. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge’s Kampuchea does not permit the celebration of the New Year or any other holidays. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I drive past front yards trapped between holidays, some with inflatable turkeys on the lawn, others with fake snowmen and high-class wreaths on the front door. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Families who usually came only for holidays filled the pews with scrubbed and subdued children. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe you remember that dress! My mother always made me wear stuff like that at the holidays, and we don’t even celebrate Christmas. Like she was dressing up an American Girl doll.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z As the holiday season neared, my dad seemed finally to shake his blues. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z It was the best holiday I had had since Christmas and just about the best party. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The second years were given something new to think about during their Easter holidays. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Lost in holiday thoughts, she was startled by the realization that someone’s face was inches from hers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “I used to like holidays. Now they just mean no lunch.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z It was still ten days before school would let out for the holidays. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Autumn came, with its promise of the October holidays, and the town grew busy shopping and planning for the season. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “You asked for a date; I gave you a date. She gave you nothing except the name of a holiday.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Their fathers were off working in a mine somewhere, able to come home only during the holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z People ate chicken only on holidays like Christmas or New Year’s. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “So the friend of the bosom has a holiday?” he said, on a level plane again, an easy camaraderie between us. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Facts: Jumping increases on full moons and holidays. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z This was why Harry spent as much time as possible out of the house, wandering around and thinking about the end of the holidays, where he could see a tiny ray of hope. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z And just as there is said to be a jump in wife beatings on Super Bowl Sunday, so it was true that suicides in prison often occurred around the holidays. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first time he had not gone either to his parents’ or to his in-laws’ for a holiday. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She had tried to rearrange her holiday dates, and partly succeeded. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At first, he couldn’t figure out the purpose of a dreidel—a four-sided spinning top that’s played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Even time off over holidays, which were more flexible but still considered workdays, was hard to come by, particularly as she was still classified as a temporary war service employee. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z That had been just a little while ago, during the Christmas holidays. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Eric wouldn’t be invited to his company’s holiday party because he wasn’t a full-time employee yet. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The chapel is open to the public day and night, and on holidays. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Benjamin Britten enjoyed an extended holiday in America, while Michael Tippett, a conscientious objector, produced an eloquent and moving wartime plea for unfashionable pacifism in his oratorio A Child of Our Time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Marcus's mother owned the salon Pia went to whenever her mom made her get her hair done, which was mainly for holidays when they would have to go to her grandmother's for dinner. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z My theory is that the god of thunder HuracSn always acts up around the holiday of the Conquistador, who killed off all his Taino devotees. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Happy holidays, my young man,” the clerk said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Most of all I longed for the holidays. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The low-cheating holidays represent little more than an extra day off from work. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Being as you're sort of on holiday, Jason, why don't I...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It's as though for the last few days, sheltered by the rocks and the rain and Cato's preoccupation with Thresh, we were given a respite, a holiday of sorts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Alternating holidays and summers and whatnot. I think I’m going to be sick.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Anyway, like I said, Dad has never come this close to winning the big countywide holiday a cappella contest, and I’ve never been more excited for him. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “Wait until summer. Hot ain’t the word for it. My pa used to say that hell would be a holiday for someone from eastern Montana.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z School had been due to end the first week of January for our usual winter break, so my father decided to postpone the holiday. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There was the usual line of holiday visa hopefuls stretching to the corner of Elevator Plaza, but Holly bypassed it by waving her badge at the waiting line. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z We hope you had a safe and restful holiday and have come back ready with a positive attitude to successfully handle the academic tasks before you. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Every spoiled kid in Haven had a Hummingbird for their wilderness holidays, and here were the LEP with wings that were junk when they were new. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z To Maddie it felt like the last day of school, like the summer holidays beginning. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z And while you’re working on that, give your mom something special this holiday. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z It was always an exciting day to get new clothes and new shoes for the holidays. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “All’s fair in love and war,” said Ron brightly, “and this is a bit of both. Cheer up, it’s the Christmas holidays, Luna’ll be home!