half-holiday

IPA: hˈæfhˈɑɫʌdeɪ

Examples of "half-holiday" in Sentences

There were no hoops, no cricket-bats, as usual on a half-holiday.
It is in this way that a schoolboy hears of a half-holiday; but this was
Oh! for a half-holiday, and a quiet corner, and one of those books again!
This is the day of our rifle-club; there is little business to do; I grant a half-holiday.
It was Wednesday, a half-holiday, as everybody knows, and boiled-beef day at Slaughter House.
Also, they expect the Saturday half-holiday to give work to one additional man for each eleven previously employed.
It was a fine summer day, and our little school had obtained a half-holiday, by the intercession of a good-humoured visitor. 3 3
And our naval annals owe some of their interest to the fantastic and beautiful appearance of old warships and the romance that invests the sea and everything sea-going in the eyes of English lads on a half-holiday at the coast.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, for instance, serves notice on the Master Builders 'Association that it demands an increase of the wage of its members from $3.50 a day to $4.00, and a Saturday half-holiday without pay.
I came into it in that dead hour of the afternoon which is neither after lunch nor before tea, nor anything else even on a half-holiday; and I had a fantastic feeling that I had strayed into a lost and extra hour that is not numbered in the twenty-four.