... or costmaty, formed a special ingredient, were much used during Easter season. Another notable Easter-tide practice was, and is, the presentation, among friends, of the pasch or Easter egg, the egg being evidebtly symbolcal of entombment and the promise ...

... below. I lifted my 'mart in sorrow, Rising to heavenly things, And found, at last, the comfort The holy Easter brings. Crosses and thorns! they needs must come, Rut a crown awaits in our heavenly home ! Is thine Easter lonely! Canist thou not say There ...

... Margaret was not only a lady of high rank, but she possessed great personal charms. Her sojourn at Bourg gave rise to a series of festivals. On Easter Sunday there was a general gathering in the plain of Bourg, where the pe iple engaged in sports. The old ...

... DAISY NOOK SKETCHES. EASTER HOLIDAYS: A LIIMP-YEAD'S STORY. EASTER was always our peace-egg time and Hazelworth was never behind other villages in its display of motley on these occasions. We generally mustered three sets of performers, who were selected ...

... Complete in 9 uniform vols. Voitrus I: • Daisy Nook Sketches. Contains: A Day Out Bunk Ho Annie Howard—A Strike Adventure—Easter Holidays— The Bride of Cherry-Tree Cottage—A Lancashire Wakes—The Charity Sermon—A Race for Liberty— Th' Gravel Orate Flood—A ...

... he lived during a certain period escribed by Hone in his queer old Table Book, when in Ireland they had kissing bees on Easter Monday, on which occasion it was the duty of each female present to receive at least a dozen hearty kisses. This was what ...

... three figures on each side, ornamented the centre and aides'of the entrance-door into the chapel. The Dean of Manchester, last Easter, on the opening of the new Chetham College Schools, announced himself as the custodian of Humphrey Chetham's ashes, and as ...

... wrinkled head of an old woman thrust forth. A nice day to ask for fire, she cried; on festival days, and especially at Easter, a Russian peasant can hardly be induced to lend fire to his neighbour, lest by that act his own fire should be extinguished ...

... o'th' coal cellar at breakfast time. It 'll tak some time to get th' Moston Battalion to muster again, an' I think th' grand Easter Monday review 'll ha' to be fovrt witheant us. No davit th' Commander-in-Chief 'II be disappointed, but we'll bring him a ...

... and festival rite, — To its rare feasts where love and time friendship unite; And the Easter has many a gladsome surprise To such as can unto its high teachings rise; But both unto Whitsuntide fairly give way, As the Queen of the Weeks! yea, the earth's ...

... n the sun mounts high over IMmountain crest, the smoke rises lazily from farm and cottage, and the new-born morning launches into the full-tide of day. But in winter, when the fierce north-easter hurls itself like an avalanche against the old building ...

... l wine. In 1874 I again visited the lovely spot above referred to, in time to see the pretty village church decorated for Easter-day with this poetic flower, in unison with the Primrose, Rose, and wild Ivy, and very artistic the effect was. According ...