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‘Please may I come and join the party at The Laurels on Christmas Day? I was going up to the parents but Dad’s been called off to Dubai or somewhere so I’ll be sitting all alone in my little house with my turkey leg and a sprout on a plate … Gran and Gramps said you were having a party and I should ask if I could come … I’ll be a good boy and help with the washing up
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Later that same night, in the small hours of Christmas Day, I lay on my mattress, nursing the mother of all headaches and feeling every breath burn through my clogged and battered nose and ribs
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Christmas day with and not forgetting the cats and dogs who
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Christmas Day was only a couple of hours from being over now and with it
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If the evening before was to have taken the cake, Christmas day was the icing
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We put them under that old tree and on Christmas Day, Mama would make as big a meal as she could
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On Christmas Day in
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that I had such a blessed Christmas day at all
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the Christmas Day? Thou canst not understand it all, child, and yet it
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"I was so afraid, Tom," she said, "that we should not get here until Christmas Day was over and that you would be
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Being interviewed by Detective Inspector Grunt was not my idea of an ideal way to spend Christmas Day
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It was Christmas Day, Ron and I attended to Sharon since the
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Most of our friends had exchanged small gifts before the break, but Lisette had insisted that I save hers so that I had something to unwrap on Christmas Day itself
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Colling spent most of Christmas Day sleeping
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We're trying to enjoy Christmas Day
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Spare a thought for those that can’t spend Christmas Day with family, and the police who have to work today,” said LP, as he returned to the smorgasbord feast for seconds
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The Christmas days he spent with Steve erecting choo-choo
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They had Christmas day together, and she lavished him with presents
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Christmas Day, 2009: the last time I sang in church
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He had himself crowned emperor by the aitasantu, himself, on Gabon-egun (Christmas Day), 800
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Come Christmas day everyone was in high spirits, Justin came in the house already demanding to open his presents
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On Christmas day, for instance, during the family meal, the president of ACT (Active Christians Today) called Roger and asked him to go to the Brea Police station where a 16 year-old Mexican boy was having a hard time making himself understood
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Josie’s daily appearance in the house to do her laundry or just to be seen produced at once, hope and resentment when she entered and relief and anger when she left, specially on Christmas day when she brought gifts for everybody, including for Roger (a gift he did not accept), and then left saying: “Well, I am on my way to the Brea Community Hospital to visit the sick”
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Roger should share, perhaps, some or most of the blame for Josie’s quick exit from the house that Christmas day
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Mom wanted to see New Paltz again, and Roy Featherstone invited the two of us to spend Christmas Day and a few afterwards with them at his house in Milton High on the west bank of the Hudson
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Christmas Day was spent eating a lonely lunch of roast chicken and a rare glass of wine
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That Christmas Day Jan lay in our bed while the children played with their presents
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He tells her of the car wreck, omitting that it happened on Christmas Day
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The children as always were excited by it and were counting the days to Christmas day
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Even Joe was working morning shift on Christmas day that year at the airport, much to his annoyance
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Christmas day was spent in restaurants and New Years Eve was a noisy Fiesta with fireworks and dancing into the small hours
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She had to try to keep all of her faculty from answering any questions at all about the school, even if she had to call them all on Christmas day
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It had been a lovely Christmas day for Jean, starting with early morning reveling in sensuality with Mel, which included a massage for her and a promise of a massage for him next time, and then a late but wonderful breakfast served up by Alice
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ally; petted on Christmas Day and rarely thereafter
