"Hebdomadal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have gone to Oxford, not for your sake, but for theirs. There seems to have been a tremendous shindy in the Hebdomadal board about certain persons who were proposed; and I am told that Pusey came to London to ascertain from a trustworthy friend who were the blackest heretics out of the list proposed, and that he was glad to assent to your ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley
... a Saturday night, the hebdomadal Saturnalia, when the week's work was over, and no one had any thing to do; the heart of Joseph was jocund with pork chops and mulled beer, and, his evil genius tempting him, he proposed to three of his intimates "to go and give the Count a turn." Nearly ...
— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence |
