When they had brought him back ill to death, as he had hoped, from Italy eight years before, it was here that he had insisted on being put; and there were good reasons for his choice, for the room communicated by easy shallow stairs with that part of the house where were the Greek Room, and the library which had been arranged for him by his grandfather as a delightful surprise on his seventeenth birthday.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
You know mother promised me a party on my birthday, and that's not until January tenth.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
I shall be twenty on my next birthday; you asked me that before.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe