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Month of Sundays   /mənθ əv sˈəndˌeɪz/   Listen
Month of Sundays

noun
1.
A time perceived as long.






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"Month of Sundays" Quotes from Famous Books



... her hand upon his arm, and spoke with earnestness. "Dear Rudolph, I am so glad you've found the woman you can really love. Jack says there is only one possible woman in the world for each man, and that only in a month of Sundays does he find her." ...
— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell

... stuff and get in a sewing-woman to make it up, for as a rule they are not nearly as clever and capable as Englishwomen about making things for themselves. Your English maid-servant will buy a blouse length at a sale for a few pence, make it up smartly, and wear it out in a month of Sundays. Your German she-official will have a blouse made for her, and it will probably be hideous; but she will wear it so carefully that it lasts her two years. Under-raiment she will never want to buy, as she ...
— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

... Van Dam! Is it you? Are you still expiating your oath to pull from Kakiat to Spuyten Duyvil before the dawn of Sabbath, if it takes you a month of Sundays? Better for you had you passed the night with your roistering friends at Kakiat, or started homeward earlier, for Sabbath-breaking is no sin now, and you, poor ghost, will find little sympathy for your plight. Grant that your ...
— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner



Words linked to "Month of Sundays" :   years, long time, age, colloquialism



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