day of days

"It is a day of days," she said, as I approached; "a day of all days either to live or die. . . . I am dying, yet shall I live."

The residents skirting the line of the Harlem Railroad as far as Croton Falls, were not a little annoyed, last Sunday, by numerous cheap excursion trains. . . . [W]e doubt whether the law gave being to a great corporation for the purpose of tempting men from their homes on the Day of days.