"Leap year" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mrs. Bergmann, "we will take no notice of leap year, and we will count 365 days in ...
— Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches • Maurice Baring
... that arranged the calendar, must have had influential relations in England who urged on him the need for making February the shortest month of the year. Let us be grateful to His Holiness that he was so persuaded. He was a little obstinate about Leap Year; a more imaginative pontiff would have given the extra day to April; but he was amenable enough for a man who only had his relations' word for it. Every first of March I raise my glass to Gregory. Even as a boy I used to drink one of his powders ...
— Not that it Matters • A. A. Milne
... leap being unfortunate," observed Middlemore, all eyes fixed upon him in expectation of what was to follow, "for Julia D'Egville can affirm that, while paying his court to her, he had not chosen a leap year." ...
— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson
... had a suspicion that she might be. Chilminster had met very few unmarried American girls, but like most Englishmen, he was aware of their capacity for resolution in most matters. Then, again, it was leap year. Suppose—— For a little while he did a ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various
... convention held in June or July of the presidential year. At about the same time the various parties in each state nominate the quota of presidential electors to which the state is entitled. The people vote on these electors on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November of each leap year. In each state the electors receiving a plurality assemble at the state capitol on the second Monday in January following their election, and vote directly for President and Vice President. These votes are then certified and sent to the President of the Senate. On the ...
— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson
... she remarked, "you needn't be ashamed of having spoken first. You have only used the ancient privilege of the sex. This is Leap Year." ...
— Little Novels • Wilkie Collins
... we have seen to that. The last year of this century will not be counted as a leap year. It is fortunate that the difference is one of eleven days, for as that is the number which is added every year to the epact our epacts are almost the same. As to the celebration of Easter, that is a different question. ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt |
