Sundays


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Sun·days

 (sŭn′dēz, -dāz′)
adv.
On every or almost every Sunday: The shop is closed Sundays. Sundays I do household chores.
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Sun•days

(ˈsʌn deɪz, -diz)

adv.
on Sundays.
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References in classic literature ?
"Yes, sir, that is true, and I am grateful for all favors, I am sure; and anything that I could do to oblige you, or the lady, I should be proud and happy to do; but I can't give up my Sundays, sir, indeed I can't.
The trout bit as they always do on Sundays. In an hour the transgressors had all the fish they wanted, so they returned to the house, much to Dora's relief.
And now I hope you won't mind my just asking why you haven't been out riding the last two Sundays?"
"I don't believe they're fit to read on Sundays," exclaimed Felicity.
[He privately smoothed out the curls, with labor and dif- ficulty, and plastered his hair close down to his head; for he held curls to be effeminate, and his own filled his life with bitterness.] Then Mary got out a suit of his clothing that had been used only on Sundays during two years -- they were simply called his "other clothes" -- and so by that we know the size of his wardrobe.
But its sound had revived a long train of miserable Sundays, and the procession would not stop with the bell, but continued to march on.
This was only used by visitors and on Sundays, and on special occasions, as when the Vicar went up to London or came back.
These reasonings have sufficed, in a measure, to mend the rent in my conscience which I made by traveling to Baden-Baden that Sunday. We arrived in time to furbish up and get to the English church before services began.
"I have a letter somewhere," said Lady Muriel, "from an old friend, describing the way in which Sunday was kept in her younger days.
Well, hang those dresses carefully up in your closet, and then sit down and learn the Sunday school lesson.
They were busy making the necessary arrange- ments to alter the route of the Southampton and Portsmouth Sunday League excursions.
On the eleventh of July, which was Saturday, the manifesto was received but was not yet in print, and Pierre, who was at the Rostovs', promised to come to dinner next day, Sunday, and bring a copy of the manifesto and appeal, which he would obtain from Count Rostopchin.