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Day of rest   /deɪ əv rɛst/   Listen
Day of rest

noun
1.
A day set aside for rest.  Synonym: rest day.






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"Day of rest" Quotes from Famous Books



... let us see—in the name of Him who said that He had made the Sabbath for man, and not man for the Sabbath—let us see, I say, if we cannot do something to prevent the townsman's Sabbath being, not a day of rest, but a day of mere idleness; the day of most temptation, because of most ...
— Health and Education • Charles Kingsley

... Don Pablo, Guapo, and Leon, continued bark-gathering. Every day they went out into the woods, excepting Sunday of course. That was kept as a day of rest; for, although far from civilised society, there was not the less necessity for their being Christians. God dwells in the wilderness as well as in the walled city, and worship to Him is as pleasing under the shadow of the forest ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid

... some place of worship. What would a young girl be who never mingled her voice with the songs and prayers that rose all around her with every returning day of rest? And Iris was free to choose. Sometimes one and sometimes another would offer to carry her to this or that place of worship; and when the doors were hospitably opened, she would often go meekly in by herself. It was a curious fact, that two ...
— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

... the Lord's own day of rest. Remember that, my friends. Let there be no fighting, no pursuit, no martial exercise, whatever the foe may threaten or do. Tomorrow must be a day of thanksgiving and praise. Look to it that my words ...
— A Heroine of France • Evelyn Everett-Green

... o'clock strikes! The short day's sped,— My Day of Rest! That beating in my head Hammers on still, like coffin-taps. He likes, Our lynx-eyed chief, to see us brisk and trim On Monday mornings; and though brains may swim, And breasts sink sickeningly with nameless pain, He cannot feel the faintness ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 • Various


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