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “They lit the ballroom up for the holidays, with the tree in that one corner. They had a menorah, too, of course, but they didn’t really mean it,” said Patti. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The place is crowded—I guess because it’s a holiday weekend. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z At midday he went to the thicket to make final plans with his friends for the holiday. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z His plans were to have a “delightful holiday.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Mother buys everything to make egg rolls for a coming holiday when Americans eat a turkey the size of a baby. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “When Rukku’s better, we’ll start up the necklace business again, and then we’ll make enough money so we can take a holiday and both of you can just play together for a whole week.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There were many phone calls about our placement, and Adele pleaded with the authorities not to move us before the holidays. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z This separation from his spellbooks had been a real problem for Harry, because his teachers at Hogwarts had given him a lot of holiday work. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z During my first year on the mountain he would hike up the steep trail and spend holidays with me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone is in the music room, putting together instruments, getting ready for the holiday concert. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “Every holiday I had to visit and feed the homeless,” she said. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Lanyon was not much of a holiday centre anyway, it was too far inland. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Some of the girls had no sooner come back from their summer holidays than they went home again. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The high-cheating holidays are fraught with miscellaneous anxieties and the high expectations of loved ones. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z We wished the holiday would end so as not to have to pretend. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They had shared many holidays and long visits. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Hannah almost laughed aloud remembering what Rosemary had asked at her first—and only—holiday visit: “Why do they wear those beanies?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As the plane began its descent over Boston Harbor, the pilot announced the weather and time, and that President Nixon had declared a national holiday: two American men had landed on the moon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the stairs, Lillian bestowed a long holiday kiss on each one of her children and wished them a Merry Christmas. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is a holiday camp compared to where you’re going; but if you work hard and keep your record clean, you can move up to full citizenship when you reach eighteen.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I think about that time when we went on a family holiday to Santa Margherita in the Easter school holidays. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a silly holiday to celebrate the coming of winter. The bonfires just produce ash to cover the fields.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Why not center them on holidays, like birthdays, Easter, Christmas, even . . . Mother’s Day. There’s probably something every month.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Everybody was talking about the possibility of a truce before the holidays were over. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, when Aunt Eva lit the holiday candles, broad hands encircling the light, her plain face with its deep- set coffee-colored eyes took on a kind of beauty. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Once again, he thought, the two children of the depression had fought the misery of past holidays by spending a modest fortune on their own children. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When they did not come to get me the first day, I suspected, and spent the whole morning sleeping—just like a holiday. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It looked like she was literally jumping into a disaster, wearing a black scuba suit and a red jacket that a piano teacher would wear for a holiday recital. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I spend Tuesday and Wednesday faking a fever and nursing a bag of mini chocolate chips I found in the pantry from a few holidays ago. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z ‘I am very fond indeed of it, and of all the dear old Shire; but I think I need a holiday.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I think it had been a bathroom back in the holiday camp days, because the only window had frosted glass and was really high up near the ceiling. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I was to have a working holiday, the only kind of holiday I knew how to take. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But their Christmas ended in late afternoon on Christmas Eve—I saw department store clerks working against time to replace a holiday window display with deathly white piles of towels and sheets. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We have only a month until the egg drop competition—less, if you consider the holidays—so we need to get going with testing our eggs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He’d never had a harder year of school or been more relieved for a summer holiday to come around than this last one. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z I remember when Halloween was my favorite holiday. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Mom went into labor three days before Christmas, and she insisted we go holiday shopping together. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She says the computer is strictly for homework and she doesn’t want me distracted, even though I explain I don’t have any homework over the holidays. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z It was important to him that his children experience the hard work of farming, and the family spent the summer and school holidays there. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Early in January, after holidays they don’t celebrate, in the first days of a year that his father does not live to see, Gogol boards a train and goes back to New York. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Again, because we were American and the Fourth of July was our independence holiday. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He will remain Gogol during holidays and in summer; Gogol will revisit him on each of his birthdays. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “London: where every day’s a holiday . . . for the trash man!” hats!