"Sour workdays, sweet holidays," that is a different thing.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
Finally, the very fact that, with four armies at their gates, life, its feasts and fasts, its workdays and holidays, could go on as usual, was one highly calculated to strengthen the Romans' faith in and affection for the new Government.
"The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17"
Charles Francis Horne
Even on workdays over her sewing she would forget.
"The Harbor"
Ernest Poole