quarter day

It is the first of the four traditional English quarter days.

But as the same people said that at every quarter day for the past year nobody took much notice.

Christmas was the last of the Quarter Days for the year.

One of the four Quarter days in the Irish calendar.

Four and a quarter days until help came.

It's quarter day next week, 'n we can turn the tax in and get something back on the insurance.

It actually takes three hundred and sixty five and a quarter days to go round the sun.

"It was quarter day recently, and I was paid in advance.

It is one of the four Quarter days in Ireland and England.

I spent it entirely at the office with my clerk, deep in the usual Quarter Day rush.

However, the calendar as we know it is 364 days long, making it one and a quarter days short of a true year.

Because the Julian years are 365 and a quarter days, in every 28 years the weekday pattern will repeat.

Usually a busy place, on Quarter Day the manor house simply bristled with activity.

Many words and phrases commonly found in leases are terms of art-for example, "the usual quarter days".

It remains one of the Scottish quarter days, at which debts are paid and law courts are in session.

Where the Quarter days are held to mark the change in seasons, they also are liminal times.

All this occurred a quarter day ago."

Visits him here on quarter days.

I had a good bit to do that morning, I remember, because it was getting on towards Quarter Day.

To make up this quarter day every year, an extra day is added every four years making the year 366 days.

(it has been then discovered that the six Russian were missing, but they were safe at the Resistance head quarter days later).

A quarter day in the Christian calendar (due to Candlemas).

Lammas is one of the Scottish quarter days.

"The rents from quarter day," she said.

It was also one of the English, Welsh and Irish quarter days when accounts had to be settled.