kalends
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Then spring was gone Except six nights ere coming of summer On the kalends of May.
From Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems by James Mercer Garnett
In the arrangement subsequently arrived at under the name of the September Convention, the underlying intention was to adjourn Roma capitale to the Greek kalends.
From Cavour by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Worship, ye lovers, on this May: Of bliss your kalends are begun: Sing with us, Away, Winter, away!
From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various
The title of the book is without date; but a Latin letter from Antonia Caraffa di Reggio, prefixed to the poem, is dated the kalends of June 1495.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
"But on thy kalends, why are men, so harsh on other days, Keen to return the kindly look, and change the friendly phrase?"
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
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