quarter-days

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.

A Holiday Romance 2007

By this time in 2005, there had been 2 hurricanes with peak wind 135 knots and 140 knots respectively and 42 hurricane quarter-days.

Atlantic Hurricane Track Versions « Climate Audit 2007

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.

A Holiday Romance 2007

On quarter-days and days of exercise, every man must be ready equipped at the appointed hour, otherwise he will forfeit that day's pay, or such part of it as the superintendent may determine.

Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

That his last act, completed but a few months since, was to induce Mr.W. to execute a relinquishment of his share in the partnership, and even a bill of sale on the very furniture of his house, in consideration of a certain annuity, to be well and truly paid by - HEEP - on the four common quarter-days in each and every year.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

Michaelmas Day, in England and other countries, is one of the regular quarter-days for settling rents and accounts; but it is no longer remarkable for the hospitality with which it was formerly celebrated.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Indeed, the bulk of his allowance was wasted during the trips he made to town after quarter-days.

Jan A Dog and a Romance 1912

Such men as the shrewd and impudent Bigby atoned for a plebeian origin by the arts of dependence and a judicious servility, and drew more of the public money from the pay-office in half a dozen quarter-days than Burke received in all his life.

Burke Morley, John 1907

It was, in fact, the twenty-fifth of March, which, as most people know to their cost, is, and has been time out of mind, one of those unpleasant epochs termed quarter-days.

Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892

What matters is not the interest -- that is small, not more than five hundred roubles a year -- but that I shall be obliged all the time to think about quarter-days and all sorts of horrors attendant on being in debt.

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882