Twelfth-night

It is this, — that if you will send him word to come again, he will be here by Twelfth-night.

Tales of all countries 2004

Thus Baby Charles, and the Twelfth-night Queen of Hearts, and the overgrown schoolboy Cottington, and that little urchin

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

This custom of having a Twelfth cake and electing a king and queen has now died out, and is only known by tradition; so utterly died out indeed, that in the British Museum Library there is not a single sheet of "Twelfth-night Characters" to show the younger race of students what they were like.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

It was just after Twelfth-night that the Danish host came suddenly -- "bestole," as the old Chronicle says -- to

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

The dinner on this Twelfth-night, fraught as it was with so much of the effervescence of the champagne of life to so many, was a dinner fit for an emperor.

A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

Here we see they had no sheets of "Twelfth-night Characters" (the loss of which I deplore), but they were of home manufacture.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

Rome until the middle of January; wants to know if we shall be there for the Twelfth-night ball; wonders if Lionel will retire for a fashionable six weeks 'mourning.

A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

Do you remember when you wrote to him to come on Twelfth-night, Emmy, and spelt twelfth without the f?

IV. The Green Silk Purse 1917

It was Twelfth-night, and in the royal Palace of Holyrood a great masked ball was being held, for the King, James VI., and his young wife, Anne of Denmark, had been keeping Christmas there, and the old walls rang with gaiety such as had not been since the ill-fated days of Mary

Tales From Scottish Ballads Elizabeth Wilson Grierson 1908

It is to this accidental banishment to Devon that we owe the cluster of exquisite pieces descriptive of obsolete rural manners and customs -- the Christmas m asks, the Twelfth-night mummeries, the morris-dances, and the May-day festivals.

Ponkapog Papers. 1904