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It's predicated on the notion that the run-up to whatever your holy-day in the Season of Light is, is fraught, too busy, exhausting, and that those participating need a break.
Dr. Susan Corso: Pajama Days: Holiness For The Rest Of The Year Dr. Susan Corso 2011
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It's predicated on the notion that the run-up to whatever your holy-day in the Season of Light is, is fraught, too busy, exhausting, and that those participating need a break.
Dr. Susan Corso: Pajama Days: Holiness For The Rest Of The Year Dr. Susan Corso 2011
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Was it not like one long holy-day from first to last?
Little Eyolf 2008
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Was it not like one long holy-day from first to last?
Little Eyolf 2008
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But living as I shall now do, so near to the city, I may perhaps be enabled to attend the cathedral service on some holy-day of the
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The day was clear and cold, as if befitting the holy-day they were about to celebrate.
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His poor wife felt a heavy load upon her heart, and was scarcely able to do her housework and put everything in order for the next day (which was to be a holy-day).
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On his own sacred holy-day, in his own new temple, Pharaoh Trok sacrificed a ram and proclaimed three times "I divorce her."'
Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001
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Behold, I too say, O my God, Where art Thou? see, where Thou art! in Thee I breathe a little, when I pour out my soul by myself in the voice of joy and praise, the sound of him that keeps holy-day.
The Confessions 1999
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As we note the results of your good works, we observe beacons of effervescent light, as spectacular a display of fireworks as has ever brightened a holy-day night.
Arcturian Songs of the Masters of Light Patricia L. Pereira 1999
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