leap years
- plural of leap year.
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In modern usage, with the exception of ecclesiastical calendars, the intercalary day is added for convenience at the end of the month, and years in which February has 29 days are called “bissextile,” or leap-years.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
He told more stories than one could make up in an age of leap-years, and they were all about where he went and what he did in the days before he became bishop.
From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth
When all have left but Mabel, who declares that she will remain faithful to her lover until he has lived his twenty-one leap-years, there re-enter the police.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.
I'd put a hundred leap-years in every century, give woman the right to do half the courting—to find a man to her liking and capture him if she could.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper
These "grands couchers" however, occurred but rarely—coming round, as it might be, like leap-years, just to regulate the calendar, and adjust the time.
From Satanstoe by Cooper, James Fenimore
