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halcyon days

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halcyon days

Period of two weeks of calm seas around the winter solstice, when the mythical halcyon (a bird identified with the kingfisher) was brooding over a nest at sea.

In Greek mythology Alcyone, a daughter of Aeolus, threw herself into the sea on learning of her husband Ceyx's death during a voyage. She was transformed into a bird and calm was assured for a period in which her eggs could hatch.
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Anne spent a fortnight of halcyon days at Echo Lodge in the golden prime of August.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
As for Owen Ford, the "Margaret" of his book, although she had the soft brown hair and elfin face of the real girl who had vanished so long ago, "pillowed where lost Atlantis sleeps," had the personality of Leslie Moore, as it was revealed to him in those halcyon days at Four Winds Harbor.
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
Even a tramp, in those halcyon days, could get most frequently drunk.
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