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A picture by Vladimir Makofsky, which he bought about this time, hung in the breakfast-room at Sloane Street; 'it represents a scene from one of Tourgenief's early stories, a summer's night in the government of Toula: boys telling ghost stories while they watch horses grazing on the lammas land.'

—The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1

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The first day of August; -- called also Lammas day, and Lammastide.

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commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England

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A picture by Vladimir Makofsky, which he bought about this time, hung in the breakfast-room at Sloane Street; 'it represents a scene from one of Tourgenief's early stories, a summer's night in the government of Toula: boys telling ghost stories while they watch horses grazing on the lammas land.' — The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
_wherever, christmas, lammas, & c_. — English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
'the headland' 'with red wheat,' in the early autumn, there is an obvious reference to the custom almost peculiar to the Cotswolds of sowing 'red lammas' wheat at an unusually early season of the agricultural year. — A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles