Etymology
Origin of birthnight
Example Sentences
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The angelic song in Bethlehem field, On thy birthnight, that sung thee Savior born.
From Project Gutenberg
By the gift of a birthnight fan which she had never carried; and the arrangement of a party to which she had not gone.
From Project Gutenberg
Knights gather, riding sharp for cold; I know The ways and woods are strangled with the snow; And with short song the maidens spin and sit Until Christ's birthnight, lily-like, arow.
From Project Gutenberg
Corky Palmer leads the three-class series in preparation for the George Washington Birthnight Banquet and Ball on Feb. 13.
From Washington Post
"Anti-republican and dangerous precedents" were the epithets applied by Mr. Adams to the "birthnight ball" offered by the people of Philadelphia to General Washington, and declined as a personal compliment by the president of the United States,--the distinction may seem somewhat fine but was thus made at the time,--and so the social warfare went on.
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