THE OLIVE-TREE ridiculed the Fig-Tree because, while she was green all the
year round, the Fig-Tree changed its leaves with the seasons.
Fables
But now that they have learned crafts through Hephaestus the famed worker, easily they live a peaceful life in their own houses the whole
year round.
Collection Of Hesiod Homer and Homerica
Lady Middleton had the advantage of being able to spoil her children all the
year round, while Sir John's independent employments were in existence only half the time.
Sense and Sensibility
Add to this her short nose, her plump cheeks that set wrinkles at defiance, her white hair dressed in stiff little curls; and, if a doll could grow old, Lady Lydiard, at sixty, would have been the living image of that doll, taking life easily on its journey downwards to the prettiest of tombs, in a burial-ground where the myrtles and roses grew all the
year round.
My Ladys Money
"And I, on the contrary, am a lazy fellow and a tramp all
year round."
Adventures Of Pinocchio
The fruits never rot nor fail all the
year round, neither winter nor summer, for the air is so soft that a new crop ripens before the old has dropped.
Odyssey
She had been told that, rough and brutal as they seemed just then, they were not like this all the
year round, but were, in fact, quite civil persons save during certain weeks of autumn and winter, when, like the inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula, they ran amuck, and made it their purpose to destroy life--in this case harmless feathered creatures, brought into being by artificial means solely to gratify these propensities--at once so unmannerly and so unchivalrous towards their weaker fellows in Nature's teeming family.
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman
"I read in PILGRIM'S PROGRESS today how, after many troubles, christian and Hopeful came to a pleasant green meadow where lilies bloomed all
year round, and there they rested happily, as we do now, before they went on to their journey's end," answered Beth, adding, as she slipped out of her father's arms and went to the instrument, "It's singing time now, and I want to be in my old place.
Little Women
Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the
year round -- more than a body could tell what to do with.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
You must know, then, that the above-named gentleman whenever he was at leisure (which was mostly all the
year round) gave himself up to reading books of chivalry with such ardour and avidity that he almost entirely neglected the pursuit of his field-sports, and even the management of his property; and to such a pitch did his eagerness and infatuation go that he sold many an acre of tillageland to buy books of chivalry to read, and brought home as many of them as he could get.
Don Quixote
"Spring has forgotten this garden," they cried, "so we will live here all the
year round." The Snow covered up the grass with her great white cloak, and the Frost painted all the trees silver.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
"No, Maria," he went on; "Nick and Joe won't have to peddle milk, and all the kids can go to school and wear shoes the whole
year round. It will be a first-class milk ranch - everything complete.
Martin Eden
He started a magazine too, first called Household Words and later All the
Year Round. In this, some of his own works came out as well as the works of other writers.
English Literature For Boys And Girls
At last she could run no longer; she sat down on a large stone, and when she looked about her, she saw that the summer had passed; it was late in the autumn, but that one could not remark in the beautiful garden, where there was always sunshine, and where there were flowers the whole
year round.
Andersens Fairy Tales
What with one job and another, there's lodging-- and good lodging too--pretty well all the
year round, rent free, and a weekly allowance besides, Kit, that would provide her with a great many comforts she don't at present enjoy.
The Old Curiosity Shop