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 following Whit Monday more after-dinner speeches were being made when the head of the bleaching department boasted that he had six hundred pounds which he had mulcted from his workers in fines.
From The Life of Roger Langdon Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. [With a preface by H. Clifton Lambert.] by Lambert, Henry Clifton
They were married on Whit Monday, and Ida was warned that if she and Louisa could not get possession of the child by Wednesday, he would be left behind.
From That Stick by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
He had seen his wife for the first time in four years on the previous Whit Monday, and they proposed to live together again so soon as he secured permanent employment.
From Regeneration by Haggard, Henry Rider
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 Heyse, Paul
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