Yule-log

• “MARCIANO: How many Yule-log fires are going on in Hawaii right now do you think?”

  CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2009

• “Yule-log; the crimson of its close perished; I was left bent among the cool blue shades, over the pale and ashen gleams of its night.”

  Villette

• “Without this he could neither have basked in the warmth of the Yule-log nor satisfied the baby in {74} the night time.”

  Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King

• “Croatians, and Dalmatians, a _badnyak_, or piece of wood answering to the northern Yule-log, is solemnly burnt on Christmas Eve.”

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

• “Thus the custom is almost exactly parallel to that of the Yule-log, which in parts of Germany, France, England, Serbia, and other Slavonic lands was commonly of oak-wood.”

  The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

• “All being agreed, the Yule-log was stirred up into a blaze, which was duly fed with the goose-feather and the robe of the Apsarasas.”

  Figures of Earth

• “Yule-log in its many forms was originally lit only in view of the cold season.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

• “Eleanor and Roger found Sir Stephen seated alone by the flickering, purring Yule-log.”

  Masters of the Guild

• “A Yule-log was sawn and placed upon the dining-room fire, and a huge bough of mistletoe hung up in the hall.”

  A harum-scarum schoolgirl

• “Under its vigorous stimulus the May-pole and the Yule-log were alike branded as heathenish observances, the Christmas-pie became a "pye of abomination," and all amusements, from the drama to bear-baiting, were censured with impartial severity.”

  In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World

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