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Confederate Memorial Day was declared a state holiday in Alabama at the turn of the century, soon after whites rewrote the state constitution to ensure white supremacy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Once the holiday passed and the altar was put away, Ethan lived in a small glass mixing bowl that we kept by the sink on our kitchen counter. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z There must have been over a hundred people strolling, sitting on benches, idling in front of the little gazebo where rallies were held, and contests on holidays. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But soon enough they are conversing easily, as they had before, exchanging tales of their respective holidays. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dad is home for all five days of our holiday break. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The new headmaster was an old schoolmate of Billy’s, and Dragon’s Head was within easy driving distance to London, so Joseph could visit Albert on holidays. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “I can confirm that we did receive your package at some point during the holidays. Someone from our office will notify you after Missus Stein has made her decision. Thank you for calling.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Work did not disappear with the departure of the mistress, but it became as pleasant as a holiday. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A colorful strand of holiday bulbs dangled around her window, reflecting off the rain-flecked glass. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Dad would come with us occasionally, but after she died, we started skipping even some of the holidays. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z There under the blue sky was the turquoise sea, sparkling with holiday promises. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think this Butterbatch is a little more festive, for the holidays and all. Don’t you?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Even though she was clean, some judge decided that she could only have me and Trey every other weekend and on some holidays. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z "When I was little I'd watch my parents dig holes, every weekend and holiday. When I got bigger, I had to dig, too. Even on Christmas." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “Never mind, let him take a holiday, and make it up afterward,” said the old gentleman. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z All down the block trees were wrapped in twinkling white lights for the holidays. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They come to the Shannon for their holidays and then they go back to the warm places, maybe even India. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We did not take a holiday when peace was declared. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A holiday for the whole district with free food and entertainers brought in from the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I guess all I really told them about was how Julian had had a holiday party and managed to turn the whole grade against me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Hardy, trim, and darker toned than his wife, in disposition still the affable bartender, Jim Link mans the beer cooler at holiday parties at the Medlock Bridge clubhouse. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The temple was already preparing for the Bonding, a celebration of the gods; to be initiated into the Sons of the Six just before such a holiday would be a special honor. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “You have enough to do, Hina. And we wanted a quiet holiday this year.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I thought about the rumors of peace by the end of the holidays. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I was literally overwhelmed when, in reading the works of Russian revolutionists, I came across descriptions of the “holiday energies of the masses,” “the locomotives of history,” “the conditions prerequisite for revolution,” and so Forth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I cannot remember being at a loose end here, in the summer holidays when I was your age.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The holidays are a time for families to get together, open gifts, and eat food that has been lovingly prepared. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe the next time they are on holiday,” Papa said, firmly. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the holiday came and went with only some candy at the daycare center. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The city was beautiful, decked out for the holidays. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “Yeah, we do the big dinners for all the holidays. You thought this one was crazy, wait till you see the Christmas one.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Look,” said Ron, obviously casting around for a change of subject, “it’s the holidays! It’s nearly Christmas! Let’s — let’s go down and see Hagrid. We haven’t visited him for ages!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Today it is available only during holiday seasons and only at selected stores. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “By starring in all of my commercials this holiday season. TV. Radio. Print. Billboards. Cardboard cutouts in toy stores. His or her face will be everywhere.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “We are going to place decorations with Velcro or toothpicks or glue—whatever works—on Sydney, our H-5 holiday snowman!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The Dauntless have holidays of their own, I assume, but I don’t know what they are. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “You take a long holiday. Then, when you come back, we can think of something to prevent Nimue.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “The school holidays don’t start for another week!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “We’ll do that then. Every Christmas. Every holiday. But especially in the summertime.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Relatives gathered at a great-uncle’s house to eat biryani chicken and celebrate the holiday. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z There was no holiday in this Puritan town, no feasting, no gifts. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the holidays! We have boxes all over the place! There’s absolutely no way.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They even carried a little feeling of holiday with them almost like the hops- and strawberry-pickers from London and the Midland cities of England. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever since Harry had come home for the summer holidays, Uncle Vernon had been treating him like a bomb that might go off at any moment, because Harry Potter wasn’t a normal boy. