"Yuletide" Quotes from Famous Books
... begun this letter backwards. What I set out to do, first and foremost, was to thank you for the lovely book which you sent with your Yuletide greeting. I read over half of it aloud last night after our Christmas guests departed, and was glad that we had such an interesting story. It ... — Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston
... zealous and told the Bishop all about Goeinge forest, which, every year at Yuletide, clothed itself in summer bloom around the Robbers' Cave. "If these bandits are not so bad but that God's glories can be made manifest to them, surely we cannot be too wicked to ... — Christmas in Legend and Story - A Book for Boys and Girls • Elva S. Smith
... Rome or Switzerland, he created those wonderful characters of his which will live as long as the English language. The first of the Christmas books, A Christmas Carol, appeared in 1843, and henceforward one of the things to which people looked forward at Yuletide was the publication of a ... — Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 • Charles H. Sylvester
... week I went out into the mountains for the purpose of securing a holly tree with red berries on it for Yuletide. I had noticed in all my pictures of Christmas festivities in England that the holly, with cranberries on it, constituted the background of Yuletide. A Yuletide in England without a holly bough and a little mistletoe in it wouldn't ... — Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) • Bill Nye |