Yet, in spite of its desolation, my friend Tonnison and I had elected to spend our vacation there.

"My clerk, Mr. BLADAMS, now taking a vacation in the country, is generally here though, to be sure, I may lose him before long.

"Newspaper folk," remarked Major Doyle, who was now at the farm enjoying his vacation and worshipping at the shrine of the managing editor in the person of his versatile daughter, "are the most unreliable of any class in the world.

"And you know you really do need a vacation.

Why doesn't he come home and stay with you, instead of passing his vacations at his great friends' fine houses?

She wheedled the firm into giving me a vacation, and now they're to pay me twelve a week instead of ten.

"And we're having a vacation extended to us, with no red tape or strings tied to the conditions!

Metternich now thought he had earned a vacation, and in the fall of 1821 he made a visit to Hanover.

What will you haf?' "I said I'd like a vacation, if convenient.

You've just been through a siege of entertaining cousins, and I think you deserve a vacation.

I will show you some of his letters when I have the pleasure of seeing you next vacation, and when I shall expect to find you much improved.

They had seen you by day; both admired you, and being idle, gay young fellows, they resolved to devote their vacation to gratifying your wishes and enjoying themselves.

"We'll finish out our week's vacation, and then go to New York.

It hasn't, so farI mean vacation.

They've got a vacation now, an' likely she'll come over here an' put things to rights.

"Got a vacation," was Tom's laconic answer.

A physician is confined in a different way, but more closely than a teacher: he can never leave home: he knows generally no vacation, and nothing but accidental rest.

For a week the girls spent the whole of every day at each other's houses, planning their vacation, talking about the clothes they would need to take with them, and generally enjoying themselves.

The wise man postpones his vacation to the next world.

"You refused me a vacation when I asked for it," she said, "so I'm going to have it perforce;" and, playfully catching up the little dumpy figure of her governess, she carried her out upon the piazza, and, seating her in a large easy-chair, bade her take snuff, and comfort too, as long as she liked.

In New York, where at least three hundred thousand girls and women earn their bread, only about six thousand are helped to summer vacations in the country.

Chapter 13: Surveying a Forest The summer vacation that year was great fun.

He did not use these vacations to good advantage, for he was a drunken incompetent and tried Washington's patience sorely.

The bus stopped in front of a nondescript hotel, and the hostess wished them a good vacation.

Rest, that gives all men life, gave him his death, And too much breathing put him out of breath; Nor were it contradiction to affirm Too long vacation hastened on his term.