Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity.
1 I was at a farm-house once when some high holiday was being celebrated.
2 Passing through Carnforth on my way, I found the town keeping high holiday .
3 A shipload of tourists in high holiday spirits cavorted around him.
4 They are not harvesting now: they are refreshing themselves, holding high holiday , teasing one another.
5 The devil is resolved to make high holiday :
6 Kept high holiday there, and many a time
7 According to their custom after successful war, they boiled beans, held the feast of victory, and kept high holiday .
8 But, as xkcd's inimitable Randall Munroe recently pointed out, the songs currently on high holiday rotation are a bit over-focused.
9 This day shall henceforth be kept as a high holiday , as this little darling's real birthday, for it has given him a mother.
10 On one occasion the boys went to a neighboring town on a high holiday , each with a quarter of a dollar in his pocket.
11 Police are normally only present at the synagogue for security on high holidays .
12 Was this some kind of High Holiday joke to amuse God on Rosh Hashanah?
13 Synagogue officials said police would only normally have been present for security on high holidays .
14 The sisterhood, abstemious nearly all the days of the year, feasted on certain high holidays .
15 For instance, I'm consistently stirred by the low-key, non-dressy Jewish High Holiday services at the Los Angeles Zen Center.
16 It was steak and butter and thick red wine that gods ate on the high holidays of their divinity.
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