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May Day   /meɪ deɪ/   Listen
May Day

noun
1.
Observed in many countries to celebrate the coming of spring; observed in Russia and related countries in honor of labor.  Synonyms: First of May, May 1.






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"May day" Quotes from Famous Books



... said in sudden inspiration. "Give a May Day. Try every channel with a May Day. If anyone picks up a May Day call you'll get ...
— The Day of the Dog • Anderson Horne

... their own, which not rarely they could utter with striking audacity."—I could only envy these lines of gold; not one word of them had any reference to me: for I was still but a child. During a night that followed a lovely May day, the weather suddenly changed: winter, who was during the days of his dominion, watching how the warm breezes played with the flower-bells of the trees, all at once returned: with the full vigor of vengeance he came, and ...
— Debts of Honor • Maurus Jokai

... One May day George thought he had a glimpse of Lucy. He was not certain, but he was sufficiently disturbed, in spite of his uncertainty. A promotion in his work now frequently took him out of town for a week, or longer, and it was upon his return from one of these ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington

... still holds the field; and in the realm of pure literature his one-volume edition of Keats is there to show his eagerness for beauty and his love of English verse. I sent him the first volume in proof, about a year before the book came out, and awaited his verdict with much anxiety. It came one May day in 1889. I happened to be very tired and depressed at the moment, and I remember sitting alone for a little while with the letter in my hand, without courage to open it. Then at ...
— A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... Tomorrow will be May day—once, before the world became industrial, a day of gladness, now a day of dread, another ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane


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