I believe he heard of mother's one handsome black silk, every time she wore it upon semiannual occasions, until he would have said that Mrs. Stephen had a new fifty-dollar dress every six months.
"We Girls: A Home Story"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
The men of the "wooden section" are looked upon as being certain of dismissal when the semiannual examinations come along.
"Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis"
H. Irving Hancock
Then here one day when I has to cook up some tabulated stuff for the semiannual me and Ruby had a three-hour session together, me readin' off long strings of numbers, and her thumpin' 'em out on the keys.
"Torchy, Private Sec."
Sewell Ford