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Me and Abby, braving the cold to go see the holiday lights together. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I was disgusted and wondered why I couldn’t live with a regular family and have a nice, quiet Christmas like everyone I saw in holiday specials on television. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z O'BRIEN With all the fireworks, it's my least favorite holiday. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z They carried on with all their holiday traditions, and I didn’t know how to join in. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She doesn’t like Easter because the date keeps shifting and it’s not a big shopping holiday. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The lofty Hall of Ancestors was festooned with holiday banners and graced with clansmen from near and far. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z "Sometimes I work in the evenings, but you look like you need rest, so I'll ask the boss if I can take a holiday. Can we go home, Jay?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z During weekends and school holidays, the four of us were inseparable, racing in and out of each other’s yards and making up games on the fly. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z That’s how it was as we came up to the happy holidays—all the way until that last Wednesday afternoon. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Several days before Christmas, Mrs. Byrne announces that Christmas Day, Wednesday, will be an unpaid holiday. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I leaf through a copy, pausing at an article about keeping your hot bikini body through the holiday season, before stuffing them into my bag. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The main thing that marked Andrew’s birth for me was our first trip to meet Abel’s family during the Christmas holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Foods such as these, which are eaten on holidays, often preserve tastes and ways of cooking from earlier times. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There is no grandma to celebrate the holidays with. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “I remember the time I said we should invite the Collaborative kids to our holiday centers. I saw Mr. T wipe his eyes after I said that. I didn’t know why then. Now I do.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z “No work today, anyway. People typically don’t bury folks the day after a holiday.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Martin went on to list all the holidays he celebrated and I was relieved to learn that many were the same as ours—another thing we had in common. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The musical sneakers—bright yellow and slightly curved—were one of Mr. Lemoncello’s biggest hits over the holidays. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Vega had told me that in the Dominican Republic, Three Kings’ Day was actually a bigger holiday than Christmas Day. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z We spurned the holidays marketed by the people who wanted to be white. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z When our father had paid for our school, we had seen her on weekends over the holidays when we were back home. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It reminded me of when we used to come here as a family around the holidays. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Hringkalla was their holiday, and they were all safely ensconced on the White Island. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He would like, really, to take a long holiday. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z But not the holiday lights, wrapping beautifully around the trees in the park. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Ever since Roberto started working at Main Street Elementary School, Mr. Sims told him that he could take the school Christmas tree home on the day the school closed for the holidays. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The page I liked best was the one that said, “This is our house at Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a holiday when we give thanks and eat turkey.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother was overwhelmed with holiday orders, so I passed my days on Buck’s Peak just as I had as a child: in the kitchen, making homeopathics. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z People were paid on Saturday and it was a holiday without the rigidness of a Sunday. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She celebrated all the Jewish holidays and, when she grew up, had an unorthodox bat mitzvah ceremony in the woods upstate. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Spending my days in Otavalo, I notice that whenever there’s an indigenous holiday, like Inti Raymi—the Festival of the Sun—the hotels and streets and squares overflow with tourists. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z All of us kept a reserve supply, because some days—Sundays and holidays—the market would be closed, and we were never quite sure when this would happen. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Each holiday meant taking all the dishes down from the shelves, even the ones we never used, and carefully washing and drying them, as well as the windows of the dish cabinet. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The short, stunted man confined to a wheelchair and the growing boy went to movies, dined in restaurants, attended chess events at clubs, and celebrated birthdays and holidays together. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I had spent a holiday at Edgecoombe once, when I was seven. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was an enormous white building on the sea-front and it looked to me like a pretty boring place to spend a summer holiday in. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Trampita and I went to school and joined them in the fields on weekends and holidays. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A couple of days after the holidays, Kevin began to lose his reflexes and couldn’t swallow his own saliva. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Julian’s holiday card was a picture of Julian wearing a tie, looking like he was about to go to the opera or something. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z For Christmas was a long holiday, a whole stretch of days, until after New Year’s. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia had celebrated every holiday on the calendar, but never had she mentioned this one. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Ron says he’s going to be in London in the last week of the holidays. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The smell of our holiday dinner reaches to every corner of our yard as we go. