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St. Bernard holiday, which within sight of his Christmas-book labour he would fain have thrown over, came off as proposed very fortunately for the reader, who might otherwise have lost one of his pleasantest descriptions.
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844
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$12.95), J. Otto Siebold and Vivian Walsh's droll variant on the oldest trope in the Christmas-book line.
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And are you going to make a Christmas-book this year?”
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And are you going to make a Christmas-book this year? "
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
Gammerstang commented on the word Christmas-book
(noun) - A book in which people were accustomed to keep an account of the Christmas presents they received.
--Robert Nares' Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859
January 14, 2018