Thank God, you earn enough to keep us, though it is sometimes close work to pay for all the oats and hay, the license, and the rent besides; but Harry will soon be earning something, and I would rather struggle on harder than we do than go back to those horrid times when you hardly had a minute to look at your own children, and we never could go to a place of worship together, or have a happy, quiet
day. God forbid that we should ever turn back to those times; that's what I say, Jerry."
They had hit the trail sixteen hours on end that
day, the dogs had come in too tired to fight among themselves or even snarl, and Kama had perceptibly limped the last several miles; yet Daylight was on trail next morning at six o'clock.
Phileas Fogg had, without suspecting it, gained one
day on his journey, and this merely because he had travelled constantly eastward; he would, on the contrary, have lost a
day had he gone in the opposite direction, that is, westward.
"First, as Theists, to keep it holy in some special way, and to make it, so far as is reasonably possible, a
day of rest.
From Gibraltar, running along the coasts of Spain and France, Marseilles will be reached in three
days. Here ample time will be given not only to look over the city, which was founded six hundred years before the Christian era, and its artificial port, the finest of the kind in the Mediterranean, but to visit Paris during the Great Exhibition; and the beautiful city of Lyons, lying intermediate, from the heights of which, on a clear
day, Mont Blanc and the Alps can be distinctly seen.
770-779) To begin with, the first, the fourth, and the seventh -- on which Leto bare Apollo with the blade of gold -- each is a holy
day. The eighth and the ninth, two
days at least of the waxing month (41), are specially good for the works of man.
Now the camp of the tribe was distant six
days' journey, and when they were yet one
day's journey off it began to snow, and they felt weary and longed for rest.
He now came to where the lodges were frequent along the banks, and, after a
day's journey of twenty-six miles to the northwest, encamped in a populous neighborhood.
We continued not in a state of indolence, but hunted every
day, and prepared a little cottage to defend us from the Winter storms.
The
day he arrived in Heidelberg he enrolled his name on the college books, and was so elated with the fact that his dearest hope had found fruition and he was actually a student of the old and renowned university, that he set to work that very night to celebrate the event by a grand lark in company with some other students.
After a while I succeeded in making arrangements with the teacher to give me some lessons at night, after the
day's work was done.
I spent great part of this
day in perplexing myself on these things; but at length, seeing the ship almost dry, I went upon the sand as near as I could, and then swam on board.