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Today be Labor Day, though, a holiday for the rest a the world, so no class today. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Dad says it’s like going away on our holidays to a warm foreign place like Italy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I mean, my mom goes to Clover City First Baptist, and so do I on holidays. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z When Mama Lessie was alive, my family would hop in the car on Christmas mornings and drive one hour south to Clanton, where we would celebrate the holidays with my grandparents. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On the day Zuraiq was weaned, we begged Father to promise he would not sell him or kill him on a Friday like a chicken, or for sacrifice meat on the Eid holiday. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z “On holidays, in here. Mostly in the kitchen.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Christmas is less than two weeks away, but Mr. Watson has been in the holiday spirit for months. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Well, who wouldn’t want a nice little holiday after all the hard work he’s been putting in?” asked Fred. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z These activities picked up considerably around holidays and my presence, brief and irregular as it was, was regarded as a hindrance and something of a reproach. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A few weeks back we had officially begun the sacred holiday with the pledge of our sacrifices for Lent. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The holidays are a busy time for pet adoption. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z These were distant and magic lands and nobody went to them just for a holiday. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The streets were strung with red and green electric lights because of the holidays. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Their chance came on New Year’s Day, a rare holiday when machines in the factory went silent for two days. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z From the configurations of food my mother set out, we kids had to infer the holidays. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Together, they made a garland of pinecones and chicken feathers, so pretty that Mama decided then and there that they had just created a new holiday tradition. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The terrace with that sight of the private pool and the holiday ships cruising in the distance. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The holiday rep wilted before him and slunk back into line, wishing her uniform wasn’t quite so pink. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Ramsgate was a popular seaside town; Queen Victoria had spent holidays there as a child. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the week’s holiday after preliminary training, before the probationer year began, she had stayed with her uncle and aunt in Primrose Hill and had resisted her mother on the telephone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Around the holidays, they always play the same movies. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It was routine by the time the Christmas holidays came around, and it was nice to have some place to go besides the cemetery when it was cold out. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I pass by it every now and then, especially during the holidays because that store has the nicest Christmas displays. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z So many, and moving along with so much tension and noise that I wasn't sure whether they were about to celebrate a holiday or join in a street fight. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Late Christmas was a holiday that only me and my father celebrated. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Everyone already knew September was a bad month with no good holiday in sight after Labor Day. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He writes of a Greek holiday called No. I reply that all teenagers in the world should celebrate this day. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z We flew to Hawaii on December 23, after the legislature finally hit pause for the holiday, though it still hadn’t managed to find a resolution. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z To rescue the conversation from one of the wells of silence into which it kept falling, Jo said hastily, “Now you must have a good long holiday!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the early evening, she put on a bright yellow halter top to show off her tan, jeans, and big green hoop earrings, and set out with friends to celebrate the Irish holiday. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was Seven’s favorite holiday, and she couldn’t believe that the Gran had asked them to be the honored witches during the traditional yearly parade. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z ‘Colonel says I’ve done a fine job and so quick he’s going to give me tomorrow as a holiday. He don’t expect to get back before night.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Consider that you have to create a lesson plan to celebrate the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Steve had left a while ago, but now Ma’s friend Mr. Jonathan and his family had come over to celebrate the holiday. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Gay created piles of filthy pots as she cooked the holiday meal. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It was, for me, another of those holidays I'd just as soon avoid. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z And maybe, if she’s feeling fearless, a few things not on there, like going to see some holiday lights at one a.m. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z When I caught the stomach flu in the fifth grade, my mother sent a note to school written on the back of a holiday memo from Vice President Biden. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Across Tokyo, shops and restaurants close as if it’s a national holiday. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit takes the boy for a week in France that is not precisely a holiday. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Before she lets go, she locks eyes with me and says, "Have a beautiful holiday." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Once Etty was well enough to be moved, Charles and Emma took the whole family for a holiday on the Isle of Wight. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have too much to do here. No holiday for me yet.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She had complained to her friends at the library, and they had told her it was inevitable, that eventually parents had to stop assuming that their children would return faithfully for the holidays. