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  • She flourished the switch she held in her hand, dropped a courtesy as low as a lady at a birth-night introduction, recovered herself seemingly according to

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Thus it is the gentle heiress celebrates her next birth-night.

    The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon

  • Blinding coronets and necklaces on royal ladies made the interior of this ancient palace more brilliant than its shining exterior on this birth-night.

    In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

  • Three nights and a half night did we two work, before our Task was compleat'd, the Kernell's filch'd from the Nuts, and the Empty Shells left for my lady's adorning of herself at my lord's birth-night Ball.

    A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • For this is the birth-night of the white Christ, son of the All-Father, and Saviour of mankind.

    The Blue Flower 1902

  • "Is it not strange, mother," she said, breaking suddenly off, "that men should deem it a mark of holiness to cast derision on the birth-night of their Saviour?"

    In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World 1902

  • On the 4th of the preceding June I went, by his desire, into the Chamberlain's box at the birth-night ball; the distressing observation of the circle was drawn towards the part of the box in which I sat by the marked and injudicious attentions of his Royal Highness.

    Memoirs of Mary Robinson Mary Elizabeth Robinson 1895

  • On hearing from his host and kinsman that she had said that on her birth-night she would bid them farewell forever by donning them for the last time, he was consumed with eagerness to obtain an invitation.

    A Lady of Quality 1896

  • That night she appeared at the birth-night ball with the wreath of roses on her head.

    A Lady of Quality 1896

  • She showed her the splendors she was to shine in at the birth-night ball, even bringing forth her jewels and displaying them.

    A Lady of Quality 1896

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