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How to use the word holiday in a Sentence? Page #17

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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

– W. B. Yeats

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

– George Bernard Shaw

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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song

– John Burroughs

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Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

– Ayn Rand

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living

– Amanda Bradley

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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

– Walter Frederick Mondale

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Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

– Pamela Ribon

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