For the next five years, Anne spent no more than five or six weeks a year with her family, during holidays at Christmas and in June.

This custom is linked to an older English tradition: Since they would have to wait on their masters on Christmas Day, the servants of the wealthy were allowed the next day to visit their families.

The next day, the Christmas Day, is often spent visiting friends.

The character continued to appear over the next 250 years, appearing as Sir Christmas, Lord Christmas or Father Christmas, the last becoming the most common.

Most of the Line Islands including Christmas Island, the Phoenix and even the Union ( Tokelau ) islands ( until 1925 ) were incorporated piecemeal into the Gilbert and Ellice Islands over the next 20 years.

Benedetto Gaetani was elected pope the next day, Christmas Eve, 24 December.

The place-name derived from a 1908 Christmas story about three black men who died in a blizzard ; the next day, the bodies of two were found at the foot of the mountain.

The next morning, Christmas Day, Valjean offers to take Cosette with him.

He uses a similar device in his next two Christmas books, titling the four divisions of The Chimes, " quarters ", after the quarter-hour tolling of clock chimes, and naming the parts of The Cricket on the Hearth " chirps ".

When Polly tells Andy she will be visiting her grandmother for the next three weeks and will not be able to attend the Christmas Eve dance with him, Andy vows to attend the dance alone.

In 1966, Herman's next musical was the smash hit Mame starring Angela Lansbury, which introduced a string of Herman standards, most notably the ballad " If He Walked Into My Life ", the holiday favorite " We Need a Little Christmas ", and the title tune.

Just before Christmas, the Empress sneaked out of the castle, crossed the icy river on foot and made her escape past the royal army to safety at Wallingford, leaving the castle garrison free to surrender the next day.

The next morning, on Christmas Day, Jack wakes up in a suburban New Jersey bedroom with Kate and two children.

In one such example, Dragnet broke one of the unspoken ( and still rarely broached ) taboos of popular entertainment in the episode ". 22 Rifle for Christmas " which aired December 22, 1949 and was repeated at Christmastime for the next three years.

In 1951 Alfred Colby Hockings and his wife — he was a well-known illustrator for Field and Stream magazine, originally from Wisconsin but most recently living in the artists ' community of Tryon, North Carolina —- built a home up the street from the Gasques and Sorrys and across from the Baarslags ; at almost the same time another Dutch family — Gerbrand and Nellie Poster, the son-in-law and daughter of the Baarslags, came down from New York City to visit her parents for Christmas, decided to stay, and built a home next door to her parents.

The next day, Marge takes the kids to the mall to go Christmas shopping at a department store in the mall.

" That Christmas night, and whenever the NBC orchestra played over the next 17 years, he was right.

Emerging from the precinct, Flaherty and Dundee, now slightly tipsy from sampling the brandy, hear the tinkle of bells and confirm to each other that they have, indeed, just seen Henry Corwin, in a sleigh with reindeer, " sitting next to an elf ", ascend into the night sky on Christmas Eve.

The next morning, Christmas Day, the Divine Liturgy is celebrated again, but with special features that occur only on Great Feasts of the Lord.

The next major short was A Matter of Loaf and Death, first broadcast in Britain on Christmas Day 2008.

The Doobies hibernated for the next five years, with various members getting together in different configurations for annual Christmas season performances for the patients and staff at the Stanford Children's Hospital in the Bay area.

Dana's next single was " Are You Still Mad at Me " failed to chart but Dana returned to the Top Ten with a Stephens / Greenaway composition: " It's Gonna be a Cold Cold Christmas ".

Most of Gall's work on religion was detailed in a book called The Stars and the Angels in which he not only argues for the existence of other inhabited planets but describes the view that Gabriel would have had on his way from heaven to earth to tell Mary that she would have a baby next Christmas.

He had his chance the very next morning, for exactly the same thing happened again.

Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

After making a short statement about human rights, and the freedom to travel, I told them I would be going to the Kehl bridge the next morning in order to cross the Rhine into Germany.

As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

Slocum made his reconnaissanace the next morning, found the town empty, accepted the surrender of the mayor and occupied the city a little before noon.

Would he meet him in Baltimore in Drawing Room A, Car Three on the train leaving Washington at nine o'clock next morning??

Blackman was to be in New York by February 2, because they were sailing at 12:01 next morning.

The next morning, as the clock struck nine, he appeared at the Council meeting in the Town Hall and insisted that the couple would have to be punished if the Church was to be respected.

They held the funeral the next morning from the crossroads church and buried the little box in the quiet family plot.

Without further discussion he appeared the next morning with a pile of boards sticking over the end of his light truck and proceeded with the paneling, which he then stained and waxed according to his taste.

Early the next morning, a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso Chavez, one of the posse members, was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father's home on the upper Vermejo.

The next morning he summoned a group of top Democrats to his private office and broke the news: he would lead the fight to oust Colmer, whom he is said to regard as `` an inferior man ''.

Then Via called to say they had decided to cremate her -- as they had Ellen, the thought leaped to my mind -- and did I want to meet her at the funeral home the next morning.

They met next morning and all the mornings thereafter.

The next morning a little cognac made me feel better -- but what can you do in Paris on Sunday morning??

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

By the next morning, she had turned the paper over.

And the next morning, not sure of why he went, he took the train to Fudomae and walked to Ryusenji.

He seemed to have picked up a virus that day, because the next morning he had a small cough and felt a bit hot.

The cold lingered, making sleep difficult that night, and he remained in bed still the next morning, now unable to keep from thinking about the inexplicable sight of burning metal, the wretched sound, the unbearable feeling of having been to a remote Tokyo temple at some earlier time in his life.

The next morning, while Dolores was out of the room, he went to her bureau drawer, took out a pair of nylon lace pants, and tenderly dropped them next to his shorts.

But heavy rain fell overnight and next morning the two slow left-arm bowlers, Peel and Johnny Briggs, were all but unplayable.