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It was Christmas Day
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Christmas day arrived bringing with it even more snow
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His eyes lit up like it was Christmas Day and he nodded
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On Christmas Day they wed
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Asking an Angel to dial down his love for lost souls is like asking a child not to open his presents on Christmas day
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Jesus Christ, our Lord, was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary, on Christmas Day,
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On Christmas Day, Adam left early to visit his parents
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00pm on the last Christmas Day of the Seventies
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His thoughts always drifted to Nancy on every Christmas Day
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On Christmas day the Germans mounted a ferocious air and ground attack against Bastogne
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The Cleggs celebrated their joint sixty third birthday on Christmas day last
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Phil and Susan have always welcomed the family on Christmas day in their home
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When Blake had reunited with his Mother’s relatives on Christmas day
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But now, Christmas day was over and it was becoming clear that this empty
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was 6am on Christmas Day and the chilly air in Philadelphia
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Christmas day was not far away
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It was late afternoon on Christmas day, and Charles had failed
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He closed his eyes and recalled a happy Christmas day
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Without You, there is no Christmas day
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And after I’d saved my allowance to buy two games so that I could play on Christmas Day
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“Could we-I mean can we, can I have my birthday on Christmas Day
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he perceived her fears being mounted twofold within her as each day passed and Christmas Day
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Christmas Day, which was less than two weeks away
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That Christmas Day in Oxford, the sun rose taciturn, hostile, and unwilling to shed any
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Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day, and the Fourth of July
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Christmas day, Cass finds a most willing reverend to marry them, or one that’s possibly intimidated by Cass’ sheer size and ferocious request
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Christmas Day and the children have gone
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'On Christmas Day too--day of rejoicin' and that, eh?'
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to spend Christmas Day with her family
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By the time Christmas Day came around, Jeannette wasn’t
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that Christmas Day, and she was laughing about it, laughing
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“ This Christmas day, you’ve more than earned my gifts of retribution and revenge
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I felt a lot like my friend Jeannette on Christmas Day, squeezing out tears in the hallway
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Marcus had promised me a honeymoon in Paris two weeks prior to Christmas Day, with parties, shopping, and plays to attend, but he had business problems to deal with and suggested that Sheridan accompany me instead, and he’d arrive as soon as he possibly could
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It offered no name for the dead child, yet told us exactly how long she had lived and that she had passed on Christmas Day
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On her way home from a party in Finchley on the day after Christmas Day she met her fate
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Obviously, that didn’t happen; and obviously, I stopped believing in Santa after Christmas day came and my mom wasn’t under the tree
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nally done on Christmas Day 2010, here is a song that paral-
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The giving of money! To celebrate the only human who ever chased the moneylenders out of religion! The feasting on Christmas day and Christmas eve! To celebrate the birth of the man who shared a few loaves and fish with hundreds of poor starving people! This is what Dickens glorified
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• On Christmas Day, 2004, a rare snow event delivered a white Christmas to the Texas gulf coast
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Victoria, Texas, on Christmas Day, during the final days of 2004, and during the flood of other
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This phone call would almost certainly mean his Christmas Day plans were shot
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“Perfect,” Smith moaned, “who the hell doesn’t want to spend what’s left of Christmas Day in the morgue?”
