...This was an entry on the fly-leaf of a chap-book (one of Patrick Walker’s) plainly written by my father’s hand and thus conceived: “To my brother Ebenezer on his fifth birthday...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...Weil bought the last remaining turkey for £5, with the intention of giving a feast on Her Majesty's birthday, and the precious bird had to be kept under a Chubb's lock and key till it was killed...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...—This was my birthday, but of course itwas unkept, and, indeed, almost unthought of untilit was past...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...It all came—this new Age of Miracles—because a few persons in 1909determined to celebrate Lincoln's Birthday properly by calling for thefinal emancipation of the American Negro...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
...Seventeen years ago to-day,Commander Peary, hobbling about on his crutches with his right leg in asling, insisted on giving me a birthday party...
Matthew A. Henson 「A Negro Explorer at the North Pole」
...He had passed his sixteenth birthday...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
... with your birthday money!"...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Bruce」
...(Try to cross MadisonSquare Garden, on Washington's Birthday afternoon, while theWestminster Kennel Club's Show is in progress...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Bruce」
...On the morning of his first birthday, Finn, with hissister Kathleen and Tara and the Master, walked down to the little localrailway station and was weighed...
A. J. Dawson 「Finn The Wolfhound」
...I alwayswrote to Danyul on his birthday and I couldn’t bear to let him knowwhere I was...
Elinore Pruitt Stewart 「Letters on an Elk Hunt」
...Thelittle Prince's birthday was coming, and his father ordered grandfeasts for many days...
Prince Sarath Ghosh 「The Wonders of the Jungle」
...It was a custom of the heathento celebrate on the same twenty-fifth of December the birthday ofthe Sun, at which they kindled lights in token of festivity...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...But the month Hecatombaion, in which it was celebrated,was the first month of the Athenian year and the day of the festival wasthe birthday of the goddess...
Jane Ellen Harrison 「Ancient Art and Ritual」
... In a line below there is a mention of the “birth of Khâsekhemui,” apparently a festival in honour of the birth of that king celebrated in the same way as the reputed birthday of a god...
L.W. King and H.R. Hall 「History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery」
...Under the protection of these alleged saints, Pomponiusand his friends worshipped, and celebrated the birthday ofRome, and the goddesses connected with the city...
Rodolfo Lanciani 「Pagan and Christian Rome」
...Mudge," who wasvery anxious to visit his father on the occasionof his sixteenth birthday, grew too ill to makethe journey...
Dolores Bacon 「Pictures Every Child Should Know」
...One evening, just beforeEnid’s birthday, three years ago, they brokeinto our home, and turned us out, and tookaway all our treasures...
Mary MacGregor 「Stories of King Arthur's Knights」
...And now that you have had your first birthday, whenare you going to start a quarterly? In it you could publisha complete book length novel and seven novelettes...
Various 「Astounding Stories, May, 1931」
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