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I did not feel in my holiday mood to-day, and I had no wish to go off with Jasper to the Happy Valley and come to the cove and throw stones in the water. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was during this time that the birthday of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was added as a holiday in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z To Francis’ dismay, I showed little tendency to concentrate on DNA when my summer holiday ended. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It’s a holiday and everyone is supposed to be happy. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Caesar and his family rode in the widow’s buggy to the farms of freemen, they visited relatives on estates for the Lord’s holidays and New Year’s Day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In her diary on June 28, next to where she had already written “G. holidays”—George was scheduled to come home from school—she wrote, “Death.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z On this unexpected, casual holiday he felt happy, as he always had on holidays; but with a deeper happiness than ever before. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Given my fairly light holiday reading schedule, I had to go to the library and grab the first thing that fell off a shelf. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z For her services, Bibi received no income but was given meals, provisions, and sufficient meters of cotton at every October holiday to replenish her wardrobe at an inexpensive tailor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Over the holidays, while staying at my friend’s house, I called a friend I had met through a nonprofit group, the Women’s Refugee Commission. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Well, I won’t deny that they are extremely angry, Harry, but they are prepared to take you back next summer as long as you stay at Hogwarts for the Christmas and Easter holidays.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z As Georgie had said, it was hard to keep track of time without birthdays and holidays. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Yeah, that was super nice of you. Women love free gifts on the most romantic holiday of the year.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I bet he spent his whole holiday vacation thinking this one up. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Thursday, December 20 My dear Little Book, Tomorrow, Minerva and I take the train home for the holidays. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was little time to waste by having him come off the campaign trail to celebrate Malia’s birthday, and he couldn’t slip out of voters’ view on what was the country’s most symbolic holiday. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I imagine the holiday show and the combined music rehearsal and everyone all together—it’ll be even louder than this. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z On one holiday visit, he was hanging out with old friends, telling them some anecdote about school, when a strange look suddenly clouded his friends’ eyes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I’d love to, Mrs. Walton, but my folks don’t get paid until after the holiday.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Although the Pilgrims never came to the Dominican Republic, we are attending the American school, so we have to celebrate American holidays. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Since I was the youngest grandson, I had the nerve-racking honor of asking the four questions traditional to the holiday service. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Arthur, you’re supposed to be on holiday! This hasn’t got anything to do with your office; surely they can handle this without you. “I’ve got to go, Molly,” said Mr. Weasley. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Leaving probably means nothing much is going to happen. We’ll have school on Monday. Just think of this as a holiday. Like a surprise long weekend.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Now they were off fishing, playing ball, indulging in all the usual summer pastimes during this brief holiday from school. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But Monday came, and the long holiday weekend was over. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Her worries are so pedestrian, so soothing in an absurd way, like a holiday from all the things that real people have to care about. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Thus the prospects that anyone on the British side of the Atlantic would crack DNA looked dim as the Christmas holidays drew near. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “What will she do? What will be her passion?” your aunts would ask when they came over to cook on great holidays, which called for cannon salutes back home but meant nothing at all here. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I have only one unpleasant memory of the summer holidays in Norway. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Carys went back home at the end of the holidays, I used to put together an Alligator Club magazine. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I am back at school now from the holiday. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The post office gives permanent boys big waterproof capes for the bad weather and they get two weeks holiday every year. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She says birthdays are our own personal holiday. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Other people, good people, were baking gingerbread cookies, eating peppermints, and tying bows on holiday gifts. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I wonder if we could rent one for the holidays. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I stuck the round red petals on my toenails so they looked like Mother’s painted nails during the Eid holiday celebration. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Everyone in the common room was much too busy in letting off more holiday steam to observe what anyone else was up to. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “I got guarantees. We putting you back in the Ring after the holidays and we gon’ make you big.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She also wouldn’t take any pictures of me over the holidays because she said she didn’t want to remember me looking like that. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Back in Detroit, the newspaper strikers were gearing up for a huge holiday demonstration, to show the solidarity of unions against management. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Let me tell you, this did not put me in a happy holiday spirit. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “It gets worse the more old I get, I think. Just between you and me, I wasn’t doing too good over the holidays. I hated the holidays. I felt like I was gonna die.