Whit Monday
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I remember lying awake for hours on the morning of Whit Monday, eager to put on the gorgeous dress, which, that year, was deep pink overlaid with white lace.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012
On the 22nd of May, on Whit Monday, 1747, an order must probably have come from Major S---- of which we officers learnt nothing.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
A visit on Whit Monday afternoon when no one is at home! but so one stumbles on from one discrepancy to another.
From Barbarossa and Other Tales by Paul Heyse
The instruments were made every year for the Whit Monday hunt which took place in the forest.
From Springtime and Other Essays by Sir Francis Darwin
However, they went on, and Alexander had a table set out on the spot where they themselves had been sitting that eventful Whit Monday.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
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