The consequence was, that not only on Friday afternoons but whenever anybody came to visit the school, I was butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Hunter was a member of the tennis club, he made a welcome addition to local dances and bridge teas; occasionally on Sunday afternoons he had called and stayed to tea.
Has feelings, and an invalid mamma, who, I feel it in my bones, will be tuk worse regularly on the afternoons of dinner parties.
The afternoons were given over to the dogged pursuit of the elusive pigskin.
He broached his plan for work at home and study at school on alternate afternoons to his mother and his teacher.
The baker watched him, saw how quickly and smilingly he served the customer, and offered Edward an extra dollar per week if he would come in afternoons and sell behind the counter.
On the Puszta itself no tree was to be seen for miles round, and when in the afternoons I wanted to read out of doors, the only shade I could find against the scorching sun of the hot summer months was under a haycock or straw-rick.
And it was with these miserable, offensive creatures that I had to barter on Friday afternoons for the bread and other victuals they had collected during the day--money seldom came their way--in exchange for one or two bottles of brandy.
Three or four afternoons I have passed very happily at my beloved haunt in the wood, reading Goethe's "Second Residence in Rome.
Tell--that I read "Titan" by myself, in the afternoons and evenings of about three weeks.
In Buenos Aires there are a great number of so-called Brazilian coffeehouses where about five o'clock afternoons people repair for coffee and ice cream.
It has a cool grape arbor where it is pleasant to repair hot Sunday afternoons for a schuper of beer.
She had a passion for the countryside, and often on Saturday afternoons she would take her class of lads away out to the green fields, regardless of social canons.
Miss Peacock began the habit about this time of cycling down on Saturday afternoons and spending a few hours with her, and Mary looked forward to these visits with the greatest zest.
The ladies usually do their shopping in the morning before breakfast, which is served at eleven o’clock, for the afternoons are given up to siestas.
After the worried months of monotony and pain, the afternoons of reminiscence were tonic for them both.
In the long afternoons of study that Kenny spent with Don, Brian asserted his independence and banished books.
There were long rides on Chula; afternoons when Blue Bonnet came in looking as rosy as one of the late peonies in her grandmother's garden.
Wednesdays and Saturdays were nicknamed "ladies' days" by the High School boys, for on these afternoons the girls were permitted free use of the gymnasium.
Grace Harlowe in the basement cloakroom a few afternoons later.
Before the concluding song, announcement may be made of the plan for a series of afternoonsor evenings abroad.
We should also go well provided with umbrellas, rubber overshoes, and rain coats, if we do not wish to spend many afternoons indoors.
He taught well, and in those long afternoons in the hot boarding-house attic Robert had raced over the lost ground.
On foggy afternoons they pealed the doorbells of such as had complaint against them, and from concealment gloated over the indignant maids who had been lured down several flights of stairs to answer their summons.
On pleasant afternoonstroops of children with their mammas or nurses crowd the walks and avenues of the Jardin d'Acclimatation.
On winter afternoons you saw him sometimes at the movies, whiling away one of his many idle hours in the dim, close-smelling atmosphere of the place.
He had always earned some money, afternoons and Saturdays.
Her wardrobe consists of out-of-style clothes and hats given her and it is her delight on Saturday afternoons to dress up in her finest and fanciest creations and come strutting along down town proud of the attention she is attracting.
Wheeler said his Mistess called up all the little negroes on the plantation on Sunday afternoonsand taught them the catechism and told them Bible stories.
Slaves were allowed to tend little patches of their own, and were often given Saturday afternoons off to work their crops, then when laying-by time came, we had more time for our patches.
It was impossible to go to tea with day-boys on Saturday afternoons without special leave both from the Housemaster and from the captain of the House.
In the amber summer afternoons or blue spring twilights, Nurse looked comparatively beautiful under the ample lace, with a softer apron and a face whose wrinkles were smoothed out by the consciousness of leisure and the pleasant brown teapot.
The afternoons he spent in Carlington Road, trying to pick up information about St. James' Preparatory School from the boys already there.
When the dripping January rains came down, Michael spent many afternoons in the morning-room of Lily's house.
Cows were kept for making syllabubs, and on summer afternoons a regular company met to play bowls and trap-ball in an adjacent field.
She devoted her mornings to the regulation of the household, her afternoons to the drilling of the model villagers.
Mr. Granger had his own set, and spent his afternoons agreeably enough, drinking soda water, reading Galignani, and talking commerce or politics with his compeers at the most respectable cafe on the Boulevards.
In the afternoons there were long walks or drives along the shore, and the exercise and salt air soon restored to Patty the robust health and strength which her father feared she had lost during the summer.
Miss Nightingale was fond of the view, especially in spring mornings, but in the afternoons she moralized her landscape.
As spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the lengthening days gave long afternoons for work and play of all sorts.
So she gave her mornings to duty, her afternoons to pleasure, and prospered finely.
Saturday afternoons are riotous times, whether spent in the house or out, for on pleasant days they all go to walk, like a seminary, with the Professor and myself to keep order, and then such fun!
I thought if I looked in on the Sunday afternoons I should find the others as well, perhaps.
But about the Sunday afternoons there was a less agreeable tale to tell.
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