From the Kilikians, besides three hundred and sixty white horses, one for every day in the year, there came also five hundred talents of silver; of these one hundred and forty talents were spent upon the horsemen which served as a guard to the Kilikian land, and the remaining three hundred and sixty came in year by year to Dareios: this is the fourth division.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus
“He has a page for every day in the year, or nearly so, and there is not a dull one amongst them.”— Notes and Queries.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
There was a small book, which had been given to Topsy by Eva, containing a single verse of Scripture, arranged for every day in the year, and in a paper the curl of hair that she had given her on that memorable day when she had taken her last farewell.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
This Art of Wit is well enough, when confined to one Day in a Twelvemonth; but there is an ingenious Tribe of Men sprung up of late Years, who are for making April Fools every Day in the Year.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
By the first of next month you may begin to make constant fires in my brother’s chamber and mine; and burn a fagget every day in the yellow damask room: have the tester and curtains dusted, and the featherbed and matrosses well haired, because, perhaps, with the blissing of haven, they may be yoosed on some occasion.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett
There shall be 365 of them, one for every day in the year; and one magistrate, at least, shall offer sacrifice daily according to rites prescribed by a convocation of priests and interpreters, who shall co-operate with the guardians of the law, and supply what the legislator has omitted.
— from Laws by Plato
Of these there are no less than three hundred and sixty-five, so that there is one for every day in the year.
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi
They are prepared for every day in the year, are short, simple, and well fitted for use, both in community and in private.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various
Indeed, it is said that he weighed a full pound for every day in the year.
— from Living the Radiant Life: A Personal Narrative by George Wharton James
[177] Diodorus observes that Cambyses, as was said, took away the Golden Zone in the Ramesseum, which measured 365 cubits, one for each day in the year, and was a cubit thick.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6) by Max Duncker
It contains the martyrology of Usuard, the Rule of St Augustine with the comments of Hugo of St Victor, the constitutions of Marbach and a homily for every day in the year [650] .
— from Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 by Lina Eckenstein
From P. O’Shea, New York: Lives of the Saints, with a practical Instruction on the Life of each Saint for every day in the year.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various
With special features & a reading program for every day in the year arranged by Melbourne I. Feltman.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1973 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Thousands and thousands of professed Christian seamen are found every day in the year at seaports inhabited by heathens.
— from The Cruise of the Mary Rose; Or, Here and There in the Pacific by William Henry Giles Kingston
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