Grumbling mightily at this intrusion on his time and dignity, the Warden of Land and Sea had no choice but to lumber over from the Alban Hills to the Circus Flaminius and submit himself to a series of insolent questions from the tribune, watched by a huge market-day crowd that temporarily set aside their bargaining and clustered around to gawk at him. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)
It was market-day, and the usual number of rogues and fools were assembled at the Cross. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Any market-day they may be beheld in glorious action. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Perugia, strongly fortified by art and nature, on a lofty eminence, rising abruptly from the plain where purple mountains mingle with the distant sky, is glowing, on its market-day, with radiant colours. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Friday nights, I often plan my dinners around finishing stuff from the fridge, getting ready for Saturday (market-day). ❋ Nupur (2005)
Fairoaks or live in it, and expected that he would not be long getting through his property, — this was all, and except with one or two who cherished her, the kind soul was forgotten by the next market-day. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It was the evening of a market-day, and some half-dozen middle-aged farmers and dairymen were lounging round the bar of the ❋ Unknown (2006)
It happened to be market-day, and Nicholas, having postponed the engagements which called him thither to keep the appointment with her in the Sallows, rushed off at the end of the afternoon to attend to them as well as he could. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In the rear of the van was a glass window, which she cleaned with her pocket-handkerchief every market-day before starting. ❋ Unknown (2006)
She could hear the usual faint noises from the camp, and in the other direction the trot of farmers on the road to the town, for it was market-day. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It had been market-day, and remnants of the rural population that had visited the town still lingered at corners, their toes hanging over the edge of the pavement, and their eyes wandering about the street. ❋ Unknown (2006)
On the first market-day he knew every pretty girl in the market: he joked with all the women: had a word with the farmers about their stock, and dined at the Agricultural Ordinary at the ❋ Unknown (2006)
They got drunk occasionally, but I doubt whether they drank more than did the farmers themselves on market-day. ❋ Unknown (2004)
You might see better, it seemed to me, at a country inn stable on any market-day. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This surprised me much at first, because it showed his ignorance of what we farmers are — an upright race, as you may find, scarcely ever cheating indeed, except upon market-day, and even then no more than may be helped by reason of buyers expecting it. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
It was market-day: Moore arrived in time to take his usual place at the market-dinner. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She now remembered that Tuesday was Whinbury market-day: Mr. Moore must always pass the Rectory on his way thither, just ere noon of that day. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It was market-day when I got there, and I was obliged to pass through a crowd of people: but there was here no such odious curiosity, no offensive staring, as at Burton. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And sailors who made other sailors tipsy, and went rolling about on the floor all together, whether with natural legs or artificial, would do no credit to his stairs of office on a fine market-day in the morning. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Moreover, the lane inland is scored with a regular market-day of wheels, and there is no market this side of the old town. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