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He wears his lieutenant's uniform on national holidays. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He kept the Sabbath on Saturday, observed Passover and other important Jewish holidays, and belonged to a small neighborhood congregation, whose members called themselves Hebrews or Israelites. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “Aren’t they all gone? I thought they flew someplace exotic for the holidays.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “What about if we invite Deb and her parents over after the holiday concert for a little celebration?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “I see Martin Tremaine, who was responsible for the food drive last year to help feed those who could not afford a holiday dinner.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Ruth held on through the holidays, but when we were taking down the Christmas tree, she told me that she’d been thinking that the First Presbyterian just wasn’t quite right for us anymore. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z It will be my first big holiday without her. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z So he decided to take a holiday and travel back to his own country, Norway, and who knows, he might if he was lucky find himself a lovely new bride in his own country. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z If he’d been listening to the radio more regularly, he would have realized Friday was a national holiday and prepared for the possibility of no food line. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Traffic was bad with the holidays and all. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Henry is holidaying in one of the family’s country homes while Alex suffocates under his last week of college. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It wasn’t going to be a holiday, not like Presidents’ Day or MLK Day, so there was still school that Wednesday, but it was called Patriot Day and he was given permission to miss school. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z It was also the Columbus Day holiday, which meant no school. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Unlike the other holidays, it is determined by a solar calendar like that of the demons, and so it is always on April 5. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “You barely make me go to the mosque, except for religious holidays or weddings.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The fair prompted President Harrison to designate October 12 a national holiday, Columbus Day, which today serves to anchor a few thousand parades and a three-day weekend. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After the holiday the days slipped back into their pattern. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z First, the holidays came and Aibileen had to work late almost every night, wrapping presents and cooking for Elizabeth’s Christmas party. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My gloominess fell away as if we were on holiday. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That year around the holidays we were all miserable. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z It was like the beginning of a summer holiday. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Our next-door neighbors’ names, the way the house smelled, what school was like, the holidays, the taste of icing on birthday cakes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And she had suggested that I might like to spend my summer holiday visiting her in Boston. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘If you want to I can get bicycles and we can go tomorrow. I have a holiday one Sunday a month.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z By the time the holidays were over, tension between the two teams and their Houses was at the breaking point. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z At a place called Camp Davis, a holiday complex, forty-six people, mostly women and children, took refuge from the rising flood waters in the camp’s main building. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We would ask for a puppy for every single holiday, until one Christmas we found two huge stuffed animals under the tree, one for Adria and one for me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The holidays would be the perfect time to use the Polyjuice Potion and try to worm a confession out of him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “No holidays, hell. Have you forgot it’s Lent? They ain’t turning a trick at Jenny’s.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He took a holiday and improved, but on return to work his condition deteriorated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was Thanksgiving week, and Lowell Lee was home for the holidays, as was Jennie Marie, an intelligent but rather plain girl who attended a college in Oklahoma. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Another reason why I hated the end of the holidays was that I had to leave Rusty every morning when I went off to school. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He goes to Bolivia on what I suppose to be a holiday, and sends a cigar-smoking woman in a high-crowned hat: Excellent butterflies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Jamal said that all of the South Vietnamese officers were going home for the holidays. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For them, the rambling family house in Farmville was where they went on holidays and summer vacations, not a home they had left behind. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z For the rest, the holidays passed by quickly for us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z In Congo, we celebrated major holidays, such as Christmas and Easter, not birthdays. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There are no uniforms, no holidays, the pay is less, and if you stay out sick a day you can be fired. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z English summer and the school holidays seem dead far away now. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “I know the holiday show was hard. Maybe a birthday party will be easier.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “With the holidays coming up, some of them are going out of town. Sophia knows when. The houses will just be sitting there, empty. All that rich stuff inside.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know what the children in the regular classrooms get to do, but I know it’s close to holiday time when whatever teacher we have that year pulls this thing out of a closet. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Monday, January 14 Dear best friend Little Book, Back at school after the holidays, and I am so homesick. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The malice and bad tempers from which other people had to take holidays never afflicted him. