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almanac
1. They consulted the Chinese Almanac for the day to hold the ceremony, hired a calligrapher for the invitations to be sent out in white envelopes
2. Eventually, a 19th-century almanac put this metaphorical moon in the sky
3. According to the Maine Farmers' Almanac, a blue moon occurred whenever a season had four full moons instead of three
4. a farmer's almanac that was lying on the desk and
5. He came across the section in the almanac about
6. The almanac said that the
7. "We could have our own Skier's Almanac
8. Manuel // Philosophy and History Methodology: the Almanac: /
9. Psychological Aspects of Buddhism: the Almanac / USSR Acad
10. "Nothing---only look at the almanac on that wall"; he pointed to a framed sheet hanging near the window, and continued---
11. coloured almanac and some paper pictures which the children had tacked upon them, and by the side of the fireplace was the empty wicker chair where the old woman used to sit
12. I often paid him a visit in the dark back-room in which he consorted with an ink-jar, a hat-peg, a coal-box, a string-box, an almanac, a desk and stool, and a ruler; and I do not remember that I ever saw him do anything else but look about him
13. off the gas at the main every night and it was Gerty who tacked up on the wall of that place where she never forgot every fortnight the chlorate of lime Mr Tunney the grocer's christmas almanac, the picture of halcyon days where a young gentleman in the costume they used to wear then with a threecornered hat was offering a bunch of flowers to his ladylove with oldtime chivalry through her lattice window
14. In sum an infinite great fall of rain and all refreshed and will much increase the harvest yet those in ken say after wind and water fire shall come for a prognostication of Malachi's almanac (and I hear that Mr Russell has done a prophetical charm of the same gist out of the Hindustanish for his farmer's gazette) to have three things in all but this a mere fetch without bottom of reason for old crones and bairns yet sometimes they are found in the right guess with their queerities no telling how
15. Thinking that they might enjoy looking at a book, he gave them a Japanese almanac
16. As part of his Annual Forecast for 1972 (published in the Stock Traders Almanac), Lindsay wrote, “One long-term measurement calls for a major top 15 years, or a little more, after the bear market low of October 22, 1957
17. He memorized the agricultural information in the Bristol Almanac because he had heard that there was a direct relationship between the growth of hair and the harvesting cycles
18. In America and Americans (1966), he said, “Elks, Masons, Knight Templars, Woodmen of the World, Redmen, Eagles, Eastern Star, Foresters…the World Almanac lists hundreds of such societies and associations, military and religious, philosophic, scholarly, charitable, mystic, political, and some just plain nuts
19. Thus for sixteen days I saw from my window a hundred men at work like busy husbandmen, with teams and horses and apparently all the implements of farming, such a picture as we see on the first page of the almanac; and as often as I looked out I was reminded of the fable of the lark and the reapers, or the parable of the sower, and the like; and now they are all gone, and in thirty days more, probably, I shall look from the same window on the pure sea-green Walden water there, reflecting the clouds and the trees, and sending up its evaporations in solitude, and no traces will appear that a man has ever stood there
20. Halloa! here's signs and wonders truly! That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome calls the zodiac, and what my almanac below calls ditto
21. I'll get the almanac and as I have heard devils can be raised with Daboll's arithmetic, I'll try my hand at raising a meaning out of these queer curvicues here with the Massachusetts calendar
22. He found them in an almanac,
23. One evening, seated on his sofa, my father was turning over the leaves of the “Court Almanac,” but his thoughts were far away, and the book did not produce its usual effect upon him
24. See article of Bolton Hall in the International Tolstoi Almanac compiled by P
25. “International Tolstoi Almanac, the, on Tolstoi,” compiled by P
26. As well might the trembling mariner look to his almanac for the state of the weather at the moment the pitiless tempest is beating upon him, and his vessel is sinking under the shock of the elements
