A woman like gramaw can't do much more than go down-town once a year, and then you talk about taking her to Russia!

In Norway, it is said that they only bake their barley broad once a year, such is its "keeping" quality. 1686.

In these backward countries the domestic mattress is remade once a year if not oftener.

We still visit the place at least once a year and also maintain contact with several of the villagers who worked then on the farm.

Then, once a year, on my mother's birthday,it is the fourth of July and an easy date to remember,will my little friend Miss Nancy, or any of the other Careys, if she is absent, pick a little nosegay of daisies and buttercups (perhaps there will even be a bit of early Queen Anne's lace) and put it in a vase under my mother's picture?

If we read nothing else of Dickens, once a year, at Christmas time, we should remember him and renew our youth by reading one of his holiday stories, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Chimes, and above all the unrivaled Christmas Carol.

But the great carnage was once a year, when the poll-tax was paid by his subjects.

The father was so astounded with the discovery, that he burned his house down once a year for the sake of coming at an annual banquet of roast pig.

[Sidenote:22] Such is Vesuvius, and these phenomena regularly occur there at least once a year.

They were not the pictures one sees every day, nor once a year.

" Remarks similar to these had been made by Thomas Buller and William Podington at least once a year for some five years.

Mass was performing in several of the splendid chapels, whose rich decorations of paintings and sculpture are but once a year revealed to the light, save from the obscure glimmering of the wax-taper, which is carried by the guide, to occasional visitors.

Here he would show them his more treasured volumes, such as his first edition of Butler, which he would tell them he made a point of reading through once a year.

They had official note once a year when the most skilful of them received the government cachet for excellence in dances before the governor and his cabinet celebrating the fall of the Bastile.

About once a year a ship used to call, when the island-folk would exchange their cattle for cloth, corn, tea, &c., which they could not produce themselves.

I'm in a beastly office, and get only a fortnight off once a year.

It seems alone necessary to add to this, that the estates of Woodstock are held on feudal tenure, the occupant presenting to the king once a year a standard similar to those which the founder of his house captured; and that these are regularly deposited in a private chapel at Windsor, where they may still be seen by the curious.

Once a year Ulysses beheld him arrayed in his frock coat, his chest starred with decorations and in his lapel the golden cicada, badge of the poets of Provence.

But once a year.

fifty miles off was an affair of moment to be undertaken but once a year.

I am heartily sorry it did not come to Hand the Day before; for I can't but think it very hard upon People to lose their Jest, that offer at one but once a Year.

Once a year, in the University of Cambridge, there is a grand day called Commemoration Day.

D.L.R. says the same, whereas the Beara festival is a Moslem feast that takes place once a year in the monsoons, when thousands of females offer their vows to the patron of rivers.

If all of us, while we are alive, could stealthily, once a year, and during a moment long enough to exchange but two words with them, behold those loved ones whom we have lost, death would be no more death.

Now this, if it take place only once a year, must of course cause damp in the house.