"Christmas day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... It was on a Christmas day, three years after the event last narrated, that a little party assembled in a tiny house in Hackney to spend ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... would meet each other. All the unhappy years would be forgotten, and they'd take each other by the hand, just as they did when they were little children, Martin and Desire, and go into the old home together,—on Christmas Day, ...
— The Gate of the Giant Scissors • Annie Fellows Johnston
... you are lazy about comparing I can make you a complete set of what the authorities say, and of what this amazing novelist says that they say. When I tell you that he thinks the Epiphany (January 6, Twelfth Night) is December 25th—Christmas Day-you begin to see what an egregious ass he is. Treat him like Dowden, and oblige"—a reference to Mark Twain's defense of Harriet Shelley, in which he had heaped ridicule on Dowden's Life of the Poet—a ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... funny sort of Christmas Day, but it will be all right after five o'clock. Of course I'd rather be in London and see you all. Still, all the same I'm rather enjoying myself this afternoon. I have a big box of chocs. by the side of me, and they are gradually diminishing. And now ...
— One Young Man • Sir John Ernest Hodder-Williams
... footsteps seemed to strike sharply against the hard, white road; there was a suspicion of frost in the air. When Max spoke, which was not for some minutes, he merely remarked that we should have a cold Christmas, and then he asked me if I would dine with him at the vicarage on Christmas Day. He and Mr. ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
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