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c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1351 The Sonday nyght er day bigan to sprynge..Palamon the larke herde synge.

a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 602 ij lampes to be susteyned with oyle..j lampe brennynge thurgh all the sonday nyghtes.

?1536 (c1443) Batayll of Egyngecourte 186 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) II. 101 Of truse we wyll beseche the, Vntyll that it be sunday noone, And yf we may not recouered be We will delyuer the towne.

1572 T. Achelley Key of Knowl. 292 (heading) A prayer for Sunday morning.

1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime iii. 18 On Sunday morning at six of the clocke they hye to their studies.

1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples 181 The most civill sort of these did hate him, specially since the Sunday evening, by reason of his inhumane cruelties.

1668 Philos. Trans. 1667 (Royal Soc.) 2 598 It being Sunday night, I was unwilling to scandalize any, by putting my servants upon a laborious, and not necessary work.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 33 I will write my Time away, and take up my Story where I left off, on Sunday Afternoon.

?1775 Sunday Ramble i. 2 They were giddy young people who were going on a Sunday excursion to Windsor..where they would probably spend much more than the labours of the foregoing week could defray.

1786 R. Burns Holy Fair i, in Poems 40 Upon a simmer Sunday morn.

a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. v. 94 She saw..that Sunday-travelling had been a common thing. View more context for this quotation

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 150 The parish church,..from which at present was heard the Sunday chime of bells.

1841 A. R. C. Dallas Past. Superintend. iii. i. 431 The Sunday morning congregation consisting of about three hundred persons.

1883 R. Broughton Belinda III. iii. xi. 122 The Sunday trains are so awkward that I cannot get on till late in the afternoon.

1920 Times 21 July 12/3 The Sunday concerts at the Tower appeal to all music lovers, many prominent artists being engaged.

1938 Life 6 June 17/1 Tommy's girl is the prettiest in the county. He meets her after church on Sunday night.

1975 E. Dunlop Robinsheugh xiv. 110 Many a boring Sunday morning she had whiled away studying their faces.

2004 M. Lucas & ‘D. Walliams’ Little Brit. 1st Ser. Episode 6. 178 Well it was a Sunday afternoon and we were all sat round as a family, watching the telly box.