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the night of the holiday concert, when we sing about Santa and dreidels and Kwanzaa. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But Christmas Eve was like any other day during the holiday season. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Dad tells me a few more times, between my holiday shifts at Pagoda and his new meditation routine, that he thinks I’m cool. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z And they had to leave time for holiday parties on the last day, and making presents for each other, and for looking out the window, hoping for the miracle of snow on Long Island. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Tough nuggets,” Root growled at the holiday rep. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, without supervision, my little cousins had begun balancing on logs, patting mudcakes, enjoying the holiday of smearing their dresses and darkening their white socks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The houses on my street were decorated with bright holiday lights, displaying their glowing Santas and candy canes, but it still felt like Diego and I were alone in the world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Every holiday, they would come over for dinner. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Jesse Oliver Aarons, Jr., if you can stop playing with those fool cars long enough to milk the cow, I’d be most appreciative. Miss Bessie don’t take no holiday, even if you do.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Fame and glory! The winner will become my new spokesperson and will star in all of my holiday promotions.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z It was a holiday to feast on the fruits of the harvest and those of the flesh. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He’s super into holidays and decorating his classroom. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z With the autumnal surrogation to winter and the Thanksgiving holiday quickly ascending upon us, I find myself reminiscing to mind the many blessings and bestowments of the past. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Always someone falling in on holiday nights. Drunken poets and little children. Lucky she didn’t drown.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are here for Christmas holiday from school, then?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Arthur is in his bedroom, back in Georgia for the holidays. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z We used to return home for Christmas every year, my brother, sisters, and I making it a point to call ahead, offering to bring whatever was needed for the traditional holiday meal. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Once we got back into our daily routine, it was evident that segregationists must have spent their holidays thinking up ways to make us miserable. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It could have been the last holidays the planet was ever going to celebrate, and you wouldn’t have known it from what Mrs. Bigio cooked for Camillo Junior High’s lunch. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z But over the July Fourth holiday in 1944, Dorothy Vaughan decided to convert her own status as a temporary resident of Newport News into something much longer lasting. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Until, at last, he had grown older and found excuses for spending all of his holidays away from the house. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z But she feared that this was because theirs was a relationship consumed in sips: She saw him when she came home on holiday; they wrote to each other; they talked on the phone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Now we’re going to learn ‘A Song of Peace’ for our fifth-grade holiday concert for the whole school and your parents.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z It didn’t take long for the Free Cities to treat the yearly arrival of the Witch as something of a holiday. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Well, my friend, I’m not sure if I should tell you this, but Haley told me she didn’t think you were ‘handsome enough’ to appear in Mr. Lemoncello’s holiday commercials with us when we win.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z When he took them to school the Monday after their holiday break, Kristy had been so delighted—and Joaquin hated her, hated her for putting him in that position. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He had enjoyed his Mexican holiday, and still was unable to proffer a bit of kindness to the woman who had waited patiently, busying herself with housewifely duties. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Scarlett had experienced it—the knowledge that a teacher was just about to tell them that she’d been to Inverness on holiday, or that someone had dropped a spoon in just that way before. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Especially when he zoomed across their TV screens as a flaming squirrel in a holiday commercial for Squirrel Squad Six, the hysterically crazy new Lemoncello video game. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z It was also the Columbus Day holiday, which meant no school. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The difference in the two sets of holidays? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Lots of people had come for a holiday, a good shore dinner, and then home by dark. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Her effective status as an only child, as well as the relative isolation of the Tallis house, kept her, at least during the long summer holidays, from girlish intrigues with friends. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Maybe I read too much Dickens over the holidays. Scrooge, Marley, Tiny Tim.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The poorest kids come back from the holidays and their reading scores have dropped almost 4 points. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Which makes me think of the holiday concert and my slide fail and the locked closet, and I blink hard to make the memories stop. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z On previous holidays—Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Groundhog Day—Stargirl had left a little something on each desk in her homeroom. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Though it didn’t matter to me, I wasn’t sure why we were having them to dinner on a holiday. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Dr. Troy is our doctor but he’s away on holiday and the man that comes to see me on Monday has a smell of whiskey on him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And who knows, maybe this time will be different, with the holidays starting and all. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z |
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