| 单词 | quarter day |
| 例句 | In 2015, a homicide was reported in the District roughly once every two and a quarter days. In nation’s capital, crime aplenty but no homicides two days into new year 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z They stayed, on average, an extra quarter day in the hospital and racked up $155 to $1,576 more in costs. Patient communication has room to grow: studies 2013-05-27T20:04:06Z Or even nine and a quarter days of solid, matchsticks-holding-up-the-eyelids Dickens time. My year with four million words of Charles Dickens 2012-12-24T01:29:39Z You know it is very near quarter day, George, very near, and some money will be paid in then. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z When the other day he sent me out to change his last fiver, and told me he'd have to make it do till quarter day, and there's still three weeks to that. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z The most generally noted days of February are the following:—the 2nd, Candlemas day, one of the fixed quarter days used in Scotland; the 14th, St Valentine’s day; and the 24th, St Matthias. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The Uchāral days are the quarter days of Malabar, and demands for surrender of property may be made only on the day following the festival, when all agricultural leases expire. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z On quarter day, he pays his rent at the stroke of noon. English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters 2010-12-20T17:12:04.833Z Into the bank on quarter day, if you please, Mr. Rowan. Rachel Ray This choice, but small, collection of bullion has to last me, Mr. Gibb, to quarter day. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z These soccage days were arbitrarily divided into half or even quarter days, and thereby the hindrance to the countryman and the disorder to his own farm were considerably increased. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. "Approximately one and a quarter days have gone by at the Earth's normal rate since Primus lost his memory," Secundus said. Freudian Slip Lord Lyndhurst took his seat as Chief Baron yesterday morning, Alexander retiring without an equivalent, and only having waited for quarter day. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II The moon goes around the earth in twenty-seven and a quarter days. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts If they work fractions of a day, eight hours is called a half and four a quarter day, and the men submit with the same patience as the women. Prisoners of Poverty Abroad To be late five minutes means losing a quarter day's wages. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life Eight hours a day or over constituted a full day for purposes of pay; up to four hours, half a day; and two hours or less, a quarter day. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon By adding a quarter day to each year, there is a surplus of eleven minutes, fourteen seconds. Astronomy for Amateurs The periodic time of the earth is 365 days, omitting the quarter day. Aether and Gravitation She now received seventy-five cents for a regular day's work, and might often have made a dollar if her mother would have allowed her to work a half or quarter day extra. Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Grandmarina announced to the King and Queen that in future there would be eight quarter days in every year, except in leap year, when there would be ten. The Magic Fishbone A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged 7 Missy O’Bottom, she tells me, last quarter day, no pay whole bill, she not half like it; she say you great deceiver, and no trust more.” Olla Podrida Turnpikes and bridges had shortened the journey by stage from Boston to Washington to four and a quarter days by the year 1815. Union and Democracy I fancy that, later on, when he came to know their importance, he extended the principle to quarter days. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Custom was falling off and quarter day was fast approaching. A Book of Quaker Saints From that day all the other inhabitants slept upon a volcano, and at quarter day sent in a unanimous notice of their intention to move to the landlord. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter He had come to say good-bye to Joanna on a June evening just before the quarter day. Joanna Godden My housekeeper sends me in her book every quarter day, with an account of what she pays. Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities I lose the interest for only four days,' he says—'last Monday, the fifteenth, being my quarter day. Copper Streak Trail It was as if "Rickman's", destroyer and preserver, renewed his life every quarter day that it might draw in, devour, annihilate it as before. The Divine Fire The usurer would be very well satisfied to have all the time annihilated that lies between the present moment and next quarter day. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Lammas Day, the first of August, literally "the loaf-mass" day or festival day at the beginning of harvest, one of the cross quarter days, Whitsuntide, Martinmas, and Candlemas being the other three. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge The first were for a full day's work, the second for a half day, and the last for a quarter day. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation In matters influenced by United States statutes, quarter days are the first days of January, April, July, and October. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q His landlord passing by would see the garden in a blaze of colour, and promise himself to raise the bookmaker's rent next quarter day. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories I'm only an old sailor-man, sir, with perhaps more liquor than sense; but I'm the Queen's servant, and touch my pension every quarter day. The Stark Munro Letters Michaelmas is the festival in honour of St. Michael and the angels, held on the 20th September, the day being one of the quarter days on which rents are levied. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge He was worth a cool two thousand a year was Morry—that's five hundred each quarter day, you understand, and somewhere or other there must be the bonds or securities from which this money came. The Avenger It must have been the Saturday after quarter day, something like the 12th or 13th of January—Gervaise didn't quite know. L'Assommoir The consequence was that when quarter day came round he was in about the same situation with ourselves—a little worse, even, for his wife was sick also. Jack's Ward Miss Grimes," he said, "you forget that the rooms are mine till next quarter day. The Cinema Murder She provided: at quarter day or thereabouts if or when purchases had been made by him not for her she showed herself attentive to his necessities, anticipating his desires. Ulysses My mother's silver—two gravy-spoons and a salt-cellar—had been pawned for some weeks, since, in fact, the June quarter day. In the Days of the Comet It was strange that the haughtiest of human beings should be the meanest, that one who seethed to reverence nothing on earth but himself should abase himself for the sake of quarter day. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 I fancy that, later on, when he came to know their importance, he extended the principle to quarter days. Novel Notes What, is it quarter day that you remove, And carry bag and baggage too? King Edward III |
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