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“Mr Paxton,” Smith said, “you met me on Christmas Day at the Willow place
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His eyes were not as wild as they had been on Christmas Day; there was merely a blank look of despair in them
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When Sister Bennett had gone, Nurse Marshall sat where she had sat every day since Penny Willow was brought in on Christmas Day, on a chair by the side of the bed
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Oh my goodness, a bit of drama, and on Christmas day, blimey
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“Let me show you what this Christmas day will bring
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coming to visit her on Christmas Day
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Several days of unusually mild weather fitly ushered in a splendid Christmas Day
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Along this walk, on Christmas Day, a tall young man walked slowly, with his hands behind him, and a somewhat absent expression of countenance
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Philpot stayed to tea and accepted an invitation to spend Christmas Day with them, and to come to Frankie's party on the Monday after
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ones she could find at the bottom of the basket anything at all to get into a mans bedroom with her old maids voice trying to imagine he was dying on account of her to never see thy face again though he looked more like a man with his beard a bit grown in the bed father was the same besides I hate bandaging and dosing when he cut his toe with the razor paring his corns afraid hed get bloodpoisoning but if it was a thing I was sick then wed see what attention only of course the woman hides it not to give all the trouble they do yes he came somewhere Im sure by his appetite anyway love its not or hed be off his feed thinking of her so either it was one of those night women if it was down there he was really and the hotel story he made up a pack of lies to hide it planning it Hynes kept me who did I meet ah yes I met do you remember Menton and who else who let me see that big babbyface I saw him and he not long married flirting with a young girl at Pooles Myriorama and turned my back on him when he slinked out looking quite conscious what harm but he had the impudence to make up to me one time well done to him mouth almighty and his boiled eyes of all the big stupoes I ever met and thats called a solicitor only for I hate having a long wrangle in bed or else if its not that its some little bitch or other he got in with somewhere or picked up on the sly if they only knew him as well as I do yes because the day before yesterday he was scribbling something a letter when I came into the front room to show him Dignams death in the paper as if something told me and he covered it up with the blottingpaper pretending to be thinking about business so very probably that was it to somebody who thinks she has a softy in him because all men get a bit like that at his age especially getting on to forty he is now so as to wheedle any money she can out of him no fool like an old fool and then the usual kissing my bottom was to hide it not that I care two straws now who he does it with or knew before that way though Id like to find out so long as I dont have the two of them under my nose all the time like that slut that Mary we had in Ontario terrace padding out her false bottom to excite him bad enough to get the smell of those painted women off him once or twice I had a suspicion by getting him to come near me when I found the long hair on his coat without that one when I went into the kitchen pretending he was drinking water 1 woman is not enough for them it was all his fault of course ruining servants then proposing that she could eat at our table on Christmas day if you please O no thank you not in my house stealing my potatoes and the oysters 2/6 per doz going out to see her aunt if you please common robbery so it was but I was sure he had something on with that one it takes me to find out a thing like that he said you have no proof it was her proof O yes her aunt was very fond of oysters but I told her what I thought of her suggesting me to go out to be alone with her I wouldnt lower myself to spy on them the garters I found in her room the Friday she was out that was enough for me a little bit too much her face swelled up on her with temper when I gave her her weeks notice I saw to that better do without them altogether do out the rooms myself quicker only for the damn cooking and throwing out the dirt I gave it to him anyhow either she or me leaves the house I couldnt even touch him if I thought he was with a dirty barefaced liar and sloven like that one denying it up to my face and singing about the place in the W C too because she knew she was too well off yes because he couldnt possibly do without it that long so he must do it somewhere and the last time he came on my bottom when was it the night
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Their mother had forced the issue, inviting them both to dinner on Christmas Day, insisting that they shake hands
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The bishop normally gave the sermon on Christmas Day
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IT HAD BEEN a good year for most people, Caris thought as she sat through the Christmas Day service
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So we drank from china cups in a decorous fashion, making small talk, and then Johnny proposed a recording session for Christmas Day
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She would still be brooding on Christmas Day, laying out the place settings for dinner, when Dad took the phone call that changed everything
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“Says who? And what do you mean, watching?” he asked, even as he thought back to Christmas Day, William’s unexplained bruises
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It was into this atmosphere that Sol had returned on Christmas Day with the Rangers jersey and the bulging gear-bag
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The banker's drive of ten miles with his hated companion was a dreary beginning of the Christmas day; but at the end of the drive, Raffles had recovered his spirits, and parted in a
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I got to the station with four minutes to spare and jogged through the grand main hall, remembering the last time I was in the rail depot, back on Christmas Day, when a terrorist named Hala al-Dossari tried to bomb the place
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The most famous was on Christmas Day 1914, when British and German soldiers threw down their weapons and had a game of football instead
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On Christmas Day 1991, Gorbachev resigned
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She was resolved to have this open by Christmas Day, and she achieved her aim by opening on December 20th
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It didn't seem right to have a thing like that in Willstown, and opening it on Sundays and Christmas Day and all
